Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama is an annual award given by the International Press Academy as one of its Satellite Awards.

Winners and nominees

1990s

*"'1996(t): Geoffrey Rush - "Shine"
*1996(t): James Woods - '
**Christopher Eccleston - "Jude"
**Ralph Fiennes - "The English Patient"
**William H. Macy - "Fargo"
**Billy Bob Thornton - "Sling Blade"
*"'1997: Robert Duvall - "The Apostle"
**Russell Crowe - "L.A. Confidential"
**Matt Damon - "Good Will Hunting"
**Leonardo DiCaprio - "Titanic"
**Djimon Hounsou - "Amistad"
**Mark Wahlberg - "Boogie Nights"
*"'1998: Edward Norton - "American History X"
**Stephen Fry - "Wilde"
**Brendan Gleeson - "The General"
**Derek Jacobi - ""
**Ian McKellen - "Gods and Monsters"
**Nick Nolte - "Affliction"
*"'1999: Terence Stamp - "The Limey"
**Russell Crowe - "The Insider"
**Richard Farnsworth - "The Straight Story"
**Al Pacino - "The Insider"
**Kevin Spacey - "American Beauty"
**Denzel Washington - "The Hurricane"

2000s

*"'2000: Geoffrey Rush - "Quills"
**Jamie Bell - "Billy Elliot"
**Sean Connery - "Finding Forrester"
**Russell Crowe - "Gladiator"
**Ed Harris - "Pollock"
**Denzel Washington - "Remember the Titans"
*"'2001: Brian Cox - "L.I.E."
**Russell Crowe - "A Beautiful Mind"
**Guy Pearce - "Memento"
**Sean Penn - "I Am Sam"
**Billy Bob Thornton - "Monster's Ball"
**Denzel Washington - "Training Day"
*2002(t): Michael Caine - "The Quiet American" and Daniel Day-Lewis - "Gangs of New York"
**Tom Hanks - "Road to Perdition"
**Jack Nicholson - "About Schmidt"
**Edward Norton - "25th Hour"
**Robin Williams - "One Hour Photo"
*"'2003: Sean Penn - "21 Grams" and "Mystic River"
**Hayden Christensen - "Shattered Glass"
**Paddy Considine - "In America"
**Tom Cruise - "The Last Samurai"
**Jude Law - "Cold Mountain"
**William H. Macy - "The Cooler"
*"'2004: Don Cheadle - "Hotel Rwanda"
**Kevin Bacon - "The Woodsman"
**Javier Bardem - "Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)"
**Johnny Depp - "Finding Neverland"
**Gael García Bernal - "Diarios de motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)"
**Liam Neeson - "Kinsey"
*"'2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote"
**Jake Gyllenhaal - "Jarhead"
**Heath Ledger - "Brokeback Mountain"
**Tommy Lee Jones - "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"
**Viggo Mortensen - "A History of Violence"
**David Strathairn - "Good Night, and Good Luck."
*"'2006: Forest Whitaker - "The Last King of Scotland"
**Leonardo DiCaprio - "Blood Diamond"
**Ryan Gosling - "Half Nelson"
**Joshua Jackson - "Aurora Borealis"
**Derek Luke - "Catch a Fire"
**Patrick Wilson - "Little Children"
*"'2007: Viggo Mortensen - "Eastern Promises"
**Josh Brolin - "No Country for Old Men
**Christian Bale - "Rescue Dawn"
**Tommy Lee Jones - "In the Valley of Elah"
**Frank Langella - "Starting Out in the Evening"
**Denzel Washington - "American Gangster