# Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

The Guldbagge for Best Actor in a Leading Role is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to actors working in the Swedish motion picture industry.

## Superlatives

| Superlative | Best Actor | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall | Overall |
| Actor with most awards | Jarl Kulle Göran Stangertz Stellan Skarsgård Sven Wollter Max von Sydow Rolf Lassgård Sven-Bertil Taube Krister Henriksson Mikael Persbrandt | 2 | — | — | Jarl Kulle Göran Stangertz Stellan Skarsgård Sven Wollter Max von Sydow Rolf Lassgård Sven-Bertil Taube Krister Henriksson Mikael Persbrandt | 2 |
| Actor with most nominations | Mikael Persbrandt Rolf Lassgård | 5 | Anders Ahlbom [sv] Thommy Berggren Kjell Bergqvist Brasse Brännström David Dencik Dan Ekborg Sverrir Gudnason Michael Nyqvist Shanti Roney Sven-Bertil Taube Johan Widerberg | 2 | Mikael Persbrandt Rolf Lassgård | 5 |

## Winners and nominees

Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Actor in a Leading Role and the film associated with the award. Before 1991 the awards did not announce nominees, only winners. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best actor, which are listed from 1991 and forward.
For the first nineteen ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Guldbagge Awards presented on 15 October 1965, recognized films that were released between July 1964 and June 1965. Starting with the 20th Guldbagge Awards, held in 1985, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from 1 January to 31 December. The Awards presented at that ceremony were in respect of 18 months of film production owing to the changeover from the broken calendar year to the standard calendar year during 1984. Due to a mediocre film year, no awards ceremony was held in 1971.
| Year | Actor | Film | Role(s) |
| 1963/64 (1st) | Keve Hjelm | Raven's End | The father |
| 1964/65 (2nd) | Jarl Kulle | Swedish Wedding Night | Hilmer Westlund |
| 1965/66 (3rd) | Thommy Berggren | Heja Roland! | Roland Jung |
| 1966/67 (4th) | Per Oscarsson | Hunger | Pontus |
| 1967/68 (5th) | Halvar Björk | Badarna | Knoppen Berglund |
| 1968/69 (6th) | Roland Hedlund | Ådalen 31 | Harald |
| 1969/70 (7th) | Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt | Harry Munter | Valle |
| 1970/71 | — (no award given) | — (no award given) | — (no award given) |
| 1971/72 (8th) | Eddie Axberg | The Emigrants The New Land | Robert Nilsson |
| 1972/73 (9th) | Gösta Ekman | The Man Who Quit Smoking | Dante Alighieri |
| 1973/74 (10th) | Allan Edwall | Emil and the Piglet | Anton Svensson |
| 1974/75 (11th) | Göran Stangertz | The Last Adventure | Karl-Erik "Jimmy" Mattsson |
| 1975/76 (12th) | Toivo Pawlo | Hallo Baby | The girl's father |
| 1976/77 (13th) | Håkan Serner | The Man on the Roof Bang! | Einar Rönn Magnus Hinder |
| 1977/78 (14th) | Anders Lönnbro | The Score | Kennet Ahl |
| 1978/79 (15th) | Anders Åberg | Kejsaren | Elje (Jesaja) Ström |
| 1979/80 (16th) | Peter Lindgren | I Am Maria | Jon |
| 1980/81 (17th) | Ingvar Hirdwall | Children's Island | Stig Utler |
| 1981/82 (18th) | Stellan Skarsgård | The Simple-Minded Murderer | Sven |
| 1982/83 (19th) | Jarl Kulle | Fanny and Alexander | Gustav Adolf Ekdahl |
| 1984 (20th) | Sven Wollter | The Man from Majorca Sista leken | Bo Jarnebring [sv] Viktor |
