David di Donatello for Best Actor

The David di Donatello Award for Best Actor (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior attore protagonista) is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize the outstanding performance in a leading role of a male actor in an Italian film released during the year preceding the ceremony.

[2] Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi are the record holders in this category with seven awards each, followed by Marcello Mastroianni with five.

[2][3] Nominees and winners are selected via runoff voting by all the members of the Accademia.

[4][5] Below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by other nominees.

The following individuals have received three or more Best Actor nominations (* indicates no wins):

Vittorio De Sica was the first winner in the category for his role in Scandal in Sorrento (1955).
Vittorio Gassman (right) is one of the only two actors to win the award seven times, from The Great War (1959) to The Family (1987).
Alberto Sordi won the award seven times out of eight nominations, one of the only two actors to achieve so, winning for his roles in films from The Great War (1959) to An Average Little Man (1977).
Marcello Mastroianni won the award five times out of six nominations, the first time for his multiple roles in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963).
Ugo Tognazzi won the award three times, for his roles in L'immorale (1967), La califfa (1970), and My Friends (1975).
Nino Manfredi won the award four times from 1969 to 1978, for his roles in I See Naked (1968), The Conspirators (1969), Bread and Chocolate (1973) and In the Name of the Pope King (1977).
Gian Maria Volonté won twice for his roles in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and Open Doors (1990), being nominated four times.
Giancarlo Giannini won the award four times out of seven nominations, from 1971 for The Seduction of Mimi to 2001 for I Love You Eugenio .
Singer and entertainer Adriano Celentano won twice from 1976 to 1980.
Francesco Nuti won twice for the same role, in The Pool Hustlers (1982) and Casablanca, Casablanca (1985).
Roberto Benigni won the award for his roles in The Little Devil (1989) and Life Is Beautiful (1997), which also earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor .
Nanni Moretti won only once out of eight nominations, for his role in The Yes Man (1991).
Sergio Castellitto won the award twice for his roles in The Great Pumpkin (1992) and Don't Move (2004), being nominated six times.
Fabrizio Bentivoglio won only once out of six nominations, for his role in An Eyewitness Account (1996).
Bruno Ganz won the award in 2000 for his role in Bread and Tulips , the first foreign actor to achieve so.
Toni Servillo won the award four times out of eight nominations, for The Consequences of Love (2004), The Girl by the Lake (2007), Il Divo (2008), and The Great Beauty (2013).
Silvio Orlando won in 2006 his role in The Caiman after seven nominations.
Elio Germano won the award three times out of four nominations, for his roles in My Brother is an Only Child (2007), La nostra vita (2010) and Leopardi (2014).
Valerio Mastandrea won the award twice, for The First Beautiful Thing (2010) and Balancing Act (2014), being nominated seven times.
Both Vittorio Gassman (left) and Alberto Sordi (right), here pictured on the set of The Great War (1959), won the award seven times, more than everyone else.
Toni Servillo has been nominated eleven times, more than everyone else.