NYFCC – Best Actor

List of winners and nominees for the New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor!

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2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Pain and Glory

Antonio Banderas

2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

First Reformed

Ethan Hawke

2017 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Call Me by Your Name

Timothée Chalamet

2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Manchester by the Sea

Casey Affleck

2015 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Spotlight

Michael Keaton

2014 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Mr. Turner

Timothy Spall

2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

All Is Lost

Robert Redford

2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Lincoln

Daniel Day-Lewis

2011 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Moneyball

Brad Pitt

2010 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The King’s Speech

Colin Firth

2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Up in the Air

George Clooney

2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Milk

Sean Penn

2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

There Will Be Blood

Daniel Day-Lewis

2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Last King of Scotland

Forest Whitaker

2005 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Brokeback Mountain

Heath Ledger

2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Sideways

Paul Giamatti

2003 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Lost in Translation

Bill Murray

2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Gangs of New York

Daniel Day-Lewis

2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

In the Bedroom

Tom Wilkinson

2000 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Cast Away

Tom Hanks

1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Straight Story

Richard Farnsworth

1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Affliction

Nick Nolte

1997 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Ulee’s Gold

Peter Fonda

1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Shine

Geoffrey Rush

1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Leaving Las Vegas

Nicolas Cage

1994 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Nobody’s Fool

Paul Newman

1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Naked

David Thewlis

1992 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Malcolm X

Denzel Washington

1991 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Silence of the Lambs

Anthony Hopkins

1990 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Goodfellas

Robert De Niro

1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

My Left Foot

Daniel Day-Lewis

1988 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Dead Ringers

Jeremy Irons

1987 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Witches of Eastwick

Jack Nicholson

1986 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Mona Lisa

Bob Hoskins

1985 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Prizzi’s Honor

Jack Nicholson

1984 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

All of Me

Steve Martin

1983 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Tender Mercies

Robert Duvall

1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Gandhi

Ben Kingsley

1981 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Atlantic City

Burt Lancaster

1980 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Raging Bull

Robert De Niro

1979 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Kramer vs. Kramer

Dustin Hoffman

1978 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Coming Home

Jon Voight

1977 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Providence

John Gielgud

1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Taxi Driver

Robert De Niro

1975 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Jack Nicholson

1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Chinatown

Jack Nicholson

1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Last Tango in Paris

Marlon Brando

1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Sleuth

Laurence Olivier

1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The French Connection

Gene Hackman

1970 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Patton

George C. Scott

1969 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Midnight Cowboy

Jon Voight

1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Alan Arkin

1967 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

In the Heat of the Night

Rod Steiger

1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

A Man for All Seasons

Paul Scofield

1965 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Ship of Fools

Oskar Werner

1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

My Fair Lady

Rex Harrison

1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Tom Jones

Albert Finney

1961 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Judgment at Nuremberg

Maximilian Schell

1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Elmer Gantry

Burt Lancaster

1959 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Anatomy of a Murder

James Stewart

1958 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Separate Tables

David Niven

1957 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Alec Guinness

1956 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Lust for Life

Kirk Douglas

1955 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Marty

Ernest Borgnine

1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

On the Waterfront

Marlon Brando

1953 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

From Here to Eternity

Burt Lancaster

1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Sound Barrier

Ralph Richardson

1951 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Bright Victory

Arthur Kennedy

1950 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Twelve O’Clock High

Gregory Peck

1949 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

All the King’s Men

Broderick Crawford

1948 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Hamlet

Laurence Olivier

1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Life with Father

William Powell

1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Henry V

Laurence Olivier

1945 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Lost Weekend

Ray Milland

1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Going My Way

Barry Fitzgerald

1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Watch on the Rhine

Paul Lukas

1942 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Yankee Doodle Dandy

James Cagney

1941 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Sergeant York

Gary Cooper

1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Great Dictator

Charles Chaplin

1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

James Stewart

1938 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Angels with Dirty Faces

James Cagney

1937 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

The Life of Emile Zola

Paul Muni

1936 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Dodsworth

Walter Huston

1935 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor

Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Laughton