Prémio Satellite de melhor ator em cinema

O Prémio Satellite de melhor ator em filme de drama é um prêmio anual dado pela International Press Academy, sendo uma das categorias do Satellite Awards.

Notas

• "†" indica um Oscar pelo mesmo trabalho.
• "‡" indica uma nomeação ao Oscar pelo mesmo trabalho.

Vencedores e indicados

Comédia ou Musical (1996-2009)

Ano	Atores	Filme	Personagens
1996	Tom Cruise ‡	Jerry Maguire	Jerry Maguire
	Nathan Lane	The Birdcage	Albert Goldman
	Eddie Murphy	The Nutty Professor	Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Família Klump
	Jack Nicholson	Mars Attacks!	James Dale
	Stanley Tucci	Big Night	Secondo
1997	Jack Nicholson †	As Good as It Gets	Melvin Udall
	Robert Carlyle	The Full Monty	Gary "Gaz" Schofield
	Dustin Hoffman ‡	Wag the Dog	Stanley Motss
	Tommy Lee Jones	Men in Black	Kevin Brown / Agente K
	Kevin Kline	In & Out	Howard Brackett
	Howard Stern	Private Parts	Howard Stern
1998	Ian Bannen	Waking Ned	Jackie O'Shea
	Warren Beatty	Bulworth	Jay Billington Bulworth
	Jeff Bridges	The Big Lebowski	Jeffrey "O Cara" Lebowski
	Michael Caine	Little Voice	Ray Say
	David Kelly	Waking Ned	Michael O'Sullivan
	Robin Williams	Patch Adams	Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams
1999	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Flawless	Rusty
	Jim Carrey	Man on the Moon	Andy Kaufman
	Johnny Depp	Sleepy Hollow	Ichabod Crane
	Rupert Everett	An Ideal Husband	Arthur Goring
	Sean Penn ‡	Sweet and Lowdown	Emmet Ray
	Steve Zahn	Happy, Texas	Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr.
2000	Michael Douglas	Wonder Boys	Grady Tripp
	George Clooney	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Everett
	Richard Gere	Dr. T & the Women	Dr. T
	Christopher Guest	Best in Show	Harlan Pepper
	Eddie Murphy	Nutty Professor II: The Klumps	Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Família Klump
	Edward Norton	Keeping the Faith	Brian Finn
2001	Ewan McGregor	Moulin Rouge!	Christian
	Colin Firth	Bridget Jones's Diary	Mark Darcy
	Gene Hackman	The Royal Tenenbaums	Royal Tenenbaum
	John Cameron Mitchell	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Hedwig
	Ben Stiller	Zoolander	Derek Zoolander
	Chris Tucker	Rush Hour 2	James Carter
2002	Kieran Culkin	Igby Goes Down	Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr.
	Nicolas Cage ‡	Adaptation.	Charlie e Donald Kaufman
	Hugh Grant	About a Boy	Will
	Sam Rockwell	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Chuck Barris
	Adam Sandler	Punch-Drunk Love	Barry Egan
	Aaron Stanford	Tadpole	Oscar Grubman
2003	Bill Murray ‡	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
	Jack Black	School of Rock	Dewey Finn
	Johnny Depp ‡	Pirates of the Caribbean	Capitão Jack Sparrow
	Robert Downey, Jr.	The Singing Detecctive	Dan Dark
	Paul Giamatti	American Splendor	Harvey Pekar
	Billy Bob Thornton	Bad Santa	Willie
2004	Jamie Foxx †	Ray	Ray Charles
	Gerard Butler	The Phantom of the Opera	Erik, o Fantasma da Ópera
	Jim Carrey	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Joel Barish
	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Miles
	Kevin Kline	De-Lovely	Cole Porter
	Bill Murray	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Steve Zissou
2005	Terrence Howard ‡	Hustle & Flow	DJay
	Kevin Costner	The Upside of Anger	Denny Davies
	Robert Downey, Jr.	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Harry Lockhart
	Cillian Murphy	Breakfast on Pluto	Patrick "Kitten" Braden
	Bill Murray	Broken Flowers	Don Johnston
	Joaquin Phoenix ‡	Walk the Line	Johnny Cash
2006	Joseph Cross	Running with Scissors	Augusten Burroughs
	Sacha Baron Cohen	Borat	Borat Sagdiyev
	Aaron Eckhart	Thank You for Smoking	Nick Naylor
	Will Ferrell	Stranger than Fiction	Harold Crick
	Peter O'Toole ‡	Venus	Maurice
2007	Ryan Gosling	Lars and the Real Girl	Lars Lindstrom
	Don Cheadle	Talk to Me	Ralph Greene, Jr.
	Richard Gere	The Hoax	Clifford Irving
	Ben Kingsley	You Kill Me	Frank Falenczyk
	Clive Owen	Shoot 'Em Up	Smith
	Seth Rogen	Knocked Up	Ben Stone
2008	Ricky Gervais	Ghost Town	Bertram Pincus
	Josh Brolin	W.	George W. Bush
	Michael Cera	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Nick
	Brendan Gleeson	In Bruges	Ken
	Sam Rockwell	Choke	Victor Mancini
	Mark Ruffalo	The Brothers Bloom	Stephen
2009	Michael Stuhlbarg	A Serious Man	Larry Gopnik
	George Clooney ‡	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Bradley Cooper	The Hangover	Phil Wenneck
	Matt Damon	The Informant!	Mark Whitacre
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Nine	Guido Contini
2010	Michael Cera	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Scott Pilgrim
	Steve Carell	Dinner for Schmucks	Barry Speck
	Romain Duris	L'Arnacœur (Heartbreaker)	Alex
	Andy García	City Island	Vince Rizzo
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Love and Other Drugs	Jamie Randall
	John Malkovich	Red	Marvin Boggs
	John C. Reilly	Cyrus	John

