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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.

[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!
  - Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen
  - Fredric March – Death of a Salesman
  - Pierre Fresnay – Dieu a besoin des hommes
  - Francesco Golisano – Miracolo a Milano

1953
- Best British Actor – John Gielgud – Julius Caesar
  - Jack Hawkins – The Cruel Sea
  - Kenneth More – Genevieve
  - Trevor Howard – The Heart of the Matter
  - Duncan Macrae – The Kidnappers'
- Best Foreign Actor – 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

1954
- Best British Actor– 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
- Best Foreign Actor – 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

1955
- Best British Actor – 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
- 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
  - Jack Hawkins – The Long Arm
  - Kenneth More – Reach for the Sky
- Best Foreign Actor – 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

1957
- Best British Actor – 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
- Best Foreign Actor – 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

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

1959
- Best British Actor – 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
- 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
  - 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
- 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
  - Dirk Bogarde – Victim
- 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
  - 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
- Best Foreign Actor – 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

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
  - 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

1964
- Best British Actor – Richard Attenborough – Guns at Batasi and Seance on a Wet Afternoon
  - Peter O'Toole – Becket
  - Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  - Tom Courtenay – King & Country
  - Peter Sellers – The Pink Panther
- Best Foreign Actor – Marcello Mastroianni – Ieri, oggi, domani
  - Cary Grant – Charade
  - Sterling Hayden – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  - Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field

1965
- Best British Actor – Dirk Bogarde – Darling
  - Harry Andrews – The Hill
  - Michael Caine – The Ipcress File
  - Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady
- Best Foreign Actor – Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou and 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

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

1967
- Best British Actor – 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
- Best Foreign Actor – 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

1968 – 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

1969 – Dustin Hoffman – John and Mary as John, and 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

[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
- Albert Finney – Gumshoe
- Dustin Hoffman – Little Big Man
- Dirk Bogarde – Morte a Venezia

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
- Gene Hackman – The Conversation
- Albert Finney – Murder on the Orient Express
- Al Pacino – Serpico

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
- William Holden – Network
- Woody Allen – Annie Hall
- Sylvester Stallone – Rocky

1978 – Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- Peter Ustinov – Death on the Nile
- Anthony Hopkins – Magic
- Brad Davis – Midnight Express

1979 – Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome as Jack Godell
- Woody Allen – Manhattan
- Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter
- Martin Sheen – Apocalypse Now

[edit] 1980s

1980 – John Hurt – The Elephant Man as John Merrick
- Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer
- Roy Scheider – All That Jazz
- Peter Sellers – Being There

1981 – 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

1982 – Ben Kingsley – Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi
- Warren Beatty – Reds
- Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
- Albert Finney – Shoot the Moon
- Jack Lemmon – Missing

1983 – Michael Caine – Educating Rita as Dr. Frank Bryant and Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
- Michael Caine – The Honorary Consul
- Robert De Niro – The King of Comedy

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
- F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
- Harrison Ford – Witness
- Victor Banerjee – A Passage to India

1986 – Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa as George
- Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
- Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters
- Paul Hogan – Crocodile Dundee

1987 – 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

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
- Jim Carrey as Joel Barish – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Johnny Depp as Sir James Matthew Barrie – Finding Neverland
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes – The Aviator
- Gael García Bernal as Ernesto "Che" Guevara – The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)

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

[edit] External links

BAFTA Awards Database

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