Question: what was the first british film to win an academy award for best picture
Answer: Chips Nominated 1940 Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator Nominated 1941 Alfred Hitchcock Suspicion Nominated 1942 Michael Powell 49th Parallel Nominated 1943 Noël Coward In Which We Serve Nominated 1946 Laurence Olivier Henry V Nominated 1947 Anthony Havelock - Allan Ronald Neame Great Expectations Nominated 1948 Laurence Olivier Hamlet Won Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger The Red Shoes Nominated Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian British screenwriter , film director , and Producer 1953 John Houseman Julius Caesar Nominated John Houseman was a Romanian - born British - American actor and producer 1959 James Woolf John Woolf Room at the Top Nominated 1963 Tony Richardson Tom Jones Won 1965 Joseph Janni Darling Nominated 1966 Lewis Gilbert Alfie Nominated 1968 John Woolf Oliver ! Won Anthony Havelock - Allan John Brabourne Romeo and Juliet