Roberto Benigni

Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director (born 1952)

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Roberto Benigni

Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI

Benigni at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020

Born|

Roberto Remigio Benigni

(1952-10-27) 27 October 1952 (age 71)

Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy

Occupations|

* Actor
* film director
* screenwriter
* comedian

Years active| 1970–present
Style|

* Comedy
* Comedy drama
* Tragicomedy

Spouse|

Nicoletta Braschi

(m. 1991)​

Roberto Remigio Benigni Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI[1] (Italian: [roˈbɛrto beˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaust comedy-drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film. Benigni was the first actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for a non–English language performance.

Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You, which he also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni's directorial debut was the 1983 anthology film Tu mi turbi, which was also the acting debut of his wife, Nicoletta Braschi. He continued directing and also starring in the comedic films Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984), The Little Devil (1988), Johnny Stecchino (1991), The Monster (1994), Pinocchio (2002), and The Tiger and the Snow (2005).

Benigni acted in the Jim Jarmusch films Down by Law, Night on Earth (1991) and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). He also acted in Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther (1993), Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (2012), and Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio (2019).

## Early life[edit]

Benigni was born on 27 October 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia (a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino), the son of Isolina Papini (1919–2004), a fabric maker, and Luigi Benigni (1919–2004), a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer.[2][citation needed] He has three sisters: Bruna (born 1945), Albertina (born 1947) and Anna (born 1948). He was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy;[3][4] later in his life he became an atheist,[5] but then resumed his interest in religious topics, such as the Ten Commandments and the Song of Songs, and finally returned to practicing Catholicism.[6]

His first experiences as a theatre actor took place in 1971, in Prato. During that autumn he moved to Rome where he took part in some experimental theatre shows, some of which he also directed. In 1975, Benigni had his first theatrical success with Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, written by Giuseppe Bertolucci.

Benigni became widely known in Italy in the 1970s for a television series called Onda Libera, on RAI2, produced by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted the satirical piece The Hymn of the Body Purged (L'inno del corpo sciolto, a scatological song about the joys of defecation).[7] A great scandal for the time, the series was suspended due to censorship.[8] His first film was 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You (Berlinguer ti voglio bene), also by Bertolucci.

His popularity increased with L'altra domenica (1976–1979), another TV show of Arbore's in which Benigni portrayed a lazy film critic who never watches the films he's asked to review. Bernardo Bertolucci then cast him in a small speechless role as a window upholsterer in the film La Luna which had limited American distribution due to its subject matter.

## Career[edit]

### Early roles[edit]

In 1980 he met Cesenate actress Nicoletta Braschi, who became his wife on 26 December 1991 and who has starred in most of the films he has directed.

In June 1983 he appeared during a public political demonstration by the Italian Communist Party, with which he was a sympathiser, and on this occasion, he lifted and cradled the party's national leader Enrico Berlinguer. It was an unprecedented act, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal. Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show ("Wojtylaccio", meaning "Bad Wojtyla" in Italian, but with a somewhat friendly meaning in Tuscan dialect).

Benigni's first film as director was Tu mi turbi (You Upset Me) in 1983. This film was also his first collaboration with Braschi.

In 1984, he played in Non ci resta che piangere ("Nothing Left to Do but Cry") with comic actor Massimo Troisi. The story was a fable in which the protagonists are suddenly thrown back in time to the 15th century, just a little before 1492. They start looking for Christopher Columbus in order to stop him from discovering the Americas (for very personal reasons), but are not able to reach him.

### Hollywood roles[edit]

Benigni with Giorgio Gaber in 1990

Beginning in 1986, Benigni starred in three films by American director Jim Jarmusch. In Down By Law (1986) (which in Italy had its title spelt "Daunbailò", in Italian phonetics[9]) he played Bob, an innocent foreigner living in the United States, convicted of manslaughter, whose irrepressible good humour and optimism help him to escape and find love. (The film also starred Braschi as his beloved.) In Night on Earth, (1991) he played a cabbie in Rome, who causes his passenger, a priest, great discomfort and a heart attack by confessing his bizarre sexual experiences. Later, he also starred in the first of Jarmusch's series of short films, Coffee and Cigarettes (2003).[citation needed]

In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[10]

In 1993, he starred in Son of the Pink Panther, directed by veteran Blake Edwards. Benigni played Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son who is assigned to save the Princess of Lugash. The film bombed in the US, but was a hit in his homeland.[citation needed]

Benigni had a rare serious role in Federico Fellini's last film, La voce della luna ("The Voice of the Moon") (1989). In earlier years Benigni had started a long-lasting collaboration with screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami, for a series of films which scored great success in Italy: Il piccolo diavolo ("The Little Devil") with Walter Matthau, Johnny Stecchino ("Johnny Toothpick"), and Il mostro ("The Monster").[citation needed]

### Life Is Beautiful[edit]

Benigni and wife Nicoletta Braschi at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival

Benigni is widely known outside Italy for his 1997 tragicomedy Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), filmed in Arezzo, also written by Cerami. The film is about an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect his son's innocence during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win. Benigni's father had spent three years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen,[11] and La vita è bella is based in part on his father's experiences. Benigni was also inspired by the story of Holocaust survivor Rubino Romeo Salmonì.[12] Although the story and presentation of the film had been discussed during production with different Jewish groups to limit the offence it might cause, the film was attacked by some critics, who accused it of presenting the Holocaust without much suffering, while others argued that a comedy about such a subject was not appropriate. More favourable critics praised Benigni's artistic daring and skill to create a sensitive comedy involving Holocaust, a challenge that Charlie Chaplin confessed he would not have taken on with The Great Dictator had he been aware of the true horrors occurring in ghettos and concentration camps in Europe at the time.

In 1998, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards. At the 1999 ceremony, the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (which Benigni accepted as the film's director), Best Original Dramatic Score (the score by Nicola Piovani), and Benigni received the award for Best Actor (the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles).

