diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/helpers.py b/django/contrib/admin/helpers.py
index 3ffb85e6c63..b6d5bde932d 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/helpers.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/helpers.py
@@ -125,14 +125,16 @@ class AdminField(object):
         contents = conditional_escape(force_text(self.field.label))
         if self.is_checkbox:
             classes.append('vCheckboxLabel')
-        else:
-            contents += ':'
+
         if self.field.field.required:
             classes.append('required')
         if not self.is_first:
             classes.append('inline')
         attrs = {'class': ' '.join(classes)} if classes else {}
-        return self.field.label_tag(contents=mark_safe(contents), attrs=attrs)
+        # checkboxes should not have a label suffix as the checkbox appears
+        # to the left of the label.
+        return self.field.label_tag(contents=mark_safe(contents), attrs=attrs,
+                                    label_suffix='' if self.is_checkbox else None)
 
     def errors(self):
         return mark_safe(self.field.errors.as_ul())
diff --git a/django/forms/forms.py b/django/forms/forms.py
index e144eb60f84..ad5daf44162 100644
--- a/django/forms/forms.py
+++ b/django/forms/forms.py
@@ -509,20 +509,23 @@ class BoundField(object):
             )
         return self.field.prepare_value(data)
 
-    def label_tag(self, contents=None, attrs=None):
+    def label_tag(self, contents=None, attrs=None, label_suffix=None):
         """
         Wraps the given contents in a <label>, if the field has an ID attribute.
         contents should be 'mark_safe'd to avoid HTML escaping. If contents
         aren't given, uses the field's HTML-escaped label.
 
         If attrs are given, they're used as HTML attributes on the <label> tag.
+
+        label_suffix allows overriding the form's label_suffix.
         """
         contents = contents or self.label
         # Only add the suffix if the label does not end in punctuation.
         # Translators: If found as last label character, these punctuation
         # characters will prevent the default label_suffix to be appended to the label
-        if self.form.label_suffix and contents and contents[-1] not in _(':?.!'):
-            contents = format_html('{0}{1}', contents, self.form.label_suffix)
+        label_suffix = label_suffix if label_suffix is not None else self.form.label_suffix
+        if label_suffix and contents and contents[-1] not in _(':?.!'):
+            contents = format_html('{0}{1}', contents, label_suffix)
         widget = self.field.widget
         id_ = widget.attrs.get('id') or self.auto_id
         if id_:
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/api.txt b/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
index 7c1601d3ea4..780cb5d4f71 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
@@ -527,6 +527,11 @@ Note that the label suffix is added only if the last character of the
 label isn't a punctuation character (in English, those are ``.``, ``!``, ``?``
 or ``:``).
 
+.. versionadded:: 1.6
+
+You can also customize the ``label_suffix`` on a per-field basis using the
+``label_suffix`` parameter to :meth:`~django.forms.BoundField.label_tag`.
+
 Notes on field ordering
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -653,7 +658,7 @@ when printed::
     >>> str(f['subject'].errors)
     ''
 
-.. method:: BoundField.label_tag(contents=None, attrs=None)
+.. method:: BoundField.label_tag(contents=None, attrs=None, label_suffix=None)
 
 To separately render the label tag of a form field, you can call its
 ``label_tag`` method::
@@ -671,6 +676,14 @@ additional attributes for the ``<label>`` tag.
     The label now includes the form's :attr:`~django.forms.Form.label_suffix`
     (a colon, by default).
 
+.. versionadded:: 1.6
+
+    The optional ``label_suffix`` parameter allows you to override the form's
+    :attr:`~django.forms.Form.label_suffix`. For example, you can use an empty
+    string to hide the label on selected fields. If you need to do this in a
+    template, you could write a custom filter to allow passing parameters to
+    ``label_tag``.
+
 .. method:: BoundField.css_classes()
 
 When you use Django's rendering shortcuts, CSS classes are used to
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.6.txt b/docs/releases/1.6.txt
index 73b48edc859..355b1070467 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.6.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.6.txt
@@ -664,7 +664,9 @@ will render something like:
     <label for="id_my_field">My Field:</label> <input id="id_my_field" type="text" name="my_field" />
 
 If you want to keep the current behavior of rendering ``label_tag`` without
-the ``label_suffix``, instantiate the form ``label_suffix=''``.
+the ``label_suffix``, instantiate the form ``label_suffix=''``. You can also
+customize the ``label_suffix`` on a per-field basis using the new
+``label_suffix`` parameter on :meth:`~django.forms.BoundField.label_tag`.
 
 Admin views ``_changelist_filters`` GET parameter
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/tests/admin_util/tests.py b/tests/admin_util/tests.py
index 637f6432619..4a9a203f503 100644
--- a/tests/admin_util/tests.py
+++ b/tests/admin_util/tests.py
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ class UtilTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertHTMLEqual(helpers.AdminField(form, 'text', is_first=False).label_tag(),
                              '<label for="id_text" class="required inline"><i>text</i>:</label>')
         self.assertHTMLEqual(helpers.AdminField(form, 'cb', is_first=False).label_tag(),
-                             '<label for="id_cb" class="vCheckboxLabel required inline"><i>cb</i>:</label>')
+                             '<label for="id_cb" class="vCheckboxLabel required inline"><i>cb</i></label>')
 
         # normal strings needs to be escaped
         class MyForm(forms.Form):
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ class UtilTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertHTMLEqual(helpers.AdminField(form, 'text', is_first=False).label_tag(),
                              '<label for="id_text" class="required inline">&amp;text:</label>')
         self.assertHTMLEqual(helpers.AdminField(form, 'cb', is_first=False).label_tag(),
-                             '<label for="id_cb" class="vCheckboxLabel required inline">&amp;cb:</label>')
+                             '<label for="id_cb" class="vCheckboxLabel required inline">&amp;cb</label>')
 
     def test_flatten_fieldsets(self):
         """
diff --git a/tests/forms_tests/tests/test_forms.py b/tests/forms_tests/tests/test_forms.py
index 633fde5026a..c77181273c0 100644
--- a/tests/forms_tests/tests/test_forms.py
+++ b/tests/forms_tests/tests/test_forms.py
@@ -1870,3 +1870,13 @@ class FormsTestCase(TestCase):
         boundfield = SomeForm()['field']
 
         self.assertHTMLEqual(boundfield.label_tag(), '<label for="id_field"></label>')
+
+    def test_label_tag_override(self):
+        """
+        BoundField label_suffix (if provided) overrides Form label_suffix
+        """
+        class SomeForm(Form):
+            field = CharField()
+        boundfield = SomeForm(label_suffix='!')['field']
+
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(boundfield.label_tag(label_suffix='$'), '<label for="id_field">Field$</label>')