# César Award for Best Actor

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actor (French: César du meilleur acteur).

## History
### Superlatives

| Superlative | Best Actor | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall (including Most Promising Actor) | Overall (including Most Promising Actor) |
| Actor with most awards | Michel Serrault | 3 | Niels Arestrup | 3 | Michel Serrault Niels Arestrup André Dussollier Mathieu Amalric | 3 |
| Actor with most nominations | Gérard Depardieu | 17 | André Dussollier Fabrice Luchini Guy Marchand Jean-Pierre Marielle | 5 | Gérard Depardieu | 17 |
| Actor with most nominations without ever winning | Patrick Dewaere | 5 | Jean-Pierre Marielle | 5 | Jean-Pierre Marielle | 7 |
| Film with most nominations | Le Sucre Tandem Itinerary of a Spoiled Child Le Souper Les Visiteurs The Intouchables | 2 | Subway Polisse | 3 | Subway La Haine The Officers' Ward A Prophet | 4 |
| Oldest winner | Jean-Louis Trintignant | 83 | Michael Lonsdale | 80 | Jean-Louis Trintignant | 83 |
| Oldest nominee | Michel Bouquet | 89 | Jacques Dufilho | 86 | Michel Bouquet | 89 |
| Youngest winner | Pierre Niney | 26 | Jacques Villeret | 28 | Pierre Niney | 26 |
| Youngest nominee | Vincent Lacoste | 22 | Thomas Langmann | 23 | Milo Machado-Graner | 15 |

## Winners
### 1970s

| Year | Winner | English title | Original title | Role/Character |
| 1976 (1st) | Philippe Noiret | The Old Gun | Le Vieux Fusil | Julien Dandieu |
| 1976 (1st) | Victor Lanoux | Cousin, Cousin | Cousin, cousine | Ludovic |
| 1976 (1st) | Jean-Pierre Marielle | Cookies | Les Galettes de Pont-Aven | Henri Serin |
| 1976 (1st) | Gérard Depardieu | Seven Deaths by Prescription | Sept morts sur ordonnance | Doctor Jean-Pierre Berg |
| 1977 (2nd) | Michel Galabru | The Judge and the Assassin | Le Juge et l'assassin | Sgt. Joseph Bouvier |
| 1977 (2nd) | Alain Delon | Mr. Klein | Monsieur Klein | Mr. Klein |
| 1977 (2nd) | Gérard Depardieu | The Last Woman | La Dernière Femme | Gérard |
| 1977 (2nd) | Patrick Dewaere | The Best Way to Walk | La Meilleure Façon de marcher | Marc |
| 1978 (3rd) | Jean Rochefort | Drummer-Crab | Le Crabe-tambour | Captain |
| 1978 (3rd) | Alain Delon | Death of a Corrupt Man | Mort d'un pourri | Xavier 'Xav' Maréchal |
| 1978 (3rd) | Gérard Depardieu | This Sweet Sickness | Dites-lui que je l'aime | David Martinaud |
| 1978 (3rd) | Patrick Dewaere | Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff | Le Juge Fayard dit le Shériff | Judge Fayard |
| 1978 (3rd) | Charles Denner | The Man Who Loved Women | L'Homme qui aimait les femmes | Bertrand Morane |
| 1979 (4th) | Michel Serrault | Birds of a Feather | La Cage aux folles | Albin Mougeotte/Zaza Napoli |
| 1979 (4th) | Claude Brasseur | A Simple Story | Une histoire simple | Serge |
| 1979 (4th) | Jean Carmet | The Sugar | Le Sucre | Adrien Courtois |
| 1979 (4th) | Gérard Depardieu | The Sugar | Le Sucre | Raoul-Renaud Homecourt |

### 1980s

| Year | Winner | English title | Original title | Role/Character |
| 1980 (5th) | Claude Brasseur | The Police War | La Guerre des polices | Jacques Fush |
| 1980 (5th) | Patrick Dewaere | Série noire | Série noire | Franck Poupart |
| 1980 (5th) | Yves Montand | I as in Icarus | I... comme Icare | Henri Volney |
| 1980 (5th) | Jean Rochefort | Courage - Let's Run | Courage fuyons | Martin Belhomme / Adrien Belhomme |
| 1981 (6th) | Gérard Depardieu | The Last Metro | Le Dernier Métro | Bernard Granger |
| 1981 (6th) | Michel Serrault | La Cage aux Folles II | La Cage aux Folles II | Albin Mougeotte/Zaza Napoli |
| 1981 (6th) | Philippe Noiret | Heads or Tails | Pile ou face | Detective Louis Baroni |
| 1981 (6th) | Patrick Dewaere | A Bad Son | Un mauvais fils | Bruno Calgagni |
| 1982 (7th) | Michel Serrault | Under Suspicion | Garde à vue | Jérôme Martinaud |
| 1982 (7th) | Patrick Dewaere | Stepfather | Beau-père | Rémi |
| 1982 (7th) | Philippe Noiret | Clean Slate | Coup de torchon | Lucien Cordier |
| 1982 (7th) | Michel Piccoli | Strange Affair | Une étrange affaire | Bertrand Malair |
| 1983 (8th) | Philippe Léotard | The Nark | La Balance | Dédé Laffont |
| 1983 (8th) | Gérard Depardieu | Danton | Danton | Georges Danton |
| 1983 (8th) | Gérard Lanvin | Tir groupé | Tir groupé | Antoine Béranger |
| 1983 (8th) | Lino Ventura | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean |
| 1984 (9th) | Michel "Coluche" Colucci | So Long, Stooge | Tchao pantin | Lambert |
| 1984 (9th) | Gérard Depardieu | ComDads | Les Compères | Jean Lucas |
| 1984 (9th) | Yves Montand | Waiter! | Garçon! | Alex |
| 1984 (9th) | Michel Serrault | Deadly Run | Mortelle randonnée | Beauvoir |
| 1984 (9th) | Alain Souchon | One Deadly Summer | L'Été meurtrier | Fiorimonto "Florimond" Montecciari |
| 1985 (10th) | Alain Delon | Our Story | Notre histoire | Robert Avranches |
| 1985 (10th) | Gérard Depardieu | Fort Saganne | Fort Saganne | Charles Saganne |
| 1985 (10th) | Louis Ducreux | A Sunday in the Country | Un dimanche à la campagne | Mr. Ladmiral |
| 1985 (10th) | Philippe Noiret | My New Partner | Les Ripoux | René Boirond |
| 1985 (10th) | Michel Piccoli | Dangerous Moves | La Diagonale du fou | Akiva Liebskind |
| 1986 (11th) | Christopher Lambert | Subway | Subway | Fred |
| 1986 (11th) | Gérard Depardieu | Police | Police | Louis Vincent Mangin |
| 1986 (11th) | Robin Renucci | Staircase C | Escalier C | Forster |
| 1986 (11th) | Michel Serrault | He Died with His Eyes Open | On ne meurt que 2 fois | Inspector Robert Staniland |
| 1986 (11th) | Lambert Wilson | Rendez-vous | Rendez-vous | Quentin |
| 1987 (12th) | Daniel Auteuil | Jean de Florette | Jean de Florette | Ugolin |
| 1987 (12th) | Daniel Auteuil | Jean de Florette II: Manon of the Spring | Manon des sources | Ugolin |
| 1987 (12th) | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Betty Blue | 37°2 le matin | Zorg |
| 1987 (12th) | Michel Blanc | Ménage | Tenue de soirée | Antoine |
| 1987 (12th) | André Dussollier | Mélo | Mélo | Marcel Blanc |
| 1987 (12th) | Christophe Malavoy | The Woman of My Life | La Femme de ma vie | Simon |
| 1988 (13th) | Richard Bohringer | The Grand Highway | Le Grand Chemin | Pelo |
| 1988 (13th) | Jean Carmet | Miss Mona | Miss Mona | Miss Mona |
| 1988 (13th) | Gérard Depardieu | Under the Sun of Satan | Sous le soleil de Satan | Abbé Donissan |
| 1988 (13th) | Gérard Jugnot | Tandem | Tandem | Rivetot |
| 1988 (13th) | Christophe Malavoy | Engagements of the Heart | De guerre lasse | Charles Sambrat |
| 1988 (13th) | Jean Rochefort | Tandem | Tandem | Michel Mortez |
| 1989 (14th) | Jean-Paul Belmondo | Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté | Sam Lion |
| 1989 (14th) | Richard Anconina | Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté | Albert Duvivier |
| 1989 (14th) | Daniel Auteuil | A Few Days with Me | Quelques jours avec moi | Martial Pasquier |
| 1989 (14th) | Jean-Marc Barr | The Big Blue | Le Grand Bleu | Jacques Mayol |
| 1989 (14th) | Gérard Depardieu | Camille Claudel | Camille Claudel | Auguste Rodin |

### 1990s

| Year | Winner | English title | Original title | Role/Character |
| 1990 (15th) | Philippe Noiret | Life and Nothing But | La Vie et rien d'autre | Commandant Delaplane |
| 1990 (15th) | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Indian Nocturne | Nocturne indien | Rossignol |
| 1990 (15th) | Michel Blanc | Mr. Hire | Monsieur Hire | Mr. Hire |
| 1990 (15th) | Gérard Depardieu | Too Beautiful for You | Trop belle pour toi | Bernard Barthélémy |
| 1990 (15th) | Hippolyte Girardot | Love Without Pity | Un monde sans pitié | Hippo |
| 1990 (15th) | Lambert Wilson | Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre | Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre | Abbé Pierre |
| 1991 (16th) | Gérard Depardieu (nominated for the Academy Award) | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1991 (16th) | Daniel Auteuil | Lacenaire | Lacenaire | Pierre-François Lacenaire |
| 1991 (16th) | Fabrice Luchini | The Discreet | La Discrète | Antoine |
| 1991 (16th) | Michel Piccoli | Milou in May | Milou en Mai | Milou |
| 1991 (16th) | Jean Rochefort | The Hairdresser's Husband | Le Mari de la coiffeuse | Antoine |
| 1991 (16th) | Michel Serrault | Dr. Petiot | Docteur Petiot | Dr. Petiot |
| 1992 (17th) | Jacques Dutronc | Van Gogh | Van Gogh | Vincent Van Gogh |
| 1992 (17th) | Michel Piccoli | The Beautiful Troublemaker | La Belle Noiseuse | Édouard Frenhofer |
| 1992 (17th) | Hippolyte Girardot | Out of Life | Hors la vie | Patrick Perrault |
| 1992 (17th) | Jean-Pierre Marielle | All the Mornings of the World | Tous les matins du monde | Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe |
| 1992 (17th) | Gérard Jugnot | Une époque formidable... | Une époque formidable... | Michel Berthier |
| 1993 (18th) | Claude Rich | The Supper | Le Souper | Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord |
| 1993 (18th) | Daniel Auteuil | A Heart in Winter | Un cœur en hiver | Stéphane |
| 1993 (18th) | Claude Brasseur | The Supper | Le Souper | Joseph Fouché |
| 1993 (18th) | Richard Berry | And the Little Prince Said | Le Petit Prince a dit | Adam Leibovich |
| 1993 (18th) | Vincent Lindon | The Crisis | La Crise | Victor |
| 1994 (19th) | Pierre Arditi | Smoking/No Smoking | Smoking/No Smoking | Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick |
| 1994 (19th) | Daniel Auteuil | My Favorite Season | Ma saison préférée | Antoine |
| 1994 (19th) | Michel Boujenah | Le Nombril du monde | Le Nombril du monde | Bajou |
| 1994 (19th) | Christian Clavier | The Visitors | Les Visiteurs | Jacquouille |
| 1994 (19th) | Jean Reno | The Visitors | Les Visiteurs | Godefroy de Montmirail |
| 1995 (20th) | Gérard Lanvin | The Favourite Son | Le Fils préféré | Jean-Paul Mantegna |
| 1995 (20th) | Daniel Auteuil | The Separation | La Séparation | Pierre |
| 1995 (20th) | Gérard Depardieu | Colonel Chabert | Le Colonel Chabert | Amédé Chabert |
| 1995 (20th) | Jean Reno | Léon | Léon | Léon |
| 1995 (20th) | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Three Colors: Red | Trois couleurs: Rouge | Joseph Kern |
