The 17th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1964, honoured the best films of 1963.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Tom Jones

• 8½
• Billy Liar
• David and Lisa
• Hud
• Days of Wine and Roses
• The Servant
• This Sporting Life
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Divorce, Italian Style
• The Four Days of Naples
• Knife in the Water

Best British Film

Tom Jones

• Billy Liar
• The Servant
• This Sporting Life

Best Foreign Actor

Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce, Italian Style

• Howard Da Silva in David and Lisa
• Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses
• Paul Newman in Hud
• Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird

Best British Actor

Dirk Bogarde in The Servant

• Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar
• Richard Harris in This Sporting Life
• Albert Finney in Tom Jones
• Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones

Best British Actress

Rachel Roberts in This Sporting Life

• Julie Christie in Billy Liar
• Sarah Miles in The Servant
• Edith Evans in Tom Jones
• Barbara Windsor in Sparrows Can't Sing

Best Foreign Actress

Patricia Neal in Hud

• Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses
• Daniela Rocca in Divorce, Italian Style
• Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Best British Screenplay

Tom Jones - John Osborne

Best Animated Film

Automania 2000 and The Critic ^[1]