The Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor is a prize given to the films in the main category of Competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
| Year | Film | Actor |
|---|---|---|
| Priest Daens | ||
| Les Milles |  Jean-Pierre Marielle | |
| Traveling Companion | Michel Piccoli | |
| Land of Fear |  Ahmed Zaki | |
| The Closet | ||
| Hart's War | ||
| no award this year | ||
| Evil | ||
| Village Photobook | ||
| Sauf le respect que je vous dois | ||
| Cabeza de perro |  Juan José Ballesta | |
| Old Fish |  Ma Guowei | |
| Original | ||
| Wedding Fever in Campobello | ||
| Hayde Bre |  Sevket Emrulla | |
| The Conductor | Vladas Bagdonas | |
| Unbeatable | ||
| The Last Executioner |  Vithaya Pansringarm | |
| The Dead End | Deng Chao/Duan Yihong/Guo Tao | |
| Cock and Bull | Liu Ye | |
| 2017[1] | The Conformist | Huang Bo |
| 2018[2] | Friday's Child |  Tye Sheridan |
| Castle of Dreams | Hamed Behdad | |
| The Return |  Chang Feng | |
| The Contrary Route | Pouyan Shekari | |
2023[3] || Dust To Dust || Da Peng|-| All Ears || Hu Ge|-| 2024 || Mostly Sunny || Huang Xiaoming|}References |