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The12th British Academy Film Awards, given by theBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1959, honoured the best films of1958.^[1]

Room at the Top

• Aparajito
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The Cranes Are Flying
• The Defiant Ones
• Ice Cold in Alex
• Indiscreet
• Le Notti di Cabiria
• No Down Payment
• Orders to Kill
• Sea of Sand
• The Sheepman
• Wild Strawberries
• The Young Lions

Room at the Top

• Ice Cold in Alex
• Indiscreet
• Orders to Kill
• Sea of Sand

Sidney Poitier inThe Defiant Ones

• Paul Newman inCat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Tony Curtis inThe Defiant Ones
• Curd Jürgens inThe Enemy Below
• Curd Jürgens inThe Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Spencer Tracy inThe Last Hurrah
• Glenn Ford inThe Sheepman
• Victor Sjöström inWild Strawberries
• Charles Laughton inWitness for the Prosecution
• Marlon Brando inThe Young Lions

Trevor Howard inThe Key

• I. S. Johar inHarry Black
• Anthony Quayle inIce Cold in Alex
• Laurence Harvey inRoom at the Top
• Donald Wolfit inRoom at the Top
• Michael Craig inSea of Sand
• Terry-Thomas intom thumb

Irene Worth inOrders to Kill

• Virginia McKenna inCarve Her Name with Pride
• Elizabeth Taylor inCat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Hermione Baddeley inRoom at the Top

Simone Signoret inRoom at the Top

• Karuna Banerjee inAparajito
• Tatiana Samoilova inThe Cranes Are Flying
• Ingrid Bergman inThe Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Giulietta Masina inNights of Cabiria
• Joanne Woodward inNo Down Payment
• Anna Magnani inWild Is the Wind

Orders to Kill –Paul Dehn

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