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2019 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Pain and Glory
Antonio Banderas
2018 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Dogman
Marcello Fonte
2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
You Were Never Really Here
Joaquin Phoenix
2016 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Salesman
Shahab Hosseini
2015 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Measure of a Man
Vincent Lindon
2014 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Mr. Turner
Timothy Spall
2013 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Nebraska
Bruce Dern
2012 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Hunt
Mads Mikkelsen
2011 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Artist
Jean Dujardin
2010 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Biutiful
Javier Bardem
2010 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
La nostra vita
Elio Germano
2009 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Inglourious Basterds
Christoph Waltz
2008 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Che: Part One
Benicio Del Toro
2007 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Banishment
Konstantin Lavronenko
2006 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Days of Glory
Jamel Debbouze
2005 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Three Burials
Tommy Lee Jones
2004 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Nobody Knows
Yûya Yagira
2003 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Uzak
Muzaffer Özdemir
2002 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Son
Olivier Gourmet
2001 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Piano Teacher
Benoît Magimel
2000 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
In the Mood for Love
Tony Chiu-Wai Leung
1999 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
L’humanité
Emmanuel Schotté
1998 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
My Name Is Joe
Peter Mullan
1997 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
She’s So Lovely
Sean Penn
1996 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Eighth Day
Daniel Auteuil
1995 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Carrington
Jonathan Pryce
1994 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
To Live
You Ge
1993 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Naked
David Thewlis
1992 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Player
Tim Robbins
1991 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Barton Fink
John Turturro
1990 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Cyrano de Bergerac
Gérard Depardieu
1989 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
James Spader
1988 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Bird
Forest Whitaker
1987 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Dark Eyes
Marcello Mastroianni
1986 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Ménage
Michel Blanc
1986 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Mona Lisa
Bob Hoskins
1985 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Kiss of the Spider Woman
William Hurt
1984 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Holy Innocents
Francisco Rabal
1983 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Death of Mario Ricci
Gian Maria Volontè
1982 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Missing
Jack Lemmon
1981 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Ugo Tognazzi
1980 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
A Leap in the Dark
Michel Piccoli
1979 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The China Syndrome
Jack Lemmon
1978 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Coming Home
Jon Voight
1977 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Elisa, My Life
Fernando Rey
1976 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Pascual Duarte
José Luis Gómez
1975 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Scent of a Woman
Vittorio Gassman
1974 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Last Detail
Jack Nicholson
1973 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Love & Anarchy
Giancarlo Giannini
1972 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
We Won’t Grow Old Together
Jean Yanne
1971 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Sacco & Vanzetti
Riccardo Cucciolla
1970 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Pizza Triangle
Marcello Mastroianni
1969 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Z
Jean-Louis Trintignant
1967 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Three Days and a Child
Oded Kotler
1966 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Hunger
Per Oscarsson
1965 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Collector
Terence Stamp
1964 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Pacsirta
Antal Páger
1964 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Seduced and Abandoned
Saro Urzì
1963 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
This Sporting Life
Richard Harris
1962 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
A Taste of Honey
Murray Melvin
1962 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Dean Stockwell
1961 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Goodbye Again
Anthony Perkins
1959 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Compulsion
Dean Stockwell
1958 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Long, Hot Summer
Paul Newman
1957 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Valley of Peace
John Kitzmiller
1955 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Bad Day at Black Rock
Spencer Tracy
1955 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Bolshaya semya
Sergei Lukyanov
1952 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
Viva Zapata!
Marlon Brando
1951 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
The Browning Version
Michael Redgrave
1949 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
House of Strangers
Edward G. Robinson
1946 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor
