# Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy. From 1996 to 2005, two categories were presented for supporting performances by male actors, one for performances in a drama film and other for performances in comedy or musical films. In 2006, both categories were merged into the current category without distinction by genre.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed in bold type.

### Drama (1996–2005)

| Year | Actor | Film | Role |
| 1996 | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Shine | Peter Helfgott |
| 1996 | Steve Buscemi | Fargo | Carl Showalter |
| 1996 | Robert Carlyle | Trainspotting | Francis "Franco" Begbie |
| 1996 | Jeremy Irons | Stealing Beauty | Alex Parrish |
| 1996 | John Lynch | Moll Flanders | Jonathan (the Artist) |
| 1996 | Paul Scofield | The Crucible | Thomas Danforth |
| 1997 | Burt Reynolds | Boogie Nights | Jack Horner |
| 1997 | Billy Connolly | Mrs Brown | John Brown |
| 1997 | Danny DeVito | The Rainmaker | Deck Shifflet |
| 1997 | Samuel L. Jackson | Eve's Bayou | Louis Batiste |
| 1997 | Robin Williams | Good Will Hunting | Dr. Sean Maguire |
| 1998 | Donald Sutherland | Without Limits | Bill Bowerman |
| 1998 | Robert Duvall | A Civil Action | Jerome Facher |
| 1998 | Jason Patric | Your Friends & Neighbors | Cary |
| 1998 | Billy Bob Thornton | A Simple Plan | Jacob Mitchell |
| 1998 | Tom Sizemore | Saving Private Ryan | Mike Horvath |
| 1999 | Harry J. Lennix | Titus | Aaron |
| 1999 | Tom Cruise | Magnolia | Frank "T.J." Mackey |
| 1999 | Michael Caine | The Cider House Rules | Wilbur Larch |
| 1999 | Doug Hutchison | The Green Mile | Percy Wetmore |
| 1999 | Jude Law | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Dickie Greenleaf |
| 1999 | Christopher Plummer | The Insider | Mike Wallace |
| 2000 | Bruce Greenwood | Thirteen Days | John F. Kennedy |
| 2000 | Jeff Bridges | The Contender | Jackson Evans |
| 2000 | Benicio del Toro | Traffic | Javier Rodriguez |
| 2000 | Robert De Niro | Men of Honor | Billy Sunday |
| 2000 | Albert Finney | Erin Brockovich | Edward L. Masry |
| 2000 | Joaquin Phoenix | Gladiator | Commodus |
| 2001 | Ben Kingsley | Sexy Beast | Don Logan |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent | Iris | John Bayley |
| 2001 | Billy Crudup | Charlotte Gray | Julien Levade |
| 2001 | Ed Harris | A Beautiful Mind | William Parcher |
| 2001 | Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf |
| 2001 | Goran Visnjic | The Deep End | Alek "Al" Spera |
| 2002 | Dennis Haysbert | Far from Heaven | Raymond Deagan |
| 2002 | Jeremy Davies | Solaris | Snow |
| 2002 | Viggo Mortensen | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Aragorn |
| 2002 | Paul Newman | Road to Perdition | John Rooney |
| 2002 | Alfred Molina | Frida | Diego Rivera |
| 2002 | Dennis Quaid | Far from Heaven | Frank Whitaker |
| 2003 | Djimon Hounsou | In America | Mateo |
| 2003 | Alec Baldwin | The Cooler | Shelly Kaplow |
| 2003 | Jeff Bridges | Seabiscuit | Charles S. Howard |
| 2003 | Benicio del Toro | 21 Grams | Jack Jordan |
| 2003 | Omar Sharif | Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran | Ibrahim Demildji |
| 2003 | Ken Watanabe | The Last Samurai | Moritsugu Katsumoto |
| 2004 | Christopher Walken | Around the Bend | Turner Lair |
| 2004 | David Carradine | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Bill |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Collateral | Max Durocher |
| 2004 | Alfred Molina | Spider-Man 2 | Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus |
| 2004 | Clive Owen | Closer | Larry Gray |
| 2004 | Peter Sarsgaard | Kinsey | Clyde Martin |
| 2005 | Danny Huston | The Constant Gardener | Sandy Woodrow |
| 2005 | Chris Cooper | Capote | Alvin Dewey |
