AACTA International Award for Best Actor

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Best International Actor
AACTA Award
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The 2023 recipient: Cillian Murphy
CountryAustralia
Presented by Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
First awarded2012
Currently held by Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (2023)
Website http://www.aacta.org

The AACTA International Award for Best Actor is an award that is presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), for a performance by a male actor in a film made outside Australia. It was first handed out by the Academy after its establishment in 2011 by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), to replace the AFI International Award for Best Actor (20052010). [1] The winners and nominees for 2011 were determined by a jury. [2] [3] The award was presented at the inaugural AACTA International Awards in Los Angeles, on 27 January 2012. [1]

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Winners and nominees

In the following table, the winner is marked in a separate colour, and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface. [3]

2010s

YearActorFilmRole
2011
(1st)
Jean Dujardin The Artist George Valentin
George Clooney The Descendants Matt King
Leonardo DiCaprio J. Edgar J. Edgar Hoover
Michael Fassbender Shame Brandon Sullivan
Ryan Gosling The Ides of March Stephen Meyers
Brad Pitt Moneyball Billy Beane
2012
(2nd)
Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
Bradley Cooper Silver Linings Playbook Patrick "Pat" Solitano, Jr.
John Hawkes The Sessions Mark O'Brien
Hugh Jackman Les Misérables Jean Valjean
Joaquin Phoenix The Master Freddie Quell
Denzel Washington Flight Captain William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr.
2013
(3rd)
Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northup
Christian Bale American Hustle Irving Rosenfeld
Leonardo DiCaprio The Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort
Tom Hanks Captain Phillips Captain Richard Phillips
Matthew McConaughey Dallas Buyers Club Ron Woodroof
2014
(4th)
Michael Keaton Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Riggan Thomson
Steve Carell Foxcatcher John du Pont
Benedict Cumberbatch The Imitation Game Alan Turing
Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler Louis "Lou" Bloom
Eddie Redmayne The Theory of Everything Stephen Hawking
2015
(5th)
Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant Hugh Glass
Steve Carell The Big Short Mark Baum
Matt Damon The Martian Mark Watney
Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne The Danish Girl Lili Elbe
2016
(6th)
Casey Affleck Manchester by the Sea Lee Chandler
Joel Edgerton Loving Richard Loving
Andrew Garfield Hacksaw Ridge Desmond T. Doss
Ryan Gosling La La Land Sebastian Wilder
Denzel Washington Fences Troy Maxson
2017
(7th)
Gary Oldman Darkest Hour Winston Churchill
Timothée Chalamet Call Me by Your Name Elio Perlman
Daniel Day-Lewis Phantom Thread Reynolds Woodcock
Hugh Jackman Logan James Howlett / Logan / Wolverine
Daniel Kaluuya Get Out Chris Washington
2018
(8th)
Rami Malek Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury
Christian Bale Vice Dick Cheney
Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born Jackson Maine
Hugh Jackman The Front Runner Gary Hart
Viggo Mortensen Green Book Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga
2019
(9th)
Adam Driver Marriage Story Charlie Barber
Christian Bale Ford v Ferrari Ken Miles
Antonio Banderas Pain and Glory Salvador Mallo
Robert De Niro The Irishman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran
Joaquin Phoenix Joker Arthur Fleck / Joker

2020s

YearActorFilmRole
2020
(10th)
Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Levee Green
Riz Ahmed Sound of Metal Ruben Stone
Adarsh Gourav The White Tiger Balram Halwai
Anthony Hopkins The Father Anthony
Gary Oldman Mank Herman J. Mankiewicz
2021
(11th)
Benedict Cumberbatch The Power of the Dog Phil Burbank
Andrew Garfield tick, tick... BOOM! Jonathan Larson
Caleb Landry Jones Nitram Nitram
Will Smith King Richard Richard Williams
Denzel Washington The Tragedy of Macbeth Lord Macbeth
2022
(12th)
Austin Butler Elvis Elvis Presley
Joel Edgerton The Stranger Mark Frame
Colin Farrell The Banshees of Inisherin Pádraic Súilleabháin
Brendan Fraser The Whale Charlie
Hugh Jackman The Son Peter Miller
2023
(13th)
Cillian Murphy Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bradley Cooper Maestro Leonard Bernstein
Leonardo DiCaprio Killers of the Flower Moon Ernest Burkhart
Andrew Scott All of Us Strangers Adam
Jeffrey Wright American Fiction Thelonious "Monk" Ellison

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">AACTA International Award for Best Direction</span>

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  3. 1 2 "AACTA International Award Nominees" (PDF). Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 15 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.[ dead link ]