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( )  ...Best Direction
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( )  ...Best Cinematography
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( )  ...Best Costume Design
( )  ...Best Sound
( )  ...Best Editing
( )  ...Special Visual Effects
( )  ...Best Original Song
( )  ...Best Score
( )  ...Short Animated Film
( )  ...Best Short Film
( )  ...Foreign Language Film
( )  ...Best Make Up Artist
( )  ...Most Newcomer to Film
( )  Michael Balcon Award
( )  BAFTA TV Award
( )  ...Best Film Cameraman
( )  ...Best Film Editor
( )  ...Best Film Sound
( )  ...Best Actor
( )  ...Best Actress
( )  ...Best Costume Design
( )  ...Best Sound Supervisor
( )  ...Children's Programme...
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( )  ...Best Design
( )  ...Best Video Cameraman
( )  ...Actuality Coverage
( )  ...Drama Series/Serial
( )  ...Light Entertainment...
( )  ...Best VTR Editor
( )  ...Best Make Up
( )  ...Best Single Drama
( )  ...Light Entertainment...
( )  ...Best Factual Series
( )  ...Best Animated Film
( )  ...Best Comedy Series
( )  ...Best Video Lighting
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BAFTA Awards: 1984

BAFTA Film Award

Best Film
  Winner:
 
  Other Nominees:
 
  • Heat and Dust (1983) - Ismail Merchant
  • Local Hero (1983) - David Puttnam
  • Tootsie (1982) - Sydney Pollack; Dick Richards (I)

  • Best Actor
      Winners:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Honorary Consul, The (1983) - Michael Caine (I)
  • King of Comedy, The (1982) - Robert De Niro

  • Best Actress
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Another Time, Another Place (1983) - Phyllis Logan (I)
  • Sophie's Choice (1982) - Meryl Streep
  • Tootsie (1982) - Jessica Lange

  • Best Supporting Actor
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Honorary Consul, The (1983) - Bob Hoskins
  • King of Comedy, The (1982) - Jerry Lewis (I)
  • Local Hero (1983) - Burt Lancaster

  • Best Supporting Actress
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Educating Rita (1983) - Maureen Lipman
  • Ploughman's Lunch, The (1983) - Rosemary Harris (I)
  • Tootsie (1982) - Teri Garr

  • Best Direction
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Heat and Dust (1983) - James Ivory
  • King of Comedy, The (1982) - Martin Scorsese
  • Tootsie (1982) - Sydney Pollack

  • Best Screenplay - Original
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Local Hero (1983) - Bill Forsyth (I)
  • Trading Places (1983) - Timothy Harris (I); Herschel Weingrod
  • Zelig (1983) - Woody Allen

  • Best Screenplay - Adapted
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Betrayal (1983) - Harold Pinter
  • Educating Rita (1983) - Willy Russell
  • Tootsie (1982) - Larry Gelbart; Murray Schisgal

  • Best Cinematography
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Heat and Dust (1983) - Walter Lassally
  • Local Hero (1983) - Chris Menges
  • Zelig (1983) - Gordon Willis (I)

  • Best Production Design/Art Direction
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Heat and Dust (1983) - Wilfred Shingleton
  • Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Norman Reynolds
  • WarGames (1983) - Angelo P. Graham

  • Best Costume Design
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Fanny och Alexander (1982) - Marik Vos-Lundh
  • Heat and Dust (1983) - Barbara Lane (I)
  • Tootsie (1982) - Ruth Morley

  • Best Sound
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Flashdance (1983) - James E. Webb (I); Robert Knudson; Robert Glass (I); Don Digirolamo
  • Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Ben Burtt; Tony Dawe; Gary Summers
  • Traviata, La (1983) - Cesare D'Amico; Jean-Louis Ducarme; Claude Villand; Federico Savina

  • Best Editing
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • King of Comedy, The (1982) - Thelma Schoonmaker
  • Local Hero (1983) - Michael Bradsell (I)
  • Zelig (1983) - Susan E. Morse

  • Best Special Visual Effects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Dark Crystal, The (1982) - Roy Field; Brian Smithies; Ian Wingrove
  • WarGames (1983) - Michael L. Fink; Joe Digaetano; Jack Cooperman; Don Hansard; Colin Cantwell; William A. Fraker
  • Zelig (1983) - Gordon Willis (I); Joel Hynek; Stuart Robertson (II); Richard Greenberg (I)

  • Best Original Song
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Flashdance (1983) - Giorgio Moroder; Keith Forsey; Irene Cara
    - For the song: "What a Feeling".
  • Meaning of Life, The (1983) - André Jacquemin (I); Dave Howman; Michael Palin; Terry Jones (I)
    - For the song "Every Sperm Is Sacred".
  • Tootsie (1982) - Dave Grusin; Alan Bergman (I); Marilyn Bergman
    - For the song "Tootsie".

  • Best Score
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Flashdance (1983) - Giorgio Moroder
  • Local Hero (1983) - Mark Knopfler
  • Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982) - Jack Nitzsche

  • Best Short Animated Film
      Winner:
     

    Best Short Film
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Crimson Permanent Assurance, The (1983) - Terry Gilliam
  • John Love (1983) - John A. Davis (II) (as John Davis)
  • Keep Off the Grass (1983) - Paul Weiland

  • Best Foreign Language Film
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Fanny och Alexander (1982) - Jörn Donner; Ingmar Bergman
    - Sweden.
  • Traviata, La (1983) - Tarak Ben Ammar; Franco Zeffirelli
    - Italy.
  • Vivement dimanche! (1983) - Armand Barbault; François Truffaut
    - France.

  • Best Make Up Artist
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Heat and Dust (1983) - Gordon Kay (II)
  • Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Phil Tippett; Stuart Freeborn
  • Zelig (1983) - Fern Buchner; John Caglione Jr.

  • Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Educating Rita (1983) - Julie Walters (I)
  • Heat and Dust (1983) - Greta Scacchi
  • Sophie's Choice (1982) - Kevin Kline

  • Michael Balcon Award

      Awarded to:
     

    BAFTA TV Award

    Best Film Cameraman
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Kennedy" (1983) - Ernest Vincze
  • "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) - Peter Jessop (I)
  • Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983) (TV) - Jim Howlett

  • Best Film Editor
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Kennedy" (1983) - Ralph Sheldon; Andrew Nelson (I)
  • Englishman Abroad, An (1983) (TV) - Ken Pearce (I)

  • Best Film Sound
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) - Sandy MacRae (I); Peter Lennard; Michael Crowley (I); Ken Schrivener
  • "Widows" (1983) - Derek Rye; John Blunt; Mike Murr
  • "Wildlife on One" (1977) - Ray Goodwin (II); Peter Copeland; Alec Brown
    - For episode "Nightlife".

  • Best Actor
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Kennedy" (1983) - Martin Sheen
  • "Rumpole of the Bailey" (1978) - Leo McKern
    - Also for "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983).
  • Waters of the Moon (1983) (TV) - Ronald Pickup
    - Also for Orwell on Jura (1983) (TV).

  • Best Actress
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Kennedy" (1983) - Blair Brown
  • Mrs. Silly (1983) (TV) - Maggie Smith (I)
  • Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983) (TV) - Judi Dench

  • Best Costume Design
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Mansfield Park" (1983) - Ian Adley
  • "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) - Elizabeth Waller
  • King Lear (1983) (TV) - Tanya Moiseiwitsch

  • Best Sound Supervisor
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" (1983) - Henry Bird
  • "Hot Shoe Show, The" (1983) - Adrian Bishop-Laggett
    - Also for Here Come the Classics (1983) (TV).

  • Best Children's Programme (Documentary/Educational)
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Blue Peter" (1958) - Biddy Baxter
  • "Newsround" (1972) - Eric Rowan (II)
  • Hungry Times (1983) (TV) - Tom Stanier

  • Best Programme/Series Without Category
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Clive James on Television" (1982) - Nicholas Barrett
  • "Did You See..?" (1984) - Chris Mohr (II); John Archer (II)
  • "South Bank Show, The" (1978) - Melvyn Bragg

  • Best Design
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) - Roger Hall (I)
  • Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983) (TV) - David Marshall (II); Robin Parker (I)

  • Best Video Cameraman
      Nominees:
     
  • "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" (1983) - Roy Simper
  • "Old Men at the Zoo, The" (1983) - David Gautier; Selwyn Cox
  • King Lear (1983) (TV) - Roger England

  • Best Actuality Coverage
      Nominees:
     
  • Fledermaus, Die (1984) (TV) - Humphrey Burton

  • Best Drama Series/Serial
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" (1983) - Martin McKeand
  • "Rumpole of the Bailey" (1978) - Jacqueline Davis (I)
  • "Widows" (1983) - Linda Agran; Ian Toynton

  • Best Light Entertainment Programme
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Kenny Everett Television Show, The" (1981) - Bill Wilson (I)
  • "Three of a Kind" (1981) - Paul Jackson (II)
  • "Two Ronnies, The" (1971) - Marcus Plantin

  • Best VTR Editor
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Mansfield Park" (1983) - Stan Pow
    - Also for Macbeth (1983) (TV).
  • "Three of a Kind" (1981) - Ed Wooden

  • Best Make Up
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) - Eddie Knight (I); Basil Newall
  • Englishman Abroad, An (1983) (TV) - Kezia De Winne
  • King Lear (1983) (TV) - Lois Richardson

  • Best Single Drama
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Country Girls, The (1984) (TV) - Desmond Davis (I)
  • Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983) (TV) - Stephen Frears
  • To the Lighthouse (1983) (TV) - Colin Gregg (I)

  • Best Light Entertainment Performance
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Carrott's Lib" (1982) - Jasper Carrott
  • "Fine Romance, A" (1981) - Judi Dench
  • "Two Ronnies, The" (1971) - Ronnie Barker; Ronnie Corbett

  • Best Factual Series
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Wildlife on One" (1977) - Peter Bale (II)
  • Unknown Chaplin (1983) (TV) - David Gill (I); Kevin Brownlow

  • Best Animated Film
      Nominees:
     
  • "Danger Mouse" (1981) - Brian Cosgrove; Mark Hall (III)
  • "Paddington" (1976) - Barry Leith
    - For the special "Paddington Goes to the Movies".
  • Wind in the Willows, The (1983/I) (TV) - Brian Cosgrove; Mark Hall (III)

  • Best Comedy Series
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Fine Romance, A" (1981) - Don Leaver
  • "Last of the Summer Wine" (1973) - Sydney Lotterby
  • "Only Fools and Horses" (1981) - Ray Butt

  • Best Video Lighting
      Winner:
     

    Best Children's Programme (Entertainment/Drama)
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Danger Mouse" (1981) - Brian Cosgrove; Mark Hall (III)
  • "Grange Hill" (1978) - Kenny McBain
  • "Jane Eyre" (1983) - Barry Letts; Julian Amyes

  • Best Graphics
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983) (TV) - Barry O'Riordan
    - Also for Unknown Chaplin (1983) (TV).

  • Best Original Television Music
      Nominees:
     
  • "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" (1983) - David Mackay (II)
  • "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) - Harry Rabinowitz
    - For the incidental music.

  • Flaherty Documentary Award (TV)

      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "Forty Minutes" (1981) - Louise Panton
    - For episode "Female Circumcision".
  • "Wildlife on One" (1977) - Dilys Breese
    - For episode "Night Life".
  • Boy David, The (1983) (TV) - Alex McCall
    - For part "The Visit" (#3).

  • Shell International Award

      Winner: