BAFTA Awards: 1959

BAFTA Film Award

Best Film from any Source


Winner:
	Room at the Top (1959)
Other Nominees:
	Aparajito (1956) - India. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - USA. Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) Indiscreet (1958) Le notti di Cabiria (1957) - Italy. Letyat zhuravli (1957) - Soviet Union. No Down Payment (1957) - USA. Orders to Kill (1958) Sea of Sand (1958) Smultronstället (1957) - Sweden. The Defiant Ones (1958) - USA. The Sheepman (1958) - USA. The Young Lions (1958) - USA.

Best British Actor


Winner:
	The Key (1958) - Trevor Howard (I)
Other Nominees:
	Harry Black (1958) - I.S. Johar Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) - Anthony Quayle Room at the Top (1959) - Laurence Harvey (I) Room at the Top (1959) - Donald Wolfit Sea of Sand (1958) - Michael Craig (I) tom thumb (1958) - Terry-Thomas - USA.

Best Foreign Actor


Winner:
	The Defiant Ones (1958) - Sidney Poitier - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Paul Newman (I) - USA. Smultronstället (1957) - Victor Sj�str�m - Sweden. The Defiant Ones (1958) - Tony Curtis (I) - USA. The Enemy Below (1957) - Curd J�rgens The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) - Curd J�rgens The Last Hurrah (1958) - Spencer Tracy - USA. The Sheepman (1958) - Glenn Ford (I) - USA. The Young Lions (1958) - Marlon Brando - USA. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Charles Laughton

Best Foreign Actress


Winner:
	Room at the Top (1959) - Simone Signoret
Other Nominees:
	Aparajito (1956) - Karuna Bannerjee - India. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Elizabeth Taylor (I) - USA. Le notti di Cabiria (1957) - Giulietta Masina - Italy. Letyat zhuravli (1957) - Tatyana Samojlova - Soviet Union. No Down Payment (1957) - Joanne Woodward (I) - USA. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) - Ingrid Bergman (I) Wild Is the Wind (1957) - Anna Magnani

Best British Actress


Winner:
	Orders to Kill (1958) - Irene Worth
Other Nominees:
	Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) - Virginia McKenna Room at the Top (1959) - Hermione Baddeley

Best British Screenplay

Best Documentary Film


Winner:
	Glas (1958) - Holland.
Other Nominees:
	Forerunner, The (1958) - Australia. Jabulani Afrika (1958) - S. africa. L.S. Lowry (1958) Secrets of the Reef (1956) - USA. Wonders of Chicago (1958) - USA.

Best British Film


Winner:
	Room at the Top (1959)
Other Nominees:
	Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) Indiscreet (1958) Orders to Kill (1958) Sea of Sand (1958)

Most Promising Newcomer to Film


Winner:
	Orders to Kill (1958) - Paul Massie
Other Nominees:
	Damn Yankees! (1958) - Gwen Verdon - USA. Kanal (1957) - Teresa Izewska - Poland. Nowhere to Go (1958) - Maggie Smith (I) Room at the Top (1959) - Mary Peach Sayonara (1957) - Red Buttons - USA.

Best Animated Film


Winner:
	The Little Island (1958)
Other Nominees:
	Le merle (1958) - Canada. The Juggler of Our Lady (1958) - USA.


Winner:
	The Defiant Ones (1958) - USA.
Other Nominees:
	People Like Maria (1958) Tuntematon sotilas (1955) - Finland.

Light Entertainment


Awarded to:
	The Children's Film Foundation