14th British Academy Film Awards

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

Winners and nominees

Best Film

The Apartment

• The Angry Silence
• Inherit the Wind
• Let's Make Love
• Elmer Gantry
• Shadows
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Spartacus
• Tunes of Glory
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde
• La Dolce Vita
• Hiroshima mon amour
• Orfeu Negro
• Pote tin Kyriaki
• Le testament d'Orphée
• Les Quatre cents coups
• L'Avventura

Best British Film

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

• The Angry Silence
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde
• Tunes of Glory

Best Foreign Actor

Jack Lemmon in The Apartment

• George Hamilton in Crime & Punishment, USA
• Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
• Fredric March in Inherit the Wind
• Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind
• Yves Montand in Let's Make Love

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in The Trials of Oscar Wilde

• Richard Attenborough in The Angry Silence
• Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer
• Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• John Fraser in The Trials of Oscar Wilde
• Alec Guinness in Tunes of Glory
• John Mills in Tunes of Glory

Best British Actress

Rachel Roberts in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

• Hayley Mills in Pollyanna
• Wendy Hiller in Sons and Lovers

Best Foreign Actress

Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment

• Pier Angeli in The Angry Silence
• Monica Vitti in L'Avventura
• Jean Simmons in Elmer Gantry
• Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima mon amour
• Melina Mercouri in Pote tin Kyriaki

Best British Screenplay

The Angry Silence - Bryan Forbes

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