title: 12e British Academy Film Awards
text: De 12e British Academy Film Awards of BAFTA Awards werden uitgereikt door de British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1959 voor de films uit 1958.
  
  Winnaars en genomineerden
  
  Beste Film
   Room At The Top 
   Cabiria (Le Notti Di Cabiria)
   Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
   The Cranes Are Flying (Letyat Zhuravli)
   The Defiant Ones
   Ice Cold In Alex
   Indiscreet
   No Down Payment
   Orders To Kill
   Sea Of Sand
   The Sheepman
   The Unvanquished (Aparajito)
   Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället)
   The Young Lions
  
  Beste Geanimeerde Film
   The Little Island 
   The Juggler Of Our Lady
   The Blackbird (Le Merle)
  
  Beste Britse Film
   Room at the Top 
  Indiscreet
  Ice-Cold in Alex
  Sea of Sand
  Orders to Kill
  
  Beste Documentaire
   Glass (Glas) 
   The Forerunner
   Jabulani Afrika
   LS Lowry
   Secrets Of The Reef
   Wonders Of Chicago
  
  Beste Buitenlandse Acteur
   Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones 
  Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones
  Curd Jürgens in The Enemy Below
  Curd Jürgens in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  Spencer Tracy in The Last Hurrah
  Glenn Ford in The Sheepman
  Victor Sjostrom in Smultronstället
  Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution
  Marlon Brando in The Young Lions
  
  Beste Buitenlandse Actrice
   Simone Signoret in Room at the Top 
  Karuna Bannerjee in Aparajito
  Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  Tatyana Samojlova in The Cranes Are Flying
  Joanne Woodward in No Down Payment
  Giulietta Masina in Le Notti di Cabiria
  Anna Magnani in Wild Is the Wind
  
  Beste Britse Acteur
   Trevor Howard in The Key 
  I.S. Johar in Harry Black 
  Anthony Quayle in Ice-Cold in Alex
  Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top
  Donald Wolfit in Room at the Top
  Michael Craig in Sea of Sand
  Terry-Thomas in tom thumb
  
  Beste Britse Actrice
   Irene Worth in Orders to Kill 
  Virginia McKenna in Carve Her Name with Pride
  Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top
  Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  
  Meest Veelbelovende Nieuwkomer
   Paul Massie in Orders To Kill 
   Red Buttons in Sayonara
   Teresa Izewska in  Canal (Kanał)
   Mary Peach in  Room At The Top
   Ronald Radd in Camp On Blood Island
   Maggie Smith in Nowhere To Go
   Gwen Vernon in What Lola Wants
  
  Beste Britse Scenario
   Paul Dehn voor Orders to Kill
  
  VN Award
   The Defiant Ones 
   People Like Maria
   The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon Sotilas)
  
  Special Award
   The Children's Film Foundation 
  
  Bafta
  BAFTA Awards