National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

An incomplete list of the winners of the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor:

Winners

1990s

• 1990(t): Robert DeNiro

for his role as "Leonard Lowe" in Awakenings

• 1990(t): Robin Williams

for his role as "Dr. Malcolm Sayer" in Awakenings

• 1991: Warren Beatty

for his role as "Ben Siegel" in Bugsy

• 1992: Jack Lemmon

for his role as "Shelley Levene" in Glengarry Glen Ross

• 1993: Anthony Hopkins

for his role as "James Stevens" in Remains of the Day

• 1994: Tom Hanks

for his role as "Forrest Gump" in Forrest Gump

• 1995: Nicolas Cage

for his role as "Ben Sanderson" in Leaving Las Vegas

• 1996: Tom Cruise

for his role as "Jerry Maguire" in Jerry Maguire

• 1997: Jack Nicholson

for his role as "Melvin Udall" in As Good As It Gets

• 1998: Ian McKellan

for his role as "James Whale" in Gods and Monsters

• 1999: Russell Crowe

for his role as "Dr. Jeffrey Wigand" in The Insider

2000s

• 2000: Javier Bardem

for his role as "Reinaldo Arenas" in Before Night Falls

• 2001: Billy Bob Thornton

for his role as "Terry Lee Collins" in Bandits;

for his role as "Ed Crane" in The Man Who Wasn't There;

for his role as "Hank Grotowski" in Monster's Ball

• 2002: Campbell Scott

for his role as "Roger Swanson" in Roger Dodger

• 2003: Sean Penn

for his role as "Paul Rivers" in 21 Grams;

for his role as "Jimmy Markum" in Mystic River

• 2004: Jamie Foxx

for his role as "Ray Charles" in Ray

• 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman

for his role as "Truman Capote" in Capote

• 2006: Forest Whitaker

for his role as "Idi Amin" in The Last King of Scotland