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.
Winners and nominees 2000s YearActorFilmRole 2002Jack Nicholson About Schmidt Warren SchmidtDaniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting 2003Bill 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 Jamie Foxx Ray Ray Charles 2005 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 Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland Idi Amin 2007 George Clooney Michael Clayton Michael Clayton 2008 Mickey Rourke The Wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson 2009 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
2010s YearActorFilmRole 2010 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
2020s YearActorFilmRole 2020 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 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 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 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 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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