Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor explained

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor was an annual award given by the Toronto Film Critics Association, honouring the best performances by male actors in films.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
1997	Ian Holm	*The Sweet Hereafter*	Mitchell Stephens	^[1]
	As Good As It Gets	Melvin Udall		^[1]
1998	Ian McKellen	*Gods and Monsters*	James Whale	^[2]
	The Apostle	Sonny Dewey
	Saving Private Ryan	John H. Miller
1999	Kevin Spacey	*American Beauty*	Lester Burnham	^[3]
	Man on the Moon	Andy Kaufman		^[3]

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2000	Benicio del Toro	*Traffic*	Javier Rodriguez	^[4]
	You Can Count on Me	Terry		^[4]
2001	Ed Harris	*Pollock*	Jackson Pollock	^[5]
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Hedwig Robinson
	The Pledge	Jerry Black
2002	Nicolas Cage	*Adaptation.*	Charlie and Donald Kaufman	^[6]
	Gangs of New York	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
	About Schmidt	Warren R. Schmidt
2003	Bill Murray	*Lost in Translation*	Bob Harris	^[7]
2004	Paul Giamatti	*Sideways*	Miles Raymond	^[8]
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	*Capote*	Truman Capote	^[9]
2006	Sacha Baron Cohen	*Borat*	Borat Sagdiyev	^[10]
		Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
		The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
2007	Viggo Mortensen	*Eastern Promises*	Nikolai Luzhin	^[11]
		Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
		Away from Her	Grant Anderson
2008	Mickey Rourke	*The Wrestler*	Robin Ramzinski / Randy "The Ram" Robinson	^[12]
		Milk	Harvey Milk
		JCVD	Himself
2009	Nicolas Cage		Terence McDonagh	^[13]
		Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
		Hunger	Bobby Sands
		A Single Man	George Falconer
		The Road	Man

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2010	Jesse Eisenberg	*The Social Network*	Mark Zuckerberg	^[14]
	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
2011	Michael Shannon	*Take Shelter*	Curtis LaForche	^[15]
	George Clooney	The Descendants	Matthew "Matt" King
	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
2012	Denis Lavant	*Holy Motors*	Mr. Oscar	^[16]
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
2013	Oscar Isaac	*Inside Llewyn Davis*	Llewyn Davis	^[17]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof
2014	Tom Hardy	*Locke*	Ivan Locke	^[18]
	Ralph Fiennes	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Monsieur Gustave H.
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Louis "Lou" Bloom
2015	Tom Hardy	*Legend*	The Kray Twins	^[19]
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
2016	Adam Driver	*Paterson*	Paterson	^[20]
	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Peter Simonischek	Toni Erdmann	Winfried Conradi / Toni Erdmann
2017	Daniel Day-Lewis	*Phantom Thread*	Reynolds Woodcock	^[21]
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
2018	Ethan Hawke	*First Reformed*	Reverend Ernst Toller	^[22]
		At Eternity's Gate	Vincent van Gogh
		Green Book	Tony Lip
2019	Adam Driver	*Marriage Story*	Charlie Barber	^[23]
		Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo
		Uncut Gems	Howard Ratner

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2020	Riz Ahmed	*Sound of Metal*	Ruben Stone	^[24]
		Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green
		Another Round (Druk)	Martin
2021	Denzel Washington	*The Tragedy of Macbeth*	Macbeth	^[25]
		The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank
		tick, tick... BOOM!	Jonathan Larson
2022	Paul Mescal	*Aftersun*	Calum Paterson	^[26]
		The Banshees of Inisherin	Pádraic Súilleabháin
		The Whale	Charlie

External links

Toronto Film Critics Association - Past Award Winners

Notes and References

Liam Lacey, "Egoyan film top pick". The Globe and Mail, January 15, 1998.
"War movies are the big winners". Hamilton Spectator, December 18, 1998.
"Toronto critics pick Magnolia as best film of 1999 Yet-unreleased second picture from director of Boogie Nights follows linked stories of characters in San Fernando Valley". The Globe and Mail, December 17, 1999.
Peter Howell, "Toronto critics like Lee ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon named top movie". Toronto Star, December 21, 2000.
"Memento named best picture". Calgary Herald, December 20, 2001.
"Toronto critics pick Adaptation as top film". Ottawa Citizen, December 20, 2022.
"Coppola's Lost in Translation honoured by Toronto critics". Waterloo Region Record, December 18, 2003.
"Sideways named best film of 2004 by Toronto critics". Sault Star, December 17, 2004.
"Cronenberg's History of Violence tops T.O. critics' best-of list". Sudbury Star, December 22, 2005.
Lee-Anne Goodman, "'The Queen' named best picture by Toronto's film critics". Canadian Press, December 20, 2006.
Bruce Kirkland, "Old Men No. 1; Coen Brothers flick tops T.O. film critics' 2007 list". Toronto Sun, December 19, 2007.
Chris Knight, "Toronto critics pick Wendy and Lucy". Windsor Star, December 17, 2008.
"Basterds, Hunger top Toronto critics' picks". Waterloo Region Record, December 17, 2009.
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Cassandra Szklarski, "'The Master' rules with Toronto film critics, named best film, screenplay". Canadian Press, December 18, 2012.
"Toronto Film Critics Association awards for 2013". Toronto Star, December 17, 2013.
Norman Wilner, "Toronto film critics champion Boyhood". Now, December 16, 2014.
Jeremy Kay, "Toronto critics honour 'Carol'". Screen Daily, December 14, 2015.
Norman Wilner, "Toronto critics bask in the Moonlight". Now, December 12, 2016.
Jim Slotek, "Toronto film critics give best picture thumbs up to The Florida Project". Original Cin, December 10, 2017.
Corey Atad, "Toronto Film Critics Association Names ‘Roma’ Best Picture Of 2018". ET Canada, December 10, 2018.
Radheyan Simonpillai, "Toronto Film Critics Association names Parasite the year’s best movie". Now, December 9, 2019.
Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2021.
Sarah Curran, "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Big At Toronto Film Critics Association Awards". ET Canada, January 16, 2022.
Pat Mullen, "Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc". Point of View, January 8, 2023.