31st British Academy Film Awards
# 31st British Academy Film Awards

The 31st British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1978, honoured the best films of 1977.

## Winners and nominees

BAFTA Fellowship: Fred Zinnemann

| Best Film Annie Hall – Woody Allen A Bridge Too Far – Richard Attenborough Network – Sidney Lumet Rocky – John G. Avildsen | Best Direction Woody Allen – Annie Hall John G. Avildsen – Rocky Richard Attenborough – A Bridge Too Far Sidney Lumet – Network |
| - | - |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role Peter Finch – Network as Howard Beale Sylvester Stallone – Rocky as Rocky Balboa William Holden – Network as Max Schumacher Woody Allen – Annie Hall as Alvy Singer | Best Actress in a Leading Role Diane Keaton – Annie Hall as Annie Hall Faye Dunaway – Network as Diana Christensen Lily Tomlin – The Late Show as Margo Sperling Shelley Duvall – 3 Women as Mildred Lammoreaux |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role Edward Fox – A Bridge Too Far as Brian Horrocks Colin Blakely – Equus as Frank Strang Robert Duvall – Network as Frank Hackett Zero Mostel – The Front as Hecky Brown | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Jenny Agutter – Equus as Jill Mason Geraldine Chaplin – Welcome to L.A. as Karen Hood Joan Plowright – Equus as Dora Strang Shelley Winters – Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Fay Lapinsky |
| Best Screenplay Annie Hall – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Equus – Peter Shaffer Network – Paddy Chayefsky Rocky – Sylvester Stallone | Best Cinematography A Bridge Too Far – Geoffrey Unsworth The Deep – Christopher Challis Fellini's Casanova – Giuseppe Rotunno Valentino – Peter Suschitzky |
| Best Costume Design Fellini's Casanova – Danilo Donati Joseph Andrews – Michael Annals and Patrick Wheatley New York, New York – Theadora Van Runkle Valentino – Shirley Ann Russell | Best Editing Annie Hall – Ralph Rosenblum and Wendy Greene Bricmont A Bridge Too Far – Antony Gibbs Network – Alan Heim Rocky – Richard Halsey |
| Best Original Music A Bridge Too Far – John Addison Equus – Richard Rodney Bennett The Spy Who Loved Me – Marvin Hamlisch A Star Is Born – Paul Williams, Barbra Streisand, Kenneth Ascher, Rupert Holmes, Leon Russell, Kenny Loggins, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Donna Weiss | Best Production Design Fellini's Casanova – Danilo Donati A Bridge Too Far – Terence Marsh The Spy Who Loved Me – Ken Adam Valentino – Philip Harrison |
| Best Sound A Bridge Too Far – Peter Horrocks, Gerry Humphreys, Simon Kaye, Robin O'Donoghue and Les Wiggins Network – Jack Fitzstephens, Marc Lamb, Sandford Rackow, James Sabat and Dick Vorisek New York, New York – Kay Rose, Michael Colgan, James Fritch, Larry Jost and Richard Portman A Star Is Born – Robert Glass, Robert Knudson, Marvin Kosberg, Tom Overton, Joseph Von Stroheim and Dan Wallin | Best Specialised Film Path of the Paddle – Bill Mason Hazchem – Roy Pace How the Motor Works: Part II – George Seager |
| Best Fictional Film Bead Game – Ishu Patel The Chinese Word for Horse – Kate Canning The Sand Castle – Co Hoedeman | Best Factual Film The Living City – Peter De Normanville and Sarah Erulkar Pipeline Alaska – John Armstrong Reflections – Paddy Carey The Shetland Experience – Derek Williams |
| Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Isabelle Huppert – The Lacemaker as Pomme Jeannette Clift George – The Hiding Place as Corrie Ten Boom Olimpia Carlisi – The Middle of the World as Adriana Saverio Marconi – Padre Padrone as Gavino ||

## Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations :

| Nominations | Film |
| - | - |
| 9 | Network |
| 8 | A Bridge Too Far |
| 6 | Annie Hall |
| 5 | Equus |
| 5 | Rocky |
| 3 | Fellini's Casanova |
| 3 | Valentino |
| 2 | New York, New York |
| 2 | The Spy Who Loved Me |
| 2 | A Star Is Born |

Films that received multiple awards :

| Awards | Film |
| - | - |
| 5 | Annie Hall |
| 4 | A Bridge Too Far |
| 2 | Fellini's Casanova |
