Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Pain and Glory
Antonio Banderas
2018 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
First Reformed
Ethan Hawke
2017 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Call Me by Your Name
Timothée Chalamet
2016 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Paterson
Adam Driver
2015 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Steve Jobs
Michael Fassbender
2014 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Locke
Tom Hardy
2013 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Nebraska
Bruce Dern
2012 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
The Master
Joaquin Phoenix
2011 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Shame
Michael Fassbender
2010 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
The King’s Speech
Colin Firth
2009 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges
2008 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Milk
Sean Penn
2007 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis
2006 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Sacha Baron Cohen
2006 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker
2005 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
2004 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Kinsey
Liam Neeson
2003 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Lost in Translation
Bill Murray
2002 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
About Schmidt
Jack Nicholson
2002 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Gangs of New York
Daniel Day-Lewis
2001 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Training Day
Denzel Washington
2000 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Wonder Boys
Michael Douglas
1999 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
The Insider
Russell Crowe
1998 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Gods and Monsters
Ian McKellen
1997 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
The Apostle
Robert Duvall
1996 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Shine
Geoffrey Rush
1995 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage
1994 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Pulp Fiction
John Travolta
1993 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Shadowlands
Anthony Hopkins
1992 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood
1991 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
The Prince of Tides
Nick Nolte
1990 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Reversal of Fortune
Jeremy Irons
1989 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
My Left Foot
Daniel Day-Lewis
1988 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Big
Tom Hanks
1987 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Ironweed
Jack Nicholson
1987 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Roxanne
Steve Martin
1986 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Mona Lisa
Bob Hoskins
1985 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Kiss of the Spider Woman
William Hurt
1984 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Amadeus
F. Murray Abraham
1984 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Under the Volcano
Albert Finney
1983 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Tender Mercies
Robert Duvall
1982 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
1981 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Atlantic City
Burt Lancaster
1980 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Raging Bull
Robert De Niro
1979 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Kramer vs. Kramer
Dustin Hoffman
1978 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
Coming Home
Jon Voight
1977 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
The Goodbye Girl
Richard Dreyfuss
1976 LAFCA Award – Best Actor
