The San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an award given by the San Diego Film Critics Society to honor the finest male acting achievementes in film-making.

Winners

1990s

Year Winner Film Role
1996 Kenneth Branagh Hamlet Hamlet
1997 Jack Nicholson As Good as It Gets Melvin Udall
1998 Ian McKellen Gods and Monsters James Whale
1999 Kevin Spacey American Beauty Lester Burnham

2000s

Year Winner Film Role
2000 Russell Crowe Gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius
2001 Guy Pearce Memento Leonard
2002 Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
2003 Chiwetel Ejiofor Dirty Pretty Things Okwe
2004 Jim Carrey Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Joel Barish
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Truman Capote
2006 Ken Takakura Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Qian li zou dan qi) Gou-ichi Takata
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview
2008 Mickey Rourke The Wrestler Randy Robinson
2009 Colin Firth A Single Man George Falconer

2010s

Year Winner Film Role
2010 Colin Farrell Ondine Syracuse
2011 Michael Shannon Take Shelter Curtis LaForche
2012 Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
2013 Oscar Isaac Inside Llewyn Davis Llewyn Davis
2014 Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler Lou Bloom
2015 Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant Hugh Glass
2016 Casey Affleck Manchester by the Sea Lee Chandler
2017 James McAvoy Split Kevin Wendell Crumb
2018 Ethan Hawke First Reformed Pastor Ernst Toller
2019 Adam Driver (tie) Marriage Story Charlie Barber
Joaquin Phoenix (tie) Joker Arthur Fleck

2020s

Year Winner Film Role
2020 Riz Ahmed Sound of Metal Ruben Stone
2021 Nicolas Cage Pig (2021 film) Rob Feld
2022 Colin Farrell The Banshees of Inisherin Pádraic Súilleabháin
2023 Jeffrey Wright American Fiction Thelonious "Monk" Ellison

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