Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.^[1]

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Year	Actor	Film	Role
2002^[2]	Jack Nicholson	About Schmidt	Warren Schmidt
2002^[2]	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
2003^[3]	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Dirty Pretty Things	Okwe
	Ben Kingsley	House of Sand and Fog	Behrani
	Sean Penn	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum
	Johnny Depp	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Captain Jack Sparrow
2004^[4]	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles
2005^[5]	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar
	David Strathairn	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Edward R. Murrow
	Terrence Howard	Hustle & Flow	DJay
	Joaquin Phoenix	Walk the Line	Johnny Cash
2006^[6]	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
2007^[7]	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
2008^[8]	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy "The Ram" Robinson
2009^[9]	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Colin Firth	A Single Man	George Falconer
	Morgan Freeman	Invictus	Nelson Mandela
	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	SFC. William James
	Viggo Mortensen	The Road	The Man

Year	Actor	Film	Role
2010^[10]	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	George VI
	Jeff Bridges	True Grit	U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn
	Robert Duvall	Get Low	Felix Bush
	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
2011^[11]	George Clooney	The Descendants	Matt King
	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	George Valentin
	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
	Brad Pitt	Moneyball	Billy Beane
	Michael Shannon	Take Shelter	Curtis LaForche
2012^[12]	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	John Hawkes	The Sessions	Mark O'Brien
	Hugh Jackman	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
	Denzel Washington	Flight	William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr.
2013^[13]	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jordan Belfort
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof
	Joaquin Phoenix	Her	Theodore Twombly
	Robert Redford	All Is Lost	Our Man
2014^[14]	Michael Keaton	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Riggan Thomson
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing
	Oscar Isaac	A Most Violent Year	Abel Morales
	David Oyelowo	Selma	Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking
2015^[15]	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Matt Damon	The Martian	Mark Watney
	Johnny Depp	Black Mass	James "Whitey" Bulger
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne	The Danish Girl	Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
2016^[16]	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Joel Edgerton	Loving	Richard Loving
	Andrew Garfield	Hacksaw Ridge	Desmond Doss
	Ryan Gosling	La La Land	Sebastian Wilder
	Denzel Washington	Fences	Troy Maxson
2017^[17]	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock
	James Franco	The Disaster Artist	Tommy Wiseau
	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out	Chris Washington
2018^[18]	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born	Jackson Maine
	Christian Bale	Vice	Dick Cheney
	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Reverend Ernst Toller
	Rami Malek	Bohemian Rhapsody	Freddie Mercury
	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book	Tony Vallelonga
2019^[19]	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber
	Robert De Niro	The Irishman	Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Rick Dalton
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	Arthur Fleck / Joker
	Adam Sandler	Uncut Gems	Howard Ratner

Year	Actor	Film	Role
2020^[20]	Chadwick Boseman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green
	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone
	Anthony Hopkins	The Father	Anthony
	Delroy Lindo	Da 5 Bloods	Paul
	Steven Yeun	Minari	Jacob Yi
2021^[21]	Andrew Garfield	Tick, Tick... Boom	Jonathan Larson
	Nicolas Cage	Pig	Robin "Rob" Feld
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank
	Will Smith	King Richard	Richard Williams
	Denzel Washington	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Lord Macbeth
2022^[22]	Colin Farrell	The Banshees of Inisherin	Pádraic Súilleabháin
	Austin Butler	Elvis	Elvis Presley
	Tom Cruise	Top Gun: Maverick	Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
	Brendan Fraser	The Whale	Charlie
	Paul Mescal	Aftersun	Calum
2023^[23]	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer
	Bradley Cooper	Maestro	Leonard Bernstein
	Colman Domingo	Rustin	Bayard Rustin
	Paul Giamatti	The Holdovers	Paul Hunham
	Jeffrey Wright	American Fiction	Thelonious "Monk" Ellison
2024^[24]	Colman Domingo	Sing Sing	John "Divine G" Whitfield
	Adrien Brody	The Brutalist	László Tóth
	Timothée Chalamet	A Complete Unknown	Bob Dylan
	Daniel Craig	Queer	William Lee
	Ralph Fiennes	Conclave	Thomas Cardinal Lawrence
2025	Michael B. Jordan	Sinners	Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore
	Timothée Chalamet	Marty Supreme	Marty Mauser
	Leonardo DiCaprio	One Battle After Another	Bob Ferguson
	Joel Edgerton	Train Dreams	Robert Grainier
	Ethan Hawke	Blue Moon	Lorenz Hart

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Current Awards	Actor Actress Adapted Screenplay Animated Feature Art Direction Breakthrough Performance Cinematography Director Documentary Ensemble Film Foreign Language Film Original Screenplay Score Supporting Actor Supporting Actress
Ceremonies	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

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