Annal:1987 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Film
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Results of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award in the year 1987. For a ranked list of films, try the honor roll.
- 1987 BAFTA-Film winner
- 1987 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 1987 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 22.37
The prestigious filmmaking trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was released in 1985, but it was this popular film that made them art-house superstars. Splendidly adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, it’s a comedy of the heart, a passionate romance and a study of repression within the British class system of manners and mores. It’s that system of rigid behavior that prevents young Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) from…
- 1987 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy winner
- 1987 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1987 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 22.37
Considered by many to be Woody Allen’s best film, even over Annie Hall. Hannah and Her Sisters follows a multitude of characters: Hannah (Mia Farrow), who plays den mother to her extended family; her sister Lee (Barbara Hershey), emotional and a bit of a flake, who’s involved with a much older artist (Max Von Sydow), who treats her like a child; and Hannah’s other sister, Holly (Dianne Wiest), a neurotic who feels incapable of managing her life. Hannah’s husband Elliot (Michael Caine) falls in love with Lee, which sets off a series of upheavals.…
- 1986 Cannes Palme d’Or
- 1987 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1987 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 1987 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 28.36
The Mission is director Roland Joffé’s fuzzy effort at an epic in David Lean style without David Lean’s sense of emotional proportion. In fact, Lean’s most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors.
Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons’s character to oversee…
- 1987 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1987 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- Score: 12.37
You’ll have to listen hard to catch all the dialogue in this dark, romantic film by director Neil Jordan. The Cockney accents are thick enough to spread on a crumpet. But it’s worth the effort to plunge into the London underworld with tough but lovable thug Bob Hoskins. Just out of prison, he’s given a job by his old boss (Michael Caine) as chauffeur to a gorgeous but chilly call girl (Cathy Tyson). For all his criminal experience, this guy is surprisingly innocent; when he develops a crush on the woman he’s driving, it leads inevitably to tragedy. Hoskins is…
