10th British Academy Film Awards

10th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1957
Highlights
Best Film	Gervaise
Best British Film	Reach for the Sky
Most awards	Gervaise, & A Town Like Alice (2)
Most nominations	Reach for the Sky, & A Town Like Alice (5)
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The 10th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1957, honoured the best films of 1956.

Winners and nominees

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Best Film

Gervaise

• Amici per la pelle
• Baby Doll
• The Battle of the River Plate
• Shadow
• The Unfrocked One
• Guys and Dolls
• The Killing
• The Man Who Never Was
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• Picnic
• Poprygunya
• Reach for the Sky
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Smiles of a Summer Night
• A Town Like Alice
• The Trouble with Harry
• War and Peace
• Yield to the Night

Best British Film

Reach for the Sky

• The Man Who Never Was
• The Battle of the River Plate
• A Town Like Alice
• Yield to the Night

Best Foreign Actor

Francois Perier in Gervaise

• Karl Malden in Baby Doll
• Pierre Fresnay in The Unfrocked One
• Frank Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm
• Spencer Tracy in The Mountain
• William Holden in Picnic
• James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause
• Gunnar Bjornstrand in Smiles of a Summer Night

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in A Town Like Alice

• Jack Hawkins in The Long Arm
• Kenneth More in Reach for the Sky

Best British Actress

Virginia McKenna in A Town Like Alice

• Dorothy Alison in Reach for the Sky
• Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace

Best Foreign Actress

Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo

• Carroll Baker in Baby Doll
• Ava Gardner in Bhowani Junction
• Maria Schell in Gervaise
• Jean Simmons in Guys and Dolls
• Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Kim Novak in Picnic
• Marisa Pavan in The Rose Tattoo
• Eva Dahlbeck in Smiles of a Summer Night
• Shirley MacLaine in The Trouble with Harry

Best British Screenplay

The Man Who Never Was - Nigel Balchin

• The Battle of the River Plate - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• The Green Man - Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder
• Private's Progress - Frank Harvey and John Boulting
• Reach for the Sky - Lewis Gilbert
• Smiley - Moore Raymond and Anthony Kimmins
• Three Men in a Boat - Hubert Gregg and Vernon Harris
• A Town Like Alice - W.P. Lipscomb and Richard Mason
• Yield to the Night - John Cresswell and Joan Henry

Best Animated Film

Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo

• Calling All Salesmen
• Christopher Crumpet's Playmate
• History of the Cinema
• The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy
• Love and the Zeppelin
• Rythmetic

Best Documentary

On the Bowery

• Foothold in Antarctica
• Generator 4
• The Silent World (Le Monde Du Silence)
• Under the Same Sky

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

Eli Wallach - Baby Doll

• Stephen Boyd - The Man Who Never Was
• Don Murray - Bus Stop
• Susan Strasberg - Picnic
• Elizabeth Wilson - Patterns of Power

United Nations Award

Race for Life

• To Your Health
• The Great Locomotive Chase
• Pacific Destiny
• Under the Same Sky

Special Award

The Red Balloon

• On the Twelfth Day
• Underwater Symphony
• The Door in the Wall
• Man in Space

References

1. "Awards Search". Bafta. Retrieved 2025-09-06.