National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
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]
| National Board of Review Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
_(cropped).jpg.webp) Current recipient: Riz Ahmed | |
| 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 | Riz Ahmed Sound of Metal (2020) |
| Website | nationalboardofreview |
Winners
1940s
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Last Hurrah | Mayor Frank Skeffington |
| The Old Man and the Sea | The Old Man / Narrator | ||
| 1959 | Victor Sjöström | Wild Strawberries | Professor Isak Borg |
1960s
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 21 Grams | Paul Rivers |
| 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
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga |
| 2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems | Howard Ratner |
2020s
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
Multiple awards
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See also
References
- "Best Actor Archives – National Board of Review". National Board of Review. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
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