Journals

34th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1981
Highlights
Best Film	The Elephant Man
Best Actor	John Hurt The Elephant Man
Best Actress	Judy Davis My Brilliant Career
Most awards	The Elephant Man (3)
Most nominations	The Elephant Man (7)
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The 34th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1981, honoured the best films of 1980.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

The Elephant Man

• Being There
• Kagemusha
• Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actor

John Hurt in The Elephant Man

• Roy Scheider in All That Jazz
• Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer
• Peter Sellers in Being There

Best Actress

Judy Davis in My Brilliant Career

• Shirley MacLaine in Being There
• Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer
• Bette Midler in The Rose

Best Direction

Akira Kurosawa for Kagemusha

• David Lynch for The Elephant Man
• Robert Benton for Kramer vs. Kramer
• Alan Parker for Fame

Best Production Design

The Elephant Man – Stuart Craig

• All That Jazz – Philip Rosenberg
• Flash Gordon – Danilo Donati
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back – Norman Reynolds

Best Screenplay

Being There - Jerzy Kosinski

Best Animated Short Film

Michel Ocelot's Les Trois Inventeurs

• Oscar Grillo's Seaside Woman
• Bob Godfrey's Bio Woman
• Kamil Pixa's The Cube[1]