Locarno Film Festival / Leopard - Best Actor

2006 award winner: German actor Burghart Klaußner

The leopard for the best actor ( Italian Pardo per il migliore attore ) honors the best acting performance of a leading or supporting actor in a competition film at the Locarno Film Festival, which is held annually . Such an award was first presented at the eleventh edition of the festival in 1958. The competition jury, which is mostly composed of international filmmakers, votes on the award of the prize, which has been presented to the winner in the form of a silver leopard statuette since 2006.

Award winners

German film actors were most frequently awarded the actor's prize (five wins), followed by their colleagues from France and the USA (three each). So far, no actor has won the award more than once. Likewise, the victory of a Swiss actor has not yet been achieved.

year	Award winners	Movie title	German title
1958 ¹	Shan Kwan	Ah Q zheng zhuan	not known
1959	Ernest Borgnine	The Rabbit Trap	The rabbit trap
1960 ¹	Johnny Nash	Take a giant step	Jump over your shadow
1961-1963	Prize not awarded
1964 ¹	Gene Kelly	What a way to go!	Always with someone else
1965-1976	Prize not awarded
1977²	József Madaras	Pókfoci	Spider soccer
1978-1988	Prize not awarded
1989²	Adam Kamien	Cornflower blue	Cornflower blue
1990-1992	Prize not awarded
1993²	André Eisermann	Kaspar Hauser	Kaspar Hauser
1994	Prize not awarded
1995²	Samy Naceri	Rai	not known
1996²	Grégoire Colin	Nénette et Bonuses	Nénette and bonuses
1997²	Valerio Mastandrea	Tutti giù per terra	Lead on the wings
1998²	Mehmet Kurtuluş Aleksandar Jovanovic Adam Bousdoukos	Short and painless	Short and painless
1999²	Serge Riaboukine	Peau d'homme coeur de bete	Silent screams
2000 ³	Roland Düringer Josef Hader Joachim Bißmeier	The raid	The raid
2001 ³	Andoni Gracia	Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli	not known
2002 ³	Yorgos Karayannis	Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou	Hard Goodbyes: My Father
2003 ³	Serban Ionescu	Maria	Maria
2004 ³	Mohammad Bakri	Private	Private
2005 ³	Patrick Drolet	La Neuvaine	La Neuvaine
2006	Burghart Klaussner	The man from the embassy	The man from the embassy
2007	Michel Piccoli	Sous les toits de Paris	Sous les toits de Paris
	Michele Venitucci	Fuori dalle corde	Out of Bounds - Last Hope Street Fighters
2008	Tayanç Ayaydin	Pazar - Bir ticaret masali	Pazar - The Market
2009	Antonis Kafetzopoulos	Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος (Akadimia Platonos)	Little miracles in Athens
2010	Emmanuel Bilodeau	Curling	Curling
2011	Bogdan Dumitrache	Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intentii	not known
2012	Walter Saabel	The shine of the day	The shine of the day
2013	Fernando Bacilio	El mudo	not known
2014	Artyom Bystrov	Durak	Durak - the honest idiot
2015	Jung Jae-young	지금 은 맞고 그때 는 틀리다 (Jigeumeun matgo geuttaeneun teullida)	Right Now, Wrong Then
2016	Andrzej Seweryn	Ostatnia rodzina	not known
2017	Elliott Crosset Hove	Vinterbrødre	Winter brothers
2018	Ki Joo Bong	Gangbyun Hotel / Hotel by the River	The hotel on the river
2019	Regis Myrupu	A February	not known

¹ = 1958, 1960 and 1964 the best actor was honored with the film award Silver Sail .
² = Between 1977 and 1999 the competition jury awarded the actor's prize as a special prize.
³ = Between 2000 and 2005 the best actor was awarded a bronze leopard .