Drama

Ano	Atores	Filme	Personagens
1996	Geoffrey Rush †	Shine	David Helfgott
	Christopher Eccleston	Jude	Jude Fawley
	Ralph Fiennes ‡	The English Patient	Laszlo de Almásy
	William H. Macy ‡	Fargo	Jerry Lundegaard
	Billy Bob Thornton ‡	Sling Blade	Karl Childers
	James Woods	Killer: A Journal of Murder	Carl Panzram
1997	Robert Duvall ‡	The Apostle	Euliss Dewey / O Apóstolo
	Russell Crowe	L.A. Confidential	Bud White
	Matt Damon ‡	Good Will Hunting	Will Hunting
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Titanic	Jack Dawson
	Djimon Hounsou	Amistad	Cinque
	Mark Wahlberg	Boogie Nights	Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler
1998	Edward Norton ‡	American History X	Derek Vinyard
	Stephen Fry	Wilde	Oscar Wilde
	Brendan Gleeson	The General	Martin Cahill
	Derek Jacobi	Love Is the Devil...	Francis Bacon
	Ian McKellen ‡	Gods and Monsters	James Whale
	Nick Nolte ‡	Affliction	Wade Whitehouse
1999	Terence Stamp	The Limey	Wilson
	Russell Crowe ‡	The Insider	Jeffrey Wigand
	Al Pacino		Lowell Bergman
	Richard Farnsworth	The Straight Story	Alvin Straight
	Kevin Spacey †	American Beauty	Lester Burnham
	Denzel Washington ‡	The Hurricane	Rubin Carter
2000	Geoffrey Rush ‡	Quills	Marquês de Sade
	Jamie Bell	Billy Elliot	Billy Elliot
	Sean Connery	Finding Forrester	William Forrester
	Russell Crowe †	Gladiator	Maximus Decimus Meridius
	Ed Harris ‡	Pollock	Jackson Pollock
	Denzel Washington	Remember the Titans	Herman Boone
2001	Brian Cox	L.I.E.	John Harrigan
	Russell Crowe ‡	A Beautiful Mind	John Forbes Nash
	Guy Pearce	Memento	Leonard Shelby
	Sean Penn ‡	I Am Sam	Sam Dawson
	Billy Bob Thornton	Monster's Ball	Hank Grotowski
	Denzel Washington †	Training Day	Alonzo Harris
2002	Michael Caine ‡	The Quiet American	Thomas Fowler
	Daniel Day-Lewis ‡	Gangs of New York	William "Bill, o Açougueiro" Cutting
	Tom Hanks	Road to Perdition	Michael Sullivan
	Jack Nicholson ‡	About Schmidt	Warren Schmidt
	Edward Norton	25th Hour	Monty Brogan
	Robin Williams	One Hour Photo	Seymour Parrish
2003	Sean Penn	21 Grams	Paul Rivers
	Sean Penn †	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum
	Hayden Christensen	Shattered Glass	Stephen Glass
	Paddy Considine	In America	Johnny
	Tom Cruise	The Last Samurai	Capitão Nathan Algren
	Jude Law ‡	Cold Mountain	W.P. Inman
	William H. Macy	The Cooler	Bernie Lootz
2004	Don Cheadle ‡	Hotel Rwanda	Paul Rusesabagina
	Kevin Bacon	The Woodsman	Walter
	Javier Bardem	Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)	Ramón Sampedro
	Johnny Depp ‡	Finding Neverland	Sir James Matthew Barrie
	Gael García Bernal	Diários de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)	Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna
	Liam Neeson	Kinsey	Alfred Kinsey
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman †	Capote	Truman Capote
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Jarhead	Anthony "Swoff" Swofford
	Heath Ledger ‡	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar
	Tommy Lee Jones	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Pete Perkins
	Viggo Mortensen	A History of Violence	Tom Stall / Joey Cusack
	David Strathairn ‡	Good Night, and Good Luck	Edward R. Murrow
2006	Forest Whitaker †	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
	Leonardo DiCaprio ‡	Blood Diamond	Danny Archer
	Ryan Gosling ‡	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
	Joshua Jackson	Aurora Borealis	Duncan
	Derek Luke	Catch a Fire	Patrick Chamusso
	Patrick Wilson	Little Children	Brad Adamson
2007	Viggo Mortensen ‡	Eastern Promises	Nikolai Luzhin
	Josh Brolin	No Country for Old Men	Llewelyn Moss
	Christian Bale	Rescue Dawn	Dieter Dengler
	Tommy Lee Jones ‡	In the Valley of Elah	Hank Deerfield
	Frank Langella	Starting Out in the Evening	Leonard Schiller
	Denzel Washington	American Gangster	Frank Lucas
2008	Richard Jenkins ‡	The Visitor	Walter Vale
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Revolutionary Road	Frank Wheeler
	Frank Langella ‡	Frost/Nixon	Richard Nixon
	Sean Penn †	Milk	Harvey Milk
	Mickey Rourke ‡	The Wrestler	Randy Robinson
	Mark Ruffalo	What Doesn't Kill You	Brian Reilly
2009	Jeremy Renner ‡	The Hurt Locker	Sargento William James
	Jeff Bridges †	Crazy Heart	Otis "Bad" Blake
	Hugh Dancy	Adam	Adam Raki
	Johnny Depp	Public Enemies	John Dillinger
	Colin Firth ‡	A Single Man	George Falconer
	Michael Sheen	The Damned United	Brian Clough
2010	Colin Firth †	The King's Speech	Rei George VI do Reino Unido
	Javier Bardem ‡	Biutiful	Uxbal
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Inception	Dom Cobb
	Michael Douglas	Solitary Man	Ben Kalmen
	Robert Duvall	Get Low	Felix Bush
	Jesse Eisenberg ‡	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg
	James Franco ‡	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
	Ryan Gosling	Blue Valentine	Dean Hellers

