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 recognise an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.
| BAFTA Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
The 2024 recipient: Adrien Brody | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Currently held by | Adrien Brody for The Brutalist (2024) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
Superlatives
| Superlative | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall (including Most Promising Newcomer) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Albert Finney | 9 |
| Actor with most British Actor Award nominations (until 1967) | Laurence Olivier | 6 | — | — | Laurence Olivier | 6 |
| Actor with most Foreign Actor Award nominations (until 1967) | Sidney Poitier | 6 | — | — | Sidney Poitier | 6 |
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.
indicates the winner
1950s
| Year | Actor | Films | Role (s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | God Needs Men | Thomas Gourvennec | ||
| Francesco Golisano | 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 | 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 | Diary of a Country Priest | Priest of Ambricourt | ||
| Marcel Mouloudji | We Are 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 | 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 | Smiles of a Summer Night | Fredik Egerman | ||
| James Dean (posthumous) | Rebel Without a Cause | Jim Stark | ||
| Pierre Fresnay | 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 | The Gates of Paris | Juju | ||
| Tony Curtis | Sweet Smell of Success | Sidney Falco | ||
| Jean Gabin | La Traversé de 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 | ||
| Laurence Harvey | Room at the Top | Joe Lampton | ||
| I. S. Johar | Harry Black | Bapu | ||
| 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 | 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 | Ashes and Diamonds | Maciek Chelmicki | ||
| Jean Desailly | Maigret Sets a Trap | Marcel Maurin | ||
| Jean Gabin | Jules Maigret | |||
| Takashi Shimura | Living | Kanji Watanabe | ||
| James Stewart | Anatomy of a Murder | Paul Biegler | ||
1960s
| Year | Actor | Film | Role (s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | Ballad of a Soldier | Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov | ||
| Philippe Leroy | The Night Watch | Manu Borelli | ||
| Sidney Poitier | A Raisin in the Sun | Walter Lee Younger | ||
| Maximilian Schell † | Judgment at Nuremberg | Hans Rolfe | ||
| Alberto Sordi | The Best of Enemies | Captain Blasi | ||
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, 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 | 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 | Divorce Italian Style | Ferdinando Cefalù | ||
| Franco Citti | Accattone | 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 [A] | 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 | ||
| Peter Sellers [A] | Dr. Strangelove | Gp Capt. Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley & Dr. Strangelove | ||
| The Pink Panther | Inspector Jacques Clouseau | |||
| Best Foreign Actor | ||||
| Marcello Mastroianni | 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 [A] | Cat Ballou | Kid Shelleen & Tim Strawn | ||
| The Killers | Charlie Strom | |||
| Jack Lemmon [A] | 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) | Best British Actor | |||
| Richard Burton [A] | 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 [A] | 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 [A] | 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 | 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) | Dustin Hoffman [A] | John and Mary | John | |
| Midnight Cowboy | Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo | |||
| Alan Bates | Women in Love | Rupert Birkin | ||
| Walter Matthau [A] | Hello, Dolly! | Horace Vandergelder | ||
| The Secret Life of an American Wife | The Movie Star | |||
| Nicol Williamson | Inadmissible Evidence | Bill Maitland | ||
1970s
| Year | Actor | Films | Role (s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1970 (24th) | Robert Redford [A] | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Sundance Kid | |
| Downhill Racer | David Chappellet | |||
| Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper | |||
| Elliott Gould [A] | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Ted Henderson | ||
| MASH | Trapper John McIntyre | |||
| 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 | Death in Venice | Gustav von Aschenbach | ||
| Albert Finney | Gumshoe | Eddie Ginley | ||
| Dustin Hoffman | Little Big Man | Jack Crabb | ||
1972 (26th) | Gene Hackman [A] † | The French Connection † | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | |
| The Poseidon Adventure | Reverend Frank Scott | |||
| Marlon Brando [A] † | The Godfather † | Vito Corleone | ||
| The Nightcomers | Peter Quint | |||
| George C. Scott [A] | The Hospital | Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock | ||
| They Might Be Giants | Justin Playfair | |||
| Robert Shaw | Young Winston | Lord Randolph Churchill | ||
1973 (27th) | Walter Matthau [A] | Charley Varrick | Charley Varrick | |
| Pete 'n' Tillie | Pete | |||
| Marlon Brando | Last Tango in Paris | Paul | ||
| Laurence Olivier | Sleuth | Andrew Wyke | ||
| Donald Sutherland [A] | Don't Look Now | John Baxter | ||
| Steelyard Blues | Jesse Veldini | |||
1974 (28th) | Jack Nicholson [A] | 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 [A] | Dog Day Afternoon | Sonny Wortzik | |
| The Godfather Part II | Michael Corleone | |||
| Richard Dreyfuss | Jaws | Matt Hooper | ||
| Gene Hackman [A] | 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 [A] | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein | ||
| Marathon Man | Thomas "Babe" Levy | |||
| Walter Matthau [A] | The Bad News Bears | Morris Buttermaker | ||
| The Sunshine Boys | Willy Clark | |||
1977 (31st) | Peter Finch (posthumous) † | 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 | |
| Anthony Hopkins | Magic | Corky Withers / Fats (voice) | ||
| Brad Davis | Midnight Express | Billy Hayes | ||
| Peter Ustinov | Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot | ||
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 | Films | Role (s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 (TIE) [B] | Educating Rita | Dr. Frank Bryant | |
| Dustin Hoffman (TIE) [B] | 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 | ||
| Victor Banerjee | A Passage to India | Dr. Aziz Ahmed | ||
| Harrison Ford | Witness | John Book | ||
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 | King Henry V | ||
| Dustin Hoffman † | Rain Man | Raymond Babbit | ||
| Robin Williams | Dead Poets Society | John Keating |
1990s
| Year | Actor | Films | Role (s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1990 (44th) | Philippe Noiret | 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 "Hawkeye" 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 | Bernadette Bassenger | ||
| John Travolta | Pulp Fiction | Vincent Vega | ||
1995 (49th) | Nigel Hawthorne | The Madness of King George | King 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 | King 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 | Guido | |
| Michael Caine | Little Voice | Ray Say | ||
| Joseph Fiennes | Shakespeare in Love | William Shakespeare | ||
| Tom Hanks | Saving Private Ryan | Captain John H. Miller | ||
| 1999 (53rd) | 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 | Zahir "George" Khan |
2000s
| Year | Actor | Films | Role (s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (54th) | 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) | 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) | 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 R. Schmidt | ||
| 2003 (57th) | 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 | William "W.P." Inman | ||
| Sean Penn † | 21 Grams | Paul Rivers | ||
| Mystic River † | Jimmy Markum | |||
| 2004 (58th) | 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 | Ernesto "Che" Guevara | ||
| 2005 (59th) | 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) | 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) | 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 | Gerd Wiesler | ||
| 2008 (62nd) | 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) | 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 | Films | Role (s) | Ref. |
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| 2010 (64th) | 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) | 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) | 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) | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | |
| Christian Bale | American Hustle | Irving Rosenfeld | ||
| Bruce Dern | Nebraska | Woodrow T. "Woody" Grant | ||
| Leonardo DiCaprio | The Wolf of Wall Street | Jordan Belfort | ||
| Tom Hanks | Captain Phillips | Captain Richard Phillips | ||
| 2014 (68th) | 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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | Rami Malek † | Bohemian Rhapsody | Freddie Mercury | |
| Christian Bale | Vice | Dick Cheney | ||
| Steve Coogan | Stan & Ollie | Stan Laurel | ||
| Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born | Jackson "Jack" Maine | ||
| Viggo Mortensen | Green Book | Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga | ||
| 2019 (73rd) | 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 | Films | Role (s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (74th) | 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) | 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 (76th) | 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 Patterson | ||
| Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams | ||
| 2023 (77th) | Cillian Murphy † | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| Bradley Cooper | Maestro | Leonard Bernstein | ||
| Colman Domingo | Rustin | Bayard Rustin | ||
| Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham | ||
| Barry Keoghan | Saltburn | Oliver Quick | ||
| Teo Yoo | Past Lives | Hae Sung | ||
| 2024 (78th) | Adrien Brody † | The Brutalist | László Tóth | |
| Timothée Chalamet | A Complete Unknown | Bob Dylan | ||
| Colman Domingo | Sing Sing | John "Divine G" Whitfield | ||
| Ralph Fiennes | Conclave | Thomas Cardinal Lawrence | ||
| Hugh Grant | Heretic | Mr. Reed | ||
| Sebastian Stan | The Apprentice | Donald Trump |
Multiple nominations
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Multiple wins
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See also
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
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