| 1985 (21st) | Anton Glanzelius | My Life as a Dog | Ingemar |
| 1986 (22nd) | Erland Josephson | Amorosa The Sacrifice | David Sprengel [sv] Alexander |
| 1987 (23rd) | Max von Sydow | Pelle the Conqueror | Lasse Karlsson |
| 1988 (24th) | Tomas Bolme | Creditors | Adolf |
| 1989 (25th) | Stellan Skarsgård | Codename Coq Rouge The Women on the Roof | Carl Hamilton Willy |
| 1990 (26th) | Börje Ahlstedt | The Rabbit Man | Bengt Nääs |
| 1991 (27th) | Lasse Åberg | Den ofrivillige golfaren | Stig-Helmer Olsson |
| 1991 (27th) | Antti Reini | Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem | Jari |
| 1991 (27th) | Rolf Lassgård | Önskas | Bosse |
| 1992 (28th) | Rolf Lassgård | Night of the Orangutan | Fritz Algot "Tjaffo" Nilsson |
| 1992 (28th) | Thommy Berggren | Sunday's Children | Erik Bergman |
| 1992 (28th) | Samuel Fröler | The Best Intentions | Henrik Bergman |
| 1993 (29th) | Sven Lindberg | Spring of Joy | Ragnar Persson |
| 1993 (29th) | Peter Haber | Sune's Summer | Rudolf |
| 1993 (29th) | Simon Norrthon | Speak Up! It's So Dark | Sören |
| 1994 (30th) | Sven-Bertil Taube | The Hands | Ralf |
| 1994 (30th) | Peter Haber | Sommarmord [sv] | Sture |
| 1994 (30th) | Tord Peterson | House of Angels – The Second Summer | Ivar Pettersson |
| 1995 (31st) | Loa Falkman | Like It Never Was Before | Rune Runeberg |
| 1995 (31st) | Peter Haber | White Lies [sv] | Palle Hagmann |
| 1995 (31st) | Johan Widerberg | All Things Fair | Stig Santesson |
| 1996 (32nd) | Max von Sydow | Hamsun | Knut Hamsun |
| 1996 (32nd) | Rolf Lassgård | The Hunters | Erik Bäckström |
| 1996 (32nd) | Gösta Ekman | Dad Is Tired Again | Father (Mr. Khopp) |
| 1997 (33rd) | Göran Stangertz | Run for Your Life [ko; sv] | Mikael |
| 1997 (33rd) | Björn Kjellman | Adam & Eva | Adam |
| 1997 (33rd) | Jakob Eklund | Run for Your Life [ko; sv] | Erik |
| 1998 (34th) | Krister Henriksson | Waiting for the Tenor [sv] | Hoffman/Henning |
| 1998 (34th) | Johan H:son Kjellgren | Waiting for the Tenor [sv] | Tomas |
| 1998 (34th) | Rolf Lassgård | Under the Sun | Olof |
| 1999 (35th) | Björn Kjellman | Vägen ut | Reine |
| 1999 (35th) | Mikael Persbrandt | Deathly Compulsion [sv] | Andreas Persson |
| 1999 (35th) | Jakob Eklund | Zero Tolerance | Johan Falk |
| 2000 (36th) | Kjell Bergqvist | Den bästa sommaren | Yngve Johansson |
| 2000 (36th) | Per Graffman [sv] | Before the Storm | Ali |
| 2000 (36th) | Michalis Koutsogiannakis [no; sv] | The New Land | Massoud |
| 2001 (37th) | Sven Wollter | A Song for Martin | Martin |
| 2001 (37th) | Örjan Ramberg | Powder | Ambel |
| 2001 (37th) | Kjell Bergqvist | Days Like This | Leif |
| 2002 (38th) | Michael Nyqvist | Grabben i graven bredvid | Benny Söderström |
| 2002 (38th) | Artyom Bogucharsky | Lilja 4-ever | Volodja |
| 2002 (38th) | Mikael Persbrandt | Everybody Loves Alice | Johan Lindberg |
| 2003 (39th) | Jonas Karlsson | Details | Stefan |
| 2003 (39th) | Jakob Eklund | Daybreak [eu; fi; fr; it; pl; sv] | Rickard |
| 2003 (39th) | Andreas Wilson | Evil | Erik Ponti [da; sv] |
| 2004 (40th) | Robert Gustafsson | Four Shades of Brown | Christer Johan |
| 2004 (40th) | Michael Nyqvist | As It Is in Heaven | Daniel Daréus |
| 2004 (40th) | Johan Rheborg | Four Shades of Brown | Kjell Levrén Ernst |
| 2005 (41st) | Krister Henriksson | Sex, Hope and Love [fi; sv] | Bertil |
| 2005 (41st) | Peter Andersson | Mouth to Mouth | Mats |