Overcome with giddy delight after Life Is Beautiful was announced as the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, Benigni climbed over and then stood on the backs of the seats in front of him and applauded the audience before proceeding to the stage. After winning his Best Actor Oscar later in the evening, he said in his acceptance speech, "This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English!" To close his speech, Benigni quoted the closing lines of Dante's Divine Comedy, referencing "the love that moves the sun and all the stars." At the following year's ceremony, when he read the nominees for Best Actress (won by Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry), host Billy Crystal playfully appeared behind him with a large net to restrain Benigni if he got excessive with his antics again.[13] On a 1999 episode of Saturday Night Live, host Ray Romano played him in a sketch parodying his giddy behavior at the ceremony.

### Beyond Life Is Beautiful[edit]

Benigni receiving a prize in Terni, February 2006

Benigni played one of the main characters in Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar as Detritus, a corrupt Roman provincial governor who wants to kill Julius Caesar, thereby seizing control of the Roman Republic.

As a director, his 2002 film Pinocchio, the most expensive film in Italian cinema, performed well in Italy, but it bombed in North America, with a 0% critics' score at Rotten Tomatoes. He was also named as the Worst Actor for his role as Pinocchio, in the 23rd Golden Raspberry Awards. The original Italian version received six nominations at the David di Donatello Awards, winning two, as well as winning one of the two awards it was nominated for at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.[14]

Benigni at the Sanremo Music Festival 2011

That same year, he gave a typically energetic and revealing interview to Canadian filmmaker Damian Pettigrew for Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2002), a cinematic portrait of the maestro that was nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards, Europe's equivalent of the Oscars[according to whom?]. The film went on to win the prestigious Rockie Award for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival (2002) and the Coup de Coeur at the International Sunnyside of the Doc Marseille (2002).

In 2003, Benigni was honored by the National Italian American Foundation [it] (NIAF), receiving the Foundation's NIAF Special Achievement Award in Entertainment.

His film La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow, 2005) is a love story set during the initial stage of the Iraq War.

Benigni at the Berlin Film Festival 2020

On 15 October 2005, he performed an impromptu strip tease on Italy's most watched evening news program, removing his shirt and draping it over the newscaster's shoulders. Prior to removing his shirt, Benigni had already hijacked the opening credits of the news program, jumping behind the newscaster and announcing: "Berlusconi has resigned!" (Benigni is an outspoken critic of media tycoon and then former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.) The previous day, he had led a crowd of thousands in Rome on Friday in protest at the centre-right government's decision to cut state arts funding by 35 per cent.

On 2 February 2007, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. On 22 April 2008, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa was conferred on him by the University of Malta, celebrated by a Settimana Dantesca including Benigni's first stage appearance at a university and the premiere of his performing with Dante scholar Robert Hollander.

In 2012, he starred in the Woody Allen film, To Rome with Love.

In 2019, he starred as Mister Geppetto in Matteo Garrone's 2019 adaptation of Pinocchio.

### TuttoDante[edit]

Benigni on the stage of TuttoDante in Padua, June 2008

Benigni is an improvisatory poet (poesia estemporanea is a form of art popularly followed and practised in Tuscany), appreciated for his explanation and recitations of Dante's Divina Commedia from memory.

During 2006 and 2007, Benigni had a lot of success touring Italy with his 90-minute "one-man show" TuttoDante ("Everything About Dante"). Combining current events and memories of his past narrated with an ironic tone, Benigni then begins a journey of poetry and passion through the world of the Divine Comedy.

TuttoDante has been performed in numerous Italian piazzas, arenas, and stadiums for a total of 130 shows, with an estimated audience of about one million spectators. Over 10 million more spectators watched the TV show, Il V canto dell’Inferno ("The 5th Song of Hell"), broadcast by Rai Uno on 29 November 2007, with re-runs on Rai International.

Benigni began North American presentations of TuttoDante with an announcement that he learned English to bring the gift of Dante's work to English speakers. The English performance incorporates dialectic discussion of language and verse and is a celebration of modernity and the concept of human consciousness as created by language.

Benigni brought "TuttoDante" to the United States, Canada and Argentina in the TuttoDante Tour between 2008 and 2009 with performances in San Francisco, Boston and Chicago. Benigni was feted in San Francisco at a special reception held by the National Italian American Foundation in his honour on 24 May 2009. Following his U.S. premiere Benigni performed his last presentation on 16 June 2009, in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he was awarded Honorary Citizenship of the City of Buenos Aires in a ceremony held at the Legislative Palace in homage to the notable Italian diaspora and culture in Argentina.[15]

## In other media[edit]

Benigni is also a singer-songwriter. Among his recorded performances are versions of Paolo Conte's songs.

## Honors[edit]

Benigni on stage (1990)

In 1999, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.[16]

### Honorary degrees[edit]

In addition to numerous film awards, Benigni has garnered honorary degrees from universities worldwide:

* 1999 – Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
* 2002 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Bologna, Italy.
* 2003 – Honorary Degree in Psychology from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
* 2007 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
* 2007 – Honorary Degree in Modern Philology from the University of Florence, Italy.
* 2008 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Malta.
* 2008 – Honorary Degree in Communication Arts from the Touro University Rome, Zagarolo, Italy.
* 2012 – Honorary Degree in Modern Philology from the University of Calabria, Italy.
* 2012 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
* 2015 – Honorary Doctorate in Laws from the University of Toronto, Canada.[17]
* 2024 – Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Notre Dame, United States of America.

## Influence[edit]

The Europe List, the largest survey on European culture, established that the top three films in European culture are

1. Benigni's Life Is Beautiful[18]
2. Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others[18]
3. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie[18]

## Filmography[edit]

### Film[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1977  | Berlinguer, I Love You | Mario Cioni  | Also writer
1979  | Tigers in Lipstick | Principal  | Segment: Una mamma
Womanlight | Barman at Clapsy's  |
La Luna | Upholsterer  |
I giorni cantati | Professor  |
Seeking Asylum | Roberto  |
1980  | In the Pope's Eye | Himself  |
1981  | Il minestrone | The Maestro  |
1983  | Tu mi turbi | Benigno  | Also director and writer
"FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?" | Beige Sheikh  |
1984  | Nothing Left to Do But Cry | Saverio  | Also director and writer
1986  | Down by Law | Roberto  | English speaking film debut
Coffee and Cigarettes | Roberto  | Short film
1988  | The Little Devil | Giuditta  | Also director and writer
1990  | The Voice of the Moon | Ivo Salvini  |
1991  | Night on Earth | Cab Driver  | Segment: Rome
Johnny Stecchino | Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino  | Also director and writer
1993  | Son of the Pink Panther | Jacques Gambrelli |
1994  | The Monster | Loris  | Also director, writer and producer
1997  | Life Is Beautiful | Guido Orefice  | Also director and writer
1999  | Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar | Lucius Detritus  |
2002  | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | Also director and writer
2003  | Caterina in the Big City | Himself  |
Coffee and Cigarettes | Roberto  |
2005  | The Tiger and the Snow | Attilio de Giovanni  | Also director and writer
2010  | La commedia di Amos Poe | Narrator  | Voice
2011  | Pistachio - The Little Boy That Woodn't | Head of Italy  | Voice
2012  | To Rome with Love | Leopoldo Pisanello  |
2019  | Pinocchio | Mister Geppetto |

