18th British Academy Film Awards

18th British Academy Film Awards
18th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1965
Highlights
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, and ; The Pumpkin Eater (7)
	← 17th; BAFTA Awards; 19th →;

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:^[1]

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^[2]	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
	Dr. Strangelove
	The Pumpkin Eater
4	The Chalk Garden
	King and Country
	Séance on a Wet Afternoon
3	Guns at Batasi
2	23 Skidoo
	Charade
	Girl with Green Eyes
	Lilies of the Field
	The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
4	Dr. Strangelove
4	The Pumpkin Eater
3	Becket

References

^ "BAFTA Awards Year of Presentation: 1965". Retrieved 22 January 2023.
^ Osmond, Andrew (December 19, 2001). "Jimmy Murakami's Five Decades of Animation". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on March 9, 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2025. It was at that time I made Insects, which won me a British Academy Award.

[1] "BAFTA Awards Year of Presentation: 1965". Retrieved 22 January 2023.

[insects-winner-2] Osmond, Andrew (December 19, 2001). "Jimmy Murakami's Five Decades of Animation". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on March 9, 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2025. It was at that time I made Insects, which won me a British Academy Award.

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