Gold Derby Award for Best Actor
The Gold Derby Award for Best Actor is one of the Gold Derby Film Awards.
Winners and nominees
2000s
Year |
Actor |
Film |
Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
2003 |
Daniel Day-Lewis |
Gangs of New York |
Bill "The Butcher" [...] |
Adrien Brody |
The Pianist |
Wladyslaw 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 |
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 |
Billy Costigan |
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
Year |
Actor |
Film |
Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
2010 |
Best Lead Actor of the Decade |
||
Daniel Day-Lewis |
There Will Be Blood |
Daniel Plainview |
|
Adrien Brody |
The Pianist |
Wladyslaw 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 |
|
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 |
Sergeant First Class 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 |
Dallas Buyers Club |
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 |
|
2016 |
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 |
|
Multiple Awards
- 3 awards
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Multiple Nominations
- 6 nominations
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- 3 nominations
- George Clooney
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Ryan Gosling
- Joaquin Phoenix
- 2 nominations
- Johnny Depp
- Michael Fassbender
- Colin Firth
- Sean Penn
- Eddie Redmayne
Superlatives
Superlative |
Leading Actor |
Supporting Actor |
|
|---|---|---|---|
Actor with most awards |
Leonardo DiCaprio |
3 |
— |
Actor with most nominations |
Leonardo DiCaprio |
6 |
Benicio del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Dev Patel, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Sarsgaard, Christoph Waltz |
Actor with most nominations without ever winning |
George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Joaquin Phoenix |
3 |
Benicio del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Dev Patel, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Sarsgaard |