### Television[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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|
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1972  | Sorelle Materassi [it] | Youth  | Episode: "Episodio 1"
1976–1977  | Onda libera [it] | Mario Cioni  | 4 episodes
Also writer
1979  | Ma che cos'è questo amore [it] | The Thinker  | 2 episodes
1982  | Morto Troisi, viva Troisi! [it] | Himself / Anonymous Childhood Friend  | Television film

## Awards and nominations[edit]

Year  | Award  | Category  | Project  | Result

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1983 | David di Donatello | Best New Director | Tu mi turbi | Nominated
Nastro d'Argento | Best New Director | Nominated
1986 | Best Actor | Down by Law | Won
Independent Spirit Award | Best Male Lead | Nominated
1988 | David di Donatello | Best Actor | The Little Devil | Won
Nastro d'Argento | Best Director | Nominated
Best Actor | Nominated
Best Actor | Johnny Stecchino | Won
Best Screenplay | Nominated
1998 | Academy Award | Best Actor | Life Is Beautiful | Won
Best Director | Nominated
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated
British Academy Film Award | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Won
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated
Cannes Film Festival | Palme d'Or | Nominated
Grand Prix – Cannes Film Festival | Won
Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Best Leading Actor | Won
Chicago Film Critics Association | Best Actor | Nominated
Boston Society of Film Critics | Best Director | Nominated
David di Donatello | Best Director | Won
Best Actor | Won
Best Screenplay | Won
Directors Guild of America Award | Outstanding Directing - Feature Film | Nominated
European Film Award | Best Actor | Won
Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role | Won
Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture | Nominated
Nastro d'Argento | Best Director | Won
Best Actor | Won
Best Screenplay | Won
2002 | David di Donatello | Best Actor | Pinocchio | Nominated
Razzie Award | Worst Actor | Won
Worst Director | Nominated
Worst Screen Couple | Nominated
Worst Screenplay | Nominated
2005 | Nastro d'Argento | Best Actor | The Tiger and the Snow | Nominated
2019 | Best Supporting Actor | Pinocchio | Won
David di Donatello | Best Supporting Actor | Nominated

## Bibliography[edit]

* Roberto Benigni (1996). Marco Giusti (ed.). E l'alluce fu: monologhi & gag (in Italian). With a chapter by Cesare Garboli. Turin: Einaudi. ISBN 88-06-14184-8.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana". quirinale.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 26 December 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
2. ^ Waxman, Sharon (1 November 1998). "EMBRACING 'LIFE' IN DEATH CAMPS". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
3. ^ Lipman, Steve (23 October 1998). "When Tragedy, Comedy Meet: Italian actor-director Roberto Benigni". The Jewish Week. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012.
4. ^ "Is There Humor in the Holocaust? Roberto Benigni's bittersweet answer". Jewish Exponent. New York. 5 November 1998. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012.
5. ^ Bullaro, Grace Russo, ed. (1 January 2005). Beyond "Life is Beautiful": Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni. Leicester: Troubador Publishing. p. 27\. ISBN 1-904744-83-4. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
6. ^ CNA. "'Life is Beautiful' actor Roberto Benigni meets the pope". Catholic News Agency. Archived from the original on 8 December 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
7. ^ Celli, Carlo (2001). The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Benigni. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 9. ISBN 0-8108-4000-6.
8. ^ "La storia della foto di Benigni e Berlinguer" [The story of Benigni and Berlinguer's photo]. Il Post (in Italian). 25 May 2012. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019.
9. ^ Jarmusch, Jim (28 October 2019). "Film card". Torino Film Fest. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
10. ^ "Berlinale: 1990 Juries". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
11. ^ Brinson, Claudia Smith (23 March 1999). "Live your life with exuberance, and happiness may come". The State. Columbia, SC. p. A10.
12. ^ Squires, Nick (11 July 2011). "Life Is Beautiful Nazi death camp survivor dies aged 91". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
13. ^ Hilary Swank Wins Best Actress: 2000 Oscars. Oscars. 26 October 2010. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2021 - via YouTube.
14. ^ Awards for Pinocchio at IMDb 25 December 2002.
15. ^ "Roberto Benigni è stato nominato 'Huésped de Honor de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires'" [Roberto Benigni was appointed "Guest of Honour of the City of Buenos Aires"]. Un Benigni da Nobel (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
16. ^ "Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated" (PDF). Palm Springs Walk of Stars. p. 7\. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2012.
17. ^ "Convocation 2015: Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi receive honorary degrees from U of T". U of T news. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
18. ^ a b c "The self-perception of Europeans in comparison with the perception of other countries". Europa-Liste/Europe List: On the search for a European culture. Goethe Institute. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013.

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Films by Roberto Benigni

Directed|

* Tu mi turbi (1983)
* Nothing Left to Do But Cry1 (1984)
* The Little Devil (1988)
* Johnny Stecchino (1991)
* The Monster (1994)
* Life Is Beautiful (1997)
* Pinocchio (2002)
* The Tiger and the Snow (2005)

Screenplays|

* Berlinguer, I Love You (1977)
* Seeking Asylum (1979)

1 co-directed with Massimo Troisi.

