# Prémio Satellite de melhor ator em cinema

O Prémio Satellite de melhor ator em filme de drama é um prêmio anual dado pela International Press Academy, sendo uma das categorias do Satellite Awards.
Notas
* "†" indica um Oscar pelo mesmo trabalho.
* "‡" indica uma nomeação ao Oscar pelo mesmo trabalho.

## Vencedores e indicados
### Comédia ou Musical (1996-2009)

| Ano | Atores | Filme | Personagens |
| 1996 | Tom Cruise ‡ | Jerry Maguire | Jerry Maguire |
| 1996 | Nathan Lane | The Birdcage | Albert Goldman |
| 1996 | Eddie Murphy | The Nutty Professor | Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Família Klump |
| 1996 | Jack Nicholson | Mars Attacks! | James Dale |
| 1996 | Stanley Tucci | Big Night | Secondo |
| 1997 | Jack Nicholson † | As Good as It Gets | Melvin Udall |
| 1997 | Robert Carlyle | The Full Monty | Gary "Gaz" Schofield |
| 1997 | Dustin Hoffman ‡ | Wag the Dog | Stanley Motss |
| 1997 | Tommy Lee Jones | Men in Black | Kevin Brown / Agente K |
| 1997 | Kevin Kline | In & Out | Howard Brackett |
| 1997 | Howard Stern | Private Parts | Howard Stern |
| 1998 | Ian Bannen | Waking Ned | Jackie O'Shea |
| 1998 | Warren Beatty | Bulworth | Jay Billington Bulworth |
| 1998 | Jeff Bridges | The Big Lebowski | Jeffrey "O Cara" Lebowski |
| 1998 | Michael Caine | Little Voice | Ray Say |
| 1998 | David Kelly | Waking Ned | Michael O'Sullivan |
| 1998 | Robin Williams | Patch Adams | Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams |
| 1999 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Flawless | Rusty |
| 1999 | Jim Carrey | Man on the Moon | Andy Kaufman |
| 1999 | Johnny Depp | Sleepy Hollow | Ichabod Crane |
| 1999 | Rupert Everett | An Ideal Husband | Arthur Goring |
| 1999 | Sean Penn ‡ | Sweet and Lowdown | Emmet Ray |
| 1999 | Steve Zahn | Happy, Texas | Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr. |
| 2000 | Michael Douglas | Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp |
| 2000 | George Clooney | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Everett |
| 2000 | Richard Gere | Dr. T & the Women | Dr. T |
| 2000 | Christopher Guest | Best in Show | Harlan Pepper |
| 2000 | Eddie Murphy | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Família Klump |
| 2000 | Edward Norton | Keeping the Faith | Brian Finn |
| 2001 | Ewan McGregor | Moulin Rouge! | Christian |
| 2001 | Colin Firth | Bridget Jones's Diary | Mark Darcy |
| 2001 | Gene Hackman | The Royal Tenenbaums | Royal Tenenbaum |
| 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hedwig |
| 2001 | Ben Stiller | Zoolander | Derek Zoolander |
| 2001 | Chris Tucker | Rush Hour 2 | James Carter |
| 2002 | Kieran Culkin | Igby Goes Down | Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr. |
| 2002 | Nicolas Cage ‡ | Adaptation. | Charlie e Donald Kaufman |
| 2002 | Hugh Grant | About a Boy | Will |
| 2002 | Sam Rockwell | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Chuck Barris |
| 2002 | Adam Sandler | Punch-Drunk Love | Barry Egan |
| 2002 | Aaron Stanford | Tadpole | Oscar Grubman |
| 2003 | Bill Murray ‡ | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2003 | Jack Black | School of Rock | Dewey Finn |
| 2003 | Johnny Depp ‡ | Pirates of the Caribbean | Capitão Jack Sparrow |
| 2003 | Robert Downey, Jr. | The Singing Detecctive | Dan Dark |
| 2003 | Paul Giamatti | American Splendor | Harvey Pekar |
| 2003 | Billy Bob Thornton | Bad Santa | Willie |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx † | Ray | Ray Charles |
| 2004 | Gerard Butler | The Phantom of the Opera | Erik, o Fantasma da Ópera |
| 2004 | Jim Carrey | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Joel Barish |
| 2004 | Paul Giamatti | Sideways | Miles |
| 2004 | Kevin Kline | De-Lovely | Cole Porter |
| 2004 | Bill Murray | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Steve Zissou |
| 2005 | Terrence Howard ‡ | Hustle & Flow | DJay |
| 2005 | Kevin Costner | The Upside of Anger | Denny Davies |
| 2005 | Robert Downey, Jr. | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Harry Lockhart |
| 2005 | Cillian Murphy | Breakfast on Pluto | Patrick "Kitten" Braden |
| 2005 | Bill Murray | Broken Flowers | Don Johnston |
| 2005 | Joaquin Phoenix ‡ | Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
| 2006 | Joseph Cross | Running with Scissors | Augusten Burroughs |
| 2006 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat | Borat Sagdiyev |
| 2006 | Aaron Eckhart | Thank You for Smoking | Nick Naylor |
| 2006 | Will Ferrell | Stranger than Fiction | Harold Crick |
| 2006 | Peter O'Toole ‡ | Venus | Maurice |
| 2007 | Ryan Gosling | Lars and the Real Girl | Lars Lindstrom |
| 2007 | Don Cheadle | Talk to Me | Ralph Greene, Jr. |
| 2007 | Richard Gere | The Hoax | Clifford Irving |
| 2007 | Ben Kingsley | You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk |
| 2007 | Clive Owen | Shoot 'Em Up | Smith |
| 2007 | Seth Rogen | Knocked Up | Ben Stone |
| 2008 | Ricky Gervais | Ghost Town | Bertram Pincus |
| 2008 | Josh Brolin | W. | George W. Bush |
| 2008 | Michael Cera | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | Nick |
| 2008 | Brendan Gleeson | In Bruges | Ken |
| 2008 | Sam Rockwell | Choke | Victor Mancini |
| 2008 | Mark Ruffalo | The Brothers Bloom | Stephen |
| 2009 | Michael Stuhlbarg | A Serious Man | Larry Gopnik |
| 2009 | George Clooney ‡ | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
| 2009 | Bradley Cooper | The Hangover | Phil Wenneck |
| 2009 | Matt Damon | The Informant! | Mark Whitacre |
| 2009 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Nine | Guido Contini |
| 2010 | Michael Cera | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Scott Pilgrim |
| 2010 | Steve Carell | Dinner for Schmucks | Barry Speck |
| 2010 | Romain Duris | L'Arnacœur (Heartbreaker) | Alex |
| 2010 | Andy García | City Island | Vince Rizzo |
| 2010 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Love and Other Drugs | Jamie Randall |
| 2010 | John Malkovich | Red | Marvin Boggs |
| 2010 | John C. Reilly | Cyrus | John |

