# Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor

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.

## Winners
### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1997 | Jack Nicholson | As Good as It Gets | Melvin Udall |
| 1997 | Peter Fonda | Ulee's Gold | Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson |
| 1997 | Ian Holm | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens |
| 1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
| 1998 | Tom Hanks | Saving Private Ryan | Captain John H. Miller |
| 1998 | Edward Norton | American History X | Derek Vinyard |
| 1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham |
| 1999 | Jim Carrey | Man on the Moon | Andy Kaufman |
| 1999 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand |
| 1999 | Richard Farnsworth | The Straight Story | Alvin Straight |
| 1999 | Edward Norton | Fight Club | The Narrator |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Tom Hanks | Cast Away | Chuck Noland |
| 2000 | Christian Bale | American Psycho | Patrick Bateman |
| 2000 | Russell Crowe | Gladiator | Maximus Decimus Meridius |
| 2000 | Michael Douglas | Wonder Boys | Prof. Grady Tripp |
| 2000 | Geoffrey Rush | Quills | Marquis de Sade |
| 2001 | Billy Bob Thornton | The Man Who Wasn't There | Ed Crane |
| 2001 | Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind | John Nash |
| 2001 | Guy Pearce | Memento | Leonard Shelby |
| 2001 | Denzel Washington | Training Day | Alonzo Harris |
| 2001 | Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Matt Fowler |
| 2002 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting |
| 2002 | Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman |
| 2002 | Nicolas Cage | Adaptation | Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman |
| 2002 | Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren R. Schmidt |
| 2002 | Robin Williams | One Hour Photo | Seymour "Sy" Parrish |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2003 | Johnny Depp | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Captain Jack Sparrow |
| 2003 | Paul Giamatti | American Splendor | Harvey Pekar |
| 2003 | Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog | Massoud Behrani |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |
| 2004 | Paul Giamatti | Sideways | Miles Raymond |
| 2004 | Jim Carrey | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Joel Barish |
| 2004 | Don Cheadle | Hotel Rwanda | Paul Rusesabagina |
| 2004 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Aviator | Howard Hughes |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2005 | Terrence Howard | Hustle & Flow | DJay |
| 2005 | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis del Mar |
| 2005 | Joaquin Phoenix | Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
| 2005 | David Strathairn | Good Night, and Good Luck | Edward R. Murrow |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2006 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat | Borat Sagdiyev |
| 2006 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | Billy Costigan |
| 2006 | Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne |
| 2006 | Peter O'Toole | Venus | Maurice |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| 2007 | George Clooney | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton |
| 2007 | Emile Hirsch | Into the Wild | Christopher McCandless |
| 2007 | Frank Langella | Starting Out in the Evening | Leonard Schiller |
| 2007 | Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin |
| 2008 | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Randy Robinson |
| 2008 | Benicio del Toro | Che | Che Guevara |
| 2008 | Richard Jenkins | The Visitor | Walter Vale |
| 2008 | Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| 2009 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | SFC. William James |
| 2009 | Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart | Otis "Bad" Blake |
| 2009 | George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
| 2009 | Sharlto Copley | District 9 | Wikus van de Merwe |
| 2009 | Joaquin Phoenix | Two Lovers | Leonard Kraditor |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | King George VI |
| 2010 | Jeff Bridges | True Grit | Rooster Cogburn |
| 2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2010 | James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston |
| 2010 | Ryan Gosling | Blue Valentine | Dean Pereira |
| 2010 | Édgar Ramírez | Carlos | Carlos the Jackal |
| 2011 | Michael Fassbender | Shame | Brandon Sullivan |
| 2011 | George Clooney | The Descendants | Matt King |
| 2011 | Jean Dujardin | The Artist | George Valentin |
| 2011 | Gary Oldman | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | George Smiley |
| 2011 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 2012 | John Hawkes | The Sessions | Mark O'Brien |
| 2012 | Denis Lavant | Holy Motors | Mr. Oscar / Various Characters |
| 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 | Tom Hanks | Captain Phillips | Captain Richard Phillips |
| 2013 | Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 | Mads Mikkelsen | The Hunt | Lucas |
| 2013 | Joaquin Phoenix | Her | Theodore Twombly |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson |
| 2014 | Ralph Fiennes | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Monsieur Gustave H. |
| 2014 | Brendan Gleeson | Calvary | Father James Lavelle |
| 2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis "Lou" Bloom |
| 2014 | Timothy Spall | Mr. Turner | J. M. W. Turner |
| 2015 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs |
| 2015 | Matt Damon | The Martian | Mark Watney |
| 2015 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |
| 2015 | Michael B. Jordan | Creed | Adonis Creed |
| 2015 | Ian McKellen | Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
| 2016 | Adam Driver | Paterson | Paterson |
| 2016 | Ryan Gosling | La La Land | Sebastian Wilder |
| 2016 | Viggo Mortensen | Captain Fantastic | Ben Cash |
| 2016 | Denzel Washington | Fences | Troy Maxson |
| 2017 | Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill |
| 2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman |
| 2017 | James Franco | The Disaster Artist | Tommy Wiseau |
| 2017 | Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out | Chris Washington |
| 2017 | Robert Pattinson | Good Time | Constantine "Connie" Nikas |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Ernst Toller |
| 2018 | Christian Bale | Vice | Dick Cheney |
| 2018 | Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born | Jackson Maine |
| 2018 | Joaquin Phoenix | You Were Never Really Here | Joe |
| 2018 | John David Washington | BlacKkKlansman | Ron Stallworth |
| 2019 | Adam Driver | Marriage Story | Charlie Barber |
| 2019 | Antonio Banderas | Pain and Glory | Salvador Mallo |
| 2019 | Robert De Niro | The Irishman | Frank Sheeran |
| 2019 | Joaquin Phoenix | Joker | Arthur Fleck / Joker |
| 2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems | Howard Ratner |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods | Paul |
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green |
| 2020 | Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony |
| 2020 | Steven Yeun | Minari | Jacob Yi |
| 2021 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank |
| 2021 | Nicolas Cage | Pig | Robbie "Rob" Feld |
| 2021 | Andrew Garfield | tick, tick... Boom! | Jonathan Larsen |
| 2021 | Oscar Isaac | The Card Counter | William Tell |
| 2021 | Hidetoshi Nishijima | Drive My Car | Yūsuke Kafuku |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| 2022 | Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley |
| 2022 | Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Charlie |
| 2022 | Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum Paterson |
| 2022 | Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams |
| 2023 | Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
| 2023 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Killers of the Flower Moon | Ernest Burkhart |
| 2023 | Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2023 | Andrew Scott | All of Us Strangers | Adam |
| 2023 | Jeffrey Wright | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison |
| 2024 | Ralph Fiennes | Conclave | Cardinal Thomas Lawrence |
| 2024 | Adrien Brody | The Brutalist | László Tóth |
| 2024 | Timothée Chalamet | A Complete Unknown | Bob Dylan |
| 2024 | Colman Domingo | Sing Sing | John "Divine G" Whitfield |
| 2024 | Sebastian Stan | A Different Man | Edward Lemuel / "Guy Moratz" |