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United Nations Award 1959

On the Beach
  • Stanley Kramer
Nun's Story, The
  • Fred Zinnemann

Film and British Film 1959

Sapphire
  • Basil Dearden
Ben Hur
  • William Wyler
Yesterday's Enemy
  • Val Guest
Face, The (Ansiktet)
  • Ingmar Bergman
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i diament)
  • Andrzej Wajda
Gigi
  • Vincente Minnelli
North West Frontier
  • J Lee Thompson
Tiger Bay
  • J Lee Thompson
Nun's Story, The
  • Fred Zinnemann
Look Back in Anger
  • Tony Richardson
Big Country, The
  • William Wyler
Some like it Hot
  • Billy Wilder
Anatomy of a Murder
  • Otto Preminger
Compulsion
  • Richard Fleischer
Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège)
  • Jean Delannoy

British Actor 1959

I'm All Right Jack
  • Peter Sellers
Expresso Bongo
  • Laurence Harvey
Yesterday's Enemy
  • Stanley Baker
Devil's Disciple, The
  • Laurence Olivier
Nun's Story, The
  • Peter Finch
Look Back in Anger
  • Richard Burton
Yesterday's Enemy
  • Gordon Jackson

British Actress 1959

Nun's Story, The
  • Audrey Hepburn
Horse's Mouth, The
  • Kay Walsh
Nun's Story, The
  • Peggy Ashcroft
Separate Tables
  • Wendy Hiller
No Trees in the Street
  • Sylvia Sims
Sapphire
  • Yvonne Mitchell

Most Promising Newcomer to Film 1959

Tiger Bay
  • Hayley Mills
Anatomy of a Murder
  • Joseph N Welch
I'm All Right Jack
  • Liz Fraser
Siege of Pinchgut, The
  • Gerry Dugan

Foreign Actress 1959

Ask Any Girl
  • Shirley MacLaine
I Want to Live
  • Susan Hayward
Auntie Mame
  • Rosalind Russell
Matter of Dignity
  • Ella Lambetti
On the Beach
  • Ava Gardner

Foreign Actor 1959

Some like it Hot
  • Jack Lemmon
Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège)
  • Jean Desailly
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i diament)
  • Zbigniew Cybulski
Living (Ikiru)
  • Takashi Shimura
Anatomy of a Murder
  • James Stewart
Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège)
  • Jean Gabin

British Screenplay 1959

I'm All Right Jack
  • Frank Harvey
  • John Boulting
  • Alan Hackney
Expresso Bongo
  • Wolf Mankowitz
Sapphire
  • Janet Green
Tiger Bay
  • John Hawksworth
  • Shelley Smith
North West Frontier
  • Robin Estridge
No Trees in the Street
  • Ted Willis
Blind Date
  • Ben Barzman
  • Millard Lampbell
Horse's Mouth, The
  • Alec Guinness
Look Back in Anger
  • Nigel Kneale

Animated Film 1959

Violinist, The
  • Ernest Pintoff
Short and Suite
  • Norman McLaren
  • Evelyn Lambert
Dom
  • Walerian Borowczyk
  • Jan Lencia
Beep Peep

Specialised Film 1959

This is the BBC
  • Richard Cawston
Hazard
  • Tom Stobart
Tribute to Fangio
  • Ronald H Riley
Coupe des alpes: The Story of the 1958 Alpine Rally
  • John Armstrong
High Speed Flight Pts. I/II & III
  • Peter de Normanville

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