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2011 BAFTA Awards
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer(Nominated)
A pair of travelling salesmen wander in and out of people's lives, performing a Procedure whereby hidden secrets and lies are exposed. When they arrive at a remote family home and can't seem to get the job done, they discover that you can't always get away&hellip…
2007 BAFTA Awards
Best Debut Film(Nominee)
Black Sun by Gary Tarn explores what happens when a visual artists is tragically robbed of his main tool -- his eyesight? Gary Tarn's Black Sun is a remarkable award-winning documentary. BLACK SUN investigates the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based artist and filmmaker who was blinded by&hellip…
2005 BAFTA Awards
Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects(Nominee)
Best Cinematography(Nominee)
Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Best Editing(Nominee)
Best Film not in the English Language(Nominee)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role(Nominee)
Best Sound(Nominee)
Best Production Design(Nominee)
Following up&hellip…
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2004 BAFTA Awards
Best Actress(Nominee)
A tense love triangle develops when May (Anne Reid), a woman in her sixties grieving the death of her husband, strikes up a sexual relationship with Darren (Daniel Craig), a married man in his thirties who is having an extramarital affair with her daughter Paula (Cathryn Bradshaw). Not only is May much older&hellip…
2003 BAFTA Awards
Best Actress(Nominee)
Set in modern Mississippi, MONSTER'S BALL subtly examines the impact of personal loss and the transforming power of human connection. The movie begins in the state penitentiary's death row, where father-and-son prison guards Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny Grotowski (Heath Ledger) administer the execution&hellip…
Best Original Screenplay(Nominee)
Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film(Nominee)
Peter Mullen's shocking drama THE MAGDALENE SISTERS is based on real events that took place in Ireland from the 1960s until 1996 when an estimated 30,000 young women, considered by their families to have committed sexual sins, were sent&hellip…
Most Promising Newcomer(Nominee)
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA documents Terry Gilliam's disaster-prone attempt to make THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, a film largely based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The movie first encounters difficulties in its preproduction stage, starting with&hellip…
2002 BAFTA Awards
Best Film not in the English Language
Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate chapters--OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU--the film&hellip…
Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer(Nominee)
LATE NIGHT SHOPPING captures twenty-somethings stuck in dead end jobs with few prospects. In the tradition of GO and the gritty style of TRAINSPOTTING, the film features four young people who unhappily work the graveyard shift at different, miserable jobs. Vincent (James&hellip…
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2001 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centers around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find&hellip…
Flaherty Documentary Award(Nominee)
Best Photography(Nominee)
In August 1914, seasoned British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton embarks on his third excursion into Antarctic territory, planning to cross the Antarctic continent on foot--something no other explorer has attempted before. Only a day's journey from his final destination&hellip…
BAFTA TV Award, The Flaherty Documentary Award(Nominee)
A double-edged portrait of a man and his obsessions, THE MAN WHO BOUGHT MUSTIQUE catches up with Colin Tennant otherwise known as Lord Glenconner, an aging British aristocrat whose claim to fame is the purchase of an exotic Caribbean island in the mid-1960s. With 45,000 pounds&hellip…
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Screenplay - Adapted
Best Editing(Nominee)
David Lean Award for Direction(Nominee)
Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem&hellip…
2000 BAFTA Awards
Best Original Screenplay(Nominee)
David Lean Award for Direction
Best Film not in the English Language
Spanish director Pedro Almodvar's tender, intelligent drama follows the emotional journey of Manuela, an organ transplant coordinator who scours the back alleys and gutters of Barcelona in search of her errant ex-husband&hellip…
1997 BAFTA Awards
David Lean Award for Direction(Nominee)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Best Screenplay - Original(Nominee)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Best Editing(Nominee)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Best Film(Nominee)
Best Sound
Anthony Asquith&hellip…
1995 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome's general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of taste&hellip…
Best Foreign Language Film
When the irresponsible Xu Fugui loses his family's fortune during a gambling spree, he causes his loved ones incredible hardship. Fugui's father dies from a heart attack upon hearing the news, and his pregnant wife abandons him. Unable to put bread on the table, even for himself, Fugui works as a street&hellip…
1994 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Tita, as the youngest of three daughters, is condemned by family tradition never to marry, but to spend her life caring for her mother. However, Tita has fallen in love with a young man and he with her. When Tita's mother refuses to let them wed, and suggests that he marry her other daughter&hellip…
