title: 17th British Academy Film Awards
text: # 17th British Academy Film Awards
  
  The 17th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1964, honoured the best films of 1963.
  
  ## Winners and nominees
  
  ### Best Film
  
  Tom Jones
  
  * 8½
  * Billy Liar
  * David and Lisa
  * Hud
  * Days of Wine and Roses
  * The Servant
  * This Sporting Life
  * To Kill a Mockingbird
  * Divorce, Italian Style
  * The Four Days of Naples
  * Knife in the Water
  
  ### Best British Film
  
  Tom Jones
  
  * Billy Liar
  * The Servant
  * This Sporting Life
  
  ### Best Foreign Actor
  
  Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce, Italian Style
  
  * Howard Da Silva in David and Lisa
  * Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses
  * Paul Newman in Hud
  * Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird
  
  ### Best British Actor
  
  Dirk Bogarde in The Servant
  
  * Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar
  * Richard Harris in This Sporting Life
  * Albert Finney in Tom Jones
  * Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones
  
  ### Best British Actress
  
  Rachel Roberts in This Sporting Life
  
  * Julie Christie in Billy Liar
  * Sarah Miles in The Servant
  * Edith Evans in Tom Jones
  * Barbara Windsor in Sparrows Can't Sing
  
  ### Best Foreign Actress
  
  Patricia Neal in Hud
  
  * Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses
  * Daniela Rocca in Divorce, Italian Style
  * Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  * Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  
  ### Best British Screenplay
  
  Tom Jones - John Osborne
  
  ### Best Animated Film
  
  Automania 2000 and The Critic
  
  