# Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role

Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Male is an award given as part of its annual Gold Awards to recognise a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role on Hindi television.
The award was first awarded in 2007 under the title Best Actor in a Lead Role. A special award called Best Actor – Critics or Best Actor – Jury was also awarded occasionally in 2000s, whose winner was selected by the jury of critics assigned to the function.
The jury award was awarded without prior nominations until 2012. Since then, the jury award is also awarded with prior nominations just like the original award which is now called Best Actor – Popular.

## Superlatives

| Superlative | Popular | Popular | Overall (Popular + Jury) | Overall (Popular + Jury) |
| Actor with most awards | Karan Patel | 4 | Karan Patel | 4 |
| Actor with most nominations | Ronit Roy | 8 | Ronit Roy | 9 |
| Actor with most nominations (without ever winning) | Karan Mehra | 5 | Karan Mehra | 5 |

## Multiple winners

* 4 Wins: Karan Patel
* 3 Wins: Shabbir Ahluwalia
* 2 Wins: Sushant Singh Rajput

## List of winners
### 2000s

* 2007 Rajeev Khandelwal - Left Right Left as Captain Rajveer Singh Shekhawat
** Ram Kapoor - Kasamh Se as Jai Walia
** Rohit Roy - Viraasat as Rahul Lamba
** Shabbir Ahluwalia - Kayamath as Milind Mishra
** Sharad Malhotra - Banoo Main Teri Dulhann as Sagar Pratap Singh
** Sushant Singh - Virrudh as Sushant
* 2008 Shabbir Ahluwalia - Kayamath as Milind Mishra
** Sharad Malhotra - Banoo Main Teri Dulhann as Sagar Pratap Singh / Amar Shivdhar Upadhyay
** Angad Hasija - Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai as Alekh Rajvansh
** Harshad Chopda - Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil as Prem Juneja
** Karan Singh Grover - Dill Mill Gaye as Dr. Armaan Mallik
** Ram Kapoor - Kasamh Se as Jai Walia
* 2009 Not Held

### 2010s

* 2010 Sushant Singh Rajput - Pavitra Rishta as Manav Deshmukh
** Arhaan Behl - Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya as Krishna Singh
** Iqbal Khan - Sanjog Se Bani Sangini as Rudra
** Karan Mehra - Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai as Naitik
** Nandish Sandhu - Uttaran as Veer Singh Bundela
** Ronit Roy - Bandini as Dharamraj Mahiyanshi
* 2011 Sushant Singh Rajput - Pavitra Rishta as Manav Deshmukh
** Harshad Chopda - Tere Liye as Anurag Ganguly
** Arhaan Behl - Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya as Krishna Singh
** Karan Mehra - Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai as Naitik
** Nandish Sandhu - Uttaran as Veer Singh Bundela
** Ronit Roy - Bandini as Dharamraj Mahiyanshi
* 2012 Ram Kapoor - Bade Achhe Lagte Hain as Ram Kapoor
** Samir Soni - Parichay - Nayee Zindagi Kay Sapno Ka as Kunal Chopra
** Anas Rashid - Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Arun Rathi
** Gurmeet Chaudhary - Geet - Hui Sabse Parayi as Maan Singh Khurana
** Hiten Tejwani - Pavitra Rishta as Manav Damodar Deshmukh
** Ronit Roy - Adaalat as KD Pathak
* 2013 Karan Singh Grover - Qubool Hai as Asad Ahmed Khan and Sidharth shukla -Balika vadhu as Shivraj Shekhar
** Anas Rashid - Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Arun Rathi
** Vivian Dsena - Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon as Rishabh Mohan Kundra (RK)
** Gurmeet Chaudhary - Punar Vivaah as Yash Suraj Pratap Sindhia
** Mohit Raina - Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev as Shiva
** Ram Kapoor - Bade Achhe Lagte Hain As Ram Kapoor
* 2014 Karan Patel - Yeh Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Kumar Bhalla (tied with)Gautam Rode - Saraswatichandra as Saraswatichandra
** Rajat Tokas - Jodha Akbar as Akbar
** Mohit Raina - Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev as Shiva
** Anas Rashid - Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Arun Rathi
** Shaheer Sheikh - Mahabharat as Arjuna
** Ashish Sharma - Rangrasiya as Rudra
* 2015 Karan Patel - Yeh Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Kumar Bhalla
** Ronit Roy - Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyar as Nachiket Neil Khanna
** Shakti Arora - Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi as Ranveer Kailash Vaghela
** Ravi Dubey - Jamai Raja as Siddharth Khurana
** Shabbir Ahluwalia - Kumkum Bhagya as Abhishek Prem Mehra
** Sharad Malhotra - Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap as Maharana Pratap
* 2016 Karan Patel - Yeh Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Kumar Bhalla (tied with) Shabbir Ahluwalia - Kumkum Bhagya as Abhishek Prem Mehra
** Arjun Bijlani - Naagin (season 1) as Ritik Singh
** Sharad Malhotra - Kasam - Tere Pyaar Ki as Rishi Singh Bedi
** Ravi Dubey - Jamai Raja as Siddharth Khurana
** Anas Rashid - Diya Aur Baati Hum as Sooraj Arun Rathi
* 2017 Karan Patel - Yeh Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Kumar Bhalla
** Karanvir Bohra - Naagin (season 2) as Rocky Pratap Singh
** Shabbir Ahluwalia - Kumkum Bhagya as Abhishek Prem Mehra
** Sharad Malhotra - Kasam Tere Pyaar Ki as Rishi Singh Bedi
** Nakuul Mehta - Ishqbaaz as Shivaay Singh Oberoi
* 2018 Nakuul Mehta - Ishqbaaz as Shivaay Singh Oberoi (tied with) Shabbir Ahluwalia - Kumkum Bhagya as Abhishek Prem Mehra
** Mohsin Khan - Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai as Kartik Goenka
** Dheeraj Dhoopar - Kundali Bhagya as Karan Luthra
** Karan Patel - Ye Hai Mohabbatein as Raman Kumar Bhalla
** Harshad Chopda - Bepannah as Aditya Hooda
* 2019 Dheeraj Dhoopar - Kundali Bhagya as Karan Luthra (tied with) Mohsin Khan - Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai as Kartik Goenka
** Shabbir Ahluwalia - Kumkum Bhagya as Abhishek Prem Mehra
** Parth Samthaan - Kasautii Zindagii Kay (2018 TV series) as Anurag Basu
** Pearl V Puri - Naagin (season 3) as Mahir Sehgal
** Shaheer Sheikh - Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke as Abir Rajvansh
** Mohit Malik - Kulfi Kumar Bajewala as Sikander Singh Gill