Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor is an annual award given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2024 recipient: Kieran Culkin
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Country	United States
Presented by	Chicago Film Critics Association
First award	Martin Landau Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Currently held by	Kieran Culkin A Real Pain (2024)
Website	www.chicagofilmcritics.org

Winners

1980s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
1988	Martin Landau	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Abe Karatz
1989	Danny Aiello	Do the Right Thing	Sal
	Marlon Brando	A Dry White Season	Joe Bella
	Morgan Freeman	Glory	Sergeant Major John Rawlins
	John Goodman	Sea of Love	Det. Sherman Touhey
	Lance Henriksen	Johnny Handsome	Rafe Garrett
	Jack Nicholson	Batman	Jack Napier / The Joker
	Denzel Washington	Glory	Private Silas Trip

1990s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
1990	Joe Pesci	Goodfellas	Tommy DeVito
1991	Harvey Keitel	Bugsy	Mickey Cohen
	Danny Aiello	Once Around	Joe Bella
	Ice Cube	Boyz n the Hood	Darrin "Doughboy" Baker
	Laurence Fishburne	Boyz n the Hood	Furious Styles
	John Goodman	Barton Fink	Charlie Meadows
	Samuel L. Jackson	Jungle Fever	"Gator" Purify
	Michael Lerner	Barton Fink	Jack Lipnick
	Jack Palance	City Slickers	Curly Washburn
	Alan Rickman	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Sheriff of Nottingham
1992	Jack Nicholson	A Few Good Men	Colonel Nathan Jessup
	Al Freeman Jr.	Malcolm X	Elijah Muhammad
	Jeff Goldblum	Deep Cover	David Jason
	Gene Hackman	Unforgiven	Little Bill Daggett
	Al Pacino	Glengarry Glen Ross	Ricky Roma
1993	Ralph Fiennes	Schindler's List	Amon Göth
	Jeff Daniels	Gettysburg	Colonel Joshua Chamberlain
	Tommy Lee Jones	The Fugitive	Marshal Samuel Gerard
	John Malkovich	In the Line of Fire	Mitch Leary
	Sean Penn	Carlito's Way	David Kleinfeld
1994	Martin Landau	Ed Wood	Bela Lugosi
	Morgan Freeman	The Shawshank Redemption	Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
	Anthony Hopkins	The Road to Wellville	Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
	Chazz Palminteri	Bullets Over Broadway	Cheech
	Gary Sinise	Forrest Gump	Lt. Dan Taylor
	John Turturro	Quiz Show	Herb Stempel
1995	Kevin Spacey	The Usual Suspects	Roger "Verbal" Kint
	Don Cheadle	Devil in a Blue Dress	Mouse Alexander
	Gene Hackman	Get Shorty	Harry Zimm
	Ed Harris	Apollo 13	Gene Kranz
	Delroy Lindo	Clockers	Rodney Little
1996	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Jerry Maguire	Rod Tidwell
	Steve Buscemi	Fargo	Carl Showalter
	Nathan Lane	The Birdcage	Albert Goldman
	Edward Norton	Primal Fear	Aaron Stampler
	James Woods	Ghosts of Mississippi	Byron De La Beckwith
1997	Burt Reynolds	Boogie Nights	Jack Horner
	Robert Forster	Jackie Brown	Max Cherry
	Anthony Hopkins	Amistad	John Quincy Adams
	Greg Kinnear	As Good as It Gets	Simon Bishop
	Kevin Spacey	L.A. Confidential	Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes
1998	Billy Bob Thornton	A Simple Plan	Jacob Mitchell
	Michael Caine	Little Voice	Ray Say
	Robert Duvall	A Civil Action	Jerome Facher
	Bill Murray	Rushmore	Herman Blume
	Nick Nolte	The Thin Red Line	Lt. Col. Gordon Tall
1999	Tom Cruise	Magnolia	Frank T.J. Mackey
	Michael Clarke Duncan	The Green Mile	John Coffey
	John Malkovich	Being John Malkovich	John Horatio Malkovich
	Haley Joel Osment	The Sixth Sense	Cole Sear
	Christopher Plummer	The Insider	Mike Wallace

2000s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2000	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Javier Rodriguez
	Jack Black	High Fidelity	Barry
	Willem Dafoe	Shadow of the Vampire	Max Schreck
	Albert Finney	Erin Brockovich	Edward L. Masry
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Almost Famous	Lester Bangs
2001	Steve Buscemi	Ghost World	Seymour
	Ben Kingsley	Sexy Beast	Don Logan
	Jude Law	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Gigolo Joe
	Tony Shalhoub	The Man Who Wasn't There	Freddy Riedenschneider
	Jon Voight	Ali	Howard Cosell
2002	Dennis Quaid	Far from Heaven	Frank Whitaker
	Chris Cooper	Adaptation	John Laroche
	Willem Dafoe	Auto Focus	John Henry Carpenter
	Alfred Molina	Frida	Diego Rivera
	Paul Newman	Road to Perdition	John Rooney
2003	Tim Robbins	Mystic River	Dave Boyle
	Sean Astin	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Samwise Gamgee
	Alec Baldwin	The Cooler	Shelly Kaplow
	Benicio del Toro	21 Grams	Jack Jordan
	Peter Sarsgaard	Shattered Glass	Chuck Lane
	Andy Serkis	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Sméagol/Gollum
2004	Thomas Haden Church	Sideways	Jack
2005	Mickey Rourke	Sin City	Marv
	Matt Dillon	Crash	Officer John Ryan
	Terrence Howard	Crash	Cameron Thayer
	Paul Giamatti	Cinderella Man	Joe Gould
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Brokeback Mountain	Jack Twist
	Donald Sutherland	Pride & Prejudice	Mr. Bennet
2006	Jackie Earle Haley	Little Children	Ronald J. McGorvey
	Ben Affleck	Hollywoodland	George Reeves
	Eddie Murphy	Dreamgirls	James "Thunder" Early
	Jack Nicholson	The Departed	Frank Costello
	Brad Pitt	Babel	Richard Jones
	Michael Sheen	The Queen	Tony Blair
2007	Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh
	Casey Affleck	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Robert Ford
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Charlie Wilson's War	Gust Avrakotos
	Hal Holbrook	Into the Wild	Ron Franz
	Tom Wilkinson	Michael Clayton	Arthur Edens
2008	Heath Ledger (posthumous)	The Dark Knight	The Joker
	Robert Downey Jr.	Tropic Thunder	Kirk Lazarus
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Doubt	Father Brendan Flynn
	Bill Irwin	Rachel Getting Married	Paul
	Michael Shannon	Revolutionary Road	John Givings, Jr.
2009	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Col. Hans Landa
	Peter Capaldi	In the Loop	Malcolm Tucker
	Woody Harrelson	The Messenger	Capt. Tony Stone
	Christian McKay	Me and Orson Welles	Orson Welles
	Stanley Tucci	The Lovely Bones	George Harvey

