Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)

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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.

[edit] 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 The Wages of Fear Charles Vanel
1954 no award this year
1955 Bad Day at Black Rock Spencer Tracy
Bolshaya Semya Whole cast[1]
1956 no award this year[2]
1957 Peace Valley John Kitzmiller
1958 The Long, Hot Summer Paul Newman
1959 Compulsion Bradford Dillmann, Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles
1960 no award this year
1961 Goodbye Again Anthony Perkins
1962 Long Day's Journey into Night Dean Stockwell, Jason Robards and Ralph Richardson
A Taste of Honey Murray Melvin
1963 This Sporting Life Richard Harris
1964 Alouette Antal Páger
Seduced and Abandoned Saro Urzì
1965 The Collector Terence Stamp
1966 Sult Per Oscarsson
1967 Shlosha Yamim Veyeled 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 Gomez
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 and Francisco Rabal
1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman William Hurt
1986 Ménage Michel Blanc
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 and Daniel Auteuil
1997 She's So Lovely Sean Penn
1998 My Name Is Joe Peter Mullan
1999 Humanité Emmanuel Schotte
2000 In the Mood for Love Tony Leung Chiu Wai
2001 The Piano Teacher Benoît Magimel
2002 The Son Olivier Gourmet
2003 Uzak Muzaffer Ozdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak
2004 Nobody Knows Yagira Yuuya
2005 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Tommy Lee Jones
2006 Days of Glory Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan
2007 The Banishment Konstantin Lavronenko
2008 Che Benicio del Toro

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ 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).

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