Part 2 of the 2020 Golden Coffee Cups movie shortlists: actors

In part 1, I announced the shortlisted films for the 2020 Golden Coffee Cups movie awards, which recognize the best depictions and representations of politics and government on the big screen during the past year's movie season as defined by the Motion Picture Academy. For part 2, I am announcing the shortlists for actors in a scripted political film during the 2020 movie awards season.

I compiled the shortlists for the Best Actor in a Political Film during 2020, Best Portrayal of a Government Official in a Film during 2020, and Best Portrayal of an Activist or Concerned Citizen in a Film during 2020 using nominations from the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards (including the Critics Choice Super Awards), Screen Actors Guild Awards, Emmy Awards (for Hamilton), and People's Choice Awards. All actors on the shortlists performed in movies that examine a political theme or take place in a government setting, including public safety, public education, and the military.

Best Actor in a Political Film during 2020

Ben Affleck as Jack (The Way Back)
Maria Bakalova as Tutar Sagdiyev (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and Abbie Hoffman (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Chadwick Boseman as Stormin' Norman (Da 5 Bloods)
James Corden as Barry Glickman (The Prom)
Andra Day as Billie Holiday (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)
Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson (Hamilton)
Jodie Foster as Nancy Hollander (The Mauritanian)
Sidney Flanigan as Skylar (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler (Hamilton)
Betty Gilpin as Crystal (The Hunt)
Jonathan Groff as King George (Hamilton)
Tom Hanks as Commander Ernest Krause (Greyhound)
Caleb Landry Jones as SPC Ty Carter (The Outpost)
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton)
Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Delroy Lindo as Paul (Da 5 Bloods)
Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr (Hamilton) and as Sam Cooke (One Night in Miami...)
Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)
Anthony Ramos as John Laurens and Philip Hamilton (Hamilton)
Talia Ryder as Skylar (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton (Hamilton)
LaKeith Stanfield as Bill O'Neal (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Hilary Swank as Athena (The Hunt)
John David Washington as Protagonist (Tenet)
Liu Yifei as Mulan (Mulan)

Best Portrayal of a Government Official in a Film during 2020

Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson (Hamilton)
Jonathan Groff as King George (Hamilton)
Tom Hanks as Commander Ernest Krause (Greyhound)
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton)
Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr (Hamilton)

Best Portrayal of an Activist or Concerned Citizen in a Film during 2020

Ben Affleck as Jack (The Way Back)
Maria Bakalova as Tutar Sagdiyev (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and Abbie Hoffman (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Chadwick Boseman as Stormin' Norman (Da 5 Bloods)
James Corden as Barry Glickman (The Prom)
Andra Day as Billie Holiday (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)
Sidney Flanigan as Skylar (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
Jodie Foster as Nancy Hollander (The Mauritanian)
Betty Gilpin as Crystal (The Hunt)
Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler (Hamilton)
Caleb Landry Jones as SPC Ty Carter (The Outpost)
Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Delroy Lindo as Paul (Da 5 Bloods)
Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke (One Night in Miami...)
Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)
Anthony Ramos as John Laurens and Philip Hamilton (Hamilton)
Talia Ryder as Skylar (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton (Hamilton)
LaKeith Stanfield as Bill O'Neal (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Hilary Swank as Athena (The Hunt)
John David Washington as Protagonist (Tenet)
Liu Yifei as Mulan (Mulan)

The Coffee Party invites its volunteers and followers to stream the movies in which these actors performed to encourage their appreciation of politics and government in film. It also invites its volunteers and readers to watch for the third installment of the movie shortlists, which will recognize the appearances by public officials in shortlisted documentaries.

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Modified from Coffee Party USA announces the 2020 Golden Coffee Cups movie shortlists, part 2: actors at Coffee Party USA's blog.