2010s Best of the Decade Awards: Outstanding Leading Actor

It's a testament to how long I've been doing these that this is the second Best of the Decade Awards thing I get to do. Leafs mentioned I should do it, so indeed I shall. These generally have more nominees, so this time you get to vote for three nominees. How exciting.

Please bear with me on this. Best of the Decade is hard, especially since half of those years I wasn't even watching. If I missed something... oops. I'm taking a lot of my cues from the winners of the individual years - presumably the best story or hottest actresses are people who won individual years before.

First up, Outstanding Leading Actor. For a refresher the winner for 2000-2009 was Peter Reckell and the runner-up was Matthew Ashford. This time around neither could be considered a Leading Actor for the decade with their limited years, so who will it be?

For reference, here's who won and got runner-up each year this decade:

2010: Eric Martsolf (Runner-Up: Peter Reckell)
2011: Matthew Ashford (Runner-Up: James Scott)
2012: Chandler Massey (Runner-Up: James Scott)
2013: Greg Vaughan (Runner-Up: Chandler Massey)
2014: James Scott (Runner-Up: Eric Martsolf)
2015: Billy Flynn (Runner-Up: Stephen Nichols)
2016: Billy Flynn (Runner-Up: Eric Martsolf)
2018: Greg Vaughan (Runners-Up: Billy Flynn/Drake Hogestyn/Eric Martsolf)
2019: Paul Telfer (Runners-Up: Matthew Ashford and Eric Martsolf)