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.
Winners and nominees
Best Film
Room at the TopAparajitoCat on a Hot Tin RoofThe Cranes Are FlyingThe Defiant OnesIce Cold in AlexIndiscreetLe Notti di CabiriaNo Down PaymentOrders to KillSea of SandThe SheepmanWild Strawberries- ''The Young Lions''
Best British Film
Room at the TopIce Cold in AlexIndiscreetOrders 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''