# Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year. The formal title has varied since its inception; since 2005, the award has officially been called "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture". Six actors have won the award twice: Richard Attenborough, Edmund Gwenn, Martin Landau, Edmond O'Brien, Brad Pitt, and Christoph Waltz.

## Winners and nominees
### 1940s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1943 | Akim Tamiroff | Pablo | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| 1944 | Barry Fitzgerald | Father Fitzgibbon | Going My Way |
| 1945 | J. Carrol Naish | Charley Martin | A Medal for Benny |
| 1946 | Clifton Webb | Elliott Templeton | The Razor's Edge |
| 1947 | Edmund Gwenn | Kris Kringle | Miracle on 34th Street |
| 1948 | Walter Huston | Howard | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 1949 | James Whitmore | Kinnie | Battleground |

### 1950s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1950 | Edmund Gwenn | 'Skipper' Miller | Mister 880 |
| 1950 | George Sanders | Addison DeWitt | All About Eve |
| 1950 | Erich von Stroheim | Max Von Mayerling | Sunset Boulevard |
| 1951 | Peter Ustinov | Nero | Quo Vadis |
| 1952 | Millard Mitchell | James Connie | My Six Convicts |
| 1952 | Kurt Kasznar | Uncle Louis Bonnard | The Happy Time |
| 1952 | Gilbert Roland | Victor 'Gaucho' Ribera | The Bad and the Beautiful |
| 1953 | Frank Sinatra | Pvt. Angelo Maggio | From Here to Eternity |
| 1954 | Edmond O'Brien | Oscar Muldoon | The Barefoot Contessa |
| 1955 | Arthur Kennedy | Barney | Trial |
| 1956 | Earl Holliman | Jim Curry | The Rainmaker |
| 1956 | Eddie Albert | Capt. McLean | The Teahouse of the August Moon |
| 1956 | Oscar Homolka | General Kutuzov | War and Peace |
| 1956 | Anthony Quinn | Paul Gauguin | Lust for Life |
| 1956 | Eli Wallach | Silva Vacarro | Baby Doll |
| 1957 | Red Buttons | Joe Kelly | Sayonara |
| 1957 | Lee J. Cobb | Juror #3 | 12 Angry Men |
| 1957 | Sessue Hayakawa | Colonel Saito | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 1957 | Nigel Patrick | Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles | Raintree County |
| 1957 | Ed Wynn | Paul Beaseley | The Great Man |
| 1958 | Burl Ives | Rufus Hannassey | The Big Country |
| 1958 | Harry Guardino | Angelo Donatello | Houseboat |
| 1958 | David Ladd | David Chandler | The Proud Rebel |
| 1958 | Gig Young | Dr. Hugo Pine | Teacher's Pet |
| 1958 | Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | Jacob 'Jake' Diamond | Home Before Dark |
| 1959 | Stephen Boyd | Messala | Ben-Hur |
| 1959 | Fred Astaire | Julian Osborn | On the Beach |
| 1959 | Tony Randall | Jonathan Forbes | Pillow Talk |
| 1959 | Robert Vaughn | Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn | The Young Philadelphians |
| 1959 | Joseph N. Welch | Judge Weaver | Anatomy of a Murder |

### 1960s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1960 | Sal Mineo | Dov Landau | Exodus |
| 1960 | Woody Strode | Draba | Spartacus |
| 1960 | Peter Ustinov | Lentulus Batiatus | Spartacus |
| 1960 | Lee Kinsolving | Sammy Goldenbaum | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs |
| 1960 | Ray Stricklyn | Jeb Lucas Tyler | The Plunderers |
| 1961 | George Chakiris | Bernardo | West Side Story |
| 1961 | Montgomery Clift | Rudolph Petersen | Judgment at Nuremberg |
| 1961 | Jackie Gleason | Minnesota Fats | The Hustler |
| 1961 | Tony Randall | Peter 'Pete' Ramsey | Lover Come Back |
| 1961 | George C. Scott | Bert Gordon | The Hustler |
