Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
	The 2025 recipient: Timothée Chalamet
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Movie
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Critics Choice Association
Currently held by	Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme (2025)
Website	www.criticschoice.com

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor is an award given out at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. The awards are presented by the Critics Choice Association (CCA) and was first presented in 1995. There were no official nominees announced until 2001. Actors Russell Crowe and Daniel Day-Lewis hold the record for most wins in this category with three victories each, followed by Jack Nicholson and Sean Penn with two wins each.

Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Movie

LocationLos Angeles, California

Presented byCritics Choice Association

Currently held byTimothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme (2025)

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This is the main Critics' Choice Movie Award category for leading performances by a male actor. Previously, two other genre-specific categories were presented: Best Actor in a Comedy (2012–2019) and Best Actor in an Action Movie (2012–2016). Currently, another subsidiary, the Critics' Choice Super Awards, presents awards to actors for genre-specific roles (horror, science fiction/fantasy, action, and superhero). For Critics' Choice Awards for lead performances by male actors in television, see Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy, Drama or Limited Series or Movie Made for Television.

Year	Actor	Character	Film
1995	Kevin Bacon	Henri Young	Murder in the First
1996	Geoffrey Rush	David Helfgott	Shine
1997	Jack Nicholson	Melvin Udall	As Good as It Gets
1998	Ian McKellen	James Whale	Gods and Monsters
1999	Russell Crowe	Jeffrey Wigand	The Insider

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2000	Russell Crowe	Maximus Decimus Meridius	Gladiator
2001	Russell Crowe	John Nash	A Beautiful Mind
	Sean Penn	Sam Dawson	I Am Sam
	Will Smith	Muhammad Ali	Ali
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis (TIE)	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting	Gangs of New York
	Jack Nicholson (TIE)	Warren Schmidt	About Schmidt
	Robin Williams	Seymour "Sy" Parrish	One Hour Photo
2003	Sean Penn	Jimmy Markum	Mystic River
	Russell Crowe	Captain Jack Aubrey	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
	Johnny Depp	Captain Jack Sparrow	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
	Ben Kingsley	Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani	House of Sand and Fog
	Bill Murray	Bob Harris	Lost in Translation
2004	Jamie Foxx	Ray Charles	Ray
	Javier Bardem	Ramón Sampedro	The Sea Inside
	Don Cheadle	Paul Rusesabagina	Hotel Rwanda
	Johnny Depp	J. M. Barrie	Finding Neverland
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Howard Hughes	The Aviator
	Paul Giamatti	Miles Raymond	Sideways
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Truman Capote	Capote
	Russell Crowe	James J. Braddock	Cinderella Man
	Terrence Howard	DJay	Hustle & Flow
	Heath Ledger	Ennis Del Mar	Brokeback Mountain
	Joaquin Phoenix	Johnny Cash	Walk the Line
	David Strathairn	Edward R. Murrow	Good Night, and Good Luck
2006	Forest Whitaker	Idi Amin	The Last King of Scotland
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Danny Archer	Blood Diamond
	Leonardo DiCaprio	William "Billy" Costigan Jr.	The Departed
	Ryan Gosling	Dan Dunne	Half Nelson
	Peter O'Toole	Maurice Russell	Venus
	Will Smith	Chris Gardner	The Pursuit of Happyness
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis	Daniel Plainview	There Will Be Blood
	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	Johnny Depp	Benjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Ryan Gosling	Lars Lindstrom	Lars and the Real Girl
	Emile Hirsch	Chris McCandless	Into the Wild
	Viggo Mortensen	Nikolai Luzhin	Eastern Promises
2008	Sean Penn	Harvey Milk	Milk
	Clint Eastwood	Walt Kowalski	Gran Torino
	Richard Jenkins	Walter Vale	The Visitor
	Frank Langella	Richard Nixon	Frost/Nixon
	Brad Pitt	Benjamin Button	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Mickey Rourke	Randy "The Ram" Robinson	The Wrestler
2009 ^[1]^[2]	Jeff Bridges	Otis "Bad" Blake	Crazy Heart
	George Clooney	Ryan Bingham	Up in the Air
	Colin Firth	George Falconer	A Single Man
	Morgan Freeman	Nelson Mandela	Invictus
	Viggo Mortensen	Man	The Road
	Jeremy Renner	Sergeant First Class William James	The Hurt Locker

