18th British Academy Film Awards (1965)

The 18th British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1964. "Dr. Strangelove or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" won the Best Film award. The films that won multiple awards included "The Pumpkin Eater" and "Becket".
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Best Film

Dr. Strangelove or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Becket
The Pumpkin Eater
The Train

Best British Film

Dr. Strangelove or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Becket
King And Country
The Pumpkin Eater

Best Short Film

Eskimo Artist - Kenojuak
23 Skidoo
Mekong - A River of Asia
Muloorina

Best Specialised Film

Electric Train Driver - Driving Techniques - Passenger Trains
And Gladly Would He Learn
The Circarc Gear
Germany - A Regional Geography

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews
The Carpetbaggers - Elizabeth Ashley
Girl with Green Eyes - Lynn Redgrave
A Hard Day's Night - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Flaherty Documentary Award

Nobody Waved Good-bye
The Human Dutch
The Life of Billy Walker
Portrait of Queenie

UN Award

Dr. Strangelove or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
23 Skidoo
A Distant Trumpet
Lilies of the Field

Best British Actor

Guns at Batasi, Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Richard Attenborough
The Pink Panther - Peter Sellers
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Peter Sellers
King and Country - Tom Courtenay
Becket - Peter O'Toole

Best Foreign Actor

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - Marcello Mastroianni
Charade - Cary Grant
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Sterling Hayden
Lilies of the Field - Sidney Poitier

Best British Actress

Charade - Audrey Hepburn
The Chalk Garden - Edith Evans
The Chalk Garden - Deborah Kerr
Girl with Green Eyes - Rita Tushingham

Best Foreign Actress

The Pumpkin Eater - Anne Bancroft
The Night of the Iguana - Ava Gardner
Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Kim Stanley
Irma la Douce - Shirley MacLaine
What a Way to Go! - Shirley MacLaine

Best British Screenplay

The Pumpkin Eater - Harold Pinter
Becket - Edward Anhalt
Dr. Strangelove or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern
Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Bryan Forbes

Best British Cinematography (Colour)

Becket - Geoffrey Unsworth
The Chalk Garden - Arthur Ibbetson
Nothing But the Best - Nicolas Roeg
The 7th Dawn - Freddie Young
The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Jack Hildyard

Best British Cinematography (Black & White)

The Pumpkin Eater - Oswald Morris
Guns at Batasi - Douglas Slocombe
King And Country - Denys N. Coop
Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Gerry Turpin

Best British Art Direction (Colour)

Becket - John Bryan
The Chalk Garden - Carmen Dillon
Goldfinger - Ken Adam
Zulu - Ernest Archer

Best British Art Direction (Black & White)

Dr. Strangelove or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Ken Adam
Guns at Batasi - Maurice Carter
King And Country - Richard Macdonald
The Pumpkin Eater - Edward Marshall

Best British Costume (Colour)

Becket - Margaret Furse
The Long Ships - Anthony Mendleson
Woman of Straw - Beatrice Dawson
The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Anthony Mendleson

Best British Costume (Black & White)

The Pumpkin Eater - Sophie Devine
Of Human Bondage - Beatrice Dawson
Psyche 59 - Julie Harris
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