Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film.
| SAG Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture | |
|---|---|
 The 2020 recipient: Joaquin Phoenix | |
| Awarded for | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture |
| Location | Los Angeles, California |
| Presented by | SAG-AFTRA |
| First awarded | Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump (1994) |
| Currently held by | Joaquin Phoenix for Joker (2019) |
| Website | sagawards.org |
Winners and nominees
Yellow background indicates the winner.
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | Nominee | Film | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
| Chadwick Boseman (posthumous) | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | |
| Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony | |
| Gary Oldman | Mank | Herman J. Mankiewicz | |
| Steven Yeun | Minari | Jacob Yi |
Superlatives
- * 12 Years a Slave, Affliction, As Good as It Gets, The Birdcage, Birdman, BlacKkKlansman, Captain Phillips, The Contender, Crash, Dallas Buyers Club, Forrest Gump, Foxcatcher, Good Will Hunting, Green Book, The Irishman, Jerry Maguire, The King's Speech, Lincoln, Manchester by the Sea, Moneyball, No Country for Old Men, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Silver Linings Playbook, A Star is Born, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Trivia
On just 5 occasions over the past 23 years did the winner of the SAG Award for Best Leading Actor not win the Academy Award for Best Actor. This happened in:
- 2000: Benicio del Toro (Traffic) won Best Supporting Actor. Russell Crowe (Gladiator) won Best Actor.
- 2001: Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) lost to Denzel Washington (Training Day)
- 2002: Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) lost to Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
- 2003: Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) lost to Sean Penn (Mystic River)
- 2016: Denzel Washington (Fences) lost to Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Multiple winners
- 3 wins
- Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), Lincoln (2012))
Multiple nominees
Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.
- 2 nominations
- Christian Bale (Vice (2018), Ford v Ferrari (2019))
- Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart (2009), True Grit (2010))
- Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Adaptation. (2002))
- Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook (2012), A Star is Born (2018))
- Robert Duvall (The Apostle (1997), Get Low (2010))
- Colin Firth (A Single Man (2009), The King's Speech (2010))
- James Franco (127 Hours (2010), The Disaster Artist (2017))
- Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Invictus (2009))
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (Flawless (1999), Capote (2005))
- Anthony Hopkins (Nixon (1995), The Father (2020))
- Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets (1997), About Schmidt (2002))
- Gary Oldman (The Darkest Hour (2017), Mank (2020))
- Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything (2014), The Danish Girl (2015))
- Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line (2005), Joker (2019))
- Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Moneyball (2011))
- Geoffrey Rush (Shine (1996), Quills (2000))
- Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland (2006), The Butler (2013))
- 3 nominations
- George Clooney (Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air (2009), The Descendants (2011))
- Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), Lincoln (2012))
- Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Finding Neverland (2004), Black Mass (2015))
- Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson (2006), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), La La Land (2016))
- Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises (2007), Captain Fantastic (2016), Green Book (2018))
- 4 nominations
- Russell Crowe (The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005))
- Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump (1994), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Cast Away (2000), Captain Phillips (2013))
- Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking (1995), I Am Sam (2001), Mystic River (2003), Milk (2008))
- 5 nominations
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), J. Edgar (2011), The Revenant (2015), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019))
- Denzel Washington (The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), Flight (2012), Fences (2016), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017))
See also
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