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

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

Superlatives

Trivia

• 2000: Benicio del Toro won Best Supporting Actor. Russell Crowe won Best Actor.
• 2001: Russell Crowe lost to Denzel Washington
• 2002: Daniel Day-Lewis lost to Adrien Brody
• 2003: Johnny Depp lost to Sean Penn
• 2016: Denzel Washington lost to Casey Affleck

  Multiple winners

• Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood , Lincoln )

  Multiple nominees

• Christian Bale, Ford v Ferrari )
• Jeff Bridges, True Grit )
• Nicolas Cage, Adaptation. )
• Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born )
• Robert Duvall, Get Low )
• Colin Firth, The King's Speech )
• James Franco, The Disaster Artist )
• Morgan Freeman, Invictus )
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote )
• Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt )
• Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl )
• Joaquin Phoenix, Joker )
• Brad Pitt, Moneyball )
• Geoffrey Rush, Quills )
• Forest Whitaker, The Butler )

• George Clooney, Up in the Air, The Descendants )
• Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln )
• Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland, Black Mass )
• Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl, La La Land )
• Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic, Green Book )

• Russell Crowe, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man )
• Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Captain Phillips )
• Sean Penn, I Am Sam, Mystic River, Milk )

• Leonardo DiCaprio , Blood Diamond, J. Edgar, The Revenant, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood )
• Denzel Washington, Training Day, Flight, Fences, Roman J. Israel, Esq. )