Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Boston Society of Film Critics |
First awarded | Robert De Niro Raging Bull (1980) |
Currently held by | Timothée Chalamet A Complete Unknown (2024) |
Website | bostonfilmcritics |
The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best (Lead) Actor is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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1980 | Robert De Niro | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta |
1981 | Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City | Lou Pascal |
1982 | Dustin Hoffman | Tootsie | Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels |
1983 | Eric Roberts | Star 80 | Paul Snider |
1984 | Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields | Dith Pran |
1985 | Jack Nicholson | Prizzi's Honor | Charley Partanna |
1986 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George |
1987 | Albert Brooks | Broadcast News | Aaron Altman |
1988 | Daniel Day-Lewis | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Tomas |
1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Christy Brown |
Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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1990 | Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow |
1991 | Nick Nolte | The Prince of Tides | Tom Wingo |
1992 | Denzel Washington | Malcolm X | Malcolm X |
1993 | Daniel Day-Lewis | In the Name of the Father | Gerard “Gerry” Conlon |
1994 | Albert Finney | The Browning Version | Andrew Crocker-Harris |
1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson |
1996 | Geoffrey Rush | Shine | David Helfgott |
1997 | Al Pacino | Donnie Brasco | Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero |
1998 | Brendan Gleeson | The General | Martin Cahill |
I Went Down | Bunny Kelly | ||
1999 | Jim Carrey | Man on the Moon | Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton |
Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2000 | Colin Farrell | Tigerland | Private Roland Bozz |
2001 | Brian Cox | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan |
Denzel Washington | Training Day | Detective Alonzo Harris | |
2002 | Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław “Wladek” Szpilman |
2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |
2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
2007 | Frank Langella | Starting Out in the Evening | Leonard Schiller |
2008 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Robin Ramzinski | |
2009 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | SFC. William James |
Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg |
2011 | Brad Pitt | Moneyball [1] | Billy Beane |
2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
2014 | Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson |
2015 | Paul Dano | Love & Mercy | Brian Wilson |
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass | |
2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
2017 | Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out | Chris Washington |
2018 | John C. Reilly | Stan & Ollie | Oliver Hardy |
2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems [2] | Howard Ratner |
Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2020 | Anthony Hopkins | The Father [3] | Anthony Evans |
2021 | Hidetoshi Nishijima | Drive My Car | Yūsuke Kafuku |
2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
After Yang | Jake | ||
2023 | Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
2024 | Timothée Chalamet | A Complete Unknown | Bob Dylan |
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