14th British Academy Film Awards

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14th British Academy Film Awards
Date1961
Highlights
Best Film The Apartment
Best British Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Most awardsThe Apartment & Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (3)
Most nominationsSaturday Night and Sunday Morning (6)

The 14th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1961, honoured the best films of 1960. [1]

Contents

Winners and nominees

Best Film

The Apartment

Best British Film

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Best Foreign Actor

Jack Lemmon in The Apartment

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Best British Actress

Rachel Roberts in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Best Foreign Actress

Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment

Best British Screenplay

The Angry Silence - Bryan Forbes

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References

  1. "BAFTA Awards Database: 1960". bafta.org. Retrieved 2010-10-26.