# Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor

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

## Winners

    indicates the winners.

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Film |
| 2007 | George Clooney | Michael Clayton |
| 2007 | Mathieu Amalric | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood |
| 2007 | Emile Hirsch | Into the Wild |
| 2007 | Tommy Lee Jones | No Country for Old Men |
| 2008 | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler |
| 2008 | Josh Brolin | W. |
| 2008 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Revolutionary Road |
| 2008 | Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk |
| 2009 | Colin Firth | A Single Man |
| 2009 | George Clooney | Up in the Air |
| 2009 | Matt Damon | The Informant! |
| 2009 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | (500) Days of Summer |
| 2009 | Sam Rockwell | Moon |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Film |
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech |
| 2010 | Jeff Bridges | True Grit |
| 2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network |
| 2010 | James Franco | 127 Hours |
| 2010 | Ryan Gosling | Blue Valentine |
| 2011 | Michael Fassbender | Shame |
| 2011 | George Clooney | The Descendants |
| 2011 | Jean Dujardin | The Artist |
| 2011 | Brad Pitt | Moneyball |
| 2011 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln |
| 2012 | Bradley Cooper | Silver Linings Playbook |
| 2012 | John Hawkes | The Sessions |
| 2012 | Bill Murray | Hyde Park on Hudson |
| 2012 | Joaquin Phoenix | The Master |
| 2013 | Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club |
| 2013 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Wolf of Wall Street |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2013 | Tom Hanks | Captain Phillips |
| 2013 | Robert Redford | All Is Lost |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 2014 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Imitation Game |
| 2014 | Brendan Gleeson | Calvary |
| 2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler |
| 2014 | Tom Hardy | Locke |
| 2014 | Eddie Redmayne | The Theory of Everything |
| 2015 | Michael Caine | Youth |
| 2015 | Christopher Abbott | James White |
| 2015 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant |
| 2015 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs |
| 2015 | Tom Hardy | Legend |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2016 | Joel Edgerton | Loving |
| 2016 | Andrew Garfield | Hacksaw Ridge |
| 2016 | Ryan Gosling | La La Land |
| 2016 | Denzel Washington | Fences |
| 2017 | James Franco | The Disaster Artist |
| 2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name |
| 2017 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Phantom Thread |
| 2017 | Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour |
| 2017 | Robert Pattinson | Good Time |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed |
| 2018 | Christian Bale | Vice |
| 2018 | Bradley Cooper | A Star is Born |
| 2018 | Rami Malek | Bohemian Rhapsody |
| 2018 | John David Washington | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2019 | Adam Driver | Marriage Story |
| 2019 | Robert De Niro | The Irishman |
| 2019 | Robert Pattinson | The Lighthouse |
| 2019 | Joaquin Phoenix | Joker |
| 2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems |

### 2020s

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 2020 | Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods |
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| 2020 | Anthony Hopkins | The Father |
| 2020 | Steven Yeun | Minari |
| 2021 | Peter Dinklage | Cyrano |
| 2021 | Nicolas Cage | Pig |
| 2021 | Andrew Garfield | Tick, Tick... Boom! |
| 2021 | Oscar Isaac | The Card Counter |
| 2021 | Will Smith | King Richard |