Awards - British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) - 1955-1964

Best Film

• Tom Jones
• Billy Liar
• David and Lisa
• Days of Wine and Roses
• Divorce Italian Style
• 8½
• The Four Days of Naples
• Hud
• Knife in the Water
• The Servant
• This Sporting Life
• To Kill a Mockingbird

Best British Actor

• Dirk Bogarde (The Servant)
• Tom Courtenay (Billy Liar)
• Albert Finney (Tom Jones)
• Hugh Griffith (Tom Jones)
• Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)

Best Foreign Actor

• Marcello Mastroianni (Divorce Italian Style)
• Howard Da Silva (David and Lisa)
• Jack Lemmon (Days of Wine and Roses)
• Paul Newman (Hud)
• Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Best British Actress

• Rachel Roberts (This Sporting Life)
• Julie Christie (Billy Liar)
• Edith Evans (Tom Jones)
• Sarah Miles (The Servant)
• Barbara Windsor (Sparrows Can't Sing)

Best Foreign Actress

• Patricia Neal (Hud)
• Joan Crawford (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
• Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
• Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses)
• Daniela Rocca (Divorce Italian Style)

Best British Screenplay

• John Osborne (Tom Jones)
• Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse (Billy Liar)
• Harold Pinter (The Servant)
• David Storey (This Sporting Life)

Best British Cinematography - Black and White

• Douglas Slocombe (The Servant)
• Denys N. Coop (Billy Liar)
• Mutz Greenbaum (Heavens Above!)
• Gerald Gibbs (Station Six-Sahara)
• Christopher Challis (The Victors)

Best British Cinematography - Colour

• Ted Moore (From Russia with Love)
• Arthur Ibbetson (Nine Hours to Rama)
• Robert Krasker (The Running Man)
• Erwin Hillier (A Boy Ten Feet Tall)
• Jack Asher (The Scarlet Blade)
• Geoffrey Unsworth (Tamahine)
• Jack Hildyard (The V.I.P.s)

Best Animated Film

• Automania 2000
• The Critic

Best British Short Film

• The Anniversary
• Sailing
• Snow
• The War Game

Outstanding British Film

• Tom Jones
• Billy Liar
• The Servant
• This Sporting Life

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• James Fox (The Servant)
• Wendy Craig (The Servant)
• Keir Dullea (David and Lisa)
• Janet Margolin (David and Lisa)

United Nations Award

• The Inheritance
• War Hunt

Best Film

• Lawrence of Arabia
• Billy Budd
• The Naked Island
• Jules and Jim
• A Kind of Loving
• The Lady with the Dog
• Last Year at Marienbad
• The Long Absence
• Lola
• The L-Shaped Room
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Miracle Worker
• Only Two Can Play
• Phaedra
• Tu ne tueras point
• Through a Glass Darkly
• The Elusive Corporal
• West Side Story

Best British Actor

• Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia)
• Richard Attenborough (The Dock Brief)
• Alan Bates (A Kind of Loving)
• James Mason (Lolita)
• Laurence Olivier (Term of Trial)
• Peter Sellers (Only Two Can Play)

Best Foreign Actor

• Burt Lancaster (Birdman of Alcatraz)
• Jean-Paul Belmondo (Léon Morin, Priest)
• Franco Citti (Accattone)
• Kirk Douglas (Lonely Are the Brave)
• George Hamilton (Light in the Piazza)
• Charles Laughton (Advise and Consent)
• Anthony Quinn (Lawrence of Arabia)
• Robert Ryan (Billy Budd)
• Georges Wilson (The Long Absence)

Best British Actress

• Leslie Caron (The L-Shaped Room)
• Virginia Maskell (The Wild and the Willing)
• Janet Munro (Walk in the Shadow)

Best Foreign Actress

• Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)
• Anouk Aimée (Lola)
• Harriet Andersson (Through a Glass Darkly)
• Melina Mercouri (Phaedra)
• Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim)
• Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth)
• Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass)

Best British Screenplay

• Robert Bolt (Lawrence of Arabia)
• DeWitt Bodeen, Peter Ustinov (Billy Budd)
• Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse (A Kind of Loving)
• Bryan Forbes (Only Two Can Play)
• Geoffrey Cotterell, Ivan Foxwell (Tiara Tahiti)
• Wolf Mankowitz (Waltz of the Toreadors)

Best Animated Film

• The Apple
• Four Line Conics
• The Travelling Tune

Best British Short Film

• Incident at Owl Creek
• Lonely Boy
• Pan
• Zoo

Outstanding British Film

• Lawrence of Arabia
• Billy Budd
• A Kind of Loving
• The L-Shaped Room
• Only Two Can Play

Specialised Film

• Four Line Conics
• What's The Time?

