12th British Academy Film Awards

Room at the Top

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

Room at the Top

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

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 Sjostrom in Wild Strawberries
• Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution
• Marlon Brando in The Young Lions

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

Irene Worth in Orders to Kill

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

Simone Signoret in Room at the Top

• Karuna Bannerjee in Aparajito
• Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Tatyana Samojlova in The Cranes Are Flying
• Joanne Woodward in No Down Payment
• Giulietta Masina in Le Notti di Cabiria
• Anna Magnani in Wild Is the Wind

Orders to Kill - Paul Dehn