Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

SAG Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture
Photo of the 2023 recipient: Cillian Murphy
The 2023 recipient: Cillian Murphy
Awarded forOutstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture
LocationLos Angeles, California
Presented bySAG-AFTRA
First awardedTom Hanks for Forrest Gump (1994)
Currently held byCillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023)
Websitesagawards.org

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild. It has been presented since the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995 to a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.

The award has been presented 30 times, and 28 actors have won the award. Tom Hanks was the award's first winner for Forrest Gump (1994). The most recent winner is Cillian Murphy who won for his performance in Oppenheimer (2023). Daniel Day-Lewis has won the award three times; no other actor has won it more than once. Denzel Washington has the most nominations with six.


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