15th British Academy Film Awards | |
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Date | 1962 |
Highlights | |
Best Film | Ballad of a Soldier & The Hustler |
Best British Film | A Taste of Honey |
Most awards | A Taste of Honey (4) |
Most nominations | A Taste of Honey (6) |
The 15th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1962, honoured the best films of 1961.[1]
Winners and nominees
Best Film
Ballad of a Soldier (TIE)
The Hustler (TIE)
- Apur Sansar
- The Hole
- The Innocents
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- The Long and the Short and the Tall
- Rocco and His Brothers
- The Sundowners
- A Taste of Honey
- Whistle Down the Wind
Best British Film
Best British Actor
Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie
Best Foreign Actor
- Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg
- Vladimir Ivashov in Ballad of a Soldier
- Philippe Leroy in The Hole
- Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
- Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg
- Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies
Best British Actress
Dora Bryan in A Taste of Honey
Best Foreign Actress
- Annie Girardot in Rocco and His Brothers
- Piper Laurie in The Hustler
- Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun
- Jean Seberg in Breathless
Best British Screenplay
The Day the Earth Caught Fire – Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (TIE)
A Taste of Honey – Tony Richardson and Shelagh Delaney (TIE)
- Flame in the Streets – Ted Willis
- The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman
- Victim – Janet Green and John McCormick
- Whistle Down the Wind – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
Best Animated Film
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
- For Better...For Worse
Best Short Film
- Eyes of a Child
- Let My People Go
United Nations Award
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey
References
- ^ "Film in 1962". BAFTA. Retrieved 15 July 2022.