15th British Academy Film Awards (1962)

The 15th British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1961. "Ballad of a Soldier" and "The Hustler" were joint owners of the Best Film category.
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Best Film

Ballad of a Soldier
The Hustler
The Innocents
Judgment at Nuremberg
Jungle Fighters
Rocco and His Brothers
The Sundowners
A Taste of Honey - Tony Richardson
Le Trou
Whistle Down the Wind - Bryan Forbes

Best British Film

A Taste of Honey - Tony Richardson
The Innocents
Jungle Fighters
The Sundowners
Whistle Down the Wind - Bryan Forbes

Best Short Film

Terminus - John Schlesinger
Eyes of a Child
Let My People Go

Best Animated Film

101 Dalmatians
The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
For Better.....for Worse

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

A Taste of Honey - Rita Tushingham
Call Me Genius - Tony Hancock
A Taste of Honey - Murray Melvin

Flaherty Documentary Award

The Devil's Blast

UN Award

Let My People Go
The Best of Enemies
Take a Giant Step

Best British Actor

No Love for Johnnie - Peter Finch
Victim - Dirk Bogarde

Best Foreign Actor

The Hustler - Paul Newman
Ballad of a Soldier - Vladimir Ivashov
The Best of Enemies - Alberto Sordi
Judgment at Nuremberg - Montgomery Clift
Judgment at Nuremberg - Maximilian Schell
A Raisin in the Sun - Sidney Poitier
Le Trou - Philippe Leroy

Best British Actress

A Taste of Honey - Dora Bryan
The Sundowners - Deborah Kerr
Whistle Down the Wind - Hayley Mills

Best Foreign Actress

Two Women - Sophia Loren
The Hustler - Piper Laurie
A Raisin in the Sun - Claudia McNeil
Rocco and His Brothers - Annie Girardot
Breathless - Jean Seberg

Best British Screenplay

The Day the Earth Caught Fire - Wolf Mankowitz, Val Guest
A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney, Tony Richardson
Flame in the Streets - Ted Willis
The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman
Victim - Janet Green, John McCormick
Whistle Down the Wind - Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
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