Cinema (Drama / Comédia ou Musical)

Ano	Atores	Filme	Personagens
2011	Ryan Gosling	Drive	O Motorista
	George Clooney ‡	The Descendants	Matt King
	Leonardo DiCaprio	J. Edgar	J. Edgar Hoover
	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
	Brendan Gleeson	The Guard	Sargento Gerry Boyle
	Tom Hardy	Warrior	Tommy Riordan
	Woody Harrelson	Rampart	Dave Brown
	Gary Oldman ‡	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	George Smiley
	Brad Pitt ‡	Moneyball	Billy Beane
	Michael Shannon	Take Shelter	Curtis LaForche
2012	Bradley Cooper ‡	Silver Linings Playbook	Patrick "Pat" Solitano
	Daniel Day-Lewis †	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	John Hawkes	The Sessions	Mark O'Brien
	Hugh Jackman ‡	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean
	Joaquin Phoenix ‡	The Master	Freddie Quell
	Omar Sy	Intouchables	Driss Vassary
	Denzel Washington ‡	Flight	William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr.
2013	Matthew McConaughey †	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof
	Christian Bale ‡	American Hustle	Irving Rosenfeld
	Bruce Dern ‡	Nebraska	Woodrow "Woody" T. Grant
	Leonardo DiCaprio ‡	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jordan Belfort
	Chiwetel Ejiofor ‡	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Tom Hanks	Captain Phillips	Capitão Richard Phillips
	Robert Redford	All Is Lost	O Homem
	Forest Whitaker	The Butler	Cecil Gaines
2014	Michael Keaton ‡	Birdman	Riggan Thomson
	Steve Carell ‡	Foxcatcher	John Eleuthère du Pont
	Benedict Cumberbatch ‡	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Louis Bloom
	David Oyelowo	Selma	Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Eddie Redmayne †	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking
	Miles Teller	Whiplash	Andrew Neiman
2015	Leonardo DiCaprio †	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Matt Damon ‡	The Martian	Mark Watney
	Johnny Depp	Black Mass	James "Whitey" Bulger
	Michael Fassbender ‡	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Tom Hardy	Legend	Ronald Kray / Reginald Kray
	Eddie Redmayne ‡	The Danish Girl	Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
	Will Smith	Concussion	Dr. Bennet Omalu
2016	Andrew Garfield ‡	Hacksaw Ridge	Desmond T. Doss
	Viggo Mortensen ‡	Captain Fantastic	Ben Cash
	Casey Affleck †	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Joel Edgerton	Loving	Richard Loving
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Snowden	Edward Snowden
	Ryan Gosling ‡	La La Land	Sebastian Wilder
	Tom Hanks	Sully	Capitão Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
	Denzel Washington ‡	Fences	Troy Maxson
2017	Gary Oldman ‡	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
	Harry Dean Stanton	Lucky	Lucky
	Daniel Day-Lewis ‡	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock
	James Franco	The Disaster Artist	Tommy Wiseau
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Stronger	Jeff Bauman
	Robert Pattinson	Good Time	Constantine "Connie" Nikas
	Jeremy Renner	Wind River	Cory Lambert