Chicago Film Critics Association Award / Best Actor

Price of the Chicago Film Critics Association : Best Actor

Winner of the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards in the category Best Actor (Best Actor) . Every year in mid-December, the American Film Critics Association announces its awards for the best film productions and filmmakers of the current calendar year. As in the case of the Oscar or Golden Globe awards, these are selected from five nominees.

The most successful in this category was the British-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis , who has won the award three times so far. The film critics' association was able to present the Oscar winner ten times in advance , most recently in 2013, when it presented the award to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln .

year	Award winners	Movie title	German title
1988	Jeremy Irons	Dead Ringers	The inseparable
1989	Tom Cruise	Born on the fourth of July	Born on July 4th
1990	Jeremy Irons *	Reversal of Fortune	The Sunny von B.
1991	Anthony Hopkins *	The Silence of the Lambs	The silence of the Lambs
1992	Denzel Washington	Malcolm X	Malcolm X
1993	Liam Neeson	Schindler's List	Schindlers List
1994	Tom Hanks *	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump
1995	Nicolas Cage *	Leaving Las Vegas	Leaving Las Vegas
1996	Billy Bob Thornton	Sling blade	Sling Blade - On a knife edge
1997	Robert Duvall	The Apostle	Apostle!
1998	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters	Gods and Monsters
1999	Kevin Spacey *	American Beauty	American Beauty
2000	Tom Hanks	Cast Away	Cast Away
2001	Gene Hackman	The Royal Tenenbaums	The Royal Tenenbaums
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	Gangs of New York
2003	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Lost in Translation
2004	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Sideways
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman *	Capote	Capote
2006	Forest Whitaker *	The Last King of Scotland	The Last King of Scotland - In the Clutches of Power
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis *	There Will Be Blood	There Will Be Blood
2008	Mickey Rourke	The wrestler	The wrestler
2009	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker
2010	Colin Firth *	The King's Speech	The King's Speech
2011	Michael Shannon	Take shelter	Take Shelter - A storm is brewing
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis *	Lincoln	Lincoln
2013	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 years a slave	12 years a slave
2014	Michael Keaton	Birdman	Birdman or The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness
2015	Leonardo DiCaprio *	The Revenant	The Revenant
2016	Casey Affleck *	Manchester by the Sea	Manchester by the Sea
2017	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Call Me by Your Name
2018	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	First Reformed
2019	Adam Driver	Marriage story	Marriage story

* = Actors who later won the Oscar for Best Actor of the Year for their role .

Web links

Official website of the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards ( english )