Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
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The Screen Actors' Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild to honour the finest male acting achievements in a motion picture in a lead role. The award is presented at a ceremony alongside the other guild awards since the awards inception in 1994.
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History [edit]
A total of 19 awards have been presented to 17 different actors over the 19 years of the awards' existence, accounting for repeat winners. The first recipient of the Actor was Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump and the most recent recipient was Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln. There has never been a tie for the award. The category stands alongside the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture as one of the awards presented by the Screen Actors Guild to honor single performance in a motion picture.
In addition, only four actors who've won this award have not gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. These actors were Benicio del Toro for Traffic (who won for Best Supporting Actor), Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind, Daniel Day-Lewis for Gangs of New York, and Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Superlatives [edit]
- * Affliction, As Good as It Gets, The Birdcage, The Contender, Crash, Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, Jerry Maguire, The King's Speech, Lincoln, Moneyball, No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Silver Linings Playbook
Winners and nominees [edit]
Notes [edit]
- "†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor.
- "‡" indicates a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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2010s [edit]
| Year | Winners and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | Prince Albert, Duke of York/King George VI † |
| Jeff Bridges | True Grit | Rooster Cogburn ‡ | |
| Robert Duvall | Get Low | Felix Bush | |
| Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg ‡ | |
| James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston ‡ | |
| 2011 | Jean Dujardin | The Artist | George Valentin † |
| Demián Bichir | A Better Life | Carlos Galindo ‡ | |
| George Clooney | The Descendants | Matt King ‡ | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | J. Edgar | J. Edgar Hoover | |
| Brad Pitt | Moneyball | Billy Beane ‡ | |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln † |
| Bradley Cooper | Silver Linings Playbook | Pat Solitano ‡ | |
| John Hawkes | The Sessions | Mark O'Brien | |
| Hugh Jackman | Les Miserables | Jean Valjean ‡ | |
| Denzel Washington | Flight | William "Whip" Whitaker ‡ |
Trivia [edit]
Times where the *SAG Award Winner did not win the Academy Award for Best Actor:
- Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) won, but in the Best Supporting Actor category. Russell Crowe won Best Actor (Gladiator)
- Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) lost out to Denzel Washington (Training Day)
- Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) lost out to Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
- Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) lost out to Sean Penn (Mystic River)
Multiple winners [edit]
3 wins
- Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln)
Multiple nominees [edit]
2 nominations
- Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart, True Grit)
- Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation.)
- Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Finding Neverland)
- Robert Duvall (The Apostle, Get Low)
- Colin Firth (A Single Man, The King's Speech)
- Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, Invictus)
- Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (Flawless, Capote)
- Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt)
- Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Moneyball)
- Geoffrey Rush (Shine, Quills)
3 nominations
- George Clooney (Michael Clayton, Up in the Air, The Descendants)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator, Blood Diamond, J. Edgar)
- Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away)
- Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln)
- Denzel Washington (The Hurricane, Training Day, Flight)
4 nominations
- Russell Crowe (The Insider, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man)
- Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, I Am Sam, Mystic River, Milk)
See also [edit]
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
- List of actors who won the Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critic's Choice Award for a single performance
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