Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Winners

The Festival, known officially as the Festival de Cannes, is a world festival for the motion picture industry, held annually in the city of Cannes on the French Riviera.

• Edward G. Robinson (born 1893, died 1972)

  Rumanian-born American actor and artist. Original name: Emmanuel Goldenberg.

  • Winner of the 1949 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for House of Strangers
• Ray Milland (born 1908, died 1986)

  British-American actor and director. Original name: Reginald Truscott-Jones.

  • Winner of the 1946 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Lost Weekend
• Michael Redgrave (born 1908, died 1985)

  English actor.

  • Winner of the 1951 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Browning Version
• Charles Vanel (born 1892, died 1989)

  French actor.

  • Winner of the 1953 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Wages of Fear
• John Kitzmiller

  Actor.

  • Winner of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Valley of Peace
• Paul Newman (born 1925)

  American actor, director, producer and race-car driver.

  • Winner of the 1958 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Long Hot Summer
• Dean Stockwell (born 1936)

  American actor and director.

  • Winner of the 1959 and 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor awards , for Compulsion and Long Day''s Journey into Night
• Bradford Dillman (born 1930)

  American actor.

  • Winner of the 1959 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Compulsion
• Anthony Perkins (born 1932, died 1992)

  American actor, writer and director.

  • Winner of the 1961 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Goodbye Again
• Ralph Richardson (born 1902, died 1983)

  English actor, director and producer.

  • Winner of the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Long Day''s Journey into Night
• Murray Melvin

  Actor.

  • Winner of the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for A Taste of Honey
• Richard Harris (born 1932)

  Irish actor and director.

  • Winnerof the 1963 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for This Sporting Life
• Antel Pager

  Hungarian actor.

  • Winner of the 1964 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Lark
• Terence Stamp (born 1939)

  English actor.

  • Winner of the 1965 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Collector
• Per Oscarsson

  Actor, writer, director and producer.

  • Winner of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Hunger
• Odded Kotler

  Actor.

  • Winner of the 1967 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Three Days and a Child
• Jean-Louis Trintignant (born 1930)

  French actor and director.

  • Winner of the 1969 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Z
• Riccardo Cucciolla

  Actor.

  • Winner of the 1971 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Sacco and Vanzetti
• Jean Yanne

  French actor, writer, director and producer.

  • Winner of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for We Will Not Grow Old Together
• Giancarlo Giannini (born 1942)

  Italian actor.

  • Winner of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Love and Anarchy
• Jack Nicholson (born 1937)

  American actor.

  • Winner of the 1974 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Last Detail
• Vittorio Gassman (born 1922)

  Italian actor, writer and director.

  • Winner of the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Profumo di Donna
• Jose Luis Gomez

  Actor.

  • Winner of the 1976 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Pascual Duarte
• Fernando Rey (born 1917, died 1994)

  Spanish actor.

  • Winner of the 1977 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Elisa, My Love
• Jon Voight (born 1938)

  American actor, writer and director.

  • Winner of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Coming Home
• Michel Piccoli (born 1925)

  French actor, writer and director.

  • Winner of the 1980 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for A Leap Into the Void
• Ugo Tognazzi (born 1922, died 1990)

  Italian actor and director.

  • Winner of the 1981 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
• Gian Maria Volont (born 1933, died 1994)

  Italian actor.

  • Winner of the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Death of Mario Ricci
• Alfredo Landa (born 1933)

  Spanish actor.

  • Winner of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Holy Innocents
• Francisco Rabal (born 1925)

  Spanish writer and actor.

  • Winner of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Holy Innocents
• William Hurt (born 1950)

  American actor.

  • Winner of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Michel Blanc

  Actor, writer and director.

  • Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Tenue de Soirée
• Bob Hoskins (born 1942)

  English actor, writer, director and producer.

  • Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Mona Lisa
• Forest Whitaker (born 1961)

  American actor and director.

  • Winner of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Bird
• James Spader (born 1960)

  American actor.

  • Winner of the 1989 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Sex, Lies, and Videotape
• John Turturro (born 1957)

  American actor, writer and director.

  • Winner of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Barton Fink
• David Thewlis (born 1963)

  English actor and director.

  • Winner of the 1993 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Naked
• You Ge

  Actor.

  • Winner of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for To Live
• Jonathan Pryce (born 1947)

  British actor.

  • Winner of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Carrington
• Jack Lemmon (born 1925)

  American actor and comedian.

  • Winner of the 1979 and 1982 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor awards, for The China Syndrome and Missing
• Marlon Brando (born 1924)

  American actor.

  • Winner of the 1952 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Viva Zapata!
• Spencer Tracy (born 1900, died 1967)

  American actor.

  • Winner of the 1955 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Bad Day at Black Rock
• Orson Welles (born 1915, died 1985)

  American actor and director.

  • Winner of the 1959 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Compulsion
• Marcello Mastroianni (born 1924, died 1996)

  Italian actor.

  • Winner of the 1970 and 1987 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor awards, for Drama of Jealousy/The Pizza Triangle and Dark Eyes
• Tim Robbins (born 1958)

  American actor, writer, director and producer.

  • Winner of the 1992 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for The Player
• Gérard Depardieu (born 1948)

  French actor, director and producer.

  • Winner of the 1990 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Cyrano de Bergerac
• Jason Robards, Jr. (born 1922)

  American actor.

  • Winner of the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Long Day''s Journey into Night
• Saro Urzi

  Italian actor.

  • Winner of the 1964 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for Seduced and Abandoned
• Sean Penn (born 1960)

  American actor, director, producer, and writer.

  • Winner of the 1997 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for She''s So Lovely
• Peter Mullan
  • Winner of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for My name Is Joe
• Pascal Duquenne
  • Winner of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for The Eighth Day
• Daniel Auteuil
  • Winner of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for The Eigth Day
• Emmanuel Schotté
  • 1999 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award winner
• Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (born 2000)

  Actor and singer

  • Winner of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, for In the Mood for Love