The 18th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1965, honoured the best films of 1964.

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Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick Becket – Peter Glenville The Pumpkin Eater – Jack Clayton The Train – John Frankenheimer |- | valign="top" width="50%" | The Insects - Jimmy T. Murakami| valign="top" width="50%" | Nobody Waved Good-bye The Human Dutch The Life of Billy Walker Portrait of Queenie Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak 23 Skidoo Mekong Muloorina Driving Technique Passenger Trains And Glaadly Would He Learn The Circarc Gear Germany: A Regional Geography Marcello Mastroianni – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow as Carmine Sbaratti/Renzo/Augusto Rusconti Cary Grant – Charade as Peter Joshua Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith Sterling Hayden – Dr. Strangelove as Brigadier General Jack Ripper Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater as Jo Armitage Ava Gardner – The Night of the Iguana as Maxine Faulk Kim Stanley – Séance on a Wet Afternoon as Myra Savage Shirley MacLaine – Irma la Douce as Irma la Douce Shirley MacLaine – What a Way to Go! as Louisa May Foster Richard Attenborough – Guns at Batasi as Regimental Sergeant Major LauderdaleRichard Attenborough – Séance on a Wet Afternoon as Billy Savage Peter O'Toole – Becket as Henry II Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Doctor Strangelove Peter Sellers – The Pink Panther as Inspector Clouseau Tom Courtenay – King and Country as Private Arthur Hamp Audrey Hepburn – Charade as Regina Lampert Deborah Kerr – The Chalk Garden as Miss Madrigal Edith Evans – The Chalk Garden as Mrs. St. Maugham Rita Tushingham – Girl with Green Eyes as Kate Brady Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick Becket – Peter Glenville King and Country – Joseph Losey The Pumpkin Eater – Jack Clayton | valign="top" width="50%" | The Pumpkin Eater – Harold Pinter Becket – Edward Anhalt Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern Séance on a Wet Afternoon – Bryan Forbes |- | valign="top" width="50%" | Dr. Strangelove – Ken Adam Guns at Batasi – Maurice Carter King and Country – Richard Macdonald The Pumpkin Eater – Ted Marshall | valign="top" width="50%" | Becket – John Bryan The Chalk Garden – Carmen Dillon Goldfinger – Ken Adam Zulu – Ernest Archer |- | valign="top" width="50%" | The Pumpkin Eater – Oswald Morris Guns at Batasi – Douglas Slocombe King and Country – Denys Coop Séance on a Wet Afternoon – Gerry Turpin | valign="top" width="50%" | Becket – Geoffrey Unsworth The 7th Dawn – Freddie Young The Chalk Garden – Arthur Ibbetson Nothing but the Best – Nicolas Roeg The Yellow Rolls-Royce – Jack Hildyard |- | valign="top" width="50%" | The Pumpkin Eater – Motley Theatre Design Group Of Human Bondage – Beatrice Dawson Psyche 59 – Julie Harris | valign="top" width="50%" | Becket – Margaret Furse The Long Ships – Anthony Mendleson Woman of Straw – Beatrice Dawson The Yellow Rolls-Royce – Anthony Mendleson |- | valign="top" width="50%" | Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins as Mary Poppins The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night as Themselves Elizabeth Ashley – The Carpetbaggers as Monica Winthroop Lynn Redgrave – Girl with Green Eyes as Baba Brennan | valign="top" width="50%" | Dr. Strangelove 23 Skidoo A Distant Trumpet Lilies of the Field

Statistics + Films that received multiple nominations Nominations Film 7 Becket Dr. Strangelove The Pumpkin Eater 4 The Chalk Garden King and Country Séance on a Wet Afternoon 3 Guns at Batasi 2 23 Skidoo Charade Girl with Green Eyes Lilies of the Field The Yellow Rolls-Royce

+ Films that received multiple awards Awards Film 4 Dr. Strangelove The Pumpkin Eater 3 Becket

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