Alec Guinness - Wikipedia Alec Guinness From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search British actor Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE Guinness in 1973 by Allan Warren Born Alec Guinness de Cuffe (1914-04-02)2 April 1914 Maida Vale, London, England Died 5 August 2000(2000-08-05) (aged 86) Midhurst, West Sussex, England Burial place Petersfield Cemetery Occupation Actor Years active 1934–1996 Works On stage and screen Spouse(s) Merula Salaman ​ (m. 1938)​ Children Matthew Guinness Military career Allegiance  United Kingdom Service/branch  Royal Navy Years of service 1941–1943 Rank Lieutenant Battles/wars World War II Operation Husky Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), in which he played nine different characters, The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, and The Ladykillers (1955). He collaborated six times with director David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). In 1970 he played Jacob Marley's ghost in Ronald Neame's Scrooge. He also portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy; for the original 1977 film, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Academy Awards. Guinness began his stage career in 1934. Two years later, at the age of 22, he played the role of Osric in Hamlet in the West End and joined the Old Vic. He continued to play Shakespearean roles throughout his career. He was one of the greatest British actors, along with Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, who made the transition from theatre to films after the Second World War. Guinness served in the Royal Naval Reserve during the war and commanded a landing craft during the invasion of Sicily and Elba. During the war he was granted leave to appear in the stage play Flare Path about RAF Bomber Command. Guinness won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and a Tony Award. In 1959 he was knighted by Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980 and the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in 1989. Guinness appeared in nine films that featured in the BFI's 100 greatest British films of the 20th century, which included five of Lean's films. Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Second World War 4 Postwar stage career 5 Film career 5.1 David Lean 5.2 Star Wars 6 Television appearances 7 Awards and honours 8 Personal life 9 Death 10 Archives 11 Autobiographies and biography 11.1 Box office ranking in Britain 12 See also 13 References 13.1 Notes 13.2 Bibliography 14 External links Early life[edit] Guinness was born Alec Guinness de Cuffe at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South,[1] Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale in London.[2] His mother's maiden name was Agnes Cuff, born on 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinness's birth certificate, his mother's name is given as Agnes de Cuffe; the infant's name (where first names only are placed) is given as Alec Guinness, and there are no details for the father.[3] The identity of Guinness's father has never been officially confirmed.[4] From 1875, under English law, when the birth of an illegitimate child was registered, the father's name could be entered on the certificate only if he were present and gave his consent. Guinness himself believed that his father was a Scottish banker, Andrew Geddes (1861–1928), who paid for Guinness's boarding-school education at Pembroke Lodge, in Southborne, and Roborough, in Eastbourne. Geddes occasionally visited Guinness and his mother, posing as an uncle.[5] Guinness's mother later had a three-year marriage to a Scottish army captain named Stiven, whose behaviour was often erratic or even violent.[6][7] Early career[edit] Alec Guinness at the Old Vic theatre, London in 1938 Guinness first worked writing advertising copy. His first job in the theatre was on his 20th birthday (April 1934), while he was a student at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art, in the play Libel, which opened at the old King's Theatre, Hammersmith, and then transferred to the West End’s Playhouse, where his status was raised from a walk-on to understudying two lines, and his salary increased to £1 a week.[8][9] He appeared at the Albery Theatre in 1936 at the age of 22, playing the role of Osric in John Gielgud's successful production of Hamlet. Also in 1936, Guinness signed on with the Old Vic, where he was cast in a series of classic roles.[10] In the later 1930s, he took classes at the London Theatre Studio.[11] In 1939, he took over for Michael Redgrave as Charleston in a road-show production of Robert Ardrey's Thunder Rock.[12] At the Old Vic, Guinness worked with many actors and actresses who would become his friends and frequent co-stars in the future, including Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Anthony Quayle, and Jack Hawkins. An early influence was film star Stan Laurel, whom Guinness admired.[13] Guinness continued playing Shakespearean roles throughout his career. In 1937, he played Aumerle in Richard II and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice under the direction of John Gielgud. He starred in a 1938 production of Hamlet which won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.[10] He also appeared as Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet (1939), Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and as Exeter in Henry V in 1937, both opposite Laurence Olivier, and Ferdinand in The Tempest, opposite Gielgud as Prospero. In 1939, he adapted Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations for the stage, playing Herbert Pocket. The play was a success. One of its viewers was a young British film editor, David Lean, who would later have Guinness reprise his role in Lean's 1946 film adaptation of the play.[14] Second World War[edit] Guinness served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, initially as a seaman in 1941, before receiving a commission as a temporary Sub-lieutenant on 30 April 1942 and a promotion to Temporary Lieutenant the following year.[15][16][17] Guinness then commanded a landing craft at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre.[18] During the war, he was granted leave to appear in the Broadway production of Terence Rattigan's play, Flare Path, about RAF Bomber Command, with Guinness playing the role of Flight Lieutenant Teddy Graham.