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
• Mariette Hartley (Ride the High Country)
• Ian Hendry (Live Now - Pay Later)
• Sarah Miles (Term of Trial)
• Terence Stamp (Billy Budd)

United Nations Award

• Reach for Glory
• Food Or Famine
• Tu ne tueras point

Best Film

• Ballad of a Soldier
• The Hustler
• The Innocents
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Jungle Fighters
• Rocco and His Brothers
• The Sundowners
• A Taste of Honey
• Le Trou
• Whistle Down the Wind
• The World of Apu

Best British Actor

• Peter Finch (No Love for Johnnie)
• Dirk Bogarde (Victim)

Best Foreign Actor

• Paul Newman (The Hustler)
• Montgomery Clift (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Vladimir Sergeyevich Ivashov (Ballad of a Soldier)
• Philippe Leroy (Le Trou)
• Sidney Poitier (A Raisin in the Sun)
• Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Alberto Sordi (The Best of Enemies)

Best Leading Actress

• Sophia Loren (Two Women)
• Annie Girardot (Rocco and His Brothers)
• Piper Laurie (The Hustler)
• Claudia McNeil (A Raisin in the Sun)
• Jean Seberg (Breathless)

Best British Actress

• Dora Bryan (A Taste of Honey)
• Deborah Kerr (The Sundowners)
• Hayley Mills (Whistle Down the Wind)

Best British Screenplay

• Val Guest, Wolf Mankowitz (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)
• Shelagh Delaney, Tony Richardson (A Taste of Honey)
• Ted Willis (Flame in the Streets)
• Carl Foreman (The Guns of Navarone)
• Janet Green, John McCormick (Victim)
• Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse (Whistle Down the Wind)

Best Animated Film

• One Hundred and One Dalmatians
• The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
• For Better...For Worse

Best Documentary Film

• Volcano

Best British Short Film

• Terminus
• Eyes Of A Child
• Let My People Go

Outstanding British Film

• A Taste of Honey
• The Innocents
• The Sundowners
• Jungle Fighters
• Whistle Down the Wind

Specialised Film

• Electron Microscopy
• Mr. Marsh Comes to School
• O For Oxygen

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• Rita Tushingham (A Taste of Honey)
• Tony Hancock (Call Me Genius)
• Murray Melvin (A Taste of Honey)

United Nations Award

• Let My People Go
• The Best of Enemies
• Take a Giant Step

Best Film

• The Apartment
• The Angry Silence
• The Adventure
• La Dolce Vita
• Elmer Gantry
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Inherit the Wind
• Let's Make Love
• Never on Sunday
• Black Orpheus
• The 400 Blows
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Shadows
• Spartacus
• The Testament of Orpheus or Don't Ask Me Why
• The Man with the Green Carnation
• Tunes of Glory

Best British Actor

• Peter Finch (The Man with the Green Carnation)
• Richard Attenborough (The Angry Silence)
• Albert Finney (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
• John Fraser (The Man with the Green Carnation)
• Alec Guinness (Tunes of Glory)
• John Mills (Tunes of Glory)
• Laurence Olivier (The Entertainer)

Best Foreign Actor

• Jack Lemmon (The Apartment)
• George Hamilton (Crime & Punishment, USA)
• Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
• Fredric March (Inherit the Wind)
• Yves Montand (Let's Make Love)
• Spencer Tracy (Inherit the Wind)

Best British Actress

• Rachel Roberts (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
• Wendy Hiller (Sons and Lovers)
• Hayley Mills (Pollyanna)

Best Foreign Actress

• Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)
• Pier Angeli (The Angry Silence)
• Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday)
• Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima Mon Amour)
• Jean Simmons (Elmer Gantry)
• Monica Vitti (The Adventure)

Best British Screenplay

• Bryan Forbes (The Angry Silence)
• Howard Clewes (The Day They Robbed the Bank of England)
• Nigel Kneale, John Osborne (The Entertainer)
• Val Guest (Hell Is a City)
• Bryan Forbes (The League of Gentlemen)
• Wolf Mankowitz (The Millionairess)
• Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
• James Kennaway (Tunes of Glory)
• Ken Hughes (The Man with the Green Carnation)
• Ivan Foxwell, Guy Hamilton, Roger MacDougall (A Touch of Larceny)

