The 8th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1955, honored the best films of 1954.
Winners and nominees Best Film The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur) The Caine Mutiny Carrington V.C. The Divided Heart Doctor in the House Executive Suite For Better, For Worse Hobson's Choice How to Marry a Millionaire Jigokumon The Maggie The Moon is Blue On the Waterfront Pane, amore e fantasia The Purple Plain Rear Window Riot in Cell Block 11 Robinson Crusoe Romeo and Juliet Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Best British Film Hobson's Choice Carrington V.C. The Divided Heart Doctor in the House For Better, For Worse The Maggie The Purple Plain Romeo and Juliet
Best Foreign Actor Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront José Ferrer in The Caine Mutiny Fredric March in Executive Suite James Stewart in The Glenn Miller Story Neville Brand in Riot in Cell Block 11
Best British Actor Kenneth More in Doctor in the House David Niven in Carrington V.C. John Mills in Hobson's Choice Robert Donat in Lease of Life Maurice Denham in The Purple Plain Donald Wolfit in Svengali
Best British Actress Yvonne Mitchell in The Divided Heart Margaret Leighton in Carrington V.C. Noelle Middleton in Carrington V.C. Brenda De Banzie in Hobson's Choice Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina
Best Foreign Actress Cornell Borchers in The Divided Heart Judy Holliday in Phffft! Shirley Booth in About Mrs. Leslie Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder Gina Lollobrigida in Pane, amore e fantasia
Best British Screenplay The Young Lovers - George Tabori and Robin Estridge The Divided Heart - Jack Whittingham Doctor in the House - Nicholas Phipps Hobson's Choice - David Lean, Norman Spencer and Wynyard Browne The Maggie - William Rose Monsieur Ripois - Hugh Mills and René Clément The Purple Plain - Eric Ambler Romeo and Juliet - Renato Castellani
Best Documentary Film The Great Adventure (Det Stora Ädventyret)
Most Promising Newcomer To Film David Kossoff in The Young Lovers Maggie McNamara in The Moon Is Blue Eva Marie Saint in On The Waterfront
Best Animated Film Árie prérie (Song of the Prairie, 1949) Little Brave Heart Power to Fly The Unicorn in the Garden
UN Award The Divided Heart
Special Award A Time Out of War The Living Desert The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci Axel Petersen The Origin of Coal Powered Flight: The Story of the Century
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