| 1996 (21st) | Michel Serrault | Nelly and Mr. Arnaud | Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud | Pierre Arnaud |
| 1996 (21st) | Vincent Cassel | Hate | La Haine | Vinz |
| 1996 (21st) | Alain Chabat | French Twist | Gazon maudit | Laurent |
| 1996 (21st) | François Cluzet | The Apprentices | Les Apprentis | Antoine |
| 1996 (21st) | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Fiesta | | Colonel Masagual |
| 1997 (22nd) | Philippe Torreton | Captain Conan | Capitaine Conan | Captain Conan |
| 1997 (22nd) | Daniel Auteuil | The Eighth Day | Le Huitième Jour | Harry |
| 1997 (22nd) | Charles Berling | Ridicule | Ridicule | Baron Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy |
| 1997 (22nd) | Fabrice Luchini | Beaumarchais the Scoundrel | Beaumarchais, l'insolent | Pierre Beaumarchais |
| 1997 (22nd) | Patrick Timsit | Pédale douce | Pédale douce | Adrien Aymar |
| 1998 (23rd) | André Dussolier | Same Old Song | On connaît la chanson | Simon |
| 1998 (23rd) | Daniel Auteuil | On Guard | Le Bossu | Lagardère |
| 1998 (23rd) | Charles Berling | Dry Cleaning | Nettoyage à sec | Jean-Marie Kunstler |
| 1998 (23rd) | Alain Chabat | Didier | Didier | Didier Hazanavicus |
| 1998 (23rd) | Patrick Timsit | Le Cousin | Le Cousin | Nounours |
| 1999 (24th) | Jacques Villeret | The Dinner Game | Le Dîner de cons | François Pignon |
| 1999 (24th) | Charles Berling | L'Ennui | L'Ennui | Martin |
| 1999 (24th) | Antoine de Caunes | Man Is a Woman | L'Homme est une femme comme les autres | Simon Eskanazy |
| 1999 (24th) | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Le Poulpe | Le Poulpe | Gabriel Lecouvreur |
| 1999 (24th) | Pascal Greggory | Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train | Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train | François |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | English title | Original title | Role/Character |
| 2000 (25th) | Daniel Auteuil | Girl on the Bridge | La Fille sur le pont | Gabor |
| 2000 (25th) | Jean-Pierre Bacri | Kennedy and I | Kennedy et moi | Simon Polaris |
| 2000 (25th) | Albert Dupontel | Sachs' Disease | La Maladie de Sachs | Doctor Bruno Sachs |
| 2000 (25th) | Vincent Lindon | My Little Business | Ma petite entreprise | Ivan Lansi |
| 2000 (25th) | Philippe Torreton | It All Starts Today | Ça commence aujourd'hui | Daniel Lefebvre |
| 2001 (26th) | Sergi López | Harry, He's Here to Help | Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien | Harry |
| 2001 (26th) | Jean-Pierre Bacri | The Taste of Others | Le Goût des autres | Jean-Jacques Castella |
| 2001 (26th) | Charles Berling | Sentimental Destinies | Les Destinées sentimentales | Jean Barnery |
| 2001 (26th) | Bernard Giraudeau | A Question of Taste | Une affaire de goût | Frédéric Delamont |
| 2001 (26th) | Pascal Greggory | Confusion of Genders | La Confusion des genres | Alain Bauman |
| 2002 (27th) | Michel Bouquet | How I Killed My Father | Comment j'ai tué mon père | Maurice |
| 2002 (27th) | Eric Caravaca | The Officers' Ward | La Chambre des officiers | Adrien |
| 2002 (27th) | Vincent Cassel | Read My Lips | Sur mes lèvres | Paul Angeli |
| 2002 (27th) | André Dussollier | Tanguy | Tanguy | Paul Guetz |
| 2002 (27th) | Jacques Dutronc | That's Life | C'est la vie | Dimitri |
