Astra Film Award for Best Actor

Astra Film Award for Best Actor
The 2024 recipient: Timothée Chalamet
Awarded for	Best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Motion Picture
Country	United States
Presented by	Hollywood Creative Alliance
First award	Gary Oldman Darkest Hour (2017)
Currently held by	Timothée Chalamet A Complete Unknown (2024)
Website	hollywoodcreative.org

The Astra Film Award for Best Actor is one of the annual awards given out by the Hollywood Creative Alliance. In 2025, the category separated into Best Actor - Drama and Best Actor - Comedy or Musical.

Winners

• † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
• ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Actor

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2017 [1]	Gary Oldman †	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
	Timothée Chalamet ‡	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	James Franco	The Disaster Artist	Tommy Wiseau
	Tom Hanks	The Post	Ben Bradlee
	Daniel Kaluuya ‡	Get Out	Chris Washington
2018 [2]	Rami Malek †	Bohemian Rhapsody	Freddie Mercury
	Christian Bale ‡	Vice	Dick Cheney
	Bradley Cooper ‡	A Star is Born	Jackson Maine
	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Reverend Ernst Toller
	Viggo Mortensen ‡	Green Book	Tony Lip
2019 [3]	Joaquin Phoenix †	Joker	Arthur Fleck / Joker
	Leonardo DiCaprio ‡	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Rick Dalton
	Adam Driver ‡	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber
	Eddie Murphy	Dolemite Is My Name	Rudy Ray Moore
	Taron Egerton	Rocketman	Elton John

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2020 [4]	Delroy Lindo	Da 5 Bloods	Paul
	Riz Ahmed ‡	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone
	Kingsley Ben-Adir	One Night in Miami...	Malcolm X
	Chadwick Boseman ‡	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green
	Anthony Hopkins †	The Father	Anthony
2021 [5]	Andrew Garfield ‡	tick, tick... BOOM!	Jonathan Larson
	Nicolas Cage	Pig	Robin "Rob" Feld
	Benedict Cumberbatch ‡	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank
	Peter Dinklage	Cyrano	Cyrano de Bergerac
	Will Smith †	King Richard	Richard Williams
2022 [6]	Brendan Fraser †	The Whale	Charlie
	Austin Butler ‡	Elvis	Elvis Presley
	Tom Cruise	Top Gun: Maverick	Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
	Colin Farrell ‡	The Banshees of Inisherin	Pádraic Súilleabháin
	Paul Mescal ‡	Aftersun	Calum Paterson
2023 [7]	Paul Giamatti ‡	The Holdovers	Paul Hunham
	Bradley Cooper ‡	Maestro	Leonard Bernstein
	Colman Domingo ‡	Rustin	Bayard Rustin
	Barry Keoghan	Saltburn	Oliver Quick
	Cillian Murphy †	Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer
	Jeffrey Wright ‡	American Fiction	Thelonious "Monk" Ellison
2024 [8]	Timothée Chalamet ‡	A Complete Unknown	Bob Dylan
	Adrien Brody †	The Brutalist	László Tóth
	Colman Domingo ‡	Sing Sing	John "Divine G" Whitfield
	Jesse Eisenberg	A Real Pain	David Kaplan
	Ralph Fiennes ‡	Conclave	Cardinal Thomas Lawrence
	Glen Powell	Hit Man	Gary Johnson

Best Actor - Drama

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2025 [9]	Joel Edgerton	Train Dreams	Robert Grainier
	Dwayne Johnson	The Smashing Machine	Mark Kerr
	Michael B. Jordan	Sinners	Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore
	Wagner Moura	The Secret Agent	Armando / Marcelo Alves / Fernando (adult)
	Dylan O'Brien	Twinless	Roman / Rocky
	Jeremy Allen White	Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere	Bruce Springsteen

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2025 [9]	Lee Byung-hun	No Other Choice	Yoo Man-su
	Timothée Chalamet	Marty Supreme	Marty Mauser
	George Clooney	Jay Kelly	Jay Kelly
	Leonardo DiCaprio	One Battle After Another	Bob Ferguson
	Brendan Fraser	Rental Family	Phillip Vandarploeug
	Jesse Plemons	Bugonia	Teddy Gatz

References

1. "2017".
2. "2018".
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