# Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild. It has been presented since the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995 to a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.
The award has been presented 30 times, and 29 actors have won the award. Martin Landau was the award's first winner for Ed Wood (1994). The most recent winner is Kieran Culkin who won for his performance in A Real Pain (2024). Mahershala Ali is the only actor to have won the award twice. The record for the most nominations is shared by Chris Cooper, Willem Dafoe, and Jared Leto with three nominations each.

## Winners and nominees

Table key :
| | Indicates the winner |
| † | Indicates a posthumous winner |
| † | Indicates a posthumous nominee |
| ‡ | Indicates the Academy Award winner |

### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role(s) |
| 1994 (1st) | Martin Landau ‡ | Ed Wood | Bela Lugosi |
| 1994 (1st) | Samuel L. Jackson | Pulp Fiction | Jules Winnfield |
| 1994 (1st) | Chazz Palminteri | Bullets over Broadway | Cheech |
| 1994 (1st) | Gary Sinise | Forrest Gump | Lt. Dan Taylor |
| 1994 (1st) | John Turturro | Quiz Show | Herb Stempel |
| 1995 (2nd) | Ed Harris | Apollo 13 | Gene Kranz |
| 1995 (2nd) | Kevin Bacon | Murder in the First | Henri Young |
| 1995 (2nd) | Kenneth Branagh | Othello | Iago |
| 1995 (2nd) | Don Cheadle | Devil in a Blue Dress | Mouse Alexander |
| 1995 (2nd) | Kevin Spacey ‡ | The Usual Suspects | Roger "Verbal" Kint |
| 1996 (3rd) | Cuba Gooding Jr. ‡ | Jerry Maguire | Rod Tidwell |
| 1996 (3rd) | Hank Azaria | The Birdcage | Agador Spartacus |
| 1996 (3rd) | Nathan Lane | The Birdcage | Albert Goldman |
| 1996 (3rd) | William H. Macy | Fargo | Jerry Lundegaard |
| 1996 (3rd) | Noah Taylor | Shine | David Helfgott – Adolescent |
| 1997 (4th) | Robin Williams ‡ | Good Will Hunting | Sean Maguire |
| 1997 (4th) | Billy Connolly | Mrs Brown | John Brown |
| 1997 (4th) | Anthony Hopkins | Amistad | John Quincy Adams |
| 1997 (4th) | Greg Kinnear | As Good as It Gets | Simon Bishop |
| 1997 (4th) | Burt Reynolds | Boogie Nights | Jack Horner |
| 1998 (5th) | Robert Duvall | A Civil Action | Jerome Facher |
| 1998 (5th) | James Coburn ‡ | Affliction | Glen Whitehouse |
| 1998 (5th) | David Kelly | Waking Ned Devine | Michael O'Sullivan |
| 1998 (5th) | Geoffrey Rush | Shakespeare in Love | Philip Henslowe |
| 1998 (5th) | Billy Bob Thornton | A Simple Plan | Jacob Mitchell |
| 1999 (6th) | Michael Caine ‡ | The Cider House Rules | Dr. Wilbur Larch |
| 1999 (6th) | Chris Cooper | American Beauty | Col. Frank Fitts |
| 1999 (6th) | Tom Cruise | Magnolia | Frank T.J. Mackey |
| 1999 (6th) | Michael Clarke Duncan | The Green Mile | John Coffey |
| 1999 (6th) | Haley Joel Osment | The Sixth Sense | Cole Sear |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role(s) |
| 2000 (7th) | Albert Finney | Erin Brockovich | Edward L. Masry |
| 2000 (7th) | Jeff Bridges | The Contender | President Jackson Evans |
| 2000 (7th) | Willem Dafoe | Shadow of the Vampire | Max Schreck |
| 2000 (7th) | Gary Oldman | The Contender | Shelly Runyon |
| 2000 (7th) | Joaquin Phoenix | Gladiator | Commodus |
| 2001 (8th) | Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf |
| 2001 (8th) | Jim Broadbent ‡ | Iris | John Bayley |
| 2001 (8th) | Hayden Christensen | Life as a House | Sam Monroe |
| 2001 (8th) | Ethan Hawke | Training Day | Jake Hoyt |
| 2001 (8th) | Ben Kingsley | Sexy Beast | Don Logan |
| 2002 (9th) | Christopher Walken | Catch Me If You Can | Frank Abagnale Sr. |
| 2002 (9th) | Chris Cooper ‡ | Adaptation. | John Laroche |
| 2002 (9th) | Ed Harris | The Hours | Richard Brown |
| 2002 (9th) | Alfred Molina | Frida | Diego Rivera |
| 2002 (9th) | Dennis Quaid | Far from Heaven | Frank Whitaker |
| 2003 (10th) | Tim Robbins ‡ | Mystic River | Dave Boyle |