[19] Postwar stage career[edit] Guinness returned to the Old Vic in 1946 and stayed until 1948, playing Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, the Fool in King Lear opposite Laurence Olivier in the title role, DeGuiche in Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Ralph Richardson in the title role, and finally starring in an Old Vic production as Shakespeare's Richard II. After leaving the Old Vic, he played Eric Birling in J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls at the New Theatre in October 1946. He played the Uninvited Guest in the Broadway production of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party (1950, revived at the Edinburgh Festival in 1968). He played Hamlet under his own direction at the New Theatre in the West End in 1951.[20] Invited by his friend Tyrone Guthrie to join the premiere season of the Stratford Festival of Canada, Guinness lived for a brief time in Stratford, Ontario. On 13 July 1953, Guinness spoke the first lines of the first play produced by the festival, Shakespeare's Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York."[21][22] Guinness won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance as Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in Dylan. He next played the title role in Macbeth opposite Simone Signoret at the Royal Court Theatre in 1966.[23] Guinness made his final stage performance at the Comedy Theatre in the West End on 30 May 1989, in the play A Walk in the Woods. In all, between 2 April 1934 and 30 May 1989, he played 77 parts in the theatre.[24] Film career[edit] Drawing by Nicholas Volpe after Guinness won an Oscar in 1957 for his role in The Bridge on the River Kwai Guinness made his speaking debut in film in the drama Great Expectations (1946). However, he was initially best associated mainly with the Ealing Comedies, and particularly for playing nine characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).[25] Other films from this period included The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955), with all three ranked among the Best British films.[26] In 1950 he portrayed 19th century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in The Mudlark, which included delivering an uninterrupted seven minute speech in Parliament.[27] In 1952, director Ronald Neame cast Guinness in his first romantic lead role, opposite Petula Clark in The Card. In 1951, exhibitors voted him the most popular British star.[28] Guinness was idolised by Peter Sellers—who himself would become famous for inhabiting a variety of characters in a film—with Sellers's first major film role starring alongside his idol in The Ladykillers.[29] Guinness's other notable film roles of this period included The Swan (1956) with Grace Kelly, in her penultimate film role; The Horse's Mouth (1958), in which Guinness played the part of drunken painter Gulley Jimson, and for which he also wrote the screenplay, which was nominated for an Academy Award; the lead in Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana (1959); Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964); The Quiller Memorandum (1966); Marley's Ghost in Scrooge (1970); Charles I in Cromwell (1970); Pope Innocent III in Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972); and the title role in Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973), which he considered his best film performance, though critics disagreed.[30] Another role which is sometimes referred to as one which he considered his best, and is so considered by many critics, is that of Colonel Jock Sinclair in Tunes of Glory (1960). Guinness also played the role of Jamessir Bensonmum, the blind butler, in the 1976 Neil Simon film Murder by Death. David Lean[edit] Guinness with Rita Tushingham in Doctor Zhivago (1965) Guinness won particular acclaim for his work with director David Lean, which today is his most critically acclaimed work. After appearing in Lean's Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, he was given a starring role opposite William Holden in The Bridge on the River Kwai. For his performance as Colonel Nicholson, the unyielding British POW commanding officer, Guinness won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Despite a difficult and often hostile relationship, Lean, referring to Guinness as "my good luck charm", continued to cast Guinness in character roles in his later films: Arab leader Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia; the title character's half-brother, Bolshevik leader Yevgraf, in Doctor Zhivago and Indian mystic Professor Godbole in A Passage to India. He was also offered a role in Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970) but declined. At that time, Guinness "mistrusted" Lean and considered the formerly close relationship to be strained—although, at his funeral, he recalled that the famed director had been "charming and affable".[31] Guinness appeared in five Lean films that were ranked in the British Film Institute's top 50 greatest British films of the 20th century: 3rd (Lawrence of Arabia), 5th (Great Expectations), 11th (The Bridge on the River Kwai), 27th (Doctor Zhivago) and 46th (Oliver Twist).[32] Star Wars[edit] Guinness's role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy, beginning in 1977, brought him worldwide recognition to a new generation, as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. In letters to his friends, Guinness described the film as "fairy tale rubbish" but the film's sense of moral good – and the studio's doubling of his initial salary offer – appealed to him and he agreed to take the part of Kenobi on the condition that he would not have to do any publicity to promote the film.[33] He initially negotiated a deal for 2% of the film's royalties paid to the director, George Lucas, who, upon the warm reception of the film with the press and film critics, and as a gesture of good-will for the positive amendments and suggestions Guinness proposed to the screenplay for the film, offered Guinness an additional 0.5%, bringing his share to 2.5%. When Guinness enquired about the share with the film's producer Gary Kurtz, and asked for a written agreement so as to codify his earnings, Kurtz revised Lucas's offering down by 0.25%, bringing Guinness's final, agreed-upon share of royalties paid to the director to 2.25% (Lucas received one-fifth of the overall box office takings).