Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The 2024 recipient: Colman Domingo

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. ^[1]

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Role
2002	Jack Nicholson	About Schmidt	Warren Schmidt
2003	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Dirty Pretty Things	Okwe
	Ben Kingsley	House of Sand and Fog	Behrani
	Sean Penn	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum
	Johnny Depp	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Captain Jack Sparrow
2004	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar
	David Strathairn	Good Night, and Good Luck .	Edward R. Murrow
	Terrence Howard	Hustle & Flow	DJay
	Joaquin Phoenix	Walk the Line	Johnny Cash
2006	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
2007	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
2008	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy "The Ram" Robinson
2009	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Colin Firth	A Single Man	George Falconer
	Morgan Freeman	Invictus	Nelson Mandela
	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	SFC. William James
	Viggo Mortensen	The Road	The Man

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Role
2010	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	George VI
	Jeff Bridges	True Grit	U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn
	Robert Duvall	Get Low	Felix Bush
	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
2011	George Clooney	The Descendants	Matt King
	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	George Valentin
	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
	Brad Pitt	Moneyball	Billy Beane
	Michael Shannon	Take Shelter	Curtis LaForche
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	John Hawkes	The Sessions	Mark O'Brien
	Hugh Jackman	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
	Denzel Washington	Flight	William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr.
2013	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jordan Belfort
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof
	Joaquin Phoenix	Her	Theodore Twombly
	Robert Redford	All Is Lost	Our Man
2014	Michael Keaton	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Riggan Thomson
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing
	Oscar Isaac	A Most Violent Year	Abel Morales
	David Oyelowo	Selma	Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking
2015	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Matt Damon	The Martian	Mark Watney
	Johnny Depp	Black Mass	James "Whitey" Bulger
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne	The Danish Girl	Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
2016	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Joel Edgerton	Loving	Richard Loving
	Andrew Garfield	Hacksaw Ridge	Desmond Doss
	Ryan Gosling	La La Land	Sebastian Wilder
	Denzel Washington	Fences	Troy Maxson
2017	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock
	James Franco	The Disaster Artist	Tommy Wiseau
	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out	Chris Washington
2018	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born	Jackson Maine
	Christian Bale	Vice	Dick Cheney
	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Reverend Ernst Toller
	Rami Malek	Bohemian Rhapsody	Freddie Mercury
	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book	Tony Vallelonga
2019	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber
	Robert De Niro	The Irishman	Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Rick Dalton
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	Arthur Fleck / Joker
	Adam Sandler	Uncut Gems	Howard Ratner

2020s

Year	Actor	Film	Role
2020	Chadwick Boseman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green
	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone
	Anthony Hopkins	The Father	Anthony
	Delroy Lindo	Da 5 Bloods	Paul
	Steven Yeun	Minari	Jacob Yi
2021	Andrew Garfield	Tick, Tick... Boom	Jonathan Larson
	Nicolas Cage	Pig	Robin "Rob" Feld
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank
	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	Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
	Brendan Fraser	The Whale	Charlie
	Paul Mescal	Aftersun	Calum
2023	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer
	Bradley Cooper	Maestro	Leonard Bernstein
	Colman Domingo	Rustin	Bayard Rustin
	Paul Giamatti	The Holdovers	Paul Hunham
	Jeffrey Wright	American Fiction	Thelonious "Monk" Ellison
2024	Colman Domingo	Sing Sing	John "Divine G" Whitfield
	Adrien Brody	The Brutalist	László Tóth
	Timothée Chalamet	A Complete Unknown	Bob Dylan
	Daniel Craig	Queer	William Lee
	Ralph Fiennes	Conclave	Thomas Cardinal Lawrence

References

1. "WAFCA Awards". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-08-08.