Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor

Best Actor Award
Prix d'interprétation masculine (French)
2025 recipient: Wagner Moura
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor
Presented by	Cannes Film Festival
First award	1946
Currently held by	Wagner Moura The Secret Agent (2025)
Website	www.festival-cannes.com/en/

The Best Actor Award (French: Prix d'interprétation masculine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946. It is given to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance and chosen by the jury from the films in official competition slate at the festival.

At the 1st Cannes Film Festival held in 1946, Ray Milland was the first winner of this award for his performance in The Lost Weekend, and Wagner Moura is the most recent winner in this category for his role in The Secret Agent at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in 2025.