The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is one of the annual awards given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association.

Winners † – indicates the performance also won the Academy Award for Best Actor ‡ – indicates the performance was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor

2000s YearRecipientFilmRoleRef. 2004 Jamie Foxx † Ray Ray Charles 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 ‡ Up in the Air Ryan Bingham

2010s YearRecipientFilmRoleRef. 2010 Colin Firth † The King's Speech King George VI 2011 George Clooney ‡ The Descendants Matt King 2012 Daniel Day-Lewis † Lincoln Abraham Lincoln 2013 Chiwetel Ejiofor ‡ 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northup 2014 Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler Lou Bloom 2015 Leonardo DiCaprio † The Revenant Hugh Glass 2016 Casey Affleck † Manchester by the Sea Lee Chandler 2017 Gary Oldman † Darkest Hour Winston Churchill 2018 Ethan Hawke First Reformed Ernst Toller 2019 Adam Sandler Uncut Gems Howard Ratner

2020s YearRecipientFilmRoleRef. 2020 Chadwick Boseman ‡ Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Levee Green 2021 Nicolas Cage Pig Robin "Rob" Feld 2022 Brendan Fraser † The Whale Charlie 2023 Cillian Murphy † Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer 2024 Colman Domingo ‡ Sing Sing John "Divine G" Whitfield 2025 Leonardo DiCaprio ‡ One Battle After Another Bob Ferguson

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