Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor was an annual award given by the Toronto Film Critics Association, honouring the best performances by male actors in films.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
1997	Ian Holm	The Sweet Hereafter	Mitchell Stephens	[1]
	Jack Nicholson	As Good As It Gets	Melvin Udall
1998	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters	James Whale	[2]
	Robert Duvall	The Apostle	Sonny Dewey
	Tom Hanks	Saving Private Ryan	John H. Miller
1999	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Lester Burnham	[3]
	Jim Carrey	Man on the Moon	Andy Kaufman

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2000	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Javier Rodriguez	[4]
	Mark Ruffalo	You Can Count on Me	Terry
2001	Ed Harris	Pollock	Jackson Pollock	[5]
	John Cameron Mitchell	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Hedwig Robinson
	Jack Nicholson	The Pledge	Jerry Black
2002	Nicolas Cage	Adaptation.	Charlie and Donald Kaufman	[6]
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
	Jack Nicholson	About Schmidt	Warren R. Schmidt
2003	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris	[7]
2004	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Miles Raymond	[8]
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote	[9]
2006	Sacha Baron Cohen	Borat	Borat Sagdiyev	[10]
	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
2007	Viggo Mortensen	Eastern Promises	Nikolai Luzhin	[11]
	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	Gordon Pinsent	Away from Her	Grant Anderson
2008	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Robin Ramzinski / Randy "The Ram" Robinson	[12]
	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk
	Jean-Claude Van Damme	JCVD	Himself
2009	Nicolas Cage	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans	Terence McDonagh	[13]
	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Michael Fassbender	Hunger	Bobby Sands
	Colin Firth	A Single Man	George Falconer
	Viggo Mortensen	The Road	Man

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2010	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg	[14]
	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
2011	Michael Shannon	Take Shelter	Curtis LaForche	[15]
	George Clooney	The Descendants	Matthew "Matt" King
	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
2012	Denis Lavant	Holy Motors	Mr. Oscar	[16]
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
2013	Oscar Isaac	Inside Llewyn Davis	Llewyn Davis	[17]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof
2014	Tom Hardy	Locke	Ivan Locke	[18]
	Ralph Fiennes	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Monsieur Gustave H.
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Louis "Lou" Bloom
2015	Tom Hardy	Legend	The Kray Twins	[19]
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
2016	Adam Driver	Paterson	Paterson	[20]
	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Peter Simonischek	Toni Erdmann	Winfried Conradi / Toni Erdmann
2017	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock	[21]
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
2018	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Reverend Ernst Toller	[22]
	Willem Dafoe	At Eternity's Gate	Vincent van Gogh
	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book	Tony Lip
2019	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber	[23]
	Antonio Banderas	Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo
	Adam Sandler	Uncut Gems	Howard Ratner

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2020	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone	[24]
	Chadwick Boseman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green
	Mads Mikkelsen	Another Round (Druk)	Martin
2021	Denzel Washington	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Macbeth	[25]
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank
	Andrew Garfield	tick, tick... BOOM!	Jonathan Larson
2022	Paul Mescal	Aftersun	Calum Paterson	[26]
	Colin Farrell	The Banshees of Inisherin	Pádraic Súilleabháin
	Brendan Fraser	The Whale	Charlie

References

1. Liam Lacey, "Egoyan film top pick". The Globe and Mail , January 15, 1998.
2. "War movies are the big winners". Hamilton Spectator , December 18, 1998.
3. "Toronto critics pick Magnolia as best film of 1999 Yet-unreleased second picture from director of Boogie Nights follows linked stories of characters in San Fernando Valley". The Globe and Mail , December 17, 1999.
4. Peter Howell, "Toronto critics like Lee ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon named top movie". Toronto Star , December 21, 2000.
5. "Memento named best picture". Calgary Herald , December 20, 2001.
6. "Toronto critics pick Adaptation as top film". Ottawa Citizen , December 20, 2022.
7. "Coppola's Lost in Translation honoured by Toronto critics". Waterloo Region Record , December 18, 2003.
8. "Sideways named best film of 2004 by Toronto critics". Sault Star , December 17, 2004.
9. "Cronenberg's History of Violence tops T.O. critics' best-of list". Sudbury Star , December 22, 2005.
10. Lee-Anne Goodman, "'The Queen' named best picture by Toronto's film critics". Canadian Press, December 20, 2006.
11. Bruce Kirkland, "Old Men No. 1; Coen Brothers flick tops T.O. film critics' 2007 list". Toronto Sun , December 19, 2007.
12. Chris Knight, "Toronto critics pick Wendy and Lucy". Windsor Star , December 17, 2008.
13. "Basterds, Hunger top Toronto critics' picks". Waterloo Region Record , December 17, 2009.
14. Peter Knegt, "“Social Network” Tops San Francisco and Toronto Film Critics’ Awards". IndieWire , December 14, 2010.
15. Brian D. Johnson, "Toronto critics name 'Tree of Life' Best Picture". Maclean's , December 14, 2011.
16. Cassandra Szklarski, "'The Master' rules with Toronto film critics, named best film, screenplay". Canadian Press, December 18, 2012.
17. "Toronto Film Critics Association awards for 2013". Toronto Star , December 17, 2013.
18. Norman Wilner, "Toronto film critics champion Boyhood". Now , December 16, 2014.
19. Jeremy Kay, "Toronto critics honour 'Carol'". Screen Daily , December 14, 2015.
20. Norman Wilner, "Toronto critics bask in the Moonlight". Now , December 12, 2016.
21. Jim Slotek, "Toronto film critics give best picture thumbs up to The Florida Project". Original Cin, December 10, 2017.
22. Corey Atad, "Toronto Film Critics Association Names ‘Roma’ Best Picture Of 2018". ET Canada , December 10, 2018.
23. Radheyan Simonpillai, "Toronto Film Critics Association names Parasite the year’s best movie". Now , December 9, 2019.
24. Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter , February 7, 2021.
25. Sarah Curran, "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Big At Toronto Film Critics Association Awards". ET Canada , January 16, 2022.
26. Pat Mullen, "Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc". Point of View , January 8, 2023.

External links

• Toronto Film Critics Association - Past Award Winners