The Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Male is chosen by the viewers of Zee Entertainment Enterprises 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 1998, a ceremony was not held in 2009 and 2010, but resumed back in 2011.

Shah Rukh Khan, with eight awards holds the record of the maximum wins in this category.

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