15th British Academy Film Awards

The 15th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1962, honoured the best films of 1961.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

The Hustler
Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate)

• Apur Sansar
• The Innocents
• The Long and the Short and the Tall
• The Sundowners
• A Taste of Honey
• The Hole
• Whistle Down the Wind
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Rocco and His Brothers

Best British Film

A Taste of Honey

• The Innocents
• The Sundowners
• The Long and the Short and the Tall
• Whistle Down the Wind

Best Foreign Actor

Paul Newman in The Hustler

• Vladimir Ivashov in Ballada o soldate
• Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies
• Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
• Philippe Leroy in The Hole

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie

• Dirk Bogarde in Victim

Best British Actress

Dora Bryan in A Taste of Honey

• Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners
• Hayley Mills in Whistle Down the Wind

Best Foreign Actress

Sophia Loren in Two Women

• Piper Laurie in The Hustler
• Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun
• Annie Girardot in Rocco and His Brothers
• Jean Seberg in Breathless

Best British Screenplay

The Day the Earth Caught Fire - Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest
A Taste of Honey - Tony Richardson and Shelagh Delaney