12th British Academy Film Awards

12th BAFTA Film Awards
1959----Best Film:
Room at the Top

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

Winners & Nominees

Best Film

"Room at the Top"
*"Aparajito"
*"Ice-Cold in Alex"
*"Indiscreet"
*"Letyat Zhuravli"
*"The Defiant Ones"
*"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
*"Orders to Kill"
*"No Down Payment"
*"Sea of Sand"
*"The Sheepman"
*"Smultronstallet"
*"The Young Lions"
*"Le Notti di Cabiria"

Best British Film

"Room at the Top"
*"Indiscreet"
*"Ice-Cold in Alex"
*"Sea of Sand"
*"Orders to Kill"

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 Jurgens in The Enemy Below"
*"Curd Jurgens in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness"
*"Spencer Tracy in The Last Hurrah"
*"Glenn Ford in The Sheepman"
*"Victor Sjostrom in Smultronstallet"
*"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"
*"Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top"

Best Foreign Actress

"Simone Signoret in Room at the Top"
*"Karuna Bannerjee in Aparajito"
*"Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
*"Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness"
*"Tatyana Samojlova in Ketyat zhuravli"
*"Joanne Woodward in No Down Payment"
*"Giulietta Masina in Le Notti di Cabiria"
*"Anna Magnani in Wild is the Wind"

Best British Screenplay

"Orders to Kill - Paul Dehn"