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.
- WINNER
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