Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

The Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (previously known as the Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role) is given by the producers of the film and television guild as part of its annual award ceremony for Hindi films, to recognise a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. Following its inception in 2004, no one was awarded in 2005 and 2007.

† - indicates the performance also won the Filmfare Award
‡ - indicates the performance was also nominated for the Filmfare Award

Superlatives

Superlative	Best Actor in a Leading Role		Best Actor in a Supporting Role		Overall
Actor with most awards	Hrithik Roshan Shahrukh Khan Ranbir Kapoor	2	--	--	Hrithik Roshan Shahrukh Khan Ranbir Kapoor	2
Actor with most nominations	Shahrukh Khan	7	Irrfan Khan Naseeruddin Shah Nawazuddin Siddiqui	3	Shahrukh Khan	7
Actor with most nominations (without ever winning)	Ajay Devgan	3	Naseeruddin Shah	3	Ajay Devgan Naseeruddin Shah	4
Actor with most nominations in a single year	--	--	Rishi Kapoor (2010)	2	Rishi Kapoor (2010) Ajay Devgan (2011) Emraan Hashmi (2012) Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2013)	2

Winners and nominees

2000s

• 2004 Hrithik Roshan – Koi... Mil Gaya as Rohit Mehra †
  • Ajay Devgan – Gangaajal as SP Amit Kumar ‡
  • Amitabh Bachchan – Khakee as DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav ‡
  • Sanjay Dutt – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as Murli Prasad Sharma aka Munna Bhai
  • Shahrukh Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Aman Mathur ‡
• 2005 – No award
• 2006 Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai †
  • Akshay Kumar – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Aditya Thakur
  • Anil Kapoor – No Entry as Kishen
  • Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Rai ‡
  • Shahrukh Khan – Swades: We, the People as Mohan Bhargava †
• 2007 – No award
• 2008 Shahrukh Khan – Chak De! India as Kabir Khan †
  • Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant Desai ‡
  • Akshaye Khanna – Gandhi, My Father as Harilal Gandhi
  • Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev Gupta
  • Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap ‡
• 2009 Hrithik Roshan – Jodhaa Akbar as Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar †
  • Abhishek Bachchan – Dostana as Sameer "Sam" Acharya ‡
  • Akshay Kumar – Singh Is Kinng as Happy Singh ‡
  • Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi ‡
  • Naseeruddin Shah – A Wednesday! as Anonymous antagonist ‡

2010s

• 2010 Shahrukh Khan – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as Surinder "Suri" Sahni/Raj Kapoor ‡
  • Aamir Khan – Ghajini as Sanjay Singhania
  • Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid as Sidharth "Sid" Mehra ‡
  • Saif Ali Khan – Love Aaj Kal as Jai Vardhan Singh/Veer Singh ‡
  • Shahid Kapoor – Kaminey as Charlie Sharma/Guddu Sharma ‡
• 2011 Salman Khan – Dabangg as Chulbul Pandey ‡
  • Ajay Devgan – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Sultan Mirza ‡
  • Hrithik Roshan – Guzaarish as Ethan Mascarenhas ‡
  • Ranbir Kapoor – Raajneeti as Samar Pratap ‡
  • Shahrukh Khan – My Name Is Khan as Rizwan Khan †
• 2012 Ranbir Kapoor – Rockstar as Janardan Jhakhar / Jordan †
  • Ajay Devgan – Singham as Bajirao Singham ‡
  • Emraan Hashmi – Murder 2 as Arjun Bhagawat
  • Salman Khan – Bodyguard as Lovely Singh ‡
  • Shahrukh Khan – Don 2 as Don ‡
• 2013 Ranbir Kapoor – Barfi! as Murphy "Barfi" Johnson †
  • Ayushmann Khurrana – Vicky Donor as Vicky Arora
  • Hrithik Roshan – Agneepath as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan ‡
  • Irrfan Khan – Paan Singh Tomar as Paan Singh Tomar ‡
  • Manoj Bajpai – Gangs of Wasseypur as Sardar Khan ‡
  • Shahrukh Khan – Jab Tak Hai Jaan as Samar Anand ‡
• 2014 Farhan Akhtar – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as Milkha Singh †
  • Irrfan Khan – The Lunchbox as Saajan Fernandez
  • Rajkummar Rao – Shahid as Shahid Azmi
  • Ranbir Kapoor – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Kabir "Bunny" Thapar ‡
  • Ranveer Singh – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela as Ram Rajari ‡
  • Sushant Singh Rajput – Kai Po Che! as Ishaan Bhatt
• 2015 Shahid Kapoor – Haider as Haider Meer †
  • Rajkumar Rao – CityLights as Deepak Singh
  • Arjun Kapoor – 2 States as Krish Malhotra
  • Shahrukh Khan – Happy New Year as Chandramohan Manohar Sharma "Charlie"
  • Randeep Hooda – Highway as Mahabir Bhati
  • Aamir Khan – PK as PK ‡
• 2016 Ranveer Singh - Bajirao Mastani as Peshwa Bajirao

See also

• Producers Guild Film Awards
• Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role