Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is an award presented by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role.

Winners and nominees

1990s

1990: Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bülow – Reversal of Fortune
Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac – Cyrano de Bergerac
Richard Harris as Bull McCabe – The Field
1991: Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter – The Silence of the Lambs
1992: Denzel Washington as Malcolm X – Malcolm X
1993: Anthony Hopkins as Mr. James Stevens – The Remains of the Day
1994: Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump – Forrest Gump
1995: Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson – Leaving Las Vegas
1996: Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott – Shine
1997: Peter Fonda as Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson – Ulee's Gold
1998: Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank – The Truman Show
'1999: Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham – American Beauty'''''

2000s

2000: Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius – Gladiator
Sean Connery as William Forrester – Finding Forrester
Michael Douglas as Professor Grady Tripp – Wonder Boys
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland – Cast Away
Geoffrey Rush as Marquis de Sade – Quills
2001: Russell Crowe as John Nash – A Beautiful Mind

Will Smith as Muhammad Ali – Ali
Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane – The Man Who Wasn't There
Denzel Washington as Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris – Training Day
Tom Wilkinson as Matt Fowler – In the Bedroom

2002: Jack Nicholson as Warren Schmidt – About Schmidt
Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman – The Pianist
Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman – Adaptation.
Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting – Gangs of New York
Robin Williams as Seymour "Sy" Parrish – One Hour Photo
2003: Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum – Mystic River

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar – American Splendor
Ben Kingsley as Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani – House of Sand and Fog
Bill Murray as Bob Harris – Lost in Translation

2004: Paul Giamatti as Miles Raymond – Sideways
Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina – Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp as J. M. Barrie – Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes – The Aviator
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles – Ray
2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote – Capote

Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock – Cinderella Man
Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar – Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash – Walk the Line
David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow – Good Night, and Good Luck.

2006: Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin – The Last King of Scotland
Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer – Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio as William "Billy" Costigan Jr. – The Departed
Ryan Gosling as Dan Dunne – Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole as Maurice Russell – Venus
2007: Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview – There Will Be Blood

George Clooney as Michael Clayton – Michael Clayton
Emile Hirsch as Chris McCandless – Into the Wild
Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Deerfield – In the Valley of Elah
Frank Langella as Leonard Schiller – Starting Out in the Evening

2008: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk – Milk
Richard Jenkins as Walter Vale – The Visitor
Frank Langella as Richard Nixon – Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke as Robin Ramzinski / Randy "The Ram" Robinson – The Wrestler
2009: George Clooney as Ryan Bingham – Up in the Air

Jeff Bridges as Otis "Bad" Blake – Crazy Heart
Colin Firth as George Falconer – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela – Invictus
Jeremy Renner as Staff Sergeant William James – ''The Hurt Locker''

2010s

2010: James Franco as Aron Ralston – 127 Hours
Michael Douglas as Ben Kalmen – Solitary Man
Robert Duvall as Felix Bush – Get Low
Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg – The Social Network
Colin Firth as King George VI – The King's Speech
2011: George Clooney as Matt King – The Descendants

Jean Dujardin as George Valentin – The Artist
Michael Fassbender as Brandon Sullivan – Shame
Brad Pitt as Billy Beane – Moneyball
Michael Shannon as Curtis LaForche – Take Shelter

2012: Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln – Lincoln
John Hawkes as Mark O'Brien – The Sessions
Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie Quell – The Master
Denzel Washington as Captain William "Whip" Whitaker Sr. – Flight
2013: Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof – Dallas Buyers Club

Bruce Dern as Woody Grant – Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort – The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup – 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks as Captain Richard Phillips – Captain Phillips

2014: Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing – The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis "Lou" Bloom – Nightcrawler
Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking – The Theory of Everything
Timothy Spall as J. M. W. Turner – Mr. Turner
2015: Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass – The Revenant

Matt Damon as Mark Watney – The Martian
Johnny Depp as James "Whitey" Bulger – Black Mass
Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs – Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne as Einar Wegener / Lili Elbe – The Danish Girl

2016: Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler – Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton as Richard Loving – Loving
Ryan Gosling as Sebastian Wilder – La La Land
Tom Hanks as Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger – Sully
Denzel Washington as Troy Maxson – Fences
2017: Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill – Darkest Hour

Timothée Chalamet as Elio Perlman – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock – Phantom Thread
James Franco as Tommy Wiseau – The Disaster Artist
Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee – The Post

2018: Christian Bale as Dick Cheney – Vice
Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine – A Star Is Born
Ethan Hawke as Reverend Ernst Toller – First Reformed
Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury – Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen as Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga – Green Book
2019: Adam Driver as Charlie Barber – Marriage Story

Antonio Banderas as Salvador Mallo – Pain and Glory
Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran – The Irishman
Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck / Joker – ''Joker''

2020s

2020: Chadwick Boseman as Levee Green – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Riz Ahmed as Ruben Stone – Sound of Metal
Anthony Hopkins as Anthony – The Father
Delroy Lindo as Paul – Da 5 Bloods
Gary Oldman as Herman J. Mankiewicz – Mank
2021: Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank – The Power of the Dog

Peter Dinklage as Cyrano de Bergerac – Cyrano
Andrew Garfield as Jonathan Larson – tick, tick... BOOM!
Will Smith as Richard Williams – King Richard
Denzel Washington as Lord Macbeth – The Tragedy of Macbeth

2022: Colin Farrell as Pádraic Súilleabháin – The Banshees of Inisherin
Austin Butler as Elvis Presley – Elvis
Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell – Top Gun: Maverick
Brendan Fraser as Charlie – The Whale
Bill Nighy as Mr. Williams – Living
2023: Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer – Oppenheimer

Paul Giamatti as Paul Dunham – The Holdovers
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein – Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart – Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin – Rustin

2024: Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence – Conclave

Adrien Brody as László Tóth – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo as John "Divine G" Whitfield – Sing Sing
Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed – ''Heretic''