Awards for Roberto Benigni

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Academy Award for Best Actor

1928–1950|

* Emil Jannings (1928)
* Warner Baxter (1929)
* George Arliss (1930)
* Lionel Barrymore (1931)
* Fredric March / Wallace Beery (1932)
* Charles Laughton (1933)
* Clark Gable (1934)
* Victor McLaglen (1935)
* Paul Muni (1936)
* Spencer Tracy (1937)
* Spencer Tracy (1938)
* Robert Donat (1939)
* James Stewart (1940)
* Gary Cooper (1941)
* James Cagney (1942)
* Paul Lukas (1943)
* Bing Crosby (1944)
* Ray Milland (1945)
* Fredric March (1946)
* Ronald Colman (1947)
* Laurence Olivier (1948)
* Broderick Crawford (1949)
* José Ferrer (1950)

1951–1975|

* Humphrey Bogart (1951)
* Gary Cooper (1952)
* William Holden (1953)
* Marlon Brando (1954)
* Ernest Borgnine (1955)
* Yul Brynner (1956)
* Alec Guinness (1957)
* David Niven (1958)
* Charlton Heston (1959)
* Burt Lancaster (1960)
* Maximilian Schell (1961)
* Gregory Peck (1962)
* Sidney Poitier (1963)
* Rex Harrison (1964)
* Lee Marvin (1965)
* Paul Scofield (1966)
* Rod Steiger (1967)
* Cliff Robertson (1968)
* John Wayne (1969)
* George C. Scott1 (1970)
* Gene Hackman (1971)
* Marlon Brando1 (1972)
* Jack Lemmon (1973)
* Art Carney (1974)
* Jack Nicholson (1975)

1976–2000|

* Peter Finch (1976)
* Richard Dreyfuss (1977)
* Jon Voight (1978)
* Dustin Hoffman (1979)
* Robert De Niro (1980)
* Henry Fonda (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Robert Duvall (1983)
* F. Murray Abraham (1984)
* William Hurt (1985)
* Paul Newman (1986)
* Michael Douglas (1987)
* Dustin Hoffman (1988)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
* Jeremy Irons (1990)
* Anthony Hopkins (1991)
* Al Pacino (1992)
* Tom Hanks (1993)
* Tom Hanks (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Geoffrey Rush (1996)
* Jack Nicholson (1997)
* Roberto Benigni (1998)
* Kevin Spacey (1999)
* Russell Crowe (2000)

2001–present|

* Denzel Washington (2001)
* Adrien Brody (2002)
* Sean Penn (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Sean Penn (2008)
* Jeff Bridges (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* Jean Dujardin (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* Matthew McConaughey (2013)
* Eddie Redmayne (2014)
* Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Gary Oldman (2017)
* Rami Malek (2018)
* Joaquin Phoenix (2019)
* Anthony Hopkins (2020)
* Will Smith (2021)
* Brendan Fraser (2022)

1 refused award that year

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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

1947–1955
(Honorary)|

* 1947: Shoeshine – Vittorio De Sica
* 1948: Monsieur Vincent – Maurice Cloche
* 1949: Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica
* 1950: The Walls of Malapaga – René Clément
* 1951: Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa
* 1952: Forbidden Games – René Clément
* 1953: No Award
* 1954: Gate of Hell – Teinosuke Kinugasa
* 1955: Samurai, The Legend of Musashi – Hiroshi Inagaki

1956–1975|

* 1956: La Strada – Federico Fellini
* 1957: Nights of Cabiria – Federico Fellini
* 1958: My Uncle – Jacques Tati
* 1959: Black Orpheus – Marcel Camus
* 1960: The Virgin Spring – Ingmar Bergman
* 1961: Through a Glass Darkly – Ingmar Bergman
* 1962: Sundays and Cybèle – Serge Bourguignon
* 1963: 8½ – Federico Fellini
* 1964: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Vittorio De Sica
* 1965: The Shop on Main Street – Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos
* 1966: A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch
* 1967: Closely Watched Trains – Jiří Menzel
* 1968: War and Peace – Sergei Bondarchuk
* 1969: Z – Costa-Gavras
* 1970: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri
* 1971: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Vittorio De Sica
* 1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Luis Buñuel
* 1973: Day for Night – François Truffaut
* 1974: Amarcord – Federico Fellini
* 1975: Dersu Uzala – Akira Kurosawa

1976–2000|

* 1976: Black and White in Color – Jean-Jacques Annaud
* 1977: Madame Rosa – Moshé Mizrahi
* 1978: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs – Bertrand Blier
* 1979: The Tin Drum – Volker Schlöndorff
* 1980: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears – Vladimir Menshov
* 1981: Mephisto – István Szabó
* 1982: Volver a Empezar ('To Begin Again') – José Luis Garci
* 1983: Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman
* 1984: Dangerous Moves – Richard Dembo
* 1985: The Official Story – Luis Puenzo
* 1986: The Assault – Fons Rademakers
* 1987: Babette's Feast – Gabriel Axel
* 1988: Pelle the Conqueror – Bille August
* 1989: Cinema Paradiso – Giuseppe Tornatore
* 1990: Journey of Hope – Xavier Koller
* 1991: Mediterraneo – Gabriele Salvatores
* 1992: Indochine – Régis Wargnier
* 1993: Belle Époque – Fernando Trueba
* 1994: Burnt by the Sun – Nikita Mikhalkov
* 1995: Antonia's Line – Marleen Gorris
* 1996: Kolya – Jan Svěrák
* 1997: Character – Mike van Diem
* 1998: Life Is Beautiful – Roberto Benigni
* 1999: All About My Mother – Pedro Almodóvar
* 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Ang Lee

2001–present|

* 2001: No Man's Land – Danis Tanović
* 2002: Nowhere in Africa – Caroline Link
* 2003: The Barbarian Invasions – Denys Arcand
* 2004: The Sea Inside – Alejandro Amenábar
* 2005: Tsotsi – Gavin Hood
* 2006: The Lives of Others – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
* 2007: The Counterfeiters – Stefan Ruzowitzky
* 2008: Departures – Yōjirō Takita
* 2009: The Secret in Their Eyes – Juan José Campanella
* 2010: In a Better World – Susanne Bier
* 2011: A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
* 2012: Amour – Michael Haneke
* 2013: The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino
* 2014: Ida – Paweł Pawlikowski
* 2015: Son of Saul – László Nemes
* 2016: The Salesman – Asghar Farhadi
* 2017: A Fantastic Woman – Sebastián Lelio
* 2018: Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
* 2019: Parasite – Bong Joon-ho
* 2020: Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg
* 2021: Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi
* 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger

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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

1952–1967|

| British|

* Ralph Richardson (1952)
* John Gielgud (1953)
* Kenneth More (1954)
* Laurence Olivier (1955)
* Peter Finch (1956)
* Alec Guinness (1957)
* Trevor Howard (1958)
* Peter Sellers (1959)
* Peter Finch (1960)
* Peter Finch (1961)
* Peter O'Toole (1962)
* Dirk Bogarde (1963)
* Richard Attenborough (1964)
* Dirk Bogarde (1965)
* Richard Burton (1966)
* Paul Scofield (1967)

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Foreign|

* Marlon Brando (1952)
* Marlon Brando (1953)
* Marlon Brando (1954)
* Ernest Borgnine (1955)
* François Périer (1956)
* Henry Fonda (1957)
* Sidney Poitier (1958)
* Jack Lemmon (1959)
* Jack Lemmon (1960)
* Paul Newman (1961)
* Burt Lancaster (1962)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1963)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1964)
* Lee Marvin (1965)
* Rod Steiger (1966)
* Rod Steiger (1967)

1968–present|

* Spencer Tracy (1968)
* Dustin Hoffman (1969)
* Robert Redford (1970)
* Peter Finch (1971)
* Gene Hackman (1972)
* Walter Matthau (1973)
* Jack Nicholson (1974)
* Al Pacino (1975)
* Jack Nicholson (1976)
* Peter Finch (1977)
* Richard Dreyfuss (1978)
* Jack Lemmon (1979)
* John Hurt (1980)
* Burt Lancaster (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Michael Caine / Dustin Hoffman (1983)
* Haing S. Ngor (1984)
* William Hurt (1985)
* Bob Hoskins (1986)
* Sean Connery (1987)
* John Cleese (1988)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
* Philippe Noiret (1990)
* Anthony Hopkins (1991)
* Robert Downey Jr. (1992)
* Anthony Hopkins (1993)
* Hugh Grant (1994)
* Nigel Hawthorne (1995)
* Geoffrey Rush (1996)
* Robert Carlyle (1997)
* Roberto Benigni (1998)
* Kevin Spacey (1999)
* Jamie Bell (2000)
* Russell Crowe (2001)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2002)
* Bill Murray (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Mickey Rourke (2008)
* Colin Firth (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* Jean Dujardin (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* Chiwetel Ejiofor (2013)
* Eddie Redmayne (2014)
* Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Gary Oldman (2017)
* Rami Malek (2018)
* Joaquin Phoenix (2019)
* Anthony Hopkins (2020)
* Will Smith (2021)
* Austin Butler (2022)
* Cillian Murphy (2023)

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David di Donatello Award for Best Actor

1956–1975|

* Vittorio De Sica (1956)
* Vittorio Gassman / Alberto Sordi (1960)
* Alberto Sordi (1961)
* Raf Vallone (1962)
* Vittorio Gassman (1963)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1964)
* Vittorio Gassman / Marcello Mastroianni (1965)
* Alberto Sordi (1966)
* Vittorio Gassman / Ugo Tognazzi (1967)
* Franco Nero (1968)
* Nino Manfredi / Alberto Sordi (1969)
* Nino Manfredi / Gian Maria Volonté (1970)
* Ugo Tognazzi (1971)
* Giancarlo Giannini / Alberto Sordi (1972)
* Alberto Sordi (1973)
* Nino Manfredi (1974)
* Vittorio Gassman (1975)

1976–2000|

* Adriano Celentano / Ugo Tognazzi (1976)
* Alberto Sordi (1977)
* Nino Manfredi (1978)
* Vittorio Gassman (1979)
* Adriano Celentano (1980)
* Massimo Troisi (1981)
* Carlo Verdone (1982)
* Francesco Nuti (1983)
* Giancarlo Giannini (1984)
* Francesco Nuti (1985)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1986)
* Vittorio Gassman (1987)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1988)
* Roberto Benigni (1989)
* Paolo Villaggio / Gian Maria Volonté (1990)
* Nanni Moretti (1991)
* Carlo Verdone (1992)
* Sergio Castellitto (1993)
* Giulio Scarpati (1994)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1995)
* Giancarlo Giannini (1996)
* Fabrizio Bentivoglio (1997)
* Roberto Benigni (1998)
* Stefano Accorsi (1999)
* Bruno Ganz (2000)

2001–present|

* Luigi Lo Cascio (2001)
* Giancarlo Giannini (2002)
* Massimo Girotti (2003)
* Sergio Castellitto (2004)
* Toni Servillo (2005)
* Silvio Orlando (2006)
* Elio Germano (2007)
* Toni Servillo (2008)
* Toni Servillo (2009)
* Valerio Mastandrea (2010)
* Elio Germano (2011)
* Michel Piccoli (2012)
* Valerio Mastandrea (2013)
* Toni Servillo (2014)
* Elio Germano (2015)
* Claudio Santamaria (2016)
* Stefano Accorsi (2017)
* Renato Carpentieri (2018)
* Alessandro Borghi (2019)
* Pierfrancesco Favino (2020)
* Elio Germano (2021)
* Silvio Orlando (2022)
* Fabrizio Gifuni (2023)

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David di Donatello Award for Best Director

1956–1975|

* Gianni Franciolini (1956)
* Federico Fellini (1957)
* Alberto Lattuada (1959)
* Federico Fellini (1960)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
* Ermanno Olmi (1962)
* Vittorio De Sica (1963)
* Pietro Germi (1964)
* Vittorio De Sica / Francesco Rosi (1965)
* Alessandro Blasetti / Pietro Germi (1966)
* Luigi Comencini (1967)
* Carlo Lizzani (1968)
* Franco Zeffirelli (1969)
* Gillo Pontecorvo (1970)
* Luchino Visconti (1971)
* Sergio Leone / Franco Zeffirelli (1972)
* Luchino Visconti (1973)
* Federico Fellini (1974)
* Dino Risi (1975)

