Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
The price for the Best Actor ( Prix d' interprétation masculine) rewards at the annually organized film festivals of Cannes, the best acting performance of a main or supporting actor in a film competition ( feature film). The award was first awarded at the premiere of the film festival in 1946. The awarding of the prize, which is awarded to the winner in the form of a miniature of the Palme d'Or, a deed, agrees the competition jury, usually composed of international filmmakers.
Award winners
The most frequently awarded the Best Actor Award American film actor (21 wins), followed by their colleagues from Italy and France ( 9 ) and the UK (7). The triumph was twice the American Dean Stockwell (1959 and 1962) and Jack Lemmon (1979 and 1982 ), as well as the Italians Marcello Mastroianni (1970 and 1987). As the first African-American winner in the history of the Cannes Film Festival is considered the American John Kitzmiller, who was honored in 1957 The Valley of Peace for his performance in France Stiglic ' war drama. 2003 Mehmet Emin Toprak Turkish actor was given a posthumous award, while the youngest winner and the first Japanese mime Yuya Yagira was successful a year later than. Yagira, Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows for the received the favor of the jury in 2004, was at the announcement of his victory fourteen years old.
Multiple in the past, the jury could not agree on a winner, during 1955 and 2006, the entire male ensemble cast of a film was rewarded. An actor from the German-speaking countries was the first time in 2009 to compete with its competitors to foreign actors, as Basterds Christoph Waltz was awarded the prize for the English Inglourious production.
¹ = In 1953, the French actor Charles Vanel a " Special Mention " for Wages of Fear. ² = 1955, the entire ensemble cast of the film was a great family honored with a Best Actor award. ³ = 2006 was awarded the male ensemble cast of the film Days of Glory to the Actor Award.
Award for the Best Supporting Actor
( Prix du meilleur second rôle masculin au Festival International du Film 1979: Meilleur rôle de composition masculin au Festival International du Film, 1980 ) awarded in a competition movie From 1979 to 1981, separately an award for best supporting actor:
- Film Festival of Cannes