The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.
Winners † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Actor
2000s YearWinner and nomineesFilmRole2007Daniel Day-Lewis †There Will Be Blood Daniel PlainviewCasey Affleck Gone Baby Gone Patrick KenzieGeorge Clooney ‡ Michael ClaytonMichael ClaytonEmile Hirsch Into the Wild Chris McCandlessViggo Mortensen ‡ Eastern Promises Nikolai Luzhin2008Sean Penn †Milk Harvey MilkLeonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Frank WheelerRichard Jenkins ‡ The Visitor Walter ValeFrank Langella ‡ Frost/Nixon Richard NixonBrad Pitt ‡ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Benjamin ButtonMickey Rourke ‡ The Wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson2009George Clooney ‡Up in the Air Ryan BinghamJeff Bridges † Crazy Heart Bad BlakeMorgan Freeman ‡ Invictus Nelson MandelaViggo Mortensen The Road ManJeremy Renner ‡ The Hurt Locker Sergeant First Class William James
2010s YearWinner and nomineesFilmRole2010Jesse Eisenberg ‡The Social Network Mark ZuckerbergJeff Bridges ‡ True GritRooster CogburnRobert Duvall Get LowFelix BushColin Firth † The King's SpeechKing George VIJames Franco ‡ 127 HoursAron Ralston2011Michael FassbenderShame Brandon SullivanGeorge Clooney ‡ The DescendantsMatt KingJean Dujardin † The ArtistGeorge ValentinBrad Pitt ‡ MoneyballBilly BeaneMichael Shannon Take ShelterCurtis LaForche2012Daniel Day-Lewis † Lincoln Abraham LincolnJohn Hawkes The SessionsMark O'BrienHugh Jackman ‡ Les MisérablesJean ValjeanJoaquin Phoenix ‡ The MasterFreddie QuellDenzel Washington ‡ FlightWhip Whitaker2013Chiwetel Ejiofor ‡ 12 Years a Slave Solomon NorthupBruce Dern ‡ NebraskaWoody GrantChristian Bale ‡ American HustleIrving RosenfeldMatthew McConaughey † Dallas Buyers ClubRon WoodroofMads Mikkelsen The HuntLucasRobert Redford All Is LostOur Man2014Jake GyllenhaalNightcrawler Louis "Lou" BloomBenedict Cumberbatch ‡ The Imitation Game Alan TuringTom Hardy Locke Ivan LockeMichael Keaton ‡ BirdmanRiggan Thomson / BirdmanEddie Redmayne † The Theory of Everything Stephen Hawking2015Michael Fassbender ‡ Steve Jobs Steve JobsBryan Cranston ‡ Trumbo Dalton TrumboMatt Damon ‡ The Martian Mark WatneyLeonardo DiCaprio † The Revenant Hugh GlassTom Hardy Legend Ronald "Ronnie" Kray & Reginald "Reggie" Kray2016Casey Affleck † Manchester by the Sea Lee Chandler Andrew Garfield ‡ Hacksaw Ridge Desmond T. Doss Ryan Gosling ‡ La La Land Sebastian Wilder Jake Gyllenhaal Nocturnal Animals Tony Hastings/Edward Sheffield Viggo Mortensen ‡ Captain Fantastic Ben Cash Denzel Washington ‡ Fences Troy Maxson2017James FrancoThe Disaster Artist Tommy Wiseau Timothée Chalamet ‡ Call Me by Your Name Elio Perlman Daniel Kaluuya ‡ Get Out Chris Washington Robert Pattinson Good Time Constantine "Connie" Nikas Andy Serkis War for the Planet of the Apes Caesar2018Christian Bale ‡ Vice Dick Cheney Bradley Cooper ‡ A Star Is Born Jackson Maine Ethan Hawke First Reformed Ernst Toller Rami Malek † Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury Viggo Mortensen ‡ Green Book Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga2019 Adam Driver ‡Marriage Story Charlie Barber Leonardo DiCaprio ‡ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Rick Dalton Eddie Murphy Dolemite Is My Name Rudy Ray Moore Joaquin Phoenix † Joker Arthur Fleck / Joker Adam Sandler Uncut Gems Howard Ratner
2020s YearWinner and nomineesFilmRole2020 Riz Ahmed ‡Sound of Metal Ruben Chadwick Boseman ‡ Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Levee Green Anthony Hopkins † The Father Anthony Delroy Lindo Da 5 Bloods Paul Steven Yeun ‡ Minari Jacob Yi2021 Benedict Cumberbatch ‡The Power of the Dog Phil Burbank Peter Dinklage Cyrano Cyrano de Bergerac Andrew Garfield ‡ tick, tick... BOOM! Jonathan Larson Will Smith † King Richard Richard Williams Denzel Washington ‡ The Tragedy of Macbeth Lord Macbeth2022 Colin Farrell ‡The Banshees of Inisherin Pádraic Súilleabháin Austin Butler ‡ Elvis Elvis Presley Tom Cruise Top Gun: Maverick Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Brendan Fraser † The Whale Charlie Jeremy Pope The Inspection Ellis French2023 Paul Giamatti ‡The Holdovers Paul Hunham Leonardo DiCaprio Killers of the Flower Moon Ernest Burkhart Cillian Murphy † Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer Andrew Scott All of Us Strangers Adam Jeffrey Wright ‡ American Fiction Thelonious "Monk" Ellison2024 Ralph Fiennes ‡Conclave Cardinal Thomas Lawrence Adrien Brody † The Brutalist László Tóth Timothée Chalamet ‡ A Complete Unknown Bob Dylan Colman Domingo ‡ Sing Sing John "Divine G" Whitfield Hugh Grant Heretic Mr. Reed2025 Michael B. Jordan ‡Sinners Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Timothée Chalamet ‡ Marty Supreme Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio ‡ One Battle After Another Bob Ferguson Ethan Hawke ‡ Blue Moon Lorenz Hart Wagner Moura ‡ The Secret Agent Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões
References Houston Film Critics Society official website