44th British Academy Film Awards

The 44th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1991, honoured the best films of 1990.

44th British Academy Film Awards
Date17 March 1991
Hosted byNoel Edmonds
Highlights
Best FilmGoodfellas
Best ActorPhilippe Noiret
Cinema Paradiso
Best ActressJessica Tandy
Driving Miss Daisy
Most awardsCinema Paradiso & Goodfellas (5)
Most nominationsCinema Paradiso (11)

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas won five awards: Best Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design, and Editing. Cinema Paradiso, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, also won five awards, including Best Actor (Philippe Noiret), Supporting Actor (Salvatore Cascio) and Film Not in the English Language.[1]

With its five wins, Cinema Paradiso achieved a new record for the most BAFTAs for a film not in the English language; this record was surpassed by the German language anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), which won seven BAFTAs in 2023.[2]

Winners and nominees

Academy Fellowship: Louis Malle

Martin Scorsese, Best Film co-winner, Best Director winner and Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
Philippe Noiret, Best Actor winner
Jessica Tandy, Best Actress winner
Whoopi Goldberg, Best Supporting Actress winner
Giuseppe Tornatore, Best Original Screenplay winner and Best Film Not in the English Language co-winner
Ennio Morricone, Best Original Music co-winner

GoodfellasIrwin Winkler and Martin Scorsese

Martin ScorseseGoodfellas

Philippe NoiretCinema Paradiso as Alfredo

Jessica TandyDriving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan

Salvatore CascioCinema Paradiso as Salvatore "Totò" Di Vita (Child)

Whoopi GoldbergGhost as Oda Mae Brown

Cinema ParadisoGiuseppe Tornatore

GoodfellasNicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese

The Sheltering SkyVittorio Storaro

GoodfellasRichard Bruno

GoodfellasThelma Schoonmaker

Dick TracyJohn Caglione Jr. and Doug Drexler

Cinema ParadisoEnnio Morricone and Andrea Morricone

Dick TracyRichard Sylbert

The Fabulous Baker Boys – J Paul Huntsman, Stephan Von Hase, Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander and Doug Hemphill

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids – Production Team

  • Harold Lloyd: The Third GeniusKevin Brownlow and David Gill
  • The Last African Flying Boat – David Wallace
  • Viewpoint: Cambodia, The Betrayal – A Special Report by John PilgerDavid Munro
  • Viewpoint: Ceausescu's Children – Patricia Ingram

Cinema ParadisoFranco Cristaldi and Giuseppe Tornatore

Toxic – Andrew McEwan

Say Goodbye – Michele Camarda and John Roberts

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations Film
11 Cinema Paradiso
7 Dick Tracy
Goodfellas
6 Crimes and Misdemeanors
4 Driving Miss Daisy
Ghost
Pretty Woman
3 The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Hunt for Red October
Postcards from the Edge
2 Born on the Fourth of July
The Sheltering Sky
Films that received multiple awards
Awards Film
5 Cinema Paradiso
Goodfellas
2 Dick Tracy

See also

References

  1. "'Goodfellas' and 'Paradiso' Do Jolly Well in England". Deseret News. 25 March 1991. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  2. Green, Alex (20 February 2023). "All Quiet on the Western Front breaks Cinema Paradiso's BAFTA record". The Independent. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
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