6th British Academy Film Awards

The 6th British Academy Film Awards, retroactively known as the British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) (previously the British Film Academy) in 1953, honoured the best films of 1952. The Sound Barrier won the award for Best Film.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

The Sound Barrier

• The African Queen
• Angels One Five
• The Boy Kumasenu
• Carrie
• Casque d'or
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Death of a Salesman
• Limelight
• Mandy
• Miracolo a Milano
• Los Olvidados
• Outcast of the Islands
• Rashomon
• The River
• Singin' in the Rain
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Viva Zapata!

Best Foreign Actor

Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata!

• Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen
• Fredric March in Death of a Salesman
• Pierre Fresnay in Dieu a besoin des hommes
• Francesco Golisano in Miracolo a Milano

Best British Actor

Ralph Richardson in The Sound Barrier

• Laurence Olivier in Carrie
• Alastair Sim in Folly to Be Wise
• Jack Hawkins in Mandy
• James Hayter in The Pickwick Papers
• Nigel Patrick in The Sound Barrier

Best British Actress

Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire

• Celia Johnson in I Believe In You
• Phyllis Calvert in Mandy
• Ann Todd in The Sound Barrier

Best Foreign Actress

Simone Signoret in Casque d'or

• Nicole Stephane in Les Enfants Terribles
• Judy Holliday in The Marrying Kind
• Edwige Feuillère in Olivia
• Katharine Hepburn in Pat and Mike

Best Documentary Film

• Royal Journey

Best British Film

The Sound Barrier

• Angels One Five
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Mandy
• Outcast of the Islands

UN Award

Cry, The Beloved Country

Most Promising Newcomer To Film

Claire Bloom in Limelight

• Dorothy Tutin in The Importance of Being Earnest
• Dorothy Alison in Mandy
• Mandy Miller in Mandy