Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor

The Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the Detroit Film Critics Society to honor the best actor of that year.

## Winners

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indicates the winners.

### 2000s

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Year | Actor | Film

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2007[1] | George Clooney | Michael Clayton
Mathieu Amalric | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood
Emile Hirsch | Into the Wild
Tommy Lee Jones | No Country for Old Men
2008[2] | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler
Josh Brolin | W.
Leonardo DiCaprio | Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn | Milk
2009[3] | Colin Firth | A Single Man[4]
George Clooney | Up in the Air
Matt Damon | The Informant!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt | (500) Days of Summer
Sam Rockwell | Moon

### 2010s

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Year | Actor | Film

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2010[5] | Colin Firth | The King's Speech[6]
Jeff Bridges | True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network
James Franco | 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling | Blue Valentine
2011[7] | Michael Fassbender | Shame
George Clooney | The Descendants
Jean Dujardin | The Artist
Brad Pitt | Moneyball
Michael Shannon | Take Shelter
2012[8] | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln
Bradley Cooper | Silver Linings Playbook
John Hawkes | The Sessions
Bill Murray | Hyde Park on Hudson
Joaquin Phoenix | The Master
2013[9] | Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club[10]
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks | Captain Phillips
Robert Redford | All Is Lost
2014[11] | Michael Keaton | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Imitation Game
Brendan Gleeson | Calvary
Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler
Tom Hardy | Locke
Eddie Redmayne | The Theory of Everything
2015[12] | Michael Caine | Youth
Christopher Abbott | James White
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant
Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs
Tom Hardy | Legend
2016[13] | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton | Loving
Andrew Garfield | Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling | La La Land
Denzel Washington | Fences
2017[14] | James Franco | The Disaster Artist
Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis | Phantom Thread
Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour
Robert Pattinson | Good Time
2018[15] | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed[16]
Christian Bale | Vice
Bradley Cooper | A Star is Born
Rami Malek | Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington | BlacKkKlansman
2019[17] | Adam Driver | Marriage Story
Robert De Niro | The Irishman
Robert Pattinson | The Lighthouse
Joaquin Phoenix | Joker
Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems

### 2020s

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Year | Actress | Film

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2020 | Delroy Lindo | Da 5 Bloods[18]
Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins | The Father
Steven Yeun | Minari
2021 | Peter Dinklage | Cyrano[19]
Nicolas Cage | Pig
Andrew Garfield | Tick, Tick... Boom!
Oscar Isaac | The Card Counter
Will Smith | King Richard

## References

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1. ^ DFCS (2007). "The 2007 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
2. ^ DFCS (2008). "The 2008 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
3. ^ DFCS (2009). "The 2009 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
4. ^ More Critics Awards: Usual Suspects, Plus 'Up'|The Wrap
5. ^ DFCS (2010). "The 2010 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
6. ^ “Winter’s Bone,” “Social Network” Lead Detroit Critics|IndieWire
7. ^ DFCS (2011). "The 2011 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
8. ^ DFCS (2012). "The 2012 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
9. ^ DFCS (2013). "The 2013 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
10. ^ Detroit critics name 'Her' the year's best, hand Brie Larson two awards - UPROXX
11. ^ DFCS (2014). "The 2014 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
12. ^ DFCS (December 14, 2015). "The 2015 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
13. ^ DFCS (March 15, 2017). "The 2016 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
14. ^ DFCS (December 7, 2017). "The 2017 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
15. ^ DFCS (November 30, 2018). "The 2018 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
16. ^ Detroit Film Critics Society 2018 Winners - Awardsdaily
17. ^ DFCS. "The 2019 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards". Detroit Film Critics Society. Detroit Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
18. ^ Nomadland wins four Detroit Film Critics Society awards|Screen on Screen
19. ^ "Detroit Film Critics Name Cyrano Best Picture - CinemaNerdz". 7 December 2021.

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* George Clooney (2007)
* Mickey Rourke (2008)
* Colin Firth (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* Michael Fassbender (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* Matthew McConaughey (2013)
* Michael Keaton (2014)
* Michael Caine (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* James Franco (2017)
* Ethan Hawke (2018)
* Adam Driver (2019)
* Delroy Lindo (2020)
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