9th British Academy Film Awards

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Carmen Jones
• The Colditz Story
• The Dam Busters
• East of Eden
• The Ladykillers
• Marty
• The Night My Number Came Up
• The Prisoner
• Seven Samurai
• Simba
• La Strada
• ''Summertime''

Best British Film

• The Colditz Story
• The Dam Busters
• The Ladykillers
• The Night My Number Came Up
• The Prisoner
• ''Simba''

Best Documentary

• Generator 4
• The Silent World (Le Monde Du Silence)
• ''Under the Same Sky''

Best Foreign Actor

• James Dean in East of Eden
• Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts
• Frank Sinatra in Not as a Stranger
• Toshirō Mifune in Seven Samurai
• Takashi Shimura in ''Seven Samurai''

Best British Actor

• Alfie Bass in The Bespoke Overcoat
• Kenneth More in The Deep Blue Sea
• Michael Redgrave in The Night My Number Came Up
• Jack Hawkins in The Prisoner
• Alec Guinness in'' The Prisoner''

Best British Actress

• Margaret Lockwood in Cast a Dark Shadow
• Deborah Kerr in The End of the Affair
• Margaret Johnston in ''Touch and Go''

Best Foreign Actress

• Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones
• Grace Kelly in The Country Girl
• Julie Harris in I Am a Camera
• Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch
• Judy Garland in A Star Is Born
• Giulietta Masina in La Strada
• Katharine Hepburn in ''Summertime''

Best British Screenplay

Best Animated Film

• ''Magoo Express''

Special Award

• ''The Steps of Age''