SAG Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture | |
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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 | Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023) |
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 presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild. It has been presented since the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995 to a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
The award has been presented 30 times, and 28 actors have won the award. Tom Hanks was the award's first winner for Forrest Gump (1994). The most recent winner is Cillian Murphy who won for his performance in Oppenheimer (2023). Daniel Day-Lewis has won the award three times; no other actor has won it more than once. Denzel Washington has the most nominations with six.
Indicates the winner | |
† | Indicates a posthumous winner |
† | Indicates a posthumous nominee |
Year | Actor | Film | Role(s) | Ref. |
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2020 (27th) | Chadwick Boseman † | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | [27] |
Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone | ||
Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony | ||
Gary Oldman | Mank | Herman J. Mankiewicz | ||
Steven Yeun | Minari | Jacob Yi | ||
2021 (28th) | Will Smith ‡ | King Richard | Richard Williams | [28] |
Javier Bardem | Being the Ricardos | Desi Arnaz | ||
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | ||
Andrew Garfield | Tick, Tick...Boom! | Jonathan Larson | ||
Denzel Washington | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth | ||
2022 (29th) | Brendan Fraser ‡ | The Whale | Charlie | [29] |
Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley | ||
Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin | ||
Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams | ||
Adam Sandler | Hustle | Stanley Sugerman | ||
2023 (30th) | Cillian Murphy ‡ | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | [30] |
Bradley Cooper | Maestro | Leonard Bernstein | ||
Colman Domingo | Rustin | Bayard Rustin | ||
Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham | ||
Jeffrey Wright | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison |
Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.
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