13th British Academy Film Awards
| 13th British Academy Film Awards | ||||
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| Date | 1960 | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Film | Ben-Hur | |||
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The 13th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1960, honoured the best films of 1959.
Winners and nominees
Best Film
- 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
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
