Critics' Choice Awards, Best Actor - TheTVDB.com

2026

Joel Edgerton / Train Dreams

Timothée Chalamet / Marty Supreme

Ethan Hawke / Blue Moon

Leonardo DiCaprio / One Battle After Another

Michael B. Jordan / Sinners

Wagner Moura / O Agente Secreto

2025

Daniel Craig / Queer

Timothée Chalamet / A Complete Unknown

Ralph Fiennes / Conclave

Adrien Brody / The Brutalist

Hugh Grant / Heretic

2024

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Cillian Murphy / Oppenheimer

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Leonardo DiCaprio / Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Bill Nighy / Living

Austin Butler / Elvis

Tom Cruise / Top Gun: Maverick

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Brendan Fraser / The Whale

Paul Mescal / Aftersun

2022

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Power of the Dog

Denzel Washington / The Tragedy of Macbeth

Nicolas Cage / Pig

Peter Dinklage / Cyrano

2021

Ben Affleck / The Way Back

Chadwick Boseman / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Steven Yeun / Minari

Delroy Lindo / Da 5 Bloods

Anthony Hopkins / The Father

Riz Ahmed / Sound of Metal

Tom Hanks / News of the World

Gary Oldman / Mank

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)

Ralph Fiennes / The Grand Budapest Hotel

Benedict Cumberbatch / The Imitation Game

Eddie Redmayne / The Theory of Everything

2014

Robert Downey Jr. / Iron Man 3

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Robert Redford / All Is Lost

Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips

2013

The Avengers

John Hawkes / The Sessions

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

2012

Ryan Gosling / Drive

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Brad Pitt / Moneyball

Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar

2011

Colin Firth / The King's Speech

2010

Viggo Mortensen / The Road

Colin Firth / A Single Man

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

Forest Whitaker / The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Departed

Leonardo DiCaprio / Blood Diamond

2006

David Strathairn / Good Night, and Good Luck.

Philip Seymour Hoffman / Capote

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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