19th British Academy Film Awards (1966)

The 19th British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1965. "My Fair Lady" won the Best Film award. The films that won multiple awards included "Darling" and "The Ipcress File".
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Best Film

My Fair Lady - George Cukor
Hamlet - Grigori Kozintsev
The Hill - Sidney Lumet
The Knack... and How to Get It - Richard Lester
Zorba the Greek - Mihalis Kakogiannis

Best British Film

The Ipcress File - Sidney J. Furie
Darling - John Schlesinger
The Hill - Sidney Lumet
The Knack... and How to Get It - Richard Lester

Best Short Film

Rig Move - Don Higgins
60 Cycles - Jean-Claude Labrecque
One of Them Is Named Brett - Roger Graef

Best Animated Film

Do Be Careful Boys - Vera Linnecar, Nancy Hanna, Keith Learner
The Bargain - Beryl Stevens
Birds, Bees and Storks - John Halas
The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra - Harold Whitaker

Best Specialised Film

I Do - And I Understand - Derek Williams
Town Nurse, Country Nurse - Don Higgins

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Four in the Morning - Judi Dench
Cat Ballou - Tom Nardini
Having a Wild Weekend - Barbara Ferris
The Knack... and How to Get It - Michael Crawford

Flaherty Documentary Award

Tokyo Olympiad - Kon Ichikawa
Brute Force and Finesse - Max Morgan Witts
Deckie Learner - Michael Grigsby
Stravinsky - Roman Kroitor, Wolf Koenig

UN Award

Tokyo Olympiad - Kon Ichikawa
Fail-Safe - Sidney Lumet
King Rat - Bryan Forbes
Zorba the Greek - Mihalis Kakogiannis

Best British Actor

Darling - Dirk Bogarde
The Hill - Harry Andrews
The Ipcress File - Michael Caine
My Fair Lady - Rex Harrison

Best Foreign Actor

Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin
The Killers - Lee Marvin
Hamlet - Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
How to Murder Your Wife - Jack Lemmon
Ship of Fools - Oskar Werner
Zorba the Greek - Anthony Quinn
Good Neighbor Sam - Jack Lemmon

Best British Actress

Darling - Julie Christie
The Americanization of Emily - Julie Andrews
The Knack... and How to Get It - Rita Tushingham
The Sound of Music - Julie Andrews
Young Cassidy - Maggie Smith

Best Foreign Actress

In Harm's Way - Patricia Neal
Ship of Fools - Simone Signoret
Zorba the Greek - Lila Kedrova

Best British Screenplay

Darling - Frederic Raphael
The Hill - Ray Rigby
The Ipcress File - W.H. Canaway, James Doran
The Knack... and How to Get It - Charles Wood

Best British Cinematography (Colour)

The Ipcress File - Otto Heller
Help! - David Watkin
Lord Jim - Freddie Young
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Christopher Challis

Best British Cinematography (Black & White)

The Hill - Oswald Morris
Darling - Kenneth Higgins
The Knack... and How to Get It - David Watkin
Repulsion - Gilbert Taylor

Best British Art Direction (Colour)

The Ipcress File - Ken Adam
Lord Jim - Geoffrey Drake
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Thomas N. Morahan
Thunderball - Ken Adam

Best British Art Direction (Black & White)

Darling - Ray Simm
The Bedford Incident - Arthur Lawson
The Hill - Herbert Smith
Rotten to the Core - Alex Vetchinsky

Best British Costume (Colour)

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Osbert Lancaster, Dinah Greet
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Elizabeth Haffenden, Joan Bridge
Help! - Julie Harris
A Shot in the Dark - Margaret Furse
Young Cassidy - Margaret Furse
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