British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
British Academy Television Award | |
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2024 winner Timothy Spall | |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1955 |
Currently held by | Timothy Spall for The Sixth Commandment (2024) |
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 has 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
Year | Actors | Work | Character | Network |
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1990 | ||||
John Thaw | Inspector Morse | Endeavour Morse | ITV | |
Joss Ackland | First and Last | Alan Holly | BBC One | |
Alfred Molina | The Accountant | Lionel Ellerman | ||
John Gielgud | Summer's Lease | Haverford Downs | BBC Two | |
1991 | ||||
Ian Richardson | House of Cards | Francis Urquhart | BBC | |
John Thaw | Inspector Morse | Endeavour Morse | ITV | |
David Suchet | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hercule Poirot | ||
Albert Finney | The Green Man | Maurice Allington | BBC One | |
1992 | ||||
Robert Lindsay | G.B.H. | Michael Murray | Channel 4 | |
John Thaw | Inspector Morse | Endeavour Morse | ITV | |
Tom Bell | Prime Suspect | Bill Otley | ||
Michael Palin | G.B.H. | Jim Nelson | Channel 4 | |
1993 | ||||
John Thaw | Inspector Morse | Endeavour Morse | ITV | |
Alan Bates | Unnatural Pursuits | Hamish Partt | BBC Two | |
Brian Cox | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | ||
Ian Richardson | An Ungentlemanly Act | Rex Hunt | ||
1994 | ||||
Robbie Coltrane | Cracker | Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald | ITV | |
Michael Kitchen | To Play the King | The King | BBC | |
Ian Richardson | Francis Urquhart | |||
Neil Pearson | Between the Lines | Tony Clark | BBC One | |
1995 | ||||
Robbie Coltrane | Cracker | Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald | ITV | |
Pete Postlethwaite | Martin Chuzzlewit | Montague Tigg | BBC Two | |
Paul Scofield | Old Martin Chuzzlewitt | |||
Tom Wilkinson | Seth Pecksniff | |||
1996 (42nd) | ||||
Robbie Coltrane | Cracker | Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald | ITV | |
Colin Firth | Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Darcy | BBC One | |
Benjamin Whitrow | Mr. Bennet | |||
Robert Lindsay | Jake's Progress | Jamie Diadoni | Channel 4 | |
Ian Richardson | The Final Cut | Francis Urquhart | BBC | |
1997 (43rd) | ||||
Nigel Hawthorne | The Fragile Heart | Edgar Pascoe | Channel 4 | |
Albert Finney | Cold Lazarus / Karaoke | Daniel Feeld | BBC One / Channel 4 | |
Christopher Eccleston | Our Friends in the North | Dominic 'Nicky' Hutchinson | BBC Two | |
Peter Vaughan | Felix Hutchinson | |||
1998 (44th) | ||||
Simon Russell Beale | A Dance to the Music of Time | Kenneth Widmerpool | Channel 4 | |
Derek Jacobi | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | BBC | |
Robert Carlyle | Hamish Macbeth | Hamish Macbeth | BBC One | |
Tom Wilkinson | Cold Enough for Snow | Hugh Lloyd | ||
1999 (45th) | ||||
Tom Courtenay | A Rather English Marriage | Roy Southgate | BBC | |
Robert Carlyle | Looking After Jo Jo | John Joe "Jo Jo" McCann | BBC Two | |
Timothy Spall | Our Mutual Friend | Mr. Venus | ||
Albert Finney | A Rather English Marriage | Reggie Conyngham-Jervis | BBC |
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Actors | Work | Character | Network |
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2020 (66th) [1] | ||||
Jared Harris | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov | Sky Atlantic | |
Stephen Graham | The Virtues | Joseph Lowery | Channel 4 | |
Takehiro Hira | Giri/Haji | Kenzo Mori | BBC Two | |
Callum Turner | The Capture | Shaun Emery | BBC One | |
2021 (67th) [2] | ||||
Paul Mescal | Normal People | Connell Waldron | BBC Three | |
John Boyega | Small Axe: Red, White and Blue | Leroy Logan | BBC One | |
Paapa Essiedu | I May Destroy You | Kwame | ||
Shaun Parkes | Small Axe: Mangrove | Frank Crichlow | ||
Josh O'Connor | The Crown | Charles, Prince of Wales | Netflix | |
Waleed Zuaiter | Baghdad Central | Muhsin al-Khafaji | Channel 4 | |
2022 (68th) [3] | ||||
Sean Bean | Time | Mark Cobden | BBC One | |
Samuel Adewunmi | You Don't Know Me | Hero | BBC One | |
David Thewlis | Landscapers | Christopher Edwards | Sky Atlantic | |
Olly Alexander | It's a Sin | Ritchie Tozer | Channel 4 | |
Stephen Graham | Help | Tony | ||
Hugh Quarshie | Stephen | Neville Lawrence | ITV | |
2023 (69th) [4][5] | ||||
Ben Whishaw | This Is Going to Hurt | Adam Kay | BBC One | |
Taron Egerton | Black Bird | James "Jimmy" Keene Jr. | Apple TV+ | |
Gary Oldman | Slow Horses | Jackson Lamb | ||
Martin Freeman | The Responder | Chris Carson | BBC One | |
Cillian Murphy | Peaky Blinders | Tommy Shelby | ||
Chaske Spencer | The English | Sgt. Eli Whipp / Wounded Wolf | BBC Two | |
2024 (70th) [6] | ||||
Timothy Spall | The Sixth Commandment | Peter Farquhar | BBC One | |
Brian Cox | Succession | Logan Roy | Sky Atlantic / HBO | |
Dominic West | The Crown | Prince Charles | Netflix | |
Kane Robinson | Top Boy | Gerard "Sully" Sullivan | ||
Paapa Essiedu | The Lazarus Project | George | Sky Max | |
Steve Coogan | The Reckoning | Jimmy Savile | BBC One |
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:
6 nominations 5 nominations 4 nominations
| 3 nominations
| 2 nominations
|
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.
External links
- List of winners at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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