11th British Academy Film Awards

The Bridge on the River Kwai

• 12 Angry Men
• 3:10 to Yuma
• The Bachelor Party
• Edge of the City
• The Shiralee
• That Night!
• The Tin Star
• Windom's Way
• Paths of Glory
• Pather Panchali
• Celui qui doit mourir
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• Porte des Lilas
• The Prince and the Showgirl
• A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth

The Bridge on the River Kwai

• The Prince and the Showgirl
• The Shiralee
• Windom's Way

Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men

• Sidney Poitier in Edge of the City
• Ed Wynn in The Great Man
• Robert Mitchum in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• Pierre Brasseur in Porte des Lilas
• Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success
• Richard Basehart in Time Limit
• Jean Gabin in La Traversee de Paris

Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai

• Trevor Howard in Manuela
• Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl
• Michael Redgrave in Time Without Pity
• Peter Finch in Windom's Way

Heather Sears in The Story of Esther Costello

• Deborah Kerr in Tea and Sympathy
• Sylvia Syms in Woman in a Dressing Gown

Simone Signoret in Les Sorcieres de Salem

• Katharine Hepburn in The Rainmaker
• Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve
• Augusta Dabney in That Night!
• Eva Marie Saint in A Hatful of Rain
• Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl
• Lilli Palmer in Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter

The Bridge on the River Kwai - Pierre Boulle