César Award for Best Actor

César Award for Best Actor
2026 recipient: Laurent Lafitte
Awarded forBest Actor in a Leading Role
CountryFrance
Presented byAcadémie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma
First award1976
Currently held byLaurent Lafitte for The Richest Woman in the World (2026)
Websiteacademie-cinema.org

The César Award for Best Actor (French: César de la meilleure acteur) is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding performance in a leading role of an actor who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie.