BAFTA Awards, Best Leading Actor

2026

Jesse Plemons / Bugonia

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Robert Aramayo / I Swear

2025

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

2024

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Timothy Spall / The Sixth Commandment

2023

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Paul Mescal / Aftersun

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Bill Nighy / Living

Daryl McCormack / Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Austin Butler / Elvis

2022

Leonardo DiCaprio / Don't Look Up

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Adeel Akhtar / Ali & Ava

Stephen Graham / Boiling Point

Mahershala Ali / Swan Song

2021

Tahar Rahim / The Mauritanian

Mads Mikkelsen / Druk

Adarsh Gourav / The White Tiger

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

2020

Leonardo DiCaprio / Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Taron Egerton / Rocketman

The Two Popes

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

2019

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

Bradley Cooper / A Star Is Born

2018

Daniel Day-Lewis / Phantom Thread

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

2017

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

2016

Mark Rylance / Wolf Hall

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

2015

Michael Keaton / Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

Toby Jones / Marvellous

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Ralph Fiennes / The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

2013

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

Toby Jones / The Girl

2012

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

2011

Javier Bardem / Biutiful

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

2010

Colin Firth / A Single Man

2009

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

2008

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

2007

Daniel Craig / Casino Royale

Richard Griffiths / The History Boys

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Departed

2006

Ralph Fiennes / The Constant Gardener

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

2004

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

2003

Daniel Day-Lewis / Gangs of New York

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

2002

Ian McKellen / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

2000

Ralph Fiennes / The End of the Affair

1999

Joseph Fiennes / Shakespeare in Love

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

1997

Ewan McGregor / Trainspotting

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

Robert Carlyle / Trainspotting

Kelly Macdonald / Trainspotting

Ian McKellen / Richard III

1996

Jonathan Pryce / Carrington

1995

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

Hugh Grant / Four Weddings and a Funeral

Terence Stamp / The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

1994

Liam Neeson / Schindler's List

Daniel Day-Lewis / In the Name of the Father

1993

Robert Downey Jr. / Chaplin

Daniel Day-Lewis / The Last of the Mohicans

Tim Robbins / The Player

1992

Gérard Depardieu / Cyrano de Bergerac

1991

Sean Connery / The Hunt for Red October

Tom Cruise / Born on the Fourth of July

Philippe Noiret / Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

1990

Daniel Day-Lewis / My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Robin Williams / Dead Poets Society

1989

Robin Williams / Good Morning, Vietnam

Kevin Kline / A Fish Called Wanda

John Cleese / A Fish Called Wanda

1988

Sean Connery / The Name of the Rose

Gérard Depardieu / Jean de Florette

Yves Montand / Jean de Florette

1986

Harrison Ford / Witness

F. Murray Abraham / Amadeus

1985

Haing S. Ngor / The Killing Fields

Sam Waterston / The Killing Fields

Victor Banerjee / A Passage to India

1984

Tom Courtenay / The Dresser

Albert Finney / The Dresser

Michael Caine / Educating Rita

Martin Sheen / Kennedy

1983

Jack Lemmon / Missing

Henry Fonda / On Golden Pond

Ben Kingsley / Gandhi

1982

Jeremy Irons / Brideshead Revisited

Jeremy Irons / The French Lieutenant's Woman

Burt Lancaster / Atlantic City

1981

Peter Sellers / Being There

John Hurt / The Elephant Man

Robert De Niro / Raging Bull

1980

Martin Sheen / Apocalypse Now

Dustin Hoffman / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Robert De Niro / The Deer Hunter

Peter Ustinov / Death on the Nile

Richard Dreyfuss / The Goodbye Girl

1976

Richard Dreyfuss / Jaws

Jack Nicholson / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Al Pacino / Dog Day Afternoon

1975

Al Pacino / Serpico

Jack Nicholson / Chinatown

1974

Jack Nicholson / The Last Detail

1973

Marlon Brando / The Godfather

Al Pacino / The Godfather

1972

Peter Finch / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Elliott Gould / M*A*S*H

Robert Redford / Downhill Racer

Robert Redford / Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Paul Newman / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Robert Redford / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Biography (1970)

Elliott Gould / Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

George C. Scott / Patton

1970

Dustin Hoffman / Midnight Cowboy

Dustin Hoffman / John and Mary

Alan Bates / Women in Love

Arthur Lowe / Dad's Army

1968

Rod Steiger / In the Heat of the Night

Sidney Poitier / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Jean-Paul Belmondo / Pierrot le Fou

Michael Caine / Alfie

Sidney Poitier / A Patch of Blue

1966

Dirk Bogarde / Darling

Lee Marvin / Cat Ballou

1964

Lilies of the Field

1963

Jean-Paul Belmondo / Léon Morin, prêtre

1962

Paul Newman / The Hustler

Sidney Poitier / A Raisin in the Sun

Maximilian Schell / Judgment at Nuremberg

Montgomery Clift / Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

Peter Finch / The Trials of Oscar Wilde

1959

Tony Curtis / The Defiant Ones

Sidney Poitier / The Defiant Ones

1958

Sidney Poitier / Edge of the City

Manuela

1957

James Dean / Rebel Without a Cause

1956

Ernest Borgnine / Marty

James Dean / East of Eden

Laurence Olivier / Richard III

1955

Marlon Brando / On the Waterfront

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