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BAFTA 1957: British Academy Film Awards (Movies from 1956)

Highlights

Best Film: Gervaise
Most Outstanding British Film: Reach for the Sky
Best British Actor: Peter Finch
Best British Actress: Virginia McKenna
Best Foreign Actor: François Périer
Best Foreign Actress: Anna Magnani
Best British Screenplay: Nigel Balchin
Best Animated Film: Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo (S)
Best Documentary: On the Bowery
Best Leading Actor TV - Drama: Michael Gough
Best Leading Actress TV - Drama: Rosalie Crutchley
Most Promising Newcomer to Film: Eli Wallach

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Most awarded films

Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo (S)

Most nominated movies

Best Film - 1957

7.1 (153)

6.7 (1,769)

5.9 (803)

Best Film

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Gervaise

Winner

3 nominations 2 awards

Friends for Life

Baby Doll

4 nominations 1 award

The Battle of the River Plate

3 nominations

The Unfrocked One

2 nominations

The Cricket

Guys and Dolls

2 nominations

The Killing

The Man Who Never Was

4 nominations 1 award

The Man With the Golden Arm

2 nominations

Picnic

4 nominations

Reach for the Sky

5 nominations 1 award

Rebel Without a Cause

2 nominations

Shadow

Smiles of a Summer Night

3 nominations

A Town Like Alice

5 nominations 2 awards

The Trouble With Harry

2 nominations

War and Peace

2 nominations

Yield to the Night

3 nominations

Most Outstanding British Film

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Reach for the Sky

Winner

5 nominations 1 award

The Battle of the River Plate

3 nominations

The Man Who Never Was

4 nominations 1 award

A Town Like Alice

5 nominations 2 awards

Yield to the Night

3 nominations

Best British Actor

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Peter Finch

Winner

A Town Like Alice

5 nominations 2 awards

Jack Hawkins

The Long Arm (The Third Key)

Kenneth More

Reach for the Sky

Best British Actress

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Virginia McKenna

Winner

A Town Like Alice

5 nominations 2 awards

Dorothy Alison

Reach for the Sky

Audrey Hepburn

War and Peace

Best Foreign Actor

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François Périer

Winner

Gervaise

3 nominations 2 awards

Karl Malden

Baby Doll

Pierre Fresnay

The Unfrocked One

Frank Sinatra

The Man With the Golden Arm

Spencer Tracy

The Mountain

William Holden

Picnic

James Dean

Rebel Without a Cause

Gunnar Björnstrand

Smiles of a Summer Night

Best Foreign Actress

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Anna Magnani

Winner

The Rose Tattoo

2 nominations 1 award

Carroll Baker

Ava Gardner

Maria Schell

Jean Simmons

Susan Hayward

Kim Novak

Marisa Pavan

Eva Dahlbeck

Smiles of a Summer Night

Shirley MacLaine

The Trouble With Harry

Best British Screenplay

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Nigel Balchin

Winner

The Man Who Never Was

4 nominations 1 award

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

The Battle of the River Plate

Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder

The Green Man

Frank Harvey, John Boulting

Private's Progress

Lewis Gilbert

Reach for the Sky

Moore Raymond , Anthony Kimmins

Smiley

Hubert Gregg, Vernon Harris

Three Men in a Boat

W.P. Lipscomb, Richard Mason

A Town Like Alice

John Cresswell, Joan Henry

Yield to the Night

Best Animated Film

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Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo (S)

Winner

Calling All Salesmen (S)

Christopher Crumpet's Playmate (S)

History of the Cinema (S)

The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy (S)

Love and the Zeppelin (S)

Rythmetic (S)

Best Documentary

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On the Bowery

Winner

Foothold on Antarctica (S) (S)

Generator 4

The Silent World

Under the Same Sky (S)

Best Leading Actor TV - Drama

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Michael Gough

Winner

Best Leading Actress TV - Drama

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Rosalie Crutchley

Winner

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

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Eli Wallach

Winner

Baby Doll

4 nominations 1 award

Don Murray

Bus Stop

Stephen Boyd

The Man Who Never Was

Elizabeth Wilson

Patterns

Susan Strasberg

Picnic

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