12th British Academy Film Awards explained

Number:	12
Award:	British Academy Film Awards
Date:	1959
Best Film:	Room at the Top
Best British:	Room at the Top
Most Wins:	Orders to Kill and Room at the Top (3)
Most Nominations:	Room at the Top (7)
Last:	11th
Next:	13th

The 12th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1959, honoured the best films of 1958.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Room at the Top

• Aparajito
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The Cranes Are Flying
• The Defiant Ones
• Ice Cold in Alex
• Indiscreet
• Le Notti di Cabiria
• No Down Payment
• Orders to Kill
• Sea of Sand
• The Sheepman
• Wild Strawberries
• The Young Lions

Best British Film

Room at the Top

• Ice Cold in Alex
• Indiscreet
• Orders to Kill
• Sea of Sand

Best Foreign Actor

Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones

• Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones
• Curd Jürgens in The Enemy Below
• Curd Jürgens in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Spencer Tracy in The Last Hurrah
• Glenn Ford in The Sheepman
• Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries
• Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution
• Marlon Brando in The Young Lions

Best British Actor

Trevor Howard in The Key

• I. S. Johar in Harry Black
• Anthony Quayle in Ice Cold in Alex
• Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top
• Donald Wolfit in Room at the Top
• Michael Craig in Sea of Sand
• Terry-Thomas in tom thumb

Best British Actress

Irene Worth in Orders to Kill

• Virginia McKenna in Carve Her Name with Pride
• Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top

Best Foreign Actress

Simone Signoret in Room at the Top

• Karuna Banerjee in Aparajito
• Tatiana Samoilova in The Cranes Are Flying
• Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria
• Joanne Woodward in No Down Payment
• Anna Magnani in Wild Is the Wind

Best British Screenplay

Orders to Kill – Paul Dehn

Notes and References

1. Web site: BAFTA Film in 1959 . bafta.org. 2024-02-01.