# Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.

## Winners

* † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
* ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2007 | Javier Bardem † | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh |
| 2007 | Casey Affleck ‡ | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Robert Ford |
| 2007 | Hal Holbrook ‡ | Into the Wild | Ron Franz |
| 2007 | Philip Seymour Hoffman ‡ | Charlie Wilson's War | Gust Avrakotos |
| 2007 | Tom Wilkinson ‡ | Michael Clayton | Arthur Edens |
| 2008 | Heath Ledger † | The Dark Knight | The Joker |
| 2008 | Josh Brolin ‡ | Milk | Dan White |
| 2008 | Tom Cruise | Tropic Thunder | Les Grossman |
| 2008 | Robert Downey Jr. ‡ | Kirk Lazarus |
| 2008 | Brad Pitt | Burn After Reading | Chad Feldheimer |
| 2009 | Christoph Waltz † | Inglourious Basterds | Colonel Hans Landa |
| 2009 | Zach Galifianakis | The Hangover | Alan Garner |
| 2009 | Woody Harrelson ‡ | The Messenger | Capt. Tony Stone |
| 2009 | Christian McKay | Me and Orson Welles | Orson Welles |
| 2009 | Stanley Tucci ‡ | The Lovely Bones | George Harvey |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Christian Bale † | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund |
| 2010 | Andrew Garfield | The Social Network | Eduardo Saverin |
| 2010 | Bill Murray | Get Low | Frank Quinn |
| 2010 | Jeremy Renner ‡ | The Town | James "Jem" Coughlin |
| 2010 | Geoffrey Rush ‡ | The King's Speech | Lionel Logue |
| 2011 | Albert Brooks | Drive | Bernie Rose |
| 2011 | Armie Hammer | J. Edgar | Clyde Tolson |
| 2011 | Christopher Plummer † | Beginners | Hal Fields |
| 2011 | Andy Serkis | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Caesar |
| 2011 | Alex Shaffer | Win Win | Kyle Timmons |
| 2012 | Tommy Lee Jones ‡ | Lincoln | Thaddeus Stevens |
| 2012 | Alan Arkin ‡ | Argo | Lester Siegel |
| 2012 | Javier Bardem | Skyfall | Raoul Silva |
| 2012 | Philip Seymour Hoffman ‡ | The Master | Lancaster Dodd |
| 2012 | Matthew McConaughey | Magic Mike | Dallas |
| 2013 | Jared Leto † | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon |
| 2013 | Barkhad Abdi ‡ | Captain Phillips | Abduwali Muse |
| 2013 | Michael Fassbender ‡ | 12 Years a Slave | Edwin Epps |
| 2013 | James Gandolfini | Enough Said | Albert |
| 2013 | Matthew McConaughey | Mud | Mud |
| 2014 | J. K. Simmons † | Whiplash | Terence Fletcher |
| 2014 | Josh Brolin | Inherent Vice | Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen |
| 2014 | Ethan Hawke ‡ | Boyhood | Mason Evans Sr. |
| 2014 | Edward Norton ‡ | Birdman | Mike Shiner |
| 2014 | Mark Ruffalo ‡ | Foxcatcher | Dave Schultz |
| 2014 | Andy Serkis | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Caesar |
| 2015 | Tom Hardy ‡ | The Revenant | John Fitzgerald |
| 2015 | Mark Ruffalo ‡ | Spotlight | Michael Rezendes |
| 2015 | Mark Rylance † | Bridge of Spies | Rudolf Abel |
| 2015 | Michael Shannon | 99 Homes | Rick Carver |
| 2015 | Sylvester Stallone ‡ | Creed | Rocky Balboa |
| 2016 | Jeff Bridges ‡ | Hell or High Water | Marcus Hamilton |
| 2016 | Ben Foster | Hell or High Water | Tanner Howard |
| 2016 | Lucas Hedges ‡ | Manchester by the Sea | Patrick Chandler |
| 2016 | Dev Patel ‡ | Lion | Saroo Brierley |
| 2016 | Michael Shannon ‡ | Nocturnal Animals | Detective Bobby Andes |
| 2017 | Sam Rockwell † | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Jason Dixon |
| 2017 | Willem Dafoe ‡ | The Florida Project | Bobby Hicks |
| 2017 | Richard Jenkins ‡ | The Shape of Water | Giles |
| 2017 | Patrick Stewart | Logan | Charles Xavier/Professor X |
| 2017 | Michael Stuhlbarg | Call Me by Your Name | Mr. Perlman |
| 2018 | Mahershala Ali † | Green Book | Don Shirley |
| 2018 | Timothée Chalamet | Beautiful Boy | Nic Sheff |
| 2018 | Adam Driver ‡ | BlacKkKlansman | Detective Flip Zimmerman |
| 2018 | Richard E. Grant ‡ | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock |
| 2018 | Michael B. Jordan | Black Panther | Erik Killmonger |
| 2019 | Brad Pitt † | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Cliff Booth |
| 2019 | Willem Dafoe | The Lighthouse | Thomas Wake |
| 2019 | Anthony Hopkins ‡ | The Two Popes | Pope Benedict XVI |
| 2019 | Al Pacino ‡ | The Irishman | Jimmy Hoffa |
| 2019 | Joe Pesci ‡ | The Irishman | Russell Bufalino |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Leslie Odom Jr. ‡ | One Night in Miami... | Sam Cooke |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman | Da 5 Bloods | "Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway |
| 2020 | Sacha Baron Cohen ‡ | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Abbie Hoffman |
| 2020 | Bill Murray | On the Rocks | Felix Keane |
| 2020 | Paul Raci ‡ | Sound of Metal | Joe |
| 2021 | Kodi Smit-McPhee ‡ | The Power of the Dog | Peter Gordon |
| 2021 | Andrew Garfield | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Jim Bakker |
| 2021 | Ciarán Hinds ‡ | Belfast | Pop |
| 2021 | Troy Kotsur † | CODA | Frank Rossi |
| 2021 | J. K. Simmons ‡ | Being the Ricardos | William Frawley |
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan † | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Waymond Wang |
| 2022 | Brendan Gleeson ‡ | The Banshees of Inisherin | Colm Doherty |
| 2022 | Barry Keoghan ‡ | The Banshees of Inisherin | Dominic Kearney |
| 2022 | Mark Rylance | Bones and All | Sully |
| 2022 | Ben Whishaw | Women Talking | August |
| 2023 | Ryan Gosling ‡ | Barbie | Ken |
| 2023 | Robert De Niro ‡ | Killers of the Flower Moon | William King Hale |
| 2023 | Robert Downey Jr. † | Oppenheimer | Lewis Strauss |
| 2023 | Mark Ruffalo ‡ | Poor Things | Duncan Wedderburn |
| 2023 | Dominic Sessa | The Holdovers | Angus Tully |