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Chicago Film Critics Association
The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.
Contents
1 Winners
1.1 1980s
1.2 1990s
1.3 2000s
1.4 2010s
2 References
Winners
1980s
Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Jeremy Irons | Dead Ringers | Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle |
| 1989 | Tom Cruise | Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic |
| Kenneth Branagh | Henry V | Henry V | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Christy Brown | |
| Martin Landau | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Judah Rosenthal | |
| James Spader | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Graham Dalton |
1990s
Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow |
| 1991 | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs | Hannibal Lecter |
| Warren Beatty | Bugsy | Bugsy Siegel | |
| William Hurt | The Doctor | Dr. Jack MacKee | |
| Val Kilmer | The Doors | Jim Morrison | |
| Joe Mantegna | Homicide | Bobby Gold | |
| Nick Nolte | The Prince of Tides | Tom Wingo | |
| John Turturro | Barton Fink | Barton Fink | |
| 1992 | Denzel Washington | Malcolm X | Malcolm X |
| Robert Downey Jr. | Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | |
| Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven | William 'Will' Munny | |
| Al Pacino | Scent of a Woman | Frank Slade | |
| Tim Robbins | The Player | Griffin Mill | |
| 1993 | Liam Neeson | Schindler's List | Oskar Schindler |
| Jeff Bridges | Fearless | Max Klein | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | The Age of Innocence | Newland Archer | |
| Laurence Fishburne | What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | |
| Tom Hanks | Philadelphia | Andrew Beckett | |
| Anthony Hopkins | The Remains of the Day | James Stevens | |
| 1994 | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump |
| Johnny Depp | Ed Wood | Ed Wood | |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Pulp Fiction | Jules Winnfield | |
| Tommy Lee Jones | Cobb | Ty Cobb | |
| John Travolta | Pulp Fiction | Vincent Vega | |
| 1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson |
| Morgan Freeman | Seven | Detective Lt. William Somerset | |
| Anthony Hopkins | Nixon | Richard Nixon | |
| Sean Penn | Dead Man Walking | Matthew Poncelet | |
| Denzel Washington | Devil in a Blue Dress | Easy Rawlins | |
| 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton | Sling Blade | Karl Childers |
| Kenneth Branagh | Hamlet | Hamlet | |
| William H. Macy | Fargo | Jerry Lundegaard | |
| Liam Neeson | Michael Collins | Michael Collins | |
| Geoffrey Rush | Shine | David Helfgott | |
| Denzel Washington | Courage Under Fire | Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling | |
| 1997 | Robert Duvall | The Apostle | Euliss Dewey/The Apostle |
| Peter Fonda | Ulee's Gold | Ulysses 'Ulee' Jackson | |
| Ian Holm | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens | |
| Jack Nicholson | As Good as It Gets | Melvin Udall | |
| Al Pacino | Donnie Brasco | Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero | |
| 1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
| Roberto Benigni | Life Is Beautiful | Guido Orefice | |
| Jim Carrey | The Truman Show | Truman Burbank | |
| Tom Hanks | Saving Private Ryan | Captain John H. Miller | |
| Edward Norton | American History X | Derek Vinyard | |
| 1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham |
| Jim Broadbent | Topsy-Turvy | W. S. Gilbert | |
| Russell Crowe | The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand | |
| Richard Farnsworth | The Straight Story | Alvin Straight | |
| Denzel Washington | The Hurricane | Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter |
2000s
Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Tom Hanks | Cast Away | Chuck Noland |
| Javier Bardem | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas | |
| Michael Douglas | Wonder Boys | Prof. Grady Tripp | |
| Mark Ruffalo | You Can Count on Me | Terry Prescott | |
| Geoffrey Rush | Quills | Marquis de Sade | |
| 2001 | Gene Hackman | The Royal Tenenbaums | Royal Tenenbaum |
| Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind | John Nash | |
| John Cameron Mitchell | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hansel Schmidt/Hedwig Robinson | |
| Guy Pearce | Memento | Leonard Shelby | |
| Denzel Washington | Training Day | Alonzo Harris | |
| Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Matt Fowler | |
| 2002 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting |
| Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman | |
| Nicolas Cage | Adaptation | Charlie and Donald Kaufman | |
| Hugh Grant | About a Boy | Will Freeman | |
| Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren R. Schmidt | |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| Johnny Depp | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Captain Jack Sparrow | |
| Paul Giamatti | American Splendor | Harvey Pekar | |
| Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog | Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani | |
| Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum | |
| 2004 | Paul Giamatti | Sideways | Miles Raymond |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| Terrence Howard | Hustle & Flow | DJay | |
| Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar | |
| Joaquin Phoenix | Walk the Line | Johnny Cash | |
| David Strathairn | Good Night, and Good Luck | Edward R. Murrow | |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | Billy Costigan | |
| Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne | |
| Peter O'Toole | Venus | Maurice | |
| Will Smith | The Pursuit of Happyness | Chris Gardner | |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| George Clooney | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton | |
| Ryan Gosling | Lars and the Real Girl | Lars Lindstrom | |
| Frank Langella | Starting Out in the Evening | Leonard Schiller | |
| Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin | |
| 2008 | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Randy Robinson |
| Clint Eastwood | Gran Torino | Walt Kowalski | |
| Richard Jenkins | The Visitor | Walter Vale | |
| Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon | |
| Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk | |
| 2009 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | SFC. William James |
| Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart | Bad Blake | |
| George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham | |
| Matt Damon | The Informant! | Mark Whitacre | |
| Michael Stuhlbarg | A Serious Man | Larry Gopnik |
2010s
Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | King George VI |
| Jeff Bridges | True Grit | Rooster Cogburn | |
| Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg | |
| James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston | |
| Ryan Gosling | Blue Valentine | Dean | |
| 2011 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
| George Clooney | The Descendants | Matt King | |
| Jean Dujardin | The Artist | George Valentin | |
| Michael Fassbender | Shame | Brandon Sullivan | |
| Gary Oldman | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | George Smiley | |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| John Hawkes | The Sessions | Mark O'Brien | |
| Denis Lavant | Holy Motors | Mr. Oscar | |
| Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell | |
| Denzel Washington | Flight | Whip Whitaker | |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
| Bruce Dern | Nebraska | Woody Grant | |
| Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis | |
| Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof | |
| Robert Redford | All Is Lost | Our Man | |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson / Birdman |
| Benedict Cumberbatch | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Lou Bloom | |
| David Oyelowo | Selma | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| Eddie Redmayne | The Theory of Everything | Stephen Hawking | |
| 2015 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |
| Christopher Abbott | James White | James White | |
| Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs | |
| Eddie Redmayne | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener | |
| Jason Segel | The End of the Tour | David Foster Wallace | |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
| Adam Driver | Paterson | Paterson | |
| Joel Edgerton | Loving | Richard Loving | |
| Colin Farrell | The Lobster | David | |
| Denzel Washington | Fences | Troy Maxson | |
| 2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | Phantom Thread | Reynolds Woodcock | |
| James Franco | The Disaster Artist | Tommy Wiseau | |
| Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill | |
| Harry Dean Stanton | Lucky | Lucky | |
| 2018[1][2] | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Ernst Toller |
| Christian Bale | Vice | Dick Cheney | |
| Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born | Jackson Maine | |
| Rami Malek | Bohemian Rhapsody | Freddie Mercury | |
| Joaquin Phoenix | You Were Never Really Here | Joe |
References
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^ "'Roma' The Big Winner Among Chicago Film Critics". Chicago Film Critics Association. Chicago Film Critics Association. December 8, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
