The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best (Lead) Actor is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.
1980s YearWinnerFilmRole1980 Robert De Niro Raging Bull Jake LaMotta1981 Burt Lancaster Atlantic City Lou Pascal1982 Dustin Hoffman Tootsie Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels1983 Eric Roberts Star 80 Paul Snider1984 Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields Dith Pran1985 Jack Nicholson Prizzi's Honor Charley Partanna1986 Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa George1987 Albert Brooks Broadcast News Aaron Altman1988 Daniel Day-Lewis The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tomas1989 Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Foot Christy Brown
1990s YearWinnerFilmRole1990 Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune Claus von Bülow1991 Nick Nolte The Prince of Tides Tom Wingo1992 Denzel Washington Malcolm X Malcolm X1993 Daniel Day-Lewis In the Name of the Father Gerard “Gerry” Conlon1994 Albert Finney The Browning Version Andrew Crocker-Harris1995 Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas Ben Sanderson1996 Geoffrey Rush Shine David Helfgott1997 Al Pacino Donnie Brasco Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero1998Brendan Gleeson The General Martin CahillI Went Down Bunny Kelly1999 Jim Carrey Man on the Moon Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton
2000s YearWinnerFilmRole2000 Colin Farrell Tigerland Private Roland Bozz2001 Brian Cox L.I.E. Big John HarriganDenzel Washington Training Day Detective Alonzo Harris2002 Adrien Brody The Pianist Władysław “Wladek” Szpilman2003 Bill Murray Lost in Translation Bob Harris2004 Jamie Foxx Ray Ray Charles2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Truman Capote2006 Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland Idi Amin2007 Frank Langella Starting Out in the Evening Leonard Schiller2008 Sean Penn Milk Harvey MilkMickey Rourke The Wrestler Robin Ramzinski2009 Jeremy Renner The Hurt Locker SFC. William James
2010s YearWinnerFilmRole2010 Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network Mark Zuckerberg2011 Brad Pitt Moneyball'The Artist' Named Best Picture by Boston Film Critics|Retuters Billy Beane2012 Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln Abraham Lincoln2013 Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northup2014 Michael Keaton Birdman Riggan Thomson2015 Paul Dano Love & Mercy Brian WilsonLeonardo DiCaprio The Revenant Hugh Glass2016 Casey Affleck Manchester by the Sea Lee Chandler2017 Daniel Kaluuya Get Out Chris Washington2018 John C. Reilly Stan & Ollie Oliver Hardy2019 Adam Sandler Uncut Gems Howard Ratner
2020s YearWinnerFilmRole2020 Anthony Hopkins The FatherThe Boston Society of Film Critics names its winners for 2020 - The Boston Globe Anthony Evans2021 Hidetoshi Nishijima Drive My Car Yūsuke Kafuku 2022 Colin Farrell The Banshees of Inisherin Pádraic Súilleabháin After Yang Jake2023 Paul Giamatti The Holdovers Paul Hunham2024 Timothée Chalamet A Complete Unknown Bob Dylan2025 Ethan Hawke Blue Moon Lorenz Hart
Multiple winners Daniel Day-Lewis - 4 Colin Farrell - 2 Denzel Washington - 2
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