Saturn Award for Best Actor
| Saturn Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Current recipient: Robert Downey Jr. | |
| Awarded for | Best performance of the year by a male in a leading role in a genre film |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films |
| First awarded | 1974/75 |
| Currently held by | Robert Downey Jr. for Avengers:Endgame (2019) |
| Website | www |
The Saturn Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. The Saturn Awards were devised by Dr. Donald A. Reed, who felt that films within those genres were never given the appreciation they deserved. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, surrounded with a ring of film. The award was initially and is still sometimes loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The award for Best Actor was first introduced in 1976 for the 1974 and 1975 years, to reward a lead performance by a male actor in film.
The record for most awards is held by Robert Downey, Jr. with four wins, followed by and Mark Hamill with three, with Jeff Bridges and Harrison Ford with two each. Tom Cruise is the most nominated actor in the category with eleven nominations, followed by Downey, Jr. and Arnold Schwarzenegger with seven. Arnold Schwarzenegger holds the record for most nominations without a victory. Anthony Hopkins and Martin Landau are the only actors to have won the Saturn Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award for the same role; however, Landau won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and not Best Actor. The record for most wins for playing a same character is held by Downey Jr. and Hamill, who both won three times for playing Tony Stark and Luke Skywalker respectively.
Winners and nominees
1970s
| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
(3rd) |
James Caan | Rollerball | Jonathan E. |
| Don Johnson | A Boy and His Dog | Vic | |
(4th) |
David Bowie | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Thomas Jerome Newton |
(5th) |
George Burns | Oh, God! | God |
| Richard Dreyfuss | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | |
| Harrison Ford | Star Wars | Han Solo | |
| Mark Hamill | Luke Skywalker | ||
| William Shatner | Kingdom of the Spiders | Dr. Rack Hansen | |
| Michael York | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Andrew Braddock | |
(6th) |
Warren Beatty | Heaven Can Wait | Joe Pendleton |
| Christopher Lee | The Wicker Man | Lord Summerisle | |
| Laurence Olivier | The Boys from Brazil | Ezra Lieberman | |
| Christopher Reeve | Superman | Clark Kent / Superman | |
| Donald Sutherland | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Matthew Bennell | |
(7th) |
George Hamilton | Love at First Bite | Count Vladimir Dracula |
| Frank Langella | Dracula | Count Dracula | |
| Christopher Lee | Arabian Adventure | Caliph Alquazar | |
| Malcolm McDowell | Time After Time | H. G. Wells | |
| William Shatner | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | James T. Kirk |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Multiple nominations
- 11 nominations
- Tom Cruise
- 8 nominations
- Robert Downey, Jr.
- 7 nominations
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 6 nominations
- Harrison Ford
- 5 nominations
- Jeff Bridges
- Johnny Depp
- Viggo Mortensen
- Christopher Reeve
- William Shatner
- 4 nominations
- Christian Bale
- Pierce Brosnan
- Chris Evans
- Mark Hamill
- Hugh Jackman
- Will Smith
- Robin Williams
- Bruce Willis
- 3 nominations
- Jim Carrey
- George Clooney
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Anthony Hopkins
- Matthew McConaughey
- Tobey Maguire
- Jack Nicholson
- Brad Pitt
- 2 nominations
- Warren Beatty
- George Burns
- James Caan
- Nicolas Cage
- Kevin Costner
- Daniel Craig
- Hume Cronyn
- Matt Damon
- Albert Finney
- Michael J. Fox
- Mel Gibson
- Jeff Goldblum
- Tom Hanks
- Christopher Lee
- Bill Murray
- Liam Neeson
- Chris Pratt
- Keanu Reeves
- Ryan Reynolds
Multiple wins
- 4 wins
- Robert Downey, Jr.
- 3 wins
- Mark Hamill
- 2 wins
- Jeff Bridges
- Harrison Ford