Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
The winners of the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. Daniel Day-Lewis was the only one to win the award four times, Denzel Washington and Jack Nicholson twice.
1980s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Robert De Niro | Like a wild bull | Jake LaMotta |
| 1981 | Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City, USA | Lou Pascal |
| 1982 | Dustin Hoffman | Tootsie | Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels |
| 1983 | Eric Roberts | Star 80 | Paul Snider |
| 1984 | Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields - Screaming Land | Dith Pran |
| 1985 | Jack Nicholson | The honor of the Prizzis | Charley Partanna |
| 1986 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George |
| 1987 | Albert Brooks | News Fever - Broadcast News | Aaron Altman |
| 1988 | Daniel Day-Lewis | The unbearable lightness of being | Tomas |
| 1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My left foot | Christy Brown |
1990s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Jeremy Irons | The Sunny von B. | Claus von Bülow |
| 1991 | Nick Nolte | Lord of the Tides | Tom Wingo |
| 1992 | Denzel Washington | Malcolm X | Malcolm X |
| 1993 | Daniel Day-Lewis | In the name of the father | Gerry Conlon |
| 1994 | Albert Finney | Scream into the past | Andrew Crocker-Harris |
| 1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Rush | Shine - the way into light | David Helfgott |
| 1997 | Al Pacino | Donnie Brasco | Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero |
| 1998 | Brendan Gleeson | The general | Martin Cahill |
| Tough Boys - Two do the math | Bunny Kelly | ||
| 1999 | Jim Carrey | The moon man | Andy Kaufman |
2000s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Colin Farrell | Tiger land | Roland Bozz |
| 2001 | Brian Cox | LIE | Big John Harrigan |
| Denzel Washington | Training Day | Alonzo Harris | |
| 2002 | Adrien Brody | The pianist | Wladyslaw Szpilman |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The last king of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2007 | Frank Langella | Starting out in the evening | Leonard Schiller |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler - fame, love, pain | Randy Robinson | |
| 2009 | Jeremy Renner | Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker | SFC. William James |
2010s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The social network | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2011 | Brad Pitt | The art of winning - Moneyball | Billy Beane |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 years a slave | Solomon Northup |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton | Birdman or The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness | Riggan Thomson |
| 2015 | Paul Dano | Love & Mercy | Brian Wilson |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |