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

Past winners

1990s

• 1996: Geoffrey Rush

for his role as David Helfgott (as an adult) in Shine

• 1997: Robert Duvall

for his role as "Euliss Dewey (The Apostle)" in The Apostle

• 1998: Ian McKellen

for his role as "Kurt Dussander" in Apt Pupil and

for his role as James Whale in Gods and Monsters

• 1999: Kevin Spacey

for his role as "Lester Burnham" in American Beauty

2000s

• 2000: Geoffrey Rush

for his role as The Marquis de Sade in Quills

• 2001: Billy Bob Thornton

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

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

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

• 2002: Daniel Day-Lewis

for his role as "Bill Cutting" in Gangs of New York

• 2003: Sean Penn

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

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

• 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis

for his role as "Daniel Plainview" in There Will Be Blood