| 2005 (41st) | Mikael Persbrandt | Bang Bang Orangutang | Åke Jönsson |
| 2006 (42nd) | Gustaf Skarsgård | Kidz in da Hood | Johan Sahlén |
| 2006 (42nd) | Jonas Karlsson | Offside | Anders |
| 2006 (42nd) | Anastasios Soulis | Suddenly | Jonas |
| 2007 (43rd) | Michael Segerström | Darling | Bernard |
| 2007 (43rd) | Jonas Karlsson | To Love Someone [de; sv] | Hannes |
| 2007 (43rd) | Leonard Terfelt | Leo | Leo |
| 2008 (44th) | Mikael Persbrandt | Everlasting Moments | Sigfrid Larsson |
| 2008 (44th) | Gustaf Skarsgård | Patrik, Age 1.5 | Göran Skoogh |
| 2008 (44th) | Peter Stormare | Wolf | Klemens |
| 2009 (45th) | Claes Ljungmark [sv] | A Rational Solution [fr; sv] | Sven-Erik |
| 2009 (45th) | Olle Sarri | The Ape | Krister |
| 2009 (45th) | Björn A. Ling | Bröllopsfotografen | Robin |
| 2010 (46th) | Joel Kinnaman | Easy Money | Johan "JW" Westlund |
| 2010 (46th) | Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs [sv; tr] | Sebbe | Sebbe |
| 2010 (46th) | Bill Skarsgård | Simple Simon | Simon |
| 2011 (47th) | Sven-Bertil Taube | A One-Way Trip to Antibes | George |
| 2011 (47th) | Mikael Persbrandt | Stockholm East | Johan |
| 2011 (47th) | Kevin Vaz [sv] | Play | Kevin |
| 2012 (48th) | Johannes Brost | Avalon | Janne |
| 2012 (48th) | Bengt C.W. Carlsson | Lycka till och ta hand om varandra [sv] | Alvar |
| 2012 (48th) | Matias Varela | Easy Money II: Hard to Kill | Jorge Salinas Barrio |
| 2013 (49th) | Mikael Persbrandt | Nobody Owns Me | Hasse |
| 2013 (49th) | Robert Gustafsson | The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Allan Karlsson |
| 2013 (49th) | Matias Varela | Easy Money III: Life Deluxe | Jorge Salinas Barrio |
| 2014 (50th) | Sverrir Gudnason | Flugparken [sv] | Kristian Keskitalo |
| 2014 (50th) | David Dencik | Gentlemen | Henry Morgan |
| 2014 (50th) | Johannes Bah Kuhnke | Force Majeure | Tomas |
| 2015 (51st) | Rolf Lassgård | A Man Called Ove | Ove |
| 2015 (51st) | Ulrik Munther | The Here After | John |
| 2015 (51st) | Filip Berg | Eternal Summer | Isak |
| 2016 (52nd) | Anders Mossling [sv] | The Yard | 11811 |
| 2016 (52nd) | Lennart Jähkel | Granny´s Dancing on the Table | The Father |
| 2016 (52nd) | Milan Dragišić | My Aunt in Sarajevo [sv] | Zlatan |
| 2016 (52nd) | Jonathan Silén | The Modern Project | Simon |
| 2017 (53rd) | Fares Fares | The Nile Hilton Incident | Noredin Mostafa |
| 2017 (53rd) | Claes Bang | The Square | Christian |
| 2017 (53rd) | Reine Brynolfsson | Ravens | Agne |
| 2017 (53rd) | Sverrir Gudnason | Borg McEnroe | Björn Borg |
| 2018 (54th) | Joakim Sällquist | Goliath | Roland |
| 2018 (54th) | Fredrik Dahl | Amateurs [sv] | Musse |
| 2018 (54th) | Sebastian Ljungblad | Goliath | Kimmie |
| 2018 (54th) | Mikael Persbrandt | The Cake General [sv] | Hasse P |
| 2019 (55th) | Levan Gelbakhiani | And Then We Danced | Merab |
| 2019 (55th) | Jonas Karlsson | The Perfect Patient | Hannes Råstam |
| 2019 (55th) | Johannes Kunhke | Jag kommer hem igen till jul | Anders |
| 2019 (55th) | Gustaf Skarsgård | 438 dagar | Martin Schibbye |
| 2019 (55th) | Matias Varela | 438 dagar | Johan Persson |
| 2020 (56th) | Uje Brandelius [sv] | Spring Uje spring | Uje Brandelius |
| 2020 (56th) | Adel Darwish | Ghabe | Monir |
| 2020 (56th) | Rolf Lassgård | My Father Marianne [sv] | Lasse / Marianne |
| 2020 (56th) | Johan Rheborg | Orca | Claes |