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

2026

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

Jesse Plemons / Bugonia

2025

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo / Sing Sing

Daniel Craig / Queer

2024

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Colman Domingo / Rustin

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

2023

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Adam Sandler / Hustle

Austin Butler / Elvis

Bill Nighy / Living

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

Javier Bardem / Being the Ricardos

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

2021

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Gary Oldman / Mank

Steven Yeun / Minari

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2020

Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Taron Egerton / Rocketman

Christian Bale / Ford v Ferrari

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

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

2019

John David Washington / BlacKkKlansman

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

Bradley Cooper / A Star Is Born

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Gary Oldman / Darkest Hour

2017

Denzel Washington / Fences

Viggo Mortensen / Captain Fantastic

2016

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

2015

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

Steve Carell / Foxcatcher

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

2014

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club

Forest Whitaker / The Butler

2013

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

John Hawkes / The Sessions

2012

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

2011

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

2010

Jeff Bridges / Crazy Heart

Colin Firth / A Single Man

2009

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sean Penn / Milk

Richard Jenkins / The Visitor

2008

Emile Hirsch / Into the Wild

Daniel Day-Lewis / There Will Be Blood

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

2007

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

2006

Heath Ledger / Brokeback Mountain

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

2005

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Jamie Foxx / Ray

2004

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

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

Peter Dinklage / The Station Agent

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

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

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

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

Geoffrey Rush / Shine

Ralph Fiennes / The English Patient

1996

Nicolas Cage / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Morgan Freeman / The Shawshank Redemption

Tim Robbins / The Shawshank Redemption

Tom Hanks / Forrest Gump

Paul Newman / Nobody's Fool

John Travolta / Pulp Fiction

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