Surely the best thing would be to give an award out to the best actor or actress regardless of gender. Having "best male" and "best female" may seem like equality on the face of it, but actually it is not. Sometimes the best two actors could be men, sometimes the best two could be women.
It's like when at school we had a "head boy" and "head girl" every year. This wasn't equality, some years the two most deserving pupils would both be male, other years both female.
It annoys me when I see people getting upset that a man or ex-man has been nominated for "woman of the year". Some people seem to take that as a sign of discrimination or inequality, but is actually the very opposite - a man being nominated for "best woman" means that the people running the award see women as being equal to men, to the extent that there should be no division between them when nominating people for their award.
To reach true equality, if that is what we want, we need to no longer see divisions between men and women when nominating someone for an award, applying for a job, running a country, etc etc. Men and women are equal. No need to make distinctions when choosing who is "best" for a given performance or task.