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Bafta Award For Best Actor1952 British Ralph Richardson for his part in The Sound Barrier Foreign Marlon Brando for his part in Viva Zapata! 1953 British John Gielgud for his part in Julius Caesar Foreign Marlon Brando for his part in Julius Caesar 1954 British Kenneth More for his part in Doctor in the House Foreign Marlon Brando for his part in On the Waterfront 1955 British Laurence Olivier for his part in Richard III Foreign Ernest Borgnine for his part in Marty 1956 British Peter Finch for his part in A Town Like Alice Foreign Franois Perier for his part in Gervaise 1957 British Alec Guinness for his part in The Bridge on the River Kwai Foreign Henry Fonda for his part in 12 Angry Men 1958 British Trevor Howard for his part in The Key Foreign Sidney Poitier for his part in The Defiant Ones 1959 British Peter Sellers for his part in I'm All Right, Jack Foreign Jack Lemmon for his part in Some Like It Hot 1960 British Peter Finch for his part in The Trials of Oscar Wilde Foreign Jack Lemmon for his part in The Apartment 1961 British Peter Finch for his part in No Love for Johnnie Foreign Paul Newman for his part in The Hustler 1962 British Peter O'Toole for his part in Lawrence of Arabia Foreign Burt Lancaster for his part in The Bird Man of Alcatraz 1963 British Dirk Bogarde for his part in The Servant Foreign Marcello Mastroianni for his part in Divorce, Italian Style 1964 British Richard Attenborough for his parts in Guns at Batasi and Seance on a Wet Afternoon Foreign Marcello Mastroianni for his part in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1965 British Dirk Bogarde for his part in Darling Foreign Lee Marvin for his parts in The Killers and Cat Ballou 1966 British Richard Burton for his part in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Foreign Rod Steiger for his part in The Pawnbroker 1967 British Paul Scofield for his part in A Man for All Seasons Foreign Rod Steiger for his part in In the Heat of the Night 1966 British Richard Burton for his part in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Foreign Rod Steiger for his part in The Pawnbroker -
- this was the last year two awards were given; the two categories were combined
1968 Spencer Tracy for his part in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? 1969 Dustin Hoffman for his parts in Midnight Cowboy and John and Mary 1970 Robert Redford for his parts in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 1971 Peter Finch for his part in Sunday, Bloody Sunday 1972 Gene Hackman for his parts in The French Connection and The Poseidon Adventure 1973 Walter Matthau for his parts in Pete 'n' Tillie and Charley Varrick 1974 Jack Nicholson for his parts in Chinatown and The Last Detail 1975 Al Pacino for his parts in The Godfather Part II and Dog Day Afternoon 1976 Jack Nicholson for his part in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1977 Peter Finch for his part in Network 1978 Richard Dreyfuss for his part in The Goodbye Girl 1979 Jack Lemmon for his part in The China Syndrome 1980 John Hurt for his part in The Elephant Man 1981 Burt Lancaster for his part in Atlantic City 1982 Ben Kingsley for his part in Gandhi 1983 Jointly Michael Caine for his part in Educating Rita and Dustin Hoffman for his part in Tootsie 1984 Haing S. Ngor for his part in The Killing Fields -
- The award then became for 'Best Actor in a Leading Role'
1985 William Hurt for his part in Kiss of the Spider Woman 1986 Bob Hoskins for his part in Mona Lisa 1987 Sean Connery for his part in The Name of the Rose 1988 John Cleese for his part in A Fish Called Wanda 1989 Daniel Day Lewis for his part in My Left Foot 1990 Philippe Noiret for his part in Cinema Paradiso 1991 Anthony Hopkins for his part in The Silence of the Lambs 1992 Robert Downey Jr for his part in Chaplin 1993 Anthony Hopkins for his part in The Remains of the Day 1994 Hugh Grant for his part in Four Weddings and a Funeral 1995 Nigel Hawthorne for his part in The Madness of King George 1996 Geoffrey Rush for his part in Shine 1997 Robert Carlyle for his part in The Full Monty 1998 Roberto Benigni for his part in Life is Beautiful (La Vita Bella) 1999 Kevin Spacey for his part in American Beauty 2000 Jamie Bell for his part in Billy Elliot 2001 Russell Crowe for his part in A Beautiful Mind 2002 Daniel Day Lewis for his part in Gangs of New York 2003 Bill Murray for his part in Lost In Translation 2004 Jamie Foxx for his part in Ray
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