| 2003 (10th) | Alec Baldwin | The Cooler | Shelly Kaplow |
| 2003 (10th) | Chris Cooper | Seabiscuit | Tom Smith |
| 2003 (10th) | Benicio del Toro | 21 Grams | Jack Jordan |
| 2003 (10th) | Ken Watanabe | The Last Samurai | Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto |
| 2004 (11th) | Morgan Freeman ‡ | Million Dollar Baby | Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris |
| 2004 (11th) | Thomas Haden Church | Sideways | Jack Cole |
| 2004 (11th) | Jamie Foxx | Collateral | Max Durocher |
| 2004 (11th) | James Garner | The Notebook | Old Noah Calhoun |
| 2004 (11th) | Freddie Highmore | Finding Neverland | Peter Llewelyn Davies |
| 2005 (12th) | Paul Giamatti | Cinderella Man | Joe Gould |
| 2005 (12th) | Don Cheadle | Crash | Det. Graham Waters |
| 2005 (12th) | Matt Dillon | Crash | Sgt. John Ryan |
| 2005 (12th) | George Clooney ‡ | Syriana | Bob Barnes |
| 2005 (12th) | Jake Gyllenhaal | Brokeback Mountain | Jack Twist |
| 2006 (13th) | Eddie Murphy | Dreamgirls | James "Thunder" Early |
| 2006 (13th) | Alan Arkin ‡ | Little Miss Sunshine | Edwin Hoover |
| 2006 (13th) | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | William "Billy" Costigan, Jr. |
| 2006 (13th) | Jackie Earle Haley | Little Children | Ronald "Ronnie" McGorvey |
| 2006 (13th) | Djimon Hounsou | Blood Diamond | Solomon Vandy |
| 2007 (14th) | Javier Bardem ‡ | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh |
| 2007 (14th) | Casey Affleck | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Robert Ford |
| 2007 (14th) | Hal Holbrook | Into the Wild | Ron Franz |
| 2007 (14th) | Tommy Lee Jones | No Country for Old Men | Ed Tom Bell |
| 2007 (14th) | Tom Wilkinson | Michael Clayton | Arthur Edens |
| 2008 (15th) | Heath Ledger † ‡ | The Dark Knight | Joker |
| 2008 (15th) | Josh Brolin | Milk | Dan White |
| 2008 (15th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder | Kirk Lazarus |
| 2008 (15th) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Doubt | Father Brendan Flynn |
| 2008 (15th) | Dev Patel | Slumdog Millionaire | Jamal Malik |
| 2009 (16th) | Christoph Waltz ‡ | Inglourious Basterds | Col. Hans Landa |
| 2009 (16th) | Matt Damon | Invictus | Francois Pienaar |
| 2009 (16th) | Woody Harrelson | The Messenger | Captain Tony Stone |
| 2009 (16th) | Christopher Plummer | The Last Station | Leo Tolstoy |
| 2009 (16th) | Stanley Tucci | The Lovely Bones | George Harvey |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role(s) |
| 2010 (17th) | Christian Bale ‡ | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund |
| 2010 (17th) | John Hawkes | Winter's Bone | Teardrop Dolly |
| 2010 (17th) | Jeremy Renner | The Town | James "Jem" Coughlin |
| 2010 (17th) | Mark Ruffalo | The Kids Are All Right | Paul Hatfield |
| 2010 (17th) | Geoffrey Rush | The King's Speech | Lionel Logue |
| 2011 (18th) | Christopher Plummer ‡ | Beginners | Hal Fields |
| 2011 (18th) | Kenneth Branagh | My Week with Marilyn | Laurence Olivier |
| 2011 (18th) | Armie Hammer | J. Edgar | Clyde Tolson |
| 2011 (18th) | Jonah Hill | Moneyball | Peter Brand |
| 2011 (18th) | Nick Nolte | Warrior | Paddy Conlon |
| 2012 (19th) | Tommy Lee Jones | Lincoln | Thaddeus Stevens |
| 2012 (19th) | Alan Arkin | Argo | Lester Siegel |
| 2012 (19th) | Javier Bardem | Skyfall | Raoul Silva |
| 2012 (19th) | Robert De Niro | Silver Linings Playbook | Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr. |
| 2012 (19th) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Master | Lancaster Dodd |
| 2013 (20th) | Jared Leto ‡ | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon |
| 2013 (20th) | Barkhad Abdi | Captain Phillips | Abduwali Muse |
| 2013 (20th) | Daniel Brühl | Rush | Niki Lauda |
| 2013 (20th) | Michael Fassbender | 12 Years a Slave | Edwin Epps |
| 2013 (20th) | James Gandolfini † | Enough Said | Albert |