| 1962 | Omar Sharif | Sherif Ali | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 1962 | Ed Begley | Tom Boss Finley | Sweet Bird of Youth |
| 1962 | Victor Buono | Edwin Flagg | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| 1962 | Harry Guardino | Sgt. Joseph Contini | The Pigeon That Took Rome |
| 1962 | Ross Martin | Garland Humphrey 'Red' Lynch | Experiment in Terror |
| 1962 | Paul Newman | The Battler | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man |
| 1962 | Cesar Romero | Robert Swan / Adam Wright | If a Man Answers |
| 1962 | Telly Savalas | Feto Gomez | Birdman of Alcatraz |
| 1962 | Peter Sellers | Clare Quilty | Lolita |
| 1962 | Harold J. Stone | Frank Garnell | The Chapman Report |
| 1963 | John Huston | Cardinal Glennon | The Cardinal |
| 1963 | Paul Mann | Aleko Sinnikoglou | America America |
| 1963 | Gregory Rozakis | Hohannes Gardashian | America America |
| 1963 | Lee J. Cobb | Harry R. Baker | Come Blow Your Horn |
| 1963 | Bobby Darin | Cpl. Jim Tompkins | Captain Newman, M.D. |
| 1963 | Melvyn Douglas | Homer Bannon | Hud |
| 1963 | Hugh Griffith | Squire Western | Tom Jones |
| 1963 | Roddy McDowall | Octavian, alias Augustus | Cleopatra |
| 1964 | Edmond O'Brien | Senator Ray Clark | Seven Days in May |
| 1964 | Cyril Delevanti | Nonno | The Night of the Iguana |
| 1964 | Stanley Holloway | Alfred P. Doolittle | My Fair Lady |
| 1964 | Gilbert Roland | Dull Knife | Cheyenne Autumn |
| 1964 | Lee Tracy | Art Hockstader | The Best Man |
| 1965 | Oskar Werner | Fiedler | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| 1965 | Red Buttons | Arthur Landau | Harlow |
| 1965 | Frank Finlay | Iago | Othello |
| 1965 | Hardy Krüger | Heinrich Dorfmann | The Flight of the Phoenix |
| 1965 | Telly Savalas | Sgt. Guffy | Battle of the Bulge |
| 1966 | Richard Attenborough | Frenchy Burgoyne | The Sand Pebbles |
| 1966 | Mako | Po-han | The Sand Pebbles |
| 1966 | John Saxon | Chuy Medina | The Appaloosa |
| 1966 | George Segal | Nick | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| 1966 | Robert Shaw | Henry VIII | A Man for All Seasons |
| 1967 | Richard Attenborough | Albert Blossom | Doctor Dolittle |
| 1967 | John Cassavetes | Victor R. Franko | The Dirty Dozen |
| 1967 | George Kennedy | Dragline | Cool Hand Luke |
| 1967 | Michael J. Pollard | C.W. Moss | Bonnie and Clyde |
| 1967 | Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | Sam Hendrix | Wait Until Dark |
| 1968 | Daniel Massey | Noël Coward | Star! |
| 1968 | Beau Bridges | Tim Austin | For Love of Ivy |
| 1968 | Ossie Davis | Joseph Lee | The Scalphunters |
| 1968 | Hugh Griffith | The Magistrate | Oliver! |
| 1968 | Martin Sheen | Timmy Cleary | The Subject Was Roses |
| 1969 | Gig Young | Rocky | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| 1969 | Red Buttons | Sailor | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| 1969 | Jack Nicholson | George Hanson | Easy Rider |
| 1969 | Anthony Quayle | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | Anne of the Thousand Days |
| 1969 | Mitch Vogel | Lucius McCaslin | The Reivers |

### 1970s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1970 | John Mills | Michael | Ryan's Daughter |
| 1970 | Chief Dan George | Old Lodge Skins | Little Big Man |
| 1970 | Trevor Howard | Father Collins | Ryan's Daughter |
| 1970 | George Kennedy | Joe Patroni | Airport |
| 1970 | John Marley | Phil Cavalleri | Love Story |
| 1971 | Ben Johnson | Sam the Lion | The Last Picture Show |