| 2005 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Brokeback Mountain | Jack Twist |
| 2005 | Edward Norton | Kingdom of Heaven | Baldwin IV of Jerusalem |
| 2005 | Mickey Rourke | Sin City | Marv |
| 2005 | Peter Sarsgaard | Jarhead | Alan Troy |

### Musical or Comedy (1996–2005)

| Year | Actor | Film | Role |
| 1996 | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jerry Maguire | Rod Tidwell |
| 1996 | Woody Allen | Everyone Says I Love You | Joe Berlin |
| 1996 | Danny DeVito | Matilda | Harry Wormwood |
| 1996 | Gene Hackman | The Birdcage | Kevin Keeley |
| 1996 | Ian McKellen | Cold Comfort Farm | Amos Starkadder |
| 1997 | Rupert Everett | My Best Friend's Wedding | George Downes |
| 1997 | Mark Addy | The Full Monty | Dave Horsefall |
| 1997 | Cuba Gooding Jr. | As Good as It Gets | Frank Sachs |
| 1997 | Greg Kinnear | As Good as It Gets | Simon Bishop |
| 1997 | Rip Torn | Men in Black | Agent Zed |
| 1998 | Bill Murray | Rushmore | Herman Blume |
| 1998 | Jeff Daniels | Pleasantville | Bill Johnson |
| 1998 | John Goodman | The Big Lebowski | Walter Sobchak |
| 1998 | Bill Nighy | Still Crazy | Ray Simms |
| 1998 | Geoffrey Rush | Shakespeare in Love | Philip Henslowe |
| 1999 | William H. Macy | Happy, Texas | Chappy Dent |
| 1999 | Dan Hedaya | Dick | Richard Nixon |
| 1999 | Rhys Ifans | Notting Hill | Spike |
| 1999 | Bill Murray | Cradle Will Rock | Tommy Crickshaw |
| 1999 | Ving Rhames | Bringing Out the Dead | Marcus |
| 1999 | Alan Rickman | Dogma | Metatron |
| 2000 | Willem Dafoe | Shadow of the Vampire | Max Schreck |
| 2000 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Almost Famous | Lester Bangs |
| 2000 | Morgan Freeman | Nurse Betty | Charlie |
| 2000 | Tim Blake Nelson | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Delmar O'Donnell |
| 2000 | Brad Pitt | Snatch. | Mickey O'Neil |
| 2000 | Owen Wilson | Shanghai Noon | Roy O'Bannon |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent | Moulin Rouge! | Harold Zidler |
| 2001 | Steve Buscemi | Ghost World | Seymour |
| 2001 | Hugh Grant | Bridget Jones's Diary | Daniel Cleaver |
| 2001 | Carl Reiner | Ocean's Eleven | Saul Bloom |
| 2001 | Ben Stiller | The Royal Tenenbaums | Chas Tenenbaum |
| 2001 | Owen Wilson | The Royal Tenenbaums | Eli Cash |
| 2002 | Michael Constantine | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Kostas "Gus" Portokalos |
| 2002 | Chris Cooper | Adaptation. | John Laroche |
| 2002 | Jake Gyllenhaal | The Good Girl | Thomas "Holden" Worther |
| 2002 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Punch-Drunk Love | Dean Trumbell |
| 2002 | Nicky Katt | Full Frontal | Adolf Hitler |
| 2002 | John C. Reilly | The Good Girl | Phil Last |
| 2003 | Eugene Levy | A Mighty Wind | Mitch Cohen |
| 2003 | Johnny Depp | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Sheldon Jeffrey Sands (Eyeless Jack) |
| 2003 | Bill Nighy | Love Actually | Billy Mack |
| 2003 | Sam Rockwell | Matchstick Men | Frank Mercer |
| 2003 | Geoffrey Rush | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Hector Barbossa |
| 2003 | Thomas Sangster | Love Actually | Sam |
| 2004 | Thomas Haden Church | Sideways | Jack Cole |
| 2004 | Joseph Fiennes | The Merchant of Venice | Bassanio |
| 2004 | Jeremy Irons | Being Julia | Michael Gosselyn |
| 2004 | Peter Sarsgaard | Garden State | Mark |
| 2004 | Mark Wahlberg | I Heart Huckabees | Tommy Corn |
| 2004 | Patrick Wilson | The Phantom of the Opera | Viscount Raoul de Chagny |
| 2005 | Val Kilmer | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | "Gay" Perry van Shrike |
| 2005 | Tom Arnold | Happy Endings | Frank McKee |
| 2005 | Corbin Bernsen | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Harlan Dexter |
| 2005 | Steve Coogan | Happy Endings | Charley Peppitone |
| 2005 | Craig T. Nelson | The Family Stone | Kelly Stone |
| 2005 | Jason Schwartzman | Shopgirl | Jeremy |

### Motion Picture

| Year | Actor | Film | Role |
| 2006 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | William "Billy" Costigan, Jr. |
| 2006 | Alan Arkin | Little Miss Sunshine | Edwin Hoover |
| 2006 | Adam Beach | Flags of Our Fathers | Ira Hayes |
| 2006 | Jack Nicholson | The Departed | Frank Costello |
| 2006 | Brad Pitt | Babel | Richard Jones |
| 2006 | Donald Sutherland | Aurora Borealis | Ronald Shorter |
| 2007 | Casey Affleck | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Robert Ford |
| 2007 | Tom Wilkinson | Michael Clayton | Arthur Edens |
| 2007 | Javier Bardem | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh |
| 2007 | Brian Cox | Zodiac | Melvin Belli |
| 2007 | Jeff Daniels | The Lookout | Lewis |
| 2007 | Ben Foster | 3:10 to Yuma | Charlie Prince |
| 2008 | Michael Shannon | Revolutionary Road | John Givings, Jr. |
| 2008 | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder | Kirk Lazarus |
| 2008 | James Franco | Milk | Scott Smith |
| 2008 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Doubt | Father Brendan Flynn |
| 2008 | Heath Ledger (posthumous) | The Dark Knight | The Joker |
| 2008 | Rade Šerbedžija | Fugitive Pieces | Athos |
| 2009 | Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds | Col. Hans Landa |
| 2009 | Woody Harrelson | The Messenger | Capt. Tony Stone |
| 2009 | James McAvoy | The Last Station | Valentin Bulgakov |
| 2009 | Alfred Molina | An Education | Jack Miller |
| 2009 | Timothy Spall | The Damned United | Peter Taylor |
| 2010 | Christian Bale | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund |
| 2010 | Pierce Brosnan | The Ghost Writer | Adam Lang |
| 2010 | Andrew Garfield | The Social Network | Eduardo Saverin |
| 2010 | Tommy Lee Jones | The Company Men | Gene McClary |
| 2010 | Bill Murray | Get Low | Frank Quinn |
| 2010 | Sean Penn | Fair Game | Joseph C. Wilson |
| 2010 | Jeremy Renner | The Town | James "Jem" Coughlin |
| 2010 | Geoffrey Rush | The King's Speech | Lionel Logue |
| 2011 | Albert Brooks | Drive | Bernie Rose |
| 2011 | Kenneth Branagh | My Week with Marilyn | Laurence Olivier |
| 2011 | Colin Farrell | Horrible Bosses | Bobby Pellitt |
| 2011 | Jonah Hill | Moneyball | Peter Brand |
| 2011 | Viggo Mortensen | A Dangerous Method | Sigmund Freud |
| 2011 | Nick Nolte | Warrior | Paddy Conlon |
| 2011 | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | Hal Fields |
| 2011 | Andy Serkis | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Caesar |
| 2011 | Christoph Waltz | Carnage | Alan Cowan |
| 2011 | Hugo Weaving | Oranges and Sunshine | Jack |
| 2012 | Javier Bardem | Skyfall | Raoul Silva |
| 2012 | Robert De Niro | Silver Linings Playbook | Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr. |
| 2012 | John Goodman | Flight | Harling Mays |
| 2012 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Master | Lancaster Dodd |
| 2012 | Tommy Lee Jones | Lincoln | Thaddeus Stevens |
| 2012 | Eddie Redmayne | Les Misérables | Marius Pontmercy |
| 2013 | Jared Leto | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon |
| 2013 | Casey Affleck | Out of the Furnace | Rodney Baze, Jr. |
| 2013 | Bradley Cooper | American Hustle | Richie DiMaso |
| 2013 | Michael Fassbender | 12 Years a Slave | Edwin Epps |
| 2013 | Harrison Ford | 42 | Branch Rickey |
| 2013 | Ryan Gosling | The Place Beyond the Pines | Luke Glanton |
| 2013 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Prisoners | Detective Loki |
| 2013 | Tom Hanks | Saving Mr. Banks | Walt Disney |
| 2014 | J. K. Simmons | Whiplash | Terence Fletcher |
