Gold Derby Award for Best Actor

The Gold Derby Award for Best Actor is one of the Gold Derby Film Awards.

Winners and nominees[edit]

2000s[edit]

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
2003	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	Bill "The Butcher" Cutting
	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	Władysław Szpilman
	Nicolas Cage	Adaptation	Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman
	Hugh Grant	About a Boy	Will
	Jack Nicholson	About Schmidt	Warren Schmidt
2004	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
	Johnny Depp	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Capt. Jack Sparrow
	Jude Law	Cold Mountain	Inman
	Ben Kingsley	House of Sand and Fog	Behrani
	Sean Penn	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum
2005	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Miles Raymond
	Jim Carrey	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Joel Barish
	Don Cheadle	Hotel Rwanda	Paul Rusesabagina
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Aviator	Howard Hughes
	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles
2006	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote
	Jeff Daniels	The Squid and the Whale	Bernard Berkman
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis del Mar
	Joaquin Phoenix	Walk the Line	Johnny Cash
	David Strathairn	Good Night, and Good Luck	Edward R. Murrow
2007	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Departed	William "Billy" Costigan, Jr.
	Sacha Baron Cohen	Borat	Borat Sagdiyev
	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
	Will Smith	The Pursuit of Happyness	Chris Gardner
	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
2008	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview
	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	Johnny Depp	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Sweeney Todd
	Emile Hirsch	Into the Wild	Christopher McCandless
	James McAvoy	Atonement	Robbie Turner
	Gordon Pinsent	Away from Her	Grant Anderson
2009	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Revolutionary Road	Frank Wheeler
	Richard Jenkins	The Visitor	Walter Vale
	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon	Richard Nixon
	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy "The Ram" Robinson

2010s[edit]

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
2001–10		Best Lead Actor of the Decade
	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview
	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	Władysław Szpilman
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis del Mar
	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Johnny Depp	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Capt. Jack Sparrow
	Tom Hanks	Cast Away	Chuck Noland
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote
	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk
	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy "The Ram" Robinson
2010		Best Actor
	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart	Otis "Bad" Blake
	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Colin Firth	A Single Man	George Falconer
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	500 Days of Summer	Tom Hansen
	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	SFC William James
2011	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Shutter Island	Edward "Teddy" Daniels
	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
	Ryan Gosling	Blue Valentine	Dean Pereira
2012	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	George Valentin
	George Clooney	The Descendants	Matthew "Matt" King
	Brad Pitt	Moneyball	Bill Beane
	Gary Oldman	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	George Smiley
	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
2013	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	Bradley Cooper	Silver Linings Playbook	Patrick "Pat" Solitano, Jr.
	John Hawkes	The Sessions	Mark O'Brien
	Hugh Jackman	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
2014	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jordan Belfort
	Bruce Dern	Nebraska	Woodrow "Woody" Grant
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Joaquin Phoenix	Her	Theodore Twombly
2015	Michael Keaton	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Riggan Thomson
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing
	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Louis "Lou" Bloom
	Ralph Fiennes	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Monsieur Gustave H.
2016	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Matt Damon	The Martian	Mark Watney
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne	The Danish Girl	Einar Wegener / Lili Elbe
	Jacob Tremblay	Room	Jack Newsome
2017	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Andrew Garfield	Hacksaw Ridge	Desmond Doss
	Ryan Gosling	La La Land	Sebastian Wilder
	Viggo Mortensen	Captain Fantastic	Ben Cash
	Denzel Washington	Fences	Troy Maxson
2018	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	James Franco	The Disaster Artist	Tommy Wiseau
	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out	Chris Washington
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock
	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
2019	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born	Jackson Maine
	Christian Bale	Vice	Dick Cheney
	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Pastor Ernst Toller
	Rami Malek	Bohemian Rhapsody	Freddie Mercury
	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book	Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga

2020s[edit]

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
2011–20		Best Lead Actor of the Decade
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	Arthur Fleck / Joker
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jordan Belfort
	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born	Jackson Maine
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Louis "Lou" Bloom
	Michael Keaton	Birdman	Riggan
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
2020		Best Actor
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	Arthur Fleck / Joker
	Antonio Banderas	Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Rick Dalton
	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber
	Adam Sandler	Uncut Gems	Howard Ratner

Multiple awards[edit]

3 awards

Daniel Day-Lewis
Leonardo DiCaprio

Multiple nominations[edit]

7 nominations

Leonardo DiCaprio

4 nominations

Daniel Day Lewis
Joaquin Phoenix

3 nominations

George Clooney
Ryan Gosling

2 nominations

Bradley Cooper
Johnny Depp
Michael Fassbender
Colin Firth
James Franco
Viggo Mortensen
Gary Oldman
Sean Penn
Eddie Redmayne

Superlatives[edit]

Superlative	Leading Actor		Supporting Actor		Overall
Actor with most awards	Leonardo DiCaprio	3	—		Leonardo DiCaprio	4
Actor with most nominations	Leonardo DiCaprio	7	Willem Dafoe, Benicio del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Dev Patel, Brad Pitt, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Sarsgaard, Christoph Waltz	2	Leonardo DiCaprio	8
Actor with most nominations without ever winning	George Clooney, Ryan Gosling	3	Willem Dafoe, Benicio del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Dev Patel, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Sarsgaard	2	George Clooney, Ryan Gosling	3

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