1976–2000|

* Mario Monicelli / Francesco Rosi (1976)
* Mario Monicelli / Valerio Zurlini (1977)
* Ettore Scola (1978)
* Francesco Rosi (1979)
* Marco Bellocchio / Gillo Pontecorvo (1980)
* Francesco Rosi (1981)
* Marco Ferreri (1982)
* Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1983)
* Ettore Scola (1984)
* Francesco Rosi (1985)
* Mario Monicelli (1986)
* Ettore Scola (1987)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (1988)
* Ermanno Olmi (1989)
* Mario Monicelli (1990)
* Marco Risi / Ricky Tognazzi (1991)
* Gianni Amelio (1992)
* Roberto Faenza / Ricky Tognazzi (1993)
* Carlo Verdone (1994)
* Mario Martone (1995)
* Giuseppe Tornatore (1996)
* Francesco Rosi (1997)
* Roberto Benigni (1998)
* Giuseppe Tornatore (1999)
* Silvio Soldini (2000)

2001–present|

* Gabriele Muccino (2001)
* Ermanno Olmi (2002)
* Pupi Avati (2003)
* Marco Tullio Giordana (2004)
* Paolo Sorrentino (2005)
* Nanni Moretti (2006)
* Giuseppe Tornatore (2007)
* Andrea Molaioli (2008)
* Matteo Garrone (2009)
* Marco Bellocchio (2010)
* Daniele Luchetti (2011)
* Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (2012)
* Giuseppe Tornatore (2013)
* Paolo Sorrentino (2014)
* Francesco Munzi (2015)
* Matteo Garrone (2016)
* Paolo Virzì (2017)
* Jonas Carpignano (2018)
* Matteo Garrone (2019)
* Marco Bellocchio (2020)
* Giorgio Diritti (2021)
* Paolo Sorrentino (2022)
* Marco Bellocchio (2023)

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European Film Award for Best Actor

* Max von Sydow \- Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
* Philippe Noiret \- Life and Nothing But and Cinema Paradiso (1989)
* Kenneth Branagh \- Henry V (1990)
* Michel Bouquet \- Toto the Hero (1991)
* Matti Pellonpää \- La Vie de bohème (1992)
* Daniel Auteuil \- A Heart in Winter (1993)
* Ian McKellen \- Richard III (1996)
* Bob Hoskins \- Twenty Four Seven (1997)
* Roberto Benigni \- Life Is Beautiful (1998)
* Ralph Fiennes \- Sunshine (1999)
* Sergi López \- Harry, He's Here to Help (2000)
* Ben Kingsley \- Sexy Beast (2001)
* Sergio Castellitto \- Mostly Martha and My Mother's Smile (2002)
* Daniel Brühl \- Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
* Javier Bardem \- The Sea Inside (2004)
* Daniel Auteuil \- Caché (2005)
* Ulrich Mühe \- The Lives of Others (2006)
* Sasson Gabai \- The Band's Visit (2007)
* Toni Servillo \- Il divo and Gomorrah (2008)
* Tahar Rahim \- A Prophet (2009)
* Ewan McGregor \- The Ghost Writer (2010)
* Colin Firth \- The King's Speech (2011)
* Jean-Louis Trintignant \- Amour (2012)
* Toni Servillo \- The Great Beauty (2013)
* Timothy Spall \- Mr. Turner (2014)
* Michael Caine \- Youth (2015)
* Peter Simonischek \- Toni Erdmann (2016)
* Claes Bang \- The Square (2017)
* Marcello Fonte \- Dogman (2018)
* Antonio Banderas \- Pain and Glory (2019)
* Mads Mikkelsen \- Another Round (2020)
* Anthony Hopkins \- The Father (2021)
* Zlatko Burić \- Triangle of Sadness (2022)
* Mads Mikkelsen \- The Promised Land (2023)

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European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award

* Miloš Forman (1997)
* Stellan Skarsgård (1998)
* Antonio Banderas (1999)
* Roman Polanski (1999)
* Jean Reno (2000)
* Roberto Benigni (2000)
* Ewan McGregor (2001)
* Victoria Abril (2002)
* Carlo Di Palma (2003)
* Liv Ullmann (2004)
* Maurice Jarre (2005)
* Jeremy Thomas (2006)
* Michael Ballhaus (2007)
* Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (2008)
* Kristian Levring (2008)
* Lars von Trier (2008)
* Thomas Vinterberg (2008)
* Isabelle Huppert (2009)
* Gabriel Yared (2010)
* Mads Mikkelsen (2011)
* Helen Mirren (2012)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2013)
* Steve McQueen (2014)
* Christoph Waltz (2015)
* Pierce Brosnan (2016)
* Julie Delpy (2017)
* Ralph Fiennes (2018)
* Juliette Binoche (2019)
* Susanne Bier (2021)
* Elia Suleiman (2022)
* Isabel Coixet (2023)

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Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

1969–2000|

* Luis Buñuel (1969)
* Orson Welles (1970)
* John Ford / Marcel Carné / Ingmar Bergman (1971)
* Charlie Chaplin / Anatoli Golovnya / Billy Wilder (1972)
* Alessandro Blasetti / Luis Buñuel / Frank Capra / George Cukor / Jean-Luc Godard / Alexander Kluge / Akira Kurosawa / Michael Powell / Satyajit Ray / King Vidor / Sergei Yutkevich / Cesare Zavattini (1982)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1983)
* Federico Fellini (1985)
* Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1986)
* Luigi Comencini / Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1987)
* Joris Ivens (1988)
* Robert Bresson (1989)
* Miklós Jancsó / Marcello Mastroianni (1990)
* Mario Monicelli / Gian Maria Volonté (1991)
* Francis Ford Coppola / Jeanne Moreau / Paolo Villaggio (1992)
* Claudia Cardinale / Robert De Niro / Roman Polanski / Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Suso Cecchi d'Amico / Ken Loach / Al Pacino (1994)
* Woody Allen / Giuseppe De Santis / Goffredo Lombardo / Ennio Morricone / Alain Resnais / Martin Scorsese / Alberto Sordi / Monica Vitti (1995)
* Robert Altman / Vittorio Gassman / Dustin Hoffman / Michèle Morgan (1996)
* Gérard Depardieu / Stanley Kubrick / Alida Valli (1997)
* Warren Beatty / Sophia Loren / Andrzej Wajda (1998)
* Jerry Lewis (1999)
* Clint Eastwood (2000)

