European Film Award for Best Actor


The European Film Award for Best Actor is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film industry. The awards are presented by the European Film Academy and was first presented in 1988 to Swedish actor Max von Sydow for his role as Lassefar "Lasse" Karlsson in Pelle the Conqueror.
Daniel Auteuil, Mads Mikkelsen, and Toni Servillo are the only actors who have received this award more than once with two wins each, while Mikkelsen is the most nominated actor in the category with five nominations.

Multiple wins and nominations

Most nominations

NominationsActor
6Mads Mikkelsen
4Stellan Skarsgård
3Javier Bardem
3Elio Germano
3Michel Piccoli
3Toni Servillo
2Daniel Auteuil
2Daniel Brühl
2Michael Caine
2Javier Cámara
2Jakob Cedergren
2Jesper Christensen
2Tom Courtenay
2Jean Dujardin
2Rupert Everett
2Colin Farrell
2Michael Fassbender
2Pierfrancesco Favino
2Ralph Fiennes
2Bruno Ganz
2Bob Hoskins
2Vincent Lindon
2Sergi López
2James McAvoy
2Cillian Murphy
2Tahar Rahim
2Franz Rogowski
2Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
2Timothy Spall
2Ulrich Thomsen
2Philippe Torreton
2Jean-Louis Trintignant
2Ray Winstone