| Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Los Angeles Film Critics Association |
| First awarded | Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
| Last awarded | Simon Rex Red Rocket (2021) |
| Website | lafca |
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor was an award given annually by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was first introduced in 1975 to reward the best performance by a leading actor. In 2022, it was announced that the four acting categories would be retired and replaced with two gender neutral categories, with both Best Actor and Best Actress merging into the Best Lead Performance category.[1]
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Al Pacino | Dog Day Afternoon | Sonny Wortzik |
| 1976 | Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver | Travis Bickle |
| 1977 | Richard Dreyfuss | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield |
| 1978 | Jon Voight | Coming Home | Luke Martin |
| 1979 | Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer | Ted Kramer |
| Year | Winner(s) | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Robert De Niro | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta |
| 1981 | Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City | Lou Pascal |
| 1982 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1983 | Robert Duvall | Tender Mercies | Mac Sledge |
| 1984 | F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri |
| Albert Finney | Under the Volcano | Geoffrey Firmin | |
| 1985 | William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina |
| 1986 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George |
| 1987 | Jack Nicholson | Ironweed | Francis Phelan |
| The Witches of Eastwick | Daryl Van Horne | ||
| Steve Martin | Roxanne | Charlie "C.D." Bales | |
| 1988 | Tom Hanks | Big | Josh Baskin |
| Punchline | Steven Gold | ||
| 1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Christy Brown |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow |
| 1991 | Nick Nolte | The Prince of Tides | Tom Wingo |
| 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven | William "Will" Munny |
| 1993 | Anthony Hopkins | The Remains of the Day | James Stevens |
| Shadowlands | Jack Lewis | ||
| 1994 | John Travolta | Pulp Fiction | Vincent Vega |
| 1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Rush | Shine | David Helfgott (adult) |
| 1997 | Robert Duvall | The Apostle | Euliss "Sonny" Dewey / The Apostle |
| 1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
| 1999 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand |
| Year | Winner(s) | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Michael Douglas | Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp |
| 2001 | Denzel Washington | Training Day | Detective Alonzo Harris |
| 2002 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting |
| Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren Schmidt | |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2004 | Liam Neeson | Kinsey | Dr. Alfred Kinsey |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2006 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat | Borat Sagdiyev |
| Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin | |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| 2009 | Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart | Otis "Bad" Blake |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | King George VI |
| 2011 | Michael Fassbender | A Dangerous Method | Carl Jung |
| Jane Eyre | Edward Rochester | ||
| Shame | Brandon Sullivan | ||
| X-Men: First Class | Erik Lensherr / Magneto | ||
| 2012 | Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell |
| 2013 | Bruce Dern | Nebraska | Woody Grant |
| 2014 | Tom Hardy | Locke | Ivan Locke |
| 2015 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs |
| 2016 | Adam Driver | Paterson | Paterson |
| 2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman[2] |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Reverend Ernst Toller[3] |
| 2019 | Antonio Banderas | Pain and Glory | Salvador Mallo [4] |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green [5] |
| 2021 | Simon Rex | Red Rocket | Mikey Saber[6] |