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	Role	Film	Nationality of actor
1950s
1956	Burt Lancaster	Mike Ribble	Trapeze	United States
1957	Pedro Infante	Tizoc	Tizoc	Mexico
1958	Sidney Poitier	Noah Cullen	The Defiant Ones	USA / Bahamas
1959	Jean Gabin	Joseph Hughes Guillamume Boutier-Blainville / Archimède	Archimède le clochard	France
1960s
1960	Fredric March	Matthew Harrison Brady	Inherit The Wind	United States
1961	Peter Finch	Johnnie Byrne	No Love for Johnnie	United Kingdom
1962	James Stewart	Roger Hobbs	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation	United States
1963	Sidney Poitier	Homer Smith	Lilies of the Field	USA / Bahamas
1964	Rod Steiger	Sol Nazerman	The Pawnbroker	United States
1965	Lee Marvin	Kid Shellen / Tim Strawn	Cat Ballou	United States
1966	Jean-Pierre Léaud	Paul	Masculin Féminin	France
1967	Michel Simon	Pépé	The Two of Us	Switzerland
1968	Jean-Louis Trintignant	Jan Robin / Boris Varissa	The Man Who Lies	France / Czechoslovakia
1969	No Award
1970s
1970	No Award
1971	Jean Gabin	Julien Bouin	Le Chat	France
1972	Alberto Sordi	Giusseppe Di Noi	In Prison Awaiting Trial	Italy
1973	No Award
1974	No Award
1975	Vlastimil Brodský	Jakob Heym	Jacob the Liar	Czechoslovakia
1976	Gerhard Olschewski	Cioska	A Lost Life	West Germany
1977	Fernando Fernán Gómez	Fernando	The Anchorite	Spain
1978	Craig Russell	Robin Turner	Outrageous!	Canada
1979	Michele Placido	The Man	Ernesto	Italy
1980s
1980	Andrzej Seweryn	Adam Pietryk	The Orchestra Conductor	Poland / France
1981	Anatoly Solonitsyn	Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky	Soviet Union
	Jack Lemmon	Scottie Templeton	Tribute	United States
1982	Stellan Skarsgård (Tie)	Sven	The Simple-Minded Murder	Sweden
	Michel Piccoli (Tie)	Bertrand Malair	Strange Affair	France
1983	Bruce Dern	George Sitkowski	That Championship Season	United States
1984	Albert Finney	Sir	The Dresser	United Kingdom
1985	Fernando Fernán Gómez	Don Leopoldo Contreras de Tejada	Stico	Spain
1986	Tuncel Kurtiz	Hilmi	The Smile of the Lamb	Turkey
1987	Gian Maria Volontè	Aldo Moro	The Moro Affair	Italy
1988	Jörg Pose (Tie)	Josef Heiliger	Bear Ye One Another's Burden	East Germany
	Manfred Möck (Tie)	Hubertus Koschenz
1989	Gene Hackman	Rupert Anderson	Mississippi Burning	United States
1990s
1990	Iain Glen	Larry Winters	Silent Scream	United Kingdom
1991	Maynard Eziashi	Mister Johnson	Mister Johnson	United Kingdom
1992	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz	Utz	Germany
1993	Denzel Washington	Malcolm X	Malcolm X	United States
1994	Tom Hanks	Andrew Beckett	Philadelphia	United States
1995	Paul Newman	Donald Sullivan	Nobody's Fool	United States
1996	Sean Penn	Matthew Poncelet	Dead Man Walking	United States
1997	Leonardo DiCaprio	Romeo Montague	Romeo + Juliet	United States
1998	Samuel L. Jackson	Ordell Robbie	Jackie Brown	United States
1999	Michael Gwisdek	Peschke	Nightshapes	Germany
2000s
2000	Denzel Washington	Rubin "Hurricane" Carter	The Hurricane	United States
2001	Benicio del Toro	Javier Rodriguez	Traffic	Puerto Rico
2002	Jacques Gamblin	Jean-Devaivre	Safe Conduct	France
2003	Sam Rockwell	Chuck Barris	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	United States
2004	Daniel Hendler	Ariel Makaroff	Lost Embrace	Uruguay
2005	Lou Taylor Pucci	Justin Cobb	Thumbsucker	United States
2006	Moritz Bleibtreu	Bruno	Atomised	Germany
2007	Julio Chávez	Juan Desouza	El Otro	Argentina
2008	Reza Naji	Karim	The Song of Sparrows	Iran
2009	Sotigui Kouyaté	Ousmane	London River	Burkina Faso
2010s
2010	Grigoriy Dobrygin (Tie)	Pavel Danilov	How I Ended This Summer	Russia
	Sergei Puskepalis (Tie)	Sergei Gulybin
2011	Peyman Moaadi (Tie)	Nader	A Separation	Iran
	Shahab Hosseini (Tie)	Hodjat
	Ali-Asghar Shahbazi (Tie)	Nader's Father
	Babak Karimi (Tie)	Judge
2012	Mikkel Følsgaard	Christian VII of Denmark	A Royal Affair	Denmark
2013	Nazif Mujić	Nazif	An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2014	Liao Fan	Zhang Zili	Black Coal, Thin Ice	China
2015	Tom Courtenay	Geoff Mercer	45 Years	United Kingdom
2016	Majd Mastoura	Hedi	Hedi	Tunisia
2017	Georg Friedrich	Michael	Bright Nights	Germany
2018	Anthony Bajon	Thomas	The Prayer	France

External links

• Berlinale website