BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

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**Best Actor in a Leading Role** is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

## Superlatives

**Note:** Dustin Hoffman's total of eight nominations, includes his 1968 Most Promising Newcomer nomination for *The Graduate*.

## Winners and nominees

From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actor awards: one for a British actor and another for a foreign actor. In 1968, the two prizes of British and Foreign actor were combined to create a single Best Actor award. Its current title, for Best Actor in a Leading Role, has been used since 1995.

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### 2020s

**Note:** All nominations for multiple performances in a single year from the 1950s to the 1970s count as one nomination. The two mentions for Michael Caine (1983) and Anthony Hopkins (1993) count as two separate nominations.

## Multiple nominations

* Daniel Day-Lewis
* Peter Finch
* Dustin Hoffman
* Jack Lemmon
* Laurence Olivier

6 nominations* Marlon Brando
* Albert Finney
* Sidney Poitier

5 nominations* Dirk Bogarde
* Robert De Niro
* Leonardo DiCaprio
* Anthony Hopkins
* Spencer Tracy

4 nominations* Ralph Fiennes
* Tom Hanks
* Jack Hawkins
* Trevor Howard
* Kenneth More
* Paul Newman
* Peter Sellers

3 nominations* Woody Allen
* Richard Attenborough
* Richard Burton
* George Clooney
* Tom Courtenay
* Russell Crowe
* Alec Guinness
* Gene Hackman
* Burt Lancaster
* Fredric March
* Walter Matthau
* Viggo Mortensen
* Jack Nicholson
* Gary Oldman
* Sean Penn
* Joaquin Phoenix
* Kevin Spacey

* Alan Bates
* Warren Beatty
* Jamie Bell
* Jean-Paul Belmondo
* Jeff Bridges
* Jim Broadbent
* Nicolas Cage
* Sean Connery
* Bradley Cooper
* Tony Curtis
* James Dean
* Gérard Depardieu
* Johnny Depp
* Michael Douglas
* Richard Dreyfuss
* Michael Fassbender
* Colin Firth
* Henry Fonda
* Pierre Fresnay
* Jake Gyllenhaal
* Jean Gabin
* John Gielgud
* George Hamilton
* Laurence Harvey
* William Holden
* Bob Hoskins
* Charles Laughton
* Ian McKellen
* John Mills
* Yves Montand
* James Mason
* Marcello Mastroianni
* Al Pacino
* Gregory Peck
* Brad Pitt
* Jonathan Pryce
* Anthony Quinn
* Michael Redgrave
* Eddie Redmayne
* Ralph Richardson
* Geoffrey Rush
* George C. Scott
* Martin Sheen
* Takashi Shimura
* Frank Sinatra
* Rod Steiger
* James Stewart
* Robin Williams
* Nicol Williamson
* Donald Wolfit

## Multiple wins

4 wins* Daniel Day-Lewis

3 wins* Marlon Brando
* Anthony Hopkins
* Jack Lemmon

* Colin Firth
* Dustin Hoffman
* Burt Lancaster
* Marcello Mastroianni
* Jack Nicholson
* Rod Steiger

## See also

* Academy Award for Best Actor
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
* Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
* Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
* Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
* Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

## References

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