- National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
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An incomplete list of the winners of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Best Actor :
Contents Winners
1940s
Year Winner Film Role 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 Heiress Austin Sloper The Fallen Idol Baines 1950s
Year Winner Film Role 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 The Man Between Ivo Kern Julius Caesar Brutus 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 Last Hurrah Mayor Frank Skeffington The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man / Narrator 1959 Victor Sjöström Wild Strawberries Professor Isak Borg 1960s
Year Winner Film Role 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 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 1970s
Year Winner Film Role 1970 George C. Scott Patton George S. Patton 1971 Gene Hackman The French Connection Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle 1972 Peter O'Toole Man of La Mancha Don Quixote de La Mancha The Ruling Class Jack Gurney 1973 Al Pacino Serpico 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 McMurphy 1976 David Carradine Bound for Glory Woody Guthrie 1977 John Travolta Saturday Night Fever Tony Manero 1978 Jon Voight Coming Home Luke Martin Laurence Olivier The Boys from Brazil Ezra Lieberman 1979 Peter Sellers Being There Chance 1980s
Year Winner Film Role 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 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 Rupert Anderson 1989 Morgan Freeman Driving Miss Daisy Hoke Colburn 1990s
Year Winner Film Role 1990 Robert De Niro Awakenings Leonard Lowe Robin Williams Malcolm Sayer 1991 Warren Beatty Bugsy Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel 1992 Jack Lemmon Glengarry Glen Ross Shelley Levene 1993 Anthony Hopkins The Remains of the Day James Stevens Shadowlands 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 Jeffrey Wigand 2000s
Year Winner Film Role 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 21 Grams Paul Rivers 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
Year Winner Film Role 2010 Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network Mark Zuckerberg National Board of Review Current Awards Ceremonies 1929 • 1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939 • 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949 • 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 • 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 • 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010Categories:- National Board of Review Awards
- Film awards for lead actor
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