14th British Academy Film Awards (1961)

- WINNER

Best British Film

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Karel Reisz
The Angry Silence - Guy Green
The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Ken Hughes
Tunes of Glory - Ronald Neame

Best Short Film

High Journey - Peter Baylis
Return to Life - John Krish
Seawards the Great Ships - Hilary Harris

Best Animated Film

Universe - Roman Kroitor, Colin Low
The Interview - Ernest Pintoff
Piccolo - Dusan Vukotic

Best Specialised Film

Dispute - Fred Moore
Heroic Days - Bill Mason
Outline of Detergency - Michael Ricketts

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Albert Finney
The Entertainer - Joan Plowright
Hell Is a City - Billie Whitelaw
Home from the Hill - George Peppard
The 400 Blows - Jean-Pierre Leaud
Shadows - Lelia Goldoni
Shadows - Anthony Ray

UN Award

Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais
Night and Fog - Alain Resnais
Return to Life - John Krish
Shadows - John Cassavetes
Unseen Enemies - Michael Clarke

Best British Actor

The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Peter Finch
The Angry Silence - Richard Attenborough
The Entertainer - Laurence Olivier
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Albert Finney
The Trials of Oscar Wilde - John Fraser
Tunes of Glory - Alec Guinness
Tunes of Glory - John Mills

Best Foreign Actor

The Apartment - Jack Lemmon
Crime & Punishment, USA - George Hamilton
Elmer Gantry - Burt Lancaster
Inherit the Wind - Fredric March
Inherit the Wind - Spencer Tracy
Let's Make Love - Yves Montand

Best British Actress

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Rachel Roberts
Pollyanna - Hayley Mills
Sons and Lovers - Wendy Hiller

Best Foreign Actress

The Apartment - Shirley MacLaine
The Angry Silence - Pier Angeli
Elmer Gantry - Jean Simmons
Hiroshima Mon Amour - Emmanuelle Riva
L'Avventura - Monica Vitti
Never on Sunday - Melina Mercouri

Best British Screenplay

The Angry Silence - Bryan Forbes
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England - Howard Clewes
The Entertainer - John Osborne, Nigel Kneale
Hell Is a City - Val Guest
The League of Gentlemen - Bryan Forbes
The Millionairess - Wolf Mankowitz
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
A Touch of Larceny - Roger MacDougall, Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell
The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Ken Hughes
Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway

Best Film From Any Source

The Apartment - Billy Wilder
The Angry Silence - Guy Green
La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks
Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais
Inherit the Wind - Stanley Kramer
L'Avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni
Let's Make Love - George Cukor
Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin
Black Orpheus - Marcel Camus
The 400 Blows - François Truffaut
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Karel Reisz
Shadows - John Cassavetes
Spartacus - Stanley Kubrick
Testament of Orpheus - Jean Cocteau
The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Ken Hughes
Tunes of Glory - Ronald Neame
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