| 2003 (28th) | Adrien Brody (won the Academy Award) | The Pianist | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman |
| 2003 (28th) | Daniel Auteuil | The Adversary | L'Adversaire | Jean-Marc Faure |
| 2003 (28th) | François Berléand | Whatever You Say | Mon idole | Jean-Louis Broustal |
| 2003 (28th) | Bernard Campan | Beautiful Memories | Se souvenir des belles choses | Philippe |
| 2003 (28th) | Mathieu Kassovitz | Amen. | Amen. | Riccardo Fontana |
| 2004 (29th) | Omar Sharif | Monsieur Ibrahim | Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran | Mr. Ibrahim |
| 2004 (29th) | Daniel Auteuil | After You... | Après vous... | Antoine Letoux |
| 2004 (29th) | Jean-Pierre Bacri | Feelings | Les Sentiments | Jacques |
| 2004 (29th) | Gad Elmaleh | Chouchou | Chouchou | Chouchou |
| 2004 (29th) | Bruno Todeschini | His Brother | Son frère | Thomas |
| 2005 (30th) | Mathieu Amalric | Kings and Queen | Rois et reine | Ismaël Vuillard |
| 2005 (30th) | Daniel Auteuil | Department 36 | 36 Quai des Orfèvres | Léo Vrinks |
| 2005 (30th) | Gérard Jugnot | The Chorus | Les Choristes | Clement Mathieu |
| 2005 (30th) | Benoît Poelvoorde | Podium | Podium | Bernard Frédéric |
| 2005 (30th) | Philippe Torreton | The Light | L'Équipier | Yvon Le Guen |
| 2006 (31st) | Michel Bouquet | The Last Mitterrand | Le Promeneur du Champ-de-Mars | The President |
| 2006 (31st) | Patrick Chesnais | Not Here to Be Loved | Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé | Jean-Claude Delsart |
| 2006 (31st) | Romain Duris | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté | Thomas Seyr |
| 2006 (31st) | José Garcia | The Axe | Le Couperet | Bruno Davert |
| 2006 (31st) | Benoît Poelvoorde | In His Hands | Entre ses mains | Laurent Kessler |
| 2007 (32nd) | François Cluzet | Tell No One | Ne le dis à personne | Alexandre Beck |
| 2007 (32nd) | Michel Blanc | You Are So Beautiful | Je vous trouve très beau | Aymé Pigrenet |
| 2007 (32nd) | Alain Chabat | Rent a Wife | Prête-moi ta main | Luis |
| 2007 (32nd) | Gérard Depardieu | When I Was a Singer (a.k.a. The Singer) | Quand j'étais chanteur | Alain Moreau |
| 2007 (32nd) | Jean Dujardin | OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies | OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions | Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath/OSS 117 |
| 2008 (33rd) | Mathieu Amalric | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Le Scaphandre et le papillon | Jean-Dominique Bauby |
| 2008 (33rd) | Michel Blanc | The Witnesses | Les Témoins | Adrien |
| 2008 (33rd) | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Conversations with My Gardener | Dialogue avec mon jardinier | Dujardin |
| 2008 (33rd) | Vincent Lindon | Those Who Remain | Ceux qui restent | Bertrand Liévain |
| 2008 (33rd) | Jean-Pierre Marielle | Let's Dance | Faut que ça danse! | Salomon Bellinsky |
| 2009 (34th) | Vincent Cassel | Mesrine I: Killer Instinct | L'Instinct de mort | Jacques Mesrine |
| 2009 (34th) | Vincent Cassel | Mesrine II: Public Enemy No. 1 | L'Ennemi public n°1 | Jacques Mesrine |
| 2009 (34th) | François-Xavier Demaison | Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec | Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec | Coluche |
| 2009 (34th) | Guillaume Depardieu | Versailles | Versailles | Damien |
