The David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor () is a category in the David di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy's answer to the Oscars".Ariston Anderson, "'Spotlight,' 'Inside Out' Among Nominees for Italian Oscars," The Hollywood Reporter, 22 March 2016, URL accessed 24 July 2016. It was awarded by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of non-Italian film actors during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was created during the second edition of the ceremony, in 1957, and cancelled after the 1996 event.
Winners 1950s 1957 Laurence Olivier - Richard III
1958 Marlon Brando - Sayonara (ex aequo) Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution
1959 Jean Gabin - The Possessors
1960s 1960 Cary Grant - North by Northwest
1961 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
1962 Anthony Perkins - Goodbye Again (ex aequo) Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg
1963 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
1964 Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia (ex aequo) Fredric March - Seven Days in May
1965 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
1966 Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1967 Richard Burton - The Taming of the Shrew (ex aequo) Peter O'Toole - The Night of the Generals
1968 Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde (ex aequo) Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1969 Rod Steiger - The Sergeant
1970s 1970 Peter O'Toole - Goodbye Mr. Chips (ex aequo) Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
1971 Ryan O'Neal - Love Story
1972 Topol - Fiddler on the Roof
1973 Yves Montand - César and Rosalie (ex aequo) Laurence Olivier - Sleuth
1974 Robert Redford - The Sting (ex aequo) Al Pacino - Serpico
1975 Burt Lancaster - Conversation Piece (ex aequo) Jack Lemmon - The Front Page (ex aequo) Walter Matthau - The Front Page
1976 Philippe Noiret - Le Vieux Fusil (ex aequo) Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977 Sylvester Stallone - Rocky (ex aequo) Dustin Hoffman - Marathon Man
1978 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
1979 Richard Gere - Days of Heaven (ex aequo) Michel Serrault - La cage aux folles
1980s 1980 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer (ex aequo) Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome
1981 Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
1982 Klaus Maria Brandauer - Mephisto
1983 Paul Newman - The Verdict
1984 Woody Allen - Zelig
1985 Tom Hulce - Amadeus
1986 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman
1987 Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight
1988 Michael Douglas - Wall Street
1989 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
1990s 1990 Philippe Noiret - Life and Nothing But
1991 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
1992 John Turturro - Barton Fink
1993 Daniel Auteuil - A Heart in Winter
1994 Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day
1995 John Travolta - Pulp Fiction
1996 Harvey Keitel - Smoke
References
External links
David di Donatello official website