[34][35] This made him very wealthy in his later life. Upon his first viewing of the film, Guinness wrote in his diary, "It's a pretty staggering film as spectacle and technically brilliant. Exciting, very noisy and warm-hearted. The battle scenes at the end go on for five minutes too long, I feel, and some of the dialogue is excruciating and much of it is lost in noise, but it remains a vivid experience."[36] Guinness soon became unhappy with being identified with the part and expressed dismay at the fan following that the Star Wars trilogy attracted. In the DVD commentary of the original Star Wars, Lucas says that Guinness was not happy with the script rewrite in which Obi-Wan is killed. Guinness said in a 1999 interview that it was actually his idea to kill off Obi-Wan, persuading Lucas that it would make him a stronger character and that Lucas agreed to the idea. Guinness stated in the interview, "What I didn't tell Lucas was that I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo." He went on to say that he "shrivelled up" every time Star Wars was mentioned to him.[37] Although Guinness disliked the fame that followed work he did not hold in high esteem,[36] Lucas and fellow cast members Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels and Carrie Fisher have spoken highly of his courtesy and professionalism, on and off the set. Lucas credited him with inspiring cast and crew to work harder, saying that Guinness contributed significantly to achieving completion of the filming. Guinness was quoted as saying that the royalties he obtained from working on the films gave him "no complaints; let me leave it by saying I can live for the rest of my life in the reasonably modest way I am now used to, that I have no debts and I can afford to refuse work that doesn't appeal to me." In his autobiography, Blessings in Disguise, Guinness tells an imaginary interviewer "Blessed be Star Wars", regarding the income it provided.[38] Guinness appeared in the film's sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), as a force ghost apparition to the trilogy's main character Luke Skywalker. In 2003, Obi-Wan Kenobi as portrayed by Guinness was selected as the 37th-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute.[39] Digitally altered archival audio of Guinness's voice was used in the films Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).[40][41] Television appearances[edit] Guinness was reluctant to appear on television, but accepted the part of George Smiley in the serialisation of John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) after meeting the author.[42] Guinness reprised the role in Smiley's People (1982), and twice won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the character.[43] He received another nomination for best actor for his portrayal of the titular Monsignor Quixote, adapted from the Graham Greene novel by the author in 1987.[44] One of Guinness's last appearances was in the BBC drama Eskimo Day (1996).[45][46] Awards and honours[edit] Plaque installed by the British Film Institute in the City of Westminster, London in recognition of Guinness's contribution to British cinema Guinness won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in 1957 for his role in The Bridge on the River Kwai after having been unsuccessfully nominated for an Oscar in 1952 for his performance in The Lavender Hill Mob. He was nominated in 1958 for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for his screenplay adapted from Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth. He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars in 1977. He received an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980. In 1988, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Little Dorrit. He received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award for lifetime achievement in 1989.[47] For his theatre work, he received an Evening Standard Award for his performance as T. E. Lawrence in Ross and a Tony Award for his Broadway turn as Dylan Thomas in Dylan.[48] Guinness received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 Vine Street on 8 February 1960.[3] Guinness was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1955 Birthday Honours, Knight Bachelor in the 1959 New Year Honours and Companion of Honour in the 1994 Birthday Honours for services to drama.[9][10] In 1991, he received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University.[49] Personal life[edit] Guinness married the artist, playwright, and actress Merula Silvia Salaman (1914–2000) in 1938; in 1940, they had a son, Matthew Guinness, who later became an actor. From the 1950s the family lived at Kettlebrook Meadows, near Steep Marsh in Hampshire. The house itself was designed by Merula's brother Eusty Salaman.[50][51] In his biography, Alec Guinness: The Unknown, Garry O'Connor reports that Guinness was arrested and fined 10 guineas (£10.50) for a homosexual act in a public lavatory in Liverpool in 1946. Guinness is said to have avoided publicity by giving his name to police and court as "Herbert Pocket", the name of the character he played in Great Expectations. However, no record of any arrest has ever been found. Piers Paul Read, in his 2005 biography, suggests "The rumour is possibly a conflation of stories about Alec's 'cottaging' and the arrest of John Gielgud, in October 1953, in a public lavatory in Chelsea after dining with the Guinnesses at St. Peter's Square."[52] This suggestion was not made until April 2001, eight months after his death, when a BBC Showbiz article related that new books claimed that Guinness was bisexual and that he had kept his sexuality private from the public eye and that the biography further said only his closest friends and family members knew he had sexual relationships with men.[53] While serving in the Royal Navy, Guinness had planned to become an Anglican priest. In 1954, while he was filming Father Brown in Burgundy, Guinness, who was in costume as a Catholic priest, was mistaken for a real priest by a local child. Guinness was far from fluent in French, and the child apparently did not notice that Guinness did not understand him but took his hand and chattered while the two strolled; the child then waved and trotted off.[54] The confidence and affection the clerical attire appeared to inspire in the boy left a deep impression on the actor.[55] When their son was ill with polio at the age of 11, Guinness began visiting a church to pray.[56] A few years later in 1956, Guinness converted to the Roman Catholic Church. His wife, who was of paternal Sephardi Jewish descent,[57] followed suit in 1957 while he was in Ceylon filming The Bridge on the River Kwai, and she informed him only after the event.