11th British Academy Film Awards

The 11th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, were held on 6 March 1958, to honor the best national and foreign films of 1957.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

The Bridge on the River Kwai

• 12 Angry Men
• 3:10 to Yuma
• The Bachelor Party
• Edge of the City
• The Shiralee
• That Night!
• The Tin Star
• Windom's Way
• Paths of Glory
• Pather Panchali
• Celui qui doit mourir
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• Porte des Lilas
• The Prince and the Showgirl
• A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth

Best British Film

The Bridge on the River Kwai

• The Prince and the Showgirl
• The Shiralee
• Windom's Way

Best Foreign Actor

Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men

• Sidney Poitier in Edge of the City
• Ed Wynn in The Great Man
• Robert Mitchum in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• Porte des Lilas
• Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success
• Richard Basehart in Time Limit
• Jean Gabin in La Traversee de Paris

Best British Actor

Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai

• Trevor Howard in Manuela
• Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl
• Michael Redgrave in Time Without Pity
• Peter Finch in Windom's Way

Best British Actress

Heather Sears in The Story of Esther Costello

• Deborah Kerr in Tea and Sympathy
• Sylvia Syms in Woman in a Dressing Gown

Best Foreign Actress

• Katharine Hepburn in The Rainmaker
• Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve
• Augusta Dabney in That Night!
• Eva Marie Saint in A Hatful of Rain
• Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl
• Lilli Palmer in Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter

Best British Screenplay

The Bridge on the River Kwai - Pierre Boulle

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