The Silver Shell for Best Actor (
Spanish: Concha de Plata a la Mejor Interpretacion Masculina;
Basque: Aktore onenaren Zilarrezko Maskorra) was one of the main awards presented at the
San Sebastián International Film Festival to the
Best Actor of a competing film.[1] The last of this award was given out in 2020, after which it was replaced with a gender-neutral
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance and Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance the following year.[2]