# Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards for a performance in a motion picture. It was first presented in 1995 with the winners being a tie between Ed Harris for Apollo 13 and Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects. There were no official nominees until 2001, currently six nominees are usually presented.
Mahershala Ali is the only actor who has received this award more than once, with two wins. Mark Ruffalo holds the record of most nominations in the category with four.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
| 1995 | Ed Harris (TIE) | Gene Kranz | Apollo 13 |
| 1995 | Kevin Spacey (TIE) | Roger "Verbal" Kint / Keyser Söze | The Usual Suspects |
| 1996 | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Rodney "Rod" Tidwell | Jerry Maguire |
| 1997 | Anthony Hopkins | John Quincy Adams | Amistad |
| 1998 | Billy Bob Thornton | Jacob Mitchell | A Simple Plan |
| 1999 | Michael Clarke Duncan | John Coffey | The Green Mile |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
| 2000 | Joaquin Phoenix | Commodus / Abbé du Coulmier / Willie Gutierrez | Gladiator / Quills / The Yards |
| 2001 | Ben Kingsley | Don Logan | Sexy Beast |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent | John Bayley | Iris |
| 2001 | Jon Voight | Howard Cosell | Ali |
| 2002 | Chris Cooper | John Laroche | Adaptation. |
| 2002 | Alfred Molina | Diego Rivera | Frida |
| 2002 | Paul Newman | John Rooney | Road to Perdition |
| 2003 | Tim Robbins | Dave Boyle | Mystic River |
| 2003 | Alec Baldwin | Shelly Kaplow | The Cooler |
| 2003 | Paul Bettany | Dr. Stephen Marturin | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| 2003 | Benicio del Toro | Jack Jordan | 21 Grams |
| 2003 | Ken Watanabe | Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto | The Last Samurai |
| 2004 | Thomas Haden Church | Jack Cole | Sideways |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Max Durocher | Collateral |
| 2004 | Morgan Freeman | Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2004 | Clive Owen | Larry Gray | Closer |
| 2004 | Peter Sarsgaard | Clyde Martin | Kinsey |
| 2005 | Paul Giamatti | Joe Gould | Cinderella Man |
| 2005 | Matt Dillon | Sgt. John Ryan | Crash |
| 2005 | Terrence Howard | Cameron Thayer | Crash |
| 2005 | George Clooney | Bob Barnes | Syriana |
| 2005 | Kevin Costner | Denny Davies | The Upside of Anger |
| 2005 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Jack Twist | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2006 | Eddie Murphy | James "Thunder" Early | Dreamgirls |
| 2006 | Ben Affleck | George Reeves | Hollywoodland |
| 2006 | Alan Arkin | Edwin Hoover | Little Miss Sunshine |
| 2006 | Adam Beach | Ira Hayes | Flags of Our Fathers |
| 2006 | Djimon Hounsou | Solomon Vandy | Blood Diamond |
| 2006 | Jack Nicholson | Francis "Frank" Costello | The Departed |
| 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 | Hal Holbrook | Ron Franz | Into the Wild |
| 2007 | Tom Wilkinson | Arthur Edens | Michael Clayton |
| 2008 | Heath Ledger (posthumously) | Joker | The Dark Knight |
| 2008 | Josh Brolin | Dan White | Milk |
| 2008 | James Franco | Scott Smith | Milk |
| 2008 | Robert Downey Jr. | Kirk Lazarus | Tropic Thunder |
| 2008 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Father Brendan Flynn | Doubt |
| 2009 | Christoph Waltz | Col. Hans Landa | Inglourious Basterds |
| 2009 | Matt Damon | Francois Pienaar | Invictus |
| 2009 | Woody Harrelson | Cpt. Tony Stone | The Messenger |
| 2009 | Christian McKay | Orson Welles | Me and Orson Welles |
| 2009 | Alfred Molina | Jack Mellor | An Education |
| 2009 | Stanley Tucci | George Harvey | The Lovely Bones |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
| 2010 | Christian Bale | Richard "Dicky" Eklund Jr. | The Fighter |
| 2010 | Andrew Garfield | Eduardo Saverin | The Social Network |
| 2010 | Jeremy Renner | James "Jem" Coughlin | The Town |
| 2010 | Sam Rockwell | Kenny Waters | Conviction |
| 2010 | Mark Ruffalo | Paul Hatfield | The Kids Are All Right |
| 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 | Nick Nolte | Paddy Conlon | Warrior |
| 2011 | Patton Oswalt | Matt Freehauf | Young Adult |
| 2011 | Andy Serkis | Caesar | Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
| 2012 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Lancaster Dodd | The Master |
| 2012 | Alan Arkin | Lester Siegel | Argo |
| 2012 | Javier Bardem | Raoul Silva | Skyfall |
