12th British Academy Film Awards

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

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

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British Academy Film Awards

British Academy Film Awards