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

Leonardo DiCaprio / Killers of the Flower Moon

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

2023

Bill Nighy / Living

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Paul Mescal / Aftersun

Tom Cruise / Top Gun: Maverick

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Austin Butler / Elvis

2022

Peter Dinklage / Cyrano

Nicolas Cage / Pig

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

Delroy Lindo / Da 5 Bloods

Gary Oldman / Mank

Ben Affleck / The Way Back

Steven Yeun / Minari

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Tom Hanks / News of the World

2020

Antonio Banderas / Dolor y Gloria

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

2019

Willem Dafoe / At Eternity's Gate

Rami Malek / Bohemian Rhapsody

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

2018

Tom Hanks / The Post

2017

Ryan Gosling / La La Land

2016

Eddie Redmayne / The Danish Girl

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Revenant

Tom Hanks / Sully

2015

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

Ralph Fiennes / The Grand Budapest Hotel

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

2014

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

Robert Redford / All Is Lost

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

2013

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

John Hawkes / The Sessions

The Avengers

2012

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

Ryan Gosling / Drive

2011

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

2010

Viggo Mortensen / The Road

Colin Firth / A Single Man

2009

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Clint Eastwood / Gran Torino

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Emile Hirsch / Into the Wild

Viggo Mortensen / Eastern Promises

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

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Aviator

2004

Ben Kingsley / House of Sand and Fog

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

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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