BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
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| BAFTA Award for Best Actor | |
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The 2023 recipient: Cillian Murphy
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| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Location | United Kingdom |
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| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Currently held by | Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023) |
| Official website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
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.
Contents
Superlatives
| Superlative | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall | |||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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.
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Ralph Richardson won for The Sound Barrier (1952)
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Marlon Brando won three times for Viva Zapata! (1952), Julius Caesar (1953), and On the Waterfront (1954)
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)
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Henry Fonda won for 12 Angry Men (1957)
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Peter Sellers won for I'm All Right Jack (1959)
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Sidney Poitier won in 1958 for his performance in The Defiant Ones, thus becoming the first black actor to win in this category[1][2]
Jack Lemmon won three times for Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960) and The China Syndrome (1979)
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Paul Newman won for The Hustler (1961)
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Marcello Mastroianni won twice in Divorce Italian Style (1963), and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)
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Lee Marvin won for The Killers / Cat Ballou (1965)
Spencer Tracy won for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1968)
Jack Nicholson won twice for The Last Detail / Chinatown (1974), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Ben Kingsley won for Gandhi (1982)
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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 three times for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Remains of the Day (1993) and The Father (2020) [3]
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Hugh Grant won for his performance in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
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Roberto Benigni won in 1998 for Life Is Beautiful
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Kevin Spacey won for his performance in American Beauty (1999)
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Russell Crowe won once from three consecutive nominations for playing John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind (2001)
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Bill Murray won for his role in Lost in Translation (2003)
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Colin Firth won two consecutive Best Actor awards for his performances in 2009's A Single Man and 2010's The King's Speech
Chiwetel Ejiofor became the first black-British actor to win this category for his performance in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
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Joaquin Phoenix won for his portrayal of the title character in Joker (2019)
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
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) and Anthony Hopkins (1993) count as two separate nominations.
Multiple nominations
Multiple wins
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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
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