Best Film not in the English Language(Nominee)
Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a respectable violin making and repair business. One day a beautiful violinist named Camille (Gallic beauty Emmanuelle Beart) enters their shoppe and their lives, immediately striking up an affair with the outgoing&hellip…
1991 BAFTA Awards
Best Film not in the English Langauge(Nominee)
When attendance at a church's annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings the house down, it also brings down the condemnation of church hierarchy, creating a&hellip…
1990 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Mira Nair's first feature was an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees for&hellip…
Best Film not in the English Language
Drama about the relationship that develops between two people as they put their lives back together in post-World War I France. Major Dellaplane is a stoic soldier given the unenviable task of locating over 300,000 MIA's. Irene is a snobby socialite trying to find her missing husband, who&hellip…
Best Cinematography(Nominee)
The story of a bear cub's first year of life, told from the animal's point of view. After its mother is killed, a young cub latches onto an adult male grizzly. The reluctant stepfather educates and protects his young ward through its first summer of wide-eyed growth, including its initial encounter&hellip…
1988 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Set in Sweden, Andrei Tarkovsky's last film follows the travails of wealthy patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson), a former actor and critic who lives in a remote home on the edge of the Baltic Sea. One year on his birthday, a sudden television announcement interrupts the celebration with news of a&hellip…
1987 BAFTA Awards
Best Actor
Best Actress(Nominee)
Best Direction(Nominee)
Best Editing(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
Best Original Screenplay(Nominee)
Ex-con George, expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their&hellip…
Best Cinematography(Nominee)
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Screenplay - Adapted(Nominee)
Best Make Up Artist
For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a&hellip…
Best Direction
Louise Malle's award-winning drama historical drama is a meditative coming of age tale set during the rise of the Nazi Party. Based loosely on Malle's own boyhood at a private boarding school, AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS tells the story of the sad-eyed 12 year old, Julien Quentin (a captivating Gaspard Manesse. Returning&hellip…
1986 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls in love with him but cannot marry below her station. Still, they carry on a lifelong&hellip…
Best Production Design
Best Special Visual Effects
3 Disc Set. BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading&hellip…
1985 BAFTA Awards
Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Best Make Up Artist(Nominee)
Best Production Design/Art Direction(Nominee)
Best Special Visual Effects(Nominee)
The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian&hellip…
1984 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Franois Truffaut's final film is a homage to the American detective film of the 1940s. After he's implicated in several murders -- including that of his wife -- a real estate agent realizes someone's setting him up. Nervous and frightened, he hides out from the cops... while his intrepid and&hellip…
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
After the success of his low-budget CHAN IS MISSING, the story of a couple of Chinese cabdrivers and some missing money in Chinatown, Wayne Wang returned to the exploration of the melding of Chinese and American culture. In DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, he moves away from the streets of San&hellip…
1983 BAFTA Awards
Flaherty Documentary Award
An extraordinary journey into the mind and passions of director Werner Herzog during the filming of "Fitzcarraldo." Director Les Blank, with Maureen Gosling, has successfully captured on film the events and emotions surrounding the making of an exceptional motion picture.
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Flaherty Documentary Award(Nominee)
A hilarious, harrowing collection of government propaganda films intended to "educate" the public about nuclear war. Among the featured shorts are Burt the Turtle showing school children how to "duck and cover," a happy family going about its daily routine in a fallout shelter, and several&hellip…
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Director Werner Herzog returns to the exotic locales and obsessive themes of previous works in his Amazon masterpiece, FITZCARRALDO. Klaus Kinski gives a terrifying and determined portrayal of mad genius Fitzcarraldo, whose twin goals of making a fortune off the Amazon rubber trade and bringing&hellip…
Best Make-Up Artist
During the Ice Age, the fire used by a clan of cavemen is extinguished during a battle. Subsequently, three members leave in search of new embers to renew their flame. This journey proves to be more event-filled than expected, however; for example, they rescue a young cavewoman from cannibalistic savages and&hellip…
1982 BAFTA Awards
Best Actor(Nominee)
London underworld gangster Harold Shand controls a criminal empire built on every vice except narcotics. Even his gun moll, Victoria, is a vision of class. For his next racket, Shand plans to buy up moribund London dock yards and redevelop them for the 1988 olympics. Yet on Good Friday when Shand meets with&hellip…
1981 BAFTA Awards
Best Actress
Best Newcomer
The oldest child of a poor Australian ranch family has aspirations of artistic greatness. However, she finds that she must choose between her dream and her less-than-perfect love affair. Based on the autobiographical novel by Miles Franklin. Academy Award Nominations: Best Costume Design&hellip&hellip…
1980 BAFTA Awards
Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Best Supporting Actress(Nominee)
Best Production Design(Nominee)
Based on the novel by Henry James, THE EUROPEANS takes place in 1840s New England where a cultured but nearly destitute sister and brother, raised in Europe, arrive at the doorstep of their rich but innocently isolated American&hellip…
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1978 BAFTA Awards
Best Newcomer(Nominee)
The film that introduced brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani to a worldwide audience, an adaptation of Gavino Ledda's autobiographical PADRE PADRONE: THE EDUCATION OF A SHEPHERD, stars Severio Marconi as the the young Ledda. When he is only seven years old, the boy's harshly patriarchal father (Omero Antonutti)&hellip…
1977 BAFTA Awards
Best Soundtrack(Nominee)
Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Best Cinematography
Weir's (TRUMAN SHOW, DEAD POETS SOCIETY) exotic story employs tranquil surrealism and lush cinematography to explore the interconnected relationships between nature, eroticism and repression. While out climbing rocks, three girls from a posh finishing&hellip…
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1975 BAFTA Awards
Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music(Nominee)
A jewel thief and an antique dealer fall for each other in this romantic comedy romp. The police are still after the jewel thief, Simon, and he must avoid them at all costs whilst trying to ressurect his romantic liasons&hellip&hellip…
Best Film
Best Direction(Nominee)
Best Screenplay(Nominee)
This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was&hellip…
1974 BAFTA Awards
Best Art Direction(Nominee)
ROMA, the Federico Fellini-directed benchmark of the Italian New Wave, explores the city of Rome from several different perspectives, giving it a mystical life of its own that hangs in the balance between its rich history and its modern identity. With no real chronology, ROMA is a tapestry of bizarre&hellip…
UN Award(Nominee)
The first American film from Merchant Ivory Productions, SAVAGES is an allegorical tale which takes a hard look at what we deem civilized. When a croquet ball rolls into the middle of a human sacrifice, a tribe called the Mud People becomes curious and follows it into a deserted stately home. After the primitive&hellip…
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Best Direction(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
Best Film Editing(Nominee)
Best Actress(Nominee)
Best Soundtrack(Nominee)
Best Actor(Nominee)
Best Cinematography
Nicolas Roeg's third film--after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and meditative WALKABOUT (1971)--is a haunting thriller that confirmed the director's&hellip…
1973 BAFTA Awards
UN Award
Best Cinematography
This title is on moratorium and currently not available.
Vittorio De Sica's beautifully photographed masterpiece, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, is a return to the fine dramas (SHOESHINE, THE BICYCLE THIEF) of his early days as a director. Based on the autobiographical novel by Giorgio Bassani&hellip…
Best Actress(Nominee)
Very little happens, and all of the sordid criminal events take place off screen in Claude Chabrol's exquisitely detached and austerely abstract murder mystery set in the Perigord region of central France. At the center of the intrigue is Chabrol's frequent collaborator and wife, Stephane Audran, who plays&hellip…
1971 BAFTA Awards
Best Art Direction(Nominee)
Albert Finney shines as the title character in this musical version of Charles Dickens' timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a lonely miser who is visited on Christmas Eve by three spirits who teach him lessons of love and giving. Fun choreography, rich set design, memorable songs, and a distinguished&hellip…
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1968 BAFTA Awards
Un Award(Nominee)
Christ's life is presented with respect for the traditional religious doctrine of the Church, but Pasolini's trademark naturalism "humanizes" his subject and makes him his own. The documentary-style camera captures Christ's meetings with the men who were to become his disciples, the Last Supper, the betrayal&hellip…
1966 BAFTA Awards
BAFTA Film Award(Nominee)
Grigori Kozintsev's beautiful adaptation of the Bard classic is presented in Russian with English subtitles. Based on a translation by author Boris Pasternak, this version features simple yet effective imagery&hellip&hellip…
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1965 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actor
YESTERDAY, TODAY, and TOMORROW from director Vittorio De Sica features the most popular male and female leads of the Italian 20th century cinema, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Directed by Vittorio De Sica (THE BICYCLE THIEF, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS), and costumed by Christian Dior, the film&hellip…
Best British Art Direction
Best British Film
Best Film From Any Source
UN Award
Best British Actor(Nominee)
