The San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an award given by the San Diego Film Critics Society to honor the finest male acting achievements in film-making.
Winners 1990s YearWinnerFilmRole1996 Kenneth Branagh Hamlet Hamlet 1997 Jack Nicholson As Good as It Gets Melvin Udall1998 Ian McKellen Gods and Monsters James Whale 1999 Kevin Spacey American Beauty Lester Burnham
2000s YearWinnerFilmRole2000 Russell Crowe Gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius2001 Guy Pearce Memento Leonard2002 Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting2003 Chiwetel Ejiofor Dirty Pretty Things Okwe2004 Jim Carrey Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Joel Barish 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Truman Capote2006 Ken Takakura Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Qian li zou dan qi) Gou-ichi Takata2007 Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview2008 Mickey Rourke The Wrestler Randy Robinson2009 Colin Firth A Single Man George Falconer
2010s YearWinnerFilmRole2010 Colin Farrell Ondine Syracuse2011 Michael Shannon Take Shelter Curtis LaForche2012 Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln Abraham Lincoln2013 Oscar Isaac Inside Llewyn Davis Llewyn Davis 2014Jake GyllenhaalNightcrawler Lou Bloom 2015Leonardo DiCaprioThe Revenant Hugh Glass 2016Casey AffleckManchester by the Sea Lee Chandler 2017James McAvoySplit Kevin Wendell Crumb 2018Ethan HawkeFirst Reformed Pastor Ernst Toller 2019Adam DriverMarriage Story Charlie BarberJoaquin PhoenixJoker Arthur Fleck
2020s YearWinnerFilmRole2020 Riz Ahmed Sound of Metal Ruben Stone2021 Nicolas Cage Pig (2021 film) Rob Feld2022 Colin Farrell The Banshees of Inisherin Pádraic Súilleabháin2023 Jeffrey Wright American Fiction Thelonious "Monk" Ellison2024 Colman Domingo Sing Sing John "Divine G" Whitfield2025 Michael B. Jordan Sinners Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore
References San Diego Film Critics Society - Awards