BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

Winners and nominees
From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actor awards: one for a British actor and another for a foreign actor. In 1968, the two prizes of British and Foreign actor were combined to create a single Best Actor award. Its current title, for Best Actor in a Leading Role, has been used since 1995.

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Multiple nominations

 * 7 nominations
 * Michael Caine
 * Daniel Day-Lewis
 * Peter Finch
 * Dustin Hoffman
 * Jack Lemmon
 * Laurence Olivier


 * 6 nominations
 * Marlon Brando
 * Leonardo DiCaprio
 * Albert Finney
 * Sidney Poitier


 * 5 nominations
 * Dirk Bogarde
 * Robert De Niro
 * Anthony Hopkins
 * Spencer Tracy


 * 4 nominations
 * Ralph Fiennes
 * Tom Hanks
 * Jack Hawkins
 * Trevor Howard
 * Kenneth More
 * Paul Newman
 * Peter Sellers


 * 3 nominations
 * Woody Allen
 * Richard Attenborough
 * Richard Burton
 * George Clooney
 * Bradley Cooper
 * Tom Courtenay
 * Russell Crowe
 * Alec Guinness
 * Gene Hackman
 * Burt Lancaster
 * Fredric March
 * Walter Matthau
 * Viggo Mortensen
 * Jack Nicholson
 * Gary Oldman
 * Sean Penn
 * Joaquin Phoenix
 * Kevin Spacey


 * 2 nominations
 * Christian Bale
 * Alan Bates
 * Warren Beatty
 * Jamie Bell
 * Jean-Paul Belmondo
 * Jeff Bridges
 * Jim Broadbent
 * Nicolas Cage
 * Sean Connery
 * Benedict Cumberbatch
 * Tony Curtis
 * James Dean
 * Gérard Depardieu
 * Johnny Depp
 * Michael Douglas
 * Richard Dreyfuss
 * Michael Fassbender
 * Colin Firth
 * Henry Fonda
 * Pierre Fresnay
 * Jean Gabin
 * John Gielgud
 * Jake Gyllenhaal
 * George Hamilton
 * Laurence Harvey
 * William Holden
 * Bob Hoskins
 * Charles Laughton
 * James Mason
 * Marcello Mastroianni
 * Ian McKellen
 * John Mills
 * Yves Montand
 * Al Pacino
 * Gregory Peck
 * Brad Pitt
 * Jonathan Pryce
 * Anthony Quinn
 * Michael Redgrave
 * Eddie Redmayne
 * Ralph Richardson
 * Geoffrey Rush
 * George C. Scott
 * Martin Sheen
 * Takashi Shimura
 * Frank Sinatra
 * Rod Steiger
 * James Stewart
 * Robin Williams
 * Nicol Williamson
 * Donald Wolfit

Multiple wins

 * 5 wins
 * Peter Finch


 * 4 wins
 * Daniel Day-Lewis


 * 3 wins
 * Marlon Brando
 * Anthony Hopkins
 * Jack Lemmon


 * 2 wins
 * Dirk Bogarde
 * Colin Firth
 * Dustin Hoffman
 * Burt Lancaster
 * Marcello Mastroianni
 * Jack Nicholson
 * Rod Steiger