BAFTA de melhor ator em cinema

BAFTA de melhor ator num papel principal (no original, em inglês: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role) é um prêmio entregue anualmente pela British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) ao ator masculino que se tenha distinguido durante o ano num papel principal em cinema. Atores de qualquer nacionalidade são elegíveis para receber o prémio.

Vencedor mais recente: Cillian Murphy por Oppenheimer.

Lista com os atores premiados e nomeados:

Anos 1950

• 1953
  • Melhor Ator Britânico — Ralph Richardson - The Sound Barrier
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata!

• 1954
  • Melhor Ator Britânico — John Gielgud — Julius Caesar
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar

• 1955
  • Melhor Ator Britânico — Kenneth More — Doctor in the House
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront

• 1956
  • Melhor Ator Britânico — Laurence Olivier — Richard III
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Ernest Borgnine - Marty

• 1957
  • Melhor Ator Britânico — Peter Finch — A Town Like Alice
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Clare Van Den Thiel - Gervaise

• 1958
  • Melhor Ator Britânico — Alec Guinness — The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men

• 1959
  • Melhor Ator Britânico — Trevor Howard — The Key
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones

Anos 1960

• 1960
  • Melhor Ator Britânico — Peter Sellers – I'm All Right Jack
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot

• 1961
  • Melhor Ator Britânico - Peter Finch - The Trials of Oscar Wilde
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Jack Lemmon - The Apartment

• 1962
  • Melhor Ator Britânico - Peter Finch - No Love for Johnnie
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Paul Newman - The Hustler

• 1963
  • Melhor Ator Britânico - Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz

• 1964
  • Melhor Ator Britânico - Dirk Bogarde - The Servant
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marcello Mastroianni - Divorzio all'italiana

• 1965
  • Melhor Ator Britânico - Richard Attenborough - Guns at Batasi e Seance on a Wet Afternoon
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Marcello Mastroianni - Ieri, oggi, domani

• 1966
  • Melhor Ator Britânico - Dirk Bogarde - Darling
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou e The Killers

• 1967
  • Melhor Ator Britânico - Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold e Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker

• 1968
  • Melhor Ator Britânico - Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
  • Melhor Ator Estrangeiro - Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night

Ano	Ator	Filme	Personagem
1969
	Spencer Tracy	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Matt Drayton
	Trevor Howard	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Lorde Cardigan
	Ron Moody	Oliver!	Fagin
	Nicol Williamson	The Bofors Gun	O'Rourke

Anos 1970

Ano	Ator	Filme	Personagem
1970
	Dustin Hoffman	Midnight Cowboy	Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
		John & Mary	John
	Alan Bates	Women in Love	Rupert Birkin
	Walter Matthau	Hello, Dolly!	Horace Vandergelder
		The Secret Life of an American Wife	O Astro de Cinema
	Nicol Williamson	Inadmissible Evidence	bill Maitland
1971
	Robert Redford	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Sundance Kid
		Downhill Racer	David Chappellet
		Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here	Xerife Christopher Cooper
	Elliott Gould	MASH	John McIntyre
		Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Ted Henderson
	Paul Newman	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Butch Cassidy
	George C. Scott	Patton	George S. Patton
1972
	Peter Finch	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Dr. Daniel Hirsh
	Dirk Bogarde	Death in Venice(Morte a Venezia)	Gustav von Aschenbach
	Albert Finney	Gumshoe	Eddie Ginley
	Dustin Hoffman	Little Big Man	Jack Crabb
1973
	Gene Hackman	The French Connection	Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
		The Poseidon Adventure	Reverendo Frank Scott
	Marlon Brando	The Godfather	Don Vito Corleone
		The Nightcomers	Peter Quint
	George C. Scott	The Hospital	Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock
		They Might Be Giants	Justin Playfair
	Robert Shaw	Young Winston	Lorde Randolph Churchill
1974
	Walter Matthau	Charley Varrick	Charley Varrick
		Pete 'n' Tillie	Pete
	Marlon Brando	Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo Tango a Parigi)	Paul
	Laurence Olivier	Sleuth	Andrew Wyke
	Donald Sutherland	Steelyard Blues	Jesse Veldini
		Don't Look Now	John Baxter
1975
	Jack Nicholson	Chinatown	J.J. "Jake" Gittes
		The Last Detail	Billy Buddusky
	Albert Finney	Murder on the Orient Express	Hercule Poirot
	Gene Hackman	The Conversation	Harry Caul
	Al Pacino	Serpico	Frank Serpico
1976
	Al Pacino	The Godfather Part II	Michael Corleone
		Dog Day Afternoon	Sonny Wortzik
	Richard Dreyfuss	Jaws	Matt Hooper
	Gene Hackman	French Connection II	Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
		Night Moves	Harry Moseby
	Dustin Hoffman	Lenny	Lenny Bruce
1977
	Jack Nicholson	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Randle McMurphy
	Robert De Niro	Taxi Driver	Travis Bickle
	Dustin Hoffman	All the President's Men	Carl Bernstein
		Marathon Man	Thomas "Babe" Levy
	Walter Matthau	The Bad News Bears	Morris Buttermaker
		The Sunshine Boys	Willy Clark
1978
	Peter Finch	Network	Howard Beale
	Woody Allen	Annie Hall	Alvy "Max" Singer
	William Holden	Network	Max Schumacher
	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky	Rocky Balboa
1979
	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl	Elliot Garfield
	Brad Davis	Midnight Express	Billy Hayes
	Anthony Hopkins	Magic	Corky Withers / Fats
	Peter Ustinov	Death on the Nile	Hercule Poirot

