BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
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.
| BAFTA Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
 The 2023 recipient: Cillian Murphy | |
| 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 | Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023) |
| 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 | Michael Caine Dustin Hoffman Laurence Olivier |
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| Actor with most British Actor Award nominations (until 1967) | Laurence Olivier | 6 | — | — | Laurence Olivier | 6 |
| Actor with most Foreign Actor Award nominations (until 1967) | 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.
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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)
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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)
Sidney Poitier won in 1958 for his performance in The Defiant Ones, thus becoming the first black actor to win in this category[1][2]
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)
Peter O'Toole won for Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Burt Lancaster won for Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Marcello Mastroianni won twice in Divorce Italian Style (1963), and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)
Lee Marvin won for The Killers / Cat Ballou (1965)
Spencer Tracy won for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1968)
Jack Nicholson won twice for The Last Detail / Chinatown (1974), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Ben Kingsley won for Gandhi (1982)
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Michael Caine won for Educating Rita (1983)
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]
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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)
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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)
Mickey Rourke won for The Wrestler (2008)
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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)
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Eddie Redmayne won for The Theory of Everything (2014)
Leonardo DiCaprio won for The Revenant (2015)
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Casey Affleck won for Manchester by the Sea (2016).
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Gary Oldman won for Darkest Hour (2017)
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Rami Malek won Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Joaquin Phoenix won for his portrayal of the title character in Joker (2019)
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Austin Butler won for Elvis (2022)
1950s
| Year | 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 | 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[5] | 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
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple nominations
Multiple wins
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
Notes
- A1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 : Rules from the 1960s to the 1970s allowed for an actor to receive a single citation for performances in multiple films in the same year. Richard Attenborough, Peter Sellers, Lee Marvin, Jack Lemmon, Richard Burton, Dirk Bogarde, Elliott Gould, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Donald Sutherland, Jack Nicholson, and Al Pacino were all nominated for their roles in two different films, while Ralph Richardson and Robert Redford both were nominated for three films, and Walter Matthau received dual nominations three times, with Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman both accomplishing this feat twice.
- B1 2 : Michael Caine and Dustin Hoffman received the same number of votes, resulting in both actors receiving the award, according to Academy rules.
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