The 14th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1961, honoured the best films of 1960.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

The Apartment

• The Angry Silence
• Inherit the Wind
• Let's Make Love
• Elmer Gantry
• Shadows
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Spartacus
• Tunes of Glory
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde
• La Dolce Vita
• Hiroshima mon amour
• Orfeu Negro
• Pote tin Kyriaki
• Le testament d'Orphée
• Les Quatre cents coups
• L'Avventura

Best British Film

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

• The Angry Silence
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde
• Tunes of Glory

Best Foreign Actor

Jack Lemmon in The Apartment

• George Hamilton in Crime & Punishment, USA
• Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
• Fredric March in Inherit the Wind
• Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind
• Yves Montand in Let's Make Love

Best British Actor

Peter Finch in The Trials of Oscar Wilde

• Richard Attenborough in The Angry Silence
• Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer
• Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• John Fraser in The Trials of Oscar Wilde
• Alec Guinness in Tunes of Glory
• John Mills in Tunes of Glory

Best British Actress

Rachel Roberts in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

• Hayley Mills in Pollyanna
• Wendy Hiller in Sons and Lovers

Best Foreign Actress

Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment

• Pier Angeli in The Angry Silence
• Monica Vitti in L'Avventura
• Jean Simmons in Elmer Gantry
• Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima mon amour
• Melina Mercouri in Pote tin Kyriaki

Best British Screenplay

The Angry Silence - Bryan Forbes