BAFTA Awards: 1963

BAFTA Film Award

Notes:

In the middle of the 1963 film award ceremony, a mysterious announcement requests that all ITN and BBC News employees at the ceremony return to their studios. At the end of the ceremony, guests discover that US president Kennedy has been assassinated.

Best Film from any Source


Winner:
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Other Nominees:
	A Kind of Loving (1962) Billy Budd (1962) Dama s sobachkoy (1960) - Soviet Union. Hadaka no shima (1960) - Japan. Jules et Jim (1962) - France. L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961) - France/Italy. Le caporal épinglé (1962) - France. Lola (1961) - France/Italy. Only Two Can Play (1962) Phaedra (1962) - Greece. Såsom i en spegel (1961) - Sweden. The L-Shaped Room (1962) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - USA. The Miracle Worker (1962) - USA. Tu ne tueras point (1961) - Italy/Yugoslavia/Lichtenstein. Une aussi longue absence (1961) - France/Italy. West Side Story (1961) - USA.

Best British Actor


Winner:
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Peter O'Toole (I)
Other Nominees:
	A Kind of Loving (1962) - Alan Bates (I) Lolita (1962) - James Mason (I) Only Two Can Play (1962) - Peter Sellers Term of Trial (1962) - Laurence Olivier The Dock Brief (1962) - Richard Attenborough

Best Foreign Actor


Winner:
	Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) - Burt Lancaster - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Accattone (1961) - Franco Citti Advise & Consent (1962) - Charles Laughton - USA. Billy Budd (1962) - Robert Ryan (I) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Anthony Quinn (I) Light in the Piazza (1962) - George Hamilton (I) - USA. Lonely Are the Brave (1962) - Kirk Douglas (I) - USA. Léon Morin, prêtre (1961) - Jean-Paul Belmondo Une aussi longue absence (1961) - Georges Wilson - France/Italy.

Best Foreign Actress


Winner:
	The Miracle Worker (1962) - Anne Bancroft (I) - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Jules et Jim (1962) - Jeanne Moreau - France. Lola (1961) - Anouk Aim�e - France/Italy. Phaedra (1962) - Melina Mercouri - Greece. Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Natalie Wood (I) - USA. Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) - Geraldine Page - USA. Såsom i en spegel (1961) - Harriet Andersson - Sweden.

Best British Actress


Winner:
	The L-Shaped Room (1962) - Leslie Caron
Other Nominees:
	Life for Ruth (1962) - Janet Munro The Wild and the Willing (1962) - Virginia Maskell

Best British Screenplay


Winner:
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Robert Bolt
Other Nominees:
	A Kind of Loving (1962) - Willis Hall; Keith Waterhouse Billy Budd (1962) - Peter Ustinov; DeWitt Bodeen Only Two Can Play (1962) - Bryan Forbes Tiara Tahiti (1962) - Geoffrey Cotterell; Ivan Foxwell Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) - Wolf Mankowitz

Best Short Film


Winner:
	La rivière du hibou (1962) - France.
Other Nominees:
	Lonely Boy (1962) - Canada. Pan (1962/I) - Holland. Zoo (1962) - Holland.

Best British Film


Winner:
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Other Nominees:
	A Kind of Loving (1962) Billy Budd (1962) Only Two Can Play (1962) The L-Shaped Room (1962)

Best Animated Film


Winner:
	The Apple (1959)
Other Nominees:
	Four Line Conics (1962) - Canada. Travelling Rune, The (1962) - Holland.

Best Specialised Film

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles


Winner:
	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) - Tom Courtenay
Other Nominees:
	Billy Budd (1962) - Terence Stamp Live Now - Pay Later (1962) - Ian Hendry (I) Ride the High Country (1962) - Mariette Hartley Term of Trial (1962) - Sarah Miles (I)


Winner:
	Reach for Glory (1962)
Other Nominees:
	Food or Famine (1962) Tu ne tueras point (1961) - Italy/Yugoslavia/Lichtenstein.

Best Actor