12th British Academy Film Awards

The 12th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1959, honoured the best films of 1958.

12th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1959
Highlights
Best Film	Room at the Top
Best British Film	Room at the Top
Most awards	Orders to Kill and Room at the Top (3)
Most nominations	Room at the Top (7)

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Room at the Top

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

Best British Film

Room at the Top

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

Best Foreign Actor

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

Best British Actor

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

Best British Actress

Irene Worth in Orders to Kill

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

Best Foreign Actress

Simone Signoret in Room at the Top

• Karuna Banerjee in Aparajito
• Tatiana Samoilova in The Cranes Are Flying
• Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria
• Joanne Woodward in No Down Payment
• Anna Magnani in Wild Is the Wind

Best British Screenplay

Orders to Kill – Paul Dehn