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British Academy 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. Defiant Ones, The (1958) - USA. Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) Indiscreet (1958) Letjat zhuravli (1957) - Soviet Union. No Down Payment (1957) - USA. Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957) - Italy. Orders to Kill (1958) Sea of Sand (1958) Sheepman, The (1958) - USA. Smultronstället (1957) - Sweden. Young Lions, The (1958) - USA.

Best Foreign Actor


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

Best British Actor


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

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 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 - USA. Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The (1958) - Ingrid Bergman Letjat zhuravli (1957) - Tatyana Samojlova - Soviet Union. No Down Payment (1957) - Joanne Woodward - USA. Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957) - Giulietta Masina - Italy. Wild Is the Wind (1957) - Anna Magnani

Best British Screenplay


Winner:
	Orders to Kill (1958) - Paul Dehn

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 Animated Film


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

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


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 Room at the Top (1959) - Mary Peach Sayonara (1957) - Red Buttons - USA.

UN Award


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

Special Award


Winner:
	The Children's Film Foundation