| 2009 (34th) | Albert Dupontel | Love Me No More | Deux jours à tuer | Antoine Méliot |
| 2009 (34th) | Jacques Gamblin | The First Day of the Rest of Your Life | Le Premier Jour du reste de ta vie | Robert Duval |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | English title | Original title | Role/Character |
| 2010 (35th) | Tahar Rahim | A Prophet | Un prophète | Malik El-Djebena |
| 2010 (35th) | Yvan Attal | Rapt | Rapt | Stanislas Graff |
| 2010 (35th) | Francois Cluzet | In the Beginning | À l'origine | Paul / Philippe Miller |
| 2010 (35th) | Francois Cluzet | The End of the Road | Le Dernier pour la route | Hervé Chabalier |
| 2010 (35th) | Vincent Lindon | Welcome | Welcome | Simon Calmat |
| 2011 (36th) | Éric Elmosnino | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) | Serge Gainsbourg |
| 2011 (36th) | Gérard Depardieu | Mammuth | Mammuth | Serge Pilardosse |
| 2011 (36th) | Romain Duris | Heartbreaker | L'Arnacœur | Alex Lippi |
| 2011 (36th) | Jacques Gamblin | The Names of Love | Le Nom des gens | Arthur Martin |
| 2011 (36th) | Lambert Wilson | Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux | Christian de Chergé |
| 2012 (37th) | Omar Sy | The Intouchables | Intouchables | Bakari "Driss" Bassari |
| 2012 (37th) | Sami Bouajila | Omar Killed Me | Omar m'a tuer | Omar Raddad |
| 2012 (37th) | François Cluzet | The Intouchables | Intouchables | Philippe |
| 2012 (37th) | Jean Dujardin (won the Academy Award) | The Artist | The Artist | Georges Valentin |
| 2012 (37th) | Olivier Gourmet | The Minister | L'exercice de l'État | Bertrand Saint-Jean |
| 2012 (37th) | Denis Podalydès | The Conquest | La Conquête | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| 2012 (37th) | Philippe Torreton | Présumé coupable | Présumé coupable | Alain Marécaux |
| 2013 (38th) | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Amour | Amour | Georges Laurent |
| 2013 (38th) | Jean-Pierre Bacri | Jean-Pierre Bacri | Cherchez Hortense | Damien Hauer |
| 2013 (38th) | Patrick Bruel | What's in a Name? | Le prénom | Vincent |
| 2013 (38th) | Denis Lavant | Holy Motors | Holy Motors | Mr. Oscar and various other roles |
| 2013 (38th) | Vincent Lindon | A Few Hours of Spring | Quelques heures de printemps | Alain Évrard |
| 2013 (38th) | Fabrice Luchini | In the House | Dans la maison | Germain Germain |
| 2013 (38th) | Jérémie Renier | My Way | Cloclo | Claude François |
| 2014 (39th) | Guillaume Gallienne | Me, Myself and Mum | Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! | Guillaume / Mother |
| 2014 (39th) | Mathieu Amalric | Venus in Fur | La Vénus à la fourrure | Thomas Novacheck |
| 2014 (39th) | Michel Bouquet | Renoir | Renoir | Auguste Renoir |
| 2014 (39th) | Albert Dupontel | 9 Month Stretch | Neuf mois ferme | Robert Nolan |
| 2014 (39th) | Grégory Gadebois | One of a Kind | Mon âme par toi guérie | Frédi |
| 2014 (39th) | Fabrice Luchini | Cycling with Moliere | Alceste à bicyclette | Serge Tanneur |
| 2014 (39th) | Mads Mikkelsen | Michael Kohlhaas | Michael Kohlhaas | Michael Kohlhaas |
| 2015 (40th) | Pierre Niney | Yves Saint Laurent | Yves Saint Laurent | Yves Saint Laurent |
| 2015 (40th) | Niels Arestrup | Diplomacy | Diplomatie | General Dietrich von Cholitz |
| 2015 (40th) | Guillaume Canet | Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart | La Prochaine fois je viserai le cœur | Franck |
