16th British Academy Film Awards

16th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1963
Highlights
Best Film	Lawrence of Arabia
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The 16th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1963, honoured the best films of 1962.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Lawrence of Arabia

• Billy Budd
• A Kind of Loving
• Lola
• The L-Shaped Room
• The Miracle Worker
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Only Two Can Play
• Phaedra
• West Side Story
• Une aussi longue absence
• Tu ne tueras point
• Through a Glass Darkly
• Jules and Jim
• Hadaka no shima
• The Lady with the Dog
• The Elusive Corporal
• Last Year at Marienbad

Best British Film

Lawrence of Arabia

• Billy Budd
• A Kind of Loving
• The L-Shaped Room
• Only Two Can Play

Best Foreign Actor

Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz

• Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia
• Kirk Douglas in Lonely Are the Brave
• Robert Ryan in Billy Budd
• Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent
• Franco Citti in Accattone
• George Hamilton in Light in the Piazza
• Jean-Paul Belmondo in Léon Morin, prêtre
• Georges Wilson in Une aussi longue absence

Best British Actor

Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia

• Richard Attenborough in The Dock Brief
• Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving
• James Mason in Lolita
• Peter Sellers in Only Two Can Play
• Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial

Best British Actress

Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room

• Janet Munro in Life for Ruth
• Virginia Maskell in The Wild and the Willing

Best Foreign Actress

Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker

• Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim
• Anouk Aimee in Lola
• Melina Mercouri in Phaedra
• Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass
• Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth
• Harriet Anderson in Through a Glass Darkly

Best British Screenplay

Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt