18th British Academy Film Awards

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Date 1965
Best Film Dr. Strangelove or:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Best British Film Dr. Strangelove or:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Most awards Dr. Strangelove or:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb &The Pumpkin Eater (4) Most nominations Becket, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, andThe Pumpkin Eater (7)

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

Best Film

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Becket

The Train

The Pumpkin Eater

Best Foreign Actor

Marcello Mastroianni in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Sterling Hayden in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Cary Grant in Charade

Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

Best British Actor

Richard Attenborough in Seance on a Wet Afternoon and Guns at Batasi

Peter O'Toole in Becket

Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther

Tom Courtenay in King & Country

Best Foreign Actress

Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater

Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana

Shirley MacLaine in Irma la Douce

Shirley MacLaine in What a Way to Go!

Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Best British Actress

Audrey Hepburn in Charade

Edith Evans in The Chalk Garden

Deborah Kerr in The Chalk Garden

Rita Tushingham in Girl with Green Eyes

Best British Screenplay

The Pumpkin Eater - Harold Pinter

Best British Film

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Becket

The Pumpkin Eater

King & Country

References

18th British Academy Film Awards Wikipedia

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