5th British Academy Film Awards

5th British Academy Film Awards
Date	8 May 1952
Site	Odeon Theatre, Marble Arch, London
Highlights
Best Film	La Ronde
Best British Film	The Lavender Hill Mob

The 5th 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 1952, honoured the best films of 1951. La Ronde won the award for Best Film.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

La Ronde

• An American In Paris
• The Browning Version
• Detective Story
• Fourteen Hours
• Domenica d'agosto
• Froken Julie
• The Lavender Hill Mob
• The Magic Box
• The Magic Garden
• The Man in the White Suit
• No Resting Place
• The Red Badge of Courage
• The Small Miracle
• The Sound of Fury
• A Walk in the Sun
• White Corridors
• Édouard et Caroline

Best British Film

The Lavender Hill Mob

• The Magic Box
• The Browning Version
• The Magic Garden
• The Man in the White Suit
• No Resting Place
• The Small Miracle
• White Corridors

Best Documentary Film

In Beaver Valley

• Out of True