[58] Every morning, Guinness recited a verse from Psalm 143, "Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning".[59] Death[edit] The graves of Alec and Merula in Petersfield, Hampshire Guinness died on the night of 5 August 2000 at King Edward VII's Hospital in Midhurst, West Sussex.[60][61] He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in February 2000, and with liver cancer two days before he died, while his wife was also suffering from liver cancer.[62] He was interred at Petersfield Cemetery, Hampshire.[63] Archives[edit] In 2013 the British Library acquired the personal archive of Guinness consisting of over 900 letters, manuscripts for plays, and 100 volumes of diaries from the late 1930s to his death.[64] Autobiographies and biography[edit] Guinness wrote three volumes of a best-selling autobiography, beginning with Blessings in Disguise in 1985, followed by My Name Escapes Me in 1996, and A Positively Final Appearance in 1999. He recorded each of them as an audiobook. Shortly after his death, Lady Guinness asked the couple's close friend and fellow Catholic, novelist Piers Paul Read, to write Guinness's official biography. It was published in 2002. Box office ranking in Britain[edit] For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted Guinness among the most popular stars in Britain at the box office via an annual poll in the Motion Picture Herald. 1951: most popular British star (5th overall)[28] 1952: 3rd most popular British star[65] 1953: 2nd most popular British star 1954: 6th most popular British star 1955: 10th most popular British star[66] 1956: 8th most popular British star[67] 1958: most popular star[68] 1959: 2nd most popular British star[69] 1960: 4th most popular star See also[edit] Biography portal Alec Guinness on stage and screen References[edit] Notes[edit] ^ "Guinness, Sir Alec (1914–2000)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). 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O'Connor, Garry (2002). Alec Guinness: The Unknown. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-283-07340-3. Pearce, Joseph (2006). Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief. London: Ignatius Press. ISBN 978-1-58617-159-9. Read, Piers Paul (2005). Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-4498-5. Taylor, John Russell (2000). Alec Guinness: A Celebration. London: Pavilion. ISBN 1-86205-501-7. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alec Guinness. 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Scott1 (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Marlon Brando1 (1972) Jack Lemmon (1973) Art Carney (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975) 1976–2000 Peter Finch (1976) Richard Dreyfuss (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Dustin Hoffman (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Robert Duvall (1983) F. Murray Abraham (1984) William Hurt (1985) Paul Newman (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Dustin Hoffman (1988) Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) Jeremy Irons (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Al Pacino (1992) Tom Hanks (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Jack Nicholson (1997) Roberto Benigni (1998) Kevin Spacey (1999) Russell Crowe (2000) 2001–present Denzel Washington (2001) Adrien Brody (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Sean Penn (2008) Jeff Bridges (2009) Colin Firth (2010) Jean Dujardin (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Matthew McConaughey (2013) Eddie Redmayne (2014) Leonardo DiCaprio (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Gary Oldman (2017) Rami Malek (2018) Joaquin Phoenix (2019) Anthony Hopkins (2020) 1 refused award that year v t e Academy Honorary Award 1928–1950 Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928) Walt Disney (1932) Shirley Temple (1934) D. W. Griffith (1935) The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936) Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937) J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938) Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel)/ Technicolor Company (1939) Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940) Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941) Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942) George Pal (1943) Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944) Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945) Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947) Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948) Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949) Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950) 1951–1975 Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951) Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953) Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954) Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955) Eddie Cantor (1956) Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957) Maurice Chevalier (1958) Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959) Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960) William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961) William J. Tuttle (1964) Bob Hope (1965) Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966) Arthur Freed (1967) John Chambers / Onna White (1968) Cary Grant (1969) Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970) Charlie Chaplin (1971) Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972) Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973) Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974) Mary Pickford (1975) 1976–2000 Margaret Booth (1977) Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978) Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979) Henry Fonda (1980) Barbara Stanwyck (1981) Mickey Rooney (1982) Hal Roach (1983) James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984) Paul Newman / Alex North (1985) Ralph Bellamy (1986) Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988) Akira Kurosawa (1989) Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990) Satyajit Ray (1991) Federico Fellini (1992) Deborah Kerr (1993) Michelangelo Antonioni (1994) Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995) Michael Kidd (1996) Stanley Donen (1997) Elia Kazan (1998) Andrzej Wajda (1999) Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000) 2001–present Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001) Peter O'Toole (2002) Blake Edwards (2003) Sidney Lumet (2004) Robert Altman (2005) Ennio Morricone (2006) Robert F. Boyle (2007) Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009) Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010) James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011) D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012) Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013) Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014) Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015) Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016) Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017) Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018) David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019) v t e BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1952–1967 British Ralph Richardson (1952) John Gielgud (1953) Kenneth More (1954) Laurence Olivier (1955) Peter Finch (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) Trevor Howard (1958) Peter Sellers (1959) Peter Finch (1960) Peter Finch (1961) Peter O'Toole (1962) Dirk Bogarde (1963) Richard Attenborough (1964) Dirk Bogarde (1965) Richard Burton (1966) Paul Scofield (1967) Foreign Marlon Brando (1952) Marlon Brando (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) François Périer (1956) Henry Fonda (1957) Sidney Poitier (1958) Jack Lemmon (1959) Jack Lemmon (1960) Paul Newman (1961) Burt Lancaster (1962) Marcello Mastroianni (1963) Marcello Mastroianni (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Rod Steiger (1966) Rod Steiger (1967) 1968–present Spencer Tracy (1968) Dustin Hoffman (1969) Robert Redford (1970) Peter Finch (1971) Gene Hackman (1972) Walter Matthau (1973) Jack Nicholson (1974) Al Pacino (1975) Jack Nicholson (1976) Peter Finch (1977) Richard Dreyfuss (1978) Jack Lemmon (1979) John Hurt (1980) Burt Lancaster (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Michael Caine / Dustin Hoffman (1983) Haing S. Ngor (1984) William Hurt (1985) Bob Hoskins (1986) Sean Connery (1987) John Cleese (1988) Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) Philippe Noiret (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Robert Downey Jr. (1992) Anthony Hopkins (1993) Hugh Grant (1994) Nigel Hawthorne (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Robert Carlyle (1997) Roberto Benigni (1998) Kevin Spacey (1999) Jamie Bell (2000) Russell Crowe (2001) Daniel Day-Lewis (2002) Bill Murray (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Mickey Rourke (2008) Colin Firth (2009) Colin Firth (2010) Jean Dujardin (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Chiwetel Ejiofor (2013) Eddie Redmayne (2014) Leonardo DiCaprio (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Gary Oldman (2017) Rami Malek (2018) Joaquin Phoenix (2019) Anthony Hopkins (2020) v t e BAFTA Fellowship Award 1971–2000 Alfred Hitchcock (1971) Freddie Young (1972) Grace Wyndham Goldie (1973) David Lean (1974) Jacques Cousteau (1975) Charlie Chaplin (1976) Laurence Olivier (1976) Denis Forman (1977) Fred Zinnemann (1978) Lew Grade (1979) Huw Wheldon (1979) David Attenborough (1980) John Huston (1980) Abel Gance (1981) Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1981) Andrzej Wajda (1982) Richard Attenborough (1983) Hugh Greene (1984) Sam Spiegel (1984) Jeremy Isaacs (1985) Steven Spielberg (1986) Federico Fellini (1987) Ingmar Bergman (1988) Alec Guinness (1989) Paul Fox (1990) Louis Malle (1991) John Gielgud (1992) David Plowright (1992) Sydney Samuelson (1993) Colin Young (1993) Michael Grade (1994) Billy Wilder (1995) Jeanne Moreau (1996) Ronald Neame (1996) John Schlesinger (1996) Maggie Smith (1996) Woody Allen (1997) Steven Bochco (1997) Julie Christie (1997) Oswald Morris (1997) Harold Pinter (1997) David Rose (1997) Sean Connery (1998) Bill Cotton (1998) Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise (1999) Elizabeth Taylor (1999) Michael Caine (2000) Stanley Kubrick (2000) Peter Bazalgette (2000) 2001–present Albert Finney (2001) John Thaw (2001) Judi Dench (2001) Warren Beatty (2002) Merchant Ivory Productions (2002) Andrew Davies (2002) John Mills (2002) Saul Zaentz (2003) David Jason (2003) John Boorman (2004) Roger Graef (2004) John Barry (2005) David Frost (2005) David Puttnam (2006) Ken Loach (2006) Anne V. Coates (2007) Richard Curtis (2007) Will Wright (2007) Anthony Hopkins (2008) Bruce Forsyth (2008) Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders (2009) Terry Gilliam (2009) Nolan Bushnell (2009) Vanessa Redgrave (2010) Shigeru Miyamoto (2010) Melvyn Bragg (2010) Christopher Lee (2011) Peter Molyneux (2011) Trevor McDonald (2011) Martin Scorsese (2012) Rolf Harris (2012) Alan Parker (2013) Gabe Newell (2013) Michael Palin (2013) Helen Mirren (2014) Rockstar Games (2014) Julie Walters (2014) Mike Leigh (2015) David Braben (2015) Jon Snow (2015) Sidney Poitier (2016) John Carmack (2016) Ray Galton & Alan Simpson (2016) Mel Brooks (2017) Joanna Lumley (2017) Ridley Scott (2018) Tim Schafer (2018) Kate Adie (2018) Thelma Schoonmaker (2019) Joan Bakewell (2019) Kathleen Kennedy (2020) Hideo Kojima (2020) Ang Lee (2021) Siobhan Reddy (2021) v t e BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor Paul Rogers (1955) Peter Cushing (1956) Michael Gough (1957) Michael Hordern (1958) Donald Pleasence (1959) Patrick McGoohan (1960) Lee Montague (1961) Rupert Davies (1962) Harry H. Corbett (1963) Alan Badel (1964) Patrick Wymark (1965) Alan Badel (1966) Warren Mitchell (1967) Eric Porter (1968) Roy Dotrice (1969) Edward Woodward (1970) Keith Michell (1971) John Le Mesurier (1972) Anthony Hopkins (1973) Frank Finlay (1974) Peter Barkworth (1975) John Hurt (1976) Derek Jacobi (1977) Peter Barkworth (1978) Edward Fox (1979) Alec Guinness (1980) Denholm Elliott (1981) Anthony Andrews (1982) Alec Guinness (1983) Alan Bates (1984) Tim Pigott-Smith (1985) Bob Peck (1986) Michael Gambon (1987) David Jason (1988) Ray McAnally (1989) John Thaw (1990) Ian Richardson (1991) Robert Lindsay (1992) John Thaw (1993) Robbie Coltrane (1994) Robbie Coltrane (1995) Robbie Coltrane (1996) Nigel Hawthorne (1997) Simon Russell Beale (1998) Tom Courtenay (1999) Michael Gambon (2000) Michael Gambon (2001) Michael Gambon (2002) Albert Finney (2003) Bill Nighy (2004) Rhys Ifans (2005) Mark Rylance (2006) Jim Broadbent (2007) Andrew Garfield (2008) Stephen Dillane (2009) Kenneth Branagh (2010) Daniel Rigby (2011) Dominic West (2012) Ben Whishaw (2013) Sean Harris (2014) Jason Watkins (2015) Mark Rylance (2016) Adeel Akhtar (2017) Sean Bean (2018) Benedict Cumberbatch (2019) Jared Harris (2020) Paul Mescal (2021) v t e BFI Fellowship recipients Marcel Carné / David Lean / Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger / Satyajit Ray / Orson Welles (1983) Sidney Bernstein (1984) John Brabourne / Laurence Olivier (1985) Jeremy Isaacs / Deborah Kerr / Akira Kurosawa / Dilys Powell (1986) Dirk Bogarde / Bette Davis / Elem Klimov (1987) Graham Greene / Vanessa Redgrave / Anthony Smith (1988) Peggy Ashcroft / Gérard Depardieu / David Francis (1989) Derek Jarman / Krzysztof Kieślowski / Jeanne Moreau / Fred Zinnemann (1990) Alec Guinness / Leslie Hardcastle (1991) Richard Attenborough / Maggie Smith (1992) Clint Eastwood / Denis Forman / Maureen O'Hara (1993) Nicolas Roeg / Jean Simmons (1994) Michelangelo Antonioni / John Mills / Martin Scorsese / Robert Wise (1995) Michael Caine / Ken Loach (1996) Michael Parkinson / Lynda La Plante / Verity Lambert / David Puttnam / Sydney Samuelson / Thelma Schoonmaker / Alan Yentob (1997) Bernardo Bertolucci / Jeremy Thomas (1998) John Paul Getty Jr. (1999) Elizabeth Taylor (2000) Robert Altman / Lewis Gilbert (2001) Jack Cardiff / Bob Weinstein (2002) Abbas Kiarostami / Mike Leigh / Ousmane Sembène (2005) Terence Davies (2007) Souleymane Cissé / John Hurt / Ridley Scott (2009) Danny Boyle / David Rose (2010) Isabelle Huppert / Judi Dench / Ralph Fiennes / David Cronenberg (2011) Bryan Forbes / Helena Bonham Carter / Tim Burton / Richard Lester (2012) Philip French / Christopher Lee / John Boorman (2013) Al Pacino / Stephen Frears (2014) Mel Brooks / Cate Blanchett (2015) Hugh Grant / Greg Dyke / Steve McQueen (2016) Peter Morgan / Paul Greengrass (2017) Olivia Colman (2019) Amanda Nevill / Tilda Swinton (2020) v t e Drama League's Distinguished Performance Award Katharine Cornell (1935) Helen Hayes (1936) Maurice Evans (1937) Cedric Hardwicke (1938) Raymond Massey (1939) Paul Muni (1940) Paul Lukas (1941) Judith Evelyn (1942) Alfred Lunt (1943) Lynn Fontanne (1944) Mady Christians (1945) Louis Calhern (1946) Ingrid Bergman (1947) Judith Anderson (1948) Robert Morley (1949) Grace George (1950) Claude Rains (1951) Julie Harris (1952) Shirley Booth (1953) Josephine Hull (1954) Viveca Lindfors (1955) David Wayne (1956) Eli Wallach (1957) Ralph Bellamy (1958) Cyril Ritchard (1959) Jessica Tandy (1960) Hume Cronyn (1961) Paul Scofield (1962) Charles Boyer (1963) Alec Guinness (1964) John Gielgud (1965) Richard Kiley (1966) Rosemary Harris (1967) Zoe Caldwell (1968) Alec McCowen (1969) James Stewart (1970) Anthony Quayle (1971) Eileen Atkins / Claire Bloom (1972) Alan Bates (1973) Christopher Plummer (1974) John Wood (1975) Eva Le Gallienne (1976) Tom Courtenay (1977) Frank Langella (1978) Frances Sternhagen (1979) Roy Scheider (1980) Ian McKellen (1981) Milo O'Shea (1982) Edward Herrmann / Kate Nelligan (1983) Jeremy Irons (1984) Derek Jacobi (1985) Bernadette Peters (1986) James Earl Jones (1987) John Lithgow (1988) Pauline Collins (1989) Robert Morse (1990) Stockard Channing (1991) Glenn Close (1992) Stephen Rea (1993) Sam Waterston (1994) Cherry Jones (1995) Uta Hagen (1996) Charles Durning / Bebe Neuwirth (1997) Brian Stokes Mitchell (1998) Kathleen Chalfant (1999) Eileen Heckart (2000) Mary-Louise Parker / Gary Sinise (2001) Liam Neeson (2002) Harvey Fierstein (2003) Hugh Jackman (2004) Norbert Leo Butz (2005) Christine Ebersole (2006) Liev Schreiber (2007) Patti LuPone (2008) Geoffrey Rush (2009) Alfred Molina (2010) Mark Rylance (2011) Audra McDonald (2012) Nathan Lane (2013) Neil Patrick Harris (2014) Chita Rivera (2015) Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016) Ben Platt (2017) Glenda Jackson (2018) Bryan Cranston (2019) Danny Burstein (2020) v t e European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award  Ingmar Bergman (1988)  Marcello Mastroianni (1988)  Federico Fellini (1989)  Andrzej Wajda (1990)  Alexandre Trauner (1991)  Billy Wilder (1992)  Michelangelo Antonioni (1993)  Robert Bresson (1994)  Marcel Carné (1995)  Alec Guinness (1996)  Jeanne Moreau (1997)  Ennio Morricone (1999)  Richard Harris (2000)  Monty Python (2001)  Tonino Guerra (2002)  Claude Chabrol (2003)  Carlos Saura (2004)  Sean Connery (2005)  Roman Polanski (2006)  Jean-Luc Godard (2007)  Judi Dench (2008)  Ken Loach (2009)  Bruno Ganz (2010)  Stephen Frears (2011)  Bernardo Bertolucci (2012)  Catherine Deneuve (2013)  Agnès Varda (2014)  Charlotte Rampling (2015)  Jean-Claude Carrière (2016) Alexander Sokurov (2017) Carmen Maura (2018) Werner Herzog (2019) Award of Merit (Special Achievement Award) Richard Attenborough (1988) Jeremy Irons (1998) Honorary Award Manoel de Oliveira (2007) Michel Piccoli (2011) Michael Caine (2015) Andrzej Wajda (2016) Costa-Gavras (2018) v t e Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor Richard Burton (1955) Paul Scofield (1956) Laurence Olivier (1957) Michael Redgrave (1958) Eric Porter (1959) Alec Guinness (1960) Christopher Plummer (1961) Paul Scofield (1962) Michael Redgrave (1963) Nicol Williamson (1964) Ian Holm (1965) Albert Finney (1966) Laurence Olivier (1967) Alec McCowen (1968) Nicol Williamson (1969) John Gielgud (1970) Alan Bates (1971) Laurence Olivier (1972) Alec McCowen (1973) John Wood (1974) John Gielgud (1975) Albert Finney (1976) Donald Sinden (1977) Alan Howard (1978) Warren Mitchell (1979) Tom Courtenay (1980) Alan Howard (1981) Alec McCowen (1982) Derek Jacobi (1983) Ian McKellen (1984) Antony Sher (1985) Albert Finney (1986) Michael Gambon (1987) Eric Porter (1988) Ian McKellen (1989) Richard Harris (1990) John Wood (1991) Nigel Hawthorne (1992) Ian Holm (1993) Tom Courtenay (1994) Michael Gambon (1995) Paul Scofield (1996) Ian Holm (1997) Kevin Spacey (1998) Stephen Dillane (1999) Simon Russell Beale (2000) Alex Jennings (2001) Simon Russell Beale (2002) Michael Sheen (2003) Richard Griffiths (2004) Simon Russell Beale (2005) Rufus Sewell (2006) Patrick Stewart (2007) Chiwetel Ejiofor (2008) Mark Rylance (2009) Rory Kinnear (2010) Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller (2011) Simon Russell Beale (2012) Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear (2013) Tom Hiddleston (2014) James McAvoy (2015) Ralph Fiennes (2016) Andrew Garfield (2017) Ralph Fiennes (2018) Andrew Scott (2019) v t e Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute Honorees Charlie Chaplin (1972) Fred Astaire (1973) Alfred Hitchcock (1974) Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman (1975) George Cukor (1978) Bob Hope (1979) John Huston (1980) Barbara Stanwyck (1981) Billy Wilder (1982) Laurence Olivier (1983) Claudette Colbert (1984) Federico Fellini (1985) Elizabeth Taylor (1986) Alec Guinness (1987) Yves Montand (1988) Bette Davis (1989) James Stewart (1990) Audrey Hepburn (1991) Gregory Peck (1992) Jack Lemmon (1993) Robert Altman (1994) Shirley MacLaine (1995) Clint Eastwood (1996) Sean Connery (1997) Martin Scorsese (1998) Mike Nichols (1999) Al Pacino (2000) Jane Fonda (2001) Francis Ford Coppola (2002) Susan Sarandon (2003) Michael Caine (2004) Dustin Hoffman (2005) Jessica Lange (2006) Diane Keaton (2007) Meryl Streep (2008) Tom Hanks (2009) Michael Douglas (2010) Sidney Poitier (2011) Catherine Deneuve (2012) Barbra Streisand (2013) Rob Reiner (2014) Robert Redford (2015) Morgan Freeman (2016) Robert De Niro (2017) Helen Mirren (2018) No honoree (2019) Spike Lee (2020) v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Paul Lukas (1943) Alexander Knox (1944) Ray Milland (1945) Gregory Peck (1946) Ronald Colman (1947) Laurence Olivier (1948) Broderick Crawford (1949) José Ferrer (1950) Fredric March (1951) Gary Cooper (1952) Spencer Tracy (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Kirk Douglas (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) David Niven (1958) Anthony Franciosa (1959) Burt Lancaster (1960) Maximilian Schell (1961) Gregory Peck (1962) Sidney Poitier (1963) Peter O'Toole (1964) Omar Sharif (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Rod Steiger (1967) Peter O'Toole (1968) John Wayne (1969) George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Marlon Brando (1972) Al Pacino (1973) Jack Nicholson (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975) Peter Finch (1976) Richard Burton (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Dustin Hoffman (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Robert Duvall / Tom Courtenay (1983) F. Murray Abraham (1984) Jon Voight (1985) Bob Hoskins (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Dustin Hoffman (1988) Tom Cruise (1989) Jeremy Irons (1990) Nick Nolte (1991) Al Pacino (1992) Tom Hanks (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Peter Fonda (1997) Jim Carrey (1998) Denzel Washington (1999) Tom Hanks (2000) Russell Crowe (2001) Jack Nicholson (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Leonardo DiCaprio (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Mickey Rourke (2008) Jeff Bridges (2009) Colin Firth (2010) George Clooney (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Matthew McConaughey (2013) Eddie Redmayne (2014) Leonardo DiCaprio (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Gary Oldman (2017) Rami Malek (2018) Joaquin Phoenix (2019) Chadwick Boseman (2020) v t e Honorary Golden Bear James Stewart (1982) Alec Guinness (1988) Dustin Hoffman (1989) Oliver Stone (1990) Billy Wilder / Gregory Peck (1993) Sophia Loren (1994) Alain Delon (1995) Jack Lemmon / Elia Kazan (1996) Kim Novak (1997) Catherine Deneuve (1998) Shirley MacLaine (1999) Jeanne Moreau (2000) Kirk Douglas (2001) Claudia Cardinale / Robert Altman (2002) Anouk Aimée (2003) Fernando Solanas (2004) Im Kwon-taek / Fernando Fernán Gómez (2005) Andrzej Wajda / Ian McKellen (2006) Arthur Penn (2007) Francesco Rosi (2008) Maurice Jarre (2009) Hanna Schygulla / Wolfgang Kohlhaase (2010) Armin Mueller-Stahl (2011) Meryl Streep (2012) Claude Lanzmann (2013) Ken Loach (2014) Wim Wenders (2015) Michael Ballhaus (2016) Milena Canonero (2017) Willem Dafoe (2018) Charlotte Rampling (2019) Helen Mirren (2020) v t e Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Jason Robards (1977) Robert Morley (1978) Melvyn Douglas (1979) Timothy Hutton (1980) John Gielgud (1981) John Lithgow (1982) Jack Nicholson (1983) Adolph Caesar (1984) John Gielgud (1985) Dennis Hopper (1986) Morgan Freeman (1987) Alec Guinness (1988) Danny Aiello (1989) Joe Pesci (1990) Michael Lerner (1991) Gene Hackman (1992) Tommy Lee Jones (1993) Martin Landau (1994) Don Cheadle (1995) Edward Norton (1996) Burt Reynolds (1997) Bill Murray / Billy Bob Thornton (1998) Christopher Plummer (1999) Willem Dafoe (2000) Jim Broadbent (2001) Chris Cooper (2002) Bill Nighy (2003) Thomas Haden Church (2004) William Hurt (2005) Michael Sheen (2006) Vlad Ivanov (2007) Heath Ledger (2008) Christoph Waltz (2009) Niels Arestrup (2010) Christopher Plummer (2011) Dwight Henry (2012) James Franco / Jared Leto (2013) J. K. Simmons (2014) Michael Shannon (2015) Mahershala Ali (2016) Willem Dafoe (2017) Steven Yeun (2018) Song Kang-ho (2019) Glynn Turman (2020) v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Ray Milland (1945) Laurence Olivier (1946) Michael Redgrave (1947) Walter Huston (1948) Ralph Richardson (1949) Alec Guinness (1950) Richard Basehart (1951) Ralph Richardson (1952) James Mason (1953) Bing Crosby (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Yul Brynner (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) Spencer Tracy (1958) Victor Sjöström (1959) Robert Mitchum (1960) Albert Finney (1961) Jason Robards (1962) Rex Harrison (1963) Anthony Quinn (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Peter Finch (1967) Cliff Robertson (1968) Peter O'Toole (1969) George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Peter O'Toole (1972) Al Pacino / Robert Ryan (1973) Gene Hackman (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975) David Carradine (1976) John Travolta (1977) Jon Voight / Laurence Olivier (1978) Peter Sellers (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Tom Conti (1983) Victor Banerjee (1984) William Hurt / Raul Julia (1985) Paul Newman (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Gene Hackman (1988) Morgan Freeman (1989) Robert De Niro / Robin Williams (1990) Warren Beatty (1991) Jack Lemmon (1992) Anthony Hopkins (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Tom Cruise (1996) Jack Nicholson (1997) Ian McKellen (1998) Russell Crowe (1999) Javier Bardem (2000) Billy Bob Thornton (2001) Campbell Scott (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) George Clooney (2007) Clint Eastwood (2008) George Clooney / Morgan Freeman (2009) Jesse Eisenberg (2010) George Clooney (2011) Bradley Cooper (2012) Bruce Dern (2013) Michael Keaton / Oscar Isaac (2014) Matt Damon (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Tom Hanks (2017) Viggo Mortensen (2018) Adam Sandler (2019) Riz Ahmed (2020) v t e New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Charles