Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture
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The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild to honour the finest male acting achievements in a motion picture in a lead role. The award is presented at a ceremony alongside the other guild awards since the awards inception in 1994

History

A total of 14 Actor's have been presented to 13 different actors over the 14 years of the awards existence, accounting for repeat winners. The first recipient of the Actor was Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump and the most recent recipient was Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood. There has never been a tie for the award. The category stands alongside the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture,Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture as one of the awards presented by the Screen Actors Guild to honour single performance in a motion picture.

Superlatives

Winners and nominees

• 1994 - Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump
  • John Travolta - Pulp Fiction as Vincent Vega
  • Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
  • Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool as Sully Sullivan
  • Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption as Andy Dufresne

• 1995 - Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson
  • Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet
  • Anthony Hopkins - Nixon as Richard Nixon
  • Massimo Troisi - Il Postino (The Postman) as Mario Ruoppolo
  • James Earl Jones - Cry, the Beloved Country as Rev. Stephen Kumalo

• 1996 - Geoffrey Rush - Shine as David Helfgott
  • Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient as Count László de Almásy
  • Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire as Jerry Maguire
  • Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
  • Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade as Karl Childers

• 1997 - Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall
  • Robert Duvall - The Apostle as Euliss 'Sonny' Dewey
  • Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting as Will Hunting
  • Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold as Ulysses 'Ulee' Jackson
  • Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog as Stanley Motss

• 1998 - Roberto Benigni - La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) as Guido Orefice
  • Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan as Captain John H. Miller
  • Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters as James Whale
  • Nick Nolte - Affliction as Wade Whitehouse
  • Joseph Fiennes - Shakespeare in Love as William Shakespeare

• 1999 - Kevin Spacey - American Beauty as Lester Burnham
  • Russell Crowe - The Insider as Jeffrey Wigand
  • Denzel Washington - The Hurricane as Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter
  • Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon as Andy Kaufman
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - Flawless as Walt Koontz

• 2000 - Benicio del Toro - Traffic as Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez
  • Tom Hanks - Cast Away as Chuck Noland
  • Russell Crowe - Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius
  • Geoffrey Rush - Quills as Marquis de Sade
  • Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot as Billy Elliot

• 2001 - Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind as John Forbes Nash
  • Sean Penn - I Am Sam as Sam Dawson
  • Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom as Matt Fowler
  • Denzel Washington - Training Day as Alonzo Harris
  • Kevin Kline - Life as a House as George Monroe

• 2002 - Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
  • Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt as Warren R. Schmidt
  • Nicolas Cage - Adaptation. as Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
  • Michael Caine - The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
  • Adrian Brody - The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman

• 2003 - Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Jack Sparrow
  • Bill Murray - Lost in Translation as Bob Harris
  • Sean Penn - Mystic River as Jimmy Markum
  • Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog as Massoud Behrani
  • Peter Dinklage - The Station Agent as Finbar McBride

• 2004 - Jamie Foxx - Ray as Ray Charles
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator as Howard Hughes
  • Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland as J. M. Barrie
  • Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
  • Paul Giamatti - Sideways as Miles Raymond

• 2005 - Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote as Truman Capote
  • Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
  • David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow
  • Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
  • Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man as James J. Braddock

• 2006 - Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond as Danny Archer
  • Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson as Dan Dunne
  • Peter O'Toole - Venus as Maurice
  • Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness as Chris Gardner

• 2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
  • George Clooney - Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
  • Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl as Lars Lindstrom
  • Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild as Christopher McCandless
  • Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin

External links

• SAG Awards official site