Best Animated Film

• Universe
• The Interview
• Piccolo

Best British Short Film

• High Journey
• Return to Life
• Seawards the Great Ships

Outstanding British Film

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• The Angry Silence
• The Man with the Green Carnation
• Tunes of Glory

Specialised Film

• Dispute
• Heroic Days
• Outline Of Detergency

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• Albert Finney (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
• Lelia Goldoni (Shadows)
• Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows)
• George Peppard (Home from the Hill)
• Joan Plowright (The Entertainer)
• Anthony Ray (Shadows)
• Billie Whitelaw (Hell Is a City)

United Nations Award

• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Night and Fog
• Return to Life
• Shadows
• Unseen Enemies

Best Film

• Ben-Hur
• Anatomy of a Murder
• The Magician
• The Big Country
• Compulsion
• Gigi
• Look Back in Anger
• Inspector Maigret
• North West Frontier
• The Nun's Story
• Ashes and Diamonds
• Sapphire
• Some Like It Hot
• Tiger Bay
• Yesterday's Enemy

Best British Actor

• Peter Sellers (I'm All Right Jack)
• Stanley Baker (Yesterday's Enemy)
• Richard Burton (Look Back in Anger)
• Peter Finch (The Nun's Story)
• Laurence Harvey (Expresso Bongo)
• Gordon Jackson (Yesterday's Enemy)
• Laurence Olivier (The Devil's Disciple)

Best Foreign Actor

• Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot)
• Zbigniew Cybulski (Ashes and Diamonds)
• Jean Desailly (Inspector Maigret)
• Jean Gabin (Inspector Maigret)
• Takashi Shimura (To Live)
• James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder)

Best British Actress

• Audrey Hepburn (The Nun's Story)
• Peggy Ashcroft (The Nun's Story)
• Wendy Hiller (Separate Tables)
• Yvonne Mitchell (Sapphire)
• Sylvia Syms (No Trees in the Street)
• Kay Walsh (The Horse's Mouth)

Best Foreign Actress

• Shirley MacLaine (Ask Any Girl)
• Ava Gardner (On the Beach)
• Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!)
• Ellie Lambeti (A Matter of Dignity)
• Rosalind Russell (Auntie Mame)

Best British Screenplay

• John Boulting, Alan Hackney, Frank Harvey (I'm All Right Jack)
• Ben Barzman, Millard Lampell (Chance Meeting)
• Wolf Mankowitz (Expresso Bongo)
• Alec Guinness (The Horse's Mouth)
• Nigel Kneale (Look Back in Anger)
• Robin Estridge (North West Frontier)
• Ted Willis (No Trees in the Street)
• Janet Green (Sapphire)
• John Hawkesworth, Shelley Smith (Tiger Bay)

Best Animated Film

• The Violinist
• Beep Peep
• House
• Short and Suite

Best Documentary Film

• The Savage Eye
• This Is The BBC
• We Are the Lambeth Boys
• White Wilderness

Best British Short Film

• Seven Cities of Antarctica
• Rodin

Outstanding British Film

• Sapphire
• Look Back in Anger
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Tiger Bay
• Yesterday's Enemy

Specialised Film

• This Is The BBC
• Coupe Des Alpes: The Story Of The 1958 Alpine Rally
• Hazard
• Tribute To Fangio

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• Hayley Mills (Tiger Bay)
• Gerry Duggan (Four Desperate Men)
• Liz Fraser (I'm All Right Jack)
• Joseph N. Welch (Anatomy of a Murder)

United Nations Award

• On the Beach
• The Nun's Story

Best Film

• Room at the Top
• Nights of Cabiria
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The Cranes Are Flying
• The Defiant Ones
• Ice-Cold in Alex
• Indiscreet
• No Down Payment
• Orders to Kill
• Desert Patrol
• The Sheepman
• The Unvanquished
• Wild Strawberries
• The Young Lions

Best British Actor

• Trevor Howard (The Key)
• Michael Craig (Desert Patrol)
• Laurence Harvey (Room at the Top)
• I.S. Johar (Harry Black and the Tiger)
• Anthony Quayle (Ice-Cold in Alex)
• Terry-Thomas (Tom Thumb)
• Donald Wolfit (Room at the Top)

