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Zee Cine Award for Best Actor (Popular) | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
Country | India |
Presented by | Zee Entertainment Enterprises |
First awarded | Shah Rukh Khan, Dil To Pagal Hai (1998) |
Currently held by | Sunny Deol Gadar 2 (2024) |
Website | zeecineawards |
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
Superlative | Actor | Record |
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Actor with most consecutive year nominations | Shah Rukh Khan (1998-2014) | 15 |
Actor with most awards | Shah Rukh Khan | 8 |
Actor with most nominations | 22 | |
Actor with most nominations without ever winning | Ajay Devgn | 9 |
Actor with most nominations in a single year | Shah Rukh Khan (2005) | 3 |
Eldest Winner | Anupam Kher (2023) | 68 |
Youngest Winner | Hrithik Roshan (2001) | 26 |
Eldest Nominee | Amitabh Bachchan (2017) | 74 |
Youngest Nominee | Hrithik Roshan (2001) Vivek Oberoi (2003) |
26 |
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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1998 | |||
Shah Rukh Khan † | Dil To Pagal Hai | Rahul | |
Aamir Khan | Ishq | Raja | |
Kamal Haasan ‡ | Chachi 420 | Jaiprakash Paswan / Lakshmi Godbole | |
Shah Rukh Khan | Pardes | Arjun Sagar | |
Sunny Deol | Border | Major Kuldip Singh Chandpuri | |
1999 | |||
Shah Rukh Khan † | Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | Rahul Khanna | |
Aamir Khan ‡ | Ghulam | Siddharth "Siddhu" Marathe | |
Salman Khan | Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai | Suraj Dhanrajgir | |
Salman Khan ‡ | Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya | Suraj Khanna | |
Shah Rukh Khan | Duplicate | Bablu Chaudhary / Manu Dada |
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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2020[3] | |||
Ranveer Singh † | Gully Boy | Murad Ahmed aka Gully Boy | |
Akshay Kumar | Good Newwz | Varun Batra | |
Ayushmann Khurrana ‡ | Dream Girl | Karam | |
Hrithik Roshan | War | Maj. Kabir Dhaliwal | |
Kartik Aaryan | Luka Chuppi | Guddu | |
Shahid Kapoor | Kabir Singh | Kabir Rajdheer Singh | |
2021 | No award Due to COVID-19 | -- | -- |
2022 | No award Due to COVID-19 | -- | -- |
2023 [4] | |||
Anupam Kher † | The Kashmir Files | Pushkar Nath Pandit | |
Ajay Devgn | Drishyam 2 | Vijay Salgaonkar | |
Hrithik Roshan | Vikram Vedha | Vedha Betal | |
Kartik Aaryan | Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 | Ruhaan Randhawa a.k.a. Rooh Baba | |
Ranbir Kapoor | Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva | Shiva | |
Varun Dhawan ‡ | Bhediya | Bhaskar Sharma | |
2024 [5] | |||
Sunny Deol ‡ | Tara Singh | Gadar 2 | |
Ranbir Kapoor † | Ranvijay Singh/Aziz Haque | Animal | |
Ranveer Singh ‡ | Rocky Randhawa | Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani | |
Shah Rukh Khan ‡ | Captain Vikram Rathore/Azad | Jawan | |
Shah Rukh Khan | Pathaan | Pathaan | |
Vikrant Massey | Manoj Kumar Sharma | 12th Fail |