The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best lead actor of the year.
The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best lead actor of the year.
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Jack Nicholson | As Good as It Gets | Melvin Udall |
| Peter Fonda | Ulee's Gold | Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson | |
| Ian Holm | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | |
| 1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
| Tom Hanks | Saving Private Ryan | Captain John H. Miller | |
| Edward Norton | American History X | Derek Vinyard | |
| 1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham |
| Jim Carrey | Man on the Moon | Andy Kaufman | |
| Russell Crowe | The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand | |
| Richard Farnsworth | The Straight Story | Alvin Straight | |
| Edward Norton | Fight Club | The Narrator | |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods | Paul |
| Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone | |
| Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | |
| Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony | |
| Steven Yeun | Minari | Jacob Yi | |
| 2021 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank |
| Nicolas Cage | Pig | Robbie "Rob" Feld | |
| Andrew Garfield | tick, tick... Boom! | Jonathan Larsen | |
| Oscar Isaac | The Card Counter | William Tell | |
| Hidetoshi Nishijima | Drive My Car | Yūsuke Kafuku | |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley | |
| Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Charlie | |
| Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum Paterson | |
| Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams | |
| 2023 | Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Killers of the Flower Moon | Ernest Burkhart | |
| Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| Andrew Scott | All of Us Strangers | Adam | |
| Jeffrey Wright | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison | |
Richard William Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award: in 1978 for Best Supporting Actor for Comes a Horseman, and in 2000 for Best Actor in The Straight Story, making him the oldest nominee for the award at the time. Farnsworth was also known for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama, as well as Anne of Green Gables (1985); Sylvester (1985), and Misery (1990).
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