1960, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film From Any Source
Winner: Ben-Hur (USA, William Wyler)

Ben-Hur Podter

Nominees:

• Anatomy of a Murder (USA, Otto Preminger)
• Ansiktet (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman)
• The Big Country (USA, William Wyler)
• Compulsion (USA, Richard Fleischer)
• Gigi (USA, Vincente Minnelli)
• Look Back in Anger (UK, Tony Richardson)
• North West Frontier (UK, J. Lee Thompson)
• The Nun's Story (USA, Fred Zinnemann)
• Sapphire (UK, Basil Dearden)
• Some Like It Hot (USA, Billy Wilder)
• Tiger Bay (UK, J. Lee Thompson) 
• Yesterday's Enemy (UK, Val Guest)
• Maigret tend un piège (France / Italy, Jean Delannoy)
• Popiół i diament (Poland, Andrzej Wajda)

Best British Film
Winner: Sapphire (Basil Dearden)

Sapphire Poster

Nominees:

• Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson)
• North West Frontier (J. Lee Thompson)
• Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson)
• Yesterday's Enemy (Val Guest)

Best Foreign Actor
Winner: Jack Lemmon as Jerry / Daphne in Some Like It Hot

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk and Jack Lemmon as Daphne

Nominees:

• James Stewart as Paul Biegler in Anatomy of a Murder
• Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe in Ikiru
• Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek Chelmicki in Popiół i diament
• Jean Gabin as Jules Maigret in Maigret tend un piège
• Jean Desailly as Marcel Maurin in Maigret tend un piège

Best British Actor
Winner: Peter Sellers as Fred Kite / Sir John Kennaway in I'm All Right Jack

Peter Sellers as Fred Kite

Nominees:

• Laurence Olivier as General John Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciple
• Laurence Harvey as Johnny Jackson in Expresso Bongo
• Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger
• Peter Finch as Dr. Fortunati in The Nun's Story
• Stanley Baker as Captain Alan Langford in Yesterday's Enemy
• Gordon Jackson as Sergeant MacKenzie in Yesterday's Enemy

Best Foreign Actress
Winner: Shirley MacLaine as Meg Wheeler in Ask Any Girl

Shirley MacLaine as Meg Wheeler

Nominees:

• Rosalind Russell as Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame
• Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!
• Ava Gardner Moira Davidson in On The Beach
• Ellie Lambeti as Chloe Pella in A Matter of Dignity

Best British Actress
Winner: Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke in The Nun's Story

Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke

Nominees:

• Kay Walsh as Miss D. Coker in The Horse's Mouth
• Sylvia Syms as Hetty in No Trees in the Street
• Peggy Ashcroft as Mother Mathilde in The Nun's Story
• Yvonne Mitchell as Mildred Farr in Sapphire

Best British Screenplay
Winner: Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney with I'm All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack Poster

Nominees:

• Ben Barzman and Millard Lampell: Chance Meeting
• Wolf Mankowitz: Expresso Bongo
• Alec Guinness: The Horse's Mouth
• Nigel Kneale: Look Back in Anger
• Ted Willis: No Trees in the Street
• Robin Estridge: North West Frontier
• Janet Green: Sapphire
• John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith: Tiger Bay

Most Promising Newcomer To Leading Film Roles
Winner: Hayley Mills as Gillie Evans in Tiger Bay

Nominees:

• Joseph N. Welch as Judge Weaver in Anatomy of a Murder
• Liz Fraser as Cynthia Kite in I'm All Right Jack
• Gerry Duggan as Pat Fulton in Four Desperate Men

1969, Film: The Assassination Bureau Limited

The British black comedy "The Assassination Bureau Limited" (US: "The Assassination Bureau") premieres in London on 10 March 1969. The film, directed by Basil Dearden, is based on the unfinished novel "The Assassination Bureau, Ltd" by Jack London. The novel was, after Jack London's death (1916), finished by Robert L. Fish. It was published in 1963. Main stars are Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell and Clive Revill. Unlike London's original novel, which is set in the United States, the film is set in Europe.

Synopsis

London early 1900s, the aspiring journalist Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing high placed people for money, the Assassination Bureau, Limited. To destroy the bureau she hires the organisation to murder the bureau's own chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed)...

Diana Rigg as Sonya Winter

Oliver Reed as Ivan Dragomiloff and Diana Rigg as Sonya Winter

Warren Mitchell as Herr Weiss and Oliver Reed as Ivan Dragomiloff

Main cast

• Oliver Reed as Ivan Dragomiloff
• Diana Rigg as Sonya Winter
• Telly Savalas as Lord Bostwick
• Curd Jürgens as General von Pinck
• Philippe Noiret as Monsieur Lucoville
• Warren Mitchell as Herr Weiss
• Beryl Reid as Madame Otero
• Clive Revill as Cesare Spado
• Kenneth Griffith as Monsieur Popescu
• Vernon Dobtcheff as Baron Muntzof
• Annabella Incontrera as Eleanora Spado
• Jess Conrad as Angelo
• George Coulouris as Swiss Peasant

Diana Rigg as Sonya Winter and Philippe Noiret as Monsieur Lucoville

Diana Rigg as Sonya Winter and Telly Savalas as Lord Bostwick

Nominations

• Golden Globe (US) for Best English-Language Foreign Film, lost to "Oh! What a Lovely War"
• Golden Laurel (US) for Female New Face (Diana Rigg), lost to Ali MacGraw in "Goodbye, Columbus"

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The Assassination Bureau, Sample clip (1969)