| 2014 | Robert Duvall | The Judge | Judge Joseph Palmer |
| 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 | Christian Bale | The Big Short | Michael Burry |
| 2015 | Paul Dano | Love & Mercy | Brian Wilson |
| 2015 | Benicio del Toro | Sicario | Alejandro Gillick |
| 2015 | Michael Keaton | Spotlight | Walter "Robby" Robinson |
| 2015 | Mark Ruffalo | Spotlight | Michael Rezendes |
| 2015 | Sylvester Stallone | Creed | Rocky Balboa |
| 2016 | Jeff Bridges | Hell or High Water | Marcus Hamilton |
| 2016 | Mahershala Ali | Moonlight | Juan |
| 2016 | Hugh Grant | Florence Foster Jenkins | St. Clair Bayfield |
| 2016 | Lucas Hedges | Manchester by the Sea | Patrick Chandler |
| 2016 | Eddie Murphy | Mr. Church | Henry Joseph Church |
| 2016 | Dev Patel | Lion | Saroo Brierley |
| 2017 | Sam Rockwell | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Officer Jason Dixon |
| 2017 | Willem Dafoe | The Florida Project | Bobby Hicks |
| 2017 | Armie Hammer | Call Me by Your Name | Oliver |
| 2017 | Dustin Hoffman | The Meyerowitz Stories | Harold Meyerowitz |
| 2017 | Mark Rylance | Dunkirk | Mr. Dawson |
| 2017 | Michael Shannon | The Shape of Water | Colonel Richard Strickland |
| 2018 | Richard E. Grant | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock |
| 2018 | Mahershala Ali | Green Book | Don Shirley |
| 2018 | Timothée Chalamet | Beautiful Boy | Nic Sheff |
| 2018 | Russell Crowe | Boy Erased | Marshall Eamons |
| 2018 | Adam Driver | BlacKkKlansman | Detective Flip Zimmerman |
| 2018 | Sam Elliott | A Star Is Born | Bobby Maine |
| 2019 | Willem Dafoe | The Lighthouse | Thomas Wake |
| 2019 | Tom Hanks | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Fred Rogers |
| 2019 | Anthony Hopkins | The Two Popes | Pope Benedict XVI |
| 2019 | Joe Pesci | The Irishman | Russell Bufalino |
| 2019 | Wendell Pierce | Burning Cane | Reverend Tillman |
| 2019 | Brad Pitt | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Cliff Booth |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman (posthumous) | Da 5 Bloods | Norman Earl "Stormin' Norman" Holloway |
| 2020 | Sacha Baron Cohen | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Abbie Hoffman |
| 2020 | Kingsley Ben-Adir | One Night in Miami... | Malcolm X |
| 2020 | Brian Dennehy | Driveways | Del |
| 2020 | Bill Murray | On the Rocks | Felix Keane |
| 2020 | David Strathairn | Nomadland | David |
| 2021 | Kodi Smit-McPhee | The Power of the Dog | Peter Gordon |
| 2021 | Robin de Jesús | tick, tick... BOOM! | Michael |
| 2021 | Jamie Dornan | Belfast | Pa |
| 2021 | Ciarán Hinds | Belfast | Pop |
| 2021 | Jared Leto | House of Gucci | Paolo Gucci |
| 2021 | J. K. Simmons | Being the Ricardos | William Frawley |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Waymond Wang |
| 2022 | Paul Dano | The Fabelmans | Burt Fabelman |
| 2022 | Brendan Gleeson | The Banshees of Inisherin | Colm Doherty |
| 2022 | Eddie Redmayne | The Good Nurse | Charles Cullen |
| 2022 | Jeremy Strong | Armageddon Time | Irving Graff |
| 2022 | Ben Whishaw | Women Talking | August Epp |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Mark Ruffalo | Poor Things | Duncan Wedderburn |
| 2023 | Robert De Niro | Killers of the Flower Moon | William King Hale |
| 2023 | Robert Downey Jr. | Oppenheimer | Lewis Strauss |
| 2023 | Ryan Gosling | Barbie | Ken |
| 2023 | Charles Melton | May December | Joe Yoo |
| 2023 | Dominic Sessa | The Holdovers | Angus Tully |
| 2024 | Guy Pearce | The Brutalist | Harrison Lee Van Buren |
| 2024 | Yura Borisov | Anora | Igor |
| 2024 | Kieran Culkin | A Real Pain | Benji Kaplan |
| 2024 | Clarence Maclin | Sing Sing | Himself |
| 2024 | Edward Norton | A Complete Unknown | Pete Seeger |
| 2024 | Denzel Washington | Gladiator II | Macrinus |