- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
The
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role has been presented to its winners since 1952 and actors of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.Winners 1968-present
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.
*2008 -
Daniel Day-Lewis - "There Will Be Blood " as Daniel Plainview
**George Clooney - "Michael Clayton" as Michael Clayton
**James McAvoy - "Atonement" as Robbie Turner
**Viggo Mortensen - "Eastern Promises " as Nikolai
**Ulrich Mühe - "The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)" as Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler*2007 -
Forest Whitaker - "The Last King of Scotland" asIdi Amin
**Daniel Craig – "Casino Royale" asJames Bond
**Peter O'Toole – "Venus" as Maurice
**Leonardo DiCaprio – "The Departed " as Billy Costigan
**Richard Griffiths – "The History Boys" as Hector*2006 -
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote" asTruman Capote
**Joaquin Phoenix – "Walk the Line " asJohnny Cash
**Heath Ledger – "Brokeback Mountain " asEnnis Del Mar
**David Strathairn – "Good Night, and Good Luck. " asEdward R. Murrow
**Ralph Fiennes – "The Constant Gardener" as Justin Quayle*2005 -
Jamie Foxx - "Ray" asRay Charles
**Leonardo DiCaprio – "The Aviator " asHoward Hughes
**Johnny Depp – "Finding Neverland " asSir James Matthew Barrie
**Jim Carrey – "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind " as Joel Barish
**Gael García Bernal – "The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)" asErnesto Guevara *2004 -
Bill Murray - "Lost in Translation" as Bob Harris
**Benicio del Toro – "21 Grams " as Jack Jordan
**Sean Penn – "21 Grams " as Paul Rivers
**Sean Penn – "Mystic River" as Jimmy Markum
**Jude Law – "Cold Mountain" as Inman
**Johnny Depp – "" asCaptain Jack Sparrow *2003 -
Daniel Day-Lewis - "Gangs of New York " as Bill Cutting
**Jack Nicholson – "About Schmidt " as Warren Schmidt
**Nicolas Cage – "Adaptation. " as Charlie/Donald Kaufman
**Adrien Brody – "The Pianist" asWladyslaw Szpilman
**Michael Caine – "The Quiet American" as Thomas Fowler*2002 -
Russell Crowe - "A Beautiful Mind" as John Nash
**Tom Wilkinson – "In the Bedroom " as Matt Fowler
**Jim Broadbent – "Iris" asJohn Bayley
**Ian McKellen – "" asGandalf
**Kevin Spacey – "The Shipping News" as Quoyle*2001 -
Jamie Bell - "Billy Elliot " as Billy Elliot
**Tom Hanks – "Cast Away " as Chuck Noland
**Russell Crowe – "Gladiator" as Maximus
**Geoffrey Rush – "Quills " asMarquis de Sade
**Michael Douglas – "Wonder Boys" as Prof. Grady Tripp*2000 -
Kevin Spacey - "American Beauty" as Lester Burnham
**Om Puri – "East Is East" as George Khan
**Ralph Fiennes – "The End of the Affair " as Maurice Bendrix
**Russell Crowe – "The Insider" asJeffrey Wigand
**Jim Broadbent – "Topsy-Turvy " asW. S. Gilbert *1999 -
Roberto Benigni - "Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella)" as Guido
**Michael Caine – "Little Voice" as Ray Say
**Tom Hanks – "Saving Private Ryan " as Captain John H. Miller
**Joseph Fiennes – "Shakespeare in Love " asWilliam Shakespeare *1998 -
Robert Carlyle - "The Full Monty " as Gaz
