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 2019 recipient Joaquin Phoenix | |
| Description | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Currently held by | Joaquin Phoenix for Joker (2019) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
Superlatives
| Superlative | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
8 |
| Actor with most British Actor Award nominations (until 1967) | Laurence Olivier | 6 | — | — | Laurence Olivier | 6 |
| Actor with most Foreign Actor Award nominations (until 1967) | Jack Lemmon Sidney Poitier |
6 | — | — | Jack Lemmon Sidney Poitier |
6 |
Note: Dustin Hoffman's total of eight nominations, includes his 1968 Most Promising Newcomer nomination for The Graduate.
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.
Marlon Brando won three times from seven nominations for his roles in 1952's Viva Zapata!, 1953's Julius Caesar and 1954's On the Waterfront
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)
Sidney Poitier won in 1958 for his performance in The Defiant Ones, thus becoming the first black actor to win in this category[1]
Jack Lemmon won three times for his roles in Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960) and The China Syndrome (1979)
Richard Burton won for his performances in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Dustin Hoffman won twice from seven nominations for his performances in Midnight Cowboy and John and Mary (1969), and Tootsie (1983)
Jack Nicholson won twice for his performances in 1974's The Last Detail and Chinatown, and 1976's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Al Pacino won once from four nominations for his performances in 1975's The Godfather Part II and Dog Day Afternoon
Richard Dreyfuss won for his role in The Goodbye Girl (1979)
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Michael Caine won for his performance in Educating Rita (1983)
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William Hurt won for his performance in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
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 twice from four nominations for his role in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs and 1993's The Remains of the Day[2]
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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)
Jamie Bell became the youngest actor to win in this category for his title role in Billy Elliot (2000)
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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)
Philip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote (2005)
Mickey Rourke won for his performance in The Wrestler (2008)
Colin Firth won two consecutive Best Actor awards for his performances in 2009's A Single Man and 2010's The King's Speech
Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win this award for his performance in the 2011 film The Artist[3]
Chiwetel Ejiofor became the first black-British actor to win this category for his performance in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Eddie Redmayne won in 2014 for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, and was nominated the next year for his performance as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl
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Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for The Aviator, The Departed and The Wolf of Wall Street, before winning in 2015 for his portrayal of Hugh Glass in The Revenant
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Casey Affleck won in 2016 for his performance in Manchester by the Sea
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1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Note: All nominations for multiple performances in a single year from the 1950s to the 1970s count as one nomination. The two mentions for Michael Caine (1983), Anthony Hopkins (1993) and Sean Penn (2003) count as two separate nominations.
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
References
- Crouse 2005, p. 177
- http://awards.bafta.org/award/1994/film/leading-actor
- Patel, Tara (February 27, 2012). "'The Artist' Wins Top Oscar Honors in Bow to Silent Film". Bloomberg Businessweek. Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on August 28, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
- According to Ronald Bergan and Robyn Karney in the Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide (London: Bloomsbury, 1988, p.224) and Melissa E. Biggs (French Films, 1945–1993, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996, p.221) the film has these two alternate English titles. The English title used on the original British release is unclear.
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