Best Foreign Actor

• Sidney Poitier (The Defiant Ones)
• Marlon Brando (The Young Lions)
• Tony Curtis (The Defiant Ones)
• Glenn Ford (The Sheepman)
• Curd Jürgens (The Enemy Below)
• Curd Jürgens (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
• Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution)
• Paul Newman (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
• Victor Sjöström (Wild Strawberries)
• Spencer Tracy (The Last Hurrah)

Best British Actress

• Irene Worth (Orders to Kill)
• Hermione Baddeley (Room at the Top)
• Karuna Bannerjee (The Unvanquished)
• Virginia McKenna (Carve Her Name with Pride)

Best Foreign Actress

• Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
• Ingrid Bergman (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
• Anna Magnani (Wild Is the Wind)
• Giulietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)
• Tatyana Samoylova (The Cranes Are Flying)
• Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
• Joanne Woodward (No Down Payment)

Best British Screenplay

• Paul Dehn (Orders to Kill)
• Arthur Laurents (Bonjour tristesse)
• Vernon Harris (A Cry from the Streets)
• T.J. Morrison (Ice-Cold in Alex)
• Norman Krasna (Indiscreet)
• Isobel Lennart (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
• Carl Foreman (The Key)
• Alun Falconer (The Man Upstairs)
• Eric Ambler (A Night to Remember)
• James Kennaway (Violent Playground)

Best Animated Film

• The Little Island
• The Juggler of Our Lady
• The Blackbird

Best Documentary Film

• Glass
• The Forerunner
• Jabulani Afrika
• L.S. Lowry
• Secrets of the Reef
• Wonders Of Chicago

Outstanding British Film

• Room at the Top
• Indiscreet
• Ice-Cold in Alex
• Desert Patrol
• Orders to Kill

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• Paul Massie (Orders to Kill)
• Red Buttons (Sayonara)
• Teresa Izewska (Canal)
• Mary Peach (Room at the Top)
• Ronald Radd (The Camp on Blood Island)
• Maggie Smith (Nowhere to Go)
• Gwen Verdon (Damn Yankees!)

Special Award

• Nadace dětského filmu

United Nations Award

• The Defiant Ones
• People Like Maria
• The Unknown Soldier

Best Film

• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Bachelor Party
• A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• He Who Must Die
• Edge of the City
• Song of the Road
• Paths of Glory
• The Gates of Paris
• The Prince and the Showgirl
• The Shiralee
• That Night!
• 3:10 to Yuma
• The Tin Star
• 12 Angry Men
• Windom's Way

Best British Actor

• Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
• Peter Finch (Windom's Way)
• Trevor Howard (Stowaway Girl)
• Laurence Olivier (The Prince and the Showgirl)
• Michael Redgrave (Time Without Pity)

Best Foreign Actor

• Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men)
• Richard Basehart (Time Limit)
• Pierre Brasseur (The Gates of Paris)
• Tony Curtis (Sweet Smell of Success)
• Jean Gabin (The Crossing of Paris)
• Robert Mitchum (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison)
• Sidney Poitier (Edge of the City)
• Ed Wynn (The Great Man)

Best British Actress

• Heather Sears (The Story of Esther Costello)
• Deborah Kerr (Tea and Sympathy)
• Sylvia Syms (Woman in a Dressing Gown)

Best Foreign Actress

• Simone Signoret (The Crucible)
• Augusta Dabney (That Night!)
• Katharine Hepburn (The Rainmaker)
• Marilyn Monroe (The Prince and the Showgirl)
• Lilli Palmer (Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter)
• Eva Marie Saint (A Hatful of Rain)
• Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)

Best British Screenplay

• Pierre Boulle (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
• Arthur Laurents (Anastasia)
• Jack Whittingham (The Birthday Present)
• Cy Endfield, John Kruse (Hell Drivers)
• Terence Rattigan (The Prince and the Showgirl)
• John Eldridge, William Rose (Decision Against Time)
• John Eldridge, William Rose (Big Time Operators)
• Charles Kaufman (The Story of Esther Costello)
• Jill Craigie (Windom's Way)
• Ted Willis (Woman in a Dressing Gown)

Best Animated Film

• Pan-Tele-Tron
• The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
• Earth Is a Battlefield
• Magic Fluke

Best Documentary Film

• Journey Into Spring
• City of Gold
• Every Day Except Christmas
• Holiday
• The USA In The Thirties

Outstanding British Film

• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Prince and the Showgirl
• The Shiralee
• Windom's Way

