Houston_Film_Critics_Society_Award_for_Best_Actor
Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
American film society award
The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.
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Quick Facts Awarded for, Country ...
| Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
 The 2023 recipient: Paul Giamatti | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Houston Film Critics Society |
| First awarded | Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood (2007) |
| Currently held by | Paul Giamatti The Holdovers (2023) |
| Website | houstonfilmcritics |
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- † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
- ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Actor
2000s
More information Year, Winner and nominees ...
| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis † | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| Casey Affleck | Gone Baby Gone | Patrick Kenzie | |
| George Clooney ‡ | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton | |
| Emile Hirsch | Into the Wild | Chris McCandless | |
| Viggo Mortensen ‡ | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin | |
| 2008 | Sean Penn † | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Revolutionary Road | Frank Wheeler | |
| Richard Jenkins ‡ | The Visitor | Walter Vale | |
| Frank Langella ‡ | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon | |
| Brad Pitt ‡ | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Benjamin Button | |
| Mickey Rourke ‡ | The Wrestler | Randy "The Ram" Robinson | |
| 2009 | George Clooney ‡ | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
| Jeff Bridges † | Crazy Heart | Bad Blake | |
| Morgan Freeman ‡ | Invictus | Nelson Mandela | |
| Viggo Mortensen | The Road | Man | |
| Jeremy Renner ‡ | The Hurt Locker | Sergeant First Class William James |
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2010s
More information Year, Winner and nominees ...
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2020s
More information Year, Winner and nominees ...
| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
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| 2020 | Riz Ahmed ‡ | Sound of Metal | Ruben |
| Chadwick Boseman ‡ | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | |
| Anthony Hopkins † | The Father | Anthony | |
| Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods | Paul | |
| Steven Yeun ‡ | Minari | Jacob Yi | |
| 2021 | Benedict Cumberbatch ‡ | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank |
| Peter Dinklage | Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| Andrew Garfield ‡ | tick, tick... BOOM! | Jonathan Larson | |
| Will Smith † | King Richard | Richard Williams | |
| Denzel Washington ‡ | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth | |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell ‡ | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| Austin Butler ‡ | Elvis | Elvis Presley | |
| Tom Cruise | Top Gun: Maverick | Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell | |
| Brendan Fraser † | The Whale | Charlie | |
| Jeremy Pope | The Inspection | Ellis French | |
| 2023 | Paul Giamatti ‡ | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Killers of the Flower Moon | Ernest Burkhart | |
| Cillian Murphy ‡ | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| Andrew Scott | All of Us Strangers | Adam | |
| Jeffrey Wright ‡ | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison | |
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