BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role facts for kids
Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Best Actor |
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The 2022 recipient Austin Butler
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Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
Location | United Kingdom |
Currently held by | Austin Butler for Elvis (2022) |
Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.
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Superlatives
Superlative | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall | |||
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Actor with most awards | Peter Finch | 5 | Denholm Elliott | 3 | Peter Finch | 5 |
Actor with most British Actor Awards (until 1967) | Peter Finch | 3 | — | — | Peter Finch | 3 |
Actor with most Foreign Actor Awards (until 1967) | Marlon Brando | 3 | — | — | Marlon Brando | 3 |
Actor with most nominations | Daniel Day-Lewis Dustin Hoffman |
7 | Denholm Elliott | 7 | Michael Caine Dustin Hoffman Laurence Olivier |
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Actor with most British Actor Award nominations (until 1967) | Laurence Olivier | 6 | — | — | Laurence Olivier | 6 |
Actor with most Foreign Actor Award nominations (until 1967) | Jack Lemmon Sidney Poitier |
6 | — | — | Jack Lemmon Sidney Poitier |
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Note: Dustin Hoffman's total of eight nominations, includes his 1968 Most Promising Newcomer nomination for The Graduate.
Winners and nominees
From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actor awards: one for a British actor and another for a foreign actor. In 1968, the two prizes of British and Foreign actor were combined to create a single Best Actor award. Its current title, for Best Actor in a Leading Role, has been used since 1995.
1950s
Year | Category | Actor | Film | Character |
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1952 6th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Ralph Richardson | The Sound Barrier | John Ridgefield | ||
Jack Hawkins | Mandy | Dick Searle | ||
James Hayter | The Pickwick Papers | Samuel Pickwick | ||
Laurence Olivier | Carrie | George Hurstwood | ||
Nigel Patrick | The Sound Barrier | Tony Garthwaite | ||
Alastair Sim | Folly to Be Wise | Captain William Paris | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Marlon Brando | Viva Zapata! | Emiliano Zapata | ||
Humphrey Bogart | The African Queen | Charlie Allnut | ||
Pierre Fresnay | Dieu a besoin des hommes (God Needs Man) | Thomas Gourvennec | ||
Francesco Golisano | Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan) | Totò | ||
Fredric March | Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman | ||
1953 7th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
John Gielgud | Julius Caesar | Cassius | ||
Jack Hawkins | The Cruel Sea | George Ericson | ||
Trevor Howard | The Heart of the Matter | Harry Scobie | ||
Duncan Macrae | The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers) | Jim MacKenzie | ||
Kenneth More | Genevieve | Ambrose Claverhouse | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Marlon Brando | Julius Caesar | Mark Antony | ||
Eddie Albert | Roman Holiday | Irving Radovich | ||
Van Heflin | Shane | Joe Starrett | ||
Claude Laydu | Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) | Priest of Ambricourt | ||
Marcel Mouloudji | Nous sommes tous des assassins (GB: Are We All Murderers?) | René Le Guen | ||
Gregory Peck | Roman Holiday | Joe Bradley | ||
Spencer Tracy | The Actress | Clinton Jones | ||
1954 8th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Kenneth More | Doctor in the House | Richard Grimsdyke | ||
Maurice Denham | The Purple Plain | Blore | ||
Robert Donat | Lease of Life | Rev. William Thorne | ||
John Mills | Hobson's Choice | Will Mossop | ||
David Niven | Carrington V.C. | Charles "Copper" Carrington | ||
Donald Wolfit | Svengali | Svengali | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Marlon Brando | On the Waterfront | Terry Malloy | ||
Neville Brand | Riot in Cell Block 11 | James V. Dunn | ||
José Ferrer | The Caine Mutiny | Barney Greenwald | ||
Fredric March | Executive Suite | Loren Phineas Shaw | ||
James Stewart | The Glenn Miller Story | Glenn Miller | ||
1955 9th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Laurence Olivier | Richard III | Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ||
Alfie Bass | The Bespoke Overcoat | Fender | ||
Alec Guinness | The Prisoner | The Cardinal | ||
Jack Hawkins | The Interrogator | |||
Kenneth More | The Deep Blue Sea | Freddie Page | ||
Michael Redgrave | The Night My Number Came Up | Air Mshl. Hardie | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Ernest Borgnine | Marty | Marty Piletti | ||
James Dean (posthumous) | East of Eden | Cal Trask | ||
Jack Lemmon | Mister Roberts | Frank Thurlowe Pulver | ||
Toshiro Mifune | Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) | Kikuchiyo | ||
Takashi Shimura | Kambei Shimada | |||
Frank Sinatra | Not as a Stranger | Alfred Boone | ||
1956 10th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Peter Finch | A Town Like Alice | Joe Harman | ||
Jack Hawkins | The Long Arm | Tom Halliday | ||
Kenneth More | Reach for the Sky | Douglas Bader | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
François Périer | Gervaise | Henri Coupeau | ||
Gunnar Björnstrand | Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night) | Fredik Egerman | ||
James Dean (posthumous) | Rebel Without a Cause | Jim Stark | ||
Pierre Fresnay | Le Défroqué (The Unfrocked One) | Maurice Morand | ||
William Holden | Picnic | Hal Carter | ||
Karl Malden | Baby Doll | Archie Lee Meighan | ||
Frank Sinatra | The Man with the Golden Arm | Frankie Machine | ||
Spencer Tracy | The Mountain | Zachary Teller | ||
1957 11th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Alec Guinness | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Cmdr. Nicholson | ||
Peter Finch | Windom's Way | Alec Windom | ||
Trevor Howard | Manuela | James Prothero | ||
Laurence Olivier | The Prince and the Showgirl | Charles, Prince Regent of Carpathia | ||
Michael Redgrave | Time Without Pity | David Graham | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Henry Fonda | 12 Angry Men | Juror 8 | ||
Richard Basehart | Time Limit | Maj. Harry Cargill | ||
Pierre Brasseur | Porte des Lilas (The Gates of Lilacs/Paris) | Juju | ||
Tony Curtis | Sweet Smell of Success | Sidney Falco | ||
Jean Gabin | La Traversé de Paris (GB: Pig Across Paris) | Grandgil | ||
Robert Mitchum | Heaven Knows, Mr Allison | Cpl. Allison | ||
Sidney Poitier | Edge of the City | Tommy Tyler | ||
Ed Wynn | The Great Man | Paul Beaseley | ||
1958 12th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Trevor Howard | The Key | Chris Ford | ||
Michael Craig | Sea of Sand | Captain Tim Cotton | ||
I. S. Johar | Harry Black | Bapu | ||
Laurence Harvey | Room at the Top | Joe Lampton | ||
Anthony Quayle | Ice Cold in Alex | Captain van der Poel / Haupt. Otto Lutz | ||
Terry-Thomas | tom thumb | Ivan | ||
Donald Wolfit | Room at the Top | Mr. Brown | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Sidney Poitier | The Defiant Ones | Noah Cullen | ||
Marlon Brando | The Young Lions | Christian Diestl | ||
Tony Curtis | The Defiant Ones | John "Joker" Jackson | ||
Glenn Ford | The Sheepman | Jason Sweet | ||
Curd Jürgens | The Enemy Below | Kapt. von Stolberg | ||
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Captain Lin Nan | |||
Charles Laughton | Witness for the Prosecution | Sir Wilfrid Robarts | ||
Paul Newman | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Brick Pollitt | ||
Victor Sjöström | Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) | Prof. Isak Borg | ||
Spencer Tracy | The Last Hurrah | Frank Skeffington | ||
1959 13th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Peter Sellers | I'm All Right Jack | Fred Kite | ||
Stanley Baker | Yesterday's Enemy | Captain Langford | ||
Richard Burton | Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter | ||
Peter Finch | The Nun's Story | Dr. Fortunati | ||
Laurence Harvey | Expresso Bongo | Johnny Jackson | ||
Gordon Jackson | Yesterday's Enemy | Sgt. MacKenzie | ||
Laurence Olivier | The Devil's Disciple | John Burgoyne | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Jack Lemmon | Some Like It Hot | Jerry / "Daphne" | ||
Zbigniew Cybulski | Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) | Maciek Chelmicki | ||
Jean Desailly | Maigret tend un piège (Maigret Sets a Trap) | Marcel Maurin | ||
Jean Gabin | Jules Maigret | |||
Takashi Shimura | Ikiru (Living) | Kanji Watanabe | ||
James Stewart | Anatomy of a Murder | Paul Biegler |
1960s
Year | Category | Actor | Film | Character |
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1960 14th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Peter Finch | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde | ||
Richard Attenborough | The Angry Silence | Tom Curtis | ||
Albert Finney | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Arthur Seaton | ||
John Fraser | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Lord Alfred Douglas | ||
Alec Guinness | Tunes of Glory | Maj. Jock Sinclair | ||
John Mills | Lt. Col. Basil Barrow | |||
Laurence Olivier | The Entertainer | Archie Rice | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Jack Lemmon | The Apartment | C. C. Baxter | ||
George Hamilton | Crime and Punishment U.S.A. | Robert Cole | ||
Burt Lancaster | Elmer Gantry | Elmer Gantry | ||
Fredric March | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady | ||
Yves Montand | Let's ... Love | Jean-Marc Clement / Alexander Dumas | ||
Spencer Tracy | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond | ||
1961 15th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Peter Finch | No Love for Johnnie | Johnnie Byrne | ||
Dirk Bogarde | Victim | Melville Farr | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Paul Newman | The Hustler | "Fast Eddie" Felson | ||
Montgomery Clift | Judgment at Nuremberg | Rudolph Petersen | ||
Vladimir Ivashov | Ballada o soldate (Ballad of a Soldier) | Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov | ||
Maximilian Schell | Judgment at Nuremberg | Hans Rolfe | ||
Alberto Sordi | The Best of Enemies | Captain Blasi | ||
Sidney Poitier | A Raisin in the Sun | Walter Lee Younger | ||
Philippe Leroy | Le Trou (The Hole) | Manu Borelli | ||
1962 16th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Peter O'Toole | Lawrence of Arabia | T. E. Lawrence | ||
Richard Attenborough | The Dock Brief | Herbert Fowle | ||
Alan Bates | A Kind of Loving | Victor 'Vic' Brown | ||
James Mason | Lolita | Humbert Humbert | ||
Laurence Olivier | Term of Trial | Graham Weir | ||
Peter Sellers | Only Two Can Play | John Lewis | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Burt Lancaster | Birdman of Alcatraz | Robert Stroud | ||
Jean-Paul Belmondo | Léon Morin, prêtre (Léon Morin, Priest) | Léon Morin | ||
Kirk Douglas | Lonely are the Brave | John W. "Jack" Burns | ||
George Hamilton | Light in the Piazza | Fabrizio Naccarelli | ||
Charles Laughton | Advise and Consent | Sen. Seabright "Seeb" Cooley | ||
Anthony Quinn | Lawrence of Arabia | Auda ibu Tayi | ||
Robert Ryan | Billy Budd | John Claggart | ||
Georges Wilson | Une aussi longue absence (The Long Absence) | The Tramp | ||
1963 17th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Dirk Bogarde | The Servant | Hugo Barrett | ||
Tom Courtenay | Billy Liar | William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher | ||
Albert Finney | Tom Jones | Tom Jones | ||
Hugh Griffith | Squire Western | |||
Richard Harris | This Sporting Life | Frank Machin | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Marcello Mastroianni | Divorzio all'italiana (Divorce Italian Style) | Ferdinando Cefalù | ||
Franco Citti | Accattone (GB The Procurer) | Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi | ||
Howard Da Silva | David and Lisa | Dr. Swinford | ||
Jack Lemmon | Days of Wine and Roses | Joe Clay | ||
Paul Newman | Hud | Hud Bannon | ||
Gregory Peck | To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch | ||
1964 18th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Richard Attenborough | Guns at Batasi | RSM Lauderdale | ||
Seance on a Wet Afternoon | Billy Savage | |||
Tom Courtenay | King & Country | Pvt. Arthur Hamp | ||
Peter O'Toole | Becket | King Henry II of England | ||
Peter Sellers | Dr. Strangelove | Gp Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove | ||
The Pink Panther | Inspector Jacques Clouseau | |||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Marcello Mastroianni | Ieri, oggi, domani (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) | Carmine Sbaratti / Renzo / Augusto Rusconi | ||
Cary Grant | Charade | Peter Joshua | ||
Sterling Hayden | Dr. Strangelove | BG Jack D. Ripper | ||
Sidney Poitier | Lilies of the Field | Homer Smith | ||
1965 19th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Dirk Bogarde | Darling | Robert Gold | ||
Harry Andrews | The Hill | RSM Wilson | ||
Michael Caine | The Ipcress File | Harry Palmer | ||
Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | Prof. Henry Higgins | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Lee Marvin | Cat Ballou | Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn | ||
The Killers | Charlie Strom | |||
Jack Lemmon | Good Neighbor Sam | Sam Bissell | ||
How to Murder Your Wife | Stanley Ford | |||
Anthony Quinn | Zorba the Greek | Alexis Zorba | ||
Innokenty Smoktunovsky | Hamlet | Prince Hamlet | ||
Oskar Werner | Ship of Fools | Dr. Wilhelm "Willi" Schumann | ||
1966 20th |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Richard Burton | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Alec Leamas | ||
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | George | |||
Michael Caine | Alfie | Alfred "Alfie" Elkins | ||
Ralph Richardson | Doctor Zhivago | Alexander "Sasha" Gromeko | ||
Khartoum | William Ewart Gladstone | |||
The Wrong Box | Joseph Finsbury | |||
David Warner | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | Morgan Delt | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Rod Steiger | The Pawnbroker | Sol Nazerman | ||
Jean-Paul Belmondo | Pierrot le Fou | Ferdinand Griffon / "Pierrot" | ||
Sidney Poitier | A Patch of Blue | Gordon Ralfe | ||
Oskar Werner | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Fiedler | ||
1967 21st |
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Best British Actor | ||||
Paul Scofield | A Man for All Seasons | Sir Thomas More | ||
Dirk Bogarde | Accident | Stephen | ||
Our Mother's House | Charlie Hook | |||
Richard Burton | The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | ||
James Mason | The Deadly Affair | Charles Dobbs | ||
Best Foreign Actor | ||||
Rod Steiger | In the Heat of the Night | Police Chief Bill Gillespie | ||
Warren Beatty | Bonnie and Clyde | Clyde Barrow | ||
Sidney Poitier | In the Heat of the Night | Detective Virgil Tibbs | ||
Orson Welles | Campanadas a medianoche (GB: Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight) | Sir John Falstaff | ||
1968 22nd |
