The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor is an award given by the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle to honor an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role.
Winners
2000s YearWinnerFilmRole 2002 Michael Caine The Quiet American Thomas Fowler 2003 Bill Murray Lost in Translation Bob Harris 2004 Paul Giamatti Sideways Miles Raymond 2005 Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain Ennis Del Mar 2006 Sacha Baron Cohen Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Borat Sagdiyev 2007 George Clooney Michael Clayton Michael Clayton 2008 Sean Penn Milk Harvey Milk Mickey Rourke The Wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson 2009 Colin Firth A Single Man George Falconer
2010s YearWinnerFilmRole 2010 Colin Firth The King's Speech King George VI 2011 Gary Oldman Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy George Smiley 2012 Joaquin Phoenix The Master Freddie Quell 2013 Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northup 2014 Michael Keaton Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Riggan Thomson 2015 Paul Dano Love & Mercy Brian Wilson 2016 Denzel Washington Fences Troy Maxson 2017 Andy Serkis War for the Planet of the Apes Caesar 2018 Ethan Hawke First Reformed Reverend Ernst Toller 2019 Antonio Banderas Pain and Glory Salvador Mallo
2020s YearWinnerFilmRole 2020 Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Levee Green 2021Benedict CumberbatchThe Power of the DogPhil Burbank 2022Colin FarrellThe Banshees of InisherinPádraic Súilleabháin 2023Jeffrey WrightAmerican FictionThelonious "Monk" Ellison 2024Colman DomingoSing SingJohn "Divine G" Whitfield 2025Ethan HawkeBlue MoonLorenz Hart
Multiple awards 2 awards Ethan Hawke (2018, 2025)