Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

The Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor is an award given by the Florida Film Critics Circle to honor the finest male acting achievements in filmmaking.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1996	Geoffrey Rush	Shine	David Helfgott
1997	Robert Duvall	The Apostle	Euliss Dewey / The Apostle
1998	Ian McKellen	Apt Pupil	Kurt Dussander
		Gods and Monsters	James Whale
1999	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Lester Burnham

2000s

Year	Nominee	Film	Role
2000	Geoffrey Rush	Quills	Marquis de Sade
2001	Billy Bob Thornton	Bandits	Terry Lee Collins
		The Man Who Wasn't There	Ed
		Monster's Ball	Hank Grotowski
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
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	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview
2008	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy Robinson
2009	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham

2010s

Year	Nominee	Film	Role
2010	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI
2011	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
2013	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
2014	Michael Keaton	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Riggan Thomson / Birdman
2015	Paul Dano	Love & Mercy	Brian Wilson
2016	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
2017	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
2018	Joaquin Phoenix	You Were Never Really Here	Joe
2019	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber

2020s

Year	Nominee	Film	Role
2020	Anthony Hopkins	The Father	Anthony