# Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor is as part of its annual Blue Ribbon Awards for Japanese film, to recognize a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role.

## List of winners

| No. | Year | Recipient | Film(s) |
| 1 | 1950 | So Yamamura | Munekata Kyōdai |
| 2 | 1951 | Toshiro Mifune | Bakuro Ichidai Onna Gokoro Dareka Shiru |
| 3 | 1952 | N/A | N/A |
| 4 | 1953 | N/A | N/A |
| 5 | 1954 | N/A | N/A |
| 6 | 1955 | Hisaya Morishige | Meoto zenzai |
| 7 | 1956 | Keiji Sada | Anata Kaimasu Taifū Sōdōki |
| 8 | 1957 | Frankie Sakai | Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate Shiawase wa Orera no Negai |
| 9 | 1958 | Ichikawa Raizō | Enjō Benten Kozō |
| 10 | 1959 | Hiroyuki Nagato | My Second Brother |
| 11 | 1960 | Rentarō Mikuni | Ōinaru Tabiji |
| 12 | 1961 | Toshiro Mifune | Yojimbo Ánimas Trujano |
| 13 | 1962 | Tatsuya Nakadai | Harakiri |
| 14 | 1963 | Kinnosuke Nakamura | Bushido, Samurai Saga |
| 15 | 1964 | Keiju Kobayashi | Ware Hitotsubu no Mugi Naredo |
| 16 | 1965 | Toshiro Mifune | Red Beard |
| 17 | 1966 | Hajime Hana | Un ga Yokerya |
| 18 | 1975 | Bunta Sugawara | Cops vs. Thugs Torakku Yarō: Go-iken Muyō Torakku Yarō: Bakusō Ichibanhoshi |
| 19 | 1976 | Tetsuya Watari | Yakuza Graveyard |
| 20 | 1977 | Ken Takakura | Mount Hakkoda The Yellow Handkerchief |
| 21 | 1978 | Ken Ogata | The Demon |
| 22 | 1979 | Tomisaburo Wakayama | Shōdō Satsujin Musuko Yo |
| 23 | 1980 | Tatsuya Nakadai | Kagemusha The Battle of Port Arthur |
| 24 | 1981 | Toshiyuki Nagashima | Enrai |
| 25 | 1982 | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san Tora-san, the Expert |
| 26 | 1983 | Ken Ogata | The Ballad of Narayama The Geisha The Catch Okinawan Boys |
| 27 | 1984 | Tsutomu Yamazaki | The Funeral Farewell to the Ark |
| 28 | 1985 | Minoru Chiaki | Gray Sunset |
| 29 | 1986 | Kunie Tanaka | Uhohho tankentai |
| 30 | 1987 | Takanori Jinnai | Chōchin |
| 31 | 1988 | Hajime Hana | Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You |
| 32 | 1989 | Rentarō Mikuni | Rikyu |
| 33 | 1990 | Yoshio Harada | Roningai Ware ni Utsu Yōi Ari |
| 34 | 1991 | Naoto Takenaka | Munō no Hito |
| 35 | 1992 | Masahiro Motoki | Sumo Do, Sumo Don't |
| 36 | 1993 | Hiroyuki Sanada | We Are Not Alone |
| 37 | 1994 | Eiji Okuda | Like a Rolling Stone |
| 38 | 1995 | Hiroyuki Sanada | Sharaku East Meets West Kinkyū Yobidashi Emergency Call |
| 39 | 1996 | Kōji Yakusho | Shall We Dance? Nemuru Otoko Shabu Gokudō |
| 40 | 1997 | Kōji Yakusho | The Eel Lost Paradise Cure |
| 41 | 1998 | Takeshi Kitano | Hana-bi |
| 42 | 1999 | Ken Takakura | Poppoya |
| 43 | 2000 | Yūji Oda | Whiteout |
| 44 | 2001 | Mansai Nomura | Onmyoji |
| 45 | 2002 | Kōichi Satō | KT |
| 46 | 2003 | Toshiyuki Nishida | Get Up! Tsuribaka Nisshi 14 |
| 47 | 2004 | Akira Terao | Half a Confession |
| 48 | 2005 | Hiroyuki Sanada | Bōkoku no Ījisu |
| 49 | 2006 | Ken Watanabe | Memories of Tomorrow |
| 50 | 2007 | Ryo Kase | I Just Didn't Do It |
| 51 | 2008 | Masahiro Motoki | Departures |
| 52 | 2009 | Shōfukutei Tsurube | Dear Doctor |
| 53 | 2010 | Satoshi Tsumabuki | Villain |
| 54 | 2011 | Yutaka Takenouchi | Oba: The Last Samurai |
| 55 | 2012 | Hiroshi Abe | The Wings of the Kirin Thermae Romae Karasu no Oyayubi |
| 56 | 2013 | Kengo Kora | A Story of Yonosuke |
| 57 | 2014 | Tadanobu Asano | My Man |
| 58 | 2015 | Yo Oizumi | Kakekomi |
| 59 | 2016 | Kenichi Matsuyama | Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow Chinyūki |
| 60 | 2017 | Sadao Abe | Birds Without Names |
| 61 | 2018 | Hiroshi Tachi | Life in Overtime |
| 62 | 2019 | Kiichi Nakai | Hit me Anyone One More Time |
| 63 | 2020 | Tsuyoshi Kusanagi | Midnight Swan |
| 64 | 2021 | Junichi Okada | The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai |
| 65 | 2022 | Kazunari Ninomiya | Fragments of the Last Will Tang and Me |
| 66 | 2023 | Ryunosuke Kamiki | Godzilla Minus One |
| 67 | 2024 | Makiya Yamaguchi | A Samurai in Time |