The London Film Critics Circle Award for British/Irish Actor of the Year in an annual award given by the London Film Critics Circle.
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Rickman | Close My Eyes, Truly, Madly, Deeply, Quigley Down Under, and | Sinclair Bryant, Jamie, Elliot Marston, and Sheriff of Nottingham | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | The Last of the Mohicans | Hawkeye / Nathaniel Poe | |
| David Thewlis | Naked | Johnny | |
| Ralph Fiennes | Schindler's List | Amon Goeth | |
| Nigel Hawthorne | The Madness of King George | King George III | |
| Ewan McGregor | Trainspotting, Brassed Off, Emma, and The Pillow Book | Mark Renton, Andy Barrow, Frank Churchill, and Jerome | |
| Ian McKellen | Richard III | Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and King Richard III | |
| Robert Carlyle | The Full Monty, Face, and Carla's Song | Gary “Gaz” Schofield, Ray, and George Lennox | |
| Brendan Gleeson | The General | Martin Cahill | |
| Jeremy Northam | Happy, Texas, An Ideal Husband, and The Winslow Boy | Harry Sawyer, Sir Robert Chiltern, and Sir Robert Morton | |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Broadbent | Topsy-Turvy | W. S. Gilbert | |
| Ewan McGregor | Moulin Rouge! | Christian | |
| Hugh Grant | About a Boy | Will Freeman | |
| Paul Bettany | Dr. Stephen Maturin | ||
| Daniel Craig | Enduring Love | Joe Rose | |
| Ralph Fiennes | The Constant Gardener | Justin Quayle | |
| Toby Jones | Infamous | Truman Capote | |
| James McAvoy | Atonement | Robbie Turner | |
| Michael Fassbender | Hunger | Bobby Sands | |
| Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer | |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Bale | The Fighter | Dick “Dicky” Eklund | ||
| Michael Fassbender | A Dangerous Method and Shame | Carl Jung and Brandon Sullivan | ||
| Toby Jones | Berberian Sound Studio | Gilderoy | ||
| James McAvoy | Filth, Trance, and Welcome to the Punch | Bruce Robertson, Simon Newton, and Max Lewinsky | ||
| Timothy Spall | Mr. Turner | J. M. W. Turner | ||
| Tom Hardy | Legend, London Road, , and The Revenant | Ronnie Kray and Reggie Kray, Mark, Max Rockatansky, and John Fitzgerald | ||
| Andrew Garfield | Hacksaw Ridge and Silence | Desmond T. Doss and Father Sebastião Rodrigues | ||
| Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out | Chris Washington | ||
| Rupert Everett | The Happy Prince | Oscar Wilde | ||
| Robert Pattinson | High Life, The King and The Lighthouse | Monte, The Dauphin and Ephraim Winslow |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riz Ahmed | Mogul Mowgli and Sound of Metal | Zed and Ruben Stone | ||
| Andrew Garfield | The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Mainstream, and Tick, Tick... Boom! | Jim Bakker, Link, Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Jonathan Larson | ||
| Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Rodney Williams |