Screen Actors Guild Awards, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture

2026

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

Jesse Plemons / Bugonia

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

2025

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Daniel Craig / Queer

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Colman Domingo / Sing Sing

2024

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Colman Domingo / Rustin

2023

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Bill Nighy / Living

Austin Butler / Elvis

Adam Sandler / Hustle

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

2022

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

2021

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Steven Yeun / Minari

Gary Oldman / Mank

2020

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Taron Egerton / Rocketman

Leonardo DiCaprio / Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Christian Bale / Ford v Ferrari

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

2019

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

John David Washington / BlacKkKlansman

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

Bradley Cooper / A Star Is Born

2018

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

2017

Denzel Washington / Fences

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

2016

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

2015

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Michael Keaton / Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

2014

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Forest Whitaker / The Butler

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

2013

John Hawkes / The Sessions

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

2012

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

2011

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

2010

Jeff Bridges / Crazy Heart

Colin Firth / A Single Man

2009

Sean Penn / Milk

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Richard Jenkins / The Visitor

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

Emile Hirsch / Into the Wild

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

2007

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

2006

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

2005

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Jamie Foxx / Ray

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

2004

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

Johnny Depp / Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

Peter Dinklage / The Station Agent

2003

Daniel Day-Lewis / Gangs of New York

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

Richard Gere / Chicago

2002

Russell Crowe / A Beautiful Mind

Kevin Kline / Life as a House

2001

Benicio Del Toro / Traffic

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

2000

Kevin Spacey / American Beauty

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Flawless

1999

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

Joseph Fiennes / Shakespeare in Love

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

1998

Jack Nicholson / As Good as It Gets

1997

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

Geoffrey Rush / Shine

1996

Nicolas Cage / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Paul Newman / Nobody's Fool

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

John Travolta / Pulp Fiction

Tim Robbins / The Shawshank Redemption

Morgan Freeman / The Shawshank Redemption

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