Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor

The Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor is an award given by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film to the actor or actors whose winning performance is voted by participating members. The Chlotrudis Awards is an annual ceremony where the best of the previous year's independent and international film are honored.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Actor	Film	Role
1994	Morgan Freeman	The Shawshank Redemption	Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
	Wallace Shawn	Vanya on 42nd Street	Vanya
	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump
	Samuel L. Jackson	Pulp Fiction	Jules Winnfield
	Tim Robbins	The Shawshank Redemption	Andy Dufresne
1995	Sean Penn	Dead Man Walking	Matthew Poncelet
	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas	Ben Sanderson
	Martin Donovan	Amateur	Thomas Ludens
	Harvey Keitel	Smoke	Auggie Wren
	Ian McKellen	Richard III	King Richard III
	Jonathan Pryce	Carrington	Lytton Strachey
	Linus Roache	Priest	Father Greg Pilkington
1996	Billy Bob Thornton	Sling Blade	Karl Childers
	Chris Cooper	Lone Star	Sheriff Sam Deeds
	Jeff Daniels	Fly Away Home	Thomas Alden
	William H. Macy	Fargo	Jerry Lundegaard
	Tony Shalhoub	Big Night	Primo
	Noah Taylor	Shine	David Helfgott (adolescent)
1997	Russell Crowe	L.A. Confidential	Bud White
	Johnny Depp	Donnie Brasco	Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. Pistone
	Martin Donovan	Hollow Reed	Martyn Wyatt
	Al Pacino	Donnie Brasco	Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero
	Guy Pearce	L.A. Confidential	Ed Exley
	Kôji Yakusho	Shall We Dance?	Shohei Sugiyama
1998	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters	James Whale
	Evan Adams	Smoke Signals	Thomas Builds-the-Fire
	Roberto Benigni	Life Is Beautiful	Guido Orefice
	Danny DeVito	Living Out Loud	Pat Francato
	Stephen Fry	Wilde	Oscar Wilde
	Nick Nolte	Affliction	Wade Whitehouse
	Edward Norton	American History X	Derek Vinyard
1999	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	Lester Burnham
	Matthew Broderick	Election	Jim McAllister
	Rupert Everett	An Ideal Husband	Lord Arthur Goring
	Richard Farnsworth	The Straight Story	Alvin Straight
	Bob Hoskins	Felicia's Journey	Joe Hilditch
	Don McKellar	Last Night	Patrick Wheeler
	Jason Schwartzman	Rushmore	Max Fischer
	Ben Silverstone	Get Real	Steven Carter

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Role
2000	Christian Bale	American Psycho	Patrick Bateman
	Daniel Auteuil	Girl on the Bridge	Gabor
	Jamie Bell	Billy Elliot	Billy Elliot
	Dan Futterman	Urbania	Charlie
	Denis Lavant	Beau Travail	Galoup
	Daniel MacIvor	The Five Senses	Robert
	Sean Penn	Sweet and Lowdown	Emmet Ray
	Mark Ruffalo	You Can Count on Me	Terry Prescott
	Mike White	Chuck & Buck	Buck O'Brien
2001	John Cameron Mitchell	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Hansel Schmidt / Hedwig Robinson
	Daniel Auteuil	The Widow of Saint-Pierre	The Captain
	Javier Bardem	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas
	Robert Forster	Diamond Men	Eddie Miller
	Tony Leung	In the Mood for Love	Chow Mo-wan
	Billy Bob Thornton	The Man Who Wasn't There	Ed Crane
	Tom Wilkinson	In the Bedroom	Matt Fowler
	Ray Winstone	Sexy Beast	Gary 'Gal' Dove
2002	Jake Gyllenhaal	Donnie Darko	Donnie Darko
	Nicolas Cage	Adaptation.	Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
	Cui Lin	Beijing Bicycle	Guei
	Gael García Bernal	Y Tu Mamá También	Julio Zapata
	Anthony LaPaglia	Lantana	Leon Zat
	Adam Sandler	Punch-Drunk Love	Barry Egan
	Stellan Skarsgård	Aberdeen	Tomas Heller
	James Spader	Secretary	E. Edward Grey
2003	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Owning Mahowny	Dan Mahowny
	Javier Bardem	The Dancer Upstairs	Agustín Rejas
	Bruce Campbell	Bubba Ho-Tep	Elvis Presley / Sebastian Haff
	Peter Dinklage	The Station Agent	Finbar McBride
	Paul Giamatti	American Splendor	Harvey Pekar
	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
	Campbell Scott	The Secret Lives of Dentists	David Hurst
2004	Gael García Bernal	Bad Education	Ángel / Juan / Zahara
	Tadanobu Asano	Last Life in the Universe	Kenji
	Kevin Bacon	The Woodsman	Walter
	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Miles Raymond
	Tony Leung	Infernal Affairs	Chan Wing-Yan
	Jamie Sives	Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself	Wilbur
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote
	Mathieu Amalric	Kings and Queen	Ismaël Vuillard
	Romain Duris	The Beat That My Heart Skipped	Thomas Seyr
	Bruno Ganz	Downfall	Adolf Hitler
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar
	David Strathairn	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Edward R. Murrow
2006	Vincent Lindon	La Moustache	Marc Thiriez
	Daniel Auteuil	Caché	Georges Laurent
	Gael García Bernal	The Science of Sleep	Stéphane Miroux
	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
	Guy Pearce	The Proposition	Charlie Burns
	Ray Winstone	The Proposition	Captain Stanley
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview
	Casey Affleck	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Robert Ford
	Ryan Gosling	Lars and the Real Girl	Lars Lindstrom
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Andy Hanson
	Gordon Pinsent	Away from Her	Grant Anderson
	Sam Riley	Control	Ian Curtis
2008	Richard Jenkins	The Visitor	Walter Vale
	Brendan Gleeson	In Bruges	Ken
	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk
	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy 'The Ram' Robinson
	Jean-Claude Van Damme	JCVD	JCVD
2009	Colin Firth	A Single Man	George Falconer
	Nicolas Cage	The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans	Terence McDonagh
	Baard Owe	O'Horten	Odd Horten
	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	SFC. William James
	Sam Rockwell	Moon	Sam Bell

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Role
2010	Ryan Gosling	Blue Valentine	Dean
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Jack Goes Boating	Jack
	Vincent Cassel	Mesrine: Killer Instinct	Jacques Mesrine
	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI
	Anthony Mackie	Night Catches Us	Marcus Washington
	Alexander Siddig	Cairo Time	Tareq Khalifa

External links

• Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film
• Chlotrudis Awards at IMDB