Best Actor–Winners, Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), 1975 (first year)–present
Year Winner Film Role
1975 Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon Sonny Wortzik
1976 Robert De Niro Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle
1977 Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl, Elliot Garfield
1978 Jon Voight Coming Home, Luke Martin
1979 Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer, Ted Kramer
1980s
1980 Robert De Niro Raging Bull, Jake LaMotta
1981 Burt Lancaster Atlantic City, Lou Pascal
1982 Ben Kingsley Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi
1983 Robert Duvall Tender Mercies, Mac Sledge
1984 Tie
F. Murray Abraham Amadeus, Antonio Salieri; Albert Finney Under the Volcano Geoffrey Firmin
1985 William Hurt Kiss of the Spider Woman Luis Molina
1986 Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa George
1987 Tie
Jack Nicholson Ironweed Francis Phelan; Witches of Eastwick,Daryl Van Horne
Steve Martin Roxanne Charlie “C.D.” Bales
1988: Tom Hanks (2 roles), Big, Josh Baskin; Punchline Steven Gold
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot, Christy Brown
1990s
1990 Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune, Claus von Bülow
1991 Nick Nolte The Prince of Tides, Tom Wingo
1992 Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven, William “Will” Munny
1993 (2 roles) Anthony Hopkins, Remains of the Day, James Stevens; Shadowlands Jack Lewis
1994 John Travolta Pulp Fiction Vincent Vega
1995 Nicolas Cage Leaving Las Vegas Ben Sanderson
1996 Geoffrey Rush, Shine, David Helfgott
1997 Robert Duvall The Apostle Euliss “Sonny” Dewey / The Apostle
1998 Ian McKellen Gods and Monsters, James Whale
1999 Russell Crowe, The Insider, Jeffrey Wigand
2000s
2000 Michael Douglas Wonder Boys Grady Tripp
2001 Denzel Washington Training Day Detective Alonzo Harris
2002 Tie
Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York, William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting; Jack Nicholson About Schmidt Warren Schmidt
2003 Bill Murray Lost in Translation Bob Harris
2004 Liam Neeson Kinsey Dr. Alfred Kinsey
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Truman Capote
2006 Tie
Sacha Baron Cohen Borat Borat Sagdiyev; Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland Idi Amin (Black)
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood, Daniel Plainview
2008 Sean Penn Milk Harvey Milk
2009 Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart, Otis “Bad” Blake
2010s
2010 Colin Firth The King’s Speech King George VI
2011 (4 films) Michael Fassbender A Dangerous Method Carl Jung; Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester; Shame, Brandon Sullivan; X-Men: First Class Erik Lensherr Magneto
2012 Joaquin Phoenix The Master Freddie Quell
2013 Bruce Dern Nebraska Woody Grant
2014 Tom Hardy Locke Ivan, Locke
2015 Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
2016 Adam Driver Paterson Paterson
2017 Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name, Elio Perlman
2018 Ethan Hawke, First Reformed. Reverend Ernst Toller
2019 Antonio Banderas Pain and Glory, Salvador Mallo(foreign lingo)
2020s
2020 Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Levee Green (Black)
2021 Simon Rex, Red Rocket, Mikey Saber
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Multiple winners
3 wins
Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2002, 2007)
2 wins
Robert De Niro (1976, 1980)
Robert Duvall (1983, 1997)
Jack Nicholson (1987, 2002)
Michael Fassbender (2011, 2015)