Laughton (1935) Walter Huston (1936) Paul Muni (1937) James Cagney (1938) James Stewart (1939) Charlie Chaplin (1940) Gary Cooper (1941) James Cagney (1942) Paul Lukas (1943) Barry Fitzgerald (1944) Ray Milland (1945) Laurence Olivier (1946) William Powell (1947) Laurence Olivier (1948) Broderick Crawford (1949) Gregory Peck (1950) Arthur Kennedy (1951) Ralph Richardson (1952) Burt Lancaster (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Kirk Douglas (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) David Niven (1958) James Stewart (1959) Burt Lancaster (1960) Maximilian Schell (1961) No Award (1962) Albert Finney (1963) Rex Harrison (1964) Oskar Werner (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Rod Steiger (1967) Alan Arkin (1968) Jon Voight (1969) George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Laurence Olivier (1972) Marlon Brando (1973) Jack Nicholson (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975) Robert De Niro (1976) John Gielgud (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Dustin Hoffman (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Burt Lancaster (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Robert Duvall (1983) Steve Martin (1984) Jack Nicholson (1985) Bob Hoskins (1986) Jack Nicholson (1987) Jeremy Irons (1988) Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) Robert De Niro (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Denzel Washington (1992) David Thewlis (1993) Paul Newman (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Peter Fonda (1997) Nick Nolte (1998) Richard Farnsworth (1999) Tom Hanks (2000) Tom Wilkinson (2001) Daniel Day-Lewis (2002) Bill Murray (2003) Paul Giamatti (2004) Heath Ledger (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Sean Penn (2008) George Clooney (2009) Colin Firth (2010) Brad Pitt (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Robert Redford (2013) Timothy Spall (2014) Michael Keaton (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Timothée Chalamet (2017) Ethan Hawke (2018) Antonio Banderas (2019) Delroy Lindo (2020) v t e Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Marty Feldman (1974/75) Jay Robinson (1976) Alec Guinness (1977) Burgess Meredith (1978) Arte Johnson (1979) Scatman Crothers (1980) Burgess Meredith (1981) Richard Lynch (1982) John Lithgow (1983) Tracey Walter (1984) Roddy McDowall (1985) Bill Paxton (1986) Richard Dawson (1987) Robert Loggia (1988) Thomas F. Wilson (1989/90) William Sadler (1991) Robin Williams (1992) Lance Henriksen (1993) Gary Sinise (1994) Brad Pitt (1995) Brent Spiner (1996) Vincent D'Onofrio (1997) Ian McKellen (1998) Michael Clarke Duncan (1999) Willem Dafoe (2000) Ian McKellen (2001) Andy Serkis (2002) Sean Astin (2003) David Carradine (2004) Mickey Rourke (2005) Ben Affleck (2006) Javier Bardem (2007) Heath Ledger (2008) Stephen Lang (2009) Andrew Garfield (2010) Andy Serkis (2011) Clark Gregg (2012) Ben Kingsley (2013) Richard Armitage (2014) Adam Driver (2015) John Goodman (2016) Patrick Stewart (2017) Josh Brolin (2018/2019) v t e Society of London Theatre Special Award Laurence Olivier (1979) Ralph Richardson (1980) Charles Wintour (1982) Joan Littlewood (1983) John Gielgud (1985) Alec Guinness (1988) Peggy Ashcroft (1991) Ninette de Valois (1992) Kenneth MacMillan (1993) Sam Wanamaker (1994) Harold Pinter (1996) Margaret Harris (1997) Ed Mirvish / David Mirvish (1998) Peter Hall (1999) Rupert Rhymes (2002) Sam Mendes (2003) Judi Dench (2004) Alan Bennett (2005) Ian McKellen (2006) John Tomlinson (2007) Andrew Lloyd Webber (2008) Alan Ayckbourn (2009) Maggie Smith (2010) Stephen Sondheim (2011) Monica Mason / Tim Rice (2012) Michael Frayn / Gillian Lynne (2013) Nicholas Hytner & Nick Starr / Michael White (2014) Sylvie Guillem / Kevin Spacey (2015) Kenneth Branagh (2017) David Lan (2018) Matthew Bourne (2019) Don Black / Jo Hawes / Thelma Holt / Stephen Jameson / Ian McKellen / Sarah Preece / Peter Roberts (2020) v t e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play José Ferrer / Fredric March (1947) Henry Fonda / Paul Kelly / Basil Rathbone (1948) Rex Harrison (1949) Sidney Blackmer (1950) Claude Rains (1951) José Ferrer (1952) Tom Ewell (1953) David Wayne (1954) Alfred Lunt (1955) Paul Muni (1956) Fredric March (1957) Ralph Bellamy (1958) Jason Robards Jr. (1959) Melvyn Douglas (1960) Zero Mostel (1961) Paul Scofield (1962) Arthur Hill (1963) Alec Guinness (1964) Walter Matthau (1965) Hal Holbrook (1966) Paul Rogers (1967) Martin Balsam (1968) James Earl Jones (1969) Fritz Weaver (1970) Brian Bedford (1971) Cliff Gorman (1972) Alan Bates (1973) Michael Moriarty (1974) John Kani and Winston Ntshona (1975) John Wood (1976) Al Pacino (1977) Barnard Hughes (1978) Tom Conti (1979) John Rubinstein (1980) Ian McKellen (1981) Roger Rees (1982) Harvey Fierstein (1983) Jeremy Irons (1984) Derek Jacobi (1985) Judd Hirsch (1986) James Earl Jones (1987) Ron Silver (1988) Philip Bosco (1989) Robert Morse (1990) Nigel Hawthorne (1991) Judd Hirsch (1992) Ron Leibman (1993) Stephen Spinella (1994) Ralph Fiennes (1995) George Grizzard (1996) Christopher Plummer (1997) Anthony LaPaglia (1998) Brian Dennehy (1999) Stephen Dillane (2000) Richard Easton (2001) Alan Bates (2002) Brian Dennehy (2003) Jefferson Mays (2004) Bill Irwin (2005) Richard Griffiths (2006) Frank Langella (2007) Mark Rylance (2008) Geoffrey Rush (2009) Denzel Washington (2010) Mark Rylance (2011) James Corden (2012) Tracy Letts (2013) Bryan Cranston (2014) Alex Sharp (2015) Frank Langella (2016) Kevin Kline (2017) Andrew Garfield (2018) Bryan Cranston (2019) v t e Volpi Cup for Best Actor 1934–68 Wallace Beery (1934) Pierre Blanchar (1935) Paul Muni (1936) Emil Jannings (1937) Leslie Howard (1938) Ermete Zacconi (1941) Fosco Giachetti (1942) Pierre Fresnay (1947) Ernst Deutsch (1948) Joseph Cotten (1949) Sam Jaffe (1950) Jean Gabin (1951) Fredric March (1952) Henri Vilbert (1953) Jean Gabin (1954) Curd Jürgens / Kenneth More (1955) Bourvil (1956) Anthony Franciosa (1957) Alec Guinness (1958) James Stewart (1959) John Mills (1960) Toshiro Mifune (1961) Burt Lancaster (1962) Albert Finney (1963) Tom Courtenay (1964) Toshiro Mifune (1965) Jacques Perrin (1966) Ljubiša Samardžić (1967) John Marley (1968) 1983–2000 Guy Boyd / George Dzundza / David Alan Grier / Mitchell Lichtenstein / Matthew Modine / Michael Wright (1983) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Gérard Depardieu (1985) Carlo Delle Piane (1986) 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