BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
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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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[edit] 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.
[edit] 1950s
- 1952
- Best British Actor – 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
- Best Foreign Actor – Marlon Brando – Viva Zapata!
- Best British Actor – Ralph Richardson – The Sound Barrier
- 1953
- Best British Actor – John Gielgud – Julius Caesar
- Best Foreign Actor – Marlon Brando – Julius Caesar
- 1954
- Best British Actor– Kenneth More – Doctor in the House
- Best Foreign Actor – Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront
- 1955
- Best British Actor – Laurence Olivier – Richard III
- Best Foreign Actor – 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
- 1956
- Best British Actor – Peter Finch – A Town Like Alice
- Best Foreign Actor – François Périer – Gervaise
- 1957
- Best British Actor – Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Foreign Actor – Henry Fonda – 12 Angry Men
- 1958
- Best British Actor – 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
- Best Foreign Actor – 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
- Best British Actor – Trevor Howard – The Key
- 1959
- Best British Actor – Peter Sellers – I'm All Right Jack
- Best Foreign Actor – 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
[edit] 1960s
- 1960
- Best British Actor – Peter Finch – The Trials of Oscar Wilde
- Best Foreign Actor – 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
- 1961
- Best British Actor – Peter Finch – No Love for Johnnie
- Best Foreign Actor – 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
- 1962
- Best British Actor – Peter O'Toole – Lawrence of Arabia
- Best Foreign Actor – Burt Lancaster – Birdman of Alcatraz
- 1963
- Best British Actor – Dirk Bogarde – The Servant
- Tom Courtenay – Billy Liar
- Richard Harris – This Sporting Life
- Albert Finney – Tom Jones
- Hugh Griffith – Tom Jones
- Best Foreign Actor – Marcello Mastroianni – Divorzio all'italiana
- Best British Actor – Dirk Bogarde – The Servant
- 1964
- Best British Actor – Richard Attenborough – Guns at Batasi and Seance on a Wet Afternoon
- Best Foreign Actor – Marcello Mastroianni – Ieri, oggi, domani
- 1965
- Best British Actor – Dirk Bogarde – Darling
- Best Foreign Actor – Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou and The Killers
- 1966
- Best British Actor – Richard Burton – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Michael Caine – Alfie
- Ralph Richardson – Doctor Zhivago
- Ralph Richardson – Khartoum
- Ralph Richardson – The Wrong Box
- David Warner – Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
- Best Foreign Actor – 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
- Best British Actor – Richard Burton – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1967
- Best British Actor – Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
- Best Foreign Actor – Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night
- 1968 – Spencer Tracy – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton
- 1969 – Dustin Hoffman – John and Mary as John, and Midnight Cowboy as Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo
[edit] 1970s
- 1970 – Robert Redford – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the Sundance Kid, Downhill Racer as David Chappellet, and 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
- 1971 – Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Dr. Daniel Hirsh
- 1972 – Gene Hackman – The French Connection as Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle, and 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
- 1973 – Walter Matthau – Charley Varrick as Charley Varrick, and Pete 'n' Tillie as Pete
- Marlon Brando – Ultimo tango a Parigi
- Donald Sutherland – Steelyard Blues
- Donald Sutherland – Don't Look Now
- Laurence Olivier – Sleuth
- 1974 – Jack Nicholson – Chinatown as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes, and The Last Detail as Billy Buddusky
- 1975 – Al Pacino – The Godfather Part II as Michael Corleone, and Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
- Richard Dreyfuss – Jaws
- Gene Hackman – French Connection II
- Gene Hackman – Night Moves
- Dustin Hoffman – Lenny
- 1976 – 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
- 1977 – Peter Finch – Network as Howard Beale
- 1978 – Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- 1979 – Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome as Jack Godell
[edit] 1980s
- 1980 – John Hurt – The Elephant Man as John Merrick
- 1981 – Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City as Lou Pascal
- 1982 – Ben Kingsley – Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi
- 1983 – Michael Caine – Educating Rita as Dr. Frank Bryant and Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
- 1984 – Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields as Dith Pran
- Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields
- Tom Courtenay – The Dresser
- Albert Finney – The Dresser
- 1985 – William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina
- 1986 – Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa as George
- 1987 – Sean Connery – Der Name der Rose as William of Baskerville
- 1988 – 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 as Adrian Cronauer
- 1989 – Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot as Christy Brown
- Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man as Raymond Babbit
- Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society as John Keating
- Kenneth Branagh – Henry V as Henry V
[edit] 1990s
- 1990 – 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 as Ron Kovic
- 1991 – 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
- 1992 – Robert Downey, Jr. – Chaplin as Charlie 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
- 1993 – Anthony Hopkins – Shadowlands as C. S. Lewis
- Anthony Hopkins – The Remains of the Day as James Stevens
- Liam Neeson – Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
- Daniel Day-Lewis – In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon
- 1994 – 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 as Vincent Vega
- 1995 – Nigel Hawthorne – The Madness of King George as George III
- Jonathan Pryce – Carrington as Lytton Strachey
- Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson
- Massimo Troisi – Il Postino as Mario Ruoppolo
- 1996 – Geoffrey Rush – Shine as David 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
- 1997 – 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
- 1998 – 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 as William Shakespeare
- 1999 – 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 as Jeffrey Wigand
- Jim Broadbent – Topsy-Turvy as W. S. Gilbert
[edit] 2000s
- 2000 – Jamie Bell – Billy Elliot as Billy Elliot
- Russell Crowe – Gladiator as Maximus
- Michael Douglas – Wonder Boys as Grady Tripp
- Tom Hanks – Cast Away as Chuck Noland
- Geoffrey Rush – Quills as Marquis de Sade
- 2001 – Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind as John Nash
- Jim Broadbent – Iris as John Bayley
- Ian McKellen – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gandalf
- Kevin Spacey – The Shipping News as Quoyle
- Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom as Matt Fowler
- 2002 – Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York as William 'Bill the Butcher' Cutting'
- Adrien Brody – The Pianist as Wladyslaw Szpilman
- Nicolas Cage – Adaptation. as Charlie and Donald Kaufman
- Michael Caine – The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
- Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt
- 2003 – Bill Murray as Bob Harris – Lost in Translation
- Benicio del Toro as Jack Jordan – 21 Grams
- Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Jude Law as Inman – Cold Mountain
- Sean Penn as Paul Rivers – 21 Grams
- Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum – Mystic River
- 2004 – Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles – Ray
- 2005 – Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote – Capote
- Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle – The Constant Gardener
- Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar – Brokeback Mountain
- Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash – Walk the Line
- David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow – Good Night, and Good Luck.
- 2006 – Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin – The Last King of Scotland
- Daniel Craig as James Bond – Casino Royale
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan – The Departed
- Richard Griffiths as Hector – The History Boys
- Peter O'Toole as Maurice – Venus
- 2007 – Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview – There Will Be Blood
- George Clooney as Michael Clayton – Michael Clayton
- James McAvoy as Robbie Turner – Atonement
- Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai – Eastern Promises
- Ulrich Mühe as Gerd Wiesler – The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
- 2008 – Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson – The Wrestler
- Frank Langella as Richard Nixon – Frost/Nixon
- Dev Patel as Jamal Malik – Slumdog Millionaire
- Sean Penn as Harvey Milk – Milk
- Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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