**Kevin Spacey – "L.A. Confidential" as Jack Vincennes
**Billy Connolly – "Mrs Brown " as John Brown
**Ray Winstone – "Nil by Mouth" as Ray*1997 -
Geoffrey Rush - "Shine" asDavid Helfgott
**Ralph Fiennes – "The English Patient" as Count Laszlo de Almásy
**Ian McKellen – "Richard III" as Richard III
**Timothy Spall – "Secrets & Lies " as Maurice Purley*1996 -
Nigel Hawthorne - "The Madness of King George " as George III
**Jonathan Pryce – "Carrington" asLytton Strachey
**Nicolas Cage – "Leaving Las Vegas " as Ben Sanderson
**Massimo Troisi – "Il Postino " as Mario Ruoppolo*1995 -
Hugh Grant - "Four Weddings and a Funeral " as Charles
**Tom Hanks – "Forrest Gump " as Forrest Gump
**Terence Stamp – "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert " as Ralph / Bernadette Bassenger
**John Travolta – "Pulp Fiction" asVincent Vega *1994 -
Anthony Hopkins - "Shadowlands" asC. S. Lewis
**Anthony Hopkins – "The Remains of the Day" as James Stevens
**Liam Neeson – "Schindler's List " asOskar Schindler
**Daniel Day-Lewis – "In the Name of the Father" asGerry Conlon *1993 -
Robert Downey Jr. - "Chaplin" asCharlie Chaplin
**Stephen Rea - "The Crying Game " as Fergus
**Tim Robbins - "The Player " as Griffin Mill
**Daniel Day Lewis - "The Last of the Mohicans" as Nathaniel Poe*1992 -
Anthony Hopkins - "The Silence of the Lambs" as Dr.Hannibal Lecter
**Kevin Costner - "Dances with Wolves " as Lieutenant Dunbar
**Alan Rickman - "Truly, Madly, Deeply " as Jamie
**Gérard Depardieu - "Cyrano de Bergerac" as Cyrano de Bergerac*1991 -
Philippe Noiret - "Nuovo cinema Paradiso " as Alfredo
**Robert De Niro - "Goodfellas " as Jimmy Conway
**Sean Connery - "The Hunt for Red October" as Captain Marko Ramius
**Tom Cruise - "Born on the Fourth of July" asRon Kovic *1990 -
Daniel Day-Lewis - "My Left Foot" asChristy Brown
**Dustin Hoffman - "Rain Man " as Raymond Babbit
**Robin Williams - "Dead Poets Society " as John Keating
**Kenneth Branagh - "Henry V" as Henry V*1989 -
John Cleese - "A Fish Called Wanda " as Archie Leach
**Kevin Kline - "A Fish Called Wanda " as Otto West
**Michael Douglas - "Fatal Attraction " as Dan Gallagher
**Robin Williams - "Good Morning, Vietnam " asAdrian Cronauer *1988 -
Sean Connery - "Der Name der Rose" as William of Baskerville
**Gérard Depardieu - "Jean de Florette "
**Yves Montand - "Jean de Florette "
**Gary Oldman - "Prick Up Your Ears "*1987 -
Bob Hoskins - "Mona Lisa" as George
**Woody Allen - "Hannah and Her Sisters "
**Michael Caine - "Hannah and Her Sisters "
**Paul Hogan - "Crocodile Dundee "*1986 -
William Hurt - "Kiss of the Spider Woman" as Luis Molina
**F. Murray Abraham - "Amadeus"
**Harrison Ford - "Witness"
**Victor Banerjee - "A Passage to India"*1985
Haing S. Ngor - "The Killing Fields" as Dith Pran
**Sam Waterston - "The Killing Fields"
**Tom Courtenay - "The Dresser "
**Albert Finney - "The Dresser "*1984 -
Michael Caine - "Educating Rita" as Dr. Frank Bryant andDustin Hoffman - "Tootsie " as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
**Michael Caine - "The Honorary Consul "
**Robert De Niro - "The King of Comedy"*1983 -
Ben Kingsley - "Gandhi" asMahatma Gandhi
**Warren Beatty - "Reds"
**Henry Fonda - "On Golden Pond"
**Albert Finney - "Shoot the Moon "
**Jack Lemmon - "Missing"*1982 -
Burt Lancaster - "Atlantic City" as Lou Pascal
