48th British Academy Film Awards

48th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1995
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 (12)

The 48th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1995, honoured the best films of 1994.

Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral won the award for Best Film. 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.

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Hugh Grant – Four Weddings and a Funeral

• Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump
• Terence Stamp – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• John Travolta – Pulp Fiction

Best Actress

Susan Sarandon – The Client

• Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction
• Irène Jacob – Three Colours: Red (Trois couleurs : Rouge)
• Uma Thurman – Pulp Fiction

Best Cinematography

Interview with the Vampire

• 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

• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Interview with the Vampire
• Little Women

Best Director

Mike Newell – Four Weddings and a Funeral

• Krzysztof Kieślowski – Three Colours: Red (Trois couleurs : Rouge)
• Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
• Robert Zemeckis – Forrest Gump

Best Editing

Speed

• Forrest Gump – Arthur Schmidt
• Four Weddings and a Funeral – Jon Gregory
• Pulp Fiction – Sally Menke

Best Film

Four Weddings and a Funeral

• Forrest Gump
• Pulp Fiction
• Quiz Show

Best Film – British

Shallow Grave

• Backbeat
• Bhaji on the Beach
• Priest

Best Film Music

"Backbeat" – Don Was

Best Film not in the English Language

To Live (Huozhe)

• Belle époque
• Three Colours: Red (Trois couleurs : Rouge)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu)

Best Makeup & Hair

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

• Interview with the Vampire
• The Mask
• Mrs. Doubtfire

Best Production Design

Interview with the Vampire

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Frankenstein
• The Mask

Best Screenplay – Adapted

Quiz Show – Paul Attanasio

• The Browning Version – Ronald Harwood
• Forrest Gump – Eric Roth
• The Joy Luck Club – Ronald Bass and Amy Tan
• Three Colours: Red (Trois couleurs : Rouge) – Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz

Best Screenplay – Original

Pulp Fiction – Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Stephan Elliott
• Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Curtis
• Philadelphia – Ron Nyswaner

Best Sound

Speed

• Backbeat
• The Lion King
• Pulp Fiction

Best Special Effects

Forrest Gump

• The Mask
• Speed
• True Lies

Best Supporting Actor

Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction

• Simon Callow – Four Weddings and a Funeral
• John Hannah – Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Paul Scofield – Quiz Show

Best Supporting Actress

Kristin Scott Thomas – Four Weddings and a Funeral

• Charlotte Coleman – Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Sally Field – Forrest Gump
• Anjelica Huston – Manhattan Murder Mystery