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W. Andrew Robinson

10th British Academy Film Awards
Date1957
Highlights
Best FilmGervaise
Best British FilmReach for the Sky
Most awardsGervaise, &
A Town Like Alice (2)
Most nominationsReach for the Sky, &
A Town Like Alice (5)

The 10th British Academy 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

Best British Film

Reach for the Sky

Best Foreign Actor

Francois Perier in Gervaise

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in A Town Like Alice

Best British Actress

Virginia McKenna in A Town Like Alice

Best Foreign Actress

Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo

Best British Screenplay

The Man Who Never Was - Nigel Balchin

Best Animated Film

Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo

  • Calling All Salesmen
  • Christopher Crumpet's Playmate
  • History of the Cinema
  • The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy
  • Love and the Zeppelin
  • Rythmetic

Special Award

The Red Balloon

  • On the Twelfth Day
  • Underwater Symphony
  • The Door in the Wall
  • Man in Space