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

2026

Jesse Plemons / Bugonia

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

2025

Colman Domingo / Sing Sing

Daniel Craig / Queer

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

2024

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Colman Domingo / Rustin

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

2023

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Austin Butler / Elvis

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Bill Nighy / Living

Adam Sandler / Hustle

2022

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

Steven Yeun / Minari

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Gary Oldman / Mank

2020

Taron Egerton / Rocketman

Christian Bale / Ford v Ferrari

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

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

2019

Bradley Cooper / A Star Is Born

John David Washington / BlacKkKlansman

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

2017

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

Denzel Washington / Fences

2016

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

2015

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

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

2014

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

Forest Whitaker / The Butler

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

2013

John Hawkes / The Sessions

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

2012

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

2011

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

2010

Colin Firth / A Single Man

Jeff Bridges / Crazy Heart

2009

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sean Penn / Milk

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Richard Jenkins / The Visitor

2008

Emile Hirsch / Into the Wild

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

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

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Jamie Foxx / Ray

2004

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

Peter Dinklage / The Station Agent

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

2003

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

Daniel Day-Lewis / Gangs of New York

Richard Gere / Chicago

2002

Kevin Kline / Life as a House

Russell Crowe / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

Benicio Del Toro / Traffic

2000

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Flawless

Kevin Spacey / American Beauty

1999

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

Joseph Fiennes / Shakespeare in Love

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

1998

Jack Nicholson / As Good as It Gets

1997

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

Geoffrey Rush / Shine

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

1996

Nicolas Cage / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

Tim Robbins / The Shawshank Redemption

Morgan Freeman / The Shawshank Redemption

John Travolta / Pulp Fiction

Paul Newman / Nobody's Fool

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