# Saturn Award for Best Actor

The Saturn Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to honor performances in the genre across film, television, and video. The Saturn Awards were devised by historian Dr. Donald A. Reed, who felt that science fiction, fantasy and horror films were never given the appreciation they deserved. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, surrounded with a ring of film. The award was initially and is still sometimes loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The award for Best Actor was first introduced in 1976 for the 1974 and 1975 years, to reward a lead performance by a male actor in film.
The record for most awards is held by Robert Downey Jr. with four wins, followed by Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford with three, and then Jeff Bridges and Tom Cruise with two each. Cruise is the most nominated actor in the category with twelve nominations, followed by Ford, Downey, Jr. and Arnold Schwarzenegger with seven. Schwarzenegger holds the record for most nominations without a victory. Anthony Hopkins and Martin Landau are the only actors to have won the Saturn Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award for the same role; however, Landau won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and not Best Actor. The record for most wins for playing a same character is held by Downey Jr. and Hamill, who both won three times for playing Tony Stark and Luke Skywalker respectively.

## Winners and nominees
### 1970s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 1974/1975 (3rd) | James Caan | Rollerball | Jonathan E. |
| 1974/1975 (3rd) | Don Johnson | A Boy and His Dog | Vic |
| 1976 (4th) | David Bowie | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Thomas Jerome Newton |
| 1977 (5th) | George Burns | Oh, God! | God |
| 1977 (5th) | Richard Dreyfuss | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary |
| 1977 (5th) | Harrison Ford | Star Wars | Han Solo |
| 1977 (5th) | Mark Hamill | Star Wars | Luke Skywalker |
| 1977 (5th) | William Shatner | Kingdom of the Spiders | Dr. Rack Hansen |
| 1977 (5th) | Michael York | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Andrew Braddock |
| 1978 (6th) | Warren Beatty | Heaven Can Wait | Joe Pendleton |
| 1978 (6th) | Christopher Lee | The Wicker Man | Lord Summerisle |
| 1978 (6th) | Laurence Olivier | The Boys from Brazil | Ezra Lieberman |
| 1978 (6th) | Christopher Reeve | Superman | Clark Kent / Superman |
| 1978 (6th) | Donald Sutherland | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Matthew Bennell |
| 1979 (7th) | George Hamilton | Love at First Bite | Count Vladimir Dracula |
| 1979 (7th) | Frank Langella | Dracula | Count Dracula |
| 1979 (7th) | Christopher Lee | Arabian Adventure | Caliph Alquazar |
| 1979 (7th) | Malcolm McDowell | Time After Time | H. G. Wells |
| 1979 (7th) | William Shatner | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | James T. Kirk |

### 1980s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 1980 (8th) | Mark Hamill | The Empire Strikes Back | Luke Skywalker |
| 1980 (8th) | Alan Arkin | Simon | Prof. Simon Mendelssohn |
| 1980 (8th) | Dennis Christopher | Fade to Black | Eric Binford |
| 1980 (8th) | Kirk Douglas | The Final Countdown | Capt. Matthew Yelland |
| 1980 (8th) | Christopher Reeve | Somewhere in Time | Richard Collier |
| 1981 (9th) | Harrison Ford | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Indiana Jones |
| 1981 (9th) | Sean Connery | Outland | Marshal William T. O'Niel |
| 1981 (9th) | Albert Finney | Wolfen | Dewey Wilson |
| 1981 (9th) | Donald Pleasence | Halloween II | Dr. Sam Loomis |
| 1981 (9th) | Christopher Reeve | Superman II | Clark Kent / Superman |
| 1982 (10th) | William Shatner | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | James T. Kirk |
| 1982 (10th) | Mel Gibson | Mad Max 2 | Max Rockatansky |
