Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor

The Cannes Best Actor Award (French: Prix d'interprétation masculine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival.

Best Actor Award Prix d'interprétation masculine
Location	Cannes
Country	France
Presented by	Festival International du Film de Cannes
First awarded	1946 (awarded to Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend)
Currently held by	Antonio Banderas for Pain and Glory (2019)

History

It was first awarded in 1946. The ceremony was cancelled in 1948, 1950, and 1968. No awards were given to actors in 1947 and 1956. On four occasions, the jury has awarded multiple men (more than 2) the prize from one film. The four films were A Big Family in 1955, Compulsion in 1959, Long Day's Journey into Night in 1962, and Days of Glory in 2006. The award can be for lead or supporting roles with the exception of the period from 1979 to 1981 and 1991, when the festival used to award a separate "Best Supporting Actor" prize.

Award winners

Table key

†	Indicates the performance was also an Academy Award winner
‡	Indicates the performance was also nominated for an Academy Award

Year	Actor	Role	Film	Ref.
1940s
1946	Ray Milland ( United Kingdom)	Don Birnam †	The Lost Weekend	[1]
1947	No award that year
1948	Festival not held, no awards that year
1949	Edward G. Robinson ( United States)	Gino Monetti	House of Strangers	[2]
1950s
1950	Festival not held, no awards that year
1951	Michael Redgrave ( United Kingdom)	Andrew Crocker-Harris	The Browning Version	[3]
1952	Marlon Brando ( United States)	Emiliano Zapata ‡	Viva Zapata!	[4]
1953	No award that year
1954	No award that year
1955	Spencer Tracy ( United States) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	John J. Macreedy ‡	Bad Day at Black Rock	[5]
	Sergei Lukyanov ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Matvei Zhurbin	A Big Family (Больша́я семья́)
	Boris Andreyev ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Ilya Matveyevich Zhurbin
	Aleksey Batalov ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Aleksei Zhurbin
	Sergei Kurilov ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Viktor Zhurbin
	Vadim Medvedev ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Anton Zhurbin
	Boris Bityukov ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Kostya Zhurbin
	Nikolai Gritsenko ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Club Manager
	Pavel Kadochnikov ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Skobolev
	Boris Kokovkin ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Shipyard Director
	Nikolay Sergeev ( Soviet Union) (Acting Award)[lower-alpha 1]	Basmanov
1956	(Acting Award / see Best Actress)[lower-alpha 2]
1957	John Kitzmiller ( United States)	Sgt. Jim	Valley of Peace	[6]
1958	Paul Newman ( United States)	Ben Quick	The Long, Hot Summer	[7]
1959	Bradford Dillman ( United States)	Artie Strauss	Compulsion	[8]
	Dean Stockwell ( United States)	Judd Steiner
	Orson Welles ( United States)	Jonathan Wilk
1960s
1960	No award this year
1961	Anthony Perkins ( United States)	Philip Van Der Besh	Goodbye Again	[9]
1962	Dean Stockwell ( United States)	Edmund Tyrone	Long Day's Journey into Night	[10]
	Jason Robards ( United States)	James Tyrone Sr.
	Ralph Richardson ( United Kingdom)	James Tyrone Jr.
	Murray Melvin ( United Kingdom)	Geoffrey Inghman	A Taste of Honey
1963	Richard Harris ( Ireland)	Frank Machin ‡	This Sporting Life	[11]
1964	Antal Páger ( Hungary)	Vajkay Ákos	Drama of the Lark (Pacsirta)	[12]
	Saro Urzì ( Italy)	Don Vincenzo Ascalone	Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata)
1965	Terence Stamp ( United Kingdom)	Freddie Clegg	The Collector	[13]
1966	Per Oscarsson ( Sweden)	Pontus	Hunger (Sult)	[14]
1967	Oded Kotler ( Israel)	Eli	Three Days and a Child (שלושה ימים וילד)	[15]
1968	Festival interrupted, no awards that year because of the May 1968 events in France.
1969	Jean-Louis Trintignant ( France)	The Examining Magistrate	Z	[16]
1970s
1970	Marcello Mastroianni ( Italy)	Oreste Nardi	The Pizza Triangle (Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca)	[17]
1971	Riccardo Cucciolla ( Italy)	Nicola Sacco	Sacco & Vanzetti (Sacco e Vanzetti)	[18]
1972	Jean Yanne ( France)	Jean	We Won't Grow Old Together (Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble)	[19]
1973	Giancarlo Giannini ( Italy)	Antonio Soffiantini	Love and Anarchy (Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza...)	[20]
1974	Jack Nicholson ( United States)	Billy L. Buddusky ‡	The Last Detail	[21]
1975	Vittorio Gassman ( Italy)	Fausto Consolo	Scent of a Woman (Profumo di donna)	[22]
1976	José Luis Gómez ( Spain)	Pascual Duarte	Pascual Duarte	[23]
1977	Fernando Rey ( Spain)	Luis	Elisa, vida mía	[24]
1978	Jon Voight ( United States)	Luke Martin †	Coming Home	[25]
1979	Jack Lemmon ( United States)	Jack Godell ‡	The China Syndrome	[26]
	Supporting Stefano Madia ( Italy)	Marco Millozza	Dear Father (Caro papà)
1980s
1980	Michel Piccoli ( France)	Mauro Ponticelli	A Leap in the Dark (Salto nel vuoto, and also known as Leap Into the Void)	[27]
	Supporting Jack Thompson ( Australia)	Major J.F. Thomas	Breaker Morant
1981	Ugo Tognazzi ( Italy)	Primo Spaggiari	Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo)	[28]
	Supporting Ian Holm ( United Kingdom)	Sam Mussabini ‡	Chariots of Fire
1982	Jack Lemmon ( United States)	Edmund Horman ‡	Missing	[29]
1983	Gian Maria Volonté ( Italy)	Bernard Fontana	The Death of Mario Ricci (La mort de Mario Ricci)	[30]
1984	Alfredo Landa ( Spain)	Paco el Bajo	The Holy Innocents (Los santos inocentes)	[31]
	Francisco Rabal ( Spain)	Azarías
1985	William Hurt ( United States)	Luis Molina †	Kiss of the Spider Woman	[32]
1986	Michel Blanc ( France)	Antoine	Tenue de soirée	[33]
	Bob Hoskins ( United Kingdom)	George ‡	Mona Lisa
1987	Marcello Mastroianni ( Italy)	Romano ‡	Dark Eyes (Oci ciornie)	[34]
1988	Forest Whitaker ( United States)	Charlie "Bird" Parker	Bird	[35]
1989	James Spader ( United States)	Graham Dalton	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	[36]
1990s
1990	Gérard Depardieu ( France)	Cyrano de Bergerac ‡	Cyrano de Bergerac	[37]
1991	John Turturro ( United States)	Barton Fink	Barton Fink	[38]
	Supporting Samuel L. Jackson ( United States)	Gator Purify	Jungle Fever
1992	Tim Robbins ( United States)	Griffin Mill	The Player	[39]
1993	David Thewlis ( United Kingdom)	Johnny	Naked	[40]
1994	Ge You ( China)	Xu Fugui	To Live (活着)	[41]
1995	Jonathan Pryce ( United Kingdom)	Lytton Strachey	Carrington	[42]
1996	Daniel Auteuil ( France)	Harry	The Eighth Day (Le huitième jour)	[43]
	Pascal Duquenne ( Belgium)	Georges
1997	Sean Penn ( United States)	Eddie Quinn	She's So Lovely	[44]
1998	Peter Mullan ( United Kingdom)	Joe Kavanagh	My Name Is Joe	[45]
1999	Emmanuel Schotté ( France)	Pharaon de Winter	Humanité (L'humanité)	[46]
2000s
2000	Tony Leung Chiu-wai ( Hong Kong)	Chow Mo-wan	In the Mood for Love (花樣年華)	[47]
2001	Benoît Magimel ( France)	Walter Klemmer	The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste)	[48]
2002	Olivier Gourmet ( Belgium)	Olivier	The Son (Le Fils)	[49]
2003	Muzaffer Özdemir ( Turkey)	Mahmut	Uzak	[50]
	Mehmet Emin Toprak ( Turkey)	Yusuf
2004	Yūya Yagira ( Japan)	Akira Fukushima	Nobody Knows (誰も知らない)	[51]
2005	Tommy Lee Jones ( United States)	Pete Perkins	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	[52]
2006	Roschdy Zem ( France)	Messaoud Souni	Days of Glory (Indigènes)	[53]
	Bernard Blancan ( France)	Sergent Roger Martinez
	Jamel Debbouze ( France /  Morocco)	Saïd Otmari
	Samy Naceri ( France)	Yassir
	Sami Bouajila ( France /  Tunisia)	Abdelkader
2007	Konstantin Lavronenko ( Russia)	Alex	The Banishment (Изгнание)	[54]
2008	Benicio del Toro ( Puerto Rico)	Ernesto "Che" Guevara	Che	[55]
2009	Christoph Waltz ( Austria)	Col. Hans Landa †	Inglourious Basterds	[56]
2010s
2010	Javier Bardem ( Spain)	Uxbal ‡	Biutiful	[57]
	Elio Germano ( Italy)	Claudio	La nostra vita
2011	Jean Dujardin ( France)	George Valentin †	The Artist	[58]
2012	Mads Mikkelsen ( Denmark)	Lucas	The Hunt (Jagten)	[59]
2013	Bruce Dern ( United States)	Woody Grant ‡	Nebraska	[60]
2014	Timothy Spall ( United Kingdom)	J. M. W. Turner	Mr. Turner	[61]
2015	Vincent Lindon ( France)	Thierry Taugourdeau	The Measure of a Man (La Loi du marché)	[62]
2016	Shahab Hosseini ( Iran)	Emad	The Salesman (فروشنده)	[63]
2017	Joaquin Phoenix ( United States)	Joe	You Were Never Really Here	[64]
2018	Marcello Fonte ( Italy)	Marcello	Dogman	[65]
2019	Antonio Banderas ( Spain)	Salvador Mallo ‡	Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)	[66]
2020s
2020	Festival not held, due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Multiple award winners

2 awards

• Dean Stockwell (USA) - Compulsion (1959), Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
• Jack Lemmon (USA) - The China Syndrome (1979), Missing (1982)
• Marcello Mastroianni (Italy) - The Pizza Triangle (1970), Dark Eyes (1987)

See also

• Silver Bear for Best Actor
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Notes

1. This year the award was changed to Prix d'Interpretation (Acting Award), without gender differentiation. The entire male and female cast of A Big Family (Bolshaya Semya) was recipient of this award (Tied with Spencer Tracy for Bad Day at Black Rock).
2. This year the award was changed to Prix d'Interprétation (Acting Award), without gender differentiation, and it was a woman who won the award (Susan Hayward for I'll Cry Tomorrow).

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External links

• Cannes Film Festival official website
• Cannes Film Festival at IMDb.