Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
The Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild. It has been presented since the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995 to a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
The award has been presented 30 times, and 28 actors have won the award. Tom Hanks was the award's first winner for Forrest Gump. The most recent winner is Timothée Chalamet who won for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. Daniel Day-Lewis has won the award three times; no other actor has won it more than once. Denzel Washington and Leonardo DiCaprio have the most nominations with six. Chalamet and Washington are the youngest and oldest winners of this category, respectively.
Winners and nominees
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Multiple winners
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- Christian Bale, Ford v Ferrari )
- Jeff Bridges, True Grit )
- Adrien Brody, The Brutalist )
- Nicolas Cage, Adaptation. )
- Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog )
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing )
- Robert Duvall, Get Low )
- Ralph Fiennes, Conclave )
- Colin Firth, The King's Speech )
- James Franco, The Disaster Artist )
- Morgan Freeman, Invictus )
- Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick... Boom! )
- Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers )
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote )
- Anthony Hopkins, The Father )
- Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt )
- Gary Oldman, Mank )
- Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl )
- Joaquin Phoenix, Joker )
- Brad Pitt, Moneyball )
- Geoffrey Rush, Quills )
- Will Smith, King Richard )
- Forest Whitaker, The Butler )
- Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown, Marty Supreme )
- George Clooney, Up in the Air, The Descendants )
- Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born, Maestro )
- Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln )
- Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland, Black Mass )
- Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl, La La Land )
- Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic, Green Book )
- Russell Crowe, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man )
- Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Captain Phillips )
- Sean Penn, I Am Sam, Mystic River, Milk )
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond, J. Edgar, The Revenant, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, One Battle After Another )
- Denzel Washington, Training Day, Flight, Fences, Roman J. Israel, Esq., The Tragedy of Macbeth )