Sinkie Award for Best Actor

The Sinkie Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Everything But the Kitchen Sink podcast since the awards debuted in 2018. It is given to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. Seven individuals are nominated every year for this award, There have been 49 actors nominated and seven winners. 
Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, and Leonardo DiCaprio are tied for the record for most nominations in the category, each with two. The oldest winner is Adam Sandler at 53 years old, and the youngest is Timothee Chalamet at 22. 
== Correlation to the Academy Awards ==
The Sinkie Awards have a mixed correlation with the Academy Awards, and this category is the least aligned, at least as far as wins are concerned. Of the 47 Best Actor nominees for the Sinkie for Best Actor, 24 of them were also nominated for the Oscar (20 if you count Lakeith Stanfield, nominated in this category at the Sinkies and in Supporting at the Oscars for Judas and the Black Messiah). This is the only main acting category where the winner has never gone on to win the Oscar. Two Sinkie winners for Best Actor have won without also being nominated at the Oscars: Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems and Zac Efron for The Iron Claw. In the brief history of the Sinkies, the only Oscar winner for Best Actor to have missed a Sinkie nod is Brendan Fraser for The Whale.
==Winners and nominees==
In the list below, winners are listed first, bolded with asterisks around them, followed by the other nominees. The year shown is the one in which the film premiered - the year of release. This is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2021 was eligible for consideration for the 2021 Best Actor Sinkie, awarded in 2022. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony.
Nominees with an asterisk* were also nominated at the Oscars. Nominees with a + won the Oscar.
Year	Actor 	Role(s) 	Film
2017
(1st)	*Timothee Chalamet** 	*Elio Perlman** 	*Call Me By Your Name**
2017
(1st)	James Franco 	Tommy Wiseau 	The Disaster Artist
2017
(1st)	Hugh Jackman 	Logan / X-24 	Logan
2017
(1st)	Daniel Kaluuya* 	Chris Washington* 	Get Out*
2017
(1st)	Kumail Nanjiani 	Kumail 	The Big Sick
2017
(1st)	Gary Oldman*+ 	Winston Churchill*+ 	Darkest Hour*+
2017
(1st)	Robert Pattinson 	Connie Nikas 	Good Time
2018
(2nd)	*Bradley Cooper** 	*Jackson Maine** 	*A Star is Born**
2018
(2nd)	Christian Bale* 	Dick Cheney* 	Vice*
2018
(2nd)	Ryan Gosling 	Neil Armstrong 	First Man
2018
(2nd)	John Krasinski 	Lee Abbott 	A Quiet Place
2018
(2nd)	Rami Malek*+ 	Freddie Mercury*+ 	Bohemian Rhapsody*+
2018
(2nd)	Viggo Mortensen* 	Tony Vallelonga* 	Green Book*
2018
(2nd)	Alex Wolff 	Peter Graham 	Hereditary
2019
(3rd)	*Adam Sandler* 	*Howard Ratner* 	*Uncut Gems*
2019
(3rd)	Roman Griffin Davis 	Jojo Rabbit 	Jojo Rabbit
2019
(3rd)	Robert De Niro 	Frank Sheeran 	The Irishman
2019
(3rd)	Leonardo DiCaprio* 	Rick Dalton* 	Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood*
2019
(3rd)	Adam Driver* 	Charlie Barber* 	Marriage Story*
2019
(3rd)	George Mackay 	Lance Corporal Schofield 	1917
2019
(3rd)	Joaquin Phoenix*+ 	Arthur Fleck / Joker*+ 	Joker*+
2020
(4th)	*Riz Ahmed** 	*Ruben Stone** 	*Sound of Metal**
2020
(4th)	Chadwick Boseman* 	Levee Green* 	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom*
2020
(4th)	Anthony Hopkins*+ 	Anthony*+ 	The Father*+
2020
(4th)	Delroy Lindo 	Paul 	Da 5 Bloods
2020
(4th)	Jesse Plemons 	Jake 	I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020
(4th)	Lakeith Stanfield* 	William "Bill" O'Neal* 	Judas and the Black Messiah*
2020
(4th)	Steven Yeun* 	Jacob Yi* 	Minari*
2021
(5th)	*Andrew Garfield** 	*Jonathan Larson** 	*tick, tick... BOOM!**
2021
(5th)	Nicolas Cage 	Robin 	Pig
2021
(5th)	Benedict Cumberbatch*	Phil Burbank* 	The Power of the Dog*
2021
(5th)	Adam Driver 	Henry McHenry 	Annette
2021
(5th)	Anthony Ramos 	Usnavi de la Vega 	In the Heights
2021
(5th)	Will Smith*+ 	Richard Williams*+ 	King Richard*+
2021
(5th)	Denzel Washington* 	Lord Macbeth* 	The Tragedy of Macbeth*
2022
(6th)	*Colin Farrell** 	*Pádraic Súilleabháin** 	*The Banshees of Inisherin**
2022
(6th)	Austin Butler* 	Elvis Presley* 	Elvis*
2022
(6th)	Ram Charan 	Alluri Sitarama Raju 	RRR
2022
(6th)	Tom Cruise 	Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell	Top Gun: Maverick
2022
(6th)	Daniel Kaluuya 	Otis "OJ" Haywood Jr. 	Nope
2022
(6th)	Paul Mescal* 	Calum* 	Aftersun*
2022
(6th)	N.T. Rama Rao Jr. 	Komaram Bheem 	RRR
2023
(7th)	*Zac Efron* 	*Kevin Von Erich* 	*The Iron Claw*
2023
(7th)	Leonardo DiCaprio 	Ernest Burkhart 	Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
(7th)	Paul Giamatti* 	Paul Hunham* 	The Holdovers*
2023
(7th)	Cillian Murphy* 	J. Robert Oppenheimer* 	Oppenheimer*+
2023
(7th)	Andrew Scott 	Adam 	All Of Us Strangers
2023
(7th)	Jeffrey Wright* 	Dr. Thelonius "Monk" Ellison* 	American Fiction*
2023
(7th)	Teo Yoo 	Hae Sung 	Past Lives
== Multiple wins and nominations ==
There has not been a repeat winner in this category as of yet. Here are the actors with multiple nominations:
# of Nominations	Actor
2 	Leonardo DiCaprio
2 	Adam Driver
2 	Daniel Kaluuya
== Jimmy & Kyle's Votes ==
Each year, hosts Jimmy Nicholas and Kyle Wilson announce their vote before they announce the winner. In this category, Jimmy's pick has won three times and Kyle's pick has won twice. There are two years where Jimmy and Kyle chose the same pick: Zac Efron for The Iron Claw and Delroy Lindo for Da 5 Bloods, who wound up losing still to Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal.
Year of Film Release	Jimmy 	Kyle 	Winner
2017 (1st) 	James Franco, The Disaster Artist 	Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name	Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
2018 (2nd) 	Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born 	Ryan Gosling, First Man 	Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
2019 (3rd) 	George Mackay, 1917 	Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems 	Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
2020 (4th) 	Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods 	Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods 	Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
2021 (5th) 	Andrew Garfield, tick, tick... BOOM!	Nicolas Cage, Pig 	Andrew Garfield, tick, tick... BOOM!
2022 (6th) 	Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick 	Paul Mescal, Aftersun 	Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 (7th) 	Zac Efron, The Iron Claw 	Zac Efron, The Iron Claw 	Zac Efron, The Iron Claw