BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
British film industry award
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.
Superlatives
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
Ralph Richardson won for The Sound Barrier (1952)Marlon Brando won three times for Viva Zapata! Julius Caesar On the Waterfront John Gielgud won for Julius Caesar Laurence Olivier won for Richard III Peter Finch has won five awards from seven nominations for his roles in A Town Like Alice The Trials of Oscar Wilde No Love for Johnnie Sunday Bloody Sunday Network Alec Guinness won for The Bridge on the River Kwai Henry Fonda won for 12 Angry Men Peter Sellers won for I'm All Right Jack (1959)Sidney Poitier won in 1958 for his performance in The Defiant Ones [ 1] [ 2] Jack Lemmon won three times for Some Like It Hot The Apartment The China Syndrome Richard Burton won for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Paul Newman won for The Hustler Peter O'Toole won for Lawrence of Arabia Burt Lancaster won for Birdman of Alcatraz 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)Dustin Hoffman won twice for Midnight Cowboy John and Mary Tootsie Gene Hackman won for The French Connection The Poseidon Adventure Jack Nicholson won twice for The Last Detail Chinatown One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Al Pacino won for The Godfather Part II Dog Day Afternoon Ben Kingsley won for Gandhi Michael Caine won for Educating Rita 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 Lincoln Anthony Hopkins won three times for The Silence of the Lambs The Remains of the Day The Father [ 3] Robert Downey Jr. won for his performances as Charlie Chaplin in 1992's Chaplin Hugh Grant won for his performance in Four Weddings and a Funeral Geoffrey Rush won for his performance in Shine Roberto Benigni won in 1998 for Life Is Beautiful Kevin Spacey won for his performance in American Beauty Russell Crowe won once from three consecutive nominations for playing John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind Bill Murray won for his role in Lost in Translation Jamie Foxx won for Ray Philip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote Forest Whitaker won for his performance as Idi Amin in the 2006 film, The Last King of Scotland Mickey Rourke won for The Wrestler Colin Firth won two consecutive Best Actor awards for his performances in 2009's A Single Man The King's Speech Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win for The Artist [ 4] Chiwetel Ejiofor became the first black-British actor to win this category for his performance in 12 Years a Slave Eddie Redmayne won for The Theory of Everything Leonardo DiCaprio won for The Revenant Casey Affleck won for Manchester by the Sea Gary Oldman won for Darkest Hour Rami Malek won Bohemian Rhapsody Joaquin Phoenix won for his portrayal of the title character in Joker Will Smith won for King Richard Austin Butler won for Elvis
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Multiple nominations
7 nominations 6 nominations 5 nominations 4 nominations 3 nominations
2 nominations
Multiple wins
5 wins 4 wins 3 wins
2 wins
See also
Notes
A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Richard Attenborough , Peter Sellers , Lee Marvin , Jack Lemmon , Richard Burton , Dirk Bogarde , Dustin Hoffman , Walter Matthau , Elliott Gould , Gene Hackman , Marlon Brando , George C. Scott , Donald Sutherland , Jack Nicholson , and Al Pacino were all nominated for their roles in two different films in the same category, while Ralph Richardson and Robert Redford were both nominated for three films. Matthau received dual nominations three times, with Hackman and Hoffman both accomplishing this feat twice.B 1 2 Michael Caine and Dustin Hoffman received the same number of votes, resulting in both actors receiving the award, according to Academy rules.
References
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