# National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor

The National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the annual film awards given (since 1954) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

## Winners
### 1950s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1954 | John Williams | Dial M for Murder | Chief Inspector Hubbard |
| 1954 | John Williams | Sabrina | Thomas Fairchild |
| 1955 | Charles Bickford | Not as a Stranger | Dr. Dave W. Runkleman |
| 1956 | Richard Basehart | Moby Dick | Ishmael |
| 1957 | Sessue Hayakawa | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Colonel Saito |
| 1958 | Albert Salmi | The Bravados | Ed Taylor |
| 1958 | Albert Salmi | The Brothers Karamazov | Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov |
| 1959 | Hugh Griffith | Ben-Hur | Sheik Ilderim |

### 1960s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1960 | George Peppard | Home from the Hill | Raphael "Rafe" Copley |
| 1961 | Jackie Gleason | The Hustler | George "Minnesota Fats" Hegerman |
| 1962 | Burgess Meredith | Advise & Consent | Herbert Gelman |
| 1963 | Melvyn Douglas | Hud | Homer Bannon |
| 1964 | Martin Balsam | The Carpetbaggers | Bernard B. Norman |
| 1965 | Harry Andrews | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Donato Bramante |
| 1965 | Harry Andrews | The Hill | Bert Wilson |
| 1966 | Robert Shaw | A Man for All Seasons | King Henry VIII |
| 1967 | Paul Ford | The Comedians | Mr. Smith |
| 1968 | Leo McKern | The Shoes of the Fisherman | Cardinal Leone |
| 1969 | Philippe Noiret | Topaz | Henri Jarre |

### 1970s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1970 | Frank Langella | Diary of a Mad Housewife | George Prager |
| 1970 | Frank Langella | The Twelve Chairs | Ostap Bender |
| 1971 | Ben Johnson | The Last Picture Show | Sam the Lion |
| 1972 | Joel Grey | Cabaret | Master of Ceremonies |
| 1972 | Al Pacino | The Godfather | Michael Corleone |
| 1973 | John Houseman | The Paper Chase | Charles Kingsfield, Jr. |
| 1974 | Holger Löwenadler | Lacombe, Lucien | Albert Horn |
| 1975 | Charles Durning | Dog Day Afternoon | Eugene Moretti |
| 1976 | Jason Robards | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee |
| 1977 | Tom Skerritt | The Turning Point | Wayne Rodgers |
| 1978 | Richard Farnsworth | Comes a Horseman | Dodger |
| 1979 | Paul Dooley | Breaking Away | Raymond Stohler |

### 1980s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1980 | Joe Pesci | Raging Bull | Joey LaMotta |
| 1981 | Jack Nicholson | Reds | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1982 | Robert Preston | Victor/Victoria | Carroll "Toddy" Todd |
| 1983 | Jack Nicholson | Terms of Endearment | Garrett Breedlove |
| 1984 | John Malkovich | Places in the Heart | Mr. Will |
| 1985 | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Out of Africa | Bror von Blixen-Finecke |
| 1986 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My Beautiful Laundrette | Johnny Burfoot |
| 1986 | Daniel Day-Lewis | A Room with a View | Cecil Vyse |
| 1987 | Sean Connery | The Untouchables | Jimmy "Jim" Malone |
| 1988 | River Phoenix | Running on Empty | Danny Pope |
| 1989 | Alan Alda | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Lester |

### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1990 | Joe Pesci | GoodFellas | Tommy DeVito |
| 1991 | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter |
| 1992 | Jack Nicholson | A Few Good Men | Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, USMC |
| 1993 | Leonardo DiCaprio | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Arnie Grape |
| 1994 | Gary Sinise | Forrest Gump | Lt. Dan Taylor |
| 1995 | Kevin Spacey | Se7en | John Doe |
| 1995 | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects | Roger "Verbal" Kint |
| 1996 | Edward Norton | Everyone Says I Love You | Holden Spence |
| 1996 | Edward Norton | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Alan Isaacman |
| 1996 | Edward Norton | Primal Fear | Aaron Stamper / Roy |
| 1997 | Greg Kinnear | As Good as It Gets | Simon Bishop |
| 1998 | Ed Harris | The Truman Show | Christof |
| 1999 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Magnolia | Phil Parma |
| 1999 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Freddie Miles |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Joaquin Phoenix | Gladiator | Commodus |
| 2000 | Joaquin Phoenix | Quills | François Simonet de Coulmier |
| 2000 | Joaquin Phoenix | The Yards | Willie |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent | Iris | John Bayley |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent | Moulin Rouge! | Harold Zidler |
| 2002 | Chris Cooper | Adaptation. | John Laroche |
| 2003 | Alec Baldwin | The Cooler | Sheldon "Shelly" Kaplow |
| 2004 | Thomas Haden Church | Sideways | Jack Cole |
| 2005 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Brokeback Mountain | Jack Twist |
| 2006 | Djimon Hounsou | Blood Diamond | Solomon Vandy |
| 2007 | Casey Affleck | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Robert Ford |
| 2008 | Josh Brolin | Milk | Dan White |
| 2009 | Woody Harrelson | The Messenger | Capt. Tony Stone |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Christian Bale | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund |
| 2011 | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | Hal Fields |
| 2012 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Django Unchained | Calvin J. Candie |
| 2013 | Will Forte | Nebraska | David Grant |
| 2014 | Edward Norton | Birdman | Mike Shiner |
| 2015 | Sylvester Stallone | Creed | Rocky Balboa |
| 2016 | Jeff Bridges | Hell or High Water | Marcus Hamilton |
| 2017 | Willem Dafoe | The Florida Project | Bobby Hicks |
| 2018 | Sam Elliott | A Star Is Born | Bobby Maine |
| 2019 | Brad Pitt | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Cliff Booth |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Paul Raci | Sound of Metal | Joe |
| 2021 | Ciarán Hinds | Belfast | Pop |
| 2022 | Brendan Gleeson | The Banshees of Inisherin | Colm Doherty |
| 2023 | Mark Ruffalo | Poor Things | Duncan Wedderburn |
| 2024 | Kieran Culkin | A Real Pain | Benji Kaplan |