St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
	Current recipient: Cillian Murphy
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Country	United States
Presented by	St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
First awarded	Jamie Fox ; Ray (2004)
Currently held by	Cillian Murphy ; Oppenheimer (2023)
Website	stlfilmcritics.org

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

Winners

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

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

Year	Recipient	Film	Role
2020	Chadwick Boseman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green
2021	Nicolas Cage	Pig	Robin "Rob" Feld
2022	Brendan Fraser	The Whale	Charlie
2023	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer