Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actor

The following is a list of Fangoria Chainsaw Award winners for Best Actor. It is awarded annually to an actor for his work in a horror or thriller film.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Nominees	Film	Ref
1992	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs	^[1]
1993	Gary Oldman	Bram Stoker's Dracula	^[2]
1994	Bruce Campbell	Army of Darkness	^[2]
1995	Brandon Lee	The Crow	^[2]^[3]
1996	Christopher Walken	The Prophecy	^[2]
1997	George Clooney	From Dusk till Dawn	^[4]^[5]
	Corbin Bernsen	The Dentist
	Rupert Everett	Cemetery Man
	Michael J. Fox	The Frighteners
	Richard E. Grant	The Cold Light of Day
1998	Al Pacino	The Devil's Advocate	^[2]
1999	James Woods	Vampires	^[2]

2000s

Year	Nominees	Film	Ref
2000	Johnny Depp	Sleepy Hollow	^[2]
2001	Christian Bale	American Psycho	^[6]
2002	Anthony Hopkins	Hannibal	^[7]
	Johnny Depp	From Hell
2003	Robin Williams	One Hour Photo	^[8]^[9]
	Anthony Hopkins	Red Dragon
	Mel Gibson	Signs
	Michael Reilly Burke	Ted Bundy
	Jake Weber	Wendigo
2004	Bruce Campbell	Bubba Ho-Tep	^[10]
	Robert Englund	Freddy vs. Jason
	Ralph Fiennes	Spider
	Crispin Glover	Willard
	Cillian Murphy	28 Days Later
2005	Simon Pegg	Shaun of the Dead	^[11]
	Christian Bale	The Machinist
	Ron Perlman	Hellboy
	Johnny Depp	Secret Window
	Desmond Harrington	Love Object
2006	Sid Haig	The Devil's Rejects	^[12]
	John Jarratt	Wolf Creek
	John Leguizamo	Land of the Dead
	Stellan Skarsgård	Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
	John Turturro	Fear X
2007	No award
2008	No award
2009	Ron Perlman	Hellboy II: The Golden Army	^[13]
	Leo Bill	The Living and the Dead
	Kare Hedebrant	Let the Right One In
	Trevor Matthews	Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
	Marc Senter	The Lost

2010s

Year	Nominees	Film	Ref
2010	Jesse Eisenberg	Zombieland	^[14]
	Garret Dillahunt	The Last House on the Left
	Viggo Mortensen	The Road
	Stephen McHattie	Pontypool
	Song Kang-ho	Thirst
2011	Ryan Reynolds	Buried	^[15]^[16]^[17]
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Shutter Island
	Kodi Smit-McPhee	Let Me In
	Patrick Fabian	The Last Exorcism
	James Le Gros	Bitter Feast
2012	Antonio Banderas	The Skin I Live In	^[18]^[19]
	Sean Bean	Black Death
	Nick Damici	Stake Land
	Tyler Labine	Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
	Noah Taylor	Red White & Blue
	Choi Min-sik	I Saw the Devil
2013	Liam Neeson	The Grey	^[20]
	Ethan Hawke	Sinister
	Daniel Radcliffe	The Woman in Black
	Luis Tosar	Sleep Tight
	Neil Maskell	Kill List
2014	Elijah Wood	Maniac	^[21]
	Patrick Wilson	Insidious: Chapter 2
	Toby Jones	Berberian Sound Studio
	Francisco Barreiro	Here Comes the Devil
	Bill Sage	We Are What We Are
2015	Daniel Radcliffe	Horns	^[22]
	Lior Ashkenazi	Big Bad Wolves
	Nick Damici	Late Phases
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Enemy
	Jared Harris	The Quiet Ones
2016	Kurt Russell	Bone Tomahawk	^[23]
	Mark Duplass	Creep
	Tom Hiddleston	Crimson Peak
	Lou Taylor Pucci	Spring
	Henry Rollins	He Never Died
2017	John Goodman	10 Cloverfield Lane	^[24]
	Anton Yelchin	Green Room
	Gong Yoo	Train to Busan
	Logan Marshall-Green	The Invitation
	Max Records	I Am Not a Serial Killer
2019	Nicolas Cage	Mandy	^[25]
	James Jude Courtney / Nick Castle	Halloween
	Anders Danielsen Lie	The Night Eats the World
	Matt Dillon	The House That Jack Built
	Logan Marshall-Green	Upgrade

2020s

Year	Nominees	Film	Ref
2020	Robert Pattinson	The Lighthouse	^[26]
	Winston Duke	Us
	Lief Edlund Johansson	Koko-di Koko-da
	Ewan McGregor	Doctor Sleep
	Daniel de Oliveria	The Nightshifter

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