48th British Academy Film Awards

48th British Academy Film Awards
48th British Academy Film Awards
Date	23 April 1995
Site	London Palladium
Hosted by	Billy Connolly
Highlights
Best Film	Four Weddings and a Funeral
Best British Film	Shallow Grave
Best Actor	Hugh Grant; Four Weddings and a Funeral
Best Actress	Susan Sarandon; The Client
Most awards	Four Weddings and a Funeral (4)
Most nominations	Four Weddings and a Funeral (11)

The 48th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 23 April 1995 at the London Palladium in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1994. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 1994.

Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral won the award for Best Film.^[1] It also won the awards for Best Director (Mike Newell), Actor (Hugh Grant) and Supporting Actress (Kristin Scott Thomas). Pulp Fiction won the awards for Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson) and Original Screenplay. Susan Sarandon won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her role in The Client.^[2]^[3]

Winners and nominees

Samuel L. Jackson, Best Supporting Actor winner

Kristin Scott Thomas, Best Supporting Actress winner

Paul Attanasio, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

BAFTA Fellowship

Billy Wilder

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

Ridley Scott and Tony Scott

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film Four Weddings and a Funeral – Duncan Kenworthy and Mike Newell Forrest Gump – Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey and Robert Zemeckis Pulp Fiction – Lawrence Bender and Quentin Tarantino Quiz Show – Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozik and Robert Redford	Best Direction Mike Newell – Four Weddings and a Funeral Krzysztof Kieślowski – Three Colours: Red Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction Robert Zemeckis – Forrest Gump
Best Actor in a Leading Role *Hugh Grant – Four Weddings and a Funeral* as Charles** John Travolta – Pulp Fiction as Vincent Vega Terence Stamp – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as Bernadette Bassenger Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump	Best Actress in a Leading Role *Susan Sarandon – The Client* as Regina Love** Irène Jacob – Three Colours: Red as Valentine Dussaut Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction as Bridget Gregory Uma Thurman – Pulp Fiction as Mia Wallace
Best Actor in a Supporting Role *Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction* as Jules Winnfield** John Hannah – Four Weddings and a Funeral as Matthew Paul Scofield – Quiz Show as Mark Van Doren Simon Callow – Four Weddings and a Funeral as Gareth	Best Actress in a Supporting Role *Kristin Scott Thomas – Four Weddings and a Funeral* as Fiona** Anjelica Huston – Manhattan Murder Mystery as Marcia Fox Charlotte Coleman – Four Weddings and a Funeral as Scarlett Sally Field – Forrest Gump as Mrs. Gump
Best Original Screenplay Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Stephan Elliott Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Curtis Philadelphia – Ron Nyswaner Three Colours: Red – Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz	Best Adapted Screenplay Quiz Show – Paul Attanasio The Browning Version – Ronald Harwood Forrest Gump – Eric Roth The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan and Ronald Bass
Best Cinematography Interview with the Vampire – Philippe Rousselot The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Brian J. Breheny Forrest Gump – Don Burgess Pulp Fiction – Andrzej Sekuła	Best Costume Design The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel Four Weddings and a Funeral – Lindy Hemming Interview with the Vampire – Sandy Powell Little Women – Colleen Atwood
Best Editing Speed – John Wright Forrest Gump – Arthur Schmidt Four Weddings and a Funeral – Jon Gregory Pulp Fiction – Sally Menke	Best Makeup and Hair The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Cassie Hanlon, Angela Conte and Strykermeyer Interview with the Vampire – Stan Winston, Michèle Burke and Jan Archibald The Mask – Greg Cannom and Sheryl Leigh Ptak Mrs. Doubtfire – Greg Cannom, Ve Neill and Yolanda Toussieng
Best Original Music Backbeat – Don Was The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Guy Gross Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Rodney Bennett The Lion King – Hans Zimmer	Best Production Design Interview with the Vampire – Dante Ferretti The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Owen Paterson and Colin Gibson Mary Shelley's Frankenstein – Tim Harvey The Mask – Craig Stearns
Best Sound Speed – Stephen Hunter Flick, Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer and David MacMillan Backbeat – Glenn Freemantle, Chris Munro and Robin O'Donoghue The Lion King – Terry Porter, Mel Metcalfe, David J. Hudson and Doc Kane Pulp Fiction – Stephen Hunter Flick, Ken King, Rick Ash and Dean A. Zupancic	Best Special Visual Effects Forrest Gump – Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, Allen Hall and Doug Chiang The Mask – Scott Squires, Steve Williams, Tom Bertino and Jon Farhat Speed – Boyd Shermis, John Frazier, Ron Brinkmann and Richard E. Hollander True Lies – John Bruno, Thomas L. Fisher, Jacques Stroweis, Patrick McClung and Jamie Dixon
Outstanding British Film Shallow Grave – Andrew Macdonald and Danny Boyle Backbeat – Finola Dwyer, Stephen Woolley and Iain Softley Bhaji on the Beach – Nadine Marsh-Edwards and Gurinder Chadha Priest – George S. J. Faber, Josephine Ward and Antonia Bird	Best Film Not in the English Language To Live – Chiu Fu-sheng and Zhang Yimou Belle Époque – Fernando Trueba Eat Drink Man Woman – Hsu Li-kong and Ang Lee Three Colours: Red – Marin Karmitz and Krzysztof Kieślowski
Best Short Animation The Big Story – Tim Watts and David Stoten The Monk and the Fish – Patrick Eveno, Jacques-Remy Girard and Michaël Dudok de Wit Pib and Pog – Carla Shelley and Peter Peake Stressed – Karen Kelly	Best Short Film Zinky Boys Go Underground – Tatiana Kennedy and Paul Tickell Lost Mojave – Vladimir Perlovich and Jonathan Cardish Marooned – Andrea Calderwood and Jonas Grimås That Sunday – Damiano Vukotic and Dan Zeff

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
11	Four Weddings and a Funeral
9	Pulp Fiction
8	Forrest Gump
7	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
4	Interview with the Vampire
4	Three Colours: Red
3	Backbeat
	The Mask
	Quiz Show
	Speed
2	The Lion King

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
4	Four Weddings and a Funeral
2	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
	Interview with the Vampire
	Pulp Fiction
	Speed

References

↑ Morgan, David (19 January 2023). "BAFTA Best Film Award Winners Since 1990 – A Photo Gallery". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
↑ "BAFTA | Film in 1995". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
↑ McG, Ross (8 February 2015). "Four Weddings fever: 10 reasons why the 1995 Bafta Awards were so great". Metro. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

[1] Morgan, David (19 January 2023). "BAFTA Best Film Award Winners Since 1990 – A Photo Gallery". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

[2] "BAFTA | Film in 1995". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.

[3] McG, Ross (8 February 2015). "Four Weddings fever: 10 reasons why the 1995 Bafta Awards were so great". Metro. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

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