15th British Academy Film Awards

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15th British Academy Film Awards
Date1962
Highlights
Best FilmBallad of a Soldier &
The Hustler
Best British FilmA Taste of Honey
Most awardsA Taste of Honey (4)
Most nominationsA Taste of Honey (6)

The 15th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1962, honoured the best films of 1961.[1]

Winners and nominees[edit]

Peter Finch, Best British Actor winner
Paul Newman, Best Foreign Actor winner
Sophia Loren, Best Foreign Actress winner
Rita Tushingham, Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles winner

Best Film[edit]

Ballad of a Soldier (TIE)
The Hustler (TIE)

Best British Film[edit]

A Taste of Honey

Best British Actor[edit]

Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie

Best Foreign Actor[edit]

Paul Newman in The Hustler

Best British Actress[edit]

Dora Bryan in A Taste of Honey

Best Foreign Actress[edit]

Sophia Loren in Two Women

Best British Screenplay[edit]

The Day the Earth Caught FireWolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (TIE)
A Taste of HoneyTony Richardson and Shelagh Delaney (TIE)

Best Animated Film[edit]

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

  • The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
  • For Better...For Worse

Best Short Film[edit]

TerminusJohn Schlesinger

United Nations Award[edit]

Let My People Go

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles[edit]

Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Film in 1962". BAFTA. Retrieved 15 July 2022.

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