12th British Academy Film Awards
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12th British Academy Film Awards | |
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Date | 1959 |
Highlights | |
Best Film | Room at the Top |
Best British Film | Room at the Top |
Most awards | Orders to Kill & Room at the Top (3) |
Most nominations | Room at the Top (7) |
The 12th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1959, honoured the best films of 1958.
Winners and nominees[]
Best Film[]
- Aparajito
- Ice-Cold in Alex
- Indiscreet
- The Cranes Are Flying
- The Defiant Ones
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Orders to Kill
- No Down Payment
- Sea of Sand
- The Sheepman
- Wild Strawberries
- The Young Lions
- Le Notti di Cabiria
Best British Film[]
Best Foreign Actor[]
Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones
- Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones
- Curd Jürgens in The Enemy Below
- Curd Jürgens in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
- Spencer Tracy in The Last Hurrah
- Glenn Ford in The Sheepman
- Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries
- Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution
- Marlon Brando in The Young Lions
Best British Actor[]
- I. S. Johar in Harry Black
- Anthony Quayle in Ice-Cold in Alex
- Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top
- Donald Wolfit in Room at the Top
- Michael Craig in Sea of Sand
- Terry-Thomas in tom thumb
Best British Actress[]
- Virginia McKenna in Carve Her Name with Pride
- Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top
- Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Best Foreign Actress[]
Simone Signoret in Room at the Top
- Karuna Bannerjee in Aparajito
- Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
- Tatyana Samojlova in The Cranes Are Flying
- Joanne Woodward in No Down Payment
- Giulietta Masina in Le Notti di Cabiria
- Anna Magnani in Wild Is the Wind
Best British Screenplay[]
Categories:
- British Academy Film Awards
- 1958 film awards
- 1959 in British cinema