This category includes actors who are winners of the National Film Award for Best Actor.

v t e National Film Award for Best Actor
1967–1980	Uttam Kumar (1967) Ashok Kumar (1968) Utpal Dutt (1969) Sanjeev Kumar (1970) M. G. Ramachandran (1971) Sanjeev Kumar (1972) P. J. Antony (1973) Sadhu Meher (1974) M. V. Vasudeva Rao (1975) Mithun Chakraborty (1976) Bharath Gopi (1977) Arun Mukherjee (1978) Naseeruddin Shah (1979) Balan K. Nair (1980)
1981–2000	Om Puri (1981) Kamal Haasan (1982) Om Puri (1983) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Shashi Kapoor (1985) Charuhasan (1986) Kamal Haasan (1987) Premji (1988) Mammootty (1989) Amitabh Bachchan (1990) Mohanlal (1991) Mithun Chakraborty (1992) Mammootty (1993) Nana Patekar (1994) Rajit Kapur (1995) Kamal Haasan (1996) Balachandra Menon and Suresh Gopi (1997) Ajay Devgn and Mammootty (1998) Mohanlal (1999) Anil Kapoor (2000)
2001–present	Murali (2001) Ajay Devgn (2002) Vikram (2003) Saif Ali Khan (2004) Amitabh Bachchan (2005) Soumitra Chatterjee (2006) Prakash Raj (2007) Upendra Limaye (2008) Amitabh Bachchan (2009) Dhanush and Salim Kumar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Irrfan Khan and Vikram Gokhale (2012) Rajkummar Rao and Suraj Venjaramoodu (2013) Sanchari Vijay (2014) Amitabh Bachchan (2015) Akshay Kumar (2016) Riddhi Sen (2017) Ayushmann Khurrana and Vicky Kaushal (2018) Dhanush and Manoj Bajpayee (2019) Suriya and Ajay Devgn (2020) Allu Arjun (2021)