BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
| BAFTA Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
 The 2020 recipient Anthony Hopkins | |
| Description | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Currently held by | Anthony Hopkins for The Father (2020) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
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.
Superlatives[]
| Superlative | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
8 |
| 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 |
6 |
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.
Ralph Richardson won for The Sound Barrier (1952)
Marlon Brando won three times for Viva Zapata! (1952), Julius Caesar (1953), and On the Waterfront (1954)
John Gielgud won for Julius Caesar (1953)
Laurence Olivier won for Richard III (1955)
Peter Finch has won five awards from seven nominations for his roles in A Town Like Alice (1956), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), No Love for Johnnie (1961), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and Network (1976)
Alec Guinness won for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Henry Fonda won for 12 Angry Men (1957)
Peter Sellers won for I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Jack Lemmon won three times for Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960) and The China Syndrome (1979)
Paul Newman won for The Hustler (1961)
Burt Lancaster won for Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Marcello Mastroianni won twice in Divorce Italian Style (1963), and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)
Richard Attenborough won for Guns at Batasi / Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964
Lee Marvin won for The Killers / Cat Ballou (1965)
Spencer Tracy won for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1968)
Dustin Hoffman won twice for Midnight Cowboy / John and Mary (1969), and Tootsie (1983)
Gene Hackman won for The French Connection and The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Jack Nicholson won twice for The Last Detail / Chinatown (1974), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Al Pacino won for The Godfather Part II / Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Ben Kingsley won for Gandhi (1982)
Daniel Day-Lewis is the first actor to win this award four times, in 1989, 2002, 2007, and 2012, for his performances in My Left Foot, Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln, respectively
Anthony Hopkins won three times for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Remains of the Day (1993) and The Father (2020) [3]
Hugh Grant won for his performance in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Geoffrey Rush won for his performance in Shine (1996)
Roberto Benigni won in 1998 for Life Is Beautiful
Kevin Spacey won for his performance in American Beauty (1999)
Russell Crowe won once from three consecutive nominations for playing John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Bill Murray won for his role in Lost in Translation (2003)
Jamie Foxx won for Ray (2004).
Philip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote (2005)
Forest Whitaker won for his performance as Idi Amin in the 2006 film, The Last King of Scotland
Mickey Rourke won for The Wrestler (2008)
Colin Firth won two consecutive Best Actor awards for his performances in 2009's A Single Man and 2010's The King's Speech
Chiwetel Ejiofor became the first black-British actor to win this category for his performance in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Eddie Redmayne won for The Theory of Everything (2014)
Leonardo DiCaprio won for The Revenant (2015)
Casey Affleck won for Manchester by the Sea (2016).
Gary Oldman won for Darkest Hour (2017)
Rami Malek won Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Joaquin Phoenix won for his portrayal of the title character in Joker (2019)
1950s[]
| Year | Category | Actor | Film | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 6th | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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)[5] | 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 14th | ||||
| 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 Make Love | Jean-Marc Clement / Alexander Dumas | ||
| Spencer Tracy | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond | ||
| 1961 15th | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Innokenti Smoktunovsky | Hamlet | Prince Hamlet | ||
| Oskar Werner | Ship of Fools | Dr. Wilhelm "Willi" Schumann | ||
| 1966 20th | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 24th | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Jack Nicholson | Chinatown | J.J. "Jake" Gittes | |
| The Last Detail | Signalman 1st Class Billy "Badass" Buddusky | ||
| Albert Finney | Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot | |
| Gene Hackman | The Conversation | Harry Caul | |
| Al Pacino | Serpico | Frank Serpico | |
| 1975 29th | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Peter Finch | Network | Howard Beale | |
| Woody Allen | Annie Hall | Alvy "Max" Singer | |
| William Holden | Network | Max Schumacher | |
| Sylvester Stallone | Rocky | Rocky Balboa | |
| 1978 32nd | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 34th | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 44th | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 [6] | |||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 54th [7][8] | |||
| 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 [9] | |||
| 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 [10] | |||
| 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 [11] | |||
| 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 [12] | |||
| 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 [13] | |||
| 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 [14] | |||
| 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 [15] | |||
| 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 [16] | |||
| 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 [17] | |||
| 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 | Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | Ian Dury |
2010s[]
| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 64th [18] | |||
| 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 [19] | |||
| 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 [20] | |||
| 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 [21] | |||
| 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 [22] | |||
| 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 [23] | |||
| 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 [24] | |||
| 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 [25] | |||
| 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 [26] | |||
| 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 [27] | |||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| 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 |
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[]
- 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
References[]
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External links[]
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