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