British Academy Film Awards 1960
The 13th British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1959 . The film awards were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Movie | N | A. |
---|---|---|
Story of a nun | 5 | 1 |
The girl sapphire | 4th | 1 |
Tiger Bay | 4th | 1 |
Look back in anger | 4th | 0 |
Yesterday's enemies | 4th | 0 |
Young man from a good family | 3 | 2 |
Anatomy of a Murder | 3 | 0 |
Burning India | 3 | 0 |
Commissioner Maigret sets a trap | 3 | 0 |
The last bank | 2 | 1 |
Some like it hot | 2 | 1 |
Ash and diamond | 2 | 0 |
The crux of the matter | 2 | 0 |
Expresso Bongo | 2 | 0 |
Road without a future | 2 | 0 |
Award winners and nominations
Best movie
Ben Hur (Ben-Hur) - Director: William Wyler
- Anatomy of a Murder (Anatomy of a Murder) - Directed by Otto Preminger
- Ashes and Diamond (Popiól i diament) - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- Look Back in Anger (Look Back in Anger) - Director: Tony Richardson
- Burning India (North West Frontier) - Director: J. Lee Thompson
- Story of a Nun (The Nun's Story) - Director: Fred Zinnemann
- The Face (Ansiktet) - Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Gigi - Director: Vincente Minnelli
- Commissioner Maigret sets a trap (Maigret tend un piège) - Director: Jean Delannoy
- The Sapphire Girl (Sapphire) - Director: Basil Dearden
- Some Like It Hot (Some Like It Hot) - Director: Billy Wilder
- Tiger Bay - Director: J. Lee Thompson
- Weites Land (The Big Country) - Director: William Wyler
- Der Zwang zum Bad (Compulsion) - Director: Richard Fleischer
Best British Film
The Sapphire Girl (Sapphire) - Director: Basil Dearden
- Look Back in Anger (Look Back in Anger) - Director: Tony Richardson
- Burning India (North West Frontier) - Director: J. Lee Thompson
- Enemies of yesterday (Yesterday's Enemy) - Director: Val Guest
- Tiger Bay - Director: J. Lee Thompson
United Nations Award
The Last Shore (On the Beach) - Director: Stanley Kramer
- Story of a Nun (The Nun's Story) - Director: Fred Zinnemann
Best Foreign Actor
Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot (Some Like It Hot)
- Zbigniew Cybulski - Ashes and Diamond (Popiól i diament)
- Jean Desailly - Commissioner Maigret sets a trap (Maigret tend un piège)
- Jean Gabin - Commissioner Maigret sets a trap (Maigret tend un piège)
- Takashi Shimura - Really Live Once (生 き る / ikiru)
- James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder (Anatomy of a Murder)
Best Foreign Actress
Shirley MacLaine - Always The Darn Women (Ask Any Girl)
- Ava Gardner - On the Beach (On the Beach)
- Susan Hayward - Let Me Live (I Want to Live!)
- Ellie Lambeti - The Last Lie (To Τελευταίο Ψέμμα / To Telefteo psemma)
- Rosalind Russell - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
Best British Actor
Peter Sellers - Young Man from a Good House (I'm All Right Jack)
- Stanley Baker - enemies of yesterday (Yesterday's Enemy)
- Richard Burton - Look Back in Anger (Look Back in Anger)
- Peter Finch - Nun's Story (The Nun's Story)
- Laurence Harvey - Expresso Bongo
- Gordon Jackson - enemies of yesterday (Yesterday's Enemy)
- Laurence Olivier - The Devil's Disciple (The Devil's Disciple)
Best British Actress
Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story (The Nun's Story)
- Peggy Ashcroft - The Nun's Story (The Nun's Story)
- Wendy Hiller - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)
- Yvonne Mitchell - The Sapphire Girl (Sapphire)
- Sylvia Syms - road with no future (No Trees in the Street)
- Kay Walsh - The Horse's Mouth (The Horse's Mouth)
Best Young Actor
- Gerry Duggan - To Hell With Sydney (The Siege of Pinchgut)
- Liz Fraser - Young Man from a Good House (I'm All Right Jack)
- Joseph N. Welch - Anatomy of a Murder (Anatomy of a Murder)
Best British Screenplay
John Boulting , Alan Hackney , Frank Harvey - Young Man from a Good House (I'm All Right Jack)
- Ben Barzman , Millard Lampell - The Deadly Trap (Blind Date)
- Robin Estridge - Burning India (North West Frontier)
- Janet Green - The Sapphire Girl (Sapphire)
- Alec Guinness - The Horse's Mouth (The Horse's Mouth)
- John Hawkesworth , Shelley Smith - Tiger Bay
- Nigel Kneale - Look Back in Anger (Look Back in Anger)
- Wolf Mankowitz - Expresso Bongo
- Ted Willis - road with no future (No Trees in the Street)
Best documentary
The Savage Eye - Directed by Ben Maddow , Sidney Meyers , Joseph Strick
- This Is the BBC - Director: Richard Cawston
- We Are the Lambeth Boys - Director: Karel Reisz
- White Wilderness (White Wilderness) - Director: James Algar
Best animated film
The Violinist - Directed by Ernest Pintoff
- Beep Peep - Director: Unknown
- Cathedral - Director: Walerian Borowczyk , Jan Lenica
- Short and Suite - Directed by Norman McLaren , Evelyn Lambart
Best short film
Seven Cities of Antarctica - Director: Winston Hibler
- Rodin - Director: Unknown
Web links
Individual evidence