BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best British Actor – Laurence Olivier – Richard III Alfie Bass – The Bespoke Overcoat Kenneth More – The Deep Blue Sea Michael Redgrave – The Night My Number Came Up Alec Guinness – The Prisoner Jack Hawkins – The Prisoner Best Foreign Actor – Ernest Borgnine – Marty James Dean – East of Eden Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts Frank Sinatra – Not as a Stranger Toshirô Mifune – Shichinin no samurai Takashi Shimura – Shichinin no samurai 1956