12th British Academy Film Awards

October 20251959 film awards ceremony 12 British Academy Film Awards 1959 Room at the Top Room at the Top Orders to Kill and Room at the Top (3) Room at the Top (7) 11th 13th The 12th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1959, honoured the best films of 1958.BAFTA Film in 1959 http://awards.bafta.org/award/1959/film/ https://web.archive.org/web/20241007093200/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1959/film/ 7 October 2024 2024-02-01 bafta.org 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 References 012 British Academy Film Awards British Academy Film Awards