15th British Academy Film Awards

The 15th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1962, honoured the best films of 1961.

15th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1962
Highlights
Best Film	Ballad of a Soldier & The Hustler
Best British Film	A Taste of Honey
Most awards	A Taste of Honey (4)
Most nominations	A Taste of Honey (6)
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Winners and nominees

Best Film

Ballad of a Soldier (TIE)
The Hustler (TIE)

• Apur Sansar
• The Hole
• The Innocents
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Long and the Short and the Tall
• Rocco and His Brothers
• The Sundowners
• A Taste of Honey
• Whistle Down the Wind

Best British Film

A Taste of Honey

• The Innocents
• The Long and the Short and the Tall
• The Sundowners
• Whistle Down the Wind

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie

• Dirk Bogarde in Victim

Best Foreign Actor

Paul Newman in The Hustler

• Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Vladimir Ivashov in Ballad of a Soldier
• Philippe Leroy in The Hole
• Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
• Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies

Best British Actress

Dora Bryan in A Taste of Honey

• Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners
• Hayley Mills in Whistle Down the Wind

Best Foreign Actress

Sophia Loren in Two Women

• Annie Girardot in Rocco and His Brothers
• Piper Laurie in The Hustler
• Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun
• Jean Seberg in Breathless

Best British Screenplay

The Day the Earth Caught Fire – Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (TIE)
A Taste of Honey – Tony Richardson and Shelagh Delaney (TIE)

• Flame in the Streets – Ted Willis
• The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman
• Victim – Janet Green and John McCormick
• Whistle Down the Wind – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

Best Animated Film

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

• The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
• For Better...For Worse

Best Short Film

Terminus – John Schlesinger

• Eyes of a Child
• Let My People Go

United Nations Award

Let My People Go

• The Best of Enemies
• Take a Giant Step

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey

• Anthony Hancock in The Rebel
• Murray Melvin in A Taste of Honey