| 1971 | Tom Baker | Rasputin | Nicholas and Alexandra |
| 1971 | Art Garfunkel | Sandy | Carnal Knowledge |
| 1971 | Paul Mann | Lazar Wolf | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1971 | Jan-Michael Vincent | Jimmy Graham | Going Home |
| 1972 | Joel Grey | Master of Ceremonies | Cabaret |
| 1972 | James Caan | Sonny Corleone | The Godfather |
| 1972 | James Coco | Sancho Panza | Man of La Mancha |
| 1972 | Alec McCowen | Henry Pulling | Travels with My Aunt |
| 1972 | Clive Revill | Carlo Carlucci | Avanti! |
| 1973 | John Houseman | Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. | The Paper Chase |
| 1973 | Martin Balsam | Harry Walden | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams |
| 1973 | Jack Gilford | Phil Greene | Save the Tiger |
| 1973 | Randy Quaid | Meadows | The Last Detail |
| 1973 | Max von Sydow | Father Merrin | The Exorcist |
| 1974 | Fred Astaire | Harlee Claiborne | The Towering Inferno |
| 1974 | Bruce Dern | Tom Buchanan | The Great Gatsby |
| 1974 | Sam Waterston | Nick Carraway | The Great Gatsby |
| 1974 | Eddie Albert | Warden Hazen | The Longest Yard |
| 1974 | John Huston | Noah Cross | Chinatown |
| 1975 | Richard Benjamin | Ben Clark | The Sunshine Boys |
| 1975 | John Cazale | Sal | Dog Day Afternoon |
| 1975 | Charles Durning | Eugene Moretti | Dog Day Afternoon |
| 1975 | Henry Gibson | Haven Hamilton | Nashville |
| 1975 | Burgess Meredith | Harry Greener | The Day of the Locust |
| 1976 | Laurence Olivier | Christian Szell | Marathon Man |
| 1976 | Marty Feldman | Marty Eggs | Silent Movie |
| 1976 | Ron Howard | Gillom Rogers | The Shootist |
| 1976 | Jason Robards | Benjamin C. Bradlee | All the President's Men |
| 1976 | Oskar Werner | Professor Egon Kreisler | Voyage of the Damned |
| 1977 | Peter Firth | Alan Strang | Equus |
| 1977 | Jason Robards | Dashiell Hammett | Julia |
| 1977 | Maximilian Schell | Johann | Julia |
| 1977 | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Yuri Kopeikine | The Turning Point |
| 1977 | Alec Guinness | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Star Wars |
| 1978 | John Hurt | Max | Midnight Express |
| 1978 | Bruce Dern | Bob Hyde | Coming Home |
| 1978 | Dudley Moore | Stanley Tibbets | Foul Play |
| 1978 | Robert Morley | Max | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? |
| 1978 | Christopher Walken | Cpl. Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich | The Deer Hunter |
| 1979 | Melvyn Douglas | Benjamin Rand | Being There |
| 1979 | Robert Duvall | Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore | Apocalypse Now |
| 1979 | Frederic Forrest | Huston Dyer | The Rose |
| 1979 | Justin Henry | Billy Kramer | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| 1979 | Laurence Olivier | Julius | A Little Romance |

### 1980s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1980 | Timothy Hutton | Conrad Jarrett | Ordinary People |
| 1980 | Judd Hirsch | Tyrone Berger | Ordinary People |
| 1980 | Joe Pesci | Joey LaMotta | Raging Bull |
| 1980 | Jason Robards | Howard Hughes | Melvin and Howard |
| 1980 | Scott Wilson | Capt. Billy Cutshaw | The Ninth Configuration |
| 1981 | John Gielgud | Hobson | Arthur |
| 1981 | James Coco | Jimmy | Only When I Laugh |
| 1981 | Jack Nicholson | Eugene O'Neill | Reds |
| 1981 | Orson Welles | Judge Rauch | Butterfly |
| 1981 | Howard E. Rollins, Jr. | Coalhouse Walker, Jr. | Ragtime |
| 1982 | Louis Gossett Jr. | Emil Foley | An Officer and a Gentleman |
| 1982 | David Keith | Sid Worley | An Officer and a Gentleman |
| 1982 | Raul Julia | Kalibanos | Tempest |
| 1982 | James Mason | Ed Concannon | The Verdict |
| 1982 | Jim Metzler | Mason McCormick | Tex |
| 1983 | Jack Nicholson | Garrett Breedlove | Terms of Endearment |
| 1983 | Steven Bauer | Manny Ribera | Scarface |
| 1983 | Charles Durning | Col. Erhardt | To Be or Not to Be |
| 1983 | Gene Hackman | Alex Grazier | Under Fire |
| 1983 | Kurt Russell | Drew Stephens | Silkwood |
| 1984 | Haing S. Ngor | Dith Pran | The Killing Fields |
| 1984 | Adolph Caesar | Sgt. Waters | A Soldier's Story |
| 1984 | Richard Crenna | Phil Brody | The Flamingo Kid |
| 1984 | Jeffrey Jones | Emperor Joseph II | Amadeus |
| 1984 | Noriyuki "Pat" Morita | Keisuke Miyagi | The Karate Kid |
| 1985 | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Bror von Blixen-Finecke | Out of Africa |
| 1985 | Joel Grey | Chiun | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins |
| 1985 | John Lone | Joey Tai | Year of the Dragon |
| 1985 | Eric Roberts | Buck | Runaway Train |
| 1985 | Eric Stoltz | Rocky Dennis | Mask |
| 1986 | Tom Berenger | Sgt. Barnes | Platoon |
| 1986 | Michael Caine | Elliot | Hannah and Her Sisters |
| 1986 | Dennis Hopper | Frank Booth | Blue Velvet |
| 1986 | Dennis Hopper | Shooter | Hoosiers |
| 1986 | Ray Liotta | Ray Sinclair | Something Wild |
| 1987 | Sean Connery | Jim Malone | The Untouchables |
| 1987 | Richard Dreyfuss | Aaron Levinsky | Nuts |
| 1987 | R. Lee Ermey | Gny. Sgt. Hartman | Full Metal Jacket |
| 1987 | Morgan Freeman | Fast Black | Street Smart |
| 1987 | Rob Lowe | Rory | Square Dance |
| 1988 | Martin Landau | Abe Karatz | Tucker: The Man and His Dream |
| 1988 | Alec Guinness | William Dorrit | Little Dorrit |
| 1988 | Neil Patrick Harris | David Hart | Clara's Heart |
| 1988 | Raul Julia | Roberto Strausmann | Moon Over Parador |
| 1988 | Lou Diamond Phillips | Angel Guzman | Stand and Deliver |
| 1988 | River Phoenix | Danny Pope | Running on Empty |
| 1989 | Denzel Washington | Pvt. Trip | Glory |
| 1989 | Danny Aiello | Sal | Do the Right Thing |
| 1989 | Marlon Brando | Ian McKenzie | A Dry White Season |
| 1989 | Sean Connery | Professor Henry Jones | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
| 1989 | Ed Harris | Dave | Jacknife |
| 1989 | Bruce Willis | Emmett Smith | In Country |

### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1990 | Bruce Davison | David | Longtime Companion |
| 1990 | Armand Assante | Roberto "Bobby Tex" Texador | Q & A |
| 1990 | Hector Elizondo | Barney Thompson | Pretty Woman |
| 1990 | Andy García | Vincent Mancini | The Godfather: Part III |
| 1990 | Al Pacino | Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice | Dick Tracy |
| 1990 | Joe Pesci | Tommy DeVito | Goodfellas |
| 1991 | Jack Palance | Curly Washburn | City Slickers |
| 1991 | Harvey Keitel | Mickey Cohen | Bugsy |
| 1991 | Ben Kingsley | Meyer Lansky | Bugsy |
| 1991 | Ned Beatty | Josef Locke | Hear My Song |
| 1991 | John Goodman | Charlie Meadows | Barton Fink |
| 1992 | Gene Hackman | Little Bill Daggett | Unforgiven |
| 1992 | Jack Nicholson | Col. Nathan R. Jessup | A Few Good Men |
| 1992 | Chris O'Donnell | Charlie Simms | Scent of a Woman |
| 1992 | Al Pacino | Ricky Roma | Glengarry Glen Ross |
| 1992 | David Paymer | Stan | Mr. Saturday Night |
| 1993 | Tommy Lee Jones | Samuel Gerard | The Fugitive |
| 1993 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Arnie Grape | What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
| 1993 | Ralph Fiennes | Amon Goeth | Schindler's List |
