Critics' Choice Awards, Best Actor - TheTVDB.com

2025

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Hugh Grant / Heretic

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig / Queer

2024

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Leonardo DiCaprio / Killers of the Flower Moon

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

2023

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Bill Nighy / Living

Paul Mescal / Aftersun

Austin Butler / Elvis

Tom Cruise / Top Gun: Maverick

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Nicolas Cage / Pig

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

Peter Dinklage / Cyrano

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

2021

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Delroy Lindo / Da 5 Bloods

Gary Oldman / Mank

Ben Affleck / The Way Back

Tom Hanks / News of the World

Steven Yeun / Minari

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2020

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Antonio Banderas / Dolor y Gloria

2019

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

Willem Dafoe / At Eternity's Gate

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Tom Hanks / The Post

2017

Ryan Gosling / La La Land

2016

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Tom Hanks / Sully

2015

Michael Keaton / Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

Ralph Fiennes / The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

Robert Downey Jr. / Iron Man 3

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

Robert Redford / All Is Lost

2013

John Hawkes / The Sessions

The Avengers

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

2012

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

Ryan Gosling / Drive

2011

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

2010

Colin Firth / A Single Man

Viggo Mortensen / The Road

2009

Clint Eastwood / Gran Torino

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

2008

Emile Hirsch / Into the Wild

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

2007

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Departed

2006

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

2004

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

2003

Robin Williams / One Hour Photo

1999

Ian McKellen / Apt Pupil

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

1997

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

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