# National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor

The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the National Society of Film Critics to honor the best leading actor of the year.

## Winners
### 1960s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1966 | Michael Caine | Alfie | Alfred "Alfie" Elkins |
| 1967 | Rod Steiger | In the Heat of the Night | Police Chief Bill Gillespie |
| 1968 | Per Oscarsson | Hunger | Pontus |
| 1969 | Jon Voight | Midnight Cowboy | Joe Buck |

### 1970s

| Year | Winner(s) | Film | Role |
| 1970 | George C. Scott | Patton | George S. Patton |
| 1971 | Peter Finch | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Daniel Hirsh |
| 1972 | Al Pacino | The Godfather | Michael Corleone |
| 1973 | Marlon Brando | Last Tango in Paris | Paul |
| 1974 | Jack Nicholson | Chinatown | J.J. "Jake" Gittes |
| 1974 | Jack Nicholson | The Last Detail | Signalman 1st Class Billy "Badass" Buddusky |
| 1975 | Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Randle McMurphy |
| 1976 | Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver | Travis Bickle |
| 1977 | Art Carney | The Late Show | Ira Wells |
| 1978 | Gary Busey | The Buddy Holly Story | Buddy Holly |
| 1979 | Dustin Hoffman | Agatha | Wally Stanton |
| 1979 | Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer | Ted Kramer |

### 1980s

| Year | Winner(s) | Film | Role |
| 1980 | Peter O'Toole | The Stunt Man | Eli Cross |
| 1981 | Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City | Lou Pascal |
| 1982 | Dustin Hoffman | Tootsie | Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels |
| 1983 | Gérard Depardieu | Danton | Georges Danton |
| 1983 | Gérard Depardieu | The Return of Martin Guerre | Arnaud de Tihl |
| 1984 | Steve Martin | All of Me | Roger Cobb |
| 1985 | Jack Nicholson | Prizzi's Honor | Charley Partanna |
| 1986 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa | George |
| 1987 | Steve Martin | Roxanne | Charlie "C.D." Bales |
| 1988 | Michael Keaton | Beetlejuice | Beetlejuice |
| 1988 | Michael Keaton | Clean and Sober | Daryl Poynter |
| 1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | Christy Brown |

### 1990s

| Year | Winner(s) | Film | Role |
| 1990 | Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow |
| 1991 | River Phoenix | My Own Private Idaho | Mikey Waters |
| 1992 | Stephen Rea | The Crying Game | Fergus |
| 1993 | David Thewlis | Naked | Johnny |
| 1994 | Paul Newman | Nobody's Fool | Donald "Sully" Sullivan |
| 1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson |
| 1996 | Eddie Murphy | The Nutty Professor | Sherman Klump / Buddy Love |
| 1997 | Robert Duvall | The Apostle | Euliss "Sonny" Dewey / The Apostle E.F. |
| 1998 | Nick Nolte | Affliction | Wade Whitehouse |
| 1999 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner(s) | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Javier Bardem | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas |
| 2001 | Gene Hackman | The Royal Tenenbaums | Royal Tenenbaum |
| 2002 | Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Collateral | Max Durocher |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| 2009 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | Sergeant First Class William James |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner(s) | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2011 | Brad Pitt | Moneyball | Billy Beane |
| 2011 | Brad Pitt | The Tree of Life | Mr. O'Brien |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 2013 | Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis |
| 2014 | Timothy Spall | Mr. Turner | J. M. W. Turner |
| 2015 | Michael B. Jordan | Creed | Adonis Creed |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
| 2017 | Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out | Chris Washington |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Pastor Ernst Toller |
| 2019 | Antonio Banderas | Pain and Glory | Salvador Mallo |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner(s) | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods | Paul |
| 2021 | Hidetoshi Nishijima | Drive My Car | Yusuke Kafuku |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | After Yang | Jake |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| 2023 | Andrew Scott | All of Us Strangers | Adam |
| 2024 | Colman Domingo | Sing Sing | John "Divine G" Whitfield |

## Multiple winners
### 3 wins

* Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2007, 2012)
* Jack Nicholson (1974, 1975, 1985)

### 2 wins

* Dustin Hoffman (1979, 1982)
* Steve Martin (1984, 1987)