Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)

The Best Actor Award (French: Prix d'interprétation masculine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.

Award Winners

Year	Film	Actor
1946	The Lost Weekend	Ray Milland
1947	No award this year
1948	Festival not held
1949	House of Strangers	Edward G. Robinson
1950	Festival not held
1951	The Browning Version	Michael Redgrave
1952	Viva Zapata!	Marlon Brando
1953	No award this year
1954	No award this year
1955	Bad Day at Black Rock	Spencer Tracy
1955	Bolshaya Semya	Whole cast^[1]
1956	No award this year^[2]
1957	Valley of Peace	John Kitzmiller
1958	The Long, Hot Summer	Paul Newman
1959	Compulsion	Bradford Dillman Dean Stockwell Orson Welles
1960	No award this year
1961	Goodbye Again	Anthony Perkins
1962	Long Day's Journey into Night	Dean Stockwell Jason Robards Ralph Richardson
1962	A Taste of Honey	Murray Melvin
1963	This Sporting Life	Richard Harris
1964	Pacsirta	Antal Páger
1964	Seduced and Abandoned	Saro Urzì
1965	The Collector	Terence Stamp
1966	Sult	Per Oscarsson
1967	Three Days and a Child	Oded Kotler
1968	Festival not held
1969	Z	Jean-Louis Trintignant
1970	The Pizza Triangle	Marcello Mastroianni
1971	Sacco e Vanzetti	Riccardo Cucciolla
1972	Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble	Jean Yanne
1973	Love and Anarchy	Giancarlo Giannini
1974	The Last Detail	Jack Nicholson
1975	Profumo di donna	Vittorio Gassman
1976	Pascual Duarte	José Luis Gómez
1977	Elisa, vida mía	Fernando Rey
1978	Coming Home	Jon Voight
1979	The China Syndrome	Jack Lemmon
1980	A Leap in the Dark	Michel Piccoli
1981	La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo	Ugo Tognazzi
1982	Missing	Jack Lemmon
1983	La Mort de Mario Ricci	Gian Maria Volontè
1984	Los santos inocentes	Alfredo Landa Francisco Rabal
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	William Hurt
1986	Ménage	Michel Blanc
1986	Mona Lisa	Bob Hoskins
1987	Dark Eyes	Marcello Mastroianni
1988	Bird	Forest Whitaker
1989	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	James Spader
1990	Cyrano de Bergerac	Gérard Depardieu
1991	Barton Fink	John Turturro
1992	The Player	Tim Robbins
1993	Naked	David Thewlis
1994	To Live	Ge You
1995	Carrington	Jonathan Pryce
1996	Le huitième jour	Pascal Duquenne Daniel Auteuil
1997	She's So Lovely	Sean Penn
1998	My Name Is Joe	Peter Mullan
1999	Humanité	Emmanuel Schotté
2000	In the Mood for Love	Tony Leung Chiu Wai
2001	The Piano Teacher (La pianiste)	Benoît Magimel
2002	The Son (Le fils)	Olivier Gourmet
2003	Uzak	Muzaffer Ozdemir Mehmet Emin Toprak
2004	Nobody Knows	Yûya Yagira
2005	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Tommy Lee Jones
2006	Days of Glory (Indigènes)	Jamel Debbouze Samy Naceri Roschdy Zem Sami Bouajila Bernard Blancan
2007	The Banishment (Izgnanie)	Konstantin Lavronenko
2008	Che	Benicio del Toro
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Christoph Waltz
2010	Biutiful	Javier Bardem
2010	La nostra vita	Elio Germano
2011	The Artist	Jean Dujardin
2012	The Hunt	Mads Mikkelsen
2013	Nebraska	Bruce Dern
2014	Mr. Turner	Timothy Spall
2015	The Measure of a Man (La Loi du marché)	Vincent Lindon

Multiple award winners

Marcello Mastroianni (1970, 1987)
Jack Lemmon (1979, 1982)
Dean Stockwell (1959, 1962)

Notes

↑ This year the award was changed to Prix d'Interprétation (Acting Award), without gender differentiation. The entire male and female cast of Bolshaya Semya was recipient of this award (Tied with Spencer Tracy).
↑ This year the award was changed to Prix d'Interprétation (Acting Award), without gender differentiation, and it was a woman who won the award (Susan Hayward for I'll Cry Tomorrow).

External links

Cannes Film Festival

Awards	Palme d'Or Grand Prix Best Director Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Award Best Screenplay Award Jury Prize Short Film Palme d'Or Un Certain Regard Cinéfondation Caméra d'Or

Awards given by independent entities	Prix de la FIPRESCI François Chalais Prize Trophée Chopard Vulcan Award L'Œil d'or France 4 Visionary Award Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Palm Dog Award Queer Palm

By year	1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Directors' Fortnight International Critics' Week Marché du Film List of jury presidents List of jury members

Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award

1946-1975	Ray Milland (1946) Edward G. Robinson (1949) Michael Redgrave (1951) Marlon Brando (1952) Charles Vanel (1953) Spencer Tracy/cast of Bolshaya Semya (1955) John Kitzmiller (1957) Paul Newman (1958) Bradford Dillman/Dean Stockwell/Orson Welles (1959) Anthony Perkins (1961) Dean Stockwell/Jason Robards/Ralph Richardson/Murray Melvin (1962) Richard Harris (1963) Antal Páger/Saro Urzì (1964) Terence Stamp (1965) Per Oscarsson (1966) Oded Kotler (1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant (1969) Marcello Mastroianni (1970) Riccardo Cucciolla (1971) Jean Yanne (1972) Giancarlo Giannini (1973) Jack Nicholson (1974) Vittorio Gassman (1975)

1976-2000	José Luis Gómez (1976) Fernando Rey (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Jack Lemmon (1979) Michel Piccoli (1980) Ugo Tognazzi (1981) Jack Lemmon (1982) Gian Maria Volontè (1983) Alfredo Landa/Francisco Rabal (1984) William Hurt (1985) Michel Blanc/Bob Hoskins (1986) Marcello Mastroianni (1987) Forest Whitaker (1988) James Spader (1989) Gérard Depardieu (1990) John Turturro (1991) Tim Robbins (1992) David Thewlis (1993) Ge You (1994) Jonathan Pryce (1995) Pascal Duquenne/Daniel Auteuil (1996) Sean Penn (1997) Peter Mullan (1998) Emmanuel Schotte (1999) Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2000)

2001-present	Benoît Magimel (2001) Olivier Gourmet (2002) Muzaffer Ozdemir/Emin Toprak (2003) Yūya Yagira (2004) Tommy Lee Jones (2005) Jamel Debbouze/Samy Naceri/Roschdy Zem/Sami Bouajila/Bernard Blancan (2006) Konstantin Lavronenko (2007) Benicio del Toro (2008) Christoph Waltz (2009) Javier Bardem/Elio Germano (2010) Jean Dujardin (2011) Mads Mikkelsen (2012) Bruce Dern (2013) Timothy Spall (2014) Vincent Lindon (2015)

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