Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award / Best Actor
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor is an annual award from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle .
Award winners
1960s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Michael Caine | The seducer sends his regards | Alfie Elkins |
| 1967 | Paul Scofield | A man for every season | Thomas More |
| Rod Steiger | In the Heat of the Night | Bill Gillespie | |
| 1968 | Alan Arkin | The heart is a lonely hunter | John Singer |
| 1969 | Alan Arkin | Popi | Abraham |
1970s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | George C. Scott | Patton - rebel in uniform | George S. Patton |
| 1971 | Gene Hackman | Brooklyn focal point | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle |
| Walter Matthau | Grandpa can't help it | Joseph P. Kotcher | |
| 1972 | Marlon Brando | The Godfather | Vito Corleone |
| Stacey Keach | Fat City | Tully | |
| 1973 | George Segal | Man are you class! | Steven "Steve" Blackburn |
| 1974 | Jack Nicholson | Chinatown | Jake "JJ" Gittes |
| 1975 | Al Pacino | Dog days | Sonny Wortzik |
| 1976 | Sylvester Stallone | Rocky | Rocky Balboa |
| 1977 | Richard Dreyfuss | The lodger | Elliot Garfield |
| 1978 | Brad Davis | 12 noon - Midnight Express | Billy Hayes |
| 1979 | Dustin Hoffman | Kramer versus Kramer | Ted Kramer |
1980s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Robert Duvall | The great Santini | Bull Meechum |
| 1981 | Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City, USA | Lou Pascal |
| 1982 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1983 | Robert Duvall | Love comeback | Mac Sledge |
| 1984 | F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri |
| 1985 | Harrison Ford | The only witness | John Book |
| 1986 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George |
| 1987 | Michael Douglas | Wall street | Gordon Gekko |
| 1988 | Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man | Raymond Babbitt |
| 1989 | Morgan Freeman | Miss Daisy and her chauffeur | Hoke Colburn |
1990s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Jeremy Irons | The Sunny von B. | Claus von Bülow |
| 1991 | Anthony Hopkins | The silence of the Lambs | Hannibal Lecter |
| 1992 | Denzel Washington | Malcolm X | Malcolm X |
| 1993 | Anthony Hopkins | What was left of the day | James Stevens |
| 1994 | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump |
| 1995 | James Earl Jones | Cry, the Beloved Country | Stephen Kumalo |
| 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton | Sling Blade - On a knife edge | Karl Childers |
| 1997 | Ian Holm | The sweet afterlife | Mitchell Stephens |
| 1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
| 1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham |
2000s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Geoffrey Rush | Quills - power of obsession | Donatien Alphonse François de Sade |
| 2001 | Denzel Washington | Training Day | Alonzo Harris |
| 2002 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The last king of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| 2008 | Mickey Rourke | The wrestler | Randy Robinson |
| 2009 | George Clooney | Up in the air | Ryan Bingham |
2010s
| year | winner | Movie | role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | George VI. |
| 2011 | George Clooney | The Descendants - family and other affairs | Matt King |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 years a slave | Solomon Northrup |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton | Birdman or The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness | Riggan Thomson / Birdman |
| 2015 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |