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2020s

General

• The award was not given at the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Films

• The Full Monty, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Parasite are the only winners not to be nominated in any other category.
• Gosford Park has the largest winning cast (20 credited actors).
• Bobby has the largest nominated cast (24 credited actors).
• Sideways has the smallest winning cast (4 credited actors).
• Million Dollar Baby and Beasts of No Nation have the smallest nominated cast (3 credited actors).
• Black Panther is the first superhero film to win the award.
• Parasite is the first non-English language film to win the award.
• Braveheart, The Shape of Water, Green Book, and Nomadland are the only films not to be nominated for the award and still go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture
• Two non-English language films have been nominated:
  • Life Is Beautiful
  • Parasite
• Eighteen nominated films not to be nominated in any other category:
  • 3:10 to Yuma
  • Babylon
  • Bobby
  • Crazy Rich Asians
  • Don't Look Up
  • The Full Monty
  • Get Shorty
  • Hairspray
  • How to Make an American Quilt
  • Hustle & Flow
  • In America
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Midnight in Paris
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  • Parasite
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • Women Talking

Actors with the most nominations

(Minimum of 5 nominations)

7 nominations

• Cate Blanchett
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Brad Pitt

6 nominations

• Russell Crowe
• Meryl Streep

5 nominations

• Chris Cooper
• Judi Dench
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Allison Janney
• John C. Reilly
• Tom Wilkinson

Note:

• Cate Blanchett has the most consecutive nominations (four, from 2001 to 2004).
• Leonardo DiCaprio has the most nominations without ever winning (seven).

Actors with double nominations in one year

• Ed Harris (1995, won for Apollo 13)
• David Paymer (1995)
• John C. Reilly (2002, won for Chicago)
• Meryl Streep (2002)
• Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges (2005, won for Crash)
• Terrence Howard (2005, won for Crash)
• Martin Sheen (2006)
• Josh Brolin (2007, won for No Country for Old Men)
• Russell Crowe (2007)
• Benedict Cumberbatch (2013)
• Edward Norton (2014, won for Birdman)
• Mahershala Ali (2016, won for Hidden Figures)
• Janelle Monáe (2016, won for Hidden Figures)
• Lucas Hedges (2017, won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Caleb Landry Jones (2017, won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Al Pacino (2019)
• Margot Robbie (2019)
• Chadwick Boseman (2020)
• Issa Rae (2023)

Actors with multiple wins

3 wins

• Michael Keaton: Birdman (2014), Spotlight (2015), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

2 wins

• Ben Affleck: Shakespeare in Love (1998), Argo (2012)
• Alan Arkin: Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Argo (2012)
• Christine Baranski: The Birdcage (1996), Chicago (2002)
• Don Cheadle: Traffic (2000), Crash (2005)
• Colin Firth: Shakespeare in Love (1998), The King's Speech (2010)
• Michael Gambon: Gosford Park (2001), The King's Speech (2010)
• Woody Harrelson: No Country for Old Men (2007), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
• Derek Jacobi: Gosford Park (2001), The King's Speech (2010)
• Allison Janney: American Beauty (1999), The Help (2011)
• Kelly Macdonald: Gosford Park (2001), No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Ryan Phillippe: Gosford Park (2001), Crash (2005)
• Geoffrey Rush: Shakespeare in Love (1998), The King's Speech (2010)
• Andy Serkis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Black Panther (2018)
• Octavia Spencer: The Help (2011), Hidden Figures (2016)
• Emma Stone: The Help (2011), Birdman (2014)
• Tom Wilkinson: The Full Monty (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Catherine Zeta-Jones: Traffic (2000), Chicago (2002)