Satellite Awards / Film / Best Actor

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With the Satellite Award for Best Actor are actors honored as lead actor outstanding performance in a film have shown. Before 2011, this award was for a leading actor in a drama and another for a leading actor in a film in the comedy / musical category.

In 2016 and 2017, two winners were honored - the best leading actor in an independent film and that of a major studio film. As of 2018, the original division into drama and comedy / musical was returned.

statistics
Most frequently honored leading actor Geoffrey Rush (two wins, same category)
Philip Seymour Hoffman , Viggo Mortensen and Ryan Gosling (two wins each in different categories)
Sean Penn (one double award)
Most frequently nominated leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio (seven nominations)
Most frequently nominated leading actor without a win Denzel Washington (six nominations)

The main actors from the previous year are always honored.

Nominations and winners

Best Actor - Drama (1996-2010)

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
1996 Geoffrey Rush

James Woods
Shine - The way into the light

killer - diary of a serial killer
Christopher Eccleston for hearts in turmoil
Ralph Fiennes for The English patient
William H. Macy for Fargo
Billy Bob Thornton for Sling Blade
1997 Robert Duvall Apostle! Russell Crowe for LA Confidential
Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting
Leonardo DiCaprio for Titanic
Djimon Hounsou for Amistad
Mark Wahlberg for Boogie Nights
1998 Edward Norton American History X Stephen Fry for Oscar Wilde
Brendan Gleeson for Der General
Derek Jacobi for Love is the Devil
Nick Nolte for Der Haunted
Ian McKellen for Gods and Monsters
1999 Terence Stamp The Limey Russell Crowe for Insider
Richard Farnsworth for A True Story - The Straight Story
Al Pacino for Insider
Kevin Spacey for American Beauty
Denzel Washington for Hurricane
2000 Geoffrey Rush Quills - power of obsession Jamie Bell for Billy Elliot - I Will Dance
Sean Connery for Forrester - Found it!
Russell Crowe for Gladiator
Ed Harris for Pollock
Denzel Washington for Against Any Rule
2001 Brian Cox LIE - Long Island Expressway Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind - Genius and Madness
Guy Pearce for Memento
Sean Penn for I'm Sam
Billy Bob Thornton for Monster's Ball
Denzel Washington for Training Day
2002 Daniel Day-Lewis

Michael Caine
Gangs of New York

The silent American
Edward Norton for 25 Hours
Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt
Robin Williams for One Hour Photo
Tom Hanks for Road to Perdition
2003 Sean Penn 21 grams of
Mystic River
Hayden Christensen for Shattered Glass
Paddy Considine for In America
Tom Cruise for The Last Samurai
Jude Law for On the Road to Cold Mountain
William H. Macy for The Cooler - Alles auf Liebe
2004 Don Cheadle Hotel Rwanda Kevin Bacon for The Woodsman
Javier Bardem for The Sea in Me
Gael García Bernal for The Journey of Young Che
Johnny Depp for When Dreams Learn To Fly
Liam Neeson for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex
Sean Penn for the assassination attempt on Richard Nixon
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Jake Gyllenhaal for Jarhead - Welcome to the Filth
Tommy Lee Jones for Three Burials - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain
Viggo Mortensen for A History of Violence
2006 Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland - In the Clutches of Power Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Joshua Jackson for Aurora Borealis
Derek Luke for Catch a Fire
Patrick Wilson for Little Children
2007 Viggo Mortensen Deadly Promises - Eastern Promises Denzel Washington for American Gangster
Josh Brolin for No Country for Old Men
Christian Bale for Rescue Dawn
Frank Langella for Starting Out in the Evening
Tommy Lee Jones for Im Tal von Elah
2008 Richard Jenkins A summer in New York - The Visitor Leonardo DiCaprio for Times of Troubles
Frank Langella for Frost / Nixon
Sean Penn for Milk
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Mark Ruffalo for What Doesn't Kill You
2009 Jeremy Renner Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker Colin Firth for A Single Man
Hugh Dancy for Adam - A Story About Two Strangers. One a little stranger than the other.
Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart
Johnny Depp for Public Enemies
Michael Sheen for The Damned United - The Eternal Adversary
2010 Colin Firth The King's Speech Ryan Gosling for Blue Valentine
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
Javier Bardem for Biutiful
James Franco for 127 Hours
Leonardo DiCaprio for Inception
Robert Duvall for At the End of the Path - A True Lies Story
Michael Douglas for Solitary Man

Best Actor - Comedy / Musical (1996-2010)

