Awards & Winners

Cannes Best Actor Award

Cannes Film Festival Awards

The Best Actor Award 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.
Date Established : 1946

Check all the winners of Cannes Best Actor Award presented under Cannes Film Festival Awards since 1946 .


Timothy Spall

Honored for : Mr. Turner

Mads Mikkelsen

Honored for : Lucas

Jean Dujardin

Honored for : The Artist

Javier Bardem

Honored for : Biutiful

Elio Germano

Honored for : Our Life

Christoph Waltz

Honored for : Inglourious Basterds

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds

Benicio del Toro

Honored for : Che: Part One

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds

Benicio del Toro

Honored for : Che Film Series

Konstantin Lavronenko

Honored for : The Banishment

Tommy Lee Jones

Honored for : The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tommy Lee Jones The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Y?ya Yagira

Honored for : Nobody Knows

Muzaffer Özdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak

Honored for : Distant

Olivier Gourmet

Honored for : The Son

Benoît Magimel

Honored for : The Piano Teacher

Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Honored for : In the Mood for Love

Emmanuel Schotté

Honored for : Humanité

Peter Mullan

Honored for : My Name Is Joe

Sean Penn

Honored for : She's So Lovely

Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne

Honored for : The Eighth Day

Jonathan Pryce

Honored for : Carrington

Ge You

Honored for : To Live

David Thewlis

Honored for : Naked

Tim Robbins

Honored for : The Player

John Turturro

Honored for : Barton Fink

Gérard Depardieu

Honored for : Cyrano de Bergerac

James Spader

Honored for : Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Forest Whitaker

Honored for : Bird

Marcello Mastroianni

Honored for : Dark Eyes

Michel Blanc

Honored for : Tenue de soirée

Bob Hoskins

Honored for : Mona Lisa

William Hurt

Honored for : Kiss of the Spider Woman

Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal

Honored for : Los santos inocentes

Gian Maria Volonté

Honored for : The Death of Mario Ricci

Jack Lemmon

Honored for : Missing

Ugo Tognazzi

Honored for : Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

Michel Piccoli

Honored for : A Leap in the Dark

Jack Lemmon

Honored for : The China Syndrome

Jon Voight

Honored for : Coming Home

Fernando Rey

Honored for : Elisa, vida mía

José Luis Gómez

Honored for : Pascual Duarte

Vittorio Gassman

Honored for : Scent of a Woman

Jack Nicholson

Honored for : The Last Detail

Giancarlo Giannini

Honored for : Love and Anarchy

Jean Yanne

Honored for : We Won't Grow Old Together

Riccardo Cucciolla

Honored for : Sacco & Vanzetti

Marcello Mastroianni

Honored for : The Pizza Triangle

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Honored for : Z

Nominations 1969 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jean-Louis Trintignant Z

Oded Kotler

Honored for : Three Days and a Child

Per Oscarsson

Honored for : Hunger

Terence Stamp

Honored for : The Collector

Antal Páger

Honored for : Drama of the Lark

Saro Urzì

Honored for : Seduced and Abandoned

Richard Harris

Honored for : This Sporting Life

Murray Melvin

Honored for : A Taste of Honey

Ralph Richardson, Dean Stockwell, Jason Robards Jr.

Honored for : Long Day's Journey into Night

Anthony Perkins

Honored for : Goodbye Again

Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell

Honored for : Compulsion

Paul Newman

Honored for : The Long, Hot Summer

John Kitzmiller

Honored for : Valley of Peace

Spencer Tracy

Honored for : Bad Day at Black Rock

A Big Family

Charles Vanel

Honored for : The Wages of Fear

Marlon Brando

Honored for : Viva Zapata!

Michael Redgrave

Honored for : The Browning Version

Edward G. Robinson

Honored for : House of Strangers

Ray Milland

Honored for : The Lost Weekend