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Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor

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Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Current recipient: Paul Giamatti
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
CountryUnited States
Presented byBoston Society of Film Critics
First awardedRobert De Niro
Raging Bull (1980)
Currently held byPaul Giamatti
The Holdovers (2023)
Websitebostonfilmcritics.org

The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best (Lead) Actor is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.

1980s

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Year Winner Film Role
1980 Robert De Niro Raging Bull Jake LaMotta
1981 Burt Lancaster Atlantic City Lou Pascal
1982 Dustin Hoffman Tootsie Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
1983 Eric Roberts Star 80 Paul Snider
1984 Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields Dith Pran
1985 Jack Nicholson Prizzi's Honor Charley Partanna
1986 Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa George
1987 Albert Brooks Broadcast News Aaron Altman
1988 Daniel Day-Lewis The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tomas
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Foot Christy Brown

1990s

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Year Winner Film Role
1990 Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune Claus von Bülow
1991 Nick Nolte The Prince of Tides Tom Wingo
1992 Denzel Washington Malcolm X Malcolm X
1993 Daniel Day-Lewis In the Name of the Father Gerard “Gerry” Conlon
1994 Albert Finney The Browning Version Andrew Crocker-Harris
1995 Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas Ben Sanderson
1996 Geoffrey Rush Shine David Helfgott
1997 Al Pacino Donnie Brasco Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero
1998 Brendan Gleeson The General Martin Cahill
I Went Down Bunny Kelly
1999 Jim Carrey Man on the Moon Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton

2000s

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Year Winner Film Role
2000 Colin Farrell Tigerland Private Roland Bozz
2001 Brian Cox L.I.E. Big John Harrigan
Denzel Washington Training Day Detective Alonzo Harris
2002 Adrien Brody The Pianist Władysław “Wladek” Szpilman
2003 Bill Murray Lost in Translation Bob Harris
2004 Jamie Foxx Ray Ray Charles
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Truman Capote
2006 Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland Idi Amin
2007 Frank Langella Starting Out in the Evening Leonard Schiller
2008 Sean Penn Milk Harvey Milk
Mickey Rourke The Wrestler Robin Ramzinski
2009 Jeremy Renner The Hurt Locker SFC. William James

2010s

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Year Winner Film Role
2010 Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network Mark Zuckerberg
2011 Brad Pitt Moneyball[1] Billy Beane
2012 Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
2013 Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northup
2014 Michael Keaton Birdman Riggan Thomson
2015 Paul Dano Love & Mercy Brian Wilson
Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant Hugh Glass
2016 Casey Affleck Manchester by the Sea Lee Chandler
2017 Daniel Kaluuya Get Out Chris Washington
2018 John C. Reilly Stan & Ollie Oliver Hardy
2019 Adam Sandler Uncut Gems[2] Howard Ratner

2020s

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Year Winner Film Role
2020 Anthony Hopkins The Father[3] Anthony Evans
2021 Hidetoshi Nishijima Drive My Car Yūsuke Kafuku
2022 Colin Farrell The Banshees of Inisherin Pádraic Súilleabháin
After Yang Jake
2023 Paul Giamatti The Holdovers Paul Hunham

Multiple winners

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References

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  1. ^ 'The Artist' Named Best Picture by Boston Film Critics|Retuters
  2. ^ "Current Winners – 2019 Awards". Boston Society of Film Critics. 2018-07-27. Archived from the original on 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  3. ^ The Boston Society of Film Critics names its winners for 2020 - The Boston Globe