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2010 ^[3]^[4]	Colin Firth	King George VI	The King's Speech
	Jeff Bridges	Rooster Cogburn	True Grit
	Robert Duvall	Felix Bush	Get Low
	Jesse Eisenberg	Mark Zuckerberg	The Social Network
	James Franco	Aron Ralston	127 Hours
	Ryan Gosling	Dean Pereira	Blue Valentine
2011 ^[5]^[6]	George Clooney	Matt King	The Descendants
	Leonardo DiCaprio	J. Edgar Hoover	J. Edgar
	Jean Dujardin	George Valentin	The Artist
	Michael Fassbender	Brandon Sullivan	Shame
	Ryan Gosling	Driver	Drive
	Brad Pitt	Billy Beane	Moneyball
2012 ^[7]^[8]	Daniel Day-Lewis	Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln
	Bradley Cooper	Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr.	Silver Linings Playbook
	John Hawkes	Mark O'Brien	The Sessions
	Hugh Jackman	Jean Valjean	Les Misérables
	Joaquin Phoenix	Freddie Quell	The Master
	Denzel Washington	William "Whip" Whitaker Sr.	Flight
2013 ^[9]^[10]	Matthew McConaughey	Ron Woodroof	Dallas Buyers Club
	Christian Bale	Irving Rosenfeld	American Hustle
	Bruce Dern	Woody Grant	Nebraska
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Solomon Northup	12 Years a Slave
	Tom Hanks	Captain Richard Phillips	Captain Phillips
	Robert Redford	Our Man	All Is Lost
2014 ^[11]^[12]	Michael Keaton	Riggan Thomson	Birdman
	Benedict Cumberbatch	Alan Turing	The Imitation Game
	Ralph Fiennes	Monsieur Gustave H.	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Louis "Lou" Bloom	Nightcrawler
	David Oyelowo	Martin Luther King Jr.	Selma
	Eddie Redmayne	Stephen Hawking	The Theory of Everything
2015 ^[13]^[14]	Leonardo DiCaprio	Hugh Glass	The Revenant
	Bryan Cranston	Dalton Trumbo	Trumbo
	Matt Damon	Mark Watney	The Martian
	Johnny Depp	Whitey Bulger	Black Mass
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne	Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener	The Danish Girl
2016 ^[15]^[16]	Casey Affleck	Lee Chandler	Manchester by the Sea
	Joel Edgerton	Richard Loving	Loving
	Andrew Garfield	Desmond T. Doss	Hacksaw Ridge
	Ryan Gosling	Sebastian Wilder	La La Land
	Tom Hanks	Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger	Sully
	Denzel Washington	Troy Maxson	Fences
2017 ^[17]^[18]	Gary Oldman	Winston Churchill	Darkest Hour
	Timothée Chalamet	Elio Perlman	Call Me by Your Name
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Reynolds Woodcock	Phantom Thread
	James Franco	Tommy Wiseau	The Disaster Artist
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Jeff Bauman	Stronger
	Tom Hanks	Ben Bradlee	The Post
	Daniel Kaluuya	Chris Washington	Get Out
2018 ^[19]^[20]	Christian Bale	Dick Cheney	Vice
	Bradley Cooper	Jackson Maine	A Star Is Born
	Willem Dafoe	Vincent van Gogh	At Eternity's Gate
	Ryan Gosling	Neil Armstrong	First Man
	Ethan Hawke	Reverend Ernst Toller	First Reformed
	Rami Malek	Freddie Mercury	Bohemian Rhapsody
	Viggo Mortensen	Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga	Green Book
2019 ^[21]^[22]	Joaquin Phoenix	Arthur Fleck / Joker	Joker
	Antonio Banderas	Salvador Mallo	Pain and Glory
	Robert De Niro	Frank Sheeran	The Irishman
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Rick Dalton	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Adam Driver	Charlie Barber	Marriage Story
	Eddie Murphy	Rudy Ray Moore	Dolemite Is My Name
	Adam Sandler	Howard Ratner	Uncut Gems

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2020 ^[23]^[24]	Chadwick Boseman (posthumous)	Levee Green	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	Ben Affleck	Jack Cunningham	The Way Back
	Riz Ahmed	Ruben Stone	Sound of Metal
	Tom Hanks	Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd	News of the World
	Anthony Hopkins	Anthony	The Father
	Delroy Lindo	Paul	Da 5 Bloods
	Gary Oldman	Herman J. Mankiewicz	Mank
	Steven Yeun	Jacob Yi	Minari
2021 ^[25]^[26]	Will Smith	Richard Williams	King Richard
	Nicolas Cage	Robin Feld	Pig
	Benedict Cumberbatch	Phil Burbank	The Power of the Dog
	Peter Dinklage	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano
	Andrew Garfield	Jonathan Larson	tick, tick... BOOM!
	Denzel Washington	Lord Macbeth	The Tragedy of Macbeth
2022 ^[27]^[28]	Brendan Fraser	Charlie	The Whale
	Austin Butler	Elvis Presley	Elvis
	Tom Cruise	Pete "Maverick" Mitchell	Top Gun: Maverick
	Colin Farrell	Pádraic Súilleabháin	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Paul Mescal	Calum Patterson	Aftersun
	Bill Nighy	Rodney Williams	Living
2023	Paul Giamatti	Paul Hunham	The Holdovers
	Bradley Cooper	Leonard Bernstein	Maestro
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Ernest Burkhart	Killers of the Flower Moon
	Colman Domingo	Bayard Rustin	Rustin
	Cillian Murphy	J. Robert Oppenheimer	Oppenheimer
	Jeffrey Wright	Thelonious "Monk" Ellison	American Fiction
2024	Adrien Brody	László Tóth	The Brutalist
	Timothée Chalamet	Bob Dylan	A Complete Unknown
	Daniel Craig	William Lee	Queer
	Colman Domingo	John "Divine G" Whitfield	Sing Sing
	Ralph Fiennes	Thomas Cardinal Lawrence	Conclave
	Hugh Grant	Mr. Reed	Heretic
2025	Timothée Chalamet	Marty Mauser	Marty Supreme
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Bob Ferguson	One Battle After Another
	Joel Edgerton	Robert Grainier	Train Dreams
	Ethan Hawke	Lorenz Hart	Blue Moon
	Michael B. Jordan	Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore	Sinners
	Wagner Moura	Armando / Marcelo Alves / Fernando	The Secret Agent

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor

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