| Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
 The 2023 recipient: Paul Giamatti | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Houston Film Critics Society |
| First awarded | Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood (2007) |
| Currently held by | Paul Giamatti The Holdovers (2023) |
| Website | houstonfilmcritics |
The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.
| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis † | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| Casey Affleck | Gone Baby Gone | Patrick Kenzie | |
| George Clooney ‡ | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton | |
| Emile Hirsch | Into the Wild | Chris McCandless | |
| Viggo Mortensen ‡ | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin | |
| 2008 | Sean Penn † | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Revolutionary Road | Frank Wheeler | |
| Richard Jenkins ‡ | The Visitor | Walter Vale | |
| Frank Langella ‡ | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon | |
| Brad Pitt ‡ | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Benjamin Button | |
| Mickey Rourke ‡ | The Wrestler | Randy "The Ram" Robinson | |
| 2009 | George Clooney ‡ | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
| Jeff Bridges † | Crazy Heart | Bad Blake | |
| Morgan Freeman ‡ | Invictus | Nelson Mandela | |
| Viggo Mortensen | The Road | Man | |
| Jeremy Renner ‡ | The Hurt Locker | Sergeant First Class William James |
| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed ‡ | Sound of Metal | Ruben |
| Chadwick Boseman ‡ | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | |
| Anthony Hopkins † | The Father | Anthony | |
| Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods | Paul | |
| Steven Yeun ‡ | Minari | Jacob Yi | |
| 2021 | Benedict Cumberbatch ‡ | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank |
| Peter Dinklage | Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| Andrew Garfield ‡ | tick, tick... BOOM! | Jonathan Larson | |
| Will Smith † | King Richard | Richard Williams | |
| Denzel Washington ‡ | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth | |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell ‡ | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| Austin Butler ‡ | Elvis | Elvis Presley | |
| Tom Cruise | Top Gun: Maverick | Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell | |
| Brendan Fraser † | The Whale | Charlie | |
| Jeremy Pope | The Inspection | Ellis French | |
| 2023 | Paul Giamatti ‡ | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Killers of the Flower Moon | Ernest Burkhart | |
| Cillian Murphy ‡ | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| Andrew Scott | All of Us Strangers | Adam | |
| Jeffrey Wright ‡ | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison |