Best Actor

1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerA Man for All SeasonsPaul ScofieldThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Amazon1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesThe Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!Alan ArkinAmazonWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Richard BurtonAmazon

1955 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerMartyErnest BorgnineA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.Amazon1955 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesThe Man with the Golden ArmFrank SinatraAmazonThe PrisonerAlec GuinnessAmazon

1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerThe Heart Is a Lonely HunterAlan ArkinWhen deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.Amazon1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesPetuliaGeorge C. ScottAmazonThe Lion in WinterPeter O'TooleAmazon

1969 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerMidnight CowboyJon VoightA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.Amazon1969 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesDownhill RacerRobert RedfordAmazonMidnight CowboyDustin HoffmanAmazon

1970 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerPattonGeorge C. ScottThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Amazon1970 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesFive Easy PiecesJack NicholsonAmazonI Never Sang for My FatherMelvyn DouglasAmazon

1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerThe French ConnectionGene HackmanA pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.Amazon1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesA Clockwork OrangeMalcolm McDowellAmazonSunday Bloody SundayPeter FinchAmazon

1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerSleuthLaurence OlivierA man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.Amazon1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesChild's PlayJames MasonAmazonThe GodfatherMarlon BrandoAmazon

1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerChinatownJack NicholsonA private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.AmazonLast Tango in ParisMarlon BrandoA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.Amazon1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesLennyDustin HoffmanAmazonSerpicoAl PacinoAmazonThe Apprenticeship of Duddy KravitzRichard DreyfussAmazonThe ConversationGene HackmanAmazon

1975 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestJack NicholsonA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.Amazon1975 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesDog Day AfternoonAl PacinoAmazonNight MovesGene HackmanAmazon

1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor WinnerTaxi DriverRobert De NiroA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute.Amazon1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor NomineesBound for GloryDavid CarradineAmazonThe Last TycoonRobert De NiroAmazon