The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor was an award given annually by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was introduced in 1975 to reward the best performance by a leading actor. In 2022, it was announced that the four acting categories would be retired and replaced with two gender neutral categories, with both Best Actor and Best Actress merging into the Best Lead Performance category.
Winners
1970s YearWinnerFilmRole 1975 Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon Sonny Wortzik 1976 Robert De Niro Taxi Driver Travis Bickle 1977 Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl Elliot Garfield 1978 Jon Voight Coming Home Luke Martin 1979 Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer Ted Kramer
1980s YearWinner(s)FilmRole 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 F. Murray Abraham Amadeus Antonio Salieri Albert Finney Under the Volcano Geoffrey Firmin 1985 William Hurt Kiss of the Spider Woman Luis Molina 1986 Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa George 1987 Jack Nicholson Ironweed Francis Phelan The Witches of Eastwick Daryl Van Horne Steve Martin Roxanne Charlie "C.D." Bales 1988 Tom Hanks Big Josh Baskin Punchline Steven Gold 1989 Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Foot Christy Brown
1990s YearWinnerFilmRole 1990 Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune Claus von Bülow 1991 Nick Nolte The Prince of Tides Tom Wingo 1992 Clint Eastwood Unforgiven William "Will" Munny 1993 Anthony Hopkins The Remains of the Day James Stevens Shadowlands Jack Lewis 1994 John Travolta Pulp Fiction Vincent Vega 1995 Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas Ben Sanderson 1996 Geoffrey Rush Shine David Helfgott (adult) 1997 Robert Duvall The Apostle Euliss "Sonny" Dewey / The Apostle 1998 Ian McKellen Gods and Monsters James Whale 1999 Russell Crowe The Insider Jeffrey Wigand
2000s YearWinner(s)FilmRole 2000 Michael Douglas Wonder Boys Grady Tripp 2001 Denzel Washington Training Day Detective Alonzo Harris 2002 Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting Jack Nicholson About Schmidt Warren Schmidt 2003 Bill Murray Lost in Translation Bob Harris 2004 Liam Neeson Kinsey Dr. Alfred Kinsey 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Truman Capote 2006 Sacha Baron Cohen Borat Borat Sagdiyev 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 Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart Otis "Bad" Blake
2010s YearWinnerFilmRole 2010 Colin Firth The King's Speech King George VI 2011 Michael Fassbender A Dangerous Method Carl Jung Jane Eyre Edward Rochester Shame Brandon Sullivan X-Men: First Class Erik Lensherr / Magneto 2012 Joaquin Phoenix The Master Freddie Quell 2013 Bruce Dern Nebraska Woody Grant 2014 Tom Hardy Locke Ivan Locke 2015 Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs Steve Jobs 2016 Adam Driver Paterson Paterson 2017 Timothée Chalamet Call Me by Your Name Elio Perlman 2018 Ethan Hawke First Reformed Reverend Ernst TollerLos Angeles Film Critics Association 2018 Winners|IndieWire 2019 Antonio Banderas Pain and Glory Salvador Mallo Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2019 Winners — Full List — Deadline
2020s YearWinnerFilmRole 2020 Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Levee Green 'Small Axe' Wins LAFCA Best Picture Despite Not Submitted for Oscars - Variety 2021 Simon Rex Red Rocket Mikey SaberLos Angeles Film Critics 2021 Winners List - Variety
Multiple winners 3 wins Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2002, 2007)
2 wins Robert De Niro (1976, 1980) Robert Duvall (1983, 1997) Jack Nicholson (1987, 2002) Michael Fassbender (2011, 2015)
See also National Board of Review Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
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