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Best Actor | ||||
Spencer Tracy | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Matt Drayton | ||
Trevor Howard | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Cardigan | ||
Ron Moody | Oliver! | Fagin | ||
Nicol Williamson | The Bofors Gun | O'Rourke | ||
1969 23rd |
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Best Actor | ||||
Dustin Hoffman | John and Mary | John | ||
Midnight Cowboy | Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo | |||
Alan Bates | Women in Love | Rupert Birkin | ||
Walter Matthau | Hello, Dolly! | Horace Vandergelder | ||
The Secret Life of an American Wife | The Movie Star | |||
Nicol Williamson | Inadmissible Evidence | Bill Maitland |
1970s
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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1970 24th |
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Robert Redford | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Sundance Kid | |
Downhill Racer | David Chappellet | ||
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper | ||
Elliott Gould | MASH | Trapper John McIntyre | |
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Ted Henderson | ||
Paul Newman | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Butch Cassidy | |
George C. Scott | Patton | George S. Patton | |
1971 25th |
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Peter Finch | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Dr. Daniel Hirsh | |
Dirk Bogarde | Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice) | Gustav von Aschenbach | |
Albert Finney | Gumshoe | Eddie Ginley | |
Dustin Hoffman | Little Big Man | Jack Crabb | |
1972 26th |
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Gene Hackman | The French Connection | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | |
The Poseidon Adventure | Reverend Frank Scott | ||
Marlon Brando | The Godfather | Vito Corleone | |
The Nightcomers | Peter Quint | ||
George C. Scott | The Hospital | Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock | |
They Might Be Giants | Justin Playfair | ||
Robert Shaw | Young Winston | Lord Randolph Churchill | |
1973 27th |
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Walter Matthau | Charley Varrick | Charley Varrick | |
Pete 'n' Tillie | Pete | ||
Marlon Brando | Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris) | Paul | |
Laurence Olivier | Sleuth | Andrew Wyke | |
Donald Sutherland | Steelyard Blues | Jesse Veldini | |
Don't Look Now | John Baxter | ||
1974 28th |
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Jack Nicholson | Chinatown | J.J. "Jake" Gittes | |
The Last Detail | Signalman 1st Class Billy "..." Buddusky | ||
Albert Finney | Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot | |
Gene Hackman | The Conversation | Harry Caul | |
Al Pacino | Serpico | Frank Serpico | |
1975 29th |
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Al Pacino | The Godfather Part II | Michael Corleone | |
Dog Day Afternoon | Sonny Wortzik | ||
Richard Dreyfuss | Jaws | Matt Hooper | |
Gene Hackman | French Connection II | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | |
Night Moves | Harry Moseby | ||
Dustin Hoffman | Lenny | Lenny Bruce | |
1976 30th |
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Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | R.P. McMurphy | |
Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver | Travis Bickle | |
Dustin Hoffman | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein | |
Marathon Man | Thomas "Babe" Levy | ||
Walter Matthau | The Bad News Bears | Morris Buttermaker | |
The Sunshine Boys | Willy Clark | ||
1977 31st |
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Peter Finch | Network | Howard Beale | |
Woody Allen | Annie Hall | Alvy "Max" Singer | |
William Holden | Network | Max Schumacher | |
Sylvester Stallone | Rocky | Rocky Balboa | |
1978 32nd |
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Richard Dreyfuss | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | |
Peter Ustinov | Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot | |
Anthony Hopkins | Magic | Corky Withers / Fats (voice) | |
Brad Davis | Midnight Express | Billy Hayes | |
1979 33rd |
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Jack Lemmon | The China Syndrome | Jack Godell | |
Woody Allen | Manhattan | Isaac Davis | |
Robert De Niro | The Deer Hunter | S/Sgt. Michael "Mike" Vronsky | |
Martin Sheen | Apocalypse Now | Captain Benjamin L. Willard |
1980s
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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1980 34th |
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John Hurt | The Elephant Man | John Merrick | |
Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer | Ted Kramer | |
Roy Scheider | All That Jazz | Joe Gideon | |
Peter Sellers | Being There | Chance the Gardener | |
1981 35th |
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Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City | Lou Pascal | |
Robert De Niro | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta | |
Bob Hoskins | The Long Good Friday | Harold Shand | |
Jeremy Irons | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Charles Henry Smithson / Mike | |
1982 36th |
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Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | |
Warren Beatty | Reds | John Reed | |
Albert Finney | Shoot the Moon | George Dunlap | |
Henry Fonda | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer, Jr. | |
Jack Lemmon | Missing | Ed Horman | |
1983 37th |
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Michael Caine | Educating Rita | Dr. Frank Bryant | |
Dustin Hoffman | Tootsie | Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels | |
Michael Caine | The Honorary Consul | Charley Fortnum, Consul | |
Robert De Niro | The King of Comedy | Rupert Pupkin | |
1984 38th |
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Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields | Dith Pran | |
Tom Courtenay | The Dresser | Norman | |
Albert Finney | Sir | ||
Sam Waterston | The Killing Fields | Sydney Schanberg | |
1985 39th |
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William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina | |
F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri | |
Harrison Ford | Witness | John Book | |
Victor Banerjee | A Passage to India | Dr. Aziz Ahmed | |
1986 40th |
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Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George | |
Woody Allen | Hannah and Her Sisters | Mickey Sachs | |
Michael Caine | Elliot | ||
Paul Hogan | Crocodile Dundee | Michael "Crocodile" Dundee | |
1987 41st |
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Sean Connery | The Name of the Rose | William of Baskerville | |
Gérard Depardieu | Jean de Florette | Jean Cadoret / "Jean de Florette" | |
Yves Montand | César Soubeyran / Le Papet | ||
Gary Oldman | Prick Up Your Ears | Joe Orton | |
1988 42nd |
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John Cleese | A Fish Called Wanda | Archie Leach | |
Michael Douglas | Fatal Attraction | Dan Gallagher | |
Kevin Kline | A Fish Called Wanda | Otto West | |
Robin Williams | Good Morning, Vietnam | Adrian Cronauer | |
1989 43rd |
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Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Christy Brown | |
Kenneth Branagh | Henry V | Henry V | |
Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man | Raymond Babbit | |
Robin Williams | Dead Poets Society | John Keating |
1990s
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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1990 44th |
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Philippe Noiret | Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) | Alfredo | |
Sean Connery | The Hunt for Red October | Captain Marko Ramius | |
Tom Cruise | Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic | |
Robert De Niro | Goodfellas | Jimmy Conway | |
1991 45th |
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Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | |
Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves | Lt. John J. Dunbar / Dances with Wolves | |
Gérard Depardieu | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
Alan Rickman | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Jamie | |
1992 46th |
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Robert Downey Jr. | Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | |
Daniel Day-Lewis | The Last of the Mohicans | Nathaniel Poe | |
Stephen Rea | The Crying Game | Fergus | |
Tim Robbins | The Player | Griffin Mill | |
1993 47th |
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Anthony Hopkins | The Remains of the Day | James Stevens | |
Daniel Day-Lewis | In the Name of the Father | Gerry Conlon | |
Anthony Hopkins | Shadowlands | C. S. Lewis | |
Liam Neeson | Schindler's List | Oskar Schindler | |
1994 48th |
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Hugh Grant | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Charles | |
Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump | |
Terence Stamp | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Ralph / Bernadette Bassenger | |
John Travolta | Pulp Fiction | Vincent Vega | |
1995 49th |
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Nigel Hawthorne | The Madness of King George | George III | |
Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson | |
Jonathan Pryce | Carrington | Lytton Strachey | |
Massimo Troisi (posthumous) | Il Postino: The Postman | Mario Ruoppolo | |
1996 50th |
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Geoffrey Rush | Shine | David Helfgott | |
Ralph Fiennes | The English Patient | Count Laszlo de Almásy | |
Ian McKellen | Richard III | Richard III | |
Timothy Spall | Secrets & Lies | Maurice Purley | |
1997 51st |
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Robert Carlyle | The Full Monty | Gaz Schofield | |
Billy Connolly | Mrs Brown | John Brown | |
Kevin Spacey | L.A. Confidential | Jack Vincennes | |
Ray Winstone | Nil by Mouth | Ray | |
