# Golden Lotus Award for Best Actor

Golden Lotus Award for Best Actor (simplified Chinese: 金莲花奖最佳男主角; traditional Chinese: 金蓮花獎最佳男主角) is one of the main categories of competition of the Golden Lotus Awards. It is awarded to leading male actor(s) who have outstanding performance in motion pictures.

## Award winners and nominees
### 2000s
#### 2009 (1st)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2009 | Zhu Xu | 朱旭 | Lan | 《我们天上见》 |
| 2009 | Xia Yu | 夏雨 | Life of Sentime [zh] | 《感情生活》 |
| 2009 | Akira Chen | 陈文彬 | Cannot Live Without You | 《不能没有你》 |
| 2009 | Chen Taishen | 成泰燊 | Ma Wen's Battle | 《马文的战争》 |

### 2010s
#### 2010 (2nd)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2010 | Alec Su | 苏有朋 | A Tibetan Love Song | 《康定情歌》 |
| 2010 | Eddie Peng Yuyan | 彭于晏 | More Than Close | 《近在咫尺的爱恋》 |
| 2010 | Ying Da | 英达 | You and Me | 《我和你》 |
| 2010 | Qiu Yanxiang | 邱彦翔 | Bed Man | 《弹簧床先生》 |

#### 2011 (3rd)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2011 | Donnie Yen | 甄子丹 | The Lost Bladesman | 《关云长》 |
| 2011 | Jiang Wen | 姜文 | The Lost Bladesman | 《关云长》 |
| 2011 | Fan Wei | 范伟 | Tracks Kong Lingxue [zh] | 《跟踪孔令学》 |
| 2011 | Tony Leung Ka-fai | 梁家辉 | The Devil Inside Me | 《夺命心跳》 |
| 2011 | Louis Koo | 古天乐 | All's Well, Ends Well 2011 | 《最强喜事》 |

#### 2012 (4th)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2012 | Yu Entai [zh] | 喻恩泰 | Stand-In | 《做次有钱人》 |
| 2012 | Guo Tao | 郭涛 | Million Dollar Crocodile | 《百万巨鳄》 |
| 2012 | Zhang Zhizhong | 张志忠 | Iron Man | 《铁人》 |
| 2012 | Jiang Wu | 姜武 | Happy Hotel | 《乐翻天》 |
| 2012 | Feng Lei | 冯雷 | Under The Temptation | 《四戒》 |

#### 2013 (5th)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2013 | Anthony Perry | 黄秋生 | Ip Man: The Final Fight | 《叶问：终极一战》 |
| 2013 | Adam Cheng | 郑少秋 | Saving General Yang | 《忠烈杨家将》 |
| 2013 | Chow Yun Fat | 周润发 | The Assassins | 《铜雀台》 |
| 2013 | Huang Xiaoming | 黄晓明 | Amazing | 《神奇》 |

#### 2014 (6th)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2014 | Simon Yam | 任达华 | Sara | 《雏妓》 |
| 2014 | Daniel Wu | 吴彦祖 | That Demon Within | 《魔警》 |
| 2014 | Chen Daoming | 陈道明 | Coming Home | 《归来》 |
| 2014 | Donnie Yen | 甄子丹 | Kung Fu Jungle | 《一个人的武林》 |
| 2014 | Bosco Wong | 黄宗泽 | Golden Brother | 《男人不可以穷》 |

#### 2015 (7th)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2015 | Ti Lung | 狄龍 | The Kid from the Big Apple | 《我來自紐約》 |
| 2015 | Eddie Peng | 彭于晏 | To the Fore | 《破風》 |
| 2015 | Feng Xiaogang | 馮小剛 | Mr. Six | 《老炮兒》 |
| 2015 | Donnie Yen | 甄子丹 | Ip Man 3 | 《葉問3》 |
| 2015 | Francis Ng | 吳鎮宇 | Two Thumbs Up | 《衝鋒車》 |

#### 2016 (8th)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2016 | Hu Jun | 胡军 | Lord of Shanghai | 《上海王》 |
| 2016 | Li Xuejian | 李雪健 | The Woman Behind the Man | 《老阿姨》 |
| 2016 | Huang Xiaoming | 黄晓明 | Xuanzang | 《大唐玄奘》 |
| 2016 | Liu Ye | 刘烨 | My War | 《我的战争》 |
| 2016 | Ahn Jae-hyun | 安宰贤 | Perfect Imperfection | 《我是处女座》 |
| 2016 | Lee Jung-jae | 李政宰 | Tik Tok | 《惊天大逆转》 |

#### 2017 (9th)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2017 | Ge You | 葛优 | The Wasted Times | 《罗曼蒂克消亡史》 |
| 2017 | Anthony Wong | 黄秋生 | The Sleep Curse | 《失眠》 |
| 2017 | Huang Xuan | 黄轩 | Youth | 《芳华》 |
| 2017 | Tu Men | 涂们 | Old Beast | 《老兽》 |
| 2017 | Eddie Peng | 彭于晏 | Wu Kong | 《悟空传》 |

#### 2018 (10th)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2018 | Chen Jianbin | 陈建斌 | A Cool Fish | 《无名之辈》 |
| 2018 | Wang Leehom | 王力宏 | Forever Young | 《无问西东》 |
| 2018 | Eddie Peng | 彭于晏 | Hidden Man | 《邪不压正》 |
| 2018 | Louis Koo | 古天樂 | L Storm | 《L风暴》 |
| 2018 | Vincent Zhao | 赵文卓 | Invisible Tattoo | 《纹身：西部纵横》 |

#### 2019 (11th)

| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
| 2019 | Yu Qian | 于谦 | Song of Youth [fr; zh] | 《老师·好》 |
| 2019 | Deng Chao | 邓超 | Looking Up | 《银河补习班》 |
| 2019 | Zhang Hanyu | 张涵予 | The Captain | 《中国机长》 |
| 2019 | Wu Jing | 吴京 | The Wandering Earth | 《流浪地球》 |
| 2019 | Louis Koo | 古天樂 | P Storm | 《P风暴》 |
| 2019 | Darren Wang | 王大陸 | The Last Wish | 《小小的願望》 |
| 2019 | Shen Teng | 沈腾 | Crazy Alien | 《疯狂的外星人》 |
| 2019 | Fan Wei | 范伟 | Hunt Down | 《长安盗》 |