Critics' Choice Awards, Best Actor - TheTVDB.com

2026

Joel Edgerton / Train Dreams

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

Wagner Moura / O Agente Secreto

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

2025

Hugh Grant / Heretic

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Daniel Craig / Queer

2024

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Leonardo DiCaprio / Killers of the Flower Moon

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

2023

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Paul Mescal / Aftersun

Tom Cruise / Top Gun: Maverick

Bill Nighy / Living

Austin Butler / Elvis

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

2022

Nicolas Cage / Pig

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Peter Dinklage / Cyrano

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Tom Hanks / News of the World

Gary Oldman / Mank

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Delroy Lindo / Da 5 Bloods

Steven Yeun / Minari

Ben Affleck / The Way Back

2020

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Antonio Banderas / Dolor y Gloria

2019

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

Willem Dafoe / At Eternity's Gate

2018

Tom Hanks / The Post

2017

Ryan Gosling / La La Land

2016

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Tom Hanks / Sully

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

2015

Ralph Fiennes / The Grand Budapest Hotel

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

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

2014

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Robert Downey Jr. / Iron Man 3

Robert Redford / All Is Lost

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

The Avengers

John Hawkes / The Sessions

2012

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

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

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Clint Eastwood / Gran Torino

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

2008

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

Emile Hirsch / Into the Wild

2007

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Departed

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

2006

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

2004

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

2003

Robin Williams / One Hour Photo

1999

Ian McKellen / Gods and Monsters

Ian McKellen / Apt Pupil

1997

Tom Cruise / Jerry Maguire

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