Actor: Casey Affleck

Casey Affleck won Best Actor for Manchester by the Sea, playing a man whose grief is so complete that he has no capacity to recover, and the performance refuses any of the usual redemptive movement.

The Assassination of Jesse James brought an earlier nomination for playing Robert Ford as a resentful fan.

Two sexual harassment lawsuits from the production of I’m Still Here were settled out of court, and the allegations were widely discussed during his awards campaign. Ben Affleck is his brother.