Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
| SAG Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture | |
|---|---|
 The 2022 recipient: Brendan Fraser | |
| 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 | Brendan Fraser for The Whale (2022) |
| Website | sagawards.org |
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.
Winners and nominees[edit]
Yellow background indicates the winner.
1990s[edit]
2000s[edit]
2010s[edit]
2020s[edit]
| Year | Nominee | Film | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman (posthumous) | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green |
| Gary Oldman | Mank | Herman J. Mankiewicz | |
| Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone | |
| Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony | |
| Steven Yeun | Minari | Jacob Yi | |
| 2021 | Will Smith | King Richard | Richard Williams |
| Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | |
| Andrew Garfield | Tick, Tick...Boom! | Jonathan Larson | |
| Denzel Washington | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth | |
| Javier Bardem | Being the Ricardos | Desi Arnaz | |
| 2022 | Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Charlie |
| Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley | |
| Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin | |
| Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams | |
| Adam Sandler | Hustle | Stanley Sugerman |
Superlatives[edit]
Multiple winners[edit]
- Three wins
- Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), Lincoln (2012))
Multiple nominees[edit]
Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.
- Two 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))
- Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game (2014), The Power of the Dog (2021))
- 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))
- Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge (2016), Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021))
- 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))
- Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), King Richard (2021))
- Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland (2006), The Butler (2013))
- Three 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))
- Four 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))
- Five nominations
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), J. Edgar (2011), The Revenant (2015), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019))
- Six nominations
- Denzel Washington (The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), Flight (2012), Fences (2016), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021))
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
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead