10th British Academy Film Awards

10th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1957
Highlights
Best Film	Gervaise
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The 10th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1957, honoured the best films of 1956.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Gervaise

• Amici per la pelle
• Baby Doll
• The Battle of the River Plate
• Shadow
• The Unfrocked One
• Guys and Dolls
• The Killing
• The Man Who Never Was
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• Picnic
• Poprygunya
• Reach for the Sky
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Smiles of a Summer Night
• A Town Like Alice
• The Trouble with Harry
• War and Peace
• Yield to the Night

Best British Film

Reach for the Sky

• The Man Who Never Was
• The Battle of the River Plate
• A Town Like Alice
• Yield to the Night

Best Foreign Actor

Francois Perier in Gervaise

• Karl Malden in Baby Doll
• Pierre Fresnay in The Unfrocked One
• Frank Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm
• Spencer Tracy in The Mountain
• William Holden in Picnic
• James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause
• Gunnar Bjornstrand in Smiles of a Summer Night

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in A Town Like Alice

• Jack Hawkins in The Long Arm
• Kenneth More in Reach for the Sky

Best British Actress

Virginia McKenna in A Town Like Alice

• Dorothy Alison in Reach for the Sky
• Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace

Best Foreign Actress

Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo

• Carroll Baker in Baby Doll
• Ava Gardner in Bhowani Junction
• Maria Schell in Gervaise
• Jean Simmons in Guys and Dolls
• Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Kim Novak in Picnic
• Marisa Pavan in The Rose Tattoo
• Eva Dahlbeck in Smiles of a Summer Night
• Shirley MacLaine in The Trouble with Harry

Best British Screenplay

The Man Who Never Was - Nigel Balchin