Awards for 1980

BAFTA Film Award

Best Film

WINNER

Manhattan
NOMINEES

Apocalypse Now

The China Syndrome

The Deer Hunter

Best Actor

WINNER

The China Syndrome: Jack Lemmon
NOMINEES

Apocalypse Now: Martin Sheen

The Deer Hunter: Robert De Niro

Manhattan: Woody Allen

Best Actress

WINNER

The China Syndrome: Jane Fonda
NOMINEES

California Suite: Maggie Smith

The Deer Hunter: Meryl Streep

Manhattan: Diane Keaton

Best Supporting Actor

WINNER

Apocalypse Now: Robert Duvall
NOMINEES

Alien: John Hurt

The Deer Hunter: Christopher Walken

Saint Jack: Denholm Elliott

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER

Yanks: Rachel Roberts
NOMINEES

The Europeans: Lisa Eichhorn

Manhattan: Mariel Hemingway

Manhattan: Meryl Streep

Best Direction

WINNER

Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola
NOMINEES

The Deer Hunter: Michael Cimino

Manhattan: Woody Allen

Yanks: John Schlesinger

Best Screenplay

WINNER

Manhattan: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
NOMINEES

The China Syndrome: Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges

The Deer Hunter: Deric Washburn

Yanks: Colin Welland, Walter Bernstein

Best Cinematography

WINNER

The Deer Hunter: Vilmos Zsigmond
NOMINEES

Apocalypse Now: Vittorio Storaro

Manhattan: Gordon Willis

Yanks: Dick Bush

Best Costume Design

WINNER

Yanks: Shirley Russell
NOMINEES

Agatha: Shirley Russell

Alien: John Mollo

The Europeans: Judy Moorcroft

Best Sound Track

WINNER

Alien: Derrick Leather, Jim Shields, Bill Rowe
NOMINEES

Apocalypse Now: Nathan Boxer, Richard P. Cirincione, Walter Murch

The Deer Hunter: C. Darin Knight, James J. Klinger, Richard Portman

Best Sound

NOMINEE

Manhattan: James Sabat, Dan Sable, Jack Higgins

Best Editing

WINNER

The Deer Hunter: Peter Zinner
NOMINEES

Alien: Terry Rawlings

Apocalypse Now: Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman

Manhattan: Susan E. Morse

Best Short Film

WINNER

Butch Minds the Baby: Peter Webb
NOMINEES

Dilemma: Clive Mitchell

Dream Doll: Bob Godfrey

Mr. Pascal: Alison De Vere

Best Production Design

WINNER

Alien: Michael Seymour
NOMINEES

Apocalypse Now: Dean Tavoularis

The Europeans: Jeremiah Rusconi

Yanks: Brian Morris

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Role

WINNERS

Breaking Away: Dennis Christopher

The Buddy Holly Story: Gary Busey
NOMINEES

Alien: Sigourney Weaver

That Summer!: Ray Winstone

Michael Balcon Award

WINNER

(The Children's Film Foundation)

Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music

WINNER

Days of Heaven: Ennio Morricone
NOMINEES

Alien: Jerry Goldsmith

Apocalypse Now: Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola

Yanks: Richard Rodney Bennett

Flaherty Documentary Award

WINNER

The Tree of Wooden Clogs: unknown

Academy Fellowship

WINNERS

David Attenborough

John Huston

BAFTA TV Award

Best Film Sound

WINNER

BBC2 Playhouse: Colin March
For episode "Speed King".
NOMINEES

Life on Earth: Lyndon Bird

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Malcolm Webberley

Best Film Cameraman

WINNER

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Tony Pierce-Roberts
NOMINEES

Play for Today, Play for Today, Play for Today: Nat Crosby
For episode "Blue Remembered Hills (#9.14)".

Life on Earth: Maurice Fisher, "camera team"

Testament of Youth: John Tiley, Colin Munn

Best Film Editor

WINNER

Public School: Paul Carter
NOMINEES

Life on Earth: Ron Martin

Bloody Ivory, Survival: Ann Chegwidden

Best Actor

WINNER

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Alec Guinness
NOMINEES

All Creatures Great and Small, BBC2 Playhouse: Robert Hardy

Crime and Punishment, Churchill and the Generals, Henry VIII, Timothy West as Beecham: Timothy West

Rumpole of the Bailey: Leo McKern

Best Actress

WINNER

Testament of Youth, Mystery!: Malice Aforethought, The Duke of Wellington: Cheryl Campbell
NOMINEES