### Drama

| Ano | Atores | Filme | Personagens |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Rush † | Shine | David Helfgott |
| 1996 | Christopher Eccleston | Jude | Jude Fawley |
| 1996 | Ralph Fiennes ‡ | The English Patient | Laszlo de Almásy |
| 1996 | William H. Macy ‡ | Fargo | Jerry Lundegaard |
| 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton ‡ | Sling Blade | Karl Childers |
| 1996 | James Woods | Killer: A Journal of Murder | Carl Panzram |
| 1997 | Robert Duvall ‡ | The Apostle | Euliss Dewey / O Apóstolo |
| 1997 | Russell Crowe | L.A. Confidential | Bud White |
| 1997 | Matt Damon ‡ | Good Will Hunting | Will Hunting |
| 1997 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Titanic | Jack Dawson |
| 1997 | Djimon Hounsou | Amistad | Cinque |
| 1997 | Mark Wahlberg | Boogie Nights | Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler |
| 1998 | Edward Norton ‡ | American History X | Derek Vinyard |
| 1998 | Stephen Fry | Wilde | Oscar Wilde |
| 1998 | Brendan Gleeson | The General | Martin Cahill |
| 1998 | Derek Jacobi | Love Is the Devil... | Francis Bacon |
| 1998 | Ian McKellen ‡ | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
| 1998 | Nick Nolte ‡ | Affliction | Wade Whitehouse |
| 1999 | Terence Stamp | The Limey | Wilson |
| 1999 | Russell Crowe ‡ | The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand |
| 1999 | Al Pacino | The Insider | Lowell Bergman |
| 1999 | Richard Farnsworth | The Straight Story | Alvin Straight |
| 1999 | Kevin Spacey † | American Beauty | Lester Burnham |
| 1999 | Denzel Washington ‡ | The Hurricane | Rubin Carter |
| 2000 | Geoffrey Rush ‡ | Quills | Marquês de Sade |
| 2000 | Jamie Bell | Billy Elliot | Billy Elliot |
| 2000 | Sean Connery | Finding Forrester | William Forrester |
| 2000 | Russell Crowe † | Gladiator | Maximus Decimus Meridius |
| 2000 | Ed Harris ‡ | Pollock | Jackson Pollock |
| 2000 | Denzel Washington | Remember the Titans | Herman Boone |
| 2001 | Brian Cox | L.I.E. | John Harrigan |
| 2001 | Russell Crowe ‡ | A Beautiful Mind | John Forbes Nash |
| 2001 | Guy Pearce | Memento | Leonard Shelby |
| 2001 | Sean Penn ‡ | I Am Sam | Sam Dawson |
| 2001 | Billy Bob Thornton | Monster's Ball | Hank Grotowski |
| 2001 | Denzel Washington † | Training Day | Alonzo Harris |
| 2002 | Michael Caine ‡ | The Quiet American | Thomas Fowler |
| 2002 | Daniel Day-Lewis ‡ | Gangs of New York | William "Bill, o Açougueiro" Cutting |
| 2002 | Tom Hanks | Road to Perdition | Michael Sullivan |
| 2002 | Jack Nicholson ‡ | About Schmidt | Warren Schmidt |
| 2002 | Edward Norton | 25th Hour | Monty Brogan |
| 2002 | Robin Williams | One Hour Photo | Seymour Parrish |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | 21 Grams | Paul Rivers |
| 2003 | Sean Penn † | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |
| 2003 | Hayden Christensen | Shattered Glass | Stephen Glass |
| 2003 | Paddy Considine | In America | Johnny |
| 2003 | Tom Cruise | The Last Samurai | Capitão Nathan Algren |
| 2003 | Jude Law ‡ | Cold Mountain | W.P. Inman |
| 2003 | William H. Macy | The Cooler | Bernie Lootz |
| 2004 | Don Cheadle ‡ | Hotel Rwanda | Paul Rusesabagina |
| 2004 | Kevin Bacon | The Woodsman | Walter |
| 2004 | Javier Bardem | Mar adentro (The Sea Inside) | Ramón Sampedro |
| 2004 | Johnny Depp ‡ | Finding Neverland | Sir James Matthew Barrie |
| 2004 | Gael García Bernal | Diários de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries) | Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna |
| 2004 | Liam Neeson | Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman † | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2005 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Jarhead | Anthony "Swoff" Swofford |
| 2005 | Heath Ledger ‡ | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar |
| 2005 | Tommy Lee Jones | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Pete Perkins |
| 2005 | Viggo Mortensen | A History of Violence | Tom Stall / Joey Cusack |
| 2005 | David Strathairn ‡ | Good Night, and Good Luck | Edward R. Murrow |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker † | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2006 | Leonardo DiCaprio ‡ | Blood Diamond | Danny Archer |
| 2006 | Ryan Gosling ‡ | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne |
| 2006 | Joshua Jackson | Aurora Borealis | Duncan |
| 2006 | Derek Luke | Catch a Fire | Patrick Chamusso |
| 2006 | Patrick Wilson | Little Children | Brad Adamson |
| 2007 | Viggo Mortensen ‡ | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin |
| 2007 | Josh Brolin | No Country for Old Men | Llewelyn Moss |
| 2007 | Christian Bale | Rescue Dawn | Dieter Dengler |
| 2007 | Tommy Lee Jones ‡ | In the Valley of Elah | Hank Deerfield |
| 2007 | Frank Langella | Starting Out in the Evening | Leonard Schiller |
| 2007 | Denzel Washington | American Gangster | Frank Lucas |
| 2008 | Richard Jenkins ‡ | The Visitor | Walter Vale |
| 2008 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Revolutionary Road | Frank Wheeler |
| 2008 | Frank Langella ‡ | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon |
| 2008 | Sean Penn † | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| 2008 | Mickey Rourke ‡ | The Wrestler | Randy Robinson |
| 2008 | Mark Ruffalo | What Doesn't Kill You | Brian Reilly |
| 2009 | Jeremy Renner ‡ | The Hurt Locker | Sargento William James |
| 2009 | Jeff Bridges † | Crazy Heart | Otis "Bad" Blake |
| 2009 | Hugh Dancy | Adam | Adam Raki |
| 2009 | Johnny Depp | Public Enemies | John Dillinger |
| 2009 | Colin Firth ‡ | A Single Man | George Falconer |
| 2009 | Michael Sheen | The Damned United | Brian Clough |
| 2010 | Colin Firth † | The King's Speech | Rei George VI do Reino Unido |
| 2010 | Javier Bardem ‡ | Biutiful | Uxbal |
| 2010 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Inception | Dom Cobb |
| 2010 | Michael Douglas | Solitary Man | Ben Kalmen |
| 2010 | Robert Duvall | Get Low | Felix Bush |
| 2010 | Jesse Eisenberg ‡ | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2010 | James Franco ‡ | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston |
| 2010 | Ryan Gosling | Blue Valentine | Dean Hellers |

### Cinema (Drama / Comédia ou Musical)

| Ano | Atores | Filme | Personagens |
| 2011 | Ryan Gosling | Drive | O Motorista |
| 2011 | George Clooney ‡ | The Descendants | Matt King |
| 2011 | Leonardo DiCaprio | J. Edgar | J. Edgar Hoover |
| 2011 | Michael Fassbender | Shame | Brandon Sullivan |
| 2011 | Brendan Gleeson | The Guard | Sargento Gerry Boyle |
| 2011 | Tom Hardy | Warrior | Tommy Riordan |
| 2011 | Woody Harrelson | Rampart | Dave Brown |
| 2011 | Gary Oldman ‡ | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | George Smiley |
| 2011 | Brad Pitt ‡ | Moneyball | Billy Beane |
| 2011 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
| 2012 | Bradley Cooper ‡ | Silver Linings Playbook | Patrick "Pat" Solitano |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis † | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 2012 | John Hawkes | The Sessions | Mark O'Brien |
| 2012 | Hugh Jackman ‡ | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean |
| 2012 | Joaquin Phoenix ‡ | The Master | Freddie Quell |
| 2012 | Omar Sy | Intouchables | Driss Vassary |
| 2012 | Denzel Washington ‡ | Flight | William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr. |
| 2013 | Matthew McConaughey † | Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof |
| 2013 | Christian Bale ‡ | American Hustle | Irving Rosenfeld |
| 2013 | Bruce Dern ‡ | Nebraska | Woodrow "Woody" T. Grant |
| 2013 | Leonardo DiCaprio ‡ | The Wolf of Wall Street | Jordan Belfort |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor ‡ | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
| 2013 | Tom Hanks | Captain Phillips | Capitão Richard Phillips |
| 2013 | Robert Redford | All Is Lost | O Homem |
| 2013 | Forest Whitaker | The Butler | Cecil Gaines |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton ‡ | Birdman | Riggan Thomson |
| 2014 | Steve Carell ‡ | Foxcatcher | John Eleuthère du Pont |
| 2014 | Benedict Cumberbatch ‡ | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing |
| 2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis Bloom |
| 2014 | David Oyelowo | Selma | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 2014 | Eddie Redmayne † | The Theory of Everything | Stephen Hawking |
| 2014 | Miles Teller | Whiplash | Andrew Neiman |
| 2015 | Leonardo DiCaprio † | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |
| 2015 | Matt Damon ‡ | The Martian | Mark Watney |
| 2015 | Johnny Depp | Black Mass | James "Whitey" Bulger |
| 2015 | Michael Fassbender ‡ | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs |
| 2015 | Tom Hardy | Legend | Ronald Kray / Reginald Kray |
| 2015 | Eddie Redmayne ‡ | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener |
| 2015 | Will Smith | Concussion | Dr. Bennet Omalu |
| 2016 | Andrew Garfield ‡ | Hacksaw Ridge | Desmond T. Doss |
| 2016 | Viggo Mortensen ‡ | Captain Fantastic | Ben Cash |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck † | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
| 2016 | Joel Edgerton | Loving | Richard Loving |
| 2016 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Snowden | Edward Snowden |
| 2016 | Ryan Gosling ‡ | La La Land | Sebastian Wilder |
| 2016 | Tom Hanks | Sully | Capitão Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger |
| 2016 | Denzel Washington ‡ | Fences | Troy Maxson |
| 2017 | Gary Oldman ‡ | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill |
| 2017 | Harry Dean Stanton | Lucky | Lucky |
| 2017 | Daniel Day-Lewis ‡ | Phantom Thread | Reynolds Woodcock |
| 2017 | James Franco | The Disaster Artist | Tommy Wiseau |
| 2017 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Stronger | Jeff Bauman |
| 2017 | Robert Pattinson | Good Time | Constantine "Connie" Nikas |
| 2017 | Jeremy Renner | Wind River | Cory Lambert |