The 13th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1960, honoured the best films of 1959.
Winners and nominees Best Film Ben-Hur Anatomy of a Murder Ansiktet The Big Country Compulsion Gigi Look Back in Anger North West Frontier The Nun's Story Sapphire Some Like It Hot Tiger Bay Yesterday's Enemy Maigret tend un piège Ashes and Diamonds
Best British Film Sapphire Look Back in Anger Anatomy of a Murder Tiger Bay Yesterday's Enemy
Best Foreign Actor Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder Takashi Shimura in Ikiru Zbigniew Cybulski in Ashes and Diamonds Jean Gabin in Maigret tend un piège Jean Desailly in Maigret tend un piège
Best British Actor Peter Sellers in I'm All Right Jack Laurence Olivier in The Devil's Disciple Laurence Harvey in Expresso Bongo Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger Peter Finch in The Nun's Story Stanley Baker in Yesterday's Enemy Gordon Jackson in Yesterday's Enemy
Best British Actress Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story Kay Walsh in The Horse's Mouth Sylvia Syms in No Trees in the Street Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story Yvonne Mitchell in Sapphire
Best Foreign Actress Shirley MacLaine in Ask Any Girl Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame Susan Hayward in I Want to Live! Ava Gardner in On The Beach Ellie Lambeti in A Matter of Dignity
Best British Screenplay I'm All Right Jack - Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney
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