1. Winners and nominees
    Best Film  Best Actor  Best Actor in a Supporting Role  Best Actress  Best Actress in a Supporting Role  Best Original Screenplay  Best Adapted Screenplay  Best Foreign Language Film  Best Cinematography  Best Costume Design  Best Editing  Best Score  Best Makeup and Hair  Best Production Design  Best Sound  Best Visual Effects  Academy Fellowship 

The 39th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1986, honoured the best films of 1985.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Amadeus
• Back to the Future
• A Passage to India
• Witness

Best Actor

• Victor Bannerjee in A Passage To India
• Harrison Ford in Witness
• F.Murray Abraham in Amadeus

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Saeed Jaffery in My Beautiful Laundrette
• James Fox in A Passage to India
• John Gielgud in Plenty

Best Actress

• Kelly McGillis in Witness
• Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo
• Alexandra Pigg in Letter to Brezhnev

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Tracey Ullman in Plenty
• Anjelica Huston in Prizzi's Honor
• Judi Dench in Wetherby

Best Original Screenplay

• Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
• My Beautiful Laundrette - Hanif Kureishi
• Witness - Earl Wallace, William Kelley

Best Adapted Screenplay

• A Passage to India - David Lean
• Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
• The Shooting Party - Julian Bond

Best Foreign Language Film

Best Cinematography

• A Passage to India - Ernest Day
• The Emerald Forest - Philippe Rousselot
• Witness - John Seale

Best Costume Design

' The Cotton Club - Milena Canonero

• Amadeus - Theodor Pistek
• A Passage to India - Judy Moorcroft
• Legend - Charles Knode

Best Editing

' Amadeus - Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler

• Witness - Thom Noble
• A Chorus Line - John Bloom
• Back to the Future - Arthur Schmidt, Harry Keramidas

Best Score

' Witness - Maurice Jarre

• A Passage to India - Maurice Jarre
• Beverly Hills Cop - Harold Faltermeyer
• The Emerald Forest - Junior Homrich, Brian Gascoigne

Best Makeup and Hair

• The Emerald Forest - Peter Frampton, Paul Engelen, Anna Dryhurst, Luis Michelotti
• Legend - Peter Robb-King, Rob Bottin
• Mask - Michael Westmore

Best Production Design

• Amadeus - Patrizia von Brandenstein
• A Passage to India - John Box
• Back to the Future - Lawrence Paull

Best Sound

• The Cotton Club
• Carmen
• A Chorus Line

Best Visual Effects

• The Purple Rose of Cairo
• Back to the Future
• Legend

Academy Fellowship

• The Lay of Igor's Raid
• The Lay of the Anklet
• The Lay of the Host of Igor
• The Lay Of Thrym
• The Lay of Thrym
• The Layover (film)
• The Layover (TV series)
• The Lazarus Effect
• The Lazarus Effect (2015)
• The Lazarus Effect (2015 film)
• The Lazarus Effect (film)
• The Lazarus reflex
• The Lazy People From the Flourishing Valley
• Thelchildes
• Thel (commune)
• Thelcteria
• Thelcteria costaemaculalis
• Thelcticopis jiulongensis
• Thelcticopis severa
• Thelda descriptalis
• Thel (disambiguation)
• The LDM
• The Leaches Lead the Dance
• The Leader (Corning)
• The Leader-Herald