Critics' Circle Theater Award / Best Actor
The following Critics' Circle Theater Awards were presented in the Best Actor category .
1982 to 1989
- 1982: Bob Hoskins for Guys and Dolls
- 1983: Derek Jacobi for Cyrano de Bergerac and Much Ado About Nothing
- 1984: (shared) Antony Sher for Richard III
- 1984: (shared) Brian Cox for Rat in the Skull and Strange Interlude
- 1985: Anthony Hopkins for Pravda (shared)
- 1985: (shared) Gary Oldman for The Pope's Wedding
- 1986: (shared) Bill Fraser for When We Are Married
- 1986: Hugh Quarshie for The Great White Hope (shared)
- 1987: Brian Cox for The Taming of the Shrew , Titus Andronicus and Fashion
- 1988: (shared) Alex Jennings for Half's Too Clever
- 1988: (shared) Tom Wilkinson for An Enemy of the People
- 1989: Ian McKellen for Othello
1990 to 1999
- 1990: Michael Gambon for Man of the Moment
- 1991: Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of George III
- 1992: Paul Eddington for No Man's Land
- 1993: Ian Holm for Moonlight
- 1994: Tom Courtenay for Moscow Stations
- 1995: Daniel Massey for Taking Sides
- 1996: David Suchet for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1997: Ian Holm for King Lear
- 1998: Kevin Spacey for The Iceman Cometh
- 1999: Henry Goodman for The Merchant of Venice
2000 to 2009
- 2000: Michael Gambon for The Caretaker
- 2001: Ian McDiarmid for Faith Healer
- 2002: Simon Russell Beale for Uncle Vanya
- 2003: Michael Sheen for Caligula
- 2004: Richard Griffiths for The History Boys
- 2005: Simon Russell Beale for The Philanthropist
- 2006: Rufus Sewell for Rock'n'Roll
- 2007: Charles Dance for Shadowlands
- 2008: Kenneth Branagh for Ivanov
- 2009: Mark Rylance for Jerusalem (drama)
Since 2010
- 2010: David Suchet for All My Sons
- 2011: Benedict Cumberbatch for Frankenstein
- 2012: Adrian Lester for Red Velvet
- 2013: Lenny Henry for Fences
- 2014: Mark Strong for A View from the Bridge
- 2015: Kenneth Cranham for The Father
Web links
- Critics' Circle Theater Awards at the Albemarle of London.
- Critics 'Circle Theater Awards at The Critics' Circle.