The AVN Award for Best Actor is an award that has been given annually by sex industry company AVN since the award's inception in 1984.

From year 2009, it is awarded annually for a single category.

[1] As of 2025, Mike Horner, Randy Spears, Evan Stone and Tommy Pistol are the most honoured pornographic actors with five awards followed by Buck Adams, Steven St. Croix, Tom Byron and Seth Gamble with four awards, Eric Edwards with three awards while five pornographic actors–Jon Dough, Dale DaBone, Brad Armstrong, Robert Bullock and James Bonn–have won the award two times.

Jamie Gillis is the oldest recipient of the award at the age of 53 for his performance in Bobby Sox (1997) and Steven St. Croix is the youngest recipient of the award at the age of 26 for his performance in Chinatown (1995).

The most recent recipient is Chad Alva, who was honoured at the 42nd AVN Awards in 2025 for his performance in Alive.