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

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.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role |
| 2002 | Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren Schmidt |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2003 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe |
| 2003 | Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog | Behrani |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |
| 2003 | 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 |
| 2005 | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar |
| 2005 | David Strathairn | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Edward R. Murrow |
| 2005 | Terrence Howard | Hustle & Flow | DJay |
| 2005 | 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 |
| 2009 | Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer |
| 2009 | Morgan Freeman | Invictus | Nelson Mandela |
| 2009 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | SFC. William James |
| 2009 | Viggo Mortensen | The Road | The Man |

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green |
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
| 2020 | Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony |
| 2020 | Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods | Paul |
| 2020 | Steven Yeun | Minari | Jacob Yi |
| 2021 | Andrew Garfield | Tick, Tick... Boom | Jonathan Larson |
| 2021 | Nicolas Cage | Pig | Robin "Rob" Feld |
| 2021 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank |
| 2021 | Will Smith | King Richard | Richard Williams |
| 2021 | Denzel Washington | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| 2022 | Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley |
| 2022 | Tom Cruise | Top Gun: Maverick | Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell |
| 2022 | Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Charlie |
| 2022 | Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum |
| 2023 | Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2023 | Bradley Cooper | Maestro | Leonard Bernstein |
| 2023 | Colman Domingo | Rustin | Bayard Rustin |
| 2023 | Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
| 2023 | Jeffrey Wright | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison |
| 2024 | Colman Domingo | Sing Sing | John "Divine G" Whitfield |
| 2024 | Adrien Brody | The Brutalist | László Tóth |
| 2024 | Timothée Chalamet | A Complete Unknown | Bob Dylan |
| 2024 | Daniel Craig | Queer | William Lee |
| 2024 | Ralph Fiennes | Conclave | Thomas Cardinal Lawrence |