The Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor is an award given by the Florida Film Critics Circle to honor the finest male lead acting achievements in filmmaking.

Winners † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor ‡ = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

1990s Year Winner Film Role 1996 Geoffrey Rush † Shine David Helfgott 1997 Robert Duvall The Apostle Euliss "Sonny" Dewey / The Apostle 1998 Ian McKellen Apt Pupil Kurt Dussander Gods and Monsters James Whale 1999 Kevin Spacey † American Beauty Lester Burnham

2000s Year Winner Film Role 2000 Geoffrey Rush Quills Marquis de Sade 2001 Billy Bob Thornton Bandits Terry Lee Collins The Man Who Wasn't There Ed Crane Monster's Ball Hank Grotowski 2002 Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting 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 Daniel Day-Lewis † There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview 2008 Mickey Rourke The Wrestler Randy Robinson 2009 George Clooney Up in the Air Ryan Bingham

2010s Year Winner Film Role 2010 Colin Firth † The King's Speech King George VI 2011 Michael Fassbender Shame Brandon Sullivan 2012 Daniel Day-Lewis † Lincoln Abraham Lincoln 2013 Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northup 2014 Michael Keaton Birdman Riggan Thomson 2015 Paul Dano Love & Mercy Brian Wilson 2016 Casey Affleck † Manchester by the Sea Lee Chandler 2017 Timothée Chalamet Call Me by Your Name Elio Perlman 2018 Joaquin Phoenix You Were Never Really Here Joe 2019 Adam Driver Marriage Story Charlie Barber

2020s Year Winner Film Role 2020 Anthony Hopkins † The Father Anthony 2021 Adam Driver Annette Henry McHenry 2022 Colin Farrell The Banshees of Inisherin Pádraic Súilleabháin 2023 Franz Rogowski Passages Tomas Freiburg 2024 Kieran Culkin ‡ A Real Pain Benji Kaplan 2025 Josh O'Connor The Mastermind James Blaine "J.B." Mooney

Multiple wins 3 wins Daniel Day-Lewis (2002, 2007, 2012)

2 wins Adam Driver (2019, 2021) Geoffrey Rush (1996, 2000)

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