Chlotrudis Awards / Best Actor

Since 1995 the best actor has been honored at the Chlotrudis Awards .

statistics
Most frequently honored actor	Philip Seymour Hoffman (three awards)
Most frequently nominated actor	Gael García Bernal (four nominations)
Most often nominated actor without a win	Daniel Auteuil and Nicolas Cage (three nominations each)

Excellent actors

year	actor	Movie	Other nominees
1995	Morgan Freeman and Wallace Shawn	The convicted Vanja on 42nd Street	Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction Tim Robbins for The Convicted
1996	Sean Penn	Dead Man Walking - His last walk	Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas Martin Donovan for Amateur Harvey Keitel for Smoke Ian McKellen for Richard III. Jonathan Pryce for Carrington Linus Roche for The Priest
1997	Billy Bob Thornton	Sling Blade - On a knife edge	Chris Cooper for Lone Star Jeff Daniels for Amy and the wild geese William H. Macy for Fargo Tony Shalhoub for Big Night Noah Taylor for Shine - Der Weg ins Licht
1998	Russell Crowe	LA Confidential	Johnny Depp for Donnie Brasco Martin Donovan for Hollow Reed - Silent Screams Al Pacino for Donnie Brasco Guy Pearce for LA Confidential Kōji Yakusho for Shall we dance?
1999	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters	Evan Adams for Smoke Signals Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful Danny DeVito for Kissed Wake Up Stephen Fry for Oscar Wilde Nick Nolte for The Hunted Edward Norton for American History X.
2000	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Matthew Broderick for Election Rupert Everett for A Perfect Husband Richard Farnsworth for A True Story - The Straight Story Bob Hoskins for Felicia, My Angel Don McKellar for Last Night Jason Schwartzman for Rushmore Ben Silverstone for Get Real - From Man to Man
2001	Christian Bale	American Psycho	Daniel Auteuil for The Woman on the Bridge Jamie Bell for Billy Elliot - I Will Dance Dan Futterman for Urbania Denis Lavant for The Foreign Legionnaire Daniel MacIvor for The Five Senses Sean Penn for Sweet and Lowdown Mark Ruffalo for You Can Count on Me Mike White for Chuck & Buck
2002	John Cameron Mitchell Audience Award: Billy Bob Thornton	Hedwig and the Angry Inch The Man Who Wasn't There	Daniel Auteuil for La Veuve de Saint-Pierre Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls Robert Forster for Diamond Men Tony Leung Chiu Wai for In the Mood for Love Tom Wilkinson for In the Bedroom Ray Winstone for Sexy Beast
2003	Jake Gyllenhaal Audience Award: Adam Sandler	Donnie Darko Punch-Drunk Love	Gael García Bernal for Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life Nicolas Cage for Adaption - The Orchid Thief Anthony LaPaglia for Lantana Lin Cui for Beijing Bicycle Stellan Skarsgård for Aberdeen James Spader for Secretary
2004	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Owning Mahowny	Javier Bardem for Der Obrist and the dancer Bruce Campbell for Bubba Ho-Tep Peter Dinklage for Station Agent Paul Giamatti for American Splendor Bill Murray for Lost in Translation Campbell Scott for The Secret Lives of Dentists
2005	Gael García Bernal	La mala educación - Bad education	Tony Leung Chiu Wai for Infernal Affairs Tadanobu Asano for Last Life in the Universe Paul Giamatti for Sideways Jamie Sives for Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself Kevin Bacon for The Woodsman
2006	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Mathieu Amalric for Rois et Reine Romain Duris for Der wilde Schlag mein Herzens Bruno Ganz for Der Untergang Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck.
2007	Vincent Lindon	La Mustache	Daniel Auteuil for Caché Gael García Bernal for Science of Sleep - Guide to Dreaming Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson Guy Pearce for The Proposition - Deadly Offer Ray Winstone for The Proposition - Deadly Offer
2008	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Ryan Gosling for Lars and the women Gordon Pinsent for At Her Side Sam Riley for Control Philip Seymour Hoffman for Deadly Decision - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2009	Richard Jenkins	A summer in New York - The Visitor	See Brendan Gleeson for Bruges ... and die? Jean-Claude Van Damme for JCVD Sean Penn for Milk Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler - Fame, Love, Pain
2010	Colin Firth	A single man	Nicolas Cage for Bad Lieutenant - Cop Without a Conscience Baard Owe for O 'Horten Jeremy Renner for Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker Sam Rockwell for Moon
2011	Ryan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman	Blue Valentine and Jack Goes Boating	Vincent Cassel for Mesrine: Killer Instinct Colin Firth for The King's Speech Anthony Mackie for Night Catches Us Alexander Siddig for Cairo Time
2012	Michael Shannon	Take shelter	Javier Bardem for Biutiful Tom Cullen for Weekend Jean Dujardin for The Artist Chris New for Weekend Stellan Skarsgård for A Somewhat Gentle Man
2013	John Hawkes	The sessions	Frank Langella for Robot & Frank Denis Lavant for Holy Motors Peter Mullan for Tyrannosaur Matthias Schoenaerts for Bullhead Matthias Schoenaerts for Rust and Bone
2014	Mads Mikkelsen	Hunted	Toby Jones for Berberian Sound Studio Daniel Radcliffe for Kill Your Darlings Gael García Bernal for No Miles Teller for The Spectacular Now - Paul Eenhoorn is now perfect for This Is Martin Bonner
2015	Tom Hardy	No turning back	Adam Bakri for Omar Jesse Eisenberg for The Double Masaharu Fukuyama for Like Father, Like Son (Soshite chichi ni naru) Michael Keaton for Birdman or (The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness) Miles Teller for Whiplash
2016	Christopher Abbott	James White	Jemaine Clement for People Places Things Paul Dano for Love & Mercy Bruce Greenwood for Wildlike Oscar Isaac for A Most Violent Year Jason Segel for The End of the Tour
2017	Joel Edgerton	Loving	Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea Vincent Lindon for Der Wert des Menschen Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fantastic - Once Wilderness and Back Theo Taplitz for Little Men
2018	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Adam Driver for Paterson Ethan Hawke for Maudie Nelsan Ellis for Little Boxes Harry Dean Stanton for Lucky Sam Elliott for The Hero
2019	Alessandro Nivola	Weightless	Ben Foster for Leave No Trace Brady Jandreau for The Rider Charlie Plummer for Lean on Pete Ethan Hawke for First Reformed
2020	Matthias Schoenaerts	The Mustang	Jimmie Fails for The Last Black Man in San Francisco Kelvin Harrison Jr. for Luce Antonio Banderas for Sorrow and Glory Jonathan Pryce for The Two Popes