8th British Academy Film Awards

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)^[1]

• 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