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 was the first recipient of this award winning for The Sound Barrier 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 Ernest Borgnine won for Marty Peter Finch has won five times for 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 Sidney Poitier won in 1958 for his performance in The Defiant Ones [ 1] [ 2] Jack Lemmon won for I'm All Right Jack Jack Lemmon won three times for Some Like It Hot The Apartment The China Syndrome Paul Newman won for The Hustler Peter O'Toole won for No Love for Johnnie Burt Lancaster won twice for his roles in Birdman of Alcatraz Atlantic City Marcello Mastroianni won twice in Divorce Italian Style (1963), and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)Richard Burton won for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Richard Attenborough won in 1968 for his roles in the films Guns at Batasi Seance on a Wet Afternoon Lee Marvin won for The Killers / Cat Ballou (1965)Paul Scofield won for A Man for All Seasons Rod Steiger won twice consecutively for his roles in The Pawnbroker In the Heat of the Night Spencer Tracy won for his role in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Dustin Hoffman won twice for his roles in three films Midnight Cowboy John and Mary Tootsie Robert Redford won for three films in 1970: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Downhill Racer Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Gene Hackman won for The French Connection The Poseidon Adventure Walter Matthau won for his roles in Charley Varrick and Pete 'n' Tillie 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 John Hurt won for his role in The Elephant Man Ben Kingsley won for Gandhi Michael Caine won for Educating Rita Sean Connery won for The Name of the Rose John Cleese won for A Fish Called Wanda 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 Chaplin Hugh Grant won for Four Weddings and a Funeral Geoffrey Rush won for Shine Kevin Spacey won for American Beauty Russell Crowe won for playing John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind Bill Murray won for Lost in Translation Jamie Foxx won for Ray Philip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote Forest Whitaker won for The Last King of Scotland Colin Firth won two consecutive Best Actor awards for his performances in 2009's A Single Man The King's Speech 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 for Bohemian Rhapsody Joaquin Phoenix won for Joker Austin Butler won for Elvis Cillian Murphy won for Oppenheimer
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1960s
1970s
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2010s
2020s
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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