Anos 1980

Ano	Ator	Filme	Personagem
1980
	Jack Lemmon	The China Syndrome	Jack Godell
	Woody Allen	Manhattan	Isaac Davis
	Robert De Niro	The Deer Hunter	Sargento Michael "Mike" Vronsky
	Martin Sheen	Apocalypse Now	Benjamin L. Willard
1981
	John Hurt	The Elephant Man	John Merrick
	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs. Kramer	Ted Kramer
	Roy Scheider	All That Jazz	Joe Gideon
	Peter Sellers	Being There	Chance
1982
	Burt Lancaster	Atlantic City	Lou Pascal
	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull	Jake LaMotta
	Bob Hoskins	The Long Good Friday	Harold
	Jeremy Irons	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Charles Henry Smithson
1983
	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi
	Warren Beatty	Reds	John Silas Reed
	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond	Norman Thayler Jr.
	Albert Finney	Shoot the Moon	George Dunlap
	Jack Lemmon	Missing	Ed Horman
1984
	Michael Caine	Educating Rita	Dr. Frank Bryant
	Dustin Hoffman	Tootsie	Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
	Michael Caine	The Honorary Consul	Charley Fortnum
	Robert De Niro	The King of Comedy	Rupert Pupkin
1985
	Haing S. Ngor	The Killing Fields	Dith Pran
	Tom Courtenay	The Dresser	Norman
	Albert Finney	The Dresser	Senhor
	Sam Waterston	The Killing Fields	Sydney Schanberg
1986
	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Luis Molina
	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus	Antonio Salieri
	Victor Banerjee	A Passage to India	Dr. Aziz Ahmed
	Harrison Ford	Witness	John Book
1987
	Bob Hoskins	Mona Lisa	George
	Woody Allen	Hannah and Her Sisters	Mickey Sachs
	Michael Caine	Hannah and Her Sisters	Elliot
	Paul Hogan	Crocodile Dundee	Michael "Crocodile" J. Dundee
1988
	Sean Connery	Der Name der Rose	William de Baskerville
	Gérard Depardieu	Jean de Florette	Jean de Florette
	Yves Montand	Jean de Florette	César Soubeyran
	Gary Oldman	Prick Up Your Ears	Joe Orton
1989
	John Cleese	A Fish Called Wanda	Archibald "Archie" Leach
	Michael Douglas	Fatal Attraction	Dan Gallagher
	Kevin Kline	A Fish Called Wanda	Otto West
	Robin Williams	Good Morning, Vietnam	Adrian Cronauer

Anos 1990

Ano	Ator	Filme	Personagem
1990
	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot	Christy Brown
	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	Rei Henrique V
	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man	Raymond Babbit
	Robin Williams	Dead Poets Society	John Keating
1991
	Philippe Noiret	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso	Alfredo
	Sean Connery	The Hunt for Red October	Grady Tripp
	Tom Cruise	Born on the Fourth of July	Ron Kovic
	Robert De Niro	Goodfellas	Jimmy Conway
1992
	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs	Dr. Hannibal Lecter
	Kevin Costner	Dances with Wolves	Tenente Dunbar
	Gérard Depardieu	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac
	Alan Rickman	Truly, Madly, Deeply	Jamie
1993
	Robert Downey Jr.	Chaplin	Charles Chaplin
	Daniel Day-Lewis	The Last of the Mohicans	Nathaniel Poe
	Stephen Rea	The Crying Game	Fergus
	Tim Robbins	The Player	Griffin Mill
1994[1]
	Anthony Hopkins	The Remains of the Day	James Stevens
	Daniel Day-Lewis	In the Name of the Father	Gerry Conlon
	Anthony Hopkins	Shadowlands	C. S. Lewis
	Liam Neeson	Schindler's List	Oskar Schindler
1995
	Hugh Grant	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Charles
	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump
	Terrence Stamp	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Ralph / Bernadette Bassenger
	John Travolta	Pulp Fiction	Vincent Vega
1996
	Nigel Hawthorne	The Madness of King George	Rei George III
	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas	Ben Sanderson
	Jonathan Pryce	Carrington	Lytton Strachey
	Massimo Troisi	Il Postino: The Postman	Mario Ruoppolo
1997
	Geoffrey Rush	Shine	David Helfgott
	Ralph Fiennes	The English Patient	Laszlo de Almásy
	Ian McKellen	Richard III	Rei Richard III
	Timothy Spall	Secrets & Lies	Maurice Purley
1998
	Robert Carlyle	The Full Monty	Gaz
	Billy Connolly	Mrs Brown	John Brown
	Kevin Spacey	L.A. Confidential	Jack Vincennes
	Ray Winstone	Nil by Mouth	Ray
1999
	Roberto Benigni	Life Is Beautiful	Guido Orefice
	Michael Caine	Little Voice	Ray Say
	Joseph Fiennes	Shakespeare in Love	William Shakespeare
	Tom Hanks	Saving Private Ryan	Capitão John H. Miller

Anos 2000

Ano	Ator	Filme	Personagem
2000
	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Lester Burnham
	Jim Broadbent	Topsy-Turvy	W. S. Gilbert
	Russell Crowe	The Insider	Maurice Bendrix
	Ralph Fiennes	The End of the Affair	Jeffrey Wigand
	Om Puri	East Is East	George Khan
2001
	Jamie Bell	Billy Elliot	Billy Elliot
	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	Máximus Décimus Merídius
	Michael Douglas	Wonder Boys	Grady Tripp
	Tom Hanks	Cast Away	Chuck Noland
	Geoffrey Rush	Quills	Marquês de Sade
2002
	Russell Crowe	A Beautiful Mind	John Forbes Nash Jr.
	Jim Broadbent	Iris	John Bayley
	Ian McKellen	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gandalf
	Kevin Spacey	The Shipping News	Quoyle
	Tom Wilkinson	In the Bedroom	Matt Fowler
2003
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	William "Bill, O Açougueiro" Cutting
	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	Władysław Szpilman
	Nicolas Cage	Adaptation.	Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
	Michael Caine	The Quiet American	Thomas Fowler
	Jack Nicholson	About Schmidt	Warren Schmidt
2004
	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
	Benicio Del Toro	21 Grams	Jack Jordan
	Sean Penn		Paul Rivers
		Mystic River	Jimmy Markum
	Johnny Depp	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Capitão Jack Sparrow
	Jude Law	Cold Mountain	W.P. Inman
2005
	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles
	Jim Carrey	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Joel Barrish
	Johnny Depp	Finding Neverland	Sir James Matthew Barrie
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Aviator	Howard Hughes
	Gael García Bernal	The Motorcycle Diaries	Che Guevara
2006
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote
	Ralph Fiennes	The Constant Gardener	Justin Quayle
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar
	Joaquin Phoenix	Walk the Line	Johnny Cash
	David Strathairn	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Edward R. Murrow
2007
	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
	Daniel Craig	Casino Royale	James Bond
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Departed	William "Billy" Costigan Jr.
	Richard Griffiths	The History Boys	Hector
	Peter O'Toole	Venus	Maurice
2008
	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview
	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	James McAvoy	Atonement	Robbie Turner
	Viggo Mortensen	Eastern Promises	Nikolai
	Ulrich Mühe	The Life of Others	Gerd Weisler
2009
	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy "The Ram" Robinson
	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon	Richard Nixon
	Dev Patel	Slumdog Millionaire	Jamal Malik
	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk
	Brad Pitt	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Benjamin Button

