10th British Academy Film Awards

The 10th British Academy Film Awards, 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