BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
| BAFTA Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Currently held by | Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant (2015) |
| 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.
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 (till 1967) | Peter Finch | 3 | — | — | Peter Finch | 3 |
| Actor with most Foreign Actor Awards (till 1967) | Marlon Brando | 3 | — | — | Marlon Brando | 3 |
| Actor with most nominations | Dustin Hoffman | 7 | Denholm Elliott | 7 | Michael Caine Dustin Hoffman Laurence Olivier |
8 |
| Actor with most British Actor Award nominations (till 1967) | Laurence Olivier | 6 | — | — | Laurence Olivier | 6 |
| Actor with most Foreign Actor Award nominations (till 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.
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
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Multiple wins
5 wins
- Peter Finch (2 consecutive)
4 wins
- Daniel Day-Lewis
3 wins
- Marlon Brando (consecutive)
- Jack Lemmon (2 consecutive)
2 wins
- Dirk Bogarde
- Colin Firth (consecutive)
- Anthony Hopkins
- Dustin Hoffman
- Burt Lancaster
- Marcello Mastroianni (consecutive)
- Jack Nicholson
- Rod Steiger (consecutive)
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
- ↑ 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.