A Performance of Macbeth, BBC2 Play of the Week, ITV Playhouse: Judi Dench

Measure for Measure: Kate Nelligan

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Beryl Reid

Best Costume Design

WINNER

Testament of Youth: Prue Handley
NOMINEES

Prince Regent: Raymond Hughes

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Joyce Mortlock

Best Sound Supervisor

NOMINEES

Telford's Change: Colin Dixon

Testament of Youth: Brian Miles

Rebecca: Norman Bennett

Best Documentary Programme

WINNER

Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack: Don Haworth
NOMINEES

Bloody Ivory: Simon Trevor

Kitty: Return to Auschwitz: Peter Morley

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia: David Munro

'Harlequin' (Documentary/Factual)

WINNER

The Book Tower: Anne Wood, Ian Bolt
NOMINEES

Blue Peter: Biddy Baxter

Blue Peter: Hugh David
For Blue Peter special assignment "Marie Antoinette at Versailles".

Rainbow: Peter Webb
For episode "Rainbow Moves House".

Best Factual Series

NOMINEES

Life on Earth: Christopher Parsons, John Sparks, Richard Brock

The Magic of Dance: Patricia Foy

Best Situation Comedy

WINNER

Fawlty Towers: Douglas Argent, Bob Spiers
NOMINEES

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: Gareth Gwenlan

Last of the Summer Wine: Sydney Lotterby

To the Manor Born: Gareth Gwenlan

Film Editor

NOMINEE

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Chris Wimble, Clare Douglas

Best Programme/Series Without Category

WINNER

The South Bank Show: Melvyn Bragg
NOMINEE

It'll Be Alright on the Night 2: Paul Smith

Best Make Up

WINNER

Prince Regent: Toni Chapman
NOMINEES

Churchill and the Generals: Eileen Mair

Crime and Punishment, Suez 1956: Pam Meager

Best Light Entertainment Programme/Series

WINNER

Ripping Yarns: Alan J.W. Bell, Jim Franklin
NOMINEES

The Kenny Everett Video Show: David Mallet

The Muppet Show: Jim Henson

The Two Ronnies: Brian Penders

'Flame of Knowledge'

WINNER

How We Used to Live: Richard Handford
NOMINEE

Scene: Roy Thompson

Best Drama Series/Serial

WINNER

Testament of Youth: Jonathan Powell, Moira Armstrong
NOMINEES

Rumpole of the Bailey: Jacqueline Davis

Telford's Change: Mark Shivas, Barry Davis

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Jonathan Powell, John Irvin

'Harlequin' (Drama/Light Entertainment)

WINNER

Grange Hill: Roger Singleton-Turner, Anna Home
NOMINEES

End of Part One: Simon Brett, Geoffrey Sax

Graham's Gang: Anna Home, Marilyn Fox

Jigsaw: Clive Doig

Worzel Gummidge: James Hill

The Legend of King Arthur: Ken Riddington, Rodney Bennett

Best Light Entertainment Performance

WINNER

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese
NOMINEES

The Two Ronnies: Ronnie Barker

To the Manor Born: Penelope Keith

Fawlty Towers: Andrew Sachs

Best VTR Editor

WINNER

Crime and Punishment, Suez 1956: Sam Upton
NOMINEES

Churchill and the Generals: David Hiller

Testament of Youth, BBC2 Playhouse: Stan Pow

Best Design

WINNER

Testament of Youth: Sally Hulke
NOMINEES

Crime and Punishment: Tony Abbott

Prince Regent: Barry Newbery, Barrie Dobbins

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Austen Spriggs

Best Graphics

WINNER

Secret Army: Alan Jeapes
NOMINEES

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Douglas Burd

The South Bank Show: Pat Gavin

Shoestring: Sid Sutton

Best Single Play

WINNER

Play for Today: Brian Gibson
For episode "Blue Remembered Hills (#9.14)".
NOMINEES

Churchill and the Generals: Alan Gibson

The Knowledge: Bob Brooks

Suez 1956: Michael Darlow

Best Television Lighting

WINNER

Testament of Youth, Matilda's England: Dave Sydenham
NOMINEES

Crime and Punishment, Suez 1956: Howard King

Rumpole of the Bailey, A Performance of Macbeth: Luigi Bottone

Churchill and the Generals: Nigel Wright

Best Television Cameraman

NOMINEES

A Performance of Macbeth: Peter Coombs

Testament of Youth, Suez 1956: Geoff Feld

Prince Regent: Rodney Taylor