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
1996 Tom Cruise Jerry Maguire - Game of Life Nathan Lane for The Birdcage
Eddie Murphy for The Mad Professor
Jack Nicholson for Mars Attacks!
Stanley Tucci for Big Night
1997 Jack Nicholson It couldn't be better Robert Carlyle for All Or Not
Dustin Hoffman for Wag the Dog - When the Tail Wags the Dog
Tommy Lee Jones for Men in Black
Kevin Kline for In & Out
Howard Stern for Private Parts
1998 Ian Bannen Long live Ned Devine! Warren Beatty for Bulworth
Jeff Bridges for The Big Lebowski
Michael Caine for Little Voice
David Kelly for Long Live Ned Devine!
Robin Williams for Patch Adams
1999 Philip Seymour Hoffman Flawless Jim Carrey for The Moon Man
Johnny Depp for Sleepy Hollow
Rupert Everett for A Perfect Husband
Sean Penn for Sweet and Lowdown
Steve Zahn for Happy, Texas
2000 Michael Douglas The WonderBoys George Clooney for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey
Christopher Guest for Best in Show
Richard Gere for Dr. T and the Women
Eddie Murphy for the Klumps family and the mad professor
Edward Norton for Faith is Everything!
2001 Ewan McGregor Moulin Rouge Colin Firth for Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast
Gene Hackman for The Royal Tenenbaums
John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Ben Stiller for Zoolander
Chris Tucker for Rush Hour 2
2002 Kieran Culkin Igby Hugh Grant for About a Boy or: The Day of the Dead Duck
Nicolas Cage for Adaptation - The Orchid Thief
Sam Rockwell for Confessions - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Adam Sandler for Punch-Drunk Love
Aaron Stanford for Everyone Loves Oscar
2003 Bill Murray Lost in Translation Jack Black for School of Rock
Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean
Robert Downey Junior for The Singing Detective
Paul Giamatti for American Splendor
Billy Bob Thornton for Bad Santa
2004 Jamie Foxx Ray Gerard Butler for Phantom of the Opera
Jim Carrey for Forget Me Not!
Paul Giamatti for Sideways
Kevin Kline for De-Lovely - The Cole Porter Story
Bill Murray for The Deep Sea Divers
2005 Terrence Howard Hustle & Flow Bill Murray for Broken Flowers
Kevin Costner for On Your Shoulder
Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line
Robert Downey Jr. for Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Cillian Murphy for Breakfast on Pluto
2006 Joseph Cross Awesome Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat
Aaron Eckhart for Thank You for Smoking
Will Ferrell for Stranger than Fiction
Peter O'Toole for Venus
2007 Ryan Gosling Lars and the women Richard Gere for The Hoax
Seth Rogen for First Time
Ben Kingsley for You Kill Me
Clive Owen for Shoot 'Em Up
Don Cheadle for Talk to Me
2008 Ricky Gervais Who the spirits love Josh Brolin for W. - A Misunderstood Life
Michael Cera for Nick and Norah - Soundtrack of a night See
Brendan Gleeson for Bruges ... and die?
Sam Rockwell for Choke - The Simulant
Mark Ruffalo for Brothers Bloom
2009 Michael Stuhlbarg A serious man Daniel Day-Lewis for Nine
Bradley Cooper for Hangover
Matt Damon for The Informant!
George Clooney for Up in the Air
2010 Michael Cera Scott Pilgrim versus the rest of the world Andy García for Meet the Rizzos
John C. Reilly for Cyrus
Romain Duris for The Order
Lover Jake Gyllenhaal for Love and other Drugs - Side Effects including
John Malkovich for RED - Older, Harder, Better

Best Actor (2011-2017)

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
2011 Ryan Gosling Drive George Clooney for The Descendants - Family and Other Affairs
Leonardo DiCaprio for J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender for Shame
Brendan Gleeson for The Guard - An Irishman looks black
Tom Hardy for Warrior
Woody Harrelson for Rampart - Cop Out of Control
Gary Oldman for Queen, King, Ace Winning Spy
Brad Pitt for The Art - Moneyball
Michael Shannon for Take Shelter - A Storm Is Coming
2012 Bradley Cooper Silver linings Christian Bale for American Hustle
Bruce Dern for Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips
Robert Redford for All Is Lost
Forest Whitaker for The Butler
2013 Matthew McConaughey Dallas Buyers Club Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Hugh Jackman for Les Misérables
Omar Sy for Pretty Best Friends
Denzel Washington for Flight
John Hawkes for The Sessions - When Words Touch
2014 Michael Keaton Birdman or (The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness) Steve Carell for Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game - A Top Secret Life
Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler
David Oyelowo for Selma
Eddie Redmayne for The Discovery of Infinity
Miles Teller for Whiplash
2015 Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant Matt Damon for Der Martianer - Saves Mark Watney
Johnny Depp for Black Mass
Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs
Tom Hardy for Legend
Eddie Redmayne for The Danish Girl
Will Smith for Shattering Truth
2016 Andrew Garfield (Major)

Viggo Mortensen (Independent)
Hacksaw Ridge - The decision

Captain Fantastic - To the wilderness and back
Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton for Loving
Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Snowden
Ryan Gosling for La La Land
Tom Hanks for Sully
Denzel Washington for Fences
2017 Gary Oldman (Major)

Harry Dean Stanton (Independent)
The darkest hour,

Lucky
Daniel Day-Lewis for The Silk Thread
James Franco for The Disaster Artist
Jake Gyllenhaal for Stronger
Robert Pattinson for Good Time
Jeremy Renner for Wind River

Best Actor - Drama (from 2018)

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
2018 Willem Dafoe Van Gogh - On the threshold of eternity Ben Foster for Leave No Trace
Ryan Gosling for Going to the Moon
Ethan Hawke for First Reformed
Lucas Hedges for The Prodigal Son
Robert Redford for A Crook & Gentleman
2019 Christian Bale Le Mans 66 - Against every chance Antonio Banderas for Sorrow and Glory
Adam Driver for Marriage Story
George MacKay for 1917
Joaquin Phoenix for Joker
Mark Ruffalo for Poisoned Truth

Best Actor - Comedy / Musical (from 2018)

year Award winners for the movie Nominations
2018 Rami Malek Bohemian Rhapsody Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born
Lin-Manuel Miranda for Mary Poppins' Return
Viggo Mortensen for Green Book
Nick Robinson for Love, Simon
John David Washington for BlacKkKlansman
2019 Taron Egerton Rocketman Daniel Craig for Knives Out
Leonardo DiCaprio for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Eddie Murphy for Dolemite Is My Name
Adam Sandler for The Black Diamond
Taika Waititi for Jojo Rabbit

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The International Press Academy Announces Winners For The 21st Annual Satellite ™ Awards. In: www.pressacademy.com. December 19, 2016, accessed January 31, 2017 .