| 1982 (10th) | Lee Horsley | The Sword and the Sorcerer | Prince Talon |
| 1982 (10th) | Christopher Reeve | Deathtrap | Clifford Anderson |
| 1982 (10th) | Henry Thomas | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Elliott |
| 1983 (11th) | Mark Hamill | Return of the Jedi | Luke Skywalker |
| 1983 (11th) | Matthew Broderick | WarGames | David Lightman |
| 1983 (11th) | Christopher Reeve | Superman III | Clark Kent / Superman |
| 1983 (11th) | Roy Scheider | Blue Thunder | Officer Frank Murphy |
| 1983 (11th) | Christopher Walken | The Dead Zone | Johnny Smith |
| 1984 (12th) | Jeff Bridges | Starman | Starman |
| 1984 (12th) | George Burns | Oh, God! You Devil | God / Harry O. Tophet |
| 1984 (12th) | Harrison Ford | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Indiana Jones |
| 1984 (12th) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | The Terminator | Terminator |
| 1984 (12th) | William Shatner | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | James T. Kirk |
| 1985 (13th) | Michael J. Fox | Back to the Future | Marty McFly |
| 1985 (13th) | Hume Cronyn | Cocoon | Joe Finley |
| 1985 (13th) | Louis Gossett Jr. | Enemy Mine | Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan |
| 1985 (13th) | James Karen | The Return of the Living Dead | Frank |
| 1985 (13th) | Chris Sarandon | Fright Night | Jerry Dandrige |
| 1986 (14th) | Jeff Goldblum | The Fly | Seth Brundle |
| 1986 (14th) | Michael Biehn | Aliens | Corporal Dwayne Hicks |
| 1986 (14th) | Leonard Nimoy | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Spock |
| 1986 (14th) | Anthony Perkins | Psycho III | Norman Bates |
| 1986 (14th) | William Shatner | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | James T. Kirk |
| 1987 (15th) | Jack Nicholson | The Witches of Eastwick | Daryl Van Horne |
| 1987 (15th) | Lance Henriksen | Pumpkinhead | Ed Harley |
| 1987 (15th) | Michael Nouri | The Hidden | Det. Tom Beck |
| 1987 (15th) | Terry O'Quinn | The Stepfather | Jerry Blake |
| 1987 (15th) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Predator | Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer |
| 1987 (15th) | Peter Weller | RoboCop | Alex Murphy / RoboCop |
| 1988 (16th) | Tom Hanks | Big | Josh Baskin |
| 1988 (16th) | Hume Cronyn | Cocoon: The Return | Joe Finley |
| 1988 (16th) | Bob Hoskins | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Eddie Valiant |
| 1988 (16th) | Jeremy Irons | Dead Ringers | Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle |
| 1988 (16th) | Bill Murray | Scrooged | Frank Cross |
| 1988 (16th) | James Spader | Jack's Back | John / Rick Wesford |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Jeff Daniels | Arachnophobia | Dr. Ross Jennings |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Warren Beatty | Dick Tracy | Dick Tracy |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Harrison Ford | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Indiana Jones |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Ed Harris | The Abyss | Virgil 'Bud' Brigman |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Axel Jodorowsky | Santa Sangre | Fenix |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Liam Neeson | Darkman | Peyton Westlake / Darkman |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Jack Nicholson | Batman | Jack Napier / The Joker |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Total Recall | Douglas Quaid / Hauser |
| 1989/1990 (17th) | Patrick Swayze | Ghost | Sam Wheat |

### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 1991 (18th) | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter |
| 1991 (18th) | Jeff Bridges | The Fisher King | Jack Lucas |
| 1991 (18th) | James Caan | Misery | Paul Sheldon |
| 1991 (18th) | Kevin Costner | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Robin Hood |
| 1991 (18th) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Terminator |
| 1991 (18th) | Robin Williams | The Fisher King | Parry |
| 1992 (19th) | Gary Oldman | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Count Dracula / Vlad Dracula |
| 1992 (19th) | Chevy Chase | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | Nick Halloway |
| 1992 (19th) | Michael Gambon | Toys | Lt. General Leland Zevo |
| 1992 (19th) | Raúl Juliá | The Addams Family | Gomez Addams |
| 1992 (19th) | John Lithgow | Raising Cain | Dr. Carter Nix/Cain/Nix Sr/Josh/Margo |
| 1992 (19th) | Robin Williams | Toys | Leslie Zevo |
| 1992 (19th) | Bruce Willis | Death Becomes Her | Dr. Ernest Menville |
| 1993 (20th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Heart and Souls | Thomas Reilly |
| 1993 (20th) | Jeff Bridges | The Vanishing | Barney Cousins |
| 1993 (20th) | Bill Murray | Groundhog Day | Phil Connors |
| 1993 (20th) | Robert Patrick | Fire in the Sky | Mike Rogers |
| 1993 (20th) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Last Action Hero | Jack Slater |
| 1993 (20th) | Christian Slater | True Romance | Clarence Worley |
| 1993 (20th) | Max von Sydow | Needful Things | Leland Gaunt |
| 1994 (21st) | Martin Landau | Ed Wood | Bela Lugosi |
| 1994 (21st) | Kenneth Branagh | Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein |
| 1994 (21st) | Tom Cruise | Interview with the Vampire | Lestat de Lioncourt |
| 1994 (21st) | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump |
| 1994 (21st) | Jack Nicholson | Wolf | Will Randall |
| 1994 (21st) | Brad Pitt | Interview with the Vampire | Louis de Pointe du Lac |
| 1994 (21st) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | True Lies | Harry Tasker |
| 1995 (22nd) | George Clooney | From Dusk till Dawn | Seth Gecko |
| 1995 (22nd) | Pierce Brosnan | GoldenEye | James Bond |
| 1995 (22nd) | Ralph Fiennes | Strange Days | Lenny Nero |
| 1995 (22nd) | Morgan Freeman | Se7en | William Somerset |
| 1995 (22nd) | Robin Williams | Jumanji | Alan Parrish |
| 1995 (22nd) | Bruce Willis | 12 Monkeys | James Cole |
| 1996 (23rd) | Eddie Murphy | The Nutty Professor | Professor Sherman Klump, also: Buddy Love, Lance Perkins, Papa Klump, Mama Klump, Grandma Klump, Ernie Klump |
| 1996 (23rd) | Michael J. Fox | The Frighteners | Frank Bannister |
| 1996 (23rd) | Jeff Goldblum | Independence Day | David Levinson |
| 1996 (23rd) | Bill Paxton | Twister | Bill Harding |
| 1996 (23rd) | Will Smith | Independence Day | Captain Steven Hiller |
| 1996 (23rd) | Patrick Stewart | Star Trek: First Contact | Captain Jean-Luc Picard |
| 1997 (24th) | Pierce Brosnan | Tomorrow Never Dies | James Bond |
| 1997 (24th) | Nicolas Cage | Face/Off | Castor Troy / Sean Archer |
| 1997 (24th) | Kevin Costner | The Postman | The Postman |
| 1997 (24th) | Al Pacino | The Devil's Advocate | John Milton |
| 1997 (24th) | Will Smith | Men in Black | Agent J |
| 1997 (24th) | John Travolta | Face/Off | Sean Archer / Castor Troy |
| 1998 (25th) | James Woods | Vampires | Jack Crow |
| 1998 (25th) | Jim Carrey | The Truman Show | Truman Burbank |
| 1998 (25th) | David Duchovny | The X-Files: Fight the Future | Special Agent Fox Mulder |
| 1998 (25th) | Anthony Hopkins | Meet Joe Black | William Parrish |
| 1998 (25th) | Edward Norton | American History X | Derek Vinyard |
| 1998 (25th) | Bruce Willis | Armageddon | Harry Stamper |
| 1999 (26th) | Tim Allen | Galaxy Quest | Jason Nesmith / Cmdr. Taggart |
| 1999 (26th) | Johnny Depp | Sleepy Hollow | Ichabod Crane |
| 1999 (26th) | Brendan Fraser | The Mummy | Richard "Rick" O'Connell |
| 1999 (26th) | Liam Neeson | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | Qui-Gon Jinn |
| 1999 (26th) | Keanu Reeves | The Matrix | Thomas Anderson / Neo |
| 1999 (26th) | Bruce Willis | The Sixth Sense | Dr. Malcolm Crowe |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 2000 (27th) | Hugh Jackman | X-Men | Logan / Wolverine |