| 2015 (40th) | François Damiens | The Bélier Family | La Famille Bélier | Rodolphe Bélier |
| 2015 (40th) | Romain Duris | The New Girlfriend | Une nouvelle amie | David / Virginia |
| 2015 (40th) | Vincent Lacoste | Hippocrates | Hippocrate | Benjamin Barois |
| 2015 (40th) | Gaspard Ulliel | Saint Laurent | Saint Laurent | Yves Saint Laurent |
| 2016 (41st) | Vincent Lindon | The Measure of a Man | La Loi du marché | Thierry Taugourdeau |
| 2016 (41st) | Jean-Pierre Bacri | The Very Private Life of Mister Sim | La Vie très privée de Monsieur Sim | François Sim |
| 2016 (41st) | Vincent Cassel | Mon roi | Mon roi | Georgio |
| 2016 (41st) | François Damiens | Cowboys | Les Cowboys | Alain Balland |
| 2016 (41st) | Gérard Depardieu | Valley of Love | Valley of Love | Gérard |
| 2016 (41st) | Antonythasan Jesuthasan | Dheepan | Dheepan | Dheepan/Sivadhasan |
| 2016 (41st) | Fabrice Luchini | Courted | L'Hermine | Michel Racine |
| 2017 (42nd) | Gaspard Ulliel | It's Only the End of the World | Juste la fin du monde | Louis |
| 2017 (42nd) | François Cluzet | Irreplaceable | Médecin de campagne | Jean-Pierre Werner |
| 2017 (42nd) | Pierre Deladonchamps | A Kid | Le Fils de Jean | Mathieu |
| 2017 (42nd) | Nicolas Duvauchelle | A Decent Man | Je ne suis pas un salaud | Eddie |
| 2017 (42nd) | Fabrice Luchini | Slack Bay | Ma Loute | André Van Peteghem |
| 2017 (42nd) | Pierre Niney | Frantz | Frantz | Adrien |
| 2017 (42nd) | Omar Sy | Chocolat | Chocolat | Chocolat |
| 2018 (43rd) | Swann Arlaud | Bloody Milk | Petit Paysan | Pierre Chavanges |
| 2018 (43rd) | Daniel Auteuil | Le Brio | Le Brio | Pierre Mazard |
| 2018 (43rd) | Jean-Pierre Bacri | C'est la Vie! | La Sens de la Fête | Max |
| 2018 (43rd) | Guillaume Canet | Rock'n Roll | Rock'n Roll | Guillaume Canet |
| 2018 (43rd) | Albert Dupontel | See You Up There | Au Revoir Là-Haut | Albert Maillard |
| 2018 (43rd) | Louis Garrel | Redoubtable | Le Redoutable | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 2018 (43rd) | Reda Kateb | Django | Django | Django Reinhardt |
| 2019 (44th) | Alex Lutz | Guy | Guy | Guy Jamet |
| 2019 (44th) | Édouard Baer | Lady J | Mademoiselle de Joncquières | Marquis des Arcis |
| 2019 (44th) | Romain Duris | Our Struggles | Nos batailles | Olivier |
| 2019 (44th) | Vincent Lacoste | Amanda | Amanda | David |
| 2019 (44th) | Gilles Lellouche | In Safe Hands | Pupille | Jean |
| 2019 (44th) | Pio Marmaï | The Trouble with You | En liberté ! | Antoine Parent |
| 2019 (44th) | Denis Ménochet | Custody | Jusqu'à la garde | Antoine Besson |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | English title | Original title | Role/Character |
| 2020 (45th) | Roschdy Zem | Oh Mercy! | Roubaix, une lumière | Daoud |
| 2020 (45th) | Daniel Auteuil | La Belle Époque | La Belle Époque | Victor Drumond |
| 2020 (45th) | Damien Bonnard | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Brigadier Stéphane Ruiz |
| 2020 (45th) | Vincent Cassel | The Specials | Hors normes | Bruno Haroche |
| 2020 (45th) | Reda Kateb | The Specials | Hors normes | Malik |
| 2020 (45th) | Jean Dujardin | An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | Colonel Georges Picquart |
| 2020 (45th) | Melvil Poupaud | By the Grace of God | Grâce à Dieu | Alexandre Guérin |
| 2021 (46th) | Sami Bouajila | A Son | Un fils | Fares Ben Youssef |