| 2014 (21st) | J. K. Simmons ‡ | Whiplash | Terrence Fletcher |
| 2014 (21st) | Robert Duvall | The Judge | Judge Joseph Palmer |
| 2014 (21st) | Ethan Hawke | Boyhood | Mason Evans Sr. |
| 2014 (21st) | Edward Norton | Birdman | Mike Shiner |
| 2014 (21st) | Mark Ruffalo | Foxcatcher | Dave Schultz |
| 2015 (22nd) | Idris Elba | Beasts of No Nation | Commandant |
| 2015 (22nd) | Christian Bale | The Big Short | Michael Burry |
| 2015 (22nd) | Mark Rylance ‡ | Bridge of Spies | Rudolf Abel |
| 2015 (22nd) | Michael Shannon | 99 Homes | Rick Carver |
| 2015 (22nd) | Jacob Tremblay | Room | Jack Newsome |
| 2016 (23rd) | Mahershala Ali ‡ | Moonlight | Juan |
| 2016 (23rd) | Jeff Bridges | Hell or High Water | Marcus Hamilton |
| 2016 (23rd) | Hugh Grant | Florence Foster Jenkins | St. Clair Bayfield |
| 2016 (23rd) | Lucas Hedges | Manchester by the Sea | Patrick Chandler |
| 2016 (23rd) | Dev Patel | Lion | Saroo Brierley |
| 2017 (24th) | Sam Rockwell ‡ | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Jason Dixon |
| 2017 (24th) | Steve Carell | Battle of the Sexes | Bobby Riggs |
| 2017 (24th) | Willem Dafoe | The Florida Project | Bobby Hicks |
| 2017 (24th) | Woody Harrelson | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Sheriff William Willoughby |
| 2017 (24th) | Richard Jenkins | The Shape of Water | Giles |
| 2018 (25th) | Mahershala Ali ‡ | Green Book | Don Shirley |
| 2018 (25th) | Timothée Chalamet | Beautiful Boy | Nic Sheff |
| 2018 (25th) | Adam Driver | BlacKkKlansman | Detective Philip "Flip" Zimmerman |
| 2018 (25th) | Sam Elliott | A Star Is Born | Bobby Maine |
| 2018 (25th) | Richard E. Grant | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock |
| 2019 (26th) | Brad Pitt ‡ | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Cliff Booth |
| 2019 (26th) | Jamie Foxx | Just Mercy | Walter McMillian |
| 2019 (26th) | Tom Hanks | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Fred Rogers |
| 2019 (26th) | Al Pacino | The Irishman | Jimmy Hoffa |
| 2019 (26th) | Joe Pesci | The Irishman | Russell Bufalino |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role(s) |
| 2020 (27th) | Daniel Kaluuya ‡ | Judas and the Black Messiah | Fred Hampton |
| 2020 (27th) | Sacha Baron Cohen | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Abbie Hoffman |
| 2020 (27th) | Chadwick Boseman † | Da 5 Bloods | Norman Earl Holloway |
| 2020 (27th) | Jared Leto | The Little Things | Albert Sparma |
| 2020 (27th) | Leslie Odom Jr. | One Night in Miami... | Sam Cooke |
| 2021 (28th) | Troy Kotsur ‡ | CODA | Frank Rossi |
| 2021 (28th) | Ben Affleck | The Tender Bar | Charlie Maguire |
| 2021 (28th) | Bradley Cooper | Licorice Pizza | Jon Peters |
| 2021 (28th) | Jared Leto | House of Gucci | Paolo Gucci |
| 2021 (28th) | Kodi Smit-McPhee | The Power of the Dog | Peter Gordon |
| 2022 (29th) | Ke Huy Quan ‡ | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Waymond Wang |
| 2022 (29th) | Paul Dano | The Fabelmans | Burt Fabelman |
| 2022 (29th) | Brendan Gleeson | The Banshees of Inisherin | Colm Doherty |
| 2022 (29th) | Barry Keoghan | The Banshees of Inisherin | Dominic Kearney |
| 2022 (29th) | Eddie Redmayne | The Good Nurse | Charles Cullen |
| 2023 (30th) | Robert Downey Jr. ‡ | Oppenheimer | Lewis Strauss |
| 2023 (30th) | Sterling K. Brown | American Fiction | Clifford "Cliff" Ellison |
| 2023 (30th) | Willem Dafoe | Poor Things | Dr. Godwin Baxter |
| 2023 (30th) | Robert De Niro | Killers of the Flower Moon | William King Hale |
| 2023 (30th) | Ryan Gosling | Barbie | Ken |
| 2024 (31st) | Kieran Culkin ‡ | A Real Pain | Benji Kaplan |
| 2024 (31st) | Jonathan Bailey | Wicked | Fiyero |
| 2024 (31st) | Yura Borisov | Anora | Igor |
| 2024 (31st) | Edward Norton | A Complete Unknown | Pete Seeger |
| 2024 (31st) | Jeremy Strong | The Apprentice | Roy Cohn |

