Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor was an annual award given by the Toronto Film Critics Association, honouring the best performances by male actors in films.

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
1997	Ian Holm	The Sweet Hereafter	Mitchell Stephens	^[1]
1997	Jack Nicholson	As Good As It Gets	Melvin Udall	^[1]
1998	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters	James Whale	^[2]
	Robert Duvall	The Apostle	Sonny Dewey
	Tom Hanks	Saving Private Ryan	John H. Miller
1999	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Lester Burnham	^[3]
1999	Jim Carrey	Man on the Moon	Andy Kaufman	^[3]

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2000	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Javier Rodriguez	^[4]
2000	Mark Ruffalo	You Can Count on Me	Terry	^[4]
2001	Ed Harris	Pollock	Jackson Pollock	^[5]
	John Cameron Mitchell	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Hedwig Robinson
	Jack Nicholson	The Pledge	Jerry Black
2002	Nicolas Cage	Adaptation.	Charlie and Donald Kaufman	^[6]
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
	Jack Nicholson	About Schmidt	Warren R. Schmidt
2003	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris	^[7]
2004	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Miles Raymond	^[8]
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote	^[9]
2006	Sacha Baron Cohen	Borat	Borat Sagdiyev	^[10]
	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
2007	Viggo Mortensen	Eastern Promises	Nikolai Luzhin	^[11]
	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	Gordon Pinsent	Away from Her	Grant Anderson
2008	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Robin Ramzinski / Randy "The Ram" Robinson	^[12]
	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk
	Jean-Claude Van Damme	JCVD	Himself
2009	Nicolas Cage	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans	Terence McDonagh	^[13]
	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Michael Fassbender	Hunger	Bobby Sands
	Colin Firth	A Single Man	George Falconer
	Viggo Mortensen	The Road	Man

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2010	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg	^[14]
	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
2011	Michael Shannon	Take Shelter	Curtis LaForche	^[15]
	George Clooney	The Descendants	Matthew "Matt" King
	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
2012	Denis Lavant	Holy Motors	Mr. Oscar	^[16]
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
2013	Oscar Isaac	Inside Llewyn Davis	Llewyn Davis	^[17]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof
2014	Tom Hardy	Locke	Ivan Locke	^[18]
	Ralph Fiennes	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Monsieur Gustave H.
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Louis "Lou" Bloom
2015	Tom Hardy	Legend	The Kray Twins	^[19]
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
2016	Adam Driver	Paterson	Paterson	^[20]
	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Peter Simonischek	Toni Erdmann	Winfried Conradi / Toni Erdmann
2017	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock	^[21]
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
2018	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Reverend Ernst Toller	^[22]
	Willem Dafoe	At Eternity's Gate	Vincent van Gogh
	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book	Tony Lip
2019	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber	^[23]
	Antonio Banderas	Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo
	Adam Sandler	Uncut Gems	Howard Ratner

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2020	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone	^[24]
	Chadwick Boseman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green
	Mads Mikkelsen	Another Round (Druk)	Martin
2021	Denzel Washington	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Macbeth	^[25]
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank
	Andrew Garfield	tick, tick... BOOM!	Jonathan Larson
2022	Paul Mescal	Aftersun	Calum Paterson	^[26]
	Colin Farrell	The Banshees of Inisherin	Pádraic Súilleabháin
	Brendan Fraser	The Whale	Charlie

Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

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