13th British Academy Film Awards

The 13th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1960, honoured the best films of 1959.^[1]

13th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1960
Highlights
Best Film	Ben-Hur
Best British Film	Sapphire
Most awards	I'm All Right Jack (2)
Most nominations	The Nun's Story (5)
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Winners and nominees

Best Film

Ben-Hur

• Anatomy of a Murder
• Ansiktet
• The Big Country
• Compulsion
• Gigi
• Look Back in Anger
• North West Frontier
• The Nun's Story
• Sapphire
• Some Like It Hot
• Tiger Bay
• Yesterday's Enemy
• Maigret tend un piège
• Ashes and Diamonds

Best British Film

Sapphire

• Look Back in Anger
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Tiger Bay
• Yesterday's Enemy

Best Foreign Actor

Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot

• James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder
• Takashi Shimura in Ikiru
• Zbigniew Cybulski in Ashes and Diamonds
• Jean Gabin in Maigret tend un piège
• Jean Desailly in Maigret tend un piège

Best British Actor

Peter Sellers in I'm All Right Jack

• Laurence Olivier in The Devil's Disciple
• Laurence Harvey in Expresso Bongo
• Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger
• Peter Finch in The Nun's Story
• Stanley Baker in Yesterday's Enemy
• Gordon Jackson in Yesterday's Enemy

Best British Actress

Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story

• Kay Walsh in The Horse's Mouth
• Sylvia Syms in No Trees in the Street
• Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story
• Yvonne Mitchell in Sapphire

Best Foreign Actress

Shirley MacLaine in Ask Any Girl

• Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame
• Susan Hayward in I Want to Live!
• Ava Gardner in On The Beach
• Ellie Lambeti in A Matter of Dignity

Best British Screenplay

I'm All Right Jack - Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney

References

1. "BAFTA | Film in 1960". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.