## Superlatives

| Superlative | Leading Actor | Leading Actor | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actor | Overall | Overall |
| Actor with most awards | Daniel Day-Lewis | 3 | Mahershala Ali | 2 | Daniel Day-Lewis | 3 |
| Actor with most nominations | Denzel Washington | 6 | Chris Cooper, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto | 3 | Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington | 6 |
| Actor with most nominations without ever winning | George Clooney, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, Viggo Mortensen | 3 | Chris Cooper, Willem Dafoe | 3 | George Clooney | 4 |
| Film with most nominations | The Shawshank Redemption | 2 | The Banshees of Inisherin, The Birdcage, The Contender, Crash, The Irishman, No Country for Old Men, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2 | The Banshees of Inisherin | 3 |
| Oldest winner | Denzel Washington (Fences, 2017) | 62 | Christopher Plummer (Beginners, 2012) | 82 | Christopher Plummer (Beginners, 2012) | 82 |
| Oldest nominee | Anthony Hopkins (The Father, 2021) | 83 | Robert Duvall (The Judge, 2015) | 83 | Robert Duvall (The Judge, 2015) | 83 |
| Youngest winner | Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown, 2024) | 29 | Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight, 2009) | 28 | Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight, 2009) | 28 |
| Youngest nominee | Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, 2001) | 14 | Jacob Tremblay (Room, 2016) | 9 | Jacob Tremblay (Room, 2016) | 9 |

## Multiple winners
### Two awards

* Mahershala Ali (Moonlight (2016), Green Book (2018))

## Multiple nominees

Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.

### Two nominations

* Mahershala Ali (Moonlight (2016), Green Book (2018))
* Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Argo (2012))
* Christian Bale (The Fighter (2010), The Big Short (2015))
* Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men (2007), Skyfall (2012))
* Kenneth Branagh (Othello (1995), My Week With Marilyn (2011))
* Jeff Bridges (The Contender (2000), Hell or High Water (2016))
* Don Cheadle (Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Crash (2005))
* Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023))
* Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder (2008), Oppenheimer (2023))
* Robert Duvall (A Civil Action (1998), The Judge (2014))
* Jamie Foxx (Collateral (2004), Just Mercy (2019))
* Woody Harrelson (The Messenger (2009), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017))
* Ed Harris (Apollo 13 (1995), The Hours (2002))
* Ethan Hawke (Training Day (2001), Boyhood (2014))
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt (2008), The Master (2012))
* Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men (2007), Lincoln (2012))
* Edward Norton (Birdman (2014), A Complete Unknown (2024))
* Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Lion (2016))
* Christopher Plummer (The Last Station (2009), Beginners (2011))
* Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right (2010), Foxcatcher (2014))
* Geoffrey Rush (Shakespeare in Love (1998), The King's Speech (2010))

### Three nominations

* Chris Cooper (American Beauty (1999), Adaptation. (2002), Seabiscuit (2003))
* Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), Poor Things (2023))
* Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club (2013), The Little Things (2020), House of Gucci (2021))