National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

American movie award

National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

Current recipient: Daniel Craig

Awarded for| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Country| United States
Presented by| National Board of Review
First award| Ray Milland
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Currently held by| Daniel Craig
Queer (2024)
Website| nationalboardofreview.org

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

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### 1940s

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
2024 | Daniel Craig | Queer[8] | William Lee

## Multiple awards

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3 wins

* George Clooney (2007, 2009, 2011)
* Gene Hackman (1971, 1974, 1988)

2 wins

* Robert De Niro (1980, 1990)
* Morgan Freeman (1989, 2009)
* Alec Guinness (1950, 1957)
* Tom Hanks (1994, 2017)
* Jack Nicholson (1975, 1997)
* Laurence Olivier (1946, 1978)
* Peter O'Toole (1969, 1972)
* Ralph Richardson (1949, 1952)

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## See also

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* 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

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1. ^ "Best Actor Archives – National Board of Review". National Board of Review. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
2. ^ National Board of Review Names 'Green Book' Best Film of 2018 - Variety
3. ^ National Board of Review 2019 Winners|IndieWire
4. ^ 2021 National Board of Review Winners and Analysis - Variety
5. ^ National Board of Review Winners 2021:|IndieWire
6. ^ Top Gun: Maverick Named Best Movie of 2022 by National Board of Review - The Hollywood Reporter
7. ^ ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Named Best Picture by National Board of Review, Lily Gladstone and Paul Giamatti Nab Top Acting Honors
8. ^ ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Named Best Picture by National Board of Review, Lily Gladstone and Paul Giamatti Nab Top Acting Honors

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1945–1975|

* Ray Milland (1945)
* Laurence Olivier (1946)
* Michael Redgrave (1947)
* Walter Huston (1948)
* Ralph Richardson (1949)
* Alec Guinness (1950)
* Richard Basehart (1951)
* Ralph Richardson (1952)
* James Mason (1953)
* Bing Crosby (1954)
* Ernest Borgnine (1955)
* Yul Brynner (1956)
* Alec Guinness (1957)
* Spencer Tracy (1958)
* Victor Sjöström (1959)
* Robert Mitchum (1960)
* Albert Finney (1961)
* Jason Robards (1962)
* Rex Harrison (1963)
* Anthony Quinn (1964)
* Lee Marvin (1965)
* Paul Scofield (1966)
* Peter Finch (1967)
* Cliff Robertson (1968)
* Peter O'Toole (1969)
* George C. Scott (1970)
* Gene Hackman (1971)
* Peter O'Toole (1972)
* Al Pacino / Robert Ryan (1973)
* Gene Hackman (1974)
* Jack Nicholson (1975)

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* David Carradine (1976)
* John Travolta (1977)
* Jon Voight / Laurence Olivier (1978)
* Peter Sellers (1979)
* Robert De Niro (1980)
* Henry Fonda (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Tom Conti (1983)
* Victor Banerjee (1984)
* William Hurt / Raul Julia (1985)
* Paul Newman (1986)
* Michael Douglas (1987)
* Gene Hackman (1988)
* Morgan Freeman (1989)
* Robert De Niro / Robin Williams (1990)
* Warren Beatty (1991)
* Jack Lemmon (1992)
* Anthony Hopkins (1993)
* Tom Hanks (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Tom Cruise (1996)
* Jack Nicholson (1997)
* Ian McKellen (1998)
* Russell Crowe (1999)
* Javier Bardem (2000)

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* Billy Bob Thornton (2001)
* Campbell Scott (2002)
* Sean Penn (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
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* Clint Eastwood (2008)
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* Jesse Eisenberg (2010)
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* Bradley Cooper (2012)
* Bruce Dern (2013)
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* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Tom Hanks (2017)
* Viggo Mortensen (2018)
* Adam Sandler (2019)
* Riz Ahmed (2020)
* Will Smith (2021)
* Colin Farrell (2022)
* Paul Giamatti (2023)
* Daniel Craig (2024)

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