49th British Academy Film Awards
The 49th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 23 April 1996, honoured the best films of 1995.
Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility and Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects both won the award for Best Film. Sense and Sensibility also won awards for Best Actress (Emma Thompson) and Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet). Il postino (The Postman) of director Michael Radford won the awards for Best Film not in the English Language, Director and Film Music. Nigel Hawthorne was voted Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in The Madness of King George. The same film was voted Best British Film of the Year. Tim Roth won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as "Archibald Cunningham" in Rob Roy.
Read more about 49th British Academy Film Awards: Awards Breakdown
Famous quotes containing the words british, academy and/or film:
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“I’ll be right here.”
—Melissa Mathison, U.S. screenwriter, and Steven Spielberg. ET, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, saying goodbye to Elliot as he touches Elliot’s forehead—ET’s final words in the film (1982)