6th British Academy Film Awards

6th BAFTA Film Awards----Best Film:
The Sound Barrier ----Best British Film:
The Sound Barrier

"The Sound Barrier" won the award for Best Film".

Winners and nominees

Best Film

"' "The Sound Barrier"
*"The African Queen"
*"Angels One Five"
*"The Boy Kumasenu"
*"Carrie"
*"Casque d'or"
*"Cry, The Beloved Country"
*"Death of a Salesman"
*"Limelight"
*"Mandy"
*"Miracolo a Milano"
*"Los Olvidados"
*"Outcast of the Islands"
*"Rashomon"
*"The River"
*"Singin' In The Rain"
*"A Streetcar Named Desire"
*"Viva Zapata!"

Best Foreign Actor

"Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire"
*"Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen"
*"Fredric March in Death of a Salesman"
*"Pierre Fresnay in Dieu a besoin des hommes"
*"Francesco Golisano in Miracolo a Milano"

Best British Actor

"Ralph Richardson in The Sound Barrier"
*"Laurence Olivier in Carrie"
*"Alistair Sim in Folly To Be Wise"
*"Jack Hawkins in Mandy"
*"James Hayter in The Pickwick Papers"
*"Nigel Patrick in The Sound Barrier"

Best British Actress

"Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire"
*"Celia Johnson in I Believe In You"
*"Phyllis Calvert in Mandy"
*"Ann Todd in The Sound Barrier"

Best Foreign Actress

"Simone Signoret in Casque d'or"
*"Nicole Stephane in Les Enfants Terribles"
*"Judy Holliday in The Marrying Kind"
*"Edwige Feuillere in Olivia"
*"Katharine Hepburn in Pat and Mike"

Best Documentary Film

*"Royal Journey"

Best British Film

"The Sound Barrier"
*"Angels One Five"
*"Cry, The Beloved Country"
*"Mandy"
*"Outcast of the Islands"
*"The River1"

UN Award

"Cry, The Beloved Country"

Most Promising Newcomer To Film

"Claire Brown in Limelight"
*"Dorothy Tutin in The Importance of Being Earnest"
*"Dorothy Alison in Mandy"
*"Mandy Miller in Mandy"