**Jeremy Irons - "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
**Robert De Niro - "Raging Bull "
**Bob Hoskins - "The Long Good Friday "*1981 -
John Hurt - "The Elephant Man" as John Merrick
**Dustin Hoffman - "Kramer vs. Kramer "
**Roy Scheider - "All That Jazz "
**Peter Sellers - "Being There "*1980 -
Jack Lemmon - "The China Syndrome " as Jack Godell
**Woody Allen - "Manhattan"
**Robert De Niro - "The Deer Hunter "
**Martin Sheen - "Apocalypse Now "*1979 -
Richard Dreyfuss - "The Goodbye Girl " as Elliot Garfield
**Peter Ustinov - "Death on the Nile"
**Anthony Hopkins - "Magic"*1978 -
Peter Finch - "Network" as Howard Beale
**William Holden - "Network"
**Woody Allen - "Annie Hall "
**Sylvester Stallone - "Rocky "*1977 -
Jack Nicholson - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" as Randle McMurphy
**Robert De Niro - "Taxi Driver "
**Dustin Hoffman - "All the President's Men"
** Dustin Hoffman - "Marathon Man"
**Walter Matthau - "The Bad News Bears "
** Walter Matthau - "The Sunshine Boys "*1976 -
Al Pacino - "The Godfather Part II " as Michael Corleone, and Al Pacino - "Dog Day Afternoon " as Sonny Wortzik
**Richard Dreyfuss - "Jaws"
**Gene Hackman - "French Connection II "
** Gene Hackman - "Night Moves"
**Dustin Hoffman - "Lenny"*1975 -
Jack Nicholson - "Chinatown" as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes, and Jack Nicholson - "The Last Detail " as Billy Buddusky
**Gene Hackman - "The Conversation "
**Albert Finney - "Murder on the Orient Express"
**Al Pacino - "Serpico "*1974 -
Walter Matthau - "Charley Varrick " as Charley Varrick, and Walter Matthau - "Pete 'n' Tillie " as Pete
**Marlon Brando - "Ultimo tango a Parigi "
**Donald Sutherland - "Steelyard Blues "
** Donald Sutherland - "Don't Look Now "
**Laurence Olivier - "Sleuth"*1973 -
Gene Hackman - "The French Connection" as Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle, andGene Hackman - "The Poseidon Adventure" as Reverend Frank Scott
**Marlon Brando - "The Godfather "
** Marlon Brando - "The Nightcomers "
**George C. Scott - "The Hospital "
** George C. Scott - "They Might Be Giants"
** Robert Shaw - "Young Winston "*1972 -
Peter Finch - "Sunday Bloody Sunday" as Dr. Daniel Hirsh
**Albert Finney - "Gumshoe"
**Dustin Hoffman - "Little Big Man "
**Dirk Bogarde - "Morte a Venezia"*1971 -
Robert Redford - "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid " as the Sundance Kid, Robert Redford - "Downhill Racer " as David Chappellet, and Robert Redford - "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here " as Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper
**Paul Newman - "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid "
**George C. Scott - "Patton"
**Elliott Gould - "MASH"
** Elliott Gould - "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice "*1970 -
Dustin Hoffman - "John and Mary" as John, and Dustin Hoffman - "Midnight Cowboy " as Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo
**Walter Matthau - "Hello, Dolly!"
** Walter Matthau - "The Secret Life of an American Wife "
**Nicol Williamson - "Inadmissible Evidence "
**Alan Bates - "Women in Love"*1969 -
Spencer Tracy - "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner " as Matt Drayton
