Volpi Cup for Best Actor
The "Volpi Cup" for Best Actor is an award given out at the Venice Film Festival to the best actor.
A list of best actresses can also be viewed at Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
List of Award Winners
- 1932 – not awarded
- 1934 – Wallace Berry for "Viva Villa!"
- 1935 – Pierre Blanchar for "Crime et châtiment"(Crime and Punishment)
- 1936 – Paul Muni for "The Story of Louis Pasteur"
- 1937 – Emil Jannings for "Der Herrscher" (The Ruler)
- 1938 – Leslie Howard for "Pygmalion"
- 1940 – not awarded
- 1941 – Ermete Zacconi for "Don Buonaparte"
- 1942 – Fosco Giachetti for "Bengasi"
- 1946 – not awarded
- 1947 – Pierre Fresnay for "Monsieur Vincent"
- 1948 – Jernst Deutsch for "Der Prozeß" (The Trial)
- 1949 – Josef Cotten for "Portrait of Jennie"
- 1950 – Sam Jaffe for "The Asphalt Jungle"
- 1951 – Jean Gabin for "La nuit est mon royaume"(The Night Is My Kingdom)
- 1952 – Friedrich March for "Death of a Salesman"
- 1953 – Henri Vilbert for "Le bon Dieu sans confession"(Good Lord Without Confession)
- 1954 – Jean Gabin for "L’air de Paris" (Air of Paris) and "Touchez pas au Grisbi"(Grisbi)
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1955 –
- Kenneth More for "The Deep Blue Sea"
- Curd Jürgens for "Les héros sont fatigués"(Heroes and Sinners) or (The Heroes Are Tired)
- 1956 – Bourvil for "La Traversée de Paris" (Four Bags Full) or (Pigs Across Paris)
- 1957 – Anthony Franciosa for "A Hatful of Rain"
- 1958 – Alec Guinnes for "The Horse’s Mouth"
- 1959 – James Stewart for "Anatomy of a Murder"
- 1960 – John Mills for "Tunes of Glory"
- 1961 – Toshirô Mifune for "Yoyimbo" (The Bodyguard)
- 1962 – Burt Lancaster for "Birdman of Alcatraz"
- 1963 – Albert Finney for "Tom Jones"
- 1964 – Tom Courtenay for "King and Country"
- 1965 – Toshirô Mifune for "Akahige" (Red Beard)
- 1966 – Jacques Perrin for "Un uomo a metà" (Half a Man)
- 1967 – Ljubisa Samardzic for "Jutro" (The Morning)
- 1968 – John Marley for "Faces"
- 1980 – not awarded
- 1981 – not awarded
- 1982 – not awarded
- 1983 – Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier, Guy Boyd and George Dundza for"Streamers"
- 1984 – Nasceruddin Shah for "Paar" (The Crossing)
- 1985 – Gérard Depardieu for "Police"
- 1986 – Carlo delle Piane for "Regalo di Natale"(Christmas Present)
- 1987 – James Wilby and Hugh Grant for "Maurice"
- 1988 – Don Ameche and Joe Mantegna for "Things Change"
- 1989 – Marcello Mastroianni and Massimo Troisi for "Che ora è?" (What Time Is It?)
- 1990 – Oleg Borisov for "Edinstvenijat Svidetel"(The Only Witness)
- 1991 – River Phoenix for "My Own Private Idaho"
- 1992 – Jack Lemmon for "Glengarry Glen Ross"
- 1993 – Fabrizio Bentivoglio for "Un’anima divisa in due" (A Soul Split in Two)
- 1994 – Xia Yu for "Yangguang Canlan de Rizi" (In the Heat of the Sun)
- 1995 – Götz George for "Der Totmacher"(Deathmaker)
- 1996 – Liam Neeson for "Michael Collins"
- 1997 – Wesley Snipes for "One Night Stand"
- 1998 – Sean Penn for "Hurlyburly"
- 1999 – Jim Broadbent for "Topsy-Turvy"
- 2000 – Javier Bardem for "Before Night Falls"
- 2001 – Luigi Lo Cascio for "Luce dei miei occhi"(Light of My Eyes)
- 2002 – Stefano Accorsi for "Un viaggio chiamato amore"(A Journey Called Love)
- 2003 – Sean Penn for "21 grams"
- 2004 – Javier Bardem for "Mar adentro" (The Sea Within)
- 2005 – David Strathairn for "Good Night, and Good Luck."
- 2006 – Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
- 2007 – Brad Pitt for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- 2008 – Silvio Orlando for Il papà di Giovanna (Giovanna’s father)
- 2009 – Colin Firth for A Single Man
- 2010 – Vincent Gallo for Essential Killing
- 2011 – Michael Fassbender for Shame
- 2012 – Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
