The 43rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1990, honoured the best films of 1989.
Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society won the award for Best Film.
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“Never forget that you are Germans. Never forget that you are Nazis!”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Admiral Lutjens (Karel Stepanek)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
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