Saturday, 24 December 2022

1961, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film From Any Source
Winner: ‘The Apartment’

Nominees:

  • ‘The Angry Silence’
  • ‘Inherit the Wind’
  • ‘Let's Make Love’
  • ‘Elmer Gantry’
  • ‘Shadows’
  • ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’
  • ‘Spartacus’
  • ‘Tunes of Glory’
  • ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’
  • ‘La Dolce Vita’
  • ‘Hiroshima mon amour’
  • ‘Orfeu Negro’
  • ‘Pote tin Kyriaki’
  • ‘Le testament d'Orphée’
  • ‘Les Quatre cents coups’
  • ‘L'Avventura’

Best British Film
Winner: ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’

Nominees:

  • ‘The Angry Silence’
  • ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’
  • ‘Tunes of Glory’


Best Foreign Actor
Winner:  Jack Lemmon
As in Calvin Clifford (C.C.) "Bud" Baxter in ‘The Apartment’

Nominees:

  • George Hamilton as as Robert in ‘Crime & Punishment USA’
  • Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry in ‘Elmer Gantry’
  • Fredric March as Matthew Harrison Brady in ‘Inherit the Wind’
  • Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond in ‘Inherit the Wind’
  • Yves Montand as Jean-Marc Clément in ‘Let's Make Love’

Best British Actor
Winner:  Peter Finch
As Oscar Wilde in ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’

Nominees:

  • Richard Attenborough as Tom Curtis in ‘The Angry Silence’
  • Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice in ‘The Entertainer’
  • Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton in ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’
  • John Fraser as Lord Alfred Douglas in ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’
  • Alec Guinness as Major Jock Sinclair in ‘Tunes of Glory’
  • John Mills as Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow in ‘Tunes of Glory’

Best Foreign Actress
Winner:  Shirley MacLaine
As Fran Kubelik in ‘The Apartment’

Nominees:

  • Pier Angeli as Anna Curtis in ‘The Angry Silence’
  • Monica Vitti as Claudia in ‘L'Avventura’
  • Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer in ‘Elmer Gantry’
  • Emmanuelle Riva as Elle in ‘Hiroshima mon amour’
  • Melina Mercouri as Ilya in ‘Pote tin Kyriaki’

Best British Actress
Winner:  Rachel Roberts
As Brenda in ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’

Nominees:

  • Hayley Mills as Pollyanna Whittier in ‘Pollyanna’
  • Wendy Hiller as Mrs. Morel in ‘Sons and Lovers’


 

Best British Screenplay
Winner: Bryan Forbes with ‘The Angry Silence’

Nominees:

  • Howard Clewes: ‘The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England’
  • John Osborne, Nigel Kneale: ‘The Entertainer’
  • Val Guest: ‘Hell Is A City’
  • Bryan Forbes: ‘The League Of Gentlemen’
  • Wolf Mankowitz: ‘The Millionairess’
  • Alan Sillitoe: ‘Saturday Night And Sunday Morning’
  • Roger MacDougall, Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell: ‘A Touch Of Larceny’
  • Ken Hughes: ‘The Trials Of Oscar Wilde’
  • James Kennaway: ‘Tunes Of Glory’


Most Promising Newcomer To Leading Film Roles
Winner: Albert Finney
As Arthur Seaton in ‘Saturday Night And Sunday Morning’

Nominees:

  • Lelia Goldoni as Lelia in ‘Shadows’
  • Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel in ‘Les quatre cents coups’
  • George Peppard as Rafe Copley in ‘Home From The Hill’
  • Joan Plowright as Jean Rice in ‘The Entertainer’
  • Anthony Ray as Tony in ‘Shadows’
  • Billie Whitelaw as Chloe Hawkins in ‘Hell Is A City’

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