15th British Academy Film Awards

15th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1962
Highlights
Best Film	Ballad of a Soldier & The Hustler
Best British Film	A Taste of Honey
Most awards	A Taste of Honey (4)
Most nominations	A Taste of Honey (6)
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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

Best Film

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

• Apur Sansar
• The Hole
• The Innocents
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Long and the Short and the Tall
• Rocco and His Brothers
• The Sundowners
• A Taste of Honey
• Whistle Down the Wind

Best British Film

A Taste of Honey

• The Innocents
• The Long and the Short and the Tall
• The Sundowners
• Whistle Down the Wind

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie

• Dirk Bogarde in Victim

Best Foreign Actor

Paul Newman in The Hustler

• Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Vladimir Ivashov in Ballad of a Soldier
• Philippe Leroy in The Hole
• Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
• Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies

Best British Actress

Dora Bryan in A Taste of Honey

• Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners
• Hayley Mills in Whistle Down the Wind

Best Foreign Actress

Sophia Loren in Two Women

• Annie Girardot in Rocco and His Brothers
• Piper Laurie in The Hustler
• Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun
• Jean Seberg in Breathless

Best British Screenplay

The Day the Earth Caught Fire – Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (TIE)
A Taste of Honey – Tony Richardson and Shelagh Delaney (TIE)

• Flame in the Streets – Ted Willis
• The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman
• Victim – Janet Green and John McCormick
• Whistle Down the Wind – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

Best Animated Film

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

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

Best Short Film

Terminus – John Schlesinger

• Eyes of a Child
• Let My People Go

United Nations Award

Let My People Go

• The Best of Enemies
• Take a Giant Step

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey

• Anthony Hancock in The Rebel
• Murray Melvin in A Taste of Honey

References

External links

• Official website