12th British Academy Film Awards

12th British Academy Film Awards
Date1959
Highlights
Best FilmRoom at the Top
Best British FilmRoom at the Top
Most awardsOrders to Kill and
Room at the Top (3)
Most nominationsRoom at the Top (7)

The 12th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1959, honoured the best films of 1958.[1]

Winners and nominees[edit]

Best Film[edit]

Room at the Top

Best British Film[edit]

Room at the Top

Best Foreign Actor[edit]

Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones

Best British Actor[edit]

Trevor Howard in The Key

Best British Actress[edit]

Irene Worth in Orders to Kill

Best Foreign Actress[edit]

Simone Signoret in Room at the Top

Best British Screenplay[edit]

Orders to KillPaul Dehn

References[edit]

  1. ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1959". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.