London Critics' Circle Film Award / Best Actor

Since 1984 , the London Critics' Circle Film Awards have honored the best actor in a lead .

Daniel Day-Lewis is the only actor who has won twice so far.

Award winners

Note: The award ceremony always relates to films from the previous year, so 2007 winners were recognized for their 2006 achievements.

year	Award winners	Movie
1984	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi
1985	Albert Finney	Under the Volcano (Under the Volcano)
1986	Richard Farnsworth	The Fox (The Gray Fox)
	James Mason	The Last Hunt (The Shooting Party)
1987	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
	Bob Hoskins	Mona Lisa
1988	Gary Oldman	The Stormy Life of Joe Orton (Prick Up Your Ears)
	Sean Connery	The Untouchables (The Untouchables)
1989	Stéphane Audran	Babettes feast (Babettes gæstebud)
	Leo McKern	Journey to the North (Traveling North)
1990	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot (My Left Foot)
1991	Philippe Noiret	Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso)
1992	Gérard Depardieu	Cyrano of Bergerac (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1993	Robert Downey Jr.	Chaplin
1994	Anthony Hopkins	The Remains of the Day (The Remains of the Day)
1995	John Travolta	pulp Fiction
1996	Johnny Depp	Ed Wood , don Juan DeMarco
1997	Morgan Freeman	Seven (Seven)
1998	Geoffrey Rush	Shine - the way into light
1999	Jack Nicholson	It couldn't be better (As Good as It Gets)
2000	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty
2001	Russell Crowe	gladiator
2002	Billy Bob Thornton	The Man Who Wasn't There
2003	Michael Caine	The Quiet American (The Quiet American)
2004	Sean Penn	Mystic River
2005	Jamie Foxx	Ray
2006	Bruno Ganz	The downfall
2007	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland - In the clutches of power (The Last King of Scotland)
2008	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood
2009	Mickey Rourke	The wrestler
2010	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds
2011	Colin Firth	The King's Speech
2012	Jean Dujardin	The Artist
2013	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master
2014	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 years a slave
2015	Michael Keaton	Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2016	Tom Courtenay	45 years
2017	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea
2018	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name
2019	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed
2020	Joaquin Phoenix	joker