# 18th British Academy Film Awards

The 18th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1965, honoured the best films of 1964.

## Winners and nominees

Source:
Best Film
Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick
Becket – Peter Glenville
The Pumpkin Eater – Jack Clayton
The Train – John Frankenheimer :
| Best Animated Film The Insects - Jimmy T. Murakami | Best Documentary Nobody Waved Good-bye The Human Dutch The Life of Billy Walker Portrait of Queenie |
| Best Short Film Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak 23 Skidoo Mekong Muloorina | Best Specialised Film Driving Technique Passenger Trains And Glaadly Would He Learn The Circarc Gear Germany: A Regional Geography |
| Best Foreign Actor Marcello Mastroianni – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow as Carmine Sbaratti/Renzo/Augusto Rusconti Cary Grant – Charade as Peter Joshua Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith Sterling Hayden – Dr. Strangelove as Brigadier General Jack Ripper | Best Foreign Actress Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater as Jo Armitage Ava Gardner – The Night of the Iguana as Maxine Faulk Kim Stanley – Séance on a Wet Afternoon as Myra Savage Shirley MacLaine – Irma la Douce as Irma la Douce Shirley MacLaine – What a Way to Go! as Louisa May Foster |
| Best British Actor Richard Attenborough – Guns at Batasi as Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale Richard Attenborough – Séance on a Wet Afternoon as Billy Savage Peter O'Toole – Becket as Henry II Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Doctor Strangelove Peter Sellers – The Pink Panther as Inspector Clouseau Tom Courtenay – King and Country as Private Arthur Hamp | Best British Actress Audrey Hepburn – Charade as Regina Lampert Deborah Kerr – The Chalk Garden as Miss Madrigal Edith Evans – The Chalk Garden as Mrs. St. Maugham Rita Tushingham – Girl with Green Eyes as Kate Brady |
| Best British Film Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick Becket – Peter Glenville King and Country – Joseph Losey The Pumpkin Eater – Jack Clayton | Best British Screenplay The Pumpkin Eater – Harold Pinter Becket – Edward Anhalt Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern Séance on a Wet Afternoon – Bryan Forbes |
| Best Production Design, Black and White Dr. Strangelove – Ken Adam Guns at Batasi – Maurice Carter King and Country – Richard MacDonald The Pumpkin Eater – Ted Marshall | Best Production Design, Colour Becket – John Bryan The Chalk Garden – Carmen Dillon Goldfinger – Ken Adam Zulu – Ernest Archer |
| Best Cinematography, Black and White The Pumpkin Eater – Oswald Morris Guns at Batasi – Douglas Slocombe King and Country – Denys Coop Séance on a Wet Afternoon – Gerry Turpin | Best Cinematography, Colour Becket – Geoffrey Unsworth The 7th Dawn – Freddie Young The Chalk Garden – Arthur Ibbetson Nothing but the Best – Nicolas Roeg The Yellow Rolls-Royce – Jack Hildyard |
| Best Costume Design, Black and White The Pumpkin Eater – Motley Theatre Design Group Of Human Bondage – Beatrice Dawson Psyche 59 – Julie Harris | Best Costume Design, Colour Becket – Margaret Furse The Long Ships – Anthony Mendleson Woman of Straw – Beatrice Dawson The Yellow Rolls-Royce – Anthony Mendleson |
| Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins as Mary Poppins The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night as Themselves Elizabeth Ashley – The Carpetbaggers as Monica Winthroop Lynn Redgrave – Girl with Green Eyes as Baba Brennan | United Nations Award Dr. Strangelove 23 Skidoo A Distant Trumpet Lilies of the Field |

## Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 7 | Becket |
| 7 | Dr. Strangelove |
| 7 | The Pumpkin Eater |
| 4 | The Chalk Garden |
| 4 | King and Country |
| 4 | Séance on a Wet Afternoon |
| 3 | Guns at Batasi |
| 2 | 23 Skidoo |
| 2 | Charade |
| 2 | Girl with Green Eyes |
| 2 | Lilies of the Field |
| 2 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce |
Films that received multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 4 | Dr. Strangelove |
| 4 | The Pumpkin Eater |
| 3 | Becket |