| 2000 (27th) | Jim Carrey | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Grinch |
| 2000 (27th) | Russell Crowe | Gladiator | Maximus Decimus Meridius |
| 2000 (27th) | Clint Eastwood | Space Cowboys | Colonel Frank Corvin |
| 2000 (27th) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | The 6th Day | Adam Gibson / Adam Gibson Clone |
| 2000 (27th) | Chow Yun-fat | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Li Mu Bai |
| 2001 (28th) | Tom Cruise | Vanilla Sky | David Aames |
| 2001 (28th) | Johnny Depp | From Hell | Inspector Frederick Abberline |
| 2001 (28th) | Anthony Hopkins | Hannibal | Hannibal Lecter |
| 2001 (28th) | Guy Pearce | Memento | Leonard Shelby |
| 2001 (28th) | Kevin Spacey | K-PAX | Prot / Robert Porter |
| 2001 (28th) | Billy Bob Thornton | The Man Who Wasn't There | Ed Crane |
| 2002 (29th) | Robin Williams | One Hour Photo | Seymour Parrish |
| 2002 (29th) | Pierce Brosnan | Die Another Day | James Bond |
| 2002 (29th) | George Clooney | Solaris | Chris Kelvin |
| 2002 (29th) | Tom Cruise | Minority Report | John Anderton |
| 2002 (29th) | Tobey Maguire | Spider-Man | Peter Parker / Spider-Man |
| 2002 (29th) | Viggo Mortensen | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Aragorn |
| 2003 (30th) | Elijah Wood | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Frodo Baggins |
| 2003 (30th) | Tom Cruise | The Last Samurai | Nathan Algren |
| 2003 (30th) | Johnny Depp | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Captain Jack Sparrow |
| 2003 (30th) | Albert Finney | Big Fish | old Edward Bloom |
| 2003 (30th) | Crispin Glover | Willard | Willard Stiles |
| 2003 (30th) | Viggo Mortensen | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Aragorn |
| 2004 (31st) | Tobey Maguire | Spider-Man 2 | Peter Parker / Spider-Man |
| 2004 (31st) | Christian Bale | The Machinist | Trevor Reznik |
| 2004 (31st) | Jim Carrey | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Joel Barish |
| 2004 (31st) | Tom Cruise | Collateral | Vincent |
| 2004 (31st) | Matt Damon | The Bourne Supremacy | Jason Bourne |
| 2004 (31st) | Johnny Depp | Finding Neverland | Sir James Matthew Barrie |
| 2005 (32nd) | Christian Bale | Batman Begins | Bruce Wayne / Batman |
| 2005 (32nd) | Pierce Brosnan | The Matador | Julian Noble |
| 2005 (32nd) | Hayden Christensen | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader |
| 2005 (32nd) | Tom Cruise | War of the Worlds | Ray Ferrier |
| 2005 (32nd) | Robert Downey Jr. | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Harry Lockhart |
| 2005 (32nd) | Viggo Mortensen | A History of Violence | Tom Stall / Joey Cusack |
| 2006 (33rd) | Brandon Routh | Superman Returns | Clark Kent / Superman |
| 2006 (33rd) | Daniel Craig | Casino Royale | James Bond |
| 2006 (33rd) | Tom Cruise | Mission: Impossible III | Ethan Hunt |
| 2006 (33rd) | Will Ferrell | Stranger than Fiction | Harold Crick |
| 2006 (33rd) | Hugh Jackman | The Fountain | Tomas / Tommy / Tom Creo |
| 2006 (33rd) | Clive Owen | Children of Men | Theo Faron |
| 2007 (34th) | Will Smith | I Am Legend | Dr. Robert Neville |
| 2007 (34th) | Gerard Butler | 300 | King Leonidas |
| 2007 (34th) | John Cusack | 1408 | Mike Enslin |
| 2007 (34th) | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| 2007 (34th) | Johnny Depp | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Benjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd |
| 2007 (34th) | Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin |
| 2008 (35th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Iron Man | Tony Stark / Iron Man |
| 2008 (35th) | Christian Bale | The Dark Knight | Bruce Wayne / Batman |
| 2008 (35th) | Tom Cruise | Valkyrie | Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg |
| 2008 (35th) | Harrison Ford | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Indiana Jones |
