# Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor

The Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor was first awarded in 2006.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Director |
| 2006 (1st) |
| 2006 (1st) | Romain Duris | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Jacques Audiard |
| 2006 (1st) | Michel Bouquet | The Last Mitterrand | Robert Guédiguian |
| 2006 (1st) | Clovis Cornillac | Le cactus [fr; ru] | Gérard Bitton [fr] & Michel Munz [fr] |
| 2006 (1st) | Benoît Poelvoorde | Entre ses mains | Anne Fontaine |
| 2006 (1st) | José Garcia | The Axe | Costa-Gavras |
| 2007 (2nd) |
| 2007 (2nd) | François Cluzet | Tell No One | Guillaume Canet |
| 2007 (2nd) | Jean Dujardin | OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2007 (2nd) | Albert Dupontel | Locked Out | Albert Dupontel |
| 2007 (2nd) | Gérard Depardieu | When I Was a Singer | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2007 (2nd) | Roschdy Zem | Mauvaise foi | Roschdy Zem |
| 2008 (3rd) |
| 2008 (3rd) | Romain Duris | Molière | Laurent Tirard |
| 2008 (3rd) | Jean-Pierre Marielle | Let's Dance | Noémie Lvovsky |
| 2008 (3rd) | Vincent Lindon | Those Who Remain | Anne Le Ny |
| 2008 (3rd) | Mathieu Amalric | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly & Heartbeat Detector | Julian Schnabel & Nicolas Klotz |
| 2009 (4th) |
| 2009 (4th) | Vincent Cassel | Mesrine | Jean-François Richet |
| 2009 (4th) | Albert Dupontel | Love Me No More | Jean Becker |
| 2009 (4th) | Mathieu Amalric | Mesrine | Jean-François Richet |
| 2009 (4th) | Roschdy Zem | The Girl from Monaco | Anne Fontaine |
| 2009 (4th) | Kad Merad | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis | Dany Boon |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Director |
| 2010 (5th) |
| 2010 (5th) | Tahar Rahim | A Prophet | Jacques Audiard |
| 2010 (5th) | François Cluzet | In the Beginning | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2010 (5th) | Yvan Attal | Leaving | Catherine Corsini |
| 2010 (5th) | Vincent Lindon | Welcome | Philippe Lioret |
| 2010 (5th) | Jean Dujardin | OSS 117: Lost in Rio | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2011 (6th) |
| 2011 (6th) | Michael Lonsdale | Of Gods and Men | Xavier Beauvois |
| 2011 (6th) | Romain Duris | Heartbreaker | Pascal Chaumeil |
| 2011 (6th) | Gérard Depardieu | Mammuth | Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern |
| 2011 (6th) | François Cluzet | Little White Lies | Guillaume Canet |
| 2011 (6th) | Eric Elmosnino | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | Joann Sfar |
| 2012 (7th) |
| 2012 (7th) | Omar Sy | The Intouchables | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| 2012 (7th) | François Cluzet | The Intouchables | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| 2012 (7th) | Jean Dujardin | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2012 (7th) | Olivier Gourmet | The Minister | Pierre Schoeller [de; es; fr; it; uk] |
| 2012 (7th) | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Robert Guédiguian |
| 2013 (8th) |
| 2013 (8th) | Jérémie Renier | My Way | Florent Emilio Siri |
| 2013 (8th) | Matthias Schoenaerts | Rust and Bone | Jacques Audiard |
| 2013 (8th) | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Amour | Michael Haneke |
| 2013 (8th) | Gilles Lellouche | Thérèse Desqueyroux | Claude Miller |
| 2013 (8th) | Vincent Lindon | A Few Hours of Spring | Stéphane Brizé |
| 2014 (9th) |
| 2014 (9th) | Guillaume Gallienne | Me, Myself and Mum | Guillaume Gallienne |
| 2014 (9th) | Niels Arestrup | The French Minister | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 2014 (9th) | Albert Dupontel | 9 Month Stretch | Albert Dupontel |
| 2014 (9th) | Grégory Gadebois | One of a Kind | François Dupeyron |
| 2014 (9th) | Fabrice Luchini | Bicycling with Molière | Philippe Le Guay |
| 2015 (10th) |
| 2015 (10th) | Pierre Niney | Yves Saint Laurent | Jalil Lespert |
| 2015 (10th) | François Damiens | La Famille Bélier | Éric Lartigau |
| 2015 (10th) | Reda Kateb | Hippocrate | Thomas Lilti |
| 2015 (10th) | Gaspard Ulliel | Saint Laurent | Bertrand Bonello |
| 2017 (11th) |
| 2017 (11th) | Omar Sy | Chocolat | Roschdy Zem |
| 2017 (11th) | Pierre Niney | Frantz | François Ozon |
| 2017 (11th) | Vincent Cassel | It's Only the End of the World | Xavier Dolan |
| 2017 (11th) | Gaspard Ulliel | It's Only the End of the World | Xavier Dolan |
| 2017 (11th) | Lambert Wilson | The Odyssey | Jérôme Salle |
| 2018 (12th) |
| 2018 (12th) | Nahuel Pérez Biscayart | BPM (Beats per Minute) | Robin Campillo |
| 2018 (12th) | Swann Arlaud | Bloody Milk | Hubert Charuel [arz; es; fr; it; ru; uk] |
| 2018 (12th) | Jean-Pierre Bacri | C'est la vie! | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| 2018 (12th) | François Damiens | Just to Be Sure | Carine Tardieu [arz; fr] |
| 2018 (12th) | Albert Dupontel | See You Up There | Albert Dupontel |

### Multiple nominees

4 nominations
* François Cluzet (1 win)
* Albert Dupontel
3 nominations
* Romain Duris (2 win)
* Jean Dujardin
* Vincent Lindon
2 nominations
* Omar Sy (2 win)
* Vincent Cassel (1 win)
* Pierre Niney (1 win)
* Mathieu Amalric
* Roschdy Zem
* Gérard Depardieu
* Gaspard Ulliel
* François Damiens