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2019 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Uncut Gems Adam Sandler](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/uncut-gems-image.jpg)
Uncut Gems
Adam Sandler
2018 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Green Book Viggo Mortensen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/green-book-peter-farrelly-image.jpg)
Green Book
Viggo Mortensen
2017 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Post Tom Hanks](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-post-steven-spielberg-image.jpg)
The Post
Tom Hanks
2016 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Manchester by the Sea Casey Affleck](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/manchester-by-the-sea-kenneth-lonergan-image.jpg)
Manchester by the Sea
Casey Affleck
2015 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Martian Matt Damon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-martian-ridley-scott-image.jpg)
The Martian
Matt Damon
2014 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![A Most Violent Year Oscar Isaac](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-most-violent-year-j.c.-chandor-image.jpg)
A Most Violent Year
Oscar Isaac
2013 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Nebraska Bruce Dern](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/nebraska-image.jpg)
Nebraska
Bruce Dern
2012 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/silver-linings-playbook-david-o.-russell-image.jpg)
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper
2011 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Descendants George Clooney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-descendants-image.jpg)
The Descendants
George Clooney
2010 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Social Network Jesse Eisenberg](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-social-network-david-fincher-image.jpg)
The Social Network
Jesse Eisenberg
2009 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Invictus Morgan Freeman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/invictus-clint-eastwood-image.jpg)
Invictus
Morgan Freeman
2008 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Gran Torino Clint Eastwood](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gran-torino-clint-eastwood-image.jpg)
Gran Torino
Clint Eastwood
2007 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Michael Clayton George Clooney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/michael-clayton-tony-gilroy-image.jpg)
Michael Clayton
George Clooney
2006 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Last King of Scotland Forest Whitaker](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-last-king-of-scotland-kevin-macdonald-image.jpg)
The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker
2005 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/capote-image.jpg)
Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
2004 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Ray Jamie Foxx](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ray-taylor-hackford-image.jpg)
Ray
Jamie Foxx
2003 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Mystic River Sean Penn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mystic-river-clint-eastwood-image.jpg)
Mystic River
Sean Penn
2002 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Roger Dodger Campbell Scott](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/roger-dodger-dylan-kidd-image.jpg)
Roger Dodger
Campbell Scott
2001 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Monster's Ball Billy Bob Thornton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/monsters-ball-marc-forster-image.jpg)
Monster’s Ball
Billy Bob Thornton
2000 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Before Night Falls Javier Bardem](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/before-night-falls-julian-schnabel-image.jpg)
Before Night Falls
Javier Bardem
1999 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Insider Russell Crowe](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-insider-michael-mann-image.jpg)
The Insider
Russell Crowe
1998 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Gods and Monsters Ian McKellen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gods-and-monsters-image.jpg)
Gods and Monsters
Ian McKellen
1997 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![As Good as It Gets Jack Nicholson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/as-good-as-it-gets-james-l.-brooks-image.jpg)
As Good as It Gets
Jack Nicholson
1996 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/jerry-maguire-cameron-crowe-image.jpg)
Jerry Maguire
Tom Cruise
1995 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Leaving Las Vegas Nicolas Cage](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/leaving-las-vegas-mike-figgis-image.jpg)
Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage
1994 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Forrest Gump Tom Hanks](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/forrest-gump-robert-zemeckis-image.jpg)
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks
1993 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Shadowlands Anthony Hopkins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shadowlands-richard-attenborough-image.jpg)
Shadowlands
Anthony Hopkins
1992 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Glengarry Glen Ross Jack Lemmon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/glengarry-glen-ross-james-foley-image.jpg)
Glengarry Glen Ross
Jack Lemmon
1991 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Bugsy Warren Beatty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bugsy-image.jpg)
Bugsy
Warren Beatty
1990 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Awakenings Robin Williams](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/awakenings-penny-marshall-image.jpg)
Awakenings
Robin Williams
1989 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Driving Miss Daisy Morgan Freeman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/driving-miss-daisy-bruce-beresford-image.jpg)
Driving Miss Daisy
Morgan Freeman
1988 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Mississippi Burning Gene Hackman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mississippi-burning-image.jpg)
Mississippi Burning
Gene Hackman
1987 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Wall Street Michael Douglas](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wall-street-oliver-stone-image.jpg)
Wall Street
Michael Douglas
1986 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Color of Money Paul Newman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-color-of-money-martin-scorsese-image.jpg)
The Color of Money
Paul Newman
1985 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Kiss of the Spider Woman William Hurt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kiss-of-the-spider-woman-hector-babenco-image.jpg)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
William Hurt
1985 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Kiss of the Spider Woman Raul Julia](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kiss-of-the-spider-woman-hector-babenco-image.jpg)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Raul Julia
1984 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![A Passage to India Victor Banerjee](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-passage-to-india-image.jpg)
A Passage to India
Victor Banerjee
1983 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Reuben, Reuben Tom Conti](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/reuben-reuben-robert-ellis-miller-image.jpg)
Reuben, Reuben
Tom Conti
1982 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Gandhi Ben Kingsley](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gandhi-richard-attenborough-image.jpg)
Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
1981 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![On Golden Pond Henry Fonda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/on-golden-pond-mark-rydell-image.jpg)
On Golden Pond
Henry Fonda
1980 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Raging Bull Robert De Niro](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/raging-bull-martin-scorsese-image.jpg)
Raging Bull
Robert De Niro
1979 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Being There Peter Sellers](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/being-there-hal-ashby-image.jpg)
Being There
Peter Sellers
1978 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Coming Home Jon Voight](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coming-home-hal-ashby-image.jpg)
