Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerThe Last King of ScotlandForest WhitakerBased on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.Amazon2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesBlood DiamondLeonardo DiCaprioAmazonHalf NelsonRyan GoslingAmazonThe Pursuit of HappynessWill SmithAmazonVenusPeter O'TooleAmazon

1995 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerForrest GumpTom HanksThe presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.Amazon1995 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesNobody's FoolPaul NewmanAmazonPulp FictionJohn TravoltaAmazonThe Shawshank RedemptionMorgan FreemanAmazonThe Shawshank RedemptionTim RobbinsAmazon

1996 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerLeaving Las VegasNicolas CageBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera..Amazon1996 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesCry, the Beloved CountryJames Earl JonesAmazonDead Man WalkingSean PennAmazonIl Postino: The PostmanMassimo TroisiAmazonNixonAnthony HopkinsAmazon

1997 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerShineGeoffrey RushPianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.Amazon1997 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesJerry MaguireTom CruiseAmazonSling BladeBilly Bob ThorntonAmazonThe English PatientRalph FiennesAmazonThe People vs. Larry FlyntWoody HarrelsonAmazon

1998 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerAs Good as It GetsJack NicholsonA single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.Amazon1998 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesGood Will HuntingMatt DamonAmazonThe ApostleRobert DuvallAmazonUlee's GoldPeter FondaAmazonWag the DogDustin HoffmanAmazon

1999 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerLife Is BeautifulRoberto BenigniWhen an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.Amazon1999 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesAfflictionNick NolteAmazonGods and MonstersIan McKellenAmazonSaving Private RyanTom HanksAmazonShakespeare in LoveJoseph FiennesAmazon

2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerAmerican BeautyKevin SpaceyA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.Amazon2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesFlawlessPhilip Seymour HoffmanAmazonMan on the MoonJim CarreyAmazonThe HurricaneDenzel WashingtonAmazonThe InsiderRussell CroweAmazon

2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerTrafficBenicio Del ToroA conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the fAmazon2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesBilly ElliotJamie BellAmazonCast AwayTom HanksAmazonGladiatorRussell CroweAmazonQuillsGeoffrey RushAmazon

2002 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerA Beautiful MindRussell CroweAfter John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.Amazon2002 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesI Am SamSean PennAmazonIn the BedroomTom WilkinsonAmazonLife as a HouseKevin KlineAmazonTraining DayDenzel WashingtonAmazon

2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role WinnerGangs of New YorkDaniel Day-LewisIn 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.Amazon2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role NomineesAbout SchmidtJack NicholsonAmazonAdaptation.Nicolas CageAmazonChicagoRichard GereAmazonThe PianistAdrien BrodyAmazon