13th British Academy Film Awards
The 13th British Academy 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
Ben-Hur- 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
SapphireBest 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''