The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role has been presented to its winners since 1952 and actors of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.

Winners 1952-67

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Between 1952 and 1967, two distinct awards were given to the best British and best foreign actor each year.

British winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor

Year	Winner	Film
1952	Ralph Richardson	The Sound Barrier
1953	John Gielgud	Julius Caesar
1954	Kenneth More	Doctor in the House
1955	Laurence Olivier	Richard III
1956	Peter Finch	A Town Like Alice
1957	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958	Trevor Howard	The Key
1959	Peter Sellers	I'm All Right Jack
1960	Peter Finch	The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1961	Peter Finch	No Love for Johnnie
1962	Peter O'Toole	Lawrence of Arabia
1963	Dirk Bogarde	The Servant
1964	Richard Attenborough	Guns at Batasi, Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1965	Dirk Bogarde	Darling
1966	Richard Burton	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1967	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons

Overseas winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor

Year	Winner	Film
1952	Marlon Brando	Viva Zapata!
1953	Marlon Brando	Julius Caesar
1954	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront
1955	Ernest Borgnine	Marty
1956	François Perier	Gervaise
1957	Henry Fonda	12 Angry Men
1958	Sidney Poitier	The Defiant Ones
1959	Jack Lemmon	Some Like It Hot
1960	Jack Lemmon	The Apartment
1961	Paul Newman	The Hustler
1962	Burt Lancaster	The Bird Man of Alcatraz
1963	Marcello Mastroianni	Divorce, Italian Style
1964	Marcello Mastroianni	Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1965	Lee Marvin	The Killers, Cat Ballou
1966	Rod Steiger	The Pawnbroker
1967	Rod Steiger	In the Heat of the Night

Winners 1968-present

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In 1968, the two prizes were combined to create a single Best Actor award. Its current title, for Best Actor in a Leading Role, has been used since 1985.

Year	Winner	Film
1968	Spencer Tracy	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
1969	Dustin Hoffman	Midnight Cowboy, John and Mary
1970	Robert Redford	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1971	Peter Finch	Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972	Gene Hackman	The French Connection, The Poseidon Adventure
1973	Walter Matthau	Pete 'n' Tillie, Charley Varrick
1974	Jack Nicholson	Chinatown, The Last Detail
1975	Al Pacino	The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon
1976	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977	Peter Finch	Network
1978	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl
1979	Jack Lemmon	The China Syndrome
1980	John Hurt	The Elephant Man
1981	Burt Lancaster	Atlantic City
1982	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi
1983	Michael Caine	Educating Rita
	Dustin Hoffman	Tootsie
1984	Haing S. Ngor	The Killing Fields
1985	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986	Bob Hoskins	Mona Lisa
1987	Sean Connery	The Name of the Rose
1988	John Cleese	A Fish Called Wanda
1989	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot
1990	Philippe Noiret	Cinema Paradiso
1991	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs
1992	Robert Downey Jr	Chaplin
1993	Anthony Hopkins	The Remains of the Day
1994	Hugh Grant	Four Weddings and a Funeral
1995	Nigel Hawthorne	The Madness of King George
1996	Geoffrey Rush	Shine
1997	Robert Carlyle	The Full Monty
1998	Roberto Benigni	Life is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella)
1999	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty
2000	Jamie Bell	Billy Elliot
2001	Russell Crowe	A Beautiful Mind
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York
2003	Bill Murray	Lost In Translation
2004	Jamie Foxx	Ray
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote

See also

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• British Academy of Film and Television Arts
• BAFTA Award for Best Film

External links

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• BAFTA official site

BAFTA Awards

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