Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actor

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actor was one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards awarded between 2013 and 2020. In 2021, it was replaced by the gender neutral awards for Outstanding Lead Performance and Outstanding Supporting Performance.^[1]

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role	Ref.
2013	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof	^[2]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Oscar Isaac	Inside Llewyn Davis	Llewyn Davis
	Robert Redford	All Is Lost	Our Man
	Isaiah Washington	Blue Caprice	John Muhammad
2014	Michael Keaton	Birdman	Riggan Thomson	^[3]
	Bill Hader	The Skeleton Twins	Milo Dean
	Ethan Hawke	Boyhood	Mason Evans Sr.
	Oscar Isaac	A Most Violent Year	Abel Morales
	Miles Teller	Whiplash	Andrew Neiman
2015	Paul Dano	Love & Mercy	Brian Wilson - Past	^[4]
	Christopher Abbott	James White	James White
	Kevin Corrigan	Results	Danny Flynn
	Peter Sarsgaard	Experimenter	Stanley Milgram
	Michael Shannon	99 Homes	Rick Carver
2016	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler	^[5]
	Jeff Bridges	Hell or High Water	Marcus Hamilton
	Adam Driver	Paterson	Paterson
	Joel Edgerton	Loving	Richard Loving
	Craig Robinson	Morris from America	Curtis Gentry
2017	James Franco	The Disaster Artist	Tommy Wiseau	^[6]
	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project	Bobby Hicks
	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out	Chris Washington
	Robert Pattinson	Good Time	Constantine "Connie" Nikas
	Adam Sandler	The Meyerowitz Stories	Danny Meyerowitz
	Harry Dean Stanton	Lucky	Lucky
2018	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Ernst Toller	^[7]
	Adam Driver	BlacKkKlansman	Detective Flip Zimmerman
	Ben Foster	Leave No Trace	Will
	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock
	Lakeith Stanfield	Sorry to Bother You	Cassius "Cash" Green
2019	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber	^[8]
	Willem Dafoe	The Lighthouse	Thomas Wake
	Aldis Hodge	Clemency	Anthony Woods
	André Holland	High Flying Bird	Ray Burke
	Adam Sandler	Uncut Gems	Howard Ratner

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role	Ref.
2020	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone	^[9]
	Chadwick Boseman (posthumous)	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee
	Jude Law	The Nest	Rory O'Hara
	John Magaro	First Cow	Otis "Cookie" Figowitz
	Jesse Plemons	I'm Thinking of Ending Things	Jake

Multiple nominees

3 nominations Adam Driver 2 nominations Willem Dafoe Oscar Isaac Ethan Hawke Adam Sandler See also Academy Award for Best Actor Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role References Mandinach, Zach (August 5, 2021). "The Gotham Awards Introduce Gender Neutral Acting Categories For 2021". The Gotham Film & Media Institute. Retrieved October 21, 2021. "'Inside Llewyn Davis' Tops Gotham Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. December 2, 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2018. "2014 Gotham Awards: Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. December 1, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2018. Cox, Gordon (November 30, 2015). "'Spotlight' Wins Big at 2015 Gotham Awards (FULL LIST)". Variety. Retrieved January 1, 2018. Erbland, Kate (November 28, 2016). "Gotham Awards 2016: Complete Winners List". IndieWire. Retrieved January 1, 2018. Erbland, Kate (November 27, 2017). "Gotham Awards 2017: Complete Winners List". IndieWire. Retrieved January 1, 2018. Wagmeister, Elizabeth (November 26, 2018). "Gotham Awards: A24 Sweeps With Five Wins, Including 'First Reformed,' 'Eighth Grade' (Full Winners List)". Variety. Retrieved November 27, 2018. "'Marriage Story' Sweeps Gotham Awards; Full Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. December 2, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2019. Lewis, Hilary (January 11, 2021). "Gotham Awards: 'Nomadland' Wins Best Feature, Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 11, 2021.