BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Award for Best Actor | |
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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 | Austin Butler for Elvis (2022) |
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 | |||
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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 |
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.
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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2020 | |||
Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony | |
Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone | |
Chadwick Boseman (posthumous) | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | |
Adarsh Gourav | The White Tiger | Balram Halwai | |
Mads Mikkelsen | Another Round | Martin | |
Tahar Rahim | The Mauritanian | Mohamedou Ould Salahi | |
2021 | |||
Will Smith | King Richard | Richard Williams | |
Adeel Akhtar | Ali & Ava | Ali | |
Mahershala Ali | Swan Song | Cameron Turner | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | |
Leonardo DiCaprio | Don't Look Up | Dr. Randall Mindy | |
Stephen Graham | Boiling Point | Andy Jones | |
2022 | |||
Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley | |
Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin | |
Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Charlie | |
Daryl McCormack | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Leo Grande / Connor | |
Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum Paterson | |
Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams |
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