Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film.

Winners and nominees

Legend:

  indicates the winner

• "†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
• "‡" indicates a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor
• "††" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• "‡‡" indicates a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

1990s

2000s

2010s

Superlatives

* 12 Years a Slave, Affliction, As Good as It Gets, The Birdcage, Birdman, Captain Phillips, The Contender, Crash, Dallas Buyers Club, Forrest Gump, Foxcatcher, Good Will Hunting, Jerry Maguire, The King's Speech, Lincoln, Moneyball, No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Silver Linings Playbook

Trivia

Occasions over the past 22 years did the winner of the SAG Award for Best Leading Actor not win the Academy Award for Best Actor. This happened in:

• 2000: Benicio del Toro (Traffic) won Best Supporting Actor. Russell Crowe (Gladiator) won Best Actor.
• 2001: Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) lost to Denzel Washington (Training Day)
• 2002: Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) lost to Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
• 2003: Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) lost to Sean Penn (Mystic River)

Multiple winners

3 wins

• Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), Lincoln (2012))

Multiple nominees

Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.

2 nominations

• Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart (2009), True Grit (2010))
• Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Adaptation. (2002))
• Robert Duvall (The Apostle (1997), Get Low (2010))
• Colin Firth (A Single Man (2009), The King’s Speech (2010))
• Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Invictus (2009))
• Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson (2006), Lars and the Real Girl (2007))
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (Flawless (1999), Capote (2005))
• Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets (1997), About Schmidt (2002))
• Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything (2014), The Danish Girl (2015))
• Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Moneyball (2011))
• Geoffrey Rush (Shine (1996), Quills (2000))
• Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland (2006), The Butler (2013))

3 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))
• Denzel Washington (The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), Flight (2012))

4 nominations

• Russell Crowe (The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005))
• Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), J. Edgar (2011), The Revenant (2015))
• 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))

See also

• Academy Award for Best Actor
• BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

External links

• SAG Awards official site