Best Actor

2009 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerCrazy HeartJeff BridgesA faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.Amazon2009 LAFCA Award - Best Actor NomineesA Single ManColin FirthAmazon

1999 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerThe InsiderRussell CroweA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes (1968) exposé on Big Tobacco.Amazon1999 LAFCA Award - Best Actor NomineesThe Straight StoryRichard FarnsworthAmazon

2000 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerWonder BoysMichael DouglasAn English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.Amazon2000 LAFCA Award - Best Actor NomineesBefore Night FallsJavier BardemAmazon

2001 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerTraining DayDenzel WashingtonOn his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the L.A.P.D. with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.Amazon2001 LAFCA Award - Best Actor NomineesIn the BedroomTom WilkinsonAmazon

2002 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerAbout SchmidtJack NicholsonA man upon retirement, embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.AmazonGangs of New YorkDaniel Day-LewisIn 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.Amazon

2003 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerLost in TranslationBill MurrayA faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.Amazon2003 LAFCA Award - Best Actor Nominees21 GramsSean PennAmazon

2004 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerKinseyLiam NeesonA look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.Amazon2004 LAFCA Award - Best Actor NomineesSidewaysPaul GiamattiAmazon

2005 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerCapotePhilip Seymour HoffmanIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.Amazon2005 LAFCA Award - Best Actor NomineesBrokeback MountainHeath LedgerAmazon

2006 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerBorat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of KazakhstanSacha Baron CohenKazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.AmazonThe Last King of ScotlandForest WhitakerBased on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.Amazon

2007 LAFCA Award - Best Actor WinnerThere Will Be BloodDaniel Day-LewisA story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.Amazon2007 LAFCA Award - Best Actor NomineesStarting Out in the EveningFrank LangellaAmazon