The 10th British Academy Film Awardss, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1957, honoured the best films of 1956.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Gervaise

Amici per la pelle

Baby Doll

The Battle of the River Plate

Shadow

The Unfrocked One

Guys and Dolls

The Killing

The Man Who Never Was

The Man with the Golden Arm

Picnic

Poprygunya

Reach for the Sky

Rebel Without a Cause

Smiles of a Summer Night

A Town Like Alice

The Trouble with Harry

War and Peace

Yield to the Night

Best British Film

Reach for the Sky

The Man Who Never Was

The Battle of the River Plate

A Town Like Alice

Yield to the Night

Best Foreign Actor

Francois Perier in Gervaise

Karl Malden in Baby Doll

Pierre Fresnay in The Unfrocked One

Frank Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm

Spencer Tracy in The Mountain

William Holden in Picnic

James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause

Gunnar Bjornstrand in Smiles of a Summer Night

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in A Town Like Alice

Jack Hawkins in The Long Arm

Kenneth More in Reach for the Sky

Best British Actress

Virginia McKenna in A Town Like Alice

Dorothy Alison in Reach for the Sky

Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace

Best Foreign Actress

Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo

Carroll Baker in Baby Doll

Ava Gardner in Bhowani Junction

Maria Schell in Gervaise

Jean Simmons in Guys and Dolls

Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow

Kim Novak in Picnic

Marisa Pavan in The Rose Tattoo

Eva Dahlbeck in Smiles of a Summer Night

Shirley MacLaine in The Trouble with Harry

Best British Screenplay

The Man Who Never Was - Nigel Balchin

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1956 film awards

1957 in British cinema

10th British Academy Film Awards