Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor

• There have been two ties in this category's history, between Shahid Kapoor and Manoj Bajpai for Udta Punjab and Aligarh respectively ; and between Ranveer Singh and Ayushmann Khurrana for Padmaavat and Andhadhun respectively.
• Two actors have won the award in consecutive years; they are Manoj Bajpai and Ayushmann Khurrana.
• Four actors have won both the Popular and Critics categories in the same year, three for the same film: Hrithik Roshan for Koi... Mil Gaya in 2004, Amitabh Bachchan for Black in 2006 and Ranbir Kapoor for Rockstar in 2012. Shah Rukh Khan is the first and only actor so far to win both categories in the same year in 1994 for two different films, with Best Actor Critics for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa and Best Actor Popular for Baazigar.
• Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh have all won awards also for Best Male Debut and Best Actor Popular while Ayushmann Khurrana has won for Best Male Debut and Best Male Playback singer.
• Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Rishi Kapoor, Anupam Kher and Amitabh Bachchan have all won awards for Best Actor Popular and Best Supporting Actor while Rajkummar Rao has won Best Supporting Actor.
• Ajay Devgn, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Irrfan Khan and Ayushmann Khurrana all won the National Film Award for Best Actor while Anupam Kher received a National Film Award - Special Jury Award / Special Mention.

  Multiple Wins

• 3 wins: Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpayee
• 2 wins: Shah Rukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Ayushmann Khurrana

  List of winners

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance

1990s

• 1991 Anupam Kher – Daddy as Anand
• 1992

• 1994 Shah Rukh Khan – Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa as Sunil
• 1995

• 1996

• 1997

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor

• 1998 Anil Kapoor – Virasat as Shakti Thakur
• 1999 Manoj Bajpayee – Satya as Bhiku Mhatre

  2000s

• 2000 Manoj Bajpayee – Shool as Inspector Samar Pratap Singh
• 2001 Shah Rukh Khan – Mohabbatein as Raj Aryan Malhotra
• 2002 Amitabh Bachchan – Aks as Insp. Manu Verma
• 2003 Ajay Devgan – Company / The Legend of Bhagat Singh as N.Malik /Bhagat Singh
• 2004 Hrithik Roshan – Koi... Mil Gaya as Rohit Mehra
• 2005 Pankaj Kapoor – Maqbool as Jahangir Khan
• 2006 Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai
• 2007 Aamir Khan – Rang De Basanti as Daljit "DJ" Singh
• 2008 Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Awasthi aka Inu
• 2009 Manjot Singh – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! as Young Lucky

  2010s

• 2010 Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani and as Siddharth "Sid" Mehra /Prem Shankar Sharma /Harpreet Singh Bedi
• 2011 Rishi Kapoor – Do Dooni Chaar as Santosh Duggal
• 2012 Ranbir Kapoor – Rockstar as Janardhan "Jordan" Jakhar/ JJ
• 2013 Irrfan Khan – Paan Singh Tomar as Paan Singh Tomar
• 2014 Rajkummar Rao – Shahid as Shahid Azmi
• 2015 Sanjay Mishra – Ankhon Dekhi as Bauji
• 2016 Amitabh Bachchan – Piku as Bhashkor Banerjee
• 2017 Manoj Bajpayee – Aligarh as Prof.Ramchandra Siras and Shahid Kapoor – Udta Punjab as Tejinder "Tommy" Singh a.k.a Gabru
• 2018 Rajkummar Rao – Trapped as Shaurya
• *Irrfan Khan - Hindi Medium as Raj Batra
• *Rajkummar Rao – Newton as Nutan "Newton" Kumar
• *Ranbir Kapoor - Jagga Jasoos as Jagga
• *Vikrant Massey – A Death in the Gunj as Shyamal Chatterjee
• 2019 Ayushmann Khurrana - Andhadhun as Akash Saraf and Ranveer Singh – Padmaavat as Alauddin Khalji '
• *Nawazuddin Siddiqui - Manto as Saadat Hasan Manto
• *Ranbir Kapoor – Sanju as Sanjay Dutt
• *Varun Dhawan – October as Danish "Dan" Walia
• *Vineet Kumar Singh – Mukkabaaz as Shravan Kumar Singh

  2020s

• 2020 Ayushmann Khurrana - Article 15 as Additional SP Ayan Ranjan
• *Akshaye Khanna - Section 375 as Tarun Saluja
• *Rajkummar Rao - Judgementall Hai Kya as Keshav Kumar/Shravan
• *Nawazuddin Siddiqui - Photograph as Rafiullah/"Rafi"