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BAFTA Film Award Nominees for Best Actor

Given the year and the film for which they were nominated, see how many nominees for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Leading Actor you can name.
From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actor awards: one for a British actor and another for a foreign actor. Answers in the "Best foreign actor" category are in italic.
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Year
Film
Actor
2025
I Swear
Robert Aramayo
Marty Supreme
Timothée Chalamet
One Battle After Another
Leonardo DiCaprio
Blue Moon
Ethan Hawke
Sinners
Michael B. Jordan
Bugonia
Jesse Plemons
2024
The Brutalist
Adrien Brody
A Complete Unknown
Timothée Chalamet
Sing Sing
Colman Domingo
Conclave
Ralph Fiennes
Heretic
Hugh Grant
The Apprentice
Sebastian Stan
2023
Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy
Maestro
Bradley Cooper
Rustin
Colman Domingo
The Holdovers
Paul Giamatti
Saltburn
Barry Keoghan
Past Lives
Teo Yoo
2022
Elvis
Austin Butler
The Banshees of Inisherin
Colin Farrell
The Whale
Brendan Fraser
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Daryl McCormack
Aftersun
Paul Mescal
Living
Bill Nighy
2021
King Richard
Will Smith
Ali & Ava
Adeel Akhtar
Swan Song
Mahershala Ali
The Power of the Dog
Benedict Cumberbatch
Don't Look Up
Leonardo DiCaprio
Boiling Point
Stephen Graham
2020
The Father
Anthony Hopkins
Sound of Metal
Riz Ahmed
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Chadwick Boseman
The White Tiger
Adarsh Gourav
Another Round
Mads Mikkelsen
The Mauritanian
Tahar Rahim
2019
Joker
Joaquin Phoenix
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Leonardo DiCaprio
Marriage Story
Adam Driver
Rocketman
Taron Egerton
The Two Popes
Jonathan Pryce
2018
Bohemian Rhapsody
Rami Malek
Vice
Christian Bale
Stan & Ollie
Steve Coogan
A Star Is Born
Bradley Cooper
Green Book
Viggo Mortensen
2017
Darkest Hour
Gary Oldman
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Jamie Bell
Call Me by Your Name
Timothée Chalamet
Phantom Thread
Daniel Day-Lewis
Get Out
Daniel Kaluuya
2016
Manchester by the Sea
Casey Affleck
Hacksaw Ridge
Andrew Garfield
La La Land
Ryan Gosling
Nocturnal Animals
Jake Gyllenhaal
Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen
2015
The Revenant
Leonardo DiCaprio
Trumbo
Bryan Cranston
The Martian
Matt Damon
Steve Jobs
Michael Fassbender
The Danish Girl
Eddie Redmayne
2014
The Theory of Everything
Eddie Redmayne
The Imitation Game
Benedict Cumberbatch
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ralph Fiennes
Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal
Birdman
Michael Keaton
2013
12 Years a Slave
Chiwetel Ejiofor
American Hustle
Christian Bale
Nebraska
Bruce Dern
The Wolf of Wall Street
Leonardo DiCaprio
Captain Phillips
Tom Hanks
2012
Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis
Argo
Ben Affleck
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper
Les Misérables
Hugh Jackman
The Master
Joaquin Phoenix
2011
The Artist
Jean Dujardin
The Descendants
George Clooney
Shame
Michael Fassbender
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman
Moneyball
Brad Pitt
2010
The King's Speech
Colin Firth
Biutiful
Javier Bardem
True Grit
Jeff Bridges
The Social Network
Jesse Eisenberg
127 Hours
James Franco
2009
A Single Man
Colin Firth
Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges
Up in the Air
George Clooney
The Hurt Locker
Jeremy Renner
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Andy Serkis
2008
The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke
Frost/Nixon
Frank Langella
Slumdog Millionaire
Dev Patel
Milk
Sean Penn
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Brad Pitt
2007
There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis
Michael Clayton
George Clooney
Atonement
James McAvoy
Eastern Promises
Viggo Mortensen
The Lives of Others
Ulrich Mühe
2006
The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker
Casino Royale
Daniel Craig
The Departed
Leonardo DiCaprio
The History Boys
Richard Griffiths
Venus
Peter O'Toole
2005
Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Constant Gardener
Ralph Fiennes
Brokeback Mountain
Heath Ledger
Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix
Good Night, and Good Luck
David Strathairn
2004
Ray
Jamie Foxx
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jim Carrey
Finding Neverland
