BAFTA Awards: 1961

BAFTA Film Award

Best Film from any Source


Winner:
	Apartment, The (1960) - Billy Wilder - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Angry Silence, The (1960) - Guy Green (I) Avventura, L' (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Italy/France. Dolce vita, La (1960) - Federico Fellini - Italy/France. Elmer Gantry (1960) - Richard Brooks (I) - USA. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Alain Resnais - France/Japan. Inherit the Wind (1960) - Stanley Kramer - USA. Let's Make Love (1960) - George Cukor - USA. Orfeu Negro (1959) - Marcel Camus - France/Italy/Brazil. Pote tin Kyriaki (1960) - Jules Dassin - Greece. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) - François Truffaut - France. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Karel Reisz Shadows (1959) - John Cassavetes - USA. Spartacus (1960) - Stanley Kubrick - USA. Testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!, Le (1960) - Jean Cocteau - France. Trials of Oscar Wilde, The (1960) - Ken Hughes (I) Tunes of Glory (1960) - Ronald Neame

Best Foreign Actor


Winner:
	Apartment, The (1960) - Jack Lemmon (I) - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Crime & Punishment, USA (1959) - George Hamilton (I) - USA. Elmer Gantry (1960) - Burt Lancaster - USA. Inherit the Wind (1960) - Fredric March - USA. Inherit the Wind (1960) - Spencer Tracy - USA. Let's Make Love (1960) - Yves Montand - USA.

Best British Actor


Winner:
	Trials of Oscar Wilde, The (1960) - Peter Finch (I)
Other Nominees:
	Angry Silence, The (1960) - Richard Attenborough Entertainer, The (1960) - Laurence Olivier Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Albert Finney Trials of Oscar Wilde, The (1960) - John Fraser (I) Tunes of Glory (1960) - Alec Guinness Tunes of Glory (1960) - John Mills (I)

Best British Actress


Winner:
	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Rachel Roberts (I)
Other Nominees:
	Pollyanna (1960) - Hayley Mills - USA. Sons and Lovers (1960) - Wendy Hiller

Best Foreign Actress


Winner:
	Apartment, The (1960) - Shirley MacLaine - USA.
Other Nominees:
	Angry Silence, The (1960) - Pier Angeli Avventura, L' (1960) - Monica Vitti (I) - Italy/France. Elmer Gantry (1960) - Jean Simmons (I) - USA. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Emmanuelle Riva - France/Japan. Pote tin Kyriaki (1960) - Melina Mercouri - Greece.

Best British Screenplay


Winner:
	Angry Silence, The (1960) - Bryan Forbes
Other Nominees:
	Day They Robbed the Bank of England, The (1960) - Howard Clewes Entertainer, The (1960) - John Osborne (II); Nigel Kneale Hell Is a City (1960) - Val Guest League of Gentlemen, The (1960) - Bryan Forbes - USA. Millionairess, The (1960) - Wolf Mankowitz Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Alan Sillitoe Touch of Larceny, A (1959) - Roger MacDougall; Guy Hamilton (I); Ivan Foxwell Trials of Oscar Wilde, The (1960) - Ken Hughes (I) Tunes of Glory (1960) - James Kennaway

Best Short Film


Winner:
	High Journey (1959) - Peter Baylis (I) - France/NATO.
Other Nominees:
	Return to Life (1960) - John Krish Seawards the Great Ships (1961) - Hilary Harris (I)

Best Animated Film


Winner:
	Universe (1960) - Roman Kroitor; Colin Low - Canada.
Other Nominees:
	Interview, The (1960) - Ernest Pintoff - USA. Piccolo (1959) - Dusan Vukotic (I) - Yugoslavia.

Best British Film


Winner:
	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Karel Reisz
Other Nominees:
	Angry Silence, The (1960) - Guy Green (I) Trials of Oscar Wilde, The (1960) - Ken Hughes (I) Tunes of Glory (1960) - Ronald Neame

Best Specialised Film


Winner:
	Dispute (1960) - Fred Moore
Other Nominees:
	Heroic Days (1960) - Bill Mason Outline of Detergency (1960) - Michael Ricketts

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles


Winner:
	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Albert Finney
Other Nominees:
	Entertainer, The (1960) - Joan Plowright Hell Is a City (1960) - Billie Whitelaw Home from the Hill (1960) - George Peppard - USA. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) - Jean-Pierre Léaud - France. Shadows (1959) - Lelia Goldoni - USA. Shadows (1959) - Anthony Ray (I) - USA.


Winner:
	Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Alain Resnais - France/Japan.
Other Nominees:
	Nuit et brouillard (1955) - Alain Resnais - France. Return to Life (1960) - John Krish Shadows (1959) - John Cassavetes - USA. Unseen Enemies (1960) - Michael Clarke (V)