New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in filmmaking.

In the last two decades, the Circle agreed with the Oscars on 7 occasions: 1995 Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas, 1996 Geoffrey Rush for Shine, 2006 Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland, 2007 Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood, 2008 Sean Penn for Milk, 2010 Colin Firth for The King's Speech, and 2012 Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln .

Winners

Oscar winner denoted by *

1930s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1935	Charles Laughton	Mutiny on the Bounty	William Bligh
1935	Charles Laughton	Ruggles of Red Gap	Marmaduke Ruggles
1936	Walter Huston	Dodsworth	Sam Dodsworth
1937	Paul Muni	The Life of Émile Zola	Émile Zola
1938	James Cagney	Angels with Dirty Faces	Rocky Sullivan
1939	James Stewart	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Jefferson Smith

1940s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1940	Charles Chaplin	The Great Dictator	Adenoid Hynkel/A Jewish barber
1941	Gary Cooper *	Sergeant York	Alvin York
1942	James Cagney *	Yankee Doodle Dandy	George M. Cohan
1943	Paul Lukas *	Watch on the Rhine	Kurt Muller
1944	Barry Fitzgerald	Going My Way	Father Fitzgibbon
1945	Ray Milland *	The Lost Weekend	Don Birnam
1946	Laurence Olivier	Henry V	King Henry V
1947	William Powell	Life with Father	Clarence Day, Sr.
1947	William Powell	The Senator Was Indiscreet	Melvin G. Ashton
1948	Laurence Olivier *	Hamlet	Hamlet
1949	Broderick Crawford *	All the King's Men	Willie Stark

1950s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1950	Gregory Peck	Twelve O'Clock High	Frank Savage
1951	Arthur Kennedy	Bright Victory	Larry Nevins
1952	Ralph Richardson	The Sound Barrier	John Ridgefield
1953	Burt Lancaster	From Here to Eternity	Milton Warden
1954	Marlon Brando *	On the Waterfront	Terry Malloy
1955	Ernest Borgnine *	Marty	Marty Piletti
1956	Kirk Douglas	Lust for Life	Vincent van Gogh
1957	Alec Guinness *	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Nicholson
1958	David Niven *	Separate Tables	Angus Pollock
1959	James Stewart	Anatomy of a Murder	Paul Biegler

1960s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1960	Burt Lancaster *	Elmer Gantry	Elmer Gantry
1961	Maximilian Schell *	Judgment at Nuremberg	Hans Rolfe
1962	No award given (newspaper strike)
1963	Albert Finney	Tom Jones	Tom Jones
1964	Rex Harrison *	My Fair Lady	Henry Higgins
1965	Oskar Werner	Ship of Fools	Willie Schumann
1966	Paul Scofield *	A Man for All Seasons	Thomas More
1967	Rod Steiger *	In the Heat of the Night	Bill Gillespie
1968	Alan Arkin	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	John Singer
1969	Jon Voight	Midnight Cowboy	Joe Buck

1970s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1970	George C. Scott *	Patton	George S. Patton
1971	Gene Hackman *	The French Connection	Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
1972	Laurence Olivier	Sleuth	Andrew Wyke
1973	Marlon Brando	Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi)	Paul
1974	Jack Nicholson	Chinatown	Jake "J.J." Gittes
1974	Jack Nicholson	The Last Detail	Billy Buddusky
1975	Jack Nicholson *	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Randle McMurphy
1976	Robert De Niro	Taxi Driver	Travis Bickle
1977	John Gielgud	Providence	Clive Langham
1978	Jon Voight *	Coming Home	Luke Martin
1979	Dustin Hoffman *	Kramer vs. Kramer	Ted Kramer

1980s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1980	Robert De Niro *	Raging Bull	Jake LaMotta
1981	Burt Lancaster	Atlantic City	Lou Pascal
1982	Ben Kingsley *	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi
1983	Robert Duvall *	Tender Mercies	Mac Sledge
1984	Steve Martin	All of Me	Roger Cobb
1985	Jack Nicholson	Prizzi's Honor	Charley Partanna
1986	Bob Hoskins	Mona Lisa	George Mortwell
1987	Jack Nicholson	Broadcast News	Bill Rorich
		Ironweed	Francis Phelan
		The Witches of Eastwick	Daryl Van Horne
1988	Jeremy Irons	Dead Ringers	Beverly and Elliot Mantle
1989	Daniel Day-Lewis *	My Left Foot	Christy Brown

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1990	Robert De Niro	Awakenings	Leonard Lowe
1990	Robert De Niro	Goodfellas	Jimmy Conway
1991	Anthony Hopkins *	The Silence of the Lambs	Hannibal Lecter
1992	Denzel Washington	Malcolm X	Malcolm X
1993	David Thewlis	Naked	Johnny
1994	Paul Newman	Nobody's Fool	Sully Sullivan
1995	Nicolas Cage *	Leaving Las Vegas	Ben Sanderson
1996	Geoffrey Rush *	Shine	David Helfgott
1997	Peter Fonda	Ulee's Gold	Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson
1998	Nick Nolte	Affliction	Wade Whitehouse
1999	Richard Farnsworth	The Straight Story	Alvin Straight

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2000	Tom Hanks	Cast Away	Chuck Noland
2001	Tom Wilkinson	In the Bedroom	Matt Fowler
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
2003	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
2004	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Miles Raymond
2005	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar
2006	Forest Whitaker *	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis *	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview
2008	Sean Penn *	Milk	Harvey Milk
2009	George Clooney	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Mr. Fox
2009	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2010	Colin Firth *	The King's Speech	George VI
2011	Brad Pitt	Moneyball	Billy Beane
2011	Brad Pitt	The Tree of Life	Mr. O'Brien
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis *	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
2013	Robert Redford	All Is Lost	Our Man
2014	Timothy Spall	Mr. Turner	J. M. W. Turner
2015	Michael Keaton	Spotlight	Walter "Robby" Robinson

External links

nyfcc.com

New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

1935–1950	Charles Laughton (1935) Walter Huston (1936) Paul Muni (1937) James Cagney (1938) James Stewart (1939) Charlie Chaplin (1940) Gary Cooper (1941) James Cagney (1942) Paul Lukas (1943) Barry Fitzgerald (1944) Ray Milland (1945) Laurence Olivier (1946) William Powell (1947) Laurence Olivier (1948) Broderick Crawford (1949) Gregory Peck (1950)

1951–1975	Arthur Kennedy (1951) Ralph Richardson (1952) Burt Lancaster (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Kirk Douglas (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) David Niven (1958) James Stewart (1959) Burt Lancaster (1960) Maximilian Schell (1961) No Award (1962) Albert Finney (1963) Rex Harrison (1964) Oskar Werner (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Rod Steiger (1967) Alan Arkin (1968) Jon Voight (1969) George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Laurence Olivier (1972) Marlon Brando (1973) Jack Nicholson (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975)

1976–2000	Robert De Niro (1976) John Gielgud (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Dustin Hoffman (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Burt Lancaster (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Robert Duvall (1983) Steve Martin (1984) Jack Nicholson (1985) Bob Hoskins (1986) Jack Nicholson (1987) Jeremy Irons (1988) Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) Robert De Niro (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Denzel Washington (1992) David Thewlis (1993) Paul Newman (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Peter Fonda (1997) Nick Nolte (1998) Richard Farnsworth (1999) Tom Hanks (2000)

2001–present	Tom Wilkinson (2001) Daniel Day-Lewis (2002) Bill Murray (2003) Paul Giamatti (2004) Heath Ledger (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Sean Penn (2008) George Clooney (2009) Colin Firth (2010) Brad Pitt (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Robert Redford (2013) Timothy Spall (2014) Michael Keaton (2015)

New York Film Critics Circle

Current awards	Best Film Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Screenplay Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Cinematographer Best Animated Film Best Foreign Language Film Best Non-Fiction Film Best First Film

Retired awards	Best Documentary (1980–1997) Best New Director (1989–1992, 1994-1996)

Ceremonies	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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