National Board of Review Award for Best Actor | |
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![]() Current recipient: Paul Giamatti | |
Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Board of Review |
First awarded | Ray Milland The Lost Weekend (1945) |
Currently held by | Paul Giamatti The Holdovers (2023) |
Website | nationalboardofreview |
The National Board of Review Award for Best Actor is one of the annual film awards given (since 1945) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.[1]
Winners
[edit]1940s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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1945 | Ray Milland | The Lost Weekend | Don Birnam |
1946 | Laurence Olivier | Henry V | King Henry V |
1947 | Michael Redgrave | Mourning Becomes Electra | Orin Mannon |
1948 | Walter Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Howard |
1949 | Ralph Richardson | The Fallen Idol | Baines |
The Heiress | Austin Sloper |
1950s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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1950 | Alec Guinness | Kind Hearts and Coronets | Various |
1951 | Richard Basehart | Fourteen Hours | Robert Cosick |
1952 | Ralph Richardson | Breaking the Sound Barrier | John Ridgefield |
1953 | James Mason | The Desert Rats | Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel |
Face to Face | The Captain | ||
Julius Caesar | Brutus | ||
The Man Between | Ivo Kern | ||
1954 | Bing Crosby | The Country Girl | Frank Elgin |
1955 | Ernest Borgnine | Marty | Marty Piletti |
1956 | Yul Brynner | Anastasia | General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine |
The King and I | King Mongkut of Siam | ||
The Ten Commandments | Pharaoh Rameses II | ||
1957 | Alec Guinness | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson |
1958 | Spencer Tracy | The Old Man and the Sea | The Old Man / Narrator |
1959 | Victor Sjöström | Wild Strawberries | Professor Isak Borg |
1960s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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1960 | Robert Mitchum | Home from the Hill | Wade Hunnicutt |
The Sundowners | Paddy Carmody | ||
1961 | Albert Finney | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Arthur Seaton |
1962 | Jason Robards, Jr. | Long Day's Journey Into Night | James Tyrone, Jr. |
Tender Is the Night | Dick Diver | ||
1963 | Rex Harrison | Cleopatra | Julius Caesar |
1964 | Anthony Quinn | Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas) | Alexis Zorba |
1965 | Lee Marvin | Cat Ballou | Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn |
Ship of Fools | Bill Tenny | ||
1966 | Paul Scofield | A Man for All Seasons | Sir Thomas More |
1967 | Peter Finch | Far from the Madding Crowd | William Boldwood |
1968 | Cliff Robertson | Charly | Charly Gordon |
1969 | Peter O'Toole | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Arthur Chipping, MA (Oxon), Latin Master |
1970s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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1970 | George C. Scott | Patton | George S. Patton, Jr. |
1971 | Gene Hackman | The French Connection | Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle |
1972 | Peter O'Toole | Man of La Mancha | Don Quixote de La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana |
The Ruling Class | Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney | ||
1973 | Al Pacino | Serpico | Francesco "Frank" Serpico |
Robert Ryan | The Iceman Cometh | Larry Slade | |
1974 | Gene Hackman | The Conversation | Harry Caul |
1975 | Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Randle "R.P." McMurphy |
1976 | David Carradine | Bound for Glory | Woodrow "Woody" Guthrie |
1977 | John Travolta | Saturday Night Fever | Anthony "Tony" Manero |
1978 | Jon Voight | Coming Home | Luke Martin |
Laurence Olivier | The Boys from Brazil | Ezra Lieberman | |
1979 | Peter Sellers | Being There | Chance |
1980s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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1980 | Robert De Niro | Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta |
1981 | Henry Fonda | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer |
1982 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi |
1983 | Tom Conti | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | John Lawrence |
Reuben, Reuben | Gowan McGland | ||
1984 | Victor Banerjee | A Passage to India | Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed |
1985 | William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina |
Raúl Juliá | Valentin Arregui | ||
1986 | Paul Newman | The Color of Money | Fast Eddie Felson |
1987 | Michael Douglas | Wall Street | Gordon Gekko |
1988 | Gene Hackman | Mississippi Burning | Agent Rupert Anderson |
1989 | Morgan Freeman | Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Colburn |
1990s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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1990 | Robert De Niro | Awakenings | Leonard Lowe |
Robin Williams | Dr. Malcolm Sayer | ||
1991 | Warren Beatty | Bugsy | Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel |
1992 | Jack Lemmon | Glengarry Glen Ross | Shelley "The Machine" Levene |
1993 | Anthony Hopkins | The Remains of the Day | James Stevens |
Shadowlands | Clive "C. S." Lewis | ||
1994 | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump |
1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson |
1996 | Tom Cruise | Jerry Maguire | Jerry Maguire |
1997 | Jack Nicholson | As Good as It Gets | Melvin Udall |
1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
1999 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Dr. Jeffrey Wigand |
2000s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2000 | Javier Bardem | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas |
2001 | Billy Bob Thornton | Bandits | Terry Lee Collins |
The Man Who Wasn't There | Ed Crane | ||
Monster's Ball | Hank Grotowski | ||
2002 | Campbell Scott | Roger Dodger | Roger Swanson |
2003 | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |
2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |
2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
2007 | George Clooney | Michael Clayton | Michael Clayton |
2008 | Clint Eastwood | Gran Torino | Walt Kowalski |
2009 | George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
Morgan Freeman | Invictus | Nelson Mandela |
2010s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg |
2011 | George Clooney | The Descendants | Matt King |
2012 | Bradley Cooper | Silver Linings Playbook | Patrick "Pat" Solitano, Jr. |
2013 | Bruce Dern | Nebraska | Woodrow "Woody" Grant |
2014 | Oscar Isaac | A Most Violent Year | Abel Morales |
Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson | |
2015 | Matt Damon | The Martian | Mark Watney |
2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
2017 | Tom Hanks | The Post | Ben Bradlee |
2018 | Viggo Mortensen | Green Book[2] | Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga |
2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems[3] | Howard Ratner |
2020s
[edit]Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal[4] | Ruben Stone |
2021 | Will Smith | King Richard[5] | Richard Williams |
2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin[6] | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
2023 | Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers[7] | Paul Hunham |
Multiple awards
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See also
[edit]- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
References
[edit]- ^ "Best Actor Archives – National Board of Review". National Board of Review. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
- ^ National Board of Review Names 'Green Book' Best Film of 2018 - Variety
- ^ National Board of Review 2019 Winners|IndieWire
- ^ 2021 National Board of Review Winners and Analysis - Variety
- ^ National Board of Review Winners 2021:|IndieWire
- ^ Top Gun: Maverick Named Best Movie of 2022 by National Board of Review - The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Named Best Picture by National Board of Review, Lily Gladstone and Paul Giamatti Nab Top Acting Honors