Best Actor Award (Karlovy Vary IFF)

The Best Actor Award is one of main awards of the Feature Film Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It is conferred on the best actor, or the best actors ex aequo.^[1]

Best Actor Award

Year	Actor	Film	Original Title	Country
2017[2]	Alexander Yatsenko	Arrhythmia	Aritmiya	Russia, Finland, Germany
2016[3]	Szabolcs Hajdu	It's Not the Time of My Life	Ernelláék Farkaséknál	Hungary
2015[4]	Kryštof Hádek	The Snake Brothers	Kobry a užovky	Czech Republic
2014[5]	Nahuel Pérez Biscayart	All Yours	Je suis à toi	Belgium, Canada
2013[6]	Ólafur Darri Ólafsson	XL		Iceland
2012[7]	Henrik Rafaelsen (ex aequo)	The Almost Man	Mer eller mindre mann	Norway
	Eryk Lubos (ex aequo)	To Kill a Beaver	Zabić bobra	Poland
2011[8]	David Morse	Collaborator		Canada, USA
2010[9]	Mateusz Kościukiewicz (ex aequo)	Mother Teresa of Cats	Matka Teresa od kotów	Poland
	Filip Garbacz (ex aequo)
2009[10]	Olivier Gourmet (ex aequo)	Angel at Sea	Un ange à la mer	Belgium, Canada
	Paul Giamatti (ex aequo)	Cold Souls		United States
2008[11]	Jiří Mádl	Night Owls	Děti noci	Czech Republic
2007[12]	Sergej Puskepalis	Simple Things	Prostyje vešči	Russia
2006[13]	Andrzej Hudziak	Several People, Little Time	Parę osób, mały czas	Poland
2005[14]	Luca Zingaretti (ex aequo)	Come into the Light	Alla luce del sole	Italy
	Uri Gavriel (ex aequo)	What a Wonderful Place	Eize makom nifla	Israel
2004[15]	Max Riemelt	Before the Fall	Napola	Germany
2003[16]	Björn Kjellman	Old, New, Borrowed and Blue	Se til venstre, der er en svensker	Denmark
2002[17]	William H. Macy	Focus		United States
2001[18]	Sven Wollter	A Song for Martin	En sång för Martin	Sweden
2000[19]	Ian Hart (ex aequo)	Aberdeen		UK, Norway, Sweden
	Hamid Farokhnezad (ex aequo)	The Bride of Fire	Arous-e atash	Iran
1999[20]	Hilmar Thate	Paths in the Night	Wege in die Nacht	Germany
1998[21]	Olaf Lubaszenko	Sekal Has to Die	Je třeba zabít Sekala	Czech Republic, Poland, France, Slovakia
1997[22]	Bolek Polívka	Forgotten Light	Zapomenuté světlo	Czech Republic
1996[23]	Pierre Richard	A Chef in Love	Les 1001 recettes d´un cuisinier amoureux	France, Georgia
1995[24]	Ernst Hugo Jaregard	The Kingdom	Riget	Denmark, Sweden, Germany
1994[25]	Max von Sydow	Time Is Money		France
1992[26]	Guy Pion	Krapatchouk		Spain, Belgium, France
1990[27]	Andrey Smirnov	Chernov		Soviet Union
1988[28]	Les Serdyuk	Straw Bells	Solomennye kolokola	Soviet Union
1986[29]	Leonid Filatov	Chicherin		Soviet Union
1984[30]	Agustín González (ex aequo)	Bicycles Are for the Summer	Las bicicletas son para el verano	Spain
	Om Puri (ex aequo)	The Half Truth	Ardh satya	India
1982[31]	Henry Fonda (ex aequo)	On Golden Pond		United States
	Donald Sutherland (ex aequo)	Threshold	Canada
1980[32]	Al Pacino (ex aequo)	…And Justice for All		United States
	Uelese Petaia (ex aequo)	Sons for the Return Home		New Zealand
1978[33]	Giuliano Gemma (ex aequo)	I Am the Law	Il prefetto di ferro	Italy
	Peter Faber (ex aequo)	Dokter Vlimmen		Netherlands
1976[34]	Zygmunt Malanowicz (ex aequo)	Jarosław Dąbrowski		Poland
	Gheorghe Dinica (ex aequo)	Through the Ashes of the Empire	Prin cenuşa imperiului	Romania
1974[35]	Antonio Ferrandis	And the Others	¿…Y el prójimo?	Spain
1972[36]	Ranjit Mallik	Interview		India
1970[37]	Mathieu Carrière	The House of the Bories	La maison des Bories	France
1968[38]	Nikolai Plotnikhov	Your Contemporary	Tvoy sovremennik	Soviet Union
1966[39]	Naum Shopov	Tsar and General	Tsar i general	Bulgaria
	Donatas Banionis	Nobody Wanted to Die	Nikto ne khotel umirat	Soviet Union
1964[40]	Wieńczysław Gliński	Echo		Poland
1962[41]	Not conferred
1960[42]	Laurence Olivier (ex aequo)	The Entertainer		United Kingdom
	Erwin Geschonneck (ex aequo)	Leute mit Flügel		East Germany
1958[43]	Maksim Shtraukh	Stories about Lenin	Rasskazy o Lenine	Soviet Union
1957[44]	Not conferred
1956[45]	Günther Simon	Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse		East Germany
1954[46]	Charles Vanel	On Trial	L'affaire Maurizius	France
1952[47]	Sergey Bondarchuk (ex aequo)	Taras Shevchenko		Soviet Union
	Pierre Fresnay (ex aequo)	Monsieur Fabre		France
	Jan Ciecierski (ex aequo)	First Days	Pierwsze dni	Poland
1951[48]	František Smolík	New Fighter Shall Arise	Vstanou noví bojovníci	Czechoslovakia
	Eduard von Winterstein	Die Sonnenbrucks	East Germany
1950[49]	Not conferred
1949[50]	Alexander Borisov	Akademik Ivan Pavlov		Soviet Union
1948[51]	Not conferred