St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is one of the annual awards given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association.

St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Current recipient: Colman Domingo
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Country	United States
Presented by	St. Louis Film Critics Association
First award	Jamie Fox Ray (2004)
Currently held by	Colman Domingo Sing Sing (2024)
Website	stlfilmcritics.org

Winners

2000s

Year	Recipient	Film	Role	Ref.
2004	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles	[1]
2005	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar	[2]
2006	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin	[3]
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview	[4]
2008	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk	[5]
2009	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham	[6]

2010s

Year	Recipient	Film	Role	Ref.
2010	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI	[7]
2011	George Clooney	The Descendants	Matt King	[8]
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	[9]
2013	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup	[10]
2014	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Lou Bloom	[11]
2015	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass	[12]
2016	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler	[13]
2017	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill	[14]
2018	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Ernst Toller	[15]
2019	Adam Sandler	Uncut Gems	Howard Ratner	[16]

2020s

Year	Recipient	Film	Role	Ref.
2020	Chadwick Boseman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green	[17]
2021	Nicolas Cage	Pig	Robin "Rob" Feld	[18]
2022	Brendan Fraser	The Whale	Charlie	[19]
2023	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer	[20]
2024	Colman Domingo	Sing Sing	John "Divine G" Whitfield	[21]