15th British Academy Film Awards
# 15th British Academy Film Awards

The 15th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1962, honoured the best films of 1961.

## Winners and nominees

### Best Film

Ballad of a Soldier (TIE)

The Hustler (TIE)

* Apur Sansar
* The Hole
* The Innocents
* Judgment at Nuremberg
* The Long and the Short and the Tall
* Rocco and His Brothers
* The Sundowners
* A Taste of Honey
* Whistle Down the Wind

### Best British Film

A Taste of Honey

* The Innocents
* The Long and the Short and the Tall
* The Sundowners
* Whistle Down the Wind

### Best British Actor

Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie

* Dirk Bogarde in Victim

### Best Foreign Actor

Paul Newman in The Hustler

* Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg
* Vladimir Ivashov in Ballad of a Soldier
* Philippe Leroy in The Hole
* Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
* Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg
* Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies

### Best British Actress

Dora Bryan in A Taste of Honey

* Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners
* Hayley Mills in Whistle Down the Wind

### Best Foreign Actress

Sophia Loren in Two Women

* Annie Girardot in Rocco and His Brothers
* Piper Laurie in The Hustler
* Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun
* Jean Seberg in Breathless

### Best British Screenplay

The Day the Earth Caught Fire – Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (TIE)

A Taste of Honey – Tony Richardson and Shelagh Delaney (TIE)

* Flame in the Streets – Ted Willis
* The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman
* Victim – Janet Green and John McCormick
* Whistle Down the Wind – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

### Best Animated Film

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

* The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
* For Better...For Worse

### Best Short Film

Terminus – John Schlesinger

* Eyes of a Child
* Let My People Go

### United Nations Award

Let My People Go

* The Best of Enemies
* Take a Giant Step

### Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey

* Anthony Hancock in The Rebel
* Murray Melvin in A Taste of Honey