**Ron Moody - "Oliver!"
**Trevor Howard - "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
**Nicol Williamson - "The Bofors Gun "Winners 1952-67
BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
*1968
Paul Scofield - "A Man for All Seasons"
**Dirk Bogarde - "Accident"
**James Mason - "The Deadly Affair "
**Dirk Bogarde - "Our Mother's House "
**Richard Burton - "The Taming of the Shrew"*1967
Richard Burton - "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" andRichard Burton - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
**Michael Caine - "Alfie"
**Ralph Richardson - "Doctor Zhivago"
**Ralph Richardson - "Khartoum"
**David Warner - ""
**Ralph Richardson - "The Wrong Box "*1966
Dirk Bogarde - "Darling"
**Harry Andrews - "The Hill"
**Michael Caine - "The Ipcress File"
**Rex Harrison - "My Fair Lady"*1965
Richard Attenborough - "Guns at Batasi " andRichard Attenborough - "Seance on a Wet Afternoon "
**Peter O'Toole - "Becket"
**Peter Sellers - ""
**Tom Courtenay - "King & Country "
**Peter Sellers - "The Pink Panther "*1964 -
Dirk Bogarde - "The Servant"
**Tom Courtenay - "Billy Liar"
**Richard Harris - "This Sporting Life "
**Albert Finney - "Tom Jones"
**Hugh Griffith - "Tom Jones"*1963 -
Peter O'Toole - "Lawrence of Arabia"
**Richard Attenborough - "The Dock Brief "
**Alan Bates - "A Kind of Loving"
**James Mason - "Lolita"
**Peter Sellers - "Only Two Can Play "
**Laurence Olivier - "Term of Trial "*1962 -
Peter Finch - "No Love for Johnnie "
**Dirk Bogarde - "Victim"*1961 -
Peter Finch - "The Trials of Oscar Wilde "
**Richard Attenborough - "The Angry Silence "
**Laurence Olivier - "The Entertainer"
**Albert Finney - "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"
** John Fraser - "The Trials of Oscar Wilde "
**Alec Guinness - "Tunes of Glory "
**John Mills - "Tunes of Glory "*1960 -
Peter Sellers - "I'm All Right Jack "
**Laurence Olivier - "The Devil's Disciple"
**Laurence Harvey - "Expresso Bongo "
**Richard Burton - "Look Back in Anger"
**Peter Finch - "The Nun's Story"
**Stanley Baker - "Yesterday's Enemy "
** Gordon Jackson - "Yesterday's Enemy "*1959 -
Trevor Howard - "The Key"
**I.S. Johar - "Harry Black"
**Anthony Quayle - "Ice-Cold in Alex "
**Laurence Harvey - "Room at the Top"
**Donald Wolfit - "Room at the Top"
**Michael Craig - "Sea of Sand "
**Terry-Thomas - "tom thumb "*1958 -
Alec Guinness - "The Bridge on the River Kwai "
**Trevor Howard - "Manuela"
**Laurence Olivier - "The Prince and the Showgirl "
**Michael Redgrave - "Time Without Pity "
**Peter Finch - "Windom's Way "*1957 -
Peter Finch - "A Town Like Alice "
**Jack Hawkins - "The Long Arm "
**Kenneth More - "Reach for the Sky "*1956 -
Laurence Olivier - "Richard III"
**Alfie Bass - "The Bespoke Overcoat "
**Kenneth More - "The Deep Blue Sea"
**Michael Redgrave - "The Night My Number Came Up "
**Alec Guinness - "The Prisoner"
**Jack Hawkins - "The Prisoner"*1955 -
Kenneth More - "Doctor in the House "
**David Niven - "Carrington V.C. "
**John Mills - "Hobson's Choice"
**Robert Donat - "Lease of Life "
**Maurice Denham - "The Purple Plain "
**Donald Wolfit - "Svengali"*1954 -
John Gielgud - "Julius Caesar"
**Jack Hawkins - "The Cruel Sea"
**Kenneth More - "Genevieve"
**Trevor Howard - "The Heart of the Matter"
**Duncan Macrae - "The Kidnappers"*1953 -
Ralph Richardson - "The Sound Barrier "
**Laurence Olivier - "Carrie"
**Alastair Sim - "Folly to Be Wise "
**Jack Hawkins - "Mandy"
** James Hayter - "The Pickwick Papers"
**Nigel Patrick - "The Sound Barrier "BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor
*1968 -
Rod Steiger - "In the Heat of the Night"
**Warren Beatty - "Bonnie and Clyde"
**Orson Welles - "Campanadas a medianoche "
**Sidney Poitier - "In the Heat of the Night"*1967 -
Rod Steiger - "The Pawnbroker "