Johnny Depp
The Aviator
Leonardo DiCaprio
The Motorcycle Diaries
Gael García Bernal
2003
Lost in Translation
Bill Murray
21 Grams
Benicio del Toro
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Johnny Depp
Cold Mountain
Jude Law
21 Grams
Sean Penn
Mystic River
Sean Penn
2002
Gangs of New York
Daniel Day-Lewis
The Pianist
Adrien Brody
Adaptation
Nicolas Cage
The Quiet American
Michael Caine
About Schmidt
Jack Nicholson
2001
A Beautiful Mind
Russell Crowe
Iris
Jim Broadbent
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ian McKellen
The Shipping News
Kevin Spacey
In the Bedroom
Tom Wilkinson
2000
Billy Elliot
Jamie Bell
Gladiator
Russell Crowe
Wonder Boys
Michael Douglas
Cast Away
Tom Hanks
Quills
Geoffrey Rush
1999
American Beauty
Kevin Spacey
Topsy-Turvy
Jim Broadbent
The Insider
Russell Crowe
The End of the Affair
Ralph Fiennes
East is East
Om Puri
1998
Life is Beautiful
Roberto Benigni
Little Voice
Michael Caine
Shakespeare in Love
Joseph Fiennes
Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks
1997
The Full Monty
Robert Carlyle
Mrs Brown
Billy Connolly
L.A. Confidential
Kevin Spacey
Nil by Mouth
Ray Winstone
1996
Shine
Geoffrey Rush
The English Patient
Ralph Fiennes
Richard III
Ian McKellen
Secrets & Lies
Timothy Spall
1995
The Madness of King George
Nigel Hawthorne
Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage
Carrington
Jonathan Pryce
Il Postino: The Postman
Massimo Troisi
1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Hugh Grant
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Terence Stamp
Pulp Fiction
John Travolta
1993
The Remains of the Day
Anthony Hopkins
In the Name of the Father
Daniel Day-Lewis
Shadowlands
Anthony Hopkins
Schindler's List
Liam Neeson
1992
Chaplin
Robert Downey Jr.
The Last of the Mohicans
Daniel Day-Lewis
The Crying Game
Stephen Rea
The Player
Tim Robbins
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins
Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
Cyrano de Bergerac
Gérard Depardieu
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Alan Rickman
1990
Cinema Paradiso
Philippe Noiret
The Hunt for Red October
Sean Connery
Born on the Fourth of July
Tom Cruise
Goodfellas
Robert De Niro
1989
My Left Foot
Daniel Day-Lewis
Henry V
Kenneth Branagh
Rain Man
Dustin Hoffman
Dead Poets Society
Robin Williams
1988
A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese
Fatal Attraction
Michael Douglas
A Fish Called Wanda
Kevin Kline
Good Morning, Vietnam
Robin Williams
1987
The Name of the Rose
Sean Connery
Jean de Florette
Gérard Depardieu
Yves Montand
Prick Up Your Ears
Gary Oldman
1986
Mona Lisa
Bob Hoskins
Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen
Michael Caine
Crocodile Dundee
Paul Hogan
1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman
William Hurt
Amadeus
F. Murray Abraham
A Passage to India
Victor Banerjee
Witness
Harrison Ford
1984
The Killing Fields
Haing S. Ngor
The Dresser
Tom Courtenay
Albert Finney
The Killing Fields
Sam Waterston
1983
Educating Rita
Michael Caine
Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman
The Honorary Consul
Michael Caine
The King of Comedy
Robert De Niro
1982
Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
Reds
Warren Beatty
Shoot the Moon
Albert Finney
On Golden Pond
Henry Fonda
Missing
Jack Lemmon
1981
Atlantic City
Burt Lancaster
Raging Bull
Robert De Niro
The Long Good Friday
Bob Hoskins
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Jeremy Irons
1980
The Elephant Man
John Hurt
Kramer vs. Kramer
Dustin Hoffman
All That Jazz
Roy Scheider
Being There
Peter Sellers
1979
The China Syndrome
Jack Lemmon
Manhattan
Woody Allen
The Deer Hunter
Robert De Niro
Apocalypse Now
Martin Sheen
1978
The Goodbye Girl
Richard Dreyfuss
Magic
Anthony Hopkins
Midnight Express
Brad Davis
Death on the Nile
Peter Ustinov
1977
Network
Peter Finch
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
Network
William Holden
Rocky
Sylvester Stallone
1976
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jack Nicholson
Taxi Driver
Robert De Niro
All the President's Men
Dustin Hoffman
Marathon Man
Dustin Hoffman
The Bad News Bears
Walter Matthau
The Sunshine Boys
Walter Matthau
1975
Dog Day Afternoon
Al Pacino
The Godfather Part II
Al Pacino
Jaws
Richard Dreyfuss
French Connection II
Gene Hackman
Night Moves
Gene Hackman
Lenny
Dustin Hoffman
1974
Chinatown
Jack Nicholson
The Last Detail
Jack Nicholson
Murder on the Orient Express