Best British Screenplay(Nominee)
Best Foreign Actor(Nominee)
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is Stanley Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED&hellip…
Robert J. Flaherty Award
A story of teenage conflict -- the predicament of a youth who rebels against his parents' middle-class goals and conventions but finds the world, away from home and high school, a cold place to go it alone. Ideals are no defense when the need for money leads to shady practices. This feature film is a study&hellip…
BAFTA Award - Best Foreign Actor(Nominee)
BAFTA Award - Best British Actress
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1964 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actress(Nominee)
Best Film from any Source Italy(Nominee)
Best Foreign Actor
Director Pietro Germi's hilarious and pointed satire of Italian marital conventions is the prototypical Italian sex comedy. Ferdinando Cefalu, a handsome Sicilian nobleman, longs to marry his beautiful nubile cousin Angela. There's&hellip…
Best Film(Nominee)
Roman Polanski's first feature-length film is a suspenseful three-person chamber drama reminiscent of the work of Ingmar Bergman. KNIFE IN THE WATER was filmed in the director's native Poland and financed through government subsidies. Although denounced by local authorities as devoid of any significant social&hellip…
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Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Best British Cinematography (Black & White)
Best British Actor
Best British Actress(Nominee)
Best British Film(Nominee)
Best British Screenplay(Nominee)
Best Film From Any Source(Nominee)
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles(Nominee)
In THE SERVANT&hellip…
Nominated for Best Film(Nominee)
Nominated for Best Foreign Actor(Nominee) – Howard Da Silva
Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles(Nominee) – Keir Dullea
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1963 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actress(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
JULES AND JIM is François Truffaut's intense, beautiful, enigmatic film about the lifelong friendship between two writers – French novelist Jim (Henri Serre) and Austrian children's author Jules (Oskar Werner) – and their mutual love for the eccentric Catherine&hellip…
1962 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actor(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
The story of five prisoners who meticulously plan their escape, only to learn that one of them is scheduled to be pardoned a few days before the jail-break. One of the "prison" genre's most unforgettable films&hellip&hellip…
Best Foreign Actress(Nominee)
Former "Cahiers du Cinma" critic Jean-Luc Godard threw everything he had learned from years of movie watching into his debut feature--creating an enormously influential film and a seminal study of existential longing and betrayal. Within the first few minutes, Michel (Belmondo), a foul-mouthed Parisian&hellip…
Best British Actor(Nominee)
Best British Screenplay(Nominee)
In England, Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is a married, successful lawyer--and a closet homosexual. Farr begins living in fear when a gang of murderers that killed his lover begin blackmailing him. The brave lawyer decides to track down the people who are out to get&hellip…
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Best Film(Nominee)
Best Foreign Actress(Nominee)
Acclaimed director Luchino Visconti's (DEATH IN VENICE) powerful epic is one of the most internationally adored Italian films in history. The story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS stars the gorgeous French actor Alain Delon as Rocco, a soft-spoken&hellip…
Best Film(Nominee)
Satyajit Ray is believed to be one of motion picture's most important luminaries, a truly magic lantern in the dark of every modern theater. His films have shaped the course of Indian cinema, not to mention moviemaking at large. Ray embodied the auteur ideal. He wrote his own scripts, shot his own footage, did&hellip…
1961 BAFTA Awards
Best Film(Nominee)
Best British Screenplay(Nominee)
Best British Film(Nominee)
Best British Actor(Nominee)
When cold, upper-crust Basil Barrow takes command of an army regiment, replacing a warm "up-from-the-ranks" colonel, the stage is set for a clash of the titans. The rank-and-file resent his straight-laced tactics&hellip…
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Best Foreign Actress(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
L'AVVENTURA, one of Michelangelo Antonioni's most gripping works, features expert photography and an electric cast that, together, seem to try to fool the audience. As a result, viewers are engrossed as they watch the majestic film unroll, waiting for Antonioni to reveal a piece&hellip…
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UN Award(Nominee)
Most Promising Newcomer(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
Considered by many to be the father of independent film, John Cassavetes left behind a body of work which has become essential viewing for anyone interested in the art of narrative filmmaking. Peopled with average people, down-and-out types, and low-level&hellip…
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UN Award(Nominee)
This lyrical and graphic documentary--one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust's horror--has deeply affected film's treatment of the Holocaust ever since, including Spielberg's SCHINDLER'S LIST. Documentarian Alain Resnais contrasts 1955 footage of abandoned concentration camps' quiet, empty buildings&hellip…
