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

2026

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

Jesse Plemons / Bugonia

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

2025

Daniel Craig / Queer

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo / Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

2024

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Colman Domingo / Rustin

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

2023

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Austin Butler / Elvis

Adam Sandler / Hustle

Bill Nighy / Living

2022

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

2021

Gary Oldman / Mank

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Steven Yeun / Minari

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

2020

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

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Taron Egerton / Rocketman

Christian Bale / Ford v Ferrari

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

2019

Bradley Cooper / A Star Is Born

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

John David Washington / BlacKkKlansman

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

2017

Denzel Washington / Fences

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

2016

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

2015

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

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

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

2014

Forest Whitaker / The Butler

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

2013

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

John Hawkes / The Sessions

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

2012

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

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

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

Emile Hirsch / Into the Wild

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

2007

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

2006

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

Jamie Foxx / Ray

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

2004

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

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

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

Peter Dinklage / The Station Agent

2003

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

Daniel Day-Lewis / Gangs of New York

Richard Gere / Chicago

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

2002

Kevin Kline / Life as a House

Russell Crowe / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Benicio Del Toro / Traffic

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

2000

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Flawless

Kevin Spacey / American Beauty

1999

Joseph Fiennes / Shakespeare in Love

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

1998

Jack Nicholson / As Good as It Gets

1997

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

Geoffrey Rush / Shine

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

1996

Nicolas Cage / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

Paul Newman / Nobody's Fool

John Travolta / Pulp Fiction

Tim Robbins / The Shawshank Redemption

Morgan Freeman / The Shawshank Redemption

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