Through the Years

Television / Leading Actor

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2026
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Stephen Graham

Adolescence
Leading Actor
2025
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Lennie James

Mr Loverman
Leading Actor
2024
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Timothy Spall

The Sixth Commandment
Leading Actor
2023
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Ben Whishaw

This Is Going to Hurt
Leading Actor
2022
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Sean Bean

Time
Leading Actor
2021
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Paul Mescal

Normal People
Leading Actor
2020
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Jared Harris

Chernobyl
Leading Actor
2019
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Benedict Cumberbatch

Patrick Melrose
Leading Actor

Through The Years

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    Stephen Graham

    Adolescence
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    Colin Firth

    Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
    Leading Actor
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    Ellis Howard

    What It Feels Like for a Girl
    Leading Actor
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    James Nelson-Joyce

    This City Is Ours
    Leading Actor
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    Matt Smith

    The Death of Bunny Munro
    Leading Actor
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    Taron Egerton

    Smoke
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Lennie James

    Mr Loverman
    Leading Actor
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    David Tennant

    Rivals
    Leading Actor
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    Gary Oldman

    Slow Horses
    Leading Actor
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    Martin Freeman

    The Responder
    Leading Actor
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    Richard Gadd

    Baby Reindeer
    Leading Actor
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    Toby Jones

    Mr Bates vs The Post Office
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Timothy Spall

    The Sixth Commandment
    Leading Actor
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    Dominic West

    The Crown
    Leading Actor
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    Kane Robinson

    Top Boy
    Leading Actor
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    Paapa Essiedu

    The Lazarus Project
    Leading Actor
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    Brian Cox

    Succession
    Leading Actor
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    Steve Coogan

    The Reckoning
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Ben Whishaw

    This Is Going to Hurt
    Leading Actor
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    Taron Egerton

    Black Bird
    Leading Actor
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    Cillian Murphy

    Peaky Blinders
    Leading Actor
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    Gary Oldman

    Slow Horses
    Leading Actor
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    Chaske Spencer

    The English
    Leading Actor
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    Martin Freeman

    The Responder
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Sean Bean

    Time
    Leading Actor
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    Stephen Graham

    Help
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Olly Alexander

    It's A Sin
    Leading Actor
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    David Thewlis

    Landscapers
    Leading Actor
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    Hugh Quarshie

    Stephen
    Leading Actor
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    Samuel Adewunmi

    You Don't Know Me
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Paul Mescal

    Normal People
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Paapa Essiedu

    I May Destroy You
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Shaun Parkes

    Small Axe
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Waleed Zuaiter

    Baghdad Central
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    John Boyega

    Small Axe
    Leading Actor
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    Josh O'Connor

    The Crown
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Jared Harris

    Chernobyl
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Callum Turner

    The Capture
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Stephen Graham

    The Virtues
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Takehiro Hira

    Giri/Haji
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Patrick Melrose
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Hugh Grant

    A Very English Scandal
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Lucian Msamati

    Kiri
    Leading Actor
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    Chance Perdomo

    Killed By My Debt
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Sean Bean

    Broken
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Jack Rowan

    Born to Kill
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Joe Cole

    Hang the DJ (Black Mirror)
    Leading Actor
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    Tim Pigott-Smith

    King Charles III
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Adeel Akhtar

    Murdered by My Father
    Leading Actor
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    Babou Ceesay

    Damilola Our Loved Boy
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Benedict Cumberbatch

    The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
    Leading Actor
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    Robbie Coltrane

    National Treasure
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Mark Rylance

    Wolf Hall
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Idris Elba

    Luther
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Stephen Graham

    This is England ’90
    Leading Actor
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    Ben Whishaw

    London Spy
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Jason Watkins

    The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
    Leading Actor
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    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Sherlock
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Toby Jones

    Marvellous
    Leading Actor
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    James Nesbitt

    The Missing
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Ben Whishaw

    Richard II (The Hollow Crown)
    Leading Actor
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    Derek Jacobi

    Last Tango in Halifax
    Leading Actor
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    Sean Bean

    Accused (Tracie’s Story)
    Leading Actor
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    Toby Jones

    The Girl
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Dominic West

    Appropriate Adult
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Sherlock
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Joseph Gilgun

    This is England '88
    Leading Actor
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    John Simm

    Exile
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Daniel Rigby

    Eric And Ernie
    Leading Actor
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    Jim Broadbent

    Any Human Heart
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Sherlock
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Matt Smith

    Doctor Who
    Leading Actor
  • Winner

    Kenneth Branagh

    Wallander
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    Brendan Gleeson

    Into The Storm
    Leading Actor
    Nominee

    John Hurt

    An Englishman In New York
    Leading Actor
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    David Oyelowo

    Small Island
    Leading Actor