2010-2019

Ano	Ator	Filme	Personagem
2010
	Colin Firth	A Single Man	George Falconer
	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart	Bad Blake
	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	Sargento William James
	Andy Serkis	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	Ian Dury
2011
	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	Rei George VI do Reino Unido
	Javier Bardem	Biutiful	Uxbal
	Jeff Bridges	True Grit	Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn
	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
2012
	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	George Valentin
	George Clooney	The Descendants	Matt King
	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
	Gary Oldman	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	George Smiley
	Brad Pitt	Moneyball	Billy Beane
2013
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	Ben Affleck	Argo	Tony Mendez
	Bradley Cooper	Silver Linings Playbook	Patrick "Pat" Solitano
	Hugh Jackman	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
2014
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Christian Bale	American Hustle	Irving Rosenfeld
	Bruce Dern	Nebraska	Woodrow "Woody" T. Grant
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jordan Belfort
	Tom Hanks	Captain Phillips	Capitão Richard Phillips
2015
	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing
	Ralph Fiennes	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Monsieur Gustave H.
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Louis "Lou" Bloom
	Michael Keaton	Birdman	Riggan Thomson
2016
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Bryan Cranston	Trumbo	Dalton Trumbo
	Matt Damon	The Martian	Mark Watney
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne	The Danish Girl	Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
2017
	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Andrew Garfield	Hacksaw Ridge	Desmond T. Doss
	Ryan Gosling	La La Land	Sebastian Wilder
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nocturnal Animals	Edward Sheffield / Tony Hastings
	Viggo Mortensen	Captain Fantastic	Ben Cash
2018
	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
	Jamie Bell	Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool	Peter Turner
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock
	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out	Chris Washington
2019
	Rami Malek	Bohemian Rhapsody	Freddie Mercury
	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born	Jackson Maine
	Christian Bale	Vice	Dick Cheney
	Steve Coogan	Stan & Ollie	Stan Laurel
	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book	Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga

2020-presente

Ano	Ator	Filme	Personagem
2020
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	Arthur Fleck / Joker
	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber
	Jonathan Pryce	The Two Popes	Cardeal Jorge Mario Bergoglio
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Rick Dalton
Taron Egerton	Rocketman	Elton John
2021[2]
	Anthony Hopkins	The Father	Anthony
	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone
	Chadwick Boseman (nominação póstuma)	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green
	Adarsh Gourav	The White Tiger	Balram Halwai
	Mads Mikkelsen	Druk	Martin
Tahar Rahim	The Mauritanian	Mohamedou Ould Slahi
2022[3]
	Will Smith	King Richard	Richard Williams
	Mahershala Ali	Swan Song	Cameron Turner
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Don't Look Up	Dr. Randall Mindy
	Adeel Akhtar	Ali & Ava	Ali
Stephen Graham	Boiling Point	Andy Jones
2023
	Austin Butler	Elvis	Elvis Presley
	Brendan Fraser	The Whale	Pádraic Súilleabháin
	Colin Farrell	The Banshees of Inisherin	Charlie
	Daryl McCormack	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande	Leo Grande/ Connor
	Paul Mescal	Aftersun	Calum Paterson
	Bill Nighy	Living	Mr. Williams
2024 [4]
	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer	Robert Oppenheimer
	Barry Keoghan	Saltburn	Oliver Quick
	Bradley Cooper	Maestro	Leonard Bernstein
	Paul Giamatti	The Holdovers	Paul Hunham
	Colman Domingo	Rustin	Bayard Rustin
	Teo Yoo	Past Lives	Hae Sung

Ver também

• BAFTA de melhor ator coadjuvante em cinema
• BAFTA de melhor atriz em cinema

Referências

1. «Film | Actor in a Leading Role in 1994» (em inglês). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Consultado em 31 de março de 2022
2. Ritman, Alex (11 de abril de 2021). «BAFTA Awards: 'Nomadland' Dominates, Winning Best Film, Director, Actress and Cinematography». The Hollywood Reporter (em inglês). Consultado em 31 de março de 2022
3. Harrison, Ellie (14 de março de 2022). «Bafta Film Awards 2022: Winners list in full». The Independent (em inglês). Consultado em 31 de março de 2022
4. Szalai, Georg (18 de fevereiro de 2024). «BAFTA Film Awards: 'Oppenheimer' Wins Seven Honors, 'Poor Things' Gets Five» (em inglês). The Hollywood Reporter. Consultado em 17 de março de 2024