The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.
2000: Russell Crowe – Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius †
2001: Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind as John Nash ‡
2002: Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting ‡ / Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt ‡ (TIE)
2003: Sean Penn – Mystic River as Jimmy Markum †
2004: Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles †
2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote †
2006: Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin †
2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview †