1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor Winner and Nominees

Chinatown

Jack Nicholson

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Last Tango in Paris

Marlon Brando

A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.

Lenny

Dustin Hoffman

Serpico

Al Pacino

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Richard Dreyfuss

The Conversation

Gene Hackman