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

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Year	Actor	Film
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

Year	Actor	Film
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

Year	Actress	Film
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