1964, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film
Winner: ‘Dr. Strangelove’
(Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, UK / USA, 1964)

Nominees:

• ‘Becket’ (Peter Glenville, Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill, Edward Anhalt, UK / USA, 1964)
• ‘The Pumpkin Eater’ (Jack Clayton, Penelope Mortimer, Harold Pinter, UK, 1964)
• ‘The Train’ (John Frankenheimer, Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, Rose Valland, France/ Italy / USA, 1964)

Best British Actor
Winner: Richard Attenborough

• As Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale in ‘Guns at Batasi’
• As Billy Savage in ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’

Nominees:

• Peter O'Toole as Henry II in ‘Becket’
• Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Doctor Strangelove in ‘Dr. Strangelove’
• Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in ‘The Pink Panther’
• Tom Courtenay as Private Arthur Hamp in ‘King and Country’

Best British Actress
Winner: Audrey Hepburn as Regina Lampert in ‘Charade’

Nominees:

• Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal in ‘The Chalk Garden’
• Edith Evans as Mrs. St. Maugham in ‘The Chalk Garden’
• Rita Tushingham as Kate Brady in ‘Girl with Green Eyes’

Best Foreign Actor
Winner: Marcello Mastroianni as Carmine Sbaratti/Renzo/Augusto Rusconti in ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’

Nominees:

• Cary Grant as Peter Joshua in ‘Charade’
• Sidney Poitier as Homer Smith in ‘Lilies of the Field’
• Sterling Hayden as Brigadier General Jack Ripper in ‘Dr. Strangelove’

Best Foreign Actress
Winner: Anne Bancroft as Jo Armitage in ‘The Pumpkin Eater’

Nominees:

• Ava Gardner as Maxine Faulk in ‘The Night of the Iguana’
• Kim Stanley as Myra Savage in ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’
• Shirley MacLaine as Irma la Douce in ‘Irma la Douce’
• Shirley MacLaine as Louisa May Foster in ‘What a Way to Go!’

Best Screenplay
Winner: Harold Pinter: ‘The Pumpkin Eater’

Nominees:

• Edward Anhalt: ‘Becket’
• Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern: ‘Dr. Strangelove’
• Bryan Forbes: ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’

Best Cinematography, Black and White
Winner: Oswald Morris: ‘The Pumpkin Eater’

Nominees:

• Douglas Slocombe: ‘Guns at Batasi’
• Denys Coop: ‘King and Country’
• Gerry Turpin: ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’

Best Cinematography, Colour
Winner: Geoffrey Unsworth: ‘Becket’

Nominees:

• Freddie Young: ‘The 7th Dawn’
• Arthur Ibbetson: ‘The Chalk Garden’
• Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing but the Best’
• Jack Hildyard: ‘The Yellow Rolls-Royce’