| 2008 (35th) | Brad Pitt | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Benjamin Button |
| 2008 (35th) | Will Smith | Hancock | John Hancock |
| 2009 (36th) | Sam Worthington | Avatar | Jake Sully |
| 2009 (36th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes |
| 2009 (36th) | Tobey Maguire | Brothers | Capt. Sam Cahill |
| 2009 (36th) | Viggo Mortensen | The Road | Man |
| 2009 (36th) | Sam Rockwell | Moon | Sam Bell |
| 2009 (36th) | Denzel Washington | The Book of Eli | Eli |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 2010 (37th) | Jeff Bridges | Tron: Legacy | Kevin Flynn / CLU |
| 2010 (37th) | George Clooney | The American | Jack / Edward |
| 2010 (37th) | Leonardo DiCaprio | Inception | Dom Cobb |
| 2010 (37th) | Leonardo DiCaprio | Shutter Island | Teddy Daniels |
| 2010 (37th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Iron Man 2 | Tony Stark / Iron Man |
| 2010 (37th) | Ryan Reynolds | Buried | Paul Conroy |
| 2011 (38th) | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
| 2011 (38th) | Antonio Banderas | The Skin I Live In | Dr. Robert Ledgard |
| 2011 (38th) | Dominic Cooper | The Devil's Double | Uday Hussein / Latif Yahia |
| 2011 (38th) | Tom Cruise | Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | Ethan Hunt |
| 2011 (38th) | Chris Evans | Captain America: The First Avenger | Steve Rogers / Captain America |
| 2011 (38th) | Ben Kingsley | Hugo | Georges Méliès |
| 2012 (39th) | Matthew McConaughey | Killer Joe | Joe Cooper |
| 2012 (39th) | Christian Bale | The Dark Knight Rises | Bruce Wayne / Batman |
| 2012 (39th) | Daniel Craig | Skyfall | James Bond |
| 2012 (39th) | Martin Freeman | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Young Bilbo Baggins |
| 2012 (39th) | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Looper | Young Joe |
| 2012 (39th) | Hugh Jackman | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean |
| 2013 (40th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Iron Man 3 | Tony Stark / Iron Man |
| 2013 (40th) | Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 (40th) | Simon Pegg | The World's End | Gary King |
| 2013 (40th) | Joaquin Phoenix | Her | Theodore Twombly |
| 2013 (40th) | Brad Pitt | World War Z | Gerry Lane |
| 2013 (40th) | Ben Stiller | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Walter Mitty |
| 2014 (41st) | Chris Pratt | Guardians of the Galaxy | Peter Quill / Star-Lord |
| 2014 (41st) | Tom Cruise | Edge of Tomorrow | Maj. William Cage |
| 2014 (41st) | Chris Evans | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Steve Rogers / Captain America |
| 2014 (41st) | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis Bloom |
| 2014 (41st) | Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson / Birdman |
| 2014 (41st) | Matthew McConaughey | Interstellar | Cooper |
| 2014 (41st) | Dan Stevens | The Guest | David Collins |
| 2015 (42nd) | Harrison Ford | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Han Solo |
| 2015 (42nd) | John Boyega | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Finn |
| 2015 (42nd) | Matt Damon | The Martian | Mark Watney |
| 2015 (42nd) | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |
| 2015 (42nd) | Taron Egerton | Kingsman: The Secret Service | Gary "Eggsy" Unwin |
| 2015 (42nd) | Domhnall Gleeson | Ex Machina | Caleb Smith |
| 2015 (42nd) | Samuel L. Jackson | The Hateful Eight | Major Marquis Warren |
| 2015 (42nd) | Paul Rudd | Ant-Man | Scott Lang / Ant-Man |
| 2016 (43rd) | Ryan Reynolds | Deadpool | Wade Wilson / Deadpool |
| 2016 (43rd) | Benedict Cumberbatch | Doctor Strange | Dr. Stephen Strange |
| 2016 (43rd) | Chris Evans | Captain America: Civil War | Steve Rogers / Captain America |
| 2016 (43rd) | Matthew McConaughey | Gold | Kenny Wells |
| 2016 (43rd) | Chris Pine | Star Trek Beyond | Captain James T. Kirk |
| 2016 (43rd) | Chris Pratt | Passengers | Jim Preston |
