19th British Academy Film Awards

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

19th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1966
Highlights
Best Film	My Fair Lady
Best British Film	The Ipcress File
Most awards	Darling (4)
Most nominations	Darling, The Hill, and The Knack ...and How to Get It (6)

Winners and nominees

Lee Marvin, Best Foreign Actor winner

Patricia Neal, Best Foreign Actress winner

Dirk Bogarde, Best British Actor winner

Julie Christie, Best British Actress winner

Judi Dench, Best Newcomer winner

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 Doctor Wilhelm Schumann	Best Foreign Actress Patricia Neal – In Harm's Way as Lieutenant Maggie Haines Jane Fonda – Cat Ballou as Catherine 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 Regimental Sergeant Major 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 British Art Direction, Black and White Darling – Ray Simm The Bedford Incident – Arthur Lawson The Hill – Herbert Smith Rotten to the Core – Alex Vetchinsky	Best British Art Direction, Colour The Ipcress File – Ken Adam Lord Jim – Geoffrey Drake Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines – Thomas N. Morahan Thunderball – Ken Adam
Best British Cinematography, Black and White The Hill – Oswald Morris Darling – Kenneth Higgins The Knack ...and How to Get It – David Watkin Repulsion – Gilbert Taylor	Best British Cinematography, Colour The Ipcress File – Otto Heller Help! – David Watkin Lord Jim – Freddie Young Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines – Christopher Challis
Best British 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 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 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 Documentary Tokyo Olympiad – Kon Ichikawa Brute Force and Finesse – Max Morgan-Witts Deckie Learner – Michael Grigsby Stravinsky – Roman Kroitor and Wolf Koenig
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	United Nations Award Tokyo Olympiad – Kon Ichikawa Fail Safe – Sidney Lumet King Rat – Bryan Forbes Zorba the Greek – Michael Cacoyannis

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
6	Darling
	The Hill
	The Knack ...and How to Get It
5	The Ipcress File
4	Zorba the Greek
3	Cat Ballou
	Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
2	Hamlet
	Help!
	Lord Jim
	My Fair Lady
	Ship of Fools
	Tokyo Olympiad

Films that received multiple awards

Awards	Film
4	Darling
3	The Ipcress File
2	Tokyo Olympiad