BAFTA Awards: 1957

BAFTA Film Award

Best Film from any Source


Winner:
	Gervaise (1956) - France.
Other Nominees:
	A Town Like Alice (1956) Amici per la pelle (1955) - Italy. Baby Doll (1956) - USA. Cien (1956) - Poland. Guys and Dolls (1955/I) - USA. Le défroqué (1954) - France. Picnic (1955) - USA. Poprygunya (1955) - Soviet Union. Reach for the Sky (1956) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - USA. Sommarnattens leende (1955) - Sweden. The Battle of the River Plate (1956) The Killing (1956) - USA. The Man Who Never Was (1956) The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) The Trouble with Harry (1955) - USA. War and Peace (1956) - Italy/USA. Yield to the Night (1956)

Best British Actor


Winner:
	A Town Like Alice (1956) - Peter Finch (I)
Other Nominees:
	Reach for the Sky (1956) - Kenneth More The Long Arm (1956) - Jack Hawkins

Best Foreign Actor


Winner:
	Gervaise (1956) - Fran�ois P�rier (I) - France.
Other Nominees:
	Baby Doll (1956) - Karl Malden - USA. Le défroqué (1954) - Pierre Fresnay - France. Picnic (1955) - William Holden (I) - USA. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - James Dean (I) - USA. Sommarnattens leende (1955) - Gunnar Bj�rnstrand - Sweden. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) - Frank Sinatra The Mountain (1956) - Spencer Tracy

Best Foreign Actress


Winner:
	The Rose Tattoo (1955) - Anna Magnani
Other Nominees:
	Baby Doll (1956) - Carroll Baker - USA. Bhowani Junction (1956) - Ava Gardner Gervaise (1956) - Maria Schell (I) - France. Guys and Dolls (1955/I) - Jean Simmons (I) - USA. I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) - Susan Hayward (I) Picnic (1955) - Kim Novak (I) - USA. Sommarnattens leende (1955) - Eva Dahlbeck - Sweden. The Rose Tattoo (1955) - Marisa Pavan The Trouble with Harry (1955) - Shirley MacLaine - USA.

Best British Actress


Winner:
	A Town Like Alice (1956) - Virginia McKenna
Other Nominees:
	Reach for the Sky (1956) - Dorothy Alison War and Peace (1956) - Audrey Hepburn - Italy/USA.

Best British Screenplay


Winner:
	The Man Who Never Was (1956) - Nigel Balchin
Other Nominees:
	A Town Like Alice (1956) - W.P. Lipscomb; Richard Mason (I) Private's Progress (1956) - Frank Harvey (III); John Boulting Reach for the Sky (1956) - Lewis Gilbert (II) Smiley (1956) - Moore Raymond (I); Anthony Kimmins The Battle of the River Plate (1956) - Michael Powell (I); Emeric Pressburger The Green Man (1956) - Sidney Gilliat; Frank Launder Three Men in a Boat (1956) - Hubert Gregg; Vernon Harris Yield to the Night (1956) - John Cresswell (I); Joan Henry (I)

Best Documentary Film


Winner:
	On the Bowery (1957) - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Foothold on Antarctica (1957) Generator 4 (1956) - Canada. Le monde du silence (1956) - France. Under the Same Sky (1956) - Poland.

Best British Film


Winner:
	Reach for the Sky (1956)
Other Nominees:
	A Town Like Alice (1956) The Battle of the River Plate (1956) The Man Who Never Was (1956) Yield to the Night (1956)

Most Promising Newcomer to Film


Winner:
	Baby Doll (1956) - Eli Wallach - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Bus Stop (1956) - Don Murray (I) - USA. Patterns (1956) - Elizabeth Wilson (I) Picnic (1955) - Susan Strasberg - USA. The Man Who Never Was (1956) - Stephen Boyd (I)

Best Animated Film


Winner:
	Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo (1956) - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Calling All Salesmen (1956) Christopher Crumpet's Playmate (1955) - USA. History of the Cinema (1956) Love and the Seppelin (1956) - Czechoslovakia. Rythmetic (1956) - Canada. The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy (1955) - USA.


Winner:
	Si tous les gars du monde (1956)
Other Nominees:
	Pacific Destiny (1956) The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) - USA. To Your Health (1956) Under the Same Sky (1956) - Poland.

Best Actor

Best Writer


Awarded to:
	Le ballon rouge (1956) - France.
Nominees:
	"Disneyland" (1954) {Man in Space (#1.20)} - USA. On the Twelfth Day... (1955) Ruthless One, The (1956) The Door in the Wall (1956) Underwater Symphony (1956) - Italy.