Coming Home
Jon Voight
1977 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Saturday Night Fever John Travolta](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/saturday-night-fever-john-badham-image.jpg)
Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta
1976 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Bound for Glory David Carradine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bound-for-glory-hal-ashby-image.jpg)
Bound for Glory
David Carradine
1975 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jack Nicholson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-milos-forman-image.jpg)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Jack Nicholson
1974 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Conversation Gene Hackman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-conversation-francis-ford-coppola-image.jpg)
The Conversation
Gene Hackman
1973 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Serpico Al Pacino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/serpico-sidney-lumet-image.jpg)
Serpico
Al Pacino
1972 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The French Connection Gene Hackman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-french-connection-william-friedkin-image.jpg)
The French Connection
Gene Hackman
1971 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Patton George C. Scott](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/patton-franklin-j.-schaffner-image.jpg)
Patton
George C. Scott
1970 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Goodbye, Mr. Chips Peter O'Toole](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/goodbye-mr.-chips-herbert-ross-image.jpg)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Peter O’Toole
1969 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Charly Cliff Robertson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/charly-ralph-nelson-image.jpg)
Charly
Cliff Robertson
1968 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Far from the Madding Crowd Peter Finch](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/far-from-the-madding-crowd-john-schlesinger-image.jpg)
Far from the Madding Crowd
Peter Finch
1967 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![A Man for All Seasons Paul Scofield](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-man-for-all-seasons-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
A Man for All Seasons
Paul Scofield
1966 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Cat Ballou Lee Marvin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cat-ballou-elliot-silverstein-image.jpg)
Cat Ballou
Lee Marvin
1964 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Zorba the Greek Anthony Quinn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zorba-the-greek-michael-cacoyannis-image.jpg)
Zorba the Greek
Anthony Quinn
1963 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Cleopatra Rex Harrison](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cleopatra-joseph-l.-mankiewicz-image.jpg)
Cleopatra
Rex Harrison
1962 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Long Day's Journey Into Night Jason Robards](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/long-days-journey-into-night-sidney-lumet-image.jpg)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Jason Robards
1961 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Albert Finney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/saturday-night-and-sunday-morning-karel-reisz-image.jpg)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Albert Finney
1960 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Home from the Hill Robert Mitchum](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/home-from-the-hill-vincente-minnelli-image.jpg)
Home from the Hill
Robert Mitchum
1959 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Wild Strawberries Victor Sjöström](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wild-strawberries-ingmar-bergman-image.jpg)
Wild Strawberries
Victor Sjöström
1958 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Old Man and the Sea Spencer Tracy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-old-man-and-the-sea-john-sturges-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
The Old Man and the Sea
Spencer Tracy
1957 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Bridge on the River Kwai Alec Guinness](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai-david-lean-image.jpg)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness
1956 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The King and I Yul Brynner](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-king-and-i-walter-lang-image.jpg)
The King and I
Yul Brynner
1955 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Marty Ernest Borgnine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/marty-delbert-mann-image.jpg)
Marty
Ernest Borgnine
1954 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Country Girl Bing Crosby](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-country-girl-george-seaton-image.jpg)
The Country Girl
Bing Crosby
1953 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Face to Face James Mason](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/face-to-face-john-brahm-bretaigne-windust-image.jpg)
Face to Face
James Mason
1952 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Sound Barrier Ralph Richardson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sound-barrier-david-lean-image.jpg)
The Sound Barrier
Ralph Richardson
1951 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Fourteen Hours Richard Basehart](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fourteen-hours-henry-hathaway-image.jpg)
Fourteen Hours
Richard Basehart
1950 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Kind Hearts and Coronets Alec Guinness](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kind-hearts-and-coronets-robert-hamer-image.jpg)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Alec Guinness
1949 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Heiress Ralph Richardson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-heiress-william-wyler-image.jpg)
The Heiress
Ralph Richardson
1948 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Walter Huston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-john-huston-image.jpg)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Walter Huston
1947 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Mourning Becomes Electra Michael Redgrave](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mourning-becomes-electra-dudley-nichols-image.jpg)
Mourning Becomes Electra
Michael Redgrave
1946 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Henry V Laurence Olivier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/henry-v-laurence-olivier-image.jpg)
Henry V
Laurence Olivier
1945 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![The Lost Weekend Ray Milland](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-lost-weekend-billy-wilder-image.jpg)
The Lost Weekend
Ray Milland
1944 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Gaslight Ingrid Bergman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gaslight-george-cukor-image.jpg)
Gaslight
Ingrid Bergman
1943 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Happy Land Harry Morgan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-land-irving-pichel-image.jpg)
Happy Land
Harry Morgan
1942 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![49th Parallel Anton Walbrook](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/49th-parallel-michael-powell-image.jpg)
49th Parallel
Anton Walbrook
1941 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Birth of the Blues Bing Crosby](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/birth-of-the-blues-victor-schertzinger-image.jpg)
Birth of the Blues
Bing Crosby
1940 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Escape Conrad Veidt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/escape-mervyn-leroy-image.jpg)
Escape
Conrad Veidt
1939 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Confessions of a Nazi Spy Francis Lederer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/confessions-of-a-nazi-spy-anatole-litvak-image.jpg)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Francis Lederer
1938 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Algiers Joseph Calleia](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/algiers-john-cromwell-image.jpg)
Algiers
Joseph Calleia
1937 National Board of Review – Best Actor
![Baltic Deputy Nikolay Cherkasov](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)