MOVIES
Critics Choice Awards
Most Wins for Best Actor
This list features actors that have won the most awards for Best Actor at the Critics Choice Awards.
RANK | ACTOR | NOMINATIONS | WINS | YEARS |
1 | Russell Crowe | 5 | 3 | The Insider (1999) Gladiator (2000) A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
2 | Daniel Day-Lewis | 4 | 3 | Gangs of New York (2002) There Will Be Blood (2007) Lincoln (2012) |
3 | Sean Penn | 3 | 2 | Mystic River (2003) Milk (2008) |
4 | Jack Nicholson | 2 | 2 | As Good As It Gets (1997) About Schmidt (2002) |
5 | Leonardo Di Caprio | 8 | 1 | The Revenant (2015) |
6 | George Clooney | 3 | 1 | The Descendants (2011) |
7 | Joaquin Phoenix | 3 | 1 | Joker (2019) |
8 | Will Smith | 3 | 1 | King Richard (2021) |
9 | Timothée Chalamet | 3 | 1 | Marty Supreme (2025) |
10 | Jeff Bridges | 2 | 1 | Crazy Heart (2009) |
11 | Colin Firth | 2 | 1 | The King’s Speech (2010) |
12 | Gary Oldman | 2 | 1 | Darkest Hour (2017) |
13 | Christian Bale | 2 | 1 | Vice (2018) |
14 | Paul Giamatti | 2 | 1 | The Holdovers (2023) |
15 | Kevin Bacon | 1 | 1 | Murder in the First (1995) |
16 | Geoffrey Rush | 1 | 1 | Shine (1996) |
17 | Ian McKellen | 1 | 1 | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
18 | Jamie Foxx | 1 | 1 | Ray (2004) |
19 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | 1 | 1 | Capote (2005) |
20 | Forest Whitaker | 1 | 1 | The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
21 | Matthew McConaughey | 1 | 1 | Dallas Buyers Club (2013) |
22 | Michael Keaton | 1 | 1 | Birdman (2014) |
23 | Casey Affleck | 1 | 1 | Manchester by the Sea (2016) |
24 | Chadwick Boseman | 1 | 1 | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) |
25 | Brendan Fraser | 1 | 1 | The Whale (2022) |
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