BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best British Actor – Trevor Howard – The Key I.S. Johar – Harry Black Anthony Quayle – Ice Cold in Alex Laurence Harvey – Room at the Top Donald Wolfit – Room at the Top Michael Craig – Sea of Sand Terry-Thomas – tom thumb Best Foreign Actor – Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones Curd Jürgens – The Enemy Below Curd Jürgens – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Spencer Tracy – The Last Hurrah Glenn Ford – The Sheepman Victor Sjöström – Smultronstället Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution Marlon Brando – The Young Lions 1959