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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
CountryUnited States
Presented byLos Angeles Film Critics Association
First awardedAl Pacino
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Last awardedSimon Rex
Red Rocket (2021)
Websitelafca.net

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor was an award given annually by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was first introduced in 1975 to reward the best performance by a leading actor. In 2022, it was announced that the four acting categories would be retired and replaced with two gender neutral categories, with both Best Actor and Best Actress merging into the Best Lead Performance category.[1]

Winners

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1970s

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Year Winner Film Role
1975 Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon Sonny Wortzik
1976 Robert De Niro Taxi Driver Travis Bickle
1977 Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl Elliot Garfield
1978 Jon Voight Coming Home Luke Martin
1979 Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer Ted Kramer

1980s

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Year Winner(s) Film Role
1980 Robert De Niro Raging Bull Jake LaMotta
1981 Burt Lancaster Atlantic City Lou Pascal
1982 Ben Kingsley Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi
1983 Robert Duvall Tender Mercies Mac Sledge
1984 F. Murray Abraham Amadeus Antonio Salieri
Albert Finney Under the Volcano Geoffrey Firmin
1985 William Hurt Kiss of the Spider Woman Luis Molina
1986 Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa George
1987 Jack Nicholson Ironweed Francis Phelan
The Witches of Eastwick Daryl Van Horne
Steve Martin Roxanne Charlie "C.D." Bales
1988 Tom Hanks Big Josh Baskin
Punchline Steven Gold
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 Clint Eastwood Unforgiven William "Will" Munny
1993 Anthony Hopkins The Remains of the Day James Stevens
Shadowlands Jack Lewis
1994 John Travolta Pulp Fiction Vincent Vega
1995 Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas Ben Sanderson
1996 Geoffrey Rush Shine David Helfgott (adult)
1997 Robert Duvall The Apostle Euliss "Sonny" Dewey / The Apostle
1998 Ian McKellen Gods and Monsters James Whale
1999 Russell Crowe The Insider Jeffrey Wigand

2000s

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Year Winner(s) Film Role
2000 Michael Douglas Wonder Boys Grady Tripp
2001 Denzel Washington Training Day Detective Alonzo Harris
2002 Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
Jack Nicholson About Schmidt Warren Schmidt
2003 Bill Murray Lost in Translation Bob Harris
2004 Liam Neeson Kinsey Dr. Alfred Kinsey
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Truman Capote
2006 Sacha Baron Cohen Borat Borat Sagdiyev
Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland Idi Amin
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview
2008 Sean Penn Milk Harvey Milk
2009 Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart Otis "Bad" Blake

2010s

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Year Winner Film Role
2010 Colin Firth The King's Speech King George VI
2011 Michael Fassbender A Dangerous Method Carl Jung
Jane Eyre Edward Rochester
Shame Brandon Sullivan
X-Men: First Class Erik Lensherr / Magneto
2012 Joaquin Phoenix The Master Freddie Quell
2013 Bruce Dern Nebraska Woody Grant
2014 Tom Hardy Locke Ivan Locke
2015 Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs Steve Jobs
2016 Adam Driver Paterson Paterson
2017 Timothée Chalamet Call Me by Your Name Elio Perlman[2]
2018 Ethan Hawke First Reformed Reverend Ernst Toller[3]
2019 Antonio Banderas Pain and Glory Salvador Mallo [4]

2020s

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Year Winner Film Role
2020 Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Levee Green [5]
2021 Simon Rex Red Rocket Mikey Saber[6]

Multiple winners

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3 wins
2 wins

See also

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References

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  1. ^ @LAFilmCritics (October 12, 2022). "For this year's awards vote, LAFCA will also introduce gender-neutral acting categories, with two awards for Best Lead Performance and two awards for Best Supporting Performance. Our voting meeting will take place on December 11, 2022" (Tweet). Archived from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved December 12, 2022 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (3 December 2017). "'Call Me by Your Name' Selected as Best Picture by L.A. Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. ^ Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2018 Winners|IndieWire
  4. ^ Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2019 Winners — Full List — Deadline
  5. ^ 'Small Axe' Wins LAFCA Best Picture Despite Not Submitted for Oscars - Variety
  6. ^ Los Angeles Film Critics 2021 Winners List - Variety