German Film Award / Best Male Leading Role

Daniel Brühl

Winner of the German Film Award in the category Best Male Leading Role (formerly: Best Acting Achievement - Male Leading Role ). From the end of the 1960s / beginning of the 1970s to 1996, the category was replaced by a prize for “ Best Acting Achievement ”, without any division into leading or supporting roles. Since 1997, the awards for actors have again been awarded separately for main and supporting roles. The winners have been honored with the "Lola" prize statuette since 1999 and receive prize money of 10,000 euros . The gold film tape had previously been awarded.

The most successful in this category were Daniel Brühl , OW Fischer and Heinz Rühmann , who each won the prize twice. Ulrich Noethen , August Diehl , Jürgen Vogel and Josef Bierbichler have received the most nominations since the nomination mode was introduced for this category in 1997 (three each, including one victory each). In 2020 Albrecht Schuch was awarded both the best leading and best supporting actor of the year.

Laureate from 1954–1970

year	Award winners	Movie title
1954	René Deltgen	Path without turning back
1955	OW fisherman	Ludwig II.
1956	Wolfgang Preiss	July 20th
1957	Heinz Rühmann	The captain of Koepenick
1958	Hannes Messemer	At night when the devil came
1959	OW fisherman	Heroes
1960	Walter Giller	Roses for the prosecutor
1961	Heinz Rühmann	The black sheep
1962	Richard Münch	The miracle of Malachia
1965	Wolfgang Kieling	Davidswache police station
1967	Hans-Dieter Schwarze	Every year again
1968	Alexander May	tattoo
1969	Prize not awarded
1970	Klaus Löwitsch	Girl with violence