2001–present|

* Éric Rohmer (2001)
* Dino Risi (2002)
* Dino De Laurentiis / Omar Sharif (2003)
* Manoel de Oliveira / Stanley Donen (2004)
* Hayao Miyazaki / Stefania Sandrelli (2005)
* David Lynch (2006)
* Tim Burton (2007)
* Ermanno Olmi (2008)
* John Lasseter (2009)
* John Woo (2010)
* Marco Bellocchio (2011)
* Francesco Rosi (2012)
* William Friedkin (2013)
* Thelma Schoonmaker / Frederick Wiseman (2014)
* Bertrand Tavernier (2015)
* Jean-Paul Belmondo / Jerzy Skolimowski (2016)
* Jane Fonda / Robert Redford (2017)
* David Cronenberg / Vanessa Redgrave (2018)
* Pedro Almodóvar / Julie Andrews (2019)
* Ann Hui / Tilda Swinton (2020)
* Roberto Benigni / Jamie Lee Curtis (2021)
* Catherine Deneuve / Paul Schrader (2022)
* Liliana Cavani / Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2023)

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Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor

1980s|

* Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer (1980)
* Klinton Spilsbury – The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
* Laurence Olivier – Inchon (1982)
* Christopher Atkins – A Night in Heaven (1983)
* Sylvester Stallone – Rhinestone (1984)
* Sylvester Stallone – Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV (1985)
* Prince – Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
* Bill Cosby – Leonard Part 6 (1987)
* Sylvester Stallone – Rambo III (1988)
* William Shatner – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

1990s|

* Andrew Dice Clay – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
* Kevin Costner – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
* Sylvester Stallone – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
* Burt Reynolds – Cop and a Half (1993)
* Kevin Costner – Wyatt Earp (1994)
* Pauly Shore – Jury Duty (1995)
* Tom Arnold – Big Bully, Carpool, and The Stupids / Pauly Shore – Bio-Dome (1996)
* Kevin Costner – The Postman (1997)
* Bruce Willis – Armageddon, Mercury Rising, and The Siege (1998)
* Adam Sandler – Big Daddy (1999)

2000s|

* John Travolta – Battlefield Earth and Lucky Numbers (2000)
* Tom Green – Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
* Roberto Benigni (dubbed Godzilla-style by Breckin Meyer) – Pinocchio (2002)
* Ben Affleck – Daredevil, Gigli, and Paycheck (2003)
* George W. Bush – Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
* Rob Schneider – Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
* Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans – Little Man (2006)
* Eddie Murphy – Norbit (2007)
* Mike Myers – The Love Guru (2008)
* Jonas Brothers (Joe, Kevin, and Nick) – Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009)

2010s|

* Ashton Kutcher – Killers and Valentine's Day (2010)
* Adam Sandler – Jack and Jill and Just Go with It (2011)
* Adam Sandler – That's My Boy (2012)
* Jaden Smith – After Earth (2013)
* Kirk Cameron – Saving Christmas (2014)
* Jamie Dornan – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
* Dinesh D'Souza – Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)
* Tom Cruise – The Mummy (2017)
* Donald Trump – Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
* John Travolta – The Fanatic and Trading Paint (2019)

2020s|

* Mike Lindell (The "My Pillow Guy") – Absolute Proof (2020/21)
* LeBron James – Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
* Jared Leto – Morbius (2022)

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Honorary César

1976–2000|

* Ingrid Bergman (1976)
* Diana Ross (1976)
* Henri Langlois (1977)
* Jacques Tati (1977)
* Robert Dorfmann (1978)
* René Goscinny (1978)
* Marcel Carné (1979)
* Charles Vanel (1979)
* Walt Disney (1979)
* Pierre Braunberger (1980)
* Louis de Funès (1980)
* Kirk Douglas (1980)
* Marcel Pagnol (1981)
* Alain Resnais (1981)
* Georges Dancigers (1982)
* Alexandre Mnouchkine (1982)
* Jean Nény (1982)
* Andrzej Wajda (1982)
* Raimu (1983)
* René Clément (1984)
* Georges de Beauregard (1984)
* Edwige Feuillère (1984)
* Christian-Jaque (1985)
* Danielle Darrieux (1985)
* Christine Gouze-Rénal (1985)
* Alain Poiré (1985)
* Maurice Jarre (1986)
* Bette Davis (1986)
* Jean Delannoy (1986)
* René Ferracci (1986)
* Claude Lanzmann (1986)
* Jean-Luc Godard (1987)
* Serge Silberman (1988)
* Bernard Blier (1989)
* Paul Grimault (1989)
* Gérard Philipe (1990)
* Jean-Pierre Aumont (1991)
* Sophia Loren (1991)
* Michèle Morgan (1992)
* Sylvester Stallone (1992)
* Jean Marais (1993)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1993)
* Gérard Oury (1993)
* Jean Carmet (1994)
* Jeanne Moreau (1995)
* Gregory Peck (1995)
* Steven Spielberg (1995)
* Lauren Bacall (1996)
* Henri Verneuil (1996)
* Charles Aznavour (1997)
* Andie MacDowell (1997)
* Michael Douglas (1998)
* Clint Eastwood (1998)
* Jean-Luc Godard (1998)
* Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
* Johnny Depp (1999)
* Jean Rochefort (1999)
* Josiane Balasko (2000)
* Georges Cravenne (2000)
* Jean-Pierre Léaud (2000)
* Martin Scorsese (2000)

2001–present|

* Darry Cowl (2001)
* Charlotte Rampling (2001)
* Agnès Varda (2001)
* Anouk Aimée (2002)
* Jeremy Irons (2002)
* Claude Rich (2002)
* Bernadette Lafont (2003)
* Spike Lee (2003)
* Meryl Streep (2003)
* Micheline Presle (2004)
* Jacques Dutronc (2005)
* Will Smith (2005)
* Hugh Grant (2006)
* Pierre Richard (2006)
* Marlène Jobert (2007)
* Jude Law (2007)
* Jeanne Moreau (2008)
* Roberto Benigni (2008)
* Romy Schneider (2008)
* Dustin Hoffman (2009)
* Harrison Ford (2010)
* Quentin Tarantino (2011)
* Kate Winslet (2012)
* Kevin Costner (2013)
* Scarlett Johansson (2014)
* Sean Penn (2015)
* Michael Douglas (2016)
* George Clooney (2017)
* Penélope Cruz (2018)
* Robert Redford (2019)
* Cate Blanchett (2022)
* David Fincher (2023)
* Christopher Nolan (2024)

