Silver Shell for Best Actor

{{Short description|San Sebastián International Film Festival Award}}

The Silver Shell for Best Actor (Spanish: Concha de Plata a la Mejor Interpretacion Masculina; Basque: Aktore onenaren Zilarrezko Maskorra) was one of the main awards presented at the San Sebastián International Film Festival to the Best Actor of a competing film.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com:443/1953/awards_and_jury_members/awards/1/46/in|title=San Sebastian Film Festival|website=sansebastianfestival|access-date=2019-10-02}} The last of this award was given out in 2020, after which it was replaced with a gender-neutral Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance and Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance the following year.{{Cite web|author=Tom Grater|url=https://deadline.com/2021/06/san-sebastian-festival-introduce-gender-neutral-acting-awards-1234779245/|title=San Sebastian Becomes Latest Festival To Introduce Gender Neutral Acting Awards|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=22 June 2021 |access-date=2021-06-22}}

Award winners

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!Year

!Actor(s)

!Film Title

1953

|Francisco Rabal

|There's a Road on the Right

1954

|Enrique Alvarez Diosdado

|Viento del norte

rowspan="2" |1956

|Otto Eduard Hasse

|Canaris (Foreign Film)

Alberto Closas

|We're All Necessary (Spanish Film)

1957

|Charles Vanel

|Burning Fuse

rowspan="2" |1958

|Kirk Douglas

|The Vikings

James Stewart

|Vertigo

1959

|Adolfo Marsillach

|Salto a la Gloria (Leap to Fame)

rowspan="5" |1960

|Richard Attenborough

| rowspan="5" |League of Gentleman

Jack Hawkins
Bryan Forbes
Roger Livesey
Nigel Patrick
1961

|Gert Fröbe

|{{ill|Crook and the Cross|de|Der Gauner und der liebe Gott}}

1962

|Peter Sellers

|The Waltz of the Toreadors

1963

|Jack Lemmon

|Days of Wine and Roses

rowspan="2" |1964

|Richard Attenborough

|Séance on a Wet Afternoon

Maurice Biraud

|Les Aventures de Salavin

1965

|Marcello Mastroianni

|Casanova 70

1966

|Frank Finlay

|Othello

rowspan="2" |1967

|John Mills

|The Family Way

Maurice Ronet

|Le Scandale

rowspan="2" |1968

|Sidney Poitier

|For Love of Ivy

Claude Rich

|Je t’aime, je t’aime

1969

|Nicol Williamson

|Laughter in the Dark

rowspan="2" |1970

|Innokenti Smoktounovsky

|Tchaikovsky

Zoltán Latinovits

|Utazás a koponyám körül

1971

|Vittorio Gassman

|Brancaleone at the Crusades

rowspan="2" |1972

|Fernando Rey

|La duda

Topol

|Follow Me!

rowspan="2" |1973

|Lino Ventura

|La bonne année

Giancarlo Giannini

|Sono stato io

1974

|Martin Sheen

|Badlands

1975

|Al Pacino

|Dog Day Afternoon

1976

|Zdzislaw Kozien

|Skazany

1977

|Héctor Alterio

|A un dios desconocido

1978

|José Sacristán

|Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño

1979

|Nelson Villagra

|Prisioneros desaparecidos

1985

|Piotr Siwkiewicz

|Yesterday

1986

|Imanol Arias

|El Lute (camina o revienta)

rowspan="2" |1987

|Fernando Rey

|Winter Diary

Francisco Regueiro

|El aire de un crimen

rowspan="2" |1988

|Andy Bausch

|A Wopbopaloobop A Lopbamboom

Felipe Vega

|El mejor de los tiempos

1989

|Ari Bery

|Tusztorténet

1990

|Mulie Jarju

|Letters from Alou

1991

|Silu Seppälä

|Zombie and the Ghost Train

1992

|Roberto Sosa

|Highway Patrolman

1993

|Juan Echanove

|Madregilda

rowspan="2" |1994

|Javier Bardem

|Días contados

Imanol Uribe

|El detective y la muerte

1995

|Nicolas Cage

|Leaving Las Vegas

1996

|Michael Caine

|Blood and Wine

1997

|Federico Luppi

|Martín (Hache)

1998

|Ian McKellen

|Gods and Monsters

1999

|Jacques Dufilho

|C'est quoi la vie?

2000

|Gianfranco Brero

|Tinta Roja

2001

|Düzgün Ayhan

|Escape to Paradise

2002

|Liu Peiqi

|Han Ni Zai Yiki

2003

|Luis Tosar

|Te Doy Mis Ojos

2004

|Ulrich Thomsen

|Brødre

2005

|Juan José Ballesta

|7 vírgenes

2006

|Juan Diego

|Vete de mí

2007

|Henry O.

|A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

2008

|Oscar Martínez

|El nido vacío

2009

|Pablo Pineda

|Yo, también

2010

|Connor McCarron

|Neds

2011

|Antonis Kafetzopoulos

|Unfair World

2012

|José Sacristán

|The Dead Man and Being Happy

2013

|Jim Broadbent

|Le Week-End

2014

|Javier Gutiérrez

|Marshland

rowspan="2" |2015

|Ricardo Darin

| rowspan="2" |Truman

Javier Cámara
2016

|Eduard Fernández

|Smoke & Mirrors

2017

|{{ill|Bogdan Dumitrache|ro}}

|Pororoca

2018

|Darío Grandinetti

|Rojo

2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/|title=San Sebastian Film Festival ::|date=2019-09-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903025945/https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/|access-date=2019-10-05|archive-date=2019-09-03}}

|Bukassa Kabengele

|Pacified

rowspan="4" |2020{{Cite web|url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2020/awards_and_jury_members/1/8731/in|title=Official Awards - FIAPF|date=2020-09-26|access-date=2020-09-26}}

|Mads Mikkelsen

| rowspan="4" |Another Round

Thomas Bo Larsen
Magnus Millang
Lars Ranthe

See also

References