Étoile de Cristal / Best Foreign Actor

Étoile de Cristal : Best Foreign Actor

Winner of the Actor Award which, from 1955 to 1975, chose the best foreign actor in a foreign film production released in France during the calendar year. The set of rules protected against an actor being awarded more than once. The Étoile de Cristal is considered to be the forerunner of the national César film award , which was established in 1976 and does not award foreign actors in foreign film productions.

year	Award winners	Movie title	German distribution title
1955	Franco Fabrizi	I Vitelloni	Vitelloni (The Idlers)
1956	James Dean	Rebel Without a Cause	... because they don't know what they're doing
1957	Henry Fonda	War and Peace	war and peace
1958	Åke Grönberg	Gycklarnas afton	Evening of jugglers
1959	Montgomery Clift	The Young Lions	The young lions
1960	Hannes Messemer	Il generale della Rovere	The wrong general
1961	Anthony Perkins	Psycho	Psycho
1962	Albert Finney	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Saturday night to Sunday morning
1963	Terence Stamp	Billy Budd	The damned of the seas
1964	Burt Lancaster	Il gattopardo	The leopard
1965	Peter O'Toole	Becket	Becket
1966	Oskar Werner	Ship of Fools	The Ship of Fools
1967	Tom Courtenay	Billy Liar	Beloved weirdo
1968	Sidney Poitier	In the heat of the night	In the Heat of the Night
1969	Dustin Hoffman	The Graduate	The matriculation examination
1970	Dennis Hopper	Easy rider	Easy rider
1971	Donald Sutherland	MASH	MASH
1972	Peter Finch	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Sunday, Bloody Sunday
1973	Bud Cort	Harold and Maude	Harold and Maude
1974	Paul Newman Robert Redford	The sting	The highlight
1975	Al Pacino	Dog Day Afternoon	Dog days