**Sidney Poitier - "A Patch of Blue "
**Jean-Paul Belmondo - "Pierrot le fou "
**Oskar Werner - "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"*1966 -
Lee Marvin - "Cat Ballou " andLee Marvin - "The Killers"
**Anthony Quinn - "Alexis Zorbas "
**Innokenti Smoktunovsky - "Gamlet "
**Jack Lemmon - "Good Neighbor Sam "
**Jack Lemmon - "How to Murder Your Wife "
**Oskar Werner - "Ship of Fools"*1965 -
Marcello Mastroianni - "Ieri, oggi, domani "
**Cary Grant - "Charade "
**Sterling Hayden - ""
**Sidney Poitier - "Lilies of the Field "*1964 -
Marcello Mastroianni - "Divorzio all'italiana "
**Franco Citti - "Accattone "
**Howard Da Silva - "David and Lisa "
**Jack Lemmon - "Days of Wine and Roses"
**Paul Newman - "Hud"
**Gregory Peck - "To Kill a Mockingbird"*1963 -
Burt Lancaster - "Birdman of Alcatraz"
**Charles Laughton - "Advise and Consent"
**Robert Ryan - "Billy Budd"
**Anthony Quinn - "Lawrence of Arabia"
**George Hamilton - "Light in the Piazza"
**Kirk Douglas - "Lonely Are the Brave "
**Jean-Paul Belmondo - "Léon Morin, prêtre "
**Georges Wilson - "Une aussi longue absence "*1962 -
Paul Newman - "The Hustler"
**Vladimir Ivashov - "Ballada o soldate "
**Alberto Sordi - "The Best of Enemies "
**Montgomery Clift - "Judgment at Nuremberg "
**Maximilian Schell - "Judgment at Nuremberg "
**Sidney Poitier - "A Raisin in the Sun"
**Philippe Leroy - "Le Trou "*1961 -
Jack Lemmon - "The Apartment "
**George Hamilton - " Crime & Punishment"
**Burt Lancaster - "Elmer Gantry"
**Fredric March - "Inherit the Wind "
**Spencer Tracy - "Inherit the Wind "
**Yves Montand - "Let's Make Love "*1960 -
Jack Lemmon - "Some Like It Hot "
** James Stewart - "Anatomy of a Murder "
**Takashi Shimura - "Ikiru "
**Jean Desailly - "Maigret tend un piège "
**Jean Gabin - "Maigret tend un piège "
**Zbigniew Cybulski - "Popiól i diament "*1959 -
Sidney Poitier - "The Defiant Ones "
**Paul Newman - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
**Tony Curtis - "The Defiant Ones "
**Curd Jürgens - "The Enemy Below "
**Curd Jürgens - "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness "
**Spencer Tracy - "The Last Hurrah "
**Glenn Ford - "The Sheepman "
**Victor Sjöström - "Smultronstället "
**Charles Laughton - "Witness for the Prosecution "
**Marlon Brando - "The Young Lions "*1958 -
Henry Fonda - "12 Angry Men "
**Sidney Poitier - "Edge of the City "
**Ed Wynn - "The Great Man "
**Robert Mitchum - "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison "
**Pierre Brasseur - "Porte des Lilas "
**Tony Curtis - "Sweet Smell of Success "
**Richard Basehart - "Time Limit"
**Jean Gabin - "La Traversée de Paris"*1957 -
François Périer - "Gervaise "
**Karl Malden - "Baby Doll "
**Pierre Fresnay - "Le Défroqué "
**Frank Sinatra - "The Man with the Golden Arm "
**Spencer Tracy - "The Mountain"
**William Holden - "Picnic"
**James Dean - "Rebel Without a Cause "
**Gunnar Björnstrand - "Sommarnattens leende "*1956 -
Ernest Borgnine - "Marty "
**James Dean - "East of Eden"
**Jack Lemmon - "Mister Roberts"
**Frank Sinatra - "Not as a Stranger "
**Toshirô Mifune - "Shichinin no samurai "
**Takashi Shimura - "Shichinin no samurai "*1955 -
Marlon Brando - "On the Waterfront "
**José Ferrer - "The Caine Mutiny"
**Fredric March - "Executive Suite "
** James Stewart - "The Glenn Miller Story "
**Neville Brand - "Riot in Cell Block 11 "*1954 -
Marlon Brando - "Julius Caesar"
**Spencer Tracy - "The Actress "
**Claude Laydu - "Journal d'un curé de campagne "
**Marcel Mouloudji - "Nous sommes tous des assassins "
**Eddie Albert - "Roman Holiday "
**Gregory Peck - "Roman Holiday "
**Van Heflin - "Shane"*1953 -
Marlon Brando - "Viva Zapata! "
**Humphrey Bogart - "The African Queen "
**Fredric March - "Death of a Salesman "
**Pierre Fresnay - "Dieu a besoin des hommes "
**Francesco Golisano - "Miracolo a Milano "
**Gregory Peck - "Roman Holiday "
**Van Heflin - "Shane"External links
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