Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor

The Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the Detroit Film Critics Society to honor the best actor that year.

Winners

2000s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2007	George Clooney	Michael Clayton
	Mathieu Amalric	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood
	Emile Hirsch	Into the Wild
	Tommy Lee Jones	No Country for Old Men
2008	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler
	Josh Brolin	W.
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Revolutionary Road
	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon
	Sean Penn	Milk
2009	Colin Firth	A Single Man
	George Clooney	Up in the Air
	Matt Damon	The Informant!
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	(500) Days of Summer
	Sam Rockwell	Moon

2010s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2010	Colin Firth	The King's Speech
	Jeff Bridges	True Grit
	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network
	James Franco	127 Hours
	Ryan Gosling	Blue Valentine
2011	Michael Fassbender	Shame
	George Clooney	The Descendants
	Jean Dujardin	The Artist
	Brad Pitt	Moneyball
	Michael Shannon	Take Shelter
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln
	Bradley Cooper	Silver Linings Playbook
	John Hawkes	The Sessions
	Bill Murray	Hyde Park on Hudson
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master
2013	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Wolf of Wall Street
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave
	Tom Hanks	Captain Phillips
	Robert Redford	All Is Lost
2014	Michael Keaton	Birdman
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Imitation Game
	Brendan Gleeson	Calvary
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler
	Tom Hardy	Locke
	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything