Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is an award given by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association to honor the best achievements in filmmaking.

Winners and nominess

1990s

• 1993: Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day
• 1994:
• 1995: Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
• 1996:
• 1997: Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
• 1998:
• 1999: Kevin Spacey - American Beauty

2000s

2000: Russell Crowe – Gladiator

• Sean Connery – Finding Forrester
• Michael Douglas – Wonder Boys
• Tom Hanks – Cast Away
• Geoffrey Rush – Quills

2001: Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind as John Nash

• Will Smith – Ali as Muhammed Ali
• Billy Bob Thornton – The Man Who Wasn't There
• Denzel Washington – Training Day
• Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom

2002: Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt

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

2003: Sean Penn – Mystic River as Jimmy Markum

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

2004: Paul Giamatti – Sideways as Miles Raymond

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

2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote

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

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

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

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

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

2008: Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk

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

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

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

2010s

2010: James Franco – 127 Hours as Aron Ralston

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