1998 52nd |
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Roberto Benigni | Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) | Guido | |
Michael Caine | Little Voice | Ray Say | |
Tom Hanks | Saving Private Ryan | Captain John H. Miller | |
Joseph Fiennes | Shakespeare in Love | William Shakespeare | |
1999 53rd |
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Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham | |
Jim Broadbent | Topsy-Turvy | W. S. Gilbert | |
Russell Crowe | The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand | |
Ralph Fiennes | The End of the Affair | Maurice Bendrax | |
Om Puri | East is East | George Khan |
2000s
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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2000 54th |
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Jamie Bell | Billy Elliot | Billy Elliot | |
Russell Crowe | Gladiator | Maximus Decimus Meridius | |
Michael Douglas | Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp | |
Tom Hanks | Cast Away | Chuck Noland | |
Geoffrey Rush | Quills | Marquis de Sade | |
2001 55th |
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Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind | John Forbes Nash Jr. | |
Jim Broadbent | Iris | John Bayley | |
Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf | |
Kevin Spacey | The Shipping News | Quoyle | |
Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Matt Fowler | |
2002 56th |
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Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting | |
Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman | |
Nicolas Cage | Adaptation | Charlie and Donald Kaufman | |
Michael Caine | The Quiet American | Thomas Fowler | |
Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren Schmidt | |
2003 57th |
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Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris | |
Benicio del Toro | 21 Grams | Jack Jordan | |
Johnny Depp | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Captain Jack Sparrow | |
Jude Law | Cold Mountain | W. P. Inman | |
Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum | |
2004 58th |
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Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles | |
Jim Carrey | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Joel Barish | |
Johnny Depp | Finding Neverland | J. M. Barrie | |
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Aviator | Howard Hughes | |
Gael García Bernal | The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) | Ernesto "Che" Guevara | |
2005 59th |
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Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote | |
Ralph Fiennes | The Constant Gardener | Justin Quayle | |
Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar | |
Joaquin Phoenix | Walk the Line | Johnny Cash | |
David Strathairn | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Edward R. Murrow | |
2006 60th |
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Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin | |
Daniel Craig | Casino Royale | James Bond | |
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | William "Billy" Costigan, Jr. | |
Richard Griffiths | The History Boys | Hector | |
Peter O'Toole | Venus | Maurice Russell | |
2007 61st |
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Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview | |
George Clooney | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton | |
James McAvoy | Atonement | Robbie Turner | |
Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin | |
Ulrich Mühe (posthumous) | The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) | Gerd Wiesler | |
2008 62nd |
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Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Randy "The Ram" Robinson | |
Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon | |
Dev Patel | Slumdog Millionaire | Jamal Malik | |
Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk | |
Brad Pitt | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Benjamin Button | |
2009 63rd |
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Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer | |
Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart | Otis "Bad" Blake | |
George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham | |
Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | SFC. William James | |
Andy Serkis | ... & ... & Rock & Roll]] | Ian Dury |
2010s
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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2010 64th |
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Colin Firth | The King's Speech | King George VI | |
Javier Bardem | Biutiful | Uxbal | |
Jeff Bridges | True Grit | Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn | |
Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg | |
James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston | |
2011 65th |
