# Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

The Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (previously known as the Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role) is given by the producers of the film and television guild as part of its annual award ceremony for Hindi films, to recognise a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. Following its inception in 2004, no one was awarded in 2005 and 2007.
† - indicates the performance also won the Filmfare Award ‡ - indicates the performance was also nominated for the Filmfare Award

## Superlatives

| Superlative | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Overall | Overall |
| Actor with most awards | Hrithik Roshan Shahrukh Khan Ranbir Kapoor | 2 | -- | -- | Hrithik Roshan Shahrukh Khan Ranbir Kapoor | 2 |
| Actor with most nominations | Shahrukh Khan | 7 | Irrfan Khan Naseeruddin Shah Nawazuddin Siddiqui | 3 | Shahrukh Khan | 7 |
| Actor with most nominations (without ever winning) | Ajay Devgan | 3 | Naseeruddin Shah | 3 | Ajay Devgan Naseeruddin Shah | 4 |
| Actor with most nominations in a single year | -- | -- | Rishi Kapoor (2010) | 2 | Rishi Kapoor (2010) Ajay Devgan (2011) Emraan Hashmi (2012) Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2013) | 2 |

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

* 2004 Hrithik Roshan – Koi... Mil Gaya as Rohit Mehra †
** Ajay Devgan – Gangaajal as SP Amit Kumar ‡
** Amitabh Bachchan – Khakee as DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav ‡
** Sanjay Dutt – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as Murli Prasad Sharma aka Munna Bhai
** Shahrukh Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Aman Mathur ‡
* 2005 – No award
* 2006 Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai †
** Akshay Kumar – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Aditya Thakur
** Anil Kapoor – No Entry as Kishen
** Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Rai ‡
** Shahrukh Khan – Swades: We, the People as Mohan Bhargava †
* 2007 – No award
* 2008 Shahrukh Khan – Chak De! India as Kabir Khan †
** Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant Desai ‡
** Akshaye Khanna – Gandhi, My Father as Harilal Gandhi
** Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev Gupta
** Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap ‡
* 2009 Hrithik Roshan – Jodhaa Akbar as Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar †
** Abhishek Bachchan – Dostana as Sameer "Sam" Acharya ‡
** Akshay Kumar – Singh Is Kinng as Happy Singh ‡
** Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi ‡
** Naseeruddin Shah – A Wednesday! as Anonymous antagonist ‡

### 2010s

* 2010 Shahrukh Khan – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as Surinder "Suri" Sahni/Raj Kapoor ‡
** Aamir Khan – Ghajini as Sanjay Singhania
** Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid as Sidharth "Sid" Mehra ‡
** Saif Ali Khan – Love Aaj Kal as Jai Vardhan Singh/Veer Singh ‡
** Shahid Kapoor – Kaminey as Charlie Sharma/Guddu Sharma ‡
* 2011 Salman Khan – Dabangg as Chulbul Pandey ‡
** Ajay Devgan – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Sultan Mirza ‡
** Hrithik Roshan – Guzaarish as Ethan Mascarenhas ‡
** Ranbir Kapoor – Raajneeti as Samar Pratap ‡
** Shahrukh Khan – My Name Is Khan as Rizwan Khan †
* 2012 Ranbir Kapoor – Rockstar as Janardan Jhakhar / Jordan †
** Ajay Devgan – Singham as Bajirao Singham ‡
** Emraan Hashmi – Murder 2 as Arjun Bhagawat
** Salman Khan – Bodyguard as Lovely Singh ‡
** Shahrukh Khan – Don 2 as Don ‡
* 2013 Ranbir Kapoor – Barfi! as Murphy "Barfi" Johnson †
** Ayushmann Khurrana – Vicky Donor as Vicky Arora
** Hrithik Roshan – Agneepath as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan ‡
** Irrfan Khan – Paan Singh Tomar as Paan Singh Tomar ‡
** Manoj Bajpai – Gangs of Wasseypur as Sardar Khan ‡
** Shahrukh Khan – Jab Tak Hai Jaan as Samar Anand ‡
* 2014 Farhan Akhtar – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as Milkha Singh †
** Irrfan Khan – The Lunchbox as Saajan Fernandez
** Rajkummar Rao – Shahid as Shahid Azmi
** Ranbir Kapoor – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Kabir "Bunny" Thapar ‡
** Ranveer Singh – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela as Ram Rajari ‡
** Sushant Singh Rajput – Kai Po Che! as Ishaan Bhatt
* 2015 Shahid Kapoor - Haider as Haider Meer
* 2016 Ranveer Singh - Bajirao Mastani as Peshwa Bajirao