| 1993 | John Malkovich | Mitch Leary | In the Line of Fire |
| 1993 | Sean Penn | David Kleinfeld | Carlito's Way |
| 1994 | Martin Landau | Bela Lugosi | Ed Wood |
| 1994 | Kevin Bacon | Wade | The River Wild |
| 1994 | Samuel L. Jackson | Jules Winnfield | Pulp Fiction |
| 1994 | Gary Sinise | Lt. Dan Taylor | Forrest Gump |
| 1994 | John Turturro | Herb Stempel | Quiz Show |
| 1995 | Brad Pitt | Jeffrey Goines | 12 Monkeys |
| 1995 | Ed Harris | Gene Kranz | Apollo 13 |
| 1995 | John Leguizamo | Chi-Chi Rodriguez | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar |
| 1995 | Tim Roth | Archibald Cunningham | Rob Roy |
| 1995 | Kevin Spacey | Keyser Söze | The Usual Suspects |
| 1996 | Edward Norton | Aaron Stampler | Primal Fear |
| 1996 | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Rod Tidwell | Jerry Maguire |
| 1996 | Samuel L. Jackson | Carl Lee Hailey | A Time to Kill |
| 1996 | Paul Scofield | Judge Thomas Danforth | The Crucible |
| 1996 | James Woods | Byron De La Beckwith | Ghosts of Mississippi |
| 1997 | Burt Reynolds | Jack Horner | Boogie Nights |
| 1997 | Rupert Everett | George Downes | My Best Friend's Wedding |
| 1997 | Anthony Hopkins | John Quincy Adams | Amistad |
| 1997 | Greg Kinnear | Simon Bishop | As Good as It Gets |
| 1997 | Jon Voight | Leo F. Drummond | The Rainmaker |
| 1997 | Robin Williams | Dr. Sean Maguire | Good Will Hunting |
| 1998 | Ed Harris | Christof | The Truman Show |
| 1998 | Robert Duvall | Jerome Facher | A Civil Action |
| 1998 | Bill Murray | Herman Blume | Rushmore |
| 1998 | Geoffrey Rush | Philip Henslowe | Shakespeare in Love |
| 1998 | Donald Sutherland | Bill Bowerman | Without Limits |
| 1998 | Billy Bob Thornton | Jacob Mitchell | A Simple Plan |
| 1999 | Tom Cruise | Frank T.J. Mackey | Magnolia |
| 1999 | Michael Caine | Dr. Wilbur Larch | The Cider House Rules |
| 1999 | Michael Clarke Duncan | John Coffey | The Green Mile |
| 1999 | Jude Law | Dickie Greenleaf | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| 1999 | Haley Joel Osment | Cole Sear | The Sixth Sense |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
| 2000 | Benicio del Toro | Javier Rodriguez | Traffic | |
| 2000 | Jeff Bridges | Jackson Evans | The Contender | |
| 2000 | Willem Dafoe | Max Schreck | Shadow of the Vampire | |
| 2000 | Albert Finney | Edward L. Masry | Erin Brockovich | |
| 2000 | Joaquin Phoenix | Commodus | Gladiator | |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent | John Bayley | Iris | |
| 2001 | Steve Buscemi | Seymour | Ghost World | |
| 2001 | Hayden Christensen | Sam Monroe | Life as a House | |
| 2001 | Ben Kingsley | Don Logan | Sexy Beast | |
| 2001 | Jude Law | Gigolo Joe | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | |
| 2001 | Jon Voight | Howard Cosell | Ali | |
| 2002 | Chris Cooper | John Laroche | Adaptation | |
| 2002 | Ed Harris | Richard Brown | The Hours | |
| 2002 | Paul Newman | John Rooney | Road to Perdition | |
| 2002 | Dennis Quaid | Frank Whitaker | Far from Heaven | |
| 2002 | John C. Reilly | Amos Hart | Chicago | |
| 2003 | Tim Robbins | Dave Boyle | Mystic River | |
| 2003 | Alec Baldwin | Shelly Kaplow | The Cooler | |
| 2003 | Albert Finney | Ed Bloom (Old) | Big Fish | |
| 2003 | William H. Macy | "Tick Tock" McLaughlin | Seabiscuit | |
| 2003 | Peter Sarsgaard | Chuck Lane | Shattered Glass | |
| 2003 | Ken Watanabe | Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto | The Last Samurai | |
| 2004 | Clive Owen | Larry Gray | Closer | |
| 2004 | David Carradine | Bill | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Max Durocher | Collateral | |
| 2004 | Thomas Haden Church | Jack Cole | Sideways | |
| 2004 | Morgan Freeman | Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris | Million Dollar Baby | |
| 2005 | George Clooney | Bob Barnes | Syriana | |
| 2005 | Matt Dillon | John Ryan | Crash | |
| 2005 | Will Ferrell | Franz Liebkind | The Producers | |
| 2005 | Paul Giamatti | Joe Gould | Cinderella Man | |
| 2005 | Bob Hoskins | Vivian Van Damm | Mrs Henderson Presents | |
| 2006 | Eddie Murphy | James "Thunder" Early | Dreamgirls | |
| 2006 | Jack Nicholson | Frank Costello | The Departed | |
| 2006 | Mark Wahlberg | Staff Sgt. Sean Dignam | The Departed | |
| 2006 | Ben Affleck | George Reeves | Hollywoodland | |
| 2006 | Brad Pitt | Richard Jones | Babel | |
| 2007 | Javier Bardem | Anton Chigurh | No Country for Old Men | |
| 2007 | Casey Affleck | Robert Ford | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | |
| 2007 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Gust Avrakotos | Charlie Wilson's War | |
| 2007 | John Travolta | Edna Turnblad | Hairspray | |
| 2007 | Tom Wilkinson | Arthur Edens | Michael Clayton | |
| 2008 | Heath Ledger (posthumous) | Joker | The Dark Knight | |
| 2008 | Tom Cruise | Les Grossman | Tropic Thunder | |
| 2008 | Robert Downey Jr. | Kirk Lazarus | Tropic Thunder | |
| 2008 | Ralph Fiennes | William Cavendish | The Duchess | |
| 2008 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Father Brendan Flynn | Doubt | |
| 2009 | Christoph Waltz | Col. Hans Landa | Inglourious Basterds | [30] [31] |
| 2009 | Matt Damon | Francois Pienaar | Invictus | [30] [31] |
| 2009 | Woody Harrelson | Capt. Tony Stone | The Messenger | [30] [31] |
| 2009 | Christopher Plummer | Leo Tolstoy | The Last Station | [30] [31] |
| 2009 | Stanley Tucci | George Harvey | The Lovely Bones | [30] [31] |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 2010 | Christian Bale | Dicky Eklund | The Fighter |
| 2010 | Michael Douglas | Gordon Gekko | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps |
| 2010 | Andrew Garfield | Eduardo Saverin | The Social Network |
| 2010 | Jeremy Renner | James "Jem" Coughlin | The Town |
| 2010 | Geoffrey Rush | Lionel Logue | The King's Speech |
| 2011 | Christopher Plummer | Hal Fields | Beginners |
| 2011 | Kenneth Branagh | Laurence Olivier | My Week with Marilyn |
| 2011 | Albert Brooks | Bernie Rose | Drive |
| 2011 | Jonah Hill | Peter Brand | Moneyball |
| 2011 | Viggo Mortensen | Sigmund Freud | A Dangerous Method |
| 2012 | Christoph Waltz | Dr. King Schultz | Django Unchained |
| 2012 | Alan Arkin | Lester Siegel | Argo |
| 2012 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Calvin J. Candie | Django Unchained |
| 2012 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Lancaster Dodd | The Master |
| 2012 | Tommy Lee Jones | Thaddeus Stevens | Lincoln |
| 2013 | Jared Leto | Rayon | Dallas Buyers Club |
| 2013 | Barkhad Abdi | Abduwali Muse | Captain Phillips |
| 2013 | Daniel Brühl | Niki Lauda | Rush |
| 2013 | Bradley Cooper | Richard "Richie" DiMaso | American Hustle |
| 2013 | Michael Fassbender | Edwin Epps | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2014 | J. K. Simmons | Terence Fletcher | Whiplash |
| 2014 | Edward Norton | Mike Shiner | Birdman |
| 2014 | Robert Duvall | Judge Joseph Palmer | The Judge |
| 2014 | Ethan Hawke | Mason Evans, Sr. | Boyhood |
| 2014 | Mark Ruffalo | Dave Schultz | Foxcatcher |
| 2015 | Sylvester Stallone | Rocky Balboa | Creed |
| 2015 | Paul Dano | Brian Wilson | Love & Mercy |
| 2015 | Idris Elba | The Commandant | Beasts of No Nation |
| 2015 | Mark Rylance | Rudolf Abel | Bridge of Spies |
| 2015 | Michael Shannon | Rick Carver | 99 Homes |
| 2016 | Aaron Taylor-Johnson | Ray Marcus | Nocturnal Animals |
| 2016 | Mahershala Ali | Juan | Moonlight |
| 2016 | Jeff Bridges | Marcus Hamilton | Hell or High Water |
| 2016 | Simon Helberg | Cosmé McMoon | Florence Foster Jenkins |
| 2016 | Dev Patel | Saroo Brierley | Lion |
| 2017 | Sam Rockwell | Jason Dixon | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2017 | Willem Dafoe | Bobby Hicks | The Florida Project |
| 2017 | Armie Hammer | Oliver | Call Me by Your Name |
| 2017 | Richard Jenkins | Giles | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 | Christopher Plummer | J. Paul Getty | All the Money in the World |
| 2018 | Mahershala Ali | Don Shirley | Green Book |
| 2018 | Timothée Chalamet | Nic Sheff | Beautiful Boy |
| 2018 | Adam Driver | Flip Zimmerman | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2018 | Richard E. Grant | Jack Hock | Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| 2018 | Sam Rockwell | George W. Bush | Vice |
| 2019 | Brad Pitt | Cliff Booth | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| 2019 | Al Pacino | Jimmy Hoffa | The Irishman |
| 2019 | Joe Pesci | Russell Bufalino | The Irishman |
| 2019 | Tom Hanks | Fred Rogers | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood |
| 2019 | Anthony Hopkins | Pope Benedict XVI | The Two Popes |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 2020 | Daniel Kaluuya | Fred Hampton | Judas and the Black Messiah |
| 2020 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Abbie Hoffman | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2020 | Jared Leto | Albert Sparma | The Little Things |
| 2020 | Bill Murray | Felix Keane | On the Rocks |
| 2020 | Leslie Odom Jr. | Sam Cooke | One Night in Miami... |
| 2021 | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Peter Gordon | The Power of the Dog |
| 2021 | Ben Affleck | Charlie Maguire | The Tender Bar |
| 2021 | Jamie Dornan | Pa | Belfast |
| 2021 | Ciarán Hinds | Pop | Belfast |
| 2021 | Troy Kotsur | Frank Rossi | CODA |
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan | Waymond Wang | Everything Everywhere All At Once |
| 2022 | Brendan Gleeson | Colm Doherty | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Barry Keoghan | Dominic Kearney | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Brad Pitt | Jack Conrad | Babylon |
| 2022 | Eddie Redmayne | Charles Cullen | The Good Nurse |
| 2023 | Robert Downey Jr. | Lewis Strauss | Oppenheimer |
| 2023 | Willem Dafoe | Dr. Godwin Baxter | Poor Things |
| 2023 | Robert De Niro | William King Hale | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| 2023 | Ryan Gosling | Ken | Barbie |
| 2023 | Charles Melton | Joe Yoo | May December |
| 2023 | Mark Ruffalo | Duncan Wedderburn | Poor Things |
| 2024 | Kieran Culkin | Benjamin "Benji" Kaplan | A Real Pain |
| 2024 | Yura Borisov | Igor | Anora |
| 2024 | Edward Norton | Pete Seeger | A Complete Unknown |
| 2024 | Guy Pearce | Harrison Lee Van Buren | The Brutalist |
| 2024 | Jeremy Strong | Roy Cohn | The Apprentice |
| 2024 | Denzel Washington | Macrinus | Gladiator II |

## Multiple wins
### 2 wins

* Richard Attenborough (consecutive)
* Edmund Gwenn
* Martin Landau
* Edmond O'Brien
* Brad Pitt
* Christoph Waltz