12th British Academy Film Awards

1959 film awards ceremony

12th British Academy Film Awards

Date| 1959
Highlights
Best Film| Room at the Top
Best British Film| Room at the Top
Most awards| Orders to Kill and
Room at the Top (3)
Most nominations| Room at the Top (7)

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* BAFTA Awards
* 13th ->

The 12th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1959, honoured the best films of 1958.[1]

## Winners and nominees

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### Best Film

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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

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Room at the Top

* Ice Cold in Alex
* Indiscreet
* Orders to Kill
* Sea of Sand

### Best Foreign Actor

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Orders to Kill – Paul Dehn

## References

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1. ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1959". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.

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