37th British Academy Film Awards

Educating Rita – Lewis Gilbert

• Heat and Dust – Ismail Merchant
• Local Hero – David Puttnam
• Tootsie – Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards

Bill Forsyth – Local Hero

• James Ivory – Heat and Dust
• Sydney Pollack − Tootsie
• Martin Scorsese – The King of Comedy

Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels
Michael Caine – Educating Rita as Professor Frank Bryant

• Michael Caine – The Honorary Consul as Charley Fortnum
• Robert De Niro – The King of Comedy as Rupert Pupkin

Julie Walters – Educating Rita as Susan White

• Jessica Lange – Tootsie as Julie Nichols
• Phyllis Logan − Another Time, Another Place as Janie
• Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice as Zofia Zawistowski

Denholm Elliott – Trading Places as Coleman

• Bob Hoskins – The Honorary Consul as Colonel Perez
• Burt Lancaster – Local Hero as Felix Happer
• Jerry Lewis – The King of Comedy as Jerry Langford

Jamie Lee Curtis – Trading Places as Ophelia

• Teri Garr – Tootsie as Sandy Lester
• Rosemary Harris – The Ploughman's Lunch as Ann Barrington
• Maureen Lipman − Educating Rita as Trish

The King of Comedy – Paul D. Zimmerman

• Local Hero – Bill Forsyth
• Trading Places – Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod
• Zelig – Woody Allen

Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• Betrayal – Harold Pinter
• Educating Rita – Willy Russell
• Tootsie – Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal

Fanny and Alexander – Sven Nykvist

• Heat and Dust – Walter Lassally
• Local Hero – Chris Menges
• Zelig – Gordon Willis

La Traviata – Piero Tosi

• Fanny and Alexander – Marik Vos-Lundh
• Heat and Dust – Barbara Lane
• Tootsie – Ruth Morley

Flashdance – Bud S. Smith and Walt Mulconery

• The King of Comedy – Thelma Schoonmaker
• Local Hero – Michael Bradsell
• Zelig – Susan E. Morse

Tootsie – Dorothy Pearl, George Masters, Romaina Ford and Allen Weisinger

• Heat and Dust – Gordon Kay
• Return of the Jedi – Phil Tippett and Stuart Freeborn
• Zelig – Fred Buchner and John Caglione Jr.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence – Ryuichi Sakamoto

• Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder
• Local Hero – Mark Knopfler
• An Officer and a Gentleman – Jack Nitzsche

"Up Where We Belong" (An Officer and a Gentleman) – Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings

• "Flashdance... What a Feeling" (Flashdance) – Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey and Irene Cara
• "Tootsie" (Tootsie) – Dave Grusin, Alan and Marilyn Bergman
• "Every Sperm Is Sacred" (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life) – Andre Jacquemin, Dave Howman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones

La Traviata – Franco Zeffirelli and Gianni Quaranta

• Heat and Dust – Wilfred Shingleton
• Return of the Jedi – Norman Reynolds
• WarGames – Angelo P. Graham

WarGames – Willie D. Burton, Michael J. Kohut and William Manger

• Flashdance – Jim Webb, Robert Knudson, Robert Glass and Don Digirolamo
• La Traviata – Cesare D'Amico, Jean-Louis Ducarme, Claude Villand and Federico Savina
• Return of the Jedi – Ben Burtt, Tony Dawe and Gary Summers

Return of the Jedi – Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Kit West

• The Dark Crystal – Roy Field, Brian Smithies and Ian Wingrove
• WarGames – Mike Fink, Joe Digaetano, Jack Cooperman, Don Hansard, Colin Cantwell and William A. Fraker
• Zelig – Gordon Willis, Joel Hynek, Stuart Robertson and Richard Alan Greenberg

Phyllis Logan – Another Time, Another Place as Janie

• Greta Scacchi – Heat and Dust as Olivia Rivers
• Julie Walters – Educating Rita as Susan White
• Kevin Kline – Sophie's Choice as Nathan Landau

Schindler – Jon Blair

• Forty Minutes: Female Circumcision – Louise Panton
• The Visit: Part 3: The Boy David – Alex McCall
• Wildlife On One: Night Life – Dilys Breese

Danton – Margaret Ménégoz, Barbara Pec-Slesicka and Andrzej Wajda

• Confidentially Yours – Armand Barboult and François Truffaut
• Fanny and Alexander – Jörn Donner and Ingmar Bergman
• La Traviata – Tarak Ben Ammar and Franco Zeffirelli

Henry's Cat – Bob Godfrey

• Danger Mouse – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall
• Paddington Goes to the Movies – Barry Leith
• The Wind in the Willows – Mark Hall and Brian Cosgrove

Goodie Two Shoes – Ian Emes

• The Crimson Permanent Assurance – Terry Gilliam
• John Love – John Davis
• Keep Off the Grass – Paul Weiland