Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

1990: Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bülow – Reversal of Fortune

• Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac – Cyrano de Bergerac
• Richard Harris as Bull McCabe – The Field

1991: Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter – The Silence of the Lambs

1992: Denzel Washington as Malcolm X – Malcolm X

1993: Anthony Hopkins as Mr. James Stevens – The Remains of the Day

1994: Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump – Forrest Gump

1995: Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson – Leaving Las Vegas

1996: Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott – Shine

1997: Peter Fonda as Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson – Ulee's Gold

1998: Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank – The Truman Show

1999: Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham – American Beauty

2000: Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius – Gladiator

• Sean Connery as William Forrester – Finding Forrester
• Michael Douglas as Professor Grady Tripp – Wonder Boys
• Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland – Cast Away
• Geoffrey Rush as Marquis de Sade – Quills

2001: Russell Crowe as John Nash – A Beautiful Mind

• Will Smith as Muhammad Ali – Ali
• Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane – The Man Who Wasn't There
• Denzel Washington as Detective Alonzo Harris – Training Day
• Tom Wilkinson as Matt Fowler – In the Bedroom

2002: Jack Nicholson as Warren Schmidt – About Schmidt

• Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman – The Pianist
• Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman – Adaptation.
• Daniel Day-Lewis as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting – Gangs of New York
• Robin Williams as Seymour "Sy" Parrish – One Hour Photo

2003: Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum – Mystic River

• Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar – American Splendor
• Ben Kingsley as Col. Massoud Amir Behrani – House of Sand and Fog
• Bill Murray as Bob Harris – Lost in Translation

2004: Paul Giamatti as Miles Raymond – Sideways

• Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina – Hotel Rwanda
• Johnny Depp as J. M. Barrie – Finding Neverland
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes – The Aviator
• Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles – Ray

2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote – Capote

• Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock – Cinderella Man
• Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar – Brokeback Mountain
• Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash – Walk the Line
• David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow – Good Night, and Good Luck.

2006: Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin – The Last King of Scotland

• Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer – Blood Diamond
• Leonardo DiCaprio as William "Billy" Costigan, Jr. – The Departed
• Ryan Gosling as Dan Dunne – Half Nelson
• Peter O'Toole as Maurice Russell – Venus

2007: Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview – There Will Be Blood

• George Clooney as Michael Clayton – Michael Clayton
• Emile Hirsch as Chris McCandless – Into the Wild
• Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Deerfield – In the Valley of Elah
• Frank Langella as Leonard Schiller – Starting Out in the Evening

2008: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk – Milk

• Richard Jenkins as Walter Vale – The Visitor
• Frank Langella as Richard Nixon – Frost/Nixon
• Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke as Robin Ramzinski / Randy "The Ram" Robinson – The Wrestler

2009: George Clooney as Ryan Bingham – Up in the Air

• Jeff Bridges as Otis "Bad" Blake – Crazy Heart
• Colin Firth as George Falconer – A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela – Invictus
• Jeremy Renner as SFC. William James – The Hurt Locker

2010: James Franco as Aron Ralston – 127 Hours

• Michael Douglas as Ben Kalmen – Solitary Man
• Robert Duvall as Felix Bush – Get Low
• Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg – The Social Network
• Colin Firth as King George VI – The King's Speech

2011: George Clooney as Matt King – The Descendants

• Jean Dujardin as George Valentin – The Artist
• Michael Fassbender as Brandon Sullivan – Shame
• Brad Pitt as Billy Beane – Moneyball
• Michael Shannon as Curtis LaForche – Take Shelter

2012: Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln – Lincoln

• John Hawkes as Mark O'Brien – The Sessions
• Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean – Les Misérables
• Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie Quell – The Master
• Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker, Sr. – Flight

2013: Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof – Dallas Buyers Club

• Bruce Dern as Woody Grant – Nebraska
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort – The Wolf of Wall Street
• Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup – 12 Years a Slave
• Tom Hanks as Captain Richard Phillips – Captain Phillips

2014: Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

• Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing – The Imitation Game
• Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis "Lou" Bloom – Nightcrawler
• Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking – The Theory of Everything
• Timothy Spall as J. M. W. Turner – Mr. Turner

2015: Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass – The Revenant

• Matt Damon as Mark Watney – The Martian
• Johnny Depp as James "Whitey" Bulger – Black Mass
• Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs – Steve Jobs
• Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe – The Danish Girl

2016: Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler – Manchester by the Sea

• Joel Edgerton as Richard Loving – Loving
• Ryan Gosling as Sebastian Wilder – La La Land
• Tom Hanks as Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger – Sully
• Denzel Washington as Troy Maxson – Fences

2017: Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill – Darkest Hour

• Timothée Chalamet as Elio Perlman – Call Me by Your Name
• Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock – Phantom Thread
• James Franco as Tommy Wiseau – The Disaster Artist
• Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee – The Post

2018: Christian Bale as Dick Cheney – Vice

• Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine – A Star Is Born
• Ethan Hawke as Reverend Ernst Toller – First Reformed
• Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury – Bohemian Rhapsody
• Viggo Mortensen as Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga – Green Book

2019: Adam Driver as Charlie - Marriage Story

• Antonio Banderas as Salvador Dallo - Pain and Glory
• Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran - The Irishman
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck - Joker