# National Board of Review de Melhor Ator

O National Board of Review de Melhor Ator é um dos prêmios de filmes anuais estabelecidos pelo National Board of Review.

## Vencedores

* † = indica o vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Ator.
* ‡ = indica o nomeado/indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Ator.
* ¥ = indica o vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Ator Coadjuvante.
* § = indica o nomeado/indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Ator Coadjuvante.

### Década de 1940

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 1945 | Ray Milland | The Lost Weekend | Don Birnam † |
| 1946 | Laurence Olivier | Henry V | Henrique V de Inglaterra ‡ |
| 1947 | Michael Redgrave | Mourning Becomes Electra | Orin Mannon ‡ |
| 1948 | Walter Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Howard ¥ |
| 1949 | Ralph Richardson | The Fallen Idol | Baines |
| 1949 | Ralph Richardson | The Heiress | Austin Sloper § |

### Década de 1950

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 1950 | Alec Guinness | Kind Hearts and Coronets | Various |
| 1951 | Richard Basehart | Fourteen Hours | Robert Cosick |
| 1952 | Ralph Richardson | Breaking the Sound Barrier | John Ridgefield |
| 1953 | James Mason | The Desert Rats | Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel |
| 1953 | James Mason | Face to Face | O Capitão |
| 1953 | James Mason | Julius Caesar | Marco Júnio Bruto, o Jovem |
| 1953 | James Mason | The Man Between | Ivo Kern |
| 1954 | Bing Crosby | The Country Girl | Frank Elgin ‡ |
| 1955 | Ernest Borgnine | Marty | Marty Piletti † |
| 1956 | Yul Brynner | Anastasia | General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine |
| 1956 | Yul Brynner | The King and I | King Mongkut of Siam † |
| 1956 | Yul Brynner | The Ten Commandments | Ramessés II |
| 1957 | Alec Guinness | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson † |
| 1958 | Spencer Tracy | The Last Hurrah | Mayor Frank Skeffington |
| 1958 | Spencer Tracy | The Old Man and the Sea | The Old Man / Narrador ‡ |
| 1959 | Victor Sjöström | Wild Strawberries | Professor Isak Borg |

### Década de 1960

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 1960 | Robert Mitchum | Home from the Hill | Wade Hunnicutt |
| 1960 | Robert Mitchum | The Sundowners | Paddy Carmody |
| 1961 | Albert Finney | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Arthur Seaton |
| 1962 | Jason Robards, Jr. | Long Day's Journey Into Night | James Tyrone, Jr. |
| 1962 | Jason Robards, Jr. | Tender Is the Night | Dick Diver |
| 1963 | Rex Harrison | Cleopatra | Julius Caesar ‡ |
| 1964 | Anthony Quinn | Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas) | Alexis Zorba ‡ |
| 1965 | Lee Marvin | Cat Ballou | Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn † |
| 1965 | Lee Marvin | Ship of Fools | Bill Tenny |
| 1966 | Paul Scofield | A Man for All Seasons | Sir Thomas More † |
| 1967 | Peter Finch | Far from the Madding Crowd | William Boldwood |
| 1968 | Cliff Robertson | CHAЯLY | Charly Gordon † |
| 1969 | Peter O'Toole | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Arthur Chipping, MA (Oxon), Latin Master ‡ |

### Década de 1970

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 1970 | George C. Scott | Patton | George S. Patton, Jr. † |
| 1971 | Gene Hackman | The French Connection | Detetive Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle † |
| 1972 | Peter O'Toole | Man of La Mancha | Don Quixote de La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana |
| 1972 | Peter O'Toole | The Ruling Class | Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney ‡ |
| 1973 | Al Pacino | Serpico | Francesco “Frank” Serpico ‡ |
| 1973 | Robert Ryan | The Iceman Cometh | Larry Slade |
| 1974 | Gene Hackman | The Conversation | Harry Caul |
| 1975 | Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Randle “R.P.” “Mac” McMurphy † |
| 1976 | David Carradine | Bound for Glory | Woodrow “Woody” Guthrie |
| 1977 | John Travolta | Saturday Night Fever | Anthony “Tony” Manero ‡ |
| 1978 | Jon Voight | Coming Home | Luke Martin † |
| 1978 | Laurence Olivier | The Boys from Brazil | Ezra Lieberman ‡ |
| 1979 | Peter Sellers | Being There | Chance ‡ |

### Década de 1980

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 1980 | Robert De Niro | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta † |
| 1981 | Henry Fonda | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer † |
| 1982 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi † |
| 1983 | Tom Conti | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | John Lawrence |
| 1983 | Tom Conti | Reuben, Reuben | Gowan McGland ‡ |
| 1984 | Victor Banerjee | A Passage to India | Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed |
| 1985 | William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina † |
| 1985 | Raúl Juliá | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Valentin Arregui |
| 1986 | Paul Newman | The Color of Money | Fast Eddie Felson † |
| 1987 | Michael Douglas | Wall Street | Gordon Gekko † |
| 1988 | Gene Hackman | Mississippi Burning | Agent Rupert Anderson ‡ |
| 1989 | Morgan Freeman | Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Colburn ‡ |

### Década de 1990

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 1990 | Robert De Niro | Awakenings | Leonard Lowe ‡ |
| 1990 | Robin Williams | Awakenings | Dr. Malcolm Sayer |
| 1991 | Warren Beatty | Bugsy | Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel ‡ |
| 1992 | Jack Lemmon | Glengarry Glen Ross | Shelley “The Machine” Levene |
| 1993 | Anthony Hopkins | The Remains of the Day | James Stevens ‡ |
| 1993 | Anthony Hopkins | Shadowlands | Clive “C. S.” Lewis |
| 1994 | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump † |
| 1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson † |
| 1996 | Tom Cruise | Jerry Maguire | Jerry Maguire ‡ |
| 1997 | Jack Nicholson | As Good as It Gets | Melvin Udall † |
| 1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale ‡ |
| 1999 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Dr. Jeffrey Wigand ‡ |

### Década de 2000

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 2000 | Javier Bardem | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas ‡ |
| 2001 | Billy Bob Thornton | Bandits | Terry Lee Collins |
| 2001 | Billy Bob Thornton | The Man Who Wasn't There | Ed Crane |
| 2001 | Billy Bob Thornton | Monster's Ball | Hank Grotowski |
| 2002 | Campbell Scott | Roger Dodger | Roger Swanson |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | 21 Grams | Paul Rivers |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum † |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles † |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote † |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin † |
| 2007 | George Clooney | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton ‡ |
| 2008 | Clint Eastwood | Gran Torino | Walt Kowalski |
| 2009 | George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham ‡ |
| 2009 | Morgan Freeman | Invictus | Nelson Mandela ‡ |

### Década de 2010

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg ‡ |
| 2011 | George Clooney | The Descendants | Matt King ‡ |
| 2012 | Bradley Cooper | Silver Linings Playbook | Patrick “Pat” Solitano, Jr. ‡ |
| 2013 | Bruce Dern | Nebraska | Woodrow “Woody” Grant ‡ |
| 2014 | Oscar Isaac | A Most Violent Year | Abel Morales |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson ‡ |
| 2015 | Matt Damon | The Martian | Mark Watney ‡ |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler † |
| 2017 | Tom Hanks | The Post | Ben Bradlee |
| 2018 | Viggo Mortensen | Green Book | Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga ‡ |
| 2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems | Howard Ratner |

## Vitórias múltiplas
### 3 vitórias

* George Clooney (2007, 2009, 2011)
* Gene Hackman (1971, 1974, 1988)

### 2 vitórias

* Robert De Niro (1980, 1990)
* Morgan Freeman (1989, 2009)
* Alec Guinness (1950, 1957)
* Tom Hanks (1994, 2017)
* Jack Nicholson (1975, 1997)
* Laurence Olivier (1946, 1978)
* Peter O'Toole (1969, 1972)
* Ralph Richardson (1949, 1952)