title: 15th British Academy Film Awards
text: # 15th British Academy Film Awards
  
  The 15th British Academy 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
  
  Ballad of a Soldier (TIE)
  
  The Hustler (TIE)
  
  * Apur Sansar
  * The Hole
  * The Innocents
  * Judgment at Nuremberg
  * The Long and the Short and the Tall
  * Rocco and His Brothers
  * The Sundowners
  * A Taste of Honey
  * Whistle Down the Wind
  
  ### Best British Film
  
  A Taste of Honey
  
  * The Innocents
  * The Long and the Short and the Tall
  * The Sundowners
  * Whistle Down the Wind
  
  ### Best British Actor
  
  Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie
  
  * Dirk Bogarde in Victim
  
  ### Best Foreign Actor
  
  Paul Newman in The Hustler
  
  * Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg
  * Vladimir Ivashov in Ballad of a Soldier
  * Philippe Leroy in The Hole
  * Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
  * Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg
  * Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies
  
  ### 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
  
  * Annie Girardot in Rocco and His Brothers
  * Piper Laurie in The Hustler
  * Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun
  * Jean Seberg in Breathless
  
  ### Best British Screenplay
  
  The Day the Earth Caught Fire – Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (TIE)
  
  A Taste of Honey – Tony Richardson and Shelagh Delaney (TIE)
  
  * Flame in the Streets – Ted Willis
  * The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman
  * Victim – Janet Green and John McCormick
  * Whistle Down the Wind – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
  
  ### Best Animated Film
  
  One Hundred and One Dalmatians
  
  * The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
  * For Better...For Worse
  
  ### Best Short Film
  
  Terminus – John Schlesinger
  
  * Eyes of a Child
  * Let My People Go
  
  ### United Nations Award
  
  Let My People Go
  
  * The Best of Enemies
  * Take a Giant Step
  
  ### Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
  
  Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey
  
  * Anthony Hancock in The Rebel
  * Murray Melvin in A Taste of Honey
  