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Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Actor

1946–1970|

* Andrea Checchi (1946)
* Amedeo Nazzari (1947)
* Vittorio De Sica (1948)
* Massimo Girotti (1949)
* Aldo Fabrizi (1951)
* Totò (1952)
* Renato Rascel (1953)
* Nino Taranto (1954)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1955)
* Alberto Sordi (1956)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1958)
* Vittorio Gassman (1959)
* Alberto Sordi (1960)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1961)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1962)
* Vittorio Gassman (1963)
* Ugo Tognazzi (1964)
* Saro Urzì (1965)
* Nino Manfredi (1966)
* Totò (1967)
* Gian Maria Volonté (1968)
* Ugo Tognazzi (1969)
* Nino Manfredi (1970)

1971–1990|

* Gian Maria Volonté (1971)
* Riccardo Cucciolla (1972)
* Giancarlo Giannini (1973)
* Giancarlo Giannini (1974)
* Vittorio Gassman (1975)
* Michele Placido (1976)
* Alberto Sordi (1977)
* Nino Manfredi (1978)
* Flavio Bucci (1979)
* Nino Manfredi (1980)
* Vittorio Mezzogiorno (1981)
* Ugo Tognazzi (1982)
* Francesco Nuti (1983)
* Carlo Delle Piane (1984)
* Michele Placido (1985)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1986)
* Roberto Benigni (1987)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1988)
* Gian Maria Volonté (1989)
* Vittorio Gassman (1990)

1991–2010|

* Marcello Mastroianni (1991)
* Roberto Benigni (1992)
* Diego Abatantuono (1993)
* Paolo Villaggio (1994)
* Alessandro Haber (1995)
* Sergio Castellitto (1996)
* Leonardo Pieraccioni (1997)
* Roberto Benigni (1998)
* Giancarlo Giannini (1999)
* Silvio Orlando (2000)
* Stefano Accorsi (2001)
* Sergio Castellitto (2002)
* Neri Marcorè / Gigi Proietti (2003)
* Alessio Boni / Fabrizio Gifuni / Luigi Lo Cascio / Andrea Tidona / Roberto Herlitzka (2004)
* Toni Servillo (2005)
* Pierfrancesco Favino / Kim Rossi Stuart / Claudio Santamaria (2006)
* Silvio Orlando (2007)
* Toni Servillo (2008)
* Toni Servillo (2009)
* Elio Germano / Christian De Sica (2010)

2011–present|

* Kim Rossi Stuart (2011)
* Pierfrancesco Favino (2012)
* Aniello Arena (2013)
* Fabrizio Bentivoglio / Fabrizio Gifuni (2014)
* Alessandro Gassmann (2015)
* Stefano Accorsi (2016)
* Renato Carpentieri (2017)
* Marcello Fonte / Edoardo Pesce (2018)
* Pierfrancesco Favino (2019)
* Pierfrancesco Favino (2020)
* Kim Rossi Stuart (2021)
* Pierfrancesco Favino / Silvio Orlando (2022)

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Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Supporting Actor

1946–1970|

* Gino Cervi (1946)
* Massimo Serato (1947)
* Nando Bruno (1948)
* Saro Urzì (1949)
* Umberto Spadaro (1951)
* Gabriele Ferzetti (1953)
* Alberto Sordi (1954)
* Paolo Stoppa (1955)
* Memmo Carotenuto (1956)
* Peppino De Filippo (1957)
* Andrea Checchi (1958)
* Nino Vingelli (1959)
* Claudio Gora (1960)
* Enrico Maria Salerno (1961)
* Salvo Randone (1962)
* Romolo Valli (1963)
* Folco Lulli (1964)
* Leopoldo Trieste (1965)
* Ugo Tognazzi (1966)
* Gastone Moschin (1967)
* Gabriele Ferzetti (1968)
* Ettore G. Mattia (1969)
* Fanfulla / Umberto Orsini (1970)

1971–1990|

* Romolo Valli (1971)
* Salvo Randone (1972)
* Mario Carotenuto (1973)
* Turi Ferro (1974)
* Aldo Fabrizi (1975)
* Ciccio Ingrassia (1976)
* Romolo Valli (1977)
* Carlo Bagno (1978)
* Vittorio Mezzogiorno (1979)
* Tomas Milian (1980)
* Massimo Girotti (1981)
* Paolo Stoppa (1982)
* Tino Schirinzi (1983)
* Leo Gullotta (1984)
* Leopoldo Trieste (1985)
* Gastone Moschin (1986)
* Diego Abatantuono (1987)
* Enzo Cannavale (1988)
* Fabio Bussotti (1989)
* Alessandro Haber (1990)

1991–2010|

* Ennio Fantastichini (1991)
* Paolo Bonacelli (1992)
* Renato Carpentieri (1993)
* Alessandro Haber (1994)
* Marco Messeri (1995)
* Leopoldo Trieste (1996)
* Gianni Cavina (1997)
* Giustino Durano (1998)
* Stefano Antonucci / Andrea Cambi / Antonio Catania / Giorgio Colangeli / Giuseppe Gandini / Riccardo Garrone / Vittorio Gassman / Giancarlo Giannini / Valter Lupo / Adalberto Maria Merli / Paolo Merloni / Carlo Molfese / Sergio Nicolai / Corrado Olmi / Eros Pagni / Mario Patanè / Pierfrancesco Poggi / Francesco Siciliano / Giorgio Tirabassi / Venantino Venantini (1999)
* Felice Andreasi (2000)
* Giancarlo Giannini (2001)
* Leo Gullotta (2002)
* Diego Abatantuono (2003)
* Arnoldo Foà (2004)
* Raffaele Pisu (2005)
* Carlo Verdone (2006)
* Alessandro Haber (2007)
* Alessandro Gassmann (2008)
* Ezio Greggio (2009)
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* Alessandro Blasetti / Vittorio De Sica (1946)
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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

* Tom Hanks (1994)
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* Roberto Benigni (1998)
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