Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is an award given by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association to honor the best achievements in filmmaking.

Winners and nominess

1990s

• 1990: Kevin Costner as Lieutenant John Dunbar – Dances with Wolves
• 1991: Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter – The Silence of the Lambs
• 1992: Denzel Washington as Malcolm X – Malcolm X
• 1993: Anthony Hopkins as Mr James Stevens – The Remains of the Day
• 1994: Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump – Forrest Gump
• 1995: Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson – Leaving Las Vegas
• 1996: Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott – Shine
• 1997: Peter Fonda as Ulee Jackson – Ulee's Gold
• 1998: Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank – The Truman Show
• 1999: Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham – American Beauty

2000s

2000: Russell Crowe – Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius

• Sean Connery – Finding Forrester as William Forrester
• Michael Douglas – Wonder Boys as Professor Grady Tripp
• Tom Hanks – Cast Away as Chuck Noland
• Geoffrey Rush – Quills as Marquis de Sade

2001: Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind as John Nash

• Will Smith – Ali as Muhammad Ali
• Billy Bob Thornton – The Man Who Wasn't There as Ed Crane
• Denzel Washington – Training Day as Detective Alonzo Harris
• Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom as Matt Fowler

2002: Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt

• Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York as William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting
• Adrien Brody – The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
• Nicolas Cage – Adaptation. as Charlie and Donald Kaufman
• Robin Williams – One Hour Photo as Seymour “Sy” Parrish

2003: Sean Penn – Mystic River as Jimmy Markum

• Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Captain Jack Sparrow
• Paul Giamatti – American Splendor as Harvey Pekar
• Ben Kingsley – House of Sand and Fog as Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani
• Bill Murray – Lost in Translation as Bob Harris

2004: Paul Giamatti – Sideways as Miles Raymond

• Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
• Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland as J. M. Barrie
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator as Howard Hughes
• Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles

2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote

• Russell Crowe – Cinderella Man as James Braddock
• Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
• Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
• David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow

2006: Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin

• Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond as Danny Archer
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed as William “Billy” Costigan, Jr.
• Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson as Dan Dunne
• Peter O'Toole – Venus as Maurice

2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview

• George Clooney – Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
• Frank Langella – Starting Out in the Evening as Leonard Schiller
• Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah as Hank Deerfield
• Emile Hirsch – Into the Wild as Chris McCandless

2008: Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk

• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Randy Robinson
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor as Walter Vale

2009: George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham

• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis “Bad” Blake
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as SFC. William James
• Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela

2010s

2010: James Franco – 127 Hours as Aron Ralston

• Colin Firth – The King's Speech as King George VI
• Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg
• Robert Duvall – Get Low as Felix Bush
• Michael Douglas – Solitary Man as Ben Kalmen

2011: George Clooney – The Descendants as Matt King

• Jean Dujardin – The Artist as George Valentin
• Michael Fassbender – Shame as Brandon Sullivan
• Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Beane
• Michael Shannon – Take Shelter as Curtis LaForche

2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln

• Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell
• John Hawkes – The Sessions as Mark O'Brien
• Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
• Denzel Washington – Flight as William “Whip” Whitaker, Sr.

2013: Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof

• Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave as Solomon Northup
• Bruce Dern – Nebraska as Woody Grant
• Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips as Captain Richard Phillips
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street as Jordan Belfort

2014: Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson

• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis “Lou” Bloom
• Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner as J. M. W. Turner

2015: Leonardo Dicaprio – The Revenant as Hugh Glass

• Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs
• Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
• Matt Damon – The Martian as Mark Watney
• Johnny Depp – Black Mass as James “Whitey” Bulger