9th British Academy Film Awards

9th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1 March 1956
Site	Odeon Leicester Square
Hosted by	Vivien Leigh
Highlights
Best Film	Richard III
Best British Film	Richard III
Most awards	Richard III (3)
Most nominations	The Prisoner (5)

The 9th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1956, honoured the best films of 1955.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Richard III

• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Carmen Jones
• The Colditz Story
• The Dam Busters
• East of Eden
• The Ladykillers
• Marty
• The Night My Number Came Up
• The Prisoner
• Seven Samurai
• Simba
• La Strada
• Summertime

Best British Film

Richard III

• The Colditz Story
• The Dam Busters
• The Ladykillers
• The Night My Number Came Up
• The Prisoner
• Simba

Best Documentary

Foothold in Antarctica

• Generator 4
• The Silent World (Le Monde Du Silence)
• Under the Same Sky

Best Foreign Actor

Ernest Borgnine in Marty

• James Dean in East of Eden
• Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts
• Frank Sinatra in Not as a Stranger
• Toshirō Mifune in Seven Samurai
• Takashi Shimura in Seven Samurai

Best British Actor

Laurence Olivier in Richard III

• Alfie Bass in The Bespoke Overcoat
• Kenneth More in The Deep Blue Sea
• Michael Redgrave in The Night My Number Came Up
• Jack Hawkins in The Prisoner
• Alec Guinness in The Prisoner

Best British Actress

Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers

• Margaret Lockwood in Cast a Dark Shadow
• Deborah Kerr in The End of the Affair
• Margaret Johnston in Touch and Go

Best Foreign Actress

Betsy Blair in Marty

• Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones
• Grace Kelly in The Country Girl
• Julie Harris in I Am a Camera
• Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch
• Judy Garland in A Star Is Born
• Giulietta Masina in La Strada
• Katharine Hepburn in Summertime

Best British Screenplay

The Ladykillers - William Rose

Best Animated Film

Blinkity Blank

• Animal Farm
• Down a Long Way
• Fudget's Budget
• Lady and the Tramp
• Magoo Express

Special Award

The Bespoke Overcoat

• Mr Mensah Builds a House
• The Steps of Age

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

Paul Scofield in That Lady

• Jo Van Fleet in East of Eden

United Nations Award

Children of Hiroshima

• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Escapade
• Simba