New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
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The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in filmmaking.

In the last two decades (1990-2007), the Circle agreed with the Oscars on 5 occasions: 1991 Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs, 1995 Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas, 1996 Geoffrey Rush for Shine, 2006 Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland, and 2007 Daniel Day Lewis for There Will Be Blood .

Winners

1930s

• 1935 – Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty and Ruggles of Red Gap
• 1936 – Walter Huston - Dodsworth
• 1937 – Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola
• 1938 – James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces
• 1939 – James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1940s

• 1940 – Charles Chaplin - The Great Dictator
• 1941 – Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
• 1942 – James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
• 1943 – Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
• 1944 – Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
• 1945 – Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
• 1946 – Laurence Olivier - Henry V
• 1947 – William Powell - Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet
• 1948 – Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
• 1949 – Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men

1950s

• 1950 – Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High
• 1951 – Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory
• 1952 – Ralph Richardson - The Sound Barrier
• 1953 – Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity
• 1954 – Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
• 1955 – Ernest Borgnine - Marty
• 1956 – Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life
• 1957 – Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
• 1958 – David Niven - Separate Tables
• 1959 – James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder

1960s

• 1960 – Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
• 1961 – Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
• 1962 – No Award
• 1963 – Albert Finney - Tom Jones
• 1964 – Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
• 1965 – Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools
• 1966 – Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
• 1967 – Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
• 1968 – Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• 1969 – Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy

1970s

• 1970 – George C. Scott - Patton
• 1971 – Gene Hackman - The French Connection
• 1972 – Laurence Olivier - Sleuth
• 1973 – Marlon Brando - Ultimo tango a Parigi
• 1974 – Jack Nicholson - Chinatown and The Last Detail
• 1975 – Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 1976 – Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
• 1977 – John Gielgud - Providence
• 1978 – Jon Voight - Coming Home
• 1979 – Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer

1980s

• 1980 – Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
• 1981 – Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
• 1982 – Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
• 1983 – Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
• 1984 – Steve Martin - All of Me
• 1985 – Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor
• 1986 – Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa
• 1987 – Jack Nicholson - The Witches of Eastwick, Ironweed and Broadcast News
• 1988 – Jeremy Irons - Dead Ringers
• 1989 – Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot

1990s

• 1990 – Robert De Niro - Awakenings and GoodFellas
• 1991 – Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
• 1992 – Denzel Washington - Malcolm X
• 1993 – David Thewlis - Naked
• 1994 – Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool
• 1995 – Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
• 1996 – Geoffrey Rush - Shine
• 1997 – Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
• 1998 – Nick Nolte - Affliction
• 1999 – Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story

2000s

• 2000 – Tom Hanks - Cast Away
• 2001 – Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom
• 2002 – Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
• 2003 – Bill Murray - Lost in Translation
• 2004 – Paul Giamatti - Sideways
• 2005 – Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
• 2006 – Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
• 2007 – Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood