# 19th British Academy Film Awards

The 19th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1966, honoured the best films of 1965.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Film My Fair Lady – George Cukor Hamlet – Grigori Kozintsev The Hill – Sidney Lumet The Knack ...and How to Get It – Richard Lester Zorba the Greek – Michael Cacoyannis | Best Documentary Tokyo Olympiad – Kon Ichikawa Brute Force and Finesse – Max Morgan-Witts Deckie Learner – Michael Grigsby Stravinsky – Roman Kroitor and Wolf Koenig |
| Best Foreign Actor Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou as Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn Lee Marvin – The Killers as Charlie Strom Anthony Quinn – Zorba the Greek as Alexis Zorba Innokenty Smoktunovsky – Hamlet as Prince Hamlet Jack Lemmon – How to Murder Your Wife as Stanley Ford Jack Lemmon – Good Neighbor Sam as Sam Bissell Oskar Werner – Ship of Fools as Dr. Schumann | Best Foreign Actress Patricia Neal – In Harm's Way as Lieutenant Maggie Haines Jane Fonda – Cat Ballou as Cat Ballou Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek as Madame Hortense Simone Signoret – Ship of Fools as La Condesa |
| Best British Actor Dirk Bogarde – Darling as Robert Gold Harry Andrews – The Hill as R.S.M. Bert Wilson Michael Caine – The Ipcress File as Harry Palmer Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady as Professor Henry Higgins | Best British Actress Julie Christie – Darling as Diana Scott Julie Andrews – The Americanization of Emily as Emily Barham Julie Andrews – The Sound of Music as Maria von Trapp Maggie Smith – Young Cassidy as Nora Rita Tushingham – The Knack ...and How to Get It as Nancy Jones |
| Best British Film The Ipcress File – Sidney J. Furie Darling – John Schlesinger The Hill – Sidney Lumet The Knack ...and How to Get It – Richard Lester | Best British Screenplay Darling – Frederic Raphael The Hill – Ray Rigby The Ipcress File – W. H. Canaway and James Doran The Knack ...and How to Get It – Charles Wood |
| Best Production Design, Black and White Darling – Ray Simm The Bedford Incident – Arthur Lawson The Hill – Herbert Smith Rotten to the Core – Alex Vetchinsky | Best Production Design, Colour The Ipcress File – Ken Adam Lord Jim – Geoffrey Drake Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines – Thomas N. Morahan Thunderball – Ken Adam |
| Best Cinematography, Black and White The Hill – Oswald Morris Darling – Kenneth Higgins The Knack ...and How to Get It – David Watkin Repulsion – Gilbert Taylor | Best Cinematography, Colour The Ipcress File – Otto Heller Help! – David Watkin Lord Jim – Freddie Young Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines – Christopher Challis |
| Best Costume Design Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines – Osbert Lancaster and Dinah Greet The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders – Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge Help! – Julie Harris A Shot in the Dark – Margaret Furse Young Cassidy – Margaret Furse | Best Animated Film Be Careful Boys – Vera Linnecar, Nancy Hanna and Keith Learner The Bargain – Beryl Stevens Birds, Bees and Storks – John Halas The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra – Harold Whitaker |
| Best Short Film Rig Move – Don Higgins 60 Cycles – Jean-Claude Labrecque One of Them Is Brett – Roger Graef | Best Specialised Film I Do: And I Understand – Derek Williams Town Nurse, Country Nurse – Don Higgins |
| Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Judi Dench – Four in the Morning as Wife Barbara Ferris – Catch Us If You Can as Dinah Michael Crawford – The Knack ...and How to Get It as Colin Tom Nardini – Cat Ballou as Jackson Two-Bears | United Nations Award Tokyo Olympiad – Kon Ichikawa Fail Safe – Sidney Lumet King Rat – Bryan Forbes Zorba the Greek – Michael Cacoyannis |
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## Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 6 | Darling |
| 6 | The Hill |
| 6 | The Knack ...and How to Get It |
| 5 | The Ipcress File |
| 4 | Zorba the Greek |
| 3 | Cat Ballou |
| 3 | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines |
| 2 | Hamlet |
| 2 | Help! |
| 2 | Lord Jim |
| 2 | My Fair Lady |
| 2 | Ship of Fools |
| 2 | Tokyo Olympiad |
Films that received multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 4 | Darling |
| 3 | The Ipcress File |
| 2 | Tokyo Olympiad |