Albert Finney
The Conversation
Gene Hackman
Serpico
Al Pacino
1973
Charley Varrick
Walter Matthau
Pete 'n' Tillie
Walter Matthau
Last Tango in Paris
Marlon Brando
Sleuth
Laurence Olivier
Don't Look Now
Donald Sutherland
Steelyard Blues
Donald Sutherland
1972
The French Connection
Gene Hackman
The Poseidon Adventure
Gene Hackman
The Godfather
Marlon Brando
The Nightcomers
Marlon Brando
The Hospital
George C. Scott
They Might Be Giants
George C. Scott
Young Winston
Robert Shaw
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Peter Finch
Death in Venice
Dirk Bogarde
Gumshoe
Albert Finney
Little Big Man
Dustin Hoffman
1970
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Robert Redford
Downhill Racer
Robert Redford
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Robert Redford
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Elliott Gould
M*A*S*H
Elliott Gould
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Paul Newman
Patton
George C. Scott
1969
John and Mary
Dustin Hoffman
Midnight Cowboy
Dustin Hoffman
Women in Love
Alan Bates
Hello, Dolly!
Walter Matthau
The Secret Life of an American Wife
Walter Matthau
Inadmissible Evidence
Nicol Williamson
1968
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Spencer Tracy
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Trevor Howard
Oliver!
Ron Moody
The Bofors Gun
Nicol Williamson
1967
A Man for All Seasons
Paul Scofield
Accident
Dirk Bogarde
Our Mother's House
Dirk Bogarde
The Taming of the Shrew
Richard Burton
The Deadly Affair
James Mason
1967
In the Heat of the Night
Rod Steiger
1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Warren Beatty
In the Heat of the Night
Sidney Poitier
Chimes at Midnight
Orson Welles
1966
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Richard Burton
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Richard Burton
Alfie
Michael Caine
Doctor Zhivago
Ralph Richardson
Khartoum
Ralph Richardson
The Wrong Box
Ralph Richardson
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment
David Warner
The Pawnbroker
Rod Steiger
Pierrot le Fou
Jean-Paul Belmondo
A Patch of Blue
Sidney Poitier
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Oskar Werner
1965
Darling
Dirk Bogarde
The Hill
Harry Andrews
The Ipcress File
Michael Caine
My Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Cat Ballou
Lee Marvin
The Killers
Lee Marvin
Good Neighbor Sam
Jack Lemmon
How to Murder Your Life
Jack Lemmon
Zorba the Greek
Anthony Quinn
Hamlet
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Ship of Fools
Oskar Werner
1964
Guns at Batasi
Richard Attenborough
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Richard Attenborough
King & Country
Tom Courtenay
Becket
Peter O'Toole
Dr. Strangelove
Peter Sellers
The Pink Panther
Peter Sellers
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Marcello Mastroianni
Charade
Cary Grant
Dr. Strangelove
Sterling Hayden
Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier
1963
The Servant
Dirk Bogarde
Billy Liar
Tom Courtenay
Tom Jones
Albert Finney
Hugh Griffith
This Sporting Life
Richard Harris
Divorce Italian Style
Marcello Mastroianni
Accattone
Franco Citti
David and Lisa
Howard Da Silva
Days of Wine and Roses
Jack Lemmon
Hud
Paul Newman
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Peter O'Toole
The Dock Brief
Richard Attenborough
A Kind of Loving
Alan Bates
Lolita
James Mason
Term of Trial
Laurence Olivier
Only Two Can Play
Peter Sellers
Birdman of Alcatraz
Burt Lancaster
Léon Morin, Priest
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Lonely are the Brave
Kirk Douglas
Light in the Piazza
George Hamilton
Advise and Consent
Charles Laughton
Lawrence of Arabia
Anthony Quinn
Billy Budd
Robert Ryan
The Long Absence
Georges Wilson
1961
No Love for Johnnie
Peter Finch
Victim
Dirk Bogarde
The Hustler
Paul Newman
Judgment at Nuremberg
Montgomery Clift
Ballad of a Soldier
Vladimir Ivashov
The Night Watch
Philippe Leroy
A Raisin in the Sun
Sidney Poitier
Judgment at Nuremberg
Maximilian Schell
The Best of Enemies
Alberto Sordi
1960
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Peter Finch
The Angry Silence
Richard Attenborough
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Albert Finney
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
John Fraser
Tunes of Glory
Alec Guinness
John Mills
The Entertainer
Laurence Olivier
The Apartment
Jack Lemmon
Crime and Punishment U.S.A.
