British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
British Academy Television Award | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1955 |
Currently held by | Ben Whishaw for This is Going to Hurt (2022) |
Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
This is a list of the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor. The Best Actor award was initially given as an "individual honour", without credit to a particular performance, until 1962, when Rupert Davies won for his performance in Maigret. Since 1970, nominees have been announced in addition to the winner. The Actor category was split into Leading Actor and Supporting Actor starting in 2010.
Michael Gambon holds the record of most wins in this category with four, including three consecutive wins, followed by Robbie Coltrane with three, all of them also being consecutive. Benedict Cumberbatch was received the most nominations for this award, with six.
Winners and nominees
1950s
Year | Actor |
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1955 | |
Paul Rogers | |
1956 | |
Peter Cushing | |
1957 | |
Michael Gough | |
1958 | |
Michael Hordern | |
1959 | |
Donald Pleasence |
1960s
Year | Actors | Work |
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1960 | ||
Patrick McGoohan | ||
1961 | ||
Lee Montague | ||
1962 | ||
Rupert Davies | Maigret | |
1963 | ||
Harry H. Corbett | Steptoe and Son | |
1964 | ||
Alan Badel | ||
1965 | ||
Patrick Wymark | ||
1966 | ||
Alan Badel | The Count Of Monte Cristo; Meeting Point; A Couple of Dry Martinis; Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life; Famous Gossips | |
Richard Briers | Simon and Laura; Marriage Lines; Points of View; Present Laughter - Excerpt; Charley's Aunt; To You At Home Today | |
Ian Carmichael | Simon and Laura; The World of Wooster | |
Patrick Wymark | The Plane Makers; Crime and Punishment; Once a Jolly Swagman; Malatesta; Sherlock Holmes; I Remember the Battle; Four of Hearts – Tilt | |
1967 | ||
Warren Mitchell | Till Death Us Do Part
| |
1968 | ||
Eric Porter | The Forsyte Saga | |
1969 | ||
Roy Dotrice | Brief Lives |
1970s
Year | Actors | Work |
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1970 | ||
Edward Woodward | Callan | |
John Alderton | Please Sir! | |
Colin Blakely | Son of Man, The Way We Live Now | |
Arthur Lowe | Dad's Army | |
1971 | ||
Keith Michell | The Six Wives of Henry VIII
| |
Michael Bryant | The Roads to Freedom | |
Anthony Hopkins | The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens, Uncle Vanya, Hearts and Flowers, Danton | |
Michael Jayston | Charles Dickens, Mad Jack, Beethoven | |
Freddie Jones | Germinal/Omnibus: John Clare "I Am..."/Sweeney Todd/Uncle Vanya/Menace: The Straight And Narrow | |
1972 | ||
John Le Mesurier | Traitor
| |
Alfred Burke | Public Eye | |
Frank Finlay | Casanova | |
Kenneth Haigh | Search for the Nile, Man at the Top | |
1973 | ||
Anthony Hopkins | War and Peace | |
Michael Bryant | The Duchess of Malfi, Colditz | |
Nicol Williamson | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | |
1974 | ||
Frank Finlay | The Adventures of Don Quixote; Candide; The Death of Adolf Hitler | |
Michael Crawford | Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | |
Bernard Hepton | The Adventures of Don Quixote, Colditz | |
Laurence Olivier | Long Day's Journey Into Night | |
1975 | ||
Peter Barkworth | Crown Matrimonial | |
Michael Bryant | Mr Axelford's Angel | |
Gordon Jackson | Upstairs, Downstairs | |
Arthur Lowe | Microbes and Men, David Copperfield | |
1976 | ||
John Hurt | The Naked Civil Servant | |
Alan Bates | Plaintiffs and Defendants, Two Sundays | |
Tony Britton | The Nearly Man | |
Timothy West | Edward the Seventh
| |
1977 | ||
Derek Jacobi | I, Claudius | |
James Bolam | When the Boat Comes In | |
Tom Conti | The Glittering Prizes | |
Jack Shepherd | Bill Brand, Ready When You Are Mr McGill | |
1978 | ||
Peter Barkworth | Professional Foul | |
James Bolam | When the Boat Comes In | |
Derek Jacobi | Philby, Burgess and Maclean | |
Robert Powell | Jesus of Nazareth | |
1979 | ||
Edward Fox | Edward and Mrs Simpson
| |
Tom Bell | Out | |
Ian Holm | Night School, Flayed, Mirage, The Lost Boys | |
Bob Hoskins | Pennies From Heaven |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Actors with multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins
The following people have been awarded the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:
4 wins 3 wins |
2 wins
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Multiple nominations
The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:
References
- ^ "Television - 2020". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
- ^ "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations". The Guardian. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ "Bafta TV awards 2023: the full list of winners". Guardian. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "BAFTA TV Awards 2024: Nominations". BBC. Retrieved March 20, 2024.