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Jean Dujardin | The Artist | George Valentin | |
George Clooney | The Descendants | Matthew "Matt" King | |
Michael Fassbender | Shame | Brandon Sullivan | |
Gary Oldman | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | George Smiley | |
Brad Pitt | Moneyball | Billy Beane | |
2012 66th |
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Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | |
Ben Affleck | Argo | Tony Mendez | |
Bradley Cooper | Silver Linings Playbook | Patrick "Pat" Solitano, Jr. | |
Hugh Jackman | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | |
Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell | |
2013 67th |
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Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | |
Christian Bale | American Hustle | Irving Rosenfeld | |
Bruce Dern | Nebraska | Woody Grant | |
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Wolf of Wall Street | Jordan Belfort | |
Tom Hanks | Captain Phillips | Captain Richard Phillips | |
2014 68th |
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Eddie Redmayne | The Theory of Everything | Stephen Hawking | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | |
Ralph Fiennes | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Monsieur Gustave H. | |
Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis "Lou" Bloom | |
Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson | |
2015 69th |
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Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass | |
Bryan Cranston | Trumbo | Dalton Trumbo | |
Matt Damon | The Martian | Mark Watney | |
Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs | |
Eddie Redmayne | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener | |
2016 70th |
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Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler | |
Andrew Garfield | Hacksaw Ridge | Desmond T. Doss | |
Ryan Gosling | La La Land | Sebastian Wilder | |
Jake Gyllenhaal | Nocturnal Animals | Edward Sheffield / Tony Hastings | |
Viggo Mortensen | Captain Fantastic | Ben Cash | |
2017 71st |
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Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill | |
Jamie Bell | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Peter Turner | |
Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman | |
Daniel Day-Lewis | Phantom Thread | Reynolds Woodcock | |
Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out | Chris Washington | |
2018 72nd |
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Rami Malek | Bohemian Rhapsody | Freddie Mercury | |
Christian Bale | Vice | Dick Cheney | |
Steve Coogan | Stan & Ollie | Stan Laurel | |
Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born | Jackson Maine | |
Viggo Mortensen | Green Book | Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga | |
2019 73rd |
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Joaquin Phoenix | Joker | Arthur Fleck / Joker | |
Leonardo DiCaprio | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Rick Dalton | |
Adam Driver | Marriage Story | Charlie Barber | |
Taron Egerton | Rocketman | Elton John | |
Jonathan Pryce | The Two Popes | Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio |
2020s
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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2020
74th |
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Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony | |
Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone | |
Chadwick Boseman (posthumous) | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | |
Adarsh Gourav | The White Tiger | Balram Halwai | |
Mads Mikkelsen | Another Round | Martin | |
Tahar Rahim | The Mauritanian | Mohamedou Ould Salahi | |
2021
75th |
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Will Smith | King Richard | Richard Williams | |
Adeel Akhtar | Ali & Ava | Ali | |
Mahershala Ali | Swan Song | Cameron Turner | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | |
Leonardo DiCaprio | Don't Look Up | Dr. Randall Mindy | |
Stephen Graham | Boiling Point | Andy Jones | |
2022 | |||
Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley | |
Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin | |
Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Charlie | |
Daryl McCormack | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Leo Grande / Connor | |
Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum Paterson | |
Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams |
Note: All nominations for multiple performances in a single year from the 1950s to the 1970s count as one nomination. The two mentions for Michael Caine (1983) and Anthony Hopkins (1993) count as two separate nominations.
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See also
In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA al mejor actor para niños
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
- Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role