Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1969)
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1959 Actor: Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur. Actress: Simone Signoret, Room at the Top. Picture: Ben-Hur, MGM. Jean Hersholt Memorial Award: Bob Hope.
1960 Actor: Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry. Actress: Elizabeth Taylor, Butterfield 8. Picture: The Apartment, Mirisch Co.-United Artists.
1961 Actor: Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg. Actress: Sophia Loren, Two Women.
Picture: West Side Story, Mirisch Co.-United Artists.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Stanley Kramer.
1962 Actor: Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird. Actress: Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker. Picture: Lawrence of Arabia, Columbia. 1963 Actor: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field. Actress: Patricia Neal, Hud. Picture: Tom Jones, United Artists-Lopert.
1964 Actor: Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady. Actress: Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins. Picture: My Fair Lady, Warner Bros.
1965 Actor: Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou. Actress: Julie Christie, Darling. Picture: The Sound of Music, 20th-Fox. Special Award: Bob Hope. Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Wyler.
Award: William 1966 Actor: Paul Scofield, A Man For All Seasons. Actress: Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Picture: A Man For All Seasons, Columbia. Special Awards: Y. Frank Freeman, Yakima Canutt. Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Robert Wise. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: George Bagnall. Foreign Language Film: A Man and a Woman. 1967 Actor: Rod Steiger, In The Heat Of The Night. Actress: Katherine Hepburn, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Picture: In The Heat Of The Night.
British Film Academy Awards
THE SOCIETY OF FILM & TELEVISION ARTS, LTD.
80 Great Portland St., London W. 1, England. (MUSeum 2357)
OFFICERS
.-Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, PC, GCB, OM
President
(Gini) aster eo ee Christopher Morahan Vice-Chairmen . Lord Birkett, Richard Cawston SOCLOLATY Faccecheocecseshecoteetioieie eetcttts Mrs. P. J. Steele
On Jan. 1, 1959, the British Film Academy was merged with the Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form The Society of Film and Television Arts, Ltd., in order to continue the work of both groups in a single organization.
Objects of the SFTA are "To promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among persons engaged in film and television production; to create and maintain a high standard of qualification and performance in such persons; and to encourage and promote experiment and research in the arts, sciences and techniques of film and television production.”” Among its varied activities are the annual British Film Academy Awards and those of the Guild of Television Producers and Directors.
Its members are senior film-makers or production executives and producers, directors and senior creative technicians of TV programmes. Associate members are others working creatively in film or TV and Affiliates are those not creatively involved but who work in professional contact with those who are.
1966 UK ACADEMY AWARDS
British Film: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Paramount.
Film from Any Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Warners, US. Robert Flaherty Award: Goall
Columbia. United Nations Award: The War Game. Animated Film: No award was made in this cate
gory.
The World Cup,
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Short Film: The War Game.
Specialized Film: Exploring Chemistry.
British Actor: Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?.
British Actress: Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?.
Foreign Actor: Rod Steiger in The Pownbroker, Allied Artists.
Foreign Actress: Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria, United Artists.
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles: Vivien Merchant in Alfie, Paramount.
British Screenplay: David Mercer for Morgan, Columbia,
British Cinematography, versal.
British Cinematography, Black and White: Oswald Morris for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
British Art Direction, Color: The Blue Max, 20thFox.
British Art Direction, Black and White: Tambi Larsen for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
British Costume Design, Color: Julie Harris for The Wrong Box, Columbia.
British Costume Design, Black and White: awards was made in this category.
Editing of a British Film: Tom Priestley for Morgan.
WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS
The Best Picture from any Source: 1947 — The Best Years of Our Lives; 1948—Hamlet; 1949—The Bicycle Thief; 1950—All About Eve; 1951—La Ronde; 1952—Breaking the Sound Barrier; 1953— Jeux Interdits; 1954—Le Salaire de la Peur; 1955— Richard Ill; 1956—Gervaise; 1957—The Bridge on the River Kwai; 1958—Room at the Top; 1959—BenHur; 1969—The Apartment; 1961—(Tie) Ballad of a Soldier and The Hustler; 1962—Lawrence of Arabia; 1963—Tom Jones; 1964—Dr. Strangelove or: How | Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; 1965—My Fair Lady.
The Best British Picture: 1947—Odd Man Out; 1948—The Fallen Idol; 1949—The Third Man; 1950— The Blue Lamp; 1951—The Lavender Hill Mob;
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