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• Eric Barker (Brothers in Law)
• Mylène Demongeot (The Crucible)
• Elvi Hale (True as a Turtle)
• James MacArthur (The Young Stranger)
• Keith Michell (True as a Turtle)

Special Award

• A Chairy Tale
• Introducing Telex
• Successful Instruction

United Nations Award

• The Happy Road
• Out
• Like Paradise

Best Film

• Gervaise
• The Woman in the Painting
• Baby Doll
• Pursuit of the Graf Spee
• The Unfrocked One
• Poprygunya
• Guys and Dolls
• The Killing
• The Man Who Never Was
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• Picnic
• Reach for the Sky
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Shadow
• Smiles of a Summer Night
• A Town Like Alice
• The Trouble with Harry
• War and Peace
• Blonde Sinner

Best British Actor

• Peter Finch (A Town Like Alice)
• Jack Hawkins (The Long Arm)
• Kenneth More (Reach for the Sky)

Best Foreign Actor

• François Périer (Gervaise)
• Gunnar Björnstrand (Smiles of a Summer Night)
• James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause)
• Pierre Fresnay (The Unfrocked One)
• William Holden (Picnic)
• Karl Malden (Baby Doll)
• Frank Sinatra (The Man with the Golden Arm)
• Spencer Tracy (The Mountain)

Best British Actress

• Virginia McKenna (A Town Like Alice)
• Dorothy Alison (Reach for the Sky)
• Audrey Hepburn (War and Peace)

Best Foreign Actress

• Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)
• Carroll Baker (Baby Doll)
• Eva Dahlbeck (Smiles of a Summer Night)
• Ava Gardner (Bhowani Junction)
• Susan Hayward (I'll Cry Tomorrow)
• Shirley MacLaine (The Trouble with Harry)
• Kim Novak (Picnic)
• Marisa Pavan (The Rose Tattoo)
• Maria Schell (Gervaise)
• Jean Simmons (Guys and Dolls)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Nigel Balchin (The Man Who Never Was)
• Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (Pursuit of the Graf Spee)
• Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder (The Green Man)
• John Boulting, Frank Harvey (Private's Progress)
• Lewis Gilbert (Reach for the Sky)
• Anthony Kimmins, Moore Raymond (Smiley)
• Hubert Gregg, Vernon Harris (Three Men in a Boat)
• W.P. Lipscomb, Richard Mason (A Town Like Alice)
• John Cresswell, Joan Henry (Blonde Sinner)

Best Animated Film

• Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo
• Calling All Salesmen
• Christopher Crumpet's Playmate
• The History of the Cinema
• The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy
• Love And The Zeppelin
• Rythmetic

Best Documentary Film

• On the Bowery
• Foothold on Antarctica
• Generator 4
• The Silent World
• Under the Same Sky

Outstanding British Film

• Reach for the Sky
• The Man Who Never Was
• Pursuit of the Graf Spee
• A Town Like Alice
• Blonde Sinner

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• Eli Wallach (Baby Doll)
• Stephen Boyd (The Man Who Never Was)
• Don Murray (Bus Stop)
• Susan Strasberg (Picnic)
• Elizabeth Wilson (Patterns)

Special Award

• The Red Balloon
• Man in Space
• On the Twelfth Day...
• The Door in the Wall
• Underwater Symphony

United Nations Award

• If All the Guys in the World...
• To Your Health
• The Great Locomotive Chase
• Pacific Destiny
• Under the Same Sky

Best Film

• Richard III
• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Carmen Jones
• The Colditz Story
• The Dam Busters
• East of Eden
• The Ladykillers
• Marty
• The Night My Number Came Up
• The Prisoner
• Seven Samurai
• Simba
• The Road
• Summertime

Best British Actor

• Laurence Olivier (Richard III)
• Alfie Bass (The Bespoke Overcoat)
• Alec Guinness (The Prisoner)
• Jack Hawkins (The Prisoner)
• David Kossoff (A Kid for Two Farthings)
• Kenneth More (The Deep Blue Sea)
• Michael Redgrave (The Night My Number Came Up)

Best Foreign Actor

• Ernest Borgnine (Marty)
• James Dean (East of Eden)
• Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)
• Toshirō Mifune (Seven Samurai)
• Takashi Shimura (Seven Samurai)
• Frank Sinatra (Not as a Stranger)

Best British Actress

• Katie Johnson (The Ladykillers)
• Margaret Johnston (Touch and Go)
• Deborah Kerr (The End of the Affair)
• Margaret Lockwood (Cast a Dark Shadow)

