The Nigar Award for Best Actor, also known as Nigar Public Film Award for Best Actor is an award constituted for the cinema of Pakistan to recognise contribution of a lead actor in Lollywood.
[1] Established in 1958 by Ilyas Rashidi, it is presented annually by Nigar magazine as part of its annual ceremony of Nigar Awards.
[2] The award ceremony takes place independently and is not associated with any government or for-profit entities such as production house or television channel.
[3] The first Best Actor award ceremony took place in 1957 and was given to Santosh Kumar for Waada (1957).
[4] The last award was given to Fahad Mustafa in 2017 for Actor in Law.