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2010	Christian Bale	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund
	Andrew Garfield	The Social Network	Eduardo Saverin
	John Hawkes	Winter's Bone	Teardrop Dolly
	Mark Ruffalo	The Kids Are All Right	Paul Hatfield
	Geoffrey Rush	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue
2011	Albert Brooks	Drive	Bernie Rose
	Nick Nolte	Warrior	Paddy Conlon
	Patton Oswalt	Young Adult	Matt Freehauf
	Brad Pitt	The Tree of Life	Mr. O'Brien
	Christopher Plummer	Beginners	Hal Fields
2012	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master	Lancaster Dodd
	Jason Clarke	Zero Dark Thirty	Dan
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Django Unchained	Calvin Candie
	Dwight Henry	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Wink
	Tommy Lee Jones	Lincoln	Thaddeus Stevens
2013	Jared Leto	Dallas Buyers Club	Rayon
	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips	Abduwali Muse
	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave	Edwin Epps
	James Franco	Spring Breakers	Alien
	James Gandolfini	Enough Said	Albert
2014	J. K. Simmons	Whiplash	Terence Fletcher
	Josh Brolin	Inherent Vice	Lt. Det. Christian "Bigfoot" Bjornsen
	Ethan Hawke	Boyhood	Mason Evans, Sr.
	Edward Norton	Birdman	Mike Shiner
	Mark Ruffalo	Foxcatcher	Dave Schultz
2015	Benicio Del Toro	Sicario	Alejandro
	Sam Elliott	Grandma	Karl
	Mark Rylance	Bridge of Spies	Rudolf Abel
	Michael Shannon	99 Homes	Rick Carver
	Sylvester Stallone	Creed	Rocky Balboa
2016	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	Juan
	Alden Ehrenreich	Hail, Caesar!	Hobie Doyle
	Ben Foster	Hell or High Water	Tanner Howard
	Lucas Hedges	Manchester by the Sea	Patrick Chandler
	Trevante Rhodes	Moonlight	Chiron/"Black"
	Michael Shannon	Nocturnal Animals	Detective Bobby Andes
2017	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project	Bobby Hicks
	Armie Hammer	Call Me by Your Name	Oliver
	Jason Mitchell	Mudbound	Ronsel Jackson
	Sam Rockwell	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Jason Dixon
	Michael Stuhlbarg	Call Me by Your Name	Mr. Perlman
2018	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock
	Mahershala Ali	Green Book	Dr. Don Shirley
	Timothée Chalamet	Beautiful Boy	Nic Scheff
	Michael B. Jordan	Black Panther	Erik Killmonger
	Steven Yeun	Burning	Ben
2019	Brad Pitt	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Cliff Booth
	Tom Hanks	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Fred Rogers
	Shia LaBeouf	Honey Boy	James Lort
	Al Pacino	The Irishman	Jimmy Hoffa
	Joe Pesci	The Irishman	Russell Bufalino

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2020	Paul Raci	Sound of Metal	Joe
	Chadwick Boseman	Da 5 Bloods	"Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway
	Bill Murray	On the Rocks	Felix Keane
	Leslie Odom Jr.	One Night in Miami...	Sam Cooke
	David Strathairn	Nomadland	David
2021	Kodi Smit-McPhee	The Power of the Dog	Peter Gordon
	Bradley Cooper	Licorice Pizza	Jon Peters
	Colman Domingo	Zola	Abegunde “X” Olawale
	Mike Faist	West Side Story	Riff
	Jeffrey Wright	The French Dispatch	Roebuck Wright
2022	Ke Huy Quan	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang
	Brendan Gleeson	The Banshees of Inisherin	Colm Doherty
	Brian Tyree Henry	Causeway	James Aucoin
	Barry Keoghan	The Banshees of Inisherin	Dominic Kearney
	Mark Rylance	Bones and All	Sully
2023	Charles Melton	May December	Joe Yoo
	Robert Downey Jr.	Oppenheimer	Lewis Strauss
	Ryan Gosling	Barbie	Ken
	Glenn Howerton	BlackBerry	Jim Balsillie
	Mark Ruffalo	Poor Things	Duncan Wedderburn
2024	Kieran Culkin	A Real Pain	Benji Kaplan
	Yura Borisov	Anora	Igor
	Clarence Maclin	Sing Sing	Himself
	Guy Pearce	The Brutalist	Harrison Lee Van Buren
	Adam Pearson	A Different Man	Oswald

External links

• Chicago Film Critics Awards - 1998-07
• Chicago Film Critics Awards - 2008-