Best Foreign Actress

• Betsy Blair (Marty)
• Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones)
• Judy Garland (A Star is Born)
• Julie Harris (I Am a Camera)
• Katharine Hepburn (Summertime)
• Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)
• Giulietta Masina (The Road)
• Marilyn Monroe (The Seven Year Itch)

Best British Screenplay

• William Rose (The Ladykillers)
• Sidney Gilliat, Val Valentine (Marriage a la Mode)
• R.C. Sherriff (The Dam Busters)
• Terence Rattigan (The Deep Blue Sea)
• Jack Davies, Nicholas Phipps (Doctor at Sea)
• R.C. Sherriff (The Night My Number Came Up)
• Bridget Boland (The Prisoner)
• John Baines (Simba)
• William Rose (Touch and Go)

Best Animated Film

• Blinkity Blank
• Animal Farm
• Down A Long Way
• Fudget's Budget
• Lady and the Tramp
• Magoo Express

Best Documentary Film

• The Vanishing Prairie
• Gold
• Miner's Window
• The Rival World

Outstanding British Film

• Richard III
• The Colditz Story
• The Dam Busters
• The Ladykillers
• The Night My Number Came Up
• The Prisoner
• Simba

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• Paul Scofield (That Lady)
• Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden)

Special Award

• The Bespoke Overcoat
• Mr Mensah Builds A House
• The Steps Of Age

United Nations Award

• Children of Hiroshima
• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Escapade
• Simba

Best Film

• The Wages of Fear
• Robinson Crusoe
• The Caine Mutiny
• Carrington, V.C.
• The Divided Heart
• Doctor in the House
• Executive Suite
• For Better, for Worse
• Gate of Hell
• Hobson's Choice
• How to Marry a Millionaire
• The Ealing Comedy Collection: The Maggie
• The Moon Is Blue
• On the Waterfront
• Bread, Love and Dreams
• The Purple Plain
• Rear Window
• Riot in Cell Block 11
• Romeo and Juliet
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• Chance Meeting

Best British Actor

• Kenneth More (Doctor in the House)
• Maurice Denham (The Purple Plain)
• Robert Donat (Lease of Life)
• John Mills (Hobson's Choice)
• David Niven (Carrington, V.C.)
• Donald Wolfit (Svengali)

Best Foreign Actor

• Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
• Neville Brand (Riot in Cell Block 11)
• José Ferrer (The Caine Mutiny)
• Fredric March (Executive Suite)
• James Stewart (The Glenn Miller Story)

Best British Actress

• Yvonne Mitchell (The Divided Heart)
• Brenda De Banzie (Hobson's Choice)
• Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina)
• Margaret Leighton (Carrington, V.C.)
• Noelle Middleton (Carrington, V.C.)

Best Foreign Actress

• Cornell Borchers (The Divided Heart)
• Shirley Booth (About Mrs. Leslie)
• Judy Holliday (Phffft!)
• Grace Kelly (Dial M for Murder)
• Gina Lollobrigida (Bread, Love and Dreams)

Best British Screenplay

• Robin Estridge, George Tabori (Chance Meeting)
• Jack Whittingham (The Divided Heart)
• Nicholas Phipps (Doctor in the House)
• Wynyard Browne, David Lean, Norman Spencer (Hobson's Choice)
• René Clément, Hugh Mills (Lovers, Happy Lovers!)
• William Rose (The Ealing Comedy Collection: The Maggie)
• Eric Ambler (The Purple Plain)
• Renato Castellani (Romeo and Juliet)

Best Animated Film

• Song of the Prairie
• The Unicorn in the Garden
• Power To Fly
• Little Brave Heart

Best Documentary Film

• The Great Adventure
• The Back of Beyond
• Vieren maar!
• 3-2-1-Zero
• Thursday's Children

Outstanding British Film

• Hobson's Choice
• Carrington, V.C.
• The Divided Heart
• Doctor in the House
• For Better, for Worse
• The Ealing Comedy Collection: The Maggie
• The Purple Plain
• Romeo and Juliet

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

• David Kossoff (Chance Meeting)
• Maggie McNamara (The Moon Is Blue)
• Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)

Special Award

• A Time Out of War
• Döderhultarn
• Coal Mining As A Craft Part 1
• Powered Flight: The Story of the Century
• The Living Desert
• The Drawings Of Leonardo Da Vinci

United Nations Award

• The Divided Heart
• A Time Out of War