Silver Bear for Best Actor

The Silver Bear for Best Actor is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for achievement in performance by an actor.

Awards

Year	Actor	Film
1956	Burt Lancaster	Trapeze
1957	Pedro Infante	Tizoc
1958	Sidney Poitier	The Defiant Ones
1959	Jean Gabin	Archimède le clochard
1960	Fredric March	Inherit The Wind
1961	Peter Finch	No Love for Johnnie
1962	James Stewart	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
1963	Sidney Poitier	Lilies of the Field
1964	Rod Steiger	The Pawnbroker
1965	Lee Marvin	Cat Ballou
1966	Jean-Pierre Léaud	Masculin, féminin
1967	Michel Simon	Le vieil homme et l'enfant
1968	/ Jean-Louis Trintignant	L'Homme qui ment
1971	Jean Gabin	Le Chat
1972	Alberto Sordi	Detenuto in attesa di giudizio
1975	Vlastimil Brodský	Jakob der Lügner
1976	Gerhard Olschewski	Verlorenes Leben
1977	Fernando Fernán Gómez	El anacoreta
1978	Craig Russell	Outrageous!
1979	Michele Placido	Ernesto
1980	/ Andrzej Seweryn	Dyrygent
1981	Anatoly Solonitsyn	Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo
1981	Jack Lemmon	Tribute
1982	Stellan Skarsgård	Den Enfaldige Mördaren
1982	Michel Piccoli	Une étrange affaire
1983	Bruce Dern	That Championship Season
1984	Albert Finney	The Dresser
1985	Fernando Fernán Gómez	Stico
1986	Tuncel Kurtiz	Hiuch HaGdi
1987	Gian Maria Volonté	Il Caso Moro
1988	Jörg Pose and Manfred Möck	Einer trage des anderen Last
1989	Gene Hackman	Mississippi Burning
1990	Iain Glen	Silent Scream
1991	Maynard Eziashi	Mister Johnson
1992	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Utz
1993	Denzel Washington	Malcolm X
1994	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia
1995	Paul Newman	Nobody's Fool
1996	Sean Penn	Dead Man Walking
1997	Leonardo DiCaprio	Romeo + Juliet
1998	Samuel L. Jackson	Jackie Brown
1999	Michael Gwisdek	Night Shapes (Nachtgestalten)
2000	Denzel Washington	The Hurricane
2001	Benicio del Toro	Traffic
2002	Jacques Gamblin	Laissez-passer
2003	Sam Rockwell	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2004	Daniel Hendler	Lost Embrace (El abrazo partido)
2005	Lou Taylor Pucci	Thumbsucker
2006	Moritz Bleibtreu	Elementarteilchen
2007	Julio Chávez	The Other (El otro)
2008	Reza Naji	The Song of Sparrows (Avaze gonjeshk-ha)
2009	Sotigui Kouyaté	London River
2010	Grigoriy Dobrygin Sergei Puskepalis	How I Ended This Summer (Kak Ya Provel Etim Letom)
2011	Peiman Ma'adi Shahab Hosseini Ali-Asghar Shahbazi Babak Karimi	A Separation
2012	Mikkel Følsgaard	A Royal Affair
2013	Nazif Mujić	An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
2014	Liao Fan	Black Coal, Thin Ice

External links

Berlinale website

v t e Silver Bear for Best Actor
1956–1975	Burt Lancaster (1956) Pedro Infante (1957) Sidney Poitier (1958) Jean Gabin (1959) Fredric March (1960) Peter Finch (1961) James Stewart (1962) Sidney Poitier (1963) Rod Steiger (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Jean-Pierre Léaud (1966) Michel Simon (1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant (1968) Jean Gabin (1971) Alberto Sordi (1972) Vlastimil Brodský (1975)
1976–2000	Gerhard Olschewski (1976) Fernando Fernán Gómez (1977) Craig Russell (1978) Michele Placido (1979) Andrzej Seweryn (1980) Jack Lemmon / Anatoly Solonitsyn (1981) Michel Piccoli / Stellan Skarsgård (1982) Bruce Dern (1983) Albert Finney (1984) Fernando Fernán Gómez (1985) Tuncel Kurtiz (1986) Gian Maria Volonté (1987) Manfred Möck / Jörg Pose (1988) Gene Hackman (1989) Iain Glen (1990) Maynard Eziashi (1991) Armin Mueller-Stahl (1992) Denzel Washington (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Paul Newman (1995) Sean Penn (1996) Leonardo DiCaprio (1997) Samuel L. Jackson (1998) Michael Gwisdek (1999) Denzel Washington (2000)
2001–2020	Benicio del Toro (2001) Jacques Gamblin (2002) Sam Rockwell (2003) Daniel Hendler (2004) Lou Taylor Pucci (2005) Moritz Bleibtreu (2006) Julio Chávez (2007) Reza Naji (2008) Sotigui Kouyaté (2009) Grigoriy Dobrygin / Sergei Puskepalis (2010) Shahab Hosseini / Babak Karimi / Payman Maadi / Ali-Asghar Shahbazi (2011) Mikkel Følsgaard (2012) Nazif Mujić (2013) Liao Fan (2014) Tom Courtenay (2015) Majd Mastoura (2016) Georg Friedrich (2017) Anthony Bajon (2018) Wang Jingchun (2019) Elio Germano (2020)