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2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Pain and Glory
Antonio Banderas
2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
First Reformed
Ethan Hawke
2017 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Call Me by Your Name
Timothée Chalamet
2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Manchester by the Sea
Casey Affleck
2015 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Spotlight
Michael Keaton
2014 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Mr. Turner
Timothy Spall
2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
All Is Lost
Robert Redford
2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis
2011 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Moneyball
Brad Pitt
2010 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The King’s Speech
Colin Firth
2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Up in the Air
George Clooney
2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Milk
Sean Penn
2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis
2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker
2005 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Brokeback Mountain
Heath Ledger
2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Sideways
Paul Giamatti
2003 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Lost in Translation
Bill Murray
2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Gangs of New York
Daniel Day-Lewis
2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
In the Bedroom
Tom Wilkinson
2000 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Cast Away
Tom Hanks
1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Straight Story
Richard Farnsworth
1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Affliction
Nick Nolte
1997 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Ulee’s Gold
Peter Fonda
1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Shine
Geoffrey Rush
1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage
1994 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Nobody’s Fool
Paul Newman
1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Naked
David Thewlis
1992 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Malcolm X
Denzel Washington
1991 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins
1990 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Goodfellas
Robert De Niro
1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
My Left Foot
Daniel Day-Lewis
1988 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Dead Ringers
Jeremy Irons
1987 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Witches of Eastwick
Jack Nicholson
1986 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Mona Lisa
Bob Hoskins
1985 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Prizzi’s Honor
Jack Nicholson
1984 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
All of Me
Steve Martin
1983 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Tender Mercies
Robert Duvall
1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
1981 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Atlantic City
Burt Lancaster
1980 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Raging Bull
Robert De Niro
1979 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Kramer vs. Kramer
Dustin Hoffman
1978 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Coming Home
Jon Voight
1977 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Providence
John Gielgud
1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Taxi Driver
Robert De Niro
1975 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Jack Nicholson
1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Chinatown
Jack Nicholson
1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Last Tango in Paris
Marlon Brando
1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Sleuth
Laurence Olivier
1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The French Connection
Gene Hackman
1970 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Patton
George C. Scott
1969 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voight
1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Alan Arkin
1967 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
In the Heat of the Night
Rod Steiger
1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
A Man for All Seasons
Paul Scofield
1965 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Ship of Fools
Oskar Werner
1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
My Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Tom Jones
Albert Finney
1961 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Judgment at Nuremberg
Maximilian Schell
1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Elmer Gantry
Burt Lancaster
1959 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Anatomy of a Murder
James Stewart
1958 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Separate Tables
David Niven
1957 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness
1956 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Lust for Life
Kirk Douglas
1955 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Marty
Ernest Borgnine
1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando
1953 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster
1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Sound Barrier
Ralph Richardson
1951 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Bright Victory
Arthur Kennedy
1950 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Twelve O’Clock High
Gregory Peck
1949 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
All the King’s Men
Broderick Crawford
1948 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Hamlet
Laurence Olivier
1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Life with Father
William Powell
1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Henry V
Laurence Olivier
1945 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Lost Weekend
Ray Milland
1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Going My Way
Barry Fitzgerald
1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Watch on the Rhine
Paul Lukas
1942 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Yankee Doodle Dandy
James Cagney
1941 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Sergeant York
Gary Cooper
1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin
1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
James Stewart
1938 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Angels with Dirty Faces
James Cagney
1937 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
The Life of Emile Zola
Paul Muni
1936 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
Dodsworth
Walter Huston
1935 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Actor
