1963, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

 

Best Film

Winner: "Lawrence of Arabia"

(David Lean, Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, UK, 1962)

Nominees:

• "Billy Budd" (Peter Ustinov, Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen, Herman Melville, UK, 1962)
• "A Kind of Loving" (John Schlesinger, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, UK, 1962)
• "Lola" (Jacques Demy, France / Italy, 1961)
• "The L-Shaped Room" (Bryan Forbes, Lynne Reid Banks, UK, 1962)
• "The Miracle Worker" (Arthur Penn, William Gibson, USA, 1962)
• "The Manchurian Candidate" (John Frankenheimer, Richard Condon, George Axelrod, USA, 1962)
• "Only Two Can Play" (Sidney Gilliat, Bryan Forbes, Kingsley Amis, UK, 1962)
• "Phaedra" (Jules Dassin, Margarita Lymberaki, Greece / France / USA, 1962)
• "West Side Story" (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, Ernest Lehman, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, USA, 1961)
• "Une aussi longue absence" (Henri Colpi, Marguerite Duras, Gérard Jarlot, France / Italy, 1961)
• "Tu ne tueras point" (Claude Autant-Lara, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, France / Italy / Yugoslavia, 1961)
• "Såsom i en spegel" (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1961)
• "Jules et Jim" (François Truffaut, Henri-Pierre Roché, Jean Gruault, France, 1962)
• "Hadaka no shima" (Kaneto Shindô, Japan, 1960)
• "Dama s sobachkoy" (Iosif Kheifits, Anton Chekhov, USSR, 1960)
• "Le caporal épinglé" (Jean Renoir, Jacques Perret, Guy Lefranc, France, 1962)
• "L'année dernière à Marienbad" (Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, France / Italy, 1961)

Best British Film

Winner: "Lawrence of Arabia"

(David Lean, Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, UK, 1962)

Nominees:

• "Billy Budd" (Peter Ustinov, Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen, Herman Melville, UK, 1962)
• "A Kind of Loving" (John Schlesinger, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, UK, 1962)
• "The L-Shaped Room" (Bryan Forbes, Lynne Reid Banks, UK, 1962)
• "Only Two Can Play" (Sidney Gilliat, Bryan Forbes, Kingsley Amis, UK, 1962)

Best Foreign Actor

Winner: Burt Lancaster as Robert Franklin Stroud

"Birdman of Alcatraz"

(John Frankenheimer, Charles Crichton, Guy Trosper, Thomas E. Gaddis, USA, 1962)

Nominees:

• Anthony Quinn as Auda Abu Tayi in "Lawrence of Arabia" (David Lean, Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, UK, 1962)
• Kirk Douglas as John W. "Jack" Burns in "Lonely Are the Brave" (David Miller, Dalton Trumbo, Edward Abbey, USA, 1962)
• Robert Ryan as John Claggart in "Billy Budd" (Peter Ustinov, Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen, Herman Melville, UK, 1962)
• Charles Laughton as Senator Seabright Cooley in "Advise & Consent" (Otto Preminger, Allen Drury, Wendell Mayes, USA, 1962)
• Franco Citti as Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi in "Accattone" (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Citti, Italy, 1961)
• George Hamilton as Fabrizio Naccarelli in "Light in the Piazza" (Guy Green, Elizabeth Spencer, Julius J. Epstein; USA, 1962)
• Jean-Paul Belmondo as Léon Morin in "Léon Morin, prêtre" (Jean-Pierre Melville, Béatrix Beck, France / Italy, 1961)
• Georges Wilson as Clochard in "Une aussi longue absence" (Henri Colpi, Marguerite Duras, Gérard Jarlot, France / Italy, 1961)

Best British Actor

Winner: Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence

"Lawrence of Arabia"

(David Lean, Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, UK, 1962)

Nominees:

• Richard Attenborough as Fowle in "The Dock Brief" (James Hill, John Mortimer, Pierre Rouve, UK, 1962)
• Alan Bates as Vic in "A Kind of Loving" (John Schlesinger, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, UK, 1962)
• James Mason as Prof. Humbert Humbert in "Lolita" (Stanley Kubrick, Vladimir Nabokov, UK / USA, 1962)
• Peter Sellers as John Lewis in "Only Two Can Play" (Sidney Gilliat, Bryan Forbes, Kingsley Amis, UK, 1962)
• Laurence Olivier as Graham Weir in "Term of Trial" (Peter Glenville, James Barlow, UK, 1962)

Best British Actress

Winner: Leslie Caron as Jane

"The L-Shaped Room"

(Bryan Forbes, Lynne Reid Banks, UK, 1962)

Nominees:

• Janet Munro as Pat Harris in "Life for Ruth" (Basil Dearden, Janet Green, John McCormick, UK, 1962)
• Virginia Maskell as Virginia Chown in "The Wild and the Willing" (Ralph Thomas, Laurence Doble, Nicholas Phipps, Mordecai Richler, Robert Sloman, UK, 1962)

Best Foreign Actress

Winner: Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan

"The Miracle Worker"

(Arthur Penn, William Gibson, USA, 1962)

Nominees:

• Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in "Jules et Jim" (François Truffaut, Henri-Pierre Roché, Jean Gruault, France, 1962)
• Anouk Aimée as Lola / Cécile in "Lola" (Jacques Demy, France / Italy, 1961)
• Melina Mercouri as Phaedra in "Phaedra" (Jules Dassin, Margarita Lymberaki, Greece / France / USA, 1962)
• Natalie Wood as Wilma Dean Loomis in "Splendor in the Grass" (Elia Kazan, William Inge, USA, 1961)
• Geraldine Page as Alexandra Del Lago in "Sweet Bird of Youth" (Richard Brooks, Tennessee Williams, USA, 1962)
• Harriet Anderson as Karin in "Såsom i en spegel" (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1961)

Most Promising Newcomer

Winner: Tom Courtenay as Colin Smith

"The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner" (Tony Richardson, Alan Sillitoe, UK, 1962)

Nominees:

• Mariette Hartley as Elsa Knudsen in "Guns In The Afternoon" (Sam Peckinpah, N.B. Stone Jr., USA, 1962)
• Ian Hendry as Albert Argyle in "Live Now, Pay Later" (Jay Lewis, Jack Lindsay, Jack Trevor Story, UK, 1962)
• Sarah Miles as Shirley Taylor in "Term Of Trial" (Peter Glenville, James Barlow, UK, 1962)
• Terence Stamp as Billy Budd in "Billy Budd" (Peter Ustinov, Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen, Herman Melville, UK, 1962)

Best British Screenplay

Winner: Robert Bolt

"Lawrence of Arabia"

(David Lean, Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, UK, 1962)

Nominees:

• Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen for (Peter Ustinov, Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen, Herman Melville, UK, 1962)
• Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse for "A Kind of Loving" (John Schlesinger, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, UK, 1962)
• Bryan Forbes for "Only Two Can Play" (Sidney Gilliat, Bryan Forbes, Kingsley Amis, UK, 1962)
• Geoffrey Cotterell, Ivan Foxwell for "Tiara Tahiti" (William T. Kotcheff, Geoffrey Cotterell, Ivan Foxwell, Mordecai Richler, UK, 1962)
• Wolf Mankowitz for "Waltz Of The Toreadors" (John Guillermin, Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill, Wolf Mankowitz, UK, 1962