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.

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Award Winners

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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 Cucciola
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

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'').

External links

★ Cannes Film Festival official website

★ Cannes Film Festival at IMDb.