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

2026

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Jesse Plemons / Bugonia

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

2025

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Colman Domingo / Sing Sing

Daniel Craig / Queer

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

2024

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Colman Domingo / Rustin

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

2023

Austin Butler / Elvis

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Bill Nighy / Living

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Adam Sandler / Hustle

2022

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

2021

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Steven Yeun / Minari

Gary Oldman / Mank

2020

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Taron Egerton / Rocketman

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Christian Bale / Ford v Ferrari

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

2019

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

John David Washington / BlacKkKlansman

Bradley Cooper / A Star Is Born

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

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

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

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

2014

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

Forest Whitaker / The Butler

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

2013

John Hawkes / The Sessions

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

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

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Richard Jenkins / The Visitor

2008

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

Emile Hirsch / Into the Wild

2007

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

2006

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Jamie Foxx / Ray

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

2004

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

Peter Dinklage / The Station Agent

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

2003

Daniel Day-Lewis / Gangs of New York

Richard Gere / Chicago

Adrien Brody / The Pianist

Jack Nicholson / About Schmidt

2002

Kevin Kline / Life as a House

Russell Crowe / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Tom Hanks / Cast Away

Benicio Del Toro / Traffic

2000

Kevin Spacey / American Beauty

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Flawless

1999

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Tom Hanks / Saving Private Ryan

Joseph Fiennes / Shakespeare in Love

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

1998

Jack Nicholson / As Good as It Gets

1997

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

Woody Harrelson / The People vs. Larry Flynt

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

Geoffrey Rush / Shine

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

1996

Nicolas Cage / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Paul Newman / Nobody's Fool

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

Morgan Freeman / The Shawshank Redemption

Tim Robbins / The Shawshank Redemption

John Travolta / Pulp Fiction

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