| 2012 | Robert De Niro | Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr. | Silver Linings Playbook |
| 2012 | Tommy Lee Jones | Thaddeus Stevens | Lincoln |
| 2012 | Matthew McConaughey | Dallas | Magic Mike |
| 2013 | Jared Leto | Rayon | Dallas Buyers Club |
| 2013 | Barkhad Abdi | Abduwali Muse | Captain Phillips |
| 2013 | Daniel Brühl | Niki Lauda | Rush |
| 2013 | Bradley Cooper | FBI Agent Richard "Richie" DiMaso | American Hustle |
| 2013 | Michael Fassbender | Edwin Epps | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2013 | James Gandolfini | Albert | Enough Said |
| 2014 | J. K. Simmons | Terence Fletcher | Whiplash |
| 2014 | Josh Brolin | Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen | Inherent Vice |
| 2014 | Robert Duvall | Judge Joseph Palmer | The Judge |
| 2014 | Ethan Hawke | Mason Evans Sr. | Boyhood |
| 2014 | Edward Norton | Mike Shiner | Birdman |
| 2014 | Mark Ruffalo | Dave Schultz | Foxcatcher |
| 2015 | Sylvester Stallone | Rocky Balboa | Creed |
| 2015 | Paul Dano | Brian Wilson | Love & Mercy |
| 2015 | Tom Hardy | John Fitzgerald | The Revenant |
| 2015 | Mark Ruffalo | Michael Rezendes | Spotlight |
| 2015 | Mark Rylance | Rudolf Abel | Bridge of Spies |
| 2015 | Michael Shannon | Rick Carver | 99 Homes |
| 2016 | Mahershala Ali | Juan | Moonlight |
| 2016 | Jeff Bridges | Marcus Hamilton | Hell or High Water |
| 2016 | Ben Foster | Tanner Howard | Hell or High Water |
| 2016 | Lucas Hedges | Patrick Chandler | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2016 | Dev Patel | Saroo Brierley | Lion |
| 2016 | Michael Shannon | Detective Bobby Andes | Nocturnal Animals |
| 2017 | Sam Rockwell | Officer Jason Dixon | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2017 | Armie Hammer | Oliver | Call Me by Your Name |
| 2017 | Michael Stuhlbarg | Mr. Perlman | Call Me by Your Name |
| 2017 | Willem Dafoe | Bobby Hicks | The Florida Project |
| 2017 | Richard Jenkins | Giles | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 | Patrick Stewart | Professor Charles Xavier | Logan |
| 2018 | Mahershala Ali | Don Shirley | Green Book |
| 2018 | Timothée Chalamet | Nic Sheff | Beautiful Boy |
| 2018 | Adam Driver | Flip Zimmerman | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2018 | Sam Elliott | Bobby Maine | A Star Is Born |
| 2018 | Richard E. Grant | Jack Hock | Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| 2018 | Michael B. Jordan | N'Jadaka / Erik "Killmonger" Stevens | Black Panther |
| 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 | Willem Dafoe | Thomas Wake | The Lighthouse |
| 2019 | Tom Hanks | Fred Rogers | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood |
| 2019 | Anthony Hopkins | Pope Benedict XVI | The Two Popes |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
| 2020 | Daniel Kaluuya | Fred Hampton | Judas and the Black Messiah |
| 2020 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Abbie Hoffman | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman | "Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway | Da 5 Bloods |
| 2020 | Bill Murray | Felix Keane | On the Rocks |
| 2020 | Leslie Odom Jr. | Sam Cooke | One Night in Miami... |
| 2020 | Paul Raci | Joe | Sound of Metal |
| 2021 | Troy Kotsur | Frank Rossi | CODA |
| 2021 | Jamie Dornan | Pa | Belfast |
| 2021 | Ciarán Hinds | Pop | Belfast |
| 2021 | Jared Leto | Paolo Gucci | House of Gucci |
| 2021 | J. K. Simmons | William Frawley | Being the Ricardos |
| 2021 | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Peter Gordon | The Power of the Dog |
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan | Waymond Wang | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2022 | Judd Hirsch | Boris Podgorny | The Fabelmans |
| 2022 | Paul Dano | Burt Fabelman | The Fabelmans |
| 2022 | Brendan Gleeson | Colm Doherty | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Barry Keoghan | Dominic Kearney | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Brian Tyree Henry | James | Causeway |
| 2023 | Robert Downey Jr. | Lewis Strauss | Oppenheimer |
| 2023 | Sterling K. Brown | Clifford "Cliff" Ellison | American Fiction |
| 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 | Benji Kaplan | A Real Pain |
| 2024 | Yura Borisov | Igor | Anora |
| 2024 | Clarence Maclin | himself | Sing Sing |
| 2024 | Edward Norton | Pete Seeger | A Complete Unknown |
| 2024 | Guy Pearce | Harrison Lee Van Buren | The Brutalist |
| 2024 | Denzel Washington | Macrinus | Gladiator II |

## Multiple winners
### 2 wins

* Mahershala Ali