About Bafta
The British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) are the UK's major film awards, voted for by members of the Academy (the great and good of the film industry) and allocated every year in a glitzy ceremony held in London.
The British Film Academy was originally formed in April 1947 in a hotel room at the Hyde Park Hotel, by a group of the most eminent men in British film, under the chairmanship of David Lean. The original awards themselves were designed by the sculptor Henry Moore, and took the form of statues of a large, bronze, seated lady. In 1958, the British Film Academy merged with the Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form the Society of Film and Television Arts, and in 1976, the Academy was renamed the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Since 1998, the event has been sponsored by the mobile phone company, Orange, with the ceremony's name changed officially to the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2000.
For more information about BAFTA see www.bafta.org
For details of BAFTA awards allocated to date see
www.bafta.org/film/archive.htm
The BAFTA Best Film Award Winners since 1969 are
2003
The Pianist
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
Gladiator
2000
American Beauty
1999
Shakespeare in Love
1998
The Full Monty
1997
The English Patient
1996
Sense and Sensibility
1995
The Usual Suspects
1995
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
Schindler's List
1993
Howards End
1992
The Commitments
1991
Goodfellas
1990
Dead Poets Society
1989
The Last Emperor
1988
Jean de Florette
1987
A Room with a View
1986
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
The Killing Fields
1984
Educating Rita
1983
Gandhi
1982
Chariots of Fire
1981
The Elephant Man
1980
Manhattan
1979
Julia
1978
Annie Hall
1977
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1975
Lacombe Lucien
1974
La Nuit américaine
1973
Cabaret
1972
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970
Midnight Cowboy
1969
The Graduate