| 2021 (46th) | Jonathan Cohen | Enorme | Énorme | Frédéric |
| 2021 (46th) | Albert Dupontel | Bye Bye Morons | Adieu les cons | JB |
| 2021 (46th) | Niels Schneider | Love Affair(s) | Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait | Maxime |
| 2021 (46th) | Lambert Wilson | De Gaulle | De Gaulle | Charles de Gaulle |
| 2022 (47th) | Benoît Magimel | Peaceful | De son vivant | Benjamin Boltanski |
| 2022 (47th) | Damien Bonnard | The Restless | Les intranquilles | Damien |
| 2022 (47th) | Adam Driver | Annette | Annette | Henry McHenry |
| 2022 (47th) | Gilles Lellouche | The Stronghold | BAC Nord | Greg Cerva |
| 2022 (47th) | Vincent Macaigne | The Night Doctor | Médecin de nuit | Mickaël Kourtchine |
| 2022 (47th) | Pio Marmaï | The Divide | La fracture | Yann Caron |
| 2022 (47th) | Pierre Niney | Black Box | Boîte noire | Mathieu Vasseur |
| 2023 (48th) | Benoît Magimel | Pacifiction | Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles | De Roller |
| 2023 (48th) | Jean Dujardin | November | Novembre | Fred |
| 2023 (48th) | Louis Garrel | The Innocent | L'innocent | Abel |
| 2023 (48th) | Vincent Macaigne | Diary of a Fleeting Affair | Chronique d'une liaison passagère | Simon |
| 2023 (48th) | Denis Ménochet | Peter von Kant | Peter von Kant | Peter Von Kant |
| 2024 (49th) | Arieh Worthalter | The Goldman Case | Le procès Goldman | Pierre Goldman |
| 2024 (49th) | Romain Duris | The Animal Kingdom | Le règne animal | François |
| 2024 (49th) | Benjamin Lavernhe | Abbé Pierre – A Century of Devotion | L'abbé Pierre | Abbé Pierre |
| 2024 (49th) | Melvil Poupaud | Just the Two of Us | L'amour et les forêts | Grégoire |
| 2024 (49th) | Raphaël Quenard | Yannick | Yannick | Yannick |
| 2025 (50th) | Karim Leklou | Jim's Story | Le Roman de Jim | Aymeric |
| 2025 (50th) | François Civil | Beating Hearts | L'Amour ouf | Clotaire |
| 2025 (50th) | Benjamin Lavernhe | The Marching Band | En Fanfare | Thibaut Desormeaux |
| 2025 (50th) | Pierre Niney | The Count of Monte Cristo | Le Comte de Monte-Cristo | Edmond Dantès / Lord Halifax / Abbé Busoni |
| 2025 (50th) | Tahar Rahim | Monsieur Aznavour | Monsieur Aznavour | Charles Aznavour |

## Multiple wins and nominations

| Wins | Actor |
| 3 | Michel Serrault |
| 2 | Mathieu Amalric |
| 2 | Daniel Auteuil |
| 2 | Michel Bouquet |
| 2 | Gérard Depardieu |
| 2 | Benoît Magimel |
| 2 | Philippe Noiret |
| Nominations | Actor |
| 17 | Gérard Depardieu |
| 14 | Daniel Auteuil |
| 7 | Michel Serrault |
| 6 | Jean-Pierre Bacri |
| 6 | François Cluzet |
| 6 | Vincent Lindon |
| 6 | Fabrice Luchini |
| 5 | Vincent Cassel |
| 5 | Patrick Dewaere |
| 5 | Romain Duris |
| 5 | Philippe Noiret |
| 4 | Charles Berling |
| 4 | Michel Blanc |
| 4 | Jean Dujardin |
| 4 | Albert Dupontel |
| 4 | Pierre Niney |
| 4 | Michel Piccoli |
| 4 | Jean Rochefort |
| 4 | Philippe Torreton |
| 3 | Mathieu Amalric |
| 3 | Michel Bouquet |
| 3 | Claude Brasseur |
| 3 | Alain Chabat |
| 3 | Alain Delon |
| 3 | Gérard Jugnot |
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Marielle |
| 3 | Jean-Louis Trintignant |
| 3 | Lambert Wilson |
One actor has the record of most consecutive nominations with 4: Gerard Depardieu (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980/ 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986/ 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991)