| 2016 (43rd) | Mark Rylance | The BFG | The BFG |
| 2017 (44th) | Mark Hamill | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Luke Skywalker |
| 2017 (44th) | Chadwick Boseman | Black Panther | T'Challa / Black Panther |
| 2017 (44th) | Ryan Gosling | Blade Runner 2049 | K |
| 2017 (44th) | Hugh Jackman | Logan | Logan / Wolverine |
| 2017 (44th) | Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out | Chris Washington |
| 2017 (44th) | Andy Serkis | War for the Planet of the Apes | Caesar |
| 2017 (44th) | Vince Vaughn | Brawl in Cell Block 99 | Bradley Thomas |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Avengers: Endgame | Tony Stark / Iron Man |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Jeff Bridges | Bad Times at the El Royale | Father Daniel Flynn / Dock O'Kelly |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Nicolas Cage | Mandy | Red Miller |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Tom Cruise | Mission: Impossible – Fallout | Ethan Hunt |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Chris Evans | Avengers: Endgame | Steve Rogers / Captain America |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Mel Gibson | Dragged Across Concrete | Brett Ridgeman |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Keanu Reeves | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | John Wick / Jardani Jovonovich |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | John David Washington | Tenet | Protagonist |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Daniel Craig | Knives Out | Benoit Blanc |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods | Paul |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Ewan McGregor | Doctor Sleep | Dan Torrance |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Gary Oldman | Mank | Herman J. Mankiewicz |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Aaron Paul | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Jesse Pinkman |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Joaquin Phoenix | Joker | Arthur Fleck / Joker |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 2021/2022 (47th) | Tom Cruise | Top Gun: Maverick | Pete "Maverick" Mitchell |
| 2021/2022 (47th) | Timothée Chalamet | Dune | Paul Atreides |
| 2021/2022 (47th) | Idris Elba | The Suicide Squad | Robert DuBois / Bloodsport |
| 2021/2022 (47th) | Tom Holland | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Peter Parker / Spider-Man / "Peter-One" |
| 2021/2022 (47th) | Daniel Kaluuya | Nope | Otis "OJ" Haywood Jr. |
| 2021/2022 (47th) | Simu Liu | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Xu Shang-Chi |
| 2021/2022 (47th) | Robert Pattinson | The Batman | Bruce Wayne / Batman |
| 2022/2023 (48th) | Harrison Ford | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Indiana Jones |
| 2022/2023 (48th) | Ralph Fiennes | The Menu | Chef Julian Slowik |
| 2022/2023 (48th) | Ben Kingsley | Jules | Milton Robinson |
| 2022/2023 (48th) | Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2022/2023 (48th) | Chris Pratt | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Peter Quill / Star-Lord |
| 2022/2023 (48th) | Keanu Reeves | John Wick: Chapter 4 | John Wick |
| 2022/2023 (48th) | Sam Worthington | Avatar: The Way of Water | Jake Sully |
| 2023/2024 (49th) | Nicolas Cage | Dream Scenario | Dr. Paul Matthews |
| 2023/2024 (49th) | Tom Blyth | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Coriolanus Snow |
| 2023/2024 (49th) | Timothée Chalamet | Dune: Part Two | Paul Atreides |
| 2023/2024 (49th) | David Dastmalchian | Late Night with the Devil | Jack Delroy |
| 2023/2024 (49th) | Kyle Gallner | Strange Darling | The Demon |
| 2023/2024 (49th) | Michael Keaton | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Betelgeuse |
| 2023/2024 (49th) | Ryan Reynolds | Deadpool & Wolverine | Wade Wilson / Deadpool |