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13th British Academy Film Awards

1960 film awards ceremony


1960 film awards ceremony

FieldValue
number13
awardBritish Academy Film Awards
date1960
best_film***Ben-Hur***
best_british***Sapphire***
most_wins***I'm All Right Jack*** (2)
most_nominations***The Nun's Story*** (5)
last12th
next14th

The 13th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1960, honoured the best films of 1959.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

** Ben-Hur **

  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • Ansiktet
  • The Big Country
  • Compulsion
  • Gigi
  • Look Back in Anger
  • North West Frontier
  • The Nun's Story
  • Sapphire
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Tiger Bay
  • Yesterday's Enemy
  • Maigret tend un piège
  • Ashes and Diamonds

Best British Film

** Sapphire **

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

Best Foreign Actor

** Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot **

  • James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder
  • Takashi Shimura in Ikiru
  • Zbigniew Cybulski in Ashes and Diamonds
  • Jean Gabin in Maigret tend un piège
  • Jean Desailly in Maigret tend un piège

Best British Actor

** Peter Sellers in I'm All Right Jack **

  • Laurence Olivier in The Devil's Disciple
  • Laurence Harvey in Expresso Bongo
  • Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger
  • Peter Finch in The Nun's Story
  • Stanley Baker in Yesterday's Enemy
  • Gordon Jackson in Yesterday's Enemy

Best British Actress

** Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story **

  • Kay Walsh in The Horse's Mouth
  • Sylvia Syms in No Trees in the Street
  • Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story
  • Yvonne Mitchell in Sapphire

Best Foreign Actress

** Shirley MacLaine in Ask Any Girl **

  • Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame
  • Susan Hayward in I Want to Live!
  • Ava Gardner in On The Beach
  • Ellie Lambeti in A Matter of Dignity

Best British Screenplay

** I'm All Right Jack - Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney **

References

References

  1. "BAFTA {{!}} Film in 1960".
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