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Since 1995, 16 of the 17 Broadcast Film Critics Best Actor winners went on to at least contend at the Oscars, if not win the Academy Award; the exception -- Kevin Bacon ("Murder in the First," 1995).
11 BFCA Best Actor champs also won Oscars: Geoffrey Rush ("Shine," 1996), Jack Nicholson ("As Good as It Gets," 1997), Russell Crowe ("Gladiator," 2000), Sean Penn ("Mystic River," 2003), Jamie Foxx ("Ray," 2004), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote," 2005), Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland," 2006), Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood," 2007), Penn ("Milk," 2008), Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart," 2009), and Colin Firth ("The King's Speech," 2010).
Five BFCA Best Actor honorees were at least Oscar nominees: Ian McKellen ("Gods and Monsters," 1998), Crowe ("The Insider," 1999), Crowe ("A Beautiful Mind," 2001), Day-Lewis* ("Gangs of New York") and Nicholson ("About Schmidt," 2002), and George Clooney ("The Descendants," 2011).
