BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1956

Nominations

Winner	Gervaise	François Périer
Winner	A Town Like Alice	Peter Finch
	The Unfrocked One	Pierre Fresnay
	The Man with the Golden Arm	Frank Sinatra
	Reach for the Sky	Kenneth More
	Rebel Without a Cause	James Dean
	Smiles of a Summer Night	Gunnar Björnstrand
	The Long Arm	Jack Hawkins
	Picnic	William Holden
	The Mountain	Spencer Tracy
	Baby Doll	Karl Malden