# Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor was an annual award given by the Toronto Film Critics Association, honouring the best performances by male actors in films.

## Winners
### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1997 | Ian Holm | The Sweet Hereafter | Mitchell Stephens |
| 1997 | Jack Nicholson | As Good As It Gets | Melvin Udall |
| 1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
| 1998 | Robert Duvall | The Apostle | Sonny Dewey |
| 1998 | Tom Hanks | Saving Private Ryan | John H. Miller |
| 1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham |
| 1999 | Jim Carrey | Man on the Moon | Andy Kaufman |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Benicio del Toro | Traffic | Javier Rodriguez |
| 2000 | Mark Ruffalo | You Can Count on Me | Terry |
| 2001 | Ed Harris | Pollock | Jackson Pollock |
| 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hedwig Robinson |
| 2001 | Jack Nicholson | The Pledge | Jerry Black |
| 2002 | Nicolas Cage | Adaptation. | Charlie and Donald Kaufman |
| 2002 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting |
| 2002 | Jack Nicholson | About Schmidt | Warren R. Schmidt |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2004 | Paul Giamatti | Sideways | Miles Raymond |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2006 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat | Borat Sagdiyev |
| 2006 | Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2007 | Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin |
| 2007 | George Clooney | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton |
| 2007 | Gordon Pinsent | Away from Her | Grant Anderson |
| 2008 | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Robin Ramzinski / Randy "The Ram" Robinson |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| 2008 | Jean-Claude Van Damme | JCVD | Himself |
| 2009 | Nicolas Cage | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Terence McDonagh |
| 2009 | George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
| 2009 | Michael Fassbender | Hunger | Bobby Sands |
| 2009 | Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer |
| 2009 | Viggo Mortensen | The Road | Man |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | King George VI |
| 2010 | James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston |
| 2011 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
| 2011 | George Clooney | The Descendants | Matthew "Matt" King |
| 2011 | Michael Fassbender | Shame | Brandon Sullivan |
| 2012 | Denis Lavant | Holy Motors | Mr. Oscar |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 2012 | Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell |
| 2013 | Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
| 2013 | Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof |
| 2014 | Tom Hardy | Locke | Ivan Locke |
| 2014 | Ralph Fiennes | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Monsieur Gustave H. |
| 2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis "Lou" Bloom |
| 2015 | Tom Hardy | Legend | The Kray Twins |
| 2015 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |
| 2015 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs |
| 2016 | Adam Driver | Paterson | Paterson |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
| 2016 | Peter Simonischek | Toni Erdmann | Winfried Conradi / Toni Erdmann |
| 2017 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Phantom Thread | Reynolds Woodcock |
| 2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman |
| 2017 | Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Reverend Ernst Toller |
| 2018 | Willem Dafoe | At Eternity's Gate | Vincent van Gogh |
| 2018 | Viggo Mortensen | Green Book | Tony Lip |
| 2019 | Adam Driver | Marriage Story | Charlie Barber |
| 2019 | Antonio Banderas | Pain and Glory | Salvador Mallo |
| 2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems | Howard Ratner |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green |
| 2020 | Mads Mikkelsen | Another Round (Druk) | Martin |
| 2021 | Denzel Washington | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Macbeth |
| 2021 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank |
| 2021 | Andrew Garfield | tick, tick... BOOM! | Jonathan Larson |
| 2022 | Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum Paterson |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| 2022 | Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Charlie |