Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actor

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The following is a list of Fangoria Chainsaw Award winners for Best Actor. It is awarded annually to an actor for his work in a horror or thriller film.

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Winners and nominees

1990s

YearNomineesFilmRef
1992 Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs [1]
1993 Gary Oldman Bram Stoker's Dracula [2]
1994 Bruce Campbell Army of Darkness [2]
1995 Brandon Lee The Crow [2] [3]
1996 Christopher Walken The Prophecy [2]
1997 George Clooney From Dusk till Dawn [4] [5]
Corbin Bernsen The Dentist
Rupert Everett Cemetery Man
Michael J. Fox The Frighteners
Richard E. Grant The Cold Light of Day
1998 Al Pacino The Devil's Advocate [2]
1999 James Woods Vampires [2]

2000s

YearNomineesFilmRef
2000 Johnny Depp Sleepy Hollow [2]
2001 Christian Bale American Psycho [6]
2002 Anthony Hopkins Hannibal [7]
Johnny Depp From Hell
2003 Robin Williams One Hour Photo [8] [9]
Anthony Hopkins Red Dragon
Mel Gibson Signs
Michael Reilly Burke Ted Bundy
Jake Weber Wendigo
2004 Bruce Campbell Bubba Ho-Tep [10]
Robert Englund Freddy vs. Jason
Ralph Fiennes Spider
Crispin Glover Willard
Cillian Murphy 28 Days Later
2005 Simon Pegg Shaun of the Dead [11]
Christian Bale The Machinist
Ron Perlman Hellboy
Johnny Depp Secret Window
Desmond Harrington Love Object
2006 Sid Haig The Devil's Rejects [12]
John Jarratt Wolf Creek
John Leguizamo Land of the Dead
Stellan Skarsgård Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
John Turturro Fear X
2007No award
2008No award
2009 Ron Perlman Hellboy II: The Golden Army [13]
Leo Bill The Living and the Dead
Kare Hedebrant Let the Right One In
Trevor Matthews Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Marc Senter The Lost

2010s

YearNomineesFilmRef
2010 Jesse Eisenberg Zombieland [14]
Garret Dillahunt The Last House on the Left
Viggo Mortensen The Road
Stephen McHattie Pontypool
Song Kang-ho Thirst
2011 Ryan Reynolds Buried [15] [16] [17]
Leonardo DiCaprio Shutter Island
Kodi Smit-McPhee Let Me In
Patrick Fabian The Last Exorcism
James Le Gros Bitter Feast
2012 Antonio Banderas The Skin I Live In [18] [19]
Sean Bean Black Death
Nick Damici Stake Land
Tyler Labine Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Noah Taylor Red White & Blue
Choi Min-sik I Saw the Devil
2013 Liam Neeson The Grey [20]
Ethan Hawke Sinister
Daniel Radcliffe The Woman in Black
Luis Tosar Sleep Tight
Neil Maskell Kill List
2014 Elijah Wood Maniac [21]
Patrick Wilson Insidious: Chapter 2
Toby Jones Berberian Sound Studio
Francisco Barreiro Here Comes the Devil
Bill Sage We Are What We Are
2015 Daniel Radcliffe Horns [22]
Lior Ashkenazi Big Bad Wolves
Nick Damici Late Phases
Jake Gyllenhaal Enemy
Jared Harris The Quiet Ones
2016 Kurt Russell Bone Tomahawk [23]
Mark Duplass Creep
Tom Hiddleston Crimson Peak
Lou Taylor Pucci Spring
Henry Rollins He Never Died
2017 John Goodman 10 Cloverfield Lane [24]
Anton Yelchin Green Room
Gong Yoo Train to Busan
Logan Marshall-Green The Invitation
Max Records I Am Not a Serial Killer
2019 Nicolas Cage Mandy [25]
James Jude Courtney / Nick Castle Halloween
Anders Danielsen Lie The Night Eats the World
Matt Dillon The House That Jack Built
Logan Marshall-Green Upgrade

2020s

YearNomineesFilmRef
2020 Robert Pattinson The Lighthouse [26]
Winston Duke Us
Lief Edlund Johansson Koko-di Koko-da
Ewan McGregor Doctor Sleep
Daniel de OliveriaThe Nightshifter

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