First awarded 2002 Instituted 2002 | Country Russia Category of Golden Eagle Award | |
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Awarded for Best Leading Actor of the Year Presented by National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia Currently held by Aleksandr Zbruyev in Film About Alekseyev (2014) Official website Official site of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia People also search for Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actress Winners & Nominees Ivan YankovskyQueen of Spades, Ivan Yankovsky, Winner, Danila KozlovskyFlight Crew, Danila Kozlovsky, Nominee, Pyotr FyodorovThe Duelist, Pyotr Fyodorov, Nominee, Fyodor BondarchukGhost, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Winner, Ivan KolesnikovThe End of a Great Era, Ivan Kolesnikov, Nominee, Yevgeniy TsyganovBattle for Sevastopol, Yevgeniy Tsyganov, Nominee, Aleksandr ZbruyevA Film about Alekseev, Aleksandr Zbruyev, Winner, Maksim MatveyevWeekend, Maksim Matveyev, Nominee, Aleksey SerebryakovLeviathan, Aleksey Serebryakov, Nominee, Konstantin KhabenskyThe Geographer Drank His Globe Away, Konstantin Khabensky, Winner, Sergei PuskepalisMetro, Sergei Puskepalis, Nominee, Oleg MenshikovLegenda No 17, Oleg Menshikov, Nominee, Anatoliy BelyyMetro, Anatoliy Belyy, Nominee, Danila KozlovskyLegenda No 17, Danila Kozlovsky, Nominee, Danila KozlovskySoulless, Danila Kozlovsky, Winner, Maksim SukhanovThe Horde, Maksim Sukhanov, Nominee, Fyodor BondarchukSpy, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Nominee | ||
The Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Russian: Премия «Золотой Орёл» за лучшую мужскую роль в кино) is one of twenty award categories presented annually by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia. It is one of the Golden Eagle Awards, which were conceived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a counterweight to the Nika Award established in 1987 by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences.
Each year the members of the academy choose three leading actors and the film as a perception. The first actor to be awarded was Viktor Bychkov for the film The Cuckoo. The most recent award was made to Aleksandr Zbruyev for Film About Alekseyev. Sergei Garmash is the most successful artists, winning twice out of three nominations. Other noteworthy actors who were nominated at least twice are Fedor Bondarchuk, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Petrenko, Danila Kozlovsky, Vladimir Mashkov, Yevgeny Mironov, Bohdan Stupka, Viktor Sukhorukov and Aleksandr Baluev.