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Best Foreign Actress
Sophia Loren stars as Cesira, a devoted mother and a successful small business owner, in this Vittorio De Sica's TWO WOMEN, a dramatic adaptation of Alberto Moravia's touching novel, CESIRA. When the Allies begin bombing Mussolini's Rome, Cesira and her 12-year-old daughter, Rosetta (Eleonara Brown), travel&hellip…
Best Film from any Source(Nominee)
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles(Nominee)
Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema. Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a 13-year-old boy who can't seem to do anything right. His parents yell at him and then&hellip…
1960 BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actor(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
Wajda's three remarkable films about life in Poland during World War II: A GENERATION, KANAL and ASHES AND DIAMONDS. See individual titles for descriptions&hellip…
Best British Screenplay(Nominee)
Best British Actor(Nominee)
A quick-talking agent catapults his singing and drumming beatnik client, "Bongo" Herbert, from the annals of swingin' London's underground coffeehouse scene to national stardom, only to lose him in the showbiz machinery. Plenty of musical mirth showcasing teen idol&hellip…
1959 BAFTA Awards
Most Promising Newcomer(Nominee)
Wajda's three remarkable films about life in Poland during World War II: A GENERATION, KANAL and ASHES AND DIAMONDS. See individual titles for descriptions&hellip…
Most Promising Newcomer(Nominee)
The second film of Andrzej Wajda's celebrated World War II trilogy focuses on three groups of Polish soldiers and freedom fighters trying to escape the Nazis through the labyrinthine sewer system of Warsaw during that city's 1944 uprising. The first group, commanded by the risk-taking Madry (Emil&hellip…
1958 BAFTA Awards
Best British Actor(Nominee)
In TIME WITHOUT PITY, Joseph Losey delivers yet another multi-layered, atmospheric thriller. The film follows an alcoholic father (Michael Redgrave) who struggles to save his innocent son from the gallows, even as a cruel rival (Leo McKern) continues to keep him on the defensive. This was Losey's first&hellip…
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1956 BAFTA Awards
Best British Film
Best British Actor
Best Film from any Source
Amid the Wars of the Roses in England, ruling monarch Edward IV's lame, misshapen brother Richard schemes to ascend the throne. Richard turns the king against their other brother, the Duke of Clarence, who is imprisoned for treason, then arranges for Clarence's&hellip…
Best Foreign Actor(Nominee) – Toshirô Mifune
Best Film(Nominee)
Best Foreign Actor(Nominee) – Takashi Shimura
Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear&hellip…
1955 BAFTA Awards
Best Film From Any Source
Made two years before his slightly better known DIABOLIQUE, Henri-Georges Clouzot's nail-biter of a suspense film is the story of four broke and desperate men stranded in Latin America. Eager for a way out of their respective situations, they accept an American oil company's impossibly dangerous offer&hellip…
1954 BAFTA Awards
Best Film from any Source
A young orphaned French girl is taken in by a peasant family during WWII. Becoming fast friends with the young son, the two children begin playing games imitating the tragedies of war around them. Academy Award Nominations: Best Motion Picture Story&hellip&hellip…
1950 BAFTA Awards
Best Film from any Source
The recipient of international acclaim, Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork, THE BICYCLE THIEF, is a treasure of world cinema. After nearly two years of unemployment, Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the job. Unfortunately, he was&hellip…
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Best Film From Any Source
The recipient of international acclaim, Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork, BICYCLE THIEVES, is a treasure of world cinema. After nearly two years of unemployment, Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the job. Unfortunately, he was&hellip…
Best British Film(Nominee)
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is a deft and dark comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. Louis (Dennis Price), the black sheep of the wealthy family, must murder all the heirs in order to inherit the D'Ascoyne fortune. Watch as the brilliant Guinness&hellip…
Best British Film
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime--and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and&hellip…
1949 BAFTA Awards
Best Documentary
A Cajun boy living in the Marshlands of Petit Anse Bayou observes the growing industrialization of his state as he watches oil drillers at work in this production filmed entirely in Louisiana. Academy Award Nominations: Best Motion Picture Story&hellip&hellip…
Best British Film(Nominee)
Powell and Pressburger, who called their unique creative partnership The Archers, were no strangers to controversy. Each film they made together aimed it's barb at complacency and tackled a new creative challenge. They intended for this story, of a ballerina's life backstage, to turn into a manifesto&hellip…
Best Film from any Source(Nominee)
Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger's dazzling police procedural, The Naked City, was shot entirely on location in New York. The story is based on facts about a young woman who is brutally murdered in the streets of New York City and the subsequent&hellip…