Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor

The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best lead actor of the year.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1997	Jack Nicholson	As Good as It Gets	Melvin Udall
	Peter Fonda	Ulee's Gold	Ulysses 'Ulee' Jackson
	Ian Holm	The Sweet Hereafter	Mitchell Stephens
1998	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters	James Whale
	Tom Hanks	Saving Private Ryan	Captain John H. Miller
	Edward Norton	American History X	Derek Vinyard
1999	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Lester Burnham
	Jim Carrey	Man on the Moon	Andy Kaufman
	Russell Crowe	The Insider	Jeffrey Wigand
	Richard Farnsworth	The Straight Story	Alvin Straight
	Edward Norton	Fight Club	The Narrator

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2000	Tom Hanks	Cast Away	Chuck Noland
	Christian Bale	American Psycho	Patrick Bateman
	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	Maximus Decimus Meridius
	Michael Douglas	Wonder Boys	Prof. Grady Tripp
	Jared Leto	Requiem for a Dream	Harry Goldfarb
	Geoffrey Rush	Quills	Marquis de Sade
2001	Billy Bob Thornton	The Man Who Wasn't There	Ed Crane
	Russell Crowe	A Beautiful Mind	John Nash
	Guy Pearce	Memento	Leonard Shelby
	Denzel Washington	Training Day	Alonzo Harris
	Tom Wilkinson	In the Bedroom	Matt Fowler
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	William "Bill The Butcher" Cutting
	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	Władysław Szpilman
	Nicolas Cage	Adaptation	Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
	Jack Nicholson	About Schmidt	Warren R. Schmidt
	Robin Williams	One Hour Photo	Seymour 'Sy' Parrish
2003	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
	Johnny Depp	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Captain Jack Sparrow
	Paul Giamatti	American Splendor	Harvey Pekar
	Ben Kingsley	House of Sand and Fog	Massoud Behrani
	Sean Penn	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum
2004	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Miles Raymond
	Jim Carrey	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Joel Barish
	Don Cheadle	Hotel Rwanda	Paul Rusesabagina
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Aviator	Howard Hughes
	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote
	Terrence Howard	Hustle & Flow	DJay
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis del Mar
	Joaquin Phoenix	Walk the Line	Johnny Cash
	David Strathairn	Good Night, and Good Luck	Edward R. Murrow
2006	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
	Sacha Baron Cohen	Borat	Borat Sagdiyev
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Departed	Billy Costigan
	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
	Peter O'Toole	Venus	Maurice
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview
	George Clooney	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	Emile Hirsch	Into the Wild	Christopher McCandless
	Frank Langella	Starting Out in the Evening	Leonard Schiller
	Viggo Mortensen	Eastern Promises	Nikolai Luzhin
2008	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy Robinson
	Benicio del Toro	Che	Che Guevara
	Richard Jenkins	The Visitor	Walter Vale
	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon	Richard Nixon
	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk
2009	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	SFC. William James
	Jeff Bridges	Crazy Heart	Otis "Bad" Blake
	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Sharlto Copley	District 9	Wikus van de Merwe
	Joaquin Phoenix	Two Lovers	Leonard Kraditor

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2010	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI
	Jeff Bridges	True Grit	Rooster Cogburn
	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
	Ryan Gosling	Blue Valentine	Dean
	Édgar Ramírez	Carlos	Carlos the Jackal