49th British Academy Film Awards
The 49th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 23 April 1996, honoured the best films of 1995.
Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility won the award for Best Film. Sense and Sensibility also won awards for Best Actress and Supporting Actress. of director Michael Radford won the awards for Best Film not in the English Language, Director and Film Music. Nigel Hawthorne was voted Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in The Madness of King George. The same film was voted Best British Film of the Year. Tim Roth won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as "Archibald Cunningham" in Rob Roy.
Winners and nominees
Sense and Sensibility – Lindsay Doran and Ang Lee | Michael Radford –
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Nigel Hawthorne – The Madness of King George as George III
| Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood
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Tim Roth – Rob Roy as Archibald Cunningham
| Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood
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| The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie | Trainspotting – John Hodge
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| Braveheart – John Toll | Braveheart – Charles Knode
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| The Usual Suspects – John Ottman | The Madness of King George – Lisa Westcott
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| – Luis Bacalov | Apollo 13 – Michael Corenblith
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| Braveheart – Per Hallberg, Lon Bender, Brian Simmons, Andy Nelson, Scott Millan and Anna Behlmer | Apollo 13 – Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Matt Sweeney and Leslie Ekker
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| The Madness of King George – Stephen Evans, David Parfitt and Nicholas Hytner | – Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele and Michael Radford
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| A Close Shave – Carla Shelley, Michael Rose and Nick Park | It's Not Unusual – Asmaa Pirzada and Kfir Yefet
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Statistics
| Awards | Film |
| 3 | Braveheart |
| 3 | |
| 3 | The Madness of King George |
| 3 | Sense and Sensibility |
| 2 | Apollo 13 |
| 2 | The Usual Suspects |