Silver Shell for Best Actor

The Silver Shell for Best Actor (Spanish: Concha de Plata a la Mejor Interpretacion Masculina; Basque: Aktore onenaren Zilarrezko Maskorra) was one of the main awards presented at the San Sebastián International Film Festival to the Best Actor of a competing film.^[1] The last of this award was given out in 2020, after which it was replaced with a gender-neutral Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance and Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance the following year.^[2]

Award winners

Year	Actor(s)	Film Title
1953	Francisco Rabal	There's a Road on the Right
1954	Enrique Alvarez Diosdado	Viento del norte
1956	Otto Eduard Hasse	Canaris (Foreign Film)
	Alberto Closas	We're All Necessary (Spanish Film)
1957	Charles Vanel	Burning Fuse
1958	Kirk Douglas	The Vikings
	James Stewart	Vertigo
1959	Adolfo Marsillach	Salto a la Gloria (Leap to Fame)
1960	Richard Attenborough	League of Gentleman
	Jack Hawkins
	Bryan Forbes
	Roger Livesey
	Nigel Patrick
1961	Gert Fröbe	Crook and the Cross [de]
1962	Peter Sellers	The Waltz of the Toreadors
1963	Jack Lemmon	Days of Wine and Roses
1964	Richard Attenborough	Séance on a Wet Afternoon
	Maurice Biraud	Les Aventures de Salavin
1965	Marcello Mastroianni	Casanova 70
1966	Frank Finlay	Othello
1967	John Mills	The Family Way
	Maurice Ronet	Le Scandale
1968	Sidney Poitier	For Love of Ivy
	Claude Rich	Je t’aime, je t’aime
1969	Nicol Williamson	Laughter in the Dark
1970	Innokenti Smoktounovsky	Tchaikovsky
	Zoltán Latinovits	Utazás a koponyám körül
1971	Vittorio Gassman	Brancaleone at the Crusades
1972	Fernando Rey	La duda
	Topol	Follow Me!
1973	Lino Ventura	La bonne année
	Giancarlo Giannini	Sono stato io
1974	Martin Sheen	Badlands
1975	Al Pacino	Dog Day Afternoon
1976	Zdzislaw Kozien	Skazany
1977	Héctor Alterio	A un dios desconocido
1978	José Sacristán	Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño
1979	Nelson Villagra	Prisioneros desaparecidos
1985	Piotr Siwkiewicz	Yesterday
1986	Imanol Arias	El Lute (camina o revienta)
1987	Fernando Rey	Winter Diary
	Francisco Regueiro	El aire de un crimen
1988	Andy Bausch	A Wopbopaloobop A Lopbamboom
	Felipe Vega	El mejor de los tiempos
1989	Ari Bery	Tusztorténet
1990	Mulie Jarju	Letters from Alou
1991	Silu Seppälä	Zombie and the Ghost Train
1992	Roberto Sosa	Highway Patrolman
1993	Juan Echanove	Madregilda
1994	Javier Bardem	Días contados
	Imanol Uribe	El detective y la muerte
1995	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas
1996	Michael Caine	Blood and Wine
1997	Federico Luppi	Martín (Hache)
1998	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters
1999	Jacques Dufilho	C'est quoi la vie?
2000	Gianfranco Brero	Tinta Roja
2001	Düzgün Ayhan	Escape to Paradise
2002	Liu Peiqi	Han Ni Zai Yiki
2003	Luis Tosar	Te Doy Mis Ojos
2004	Ulrich Thomsen	Brødre
2005	Juan José Ballesta	7 vírgenes
2006	Juan Diego	Vete de mí
2007	Henry O.	A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2008	Oscar Martínez	El nido vacío
2009	Pablo Pineda	Yo, también
2010	Connor McCarron	Neds
2011	Antonis Kafetzopoulos	Unfair World
2012	José Sacristán	The Dead Man and Being Happy
2013	Jim Broadbent	Le Week-End
2014	Javier Gutiérrez	Marshland
2015	Ricardo Darin	Truman
	Javier Cámara
2016	Eduard Fernández	Smoke & Mirrors
2017	Bogdan Dumitrache [ro]	Pororoca
2018	Darío Grandinetti	Rojo
2019[3]	Bukassa Kabengele	Pacified
2020[4]	Mads Mikkelsen	Another Round
	Thomas Bo Larsen
	Magnus Millang
	Lars Ranthe

See also

• Golden Shell for Best Film
• Silver Shell for Best Director
• Silver Shell for Best Actress
• Donostia Award
• Sebastiane Award