51st British Academy Film Awards

51st British Academy Film Awards
Date19 April 1998
SiteGrosvenor House Hotel
Hosted byRory Bremner
Highlights
Best FilmThe Full Monty
Best British FilmNil by Mouth
Best ActorRobert Carlyle
The Full Monty
Best ActressJudi Dench
Mrs Brown
Most awardsRomeo + Juliet (4)
Most nominationsL.A. Confidential (12)

The 51st British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 19 April 1998 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1997. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 1997.

Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty won the award for Best Film, while Nil by Mouth, from writer/director Gary Oldman, was voted Outstanding British Film.[1][2][3]

The nominations were announced on 9 March 1998.[4][5][6] The ceremony was hosted by Rory Bremner.

  1. ^ Brownrigg, Sylvia (30 April 1998). "No glitz please – we're British". Salon.com. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Winners of the 1998 Bafta film awards". BBC News. 19 April 1998. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Full Monty pulls it off at Baftas". BBC News. 19 April 1998. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Full Monty tops Bafta list". BBC News. 10 March 1998. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  5. ^ Boehm, Erich (9 March 1998). "'Confidential' leads BAFTA noms". Variety. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  6. ^ Watson-Smyth, Kate (10 March 1998). "Monty's Bafta glory leaves Rowan without a bean". The Independent. Retrieved 15 June 2022.