George Hamilton
Elmer Gantry
Burt Lancaster
Inherit the Wind
Fredric March
Let's Make Love
Yves Montand
Inherit the Wind
Spencer Tracy
1959
I'm All Right Jack
Peter Sellers
Yesterday's Enemy
Stanley Baker
Look Back in Anger
Richard Burton
The Nun's Story
Peter Finch
Expresso Bongo
Laurence Harvey
Yesterday's Enemy
Gordon Jackson
The Devil's Disciple
Laurence Olivier
Some Like It Hot
Jack Lemmon
Ashes and Diamonds
Zbigniew Cybulski
Maigret Sets a Trap
Jean Desailly
Jean Gabin
Living
Takashi Shimura
Anatomy of a Murder
James Stewart
1958
The Key
Trevor Howard
Sea of Sand
Michael Craig
Room at the Top
Laurence Harvey
Harry Black
I.S. Johar
Ice Cold in Alex
Anthony Quayle
Tom Thumb
Terry-Thomas
Room at the Top
Donald Wolfit
The Defiant Ones
Sidney Poitier
The Young Lions
Marlon Brando
The Defiant Ones
Tony Curtis
The Sheepman
Glenn Ford
The Enemy Below
Curd Jürgens
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Curd Jürgens
Witness for the Prosecution
Charles Laughton
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Paul Newman
Wild Strawberries
Victor Sjöström
The Last Hurrah
Spencer Tracy
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness
Windom's Way
Peter Finch
Manuela
Trevor Howard
The Prince and the Showgirl
Laurence Olivier
Time Without Pity
Michael Redgrave
12 Angry Men
Henry Fonda
Time Limit
Richard Basehart
The Gates of Paris
Pierre Brasseur
Sweet Smell of Success
Tony Curtis
La Traversé de Paris
Jean Gabin
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
Robert Mitchum
Edge of the City
Sidney Poitier
The Great Man
Ed Wynn
1956
A Town Like Alice
Peter Finch
The Long Arm
Jack Hawkins
Reach for the Sky
Kenneth More
Gervaise
François Périer
Smiles of a Summer Night
Gunnar Björnstrand
Rebel Without a Cause
James Dean
The Unfrocked One
Pierre Fresnay
Picnic
William Holden
Baby Doll
Karl Malden
The Man with the Golden Arm
Frank Sinatra
The Mountain
Spencer Tracy
1955
Richard III
Laurence Olivier
The Bespoke Overcoat
Alfie Bass
The Prisoner
Alec Guinness
Jack Hawkins
The Deep Blue Sea
Kenneth More
The Night My Number Came Up
Michael Redgrave
Marty
Ernest Borgnine
East of Eden
James Dean
Mister Roberts
Jack Lemmon
Seven Samurai
Toshiro Mifune
Takashi Shimura
Not as a Stranger
Frank Sinatra
1954
Doctor in the House
Kenneth More
The Purple Plain
Maurice Denham
Lease of Life
Robert Donat
Hobson's Choice
John Mills
Carrington V.C.
David Niven
Svengali
Donald Wolfit
On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando
Riot in Cell Block 11
Neville Brand
The Caine Mutiny
José Ferrer
Executive Suite
Fredric March
The Glenn Miller Story
James Stewart
1953
Julius Caesar
John Gielgud
The Cruel Sea
Jack Hawkins
The Heart of the Matter
Trevor Howard
The Kidnappers
Duncan Macrae
Genevieve
Kenneth More
Julius Caesar
Marlon Brando
Roman Holiday
Eddie Albert
Shane
Van Heflin
Diary of a Country Priest
Claude Laydu
We Are All Murderers
Marcel Mouloudji
Roman Holiday
Gregory Peck
The Actress
Spencer Tracy
1952
The Sound Barrier
Ralph Richardson
Mandy
Jack Hawkins
The Pickwick Papers
James Hayter
Carrie
Laurence Olivier
The Sound Barrier
Nigel Patrick
Folly to Be Wise
Alastair Sim
Viva Zapata!
Marlon Brando
The African Queen
Humphrey Bogart
God Needs Men
Pierre Fresnay
Miracle in Milan
Francesco Golisano
Death of a Salesman
Fredric March
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