Goya Award for Best Actor

The Goya Award for Best Actor (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor interpretación masculina protagonista) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.

Actors that won or were nominated for this category have had a significant presence in several film festivals both Spanish and international, Imanol Arias (Lute: Run for Your Life), Fernando Rey (Winter Diary), Juan Echanove (Madregilda), Luis Tosar (Take My Eyes), Juan José Ballesta (7 Virgins), Juan Diego (Go Away from Me), José Sacristán (The Dead Man and Being Happy), Javier Gutiérrez (Marshland), Ricardo Darín (Truman) and Eduard Fernández (Smoke & Mirrors) received the Silver Shell for Best Actor at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Juan Luis Galiardo (Goodbye from the Heart), Javier Cámara (Torremolinos 73, Chef's Special) and Alberto San Juan (Under the Stars) received the Best Actor award at the Málaga Film Festival, Javier Bardem received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for The Sea Inside and Benicio del Toro won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for Che I: The Argentine.

In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

The following 17 winners of the Goya Award for Best Actor have received multiple nominations for the award.

Fernando Fernán Gómez was the first winner of this category for Mambrú Went to War in 1986. He won again for The Grandfather in 1998.
Fernando Rey won for Winter Diary in 1988.
Jorge Sanz won for If They Tell You I Fell in 1989.
Andrés Pajares won for ¡Ay, Carmela! in 1990.
Carmelo Gómez won for Días contados in 1994.
Javier Bardem has won five times, for Mouth to Mouth in 1995, Mondays in the Sun in 2002, The Sea Inside in 2004, Biutiful in 2010 and El buen patrón in 2021.
Santiago Ramos won for Como un relámpago in 1996.
Antonio Resines won for The Lucky Star in 1997.
Eduard Fernández won for Fausto 5.0 in 2001.
Luis Tosar has won twice, for Take My Eyes in 2003 and Cell 211 in 2009.
Benicio del Toro won for Che in 2008.
José Coronado won for No Rest for the Wicked in 2011.
Javier Cámara won for Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed in 2013.
Javier Gutiérrez has won twice, for in Marshland in 2014 and The Motive in 2017.
Antonio de la Torre won for The Realm in 2018.
Antonio Banderas won for Pain and Glory in 2019.
Denis Ménochet won for The Beasts (2022).
David Verdaguer won for Jokes & Cigarettes (2023).