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12th British Academy Film Awards

1959 film awards ceremony

Field	Value
number	12
award	British Academy Film Awards
date	1959
best_film	*Room at the Top*
best_british	*Room at the Top*
most_wins	*Orders to Kill* and
*Room at the Top* (3)
most_nominations	*Room at the Top* (7)
last	11th
next	13th

Room at the Top (3)

The 12th British Academy 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

Room at the Top

Aparajito
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Cranes Are Flying
The Defiant Ones
Ice Cold in Alex
Indiscreet
Le Notti di Cabiria
No Down Payment
Orders to Kill
Sea of Sand
The Sheepman
Wild Strawberries
The Young Lions

Best British Film

Room at the Top

Ice Cold in Alex
Indiscreet
Orders to Kill
Sea of Sand

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

'*Trevor Howard in *The Key'''''

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

'*Irene Worth in *Orders to Kill'''''

Virginia McKenna in Carve Her Name with Pride
Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top

Best Foreign Actress

'*Simone Signoret in *Room at the Top'''''

Karuna Banerjee in Aparajito
Tatiana Samoilova in The Cranes Are Flying
Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria
Joanne Woodward in No Down Payment
Anna Magnani in Wild Is the Wind

Best British Screenplay

Orders to Kill – Paul Dehn

References

"BAFTA {{!}} Film in 1959".

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