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.

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2024 recipient: Kieran Culkin
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Broadcast Film Critics Association
Currently held by	Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain (2024)
Website	www.criticschoice.com

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

Ed Harris tied with Kevin Spacey being the first recipients of this award

Kevin Spacey tied with Ed Harris being the first recipients of this award

Cuba Gooding Jr. won for Jerry Maguire (1997

Sir Ben Kingsley won for Sexy Beast (2001)

Paul Giamatti won for Cinderella Man (2004)

Javier Bardem won for No Country for Old Men (2007)

Heath Ledger won for The Dark Knight (2008)

Christoph Waltz won for Inglorious Basterds (2009)

Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2009)

Philip Seymour Hoffman won for The Master (2012)

J.K. Simmons won for Whiplash (2014)

Mahershala Ali won twice for Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018)

Sam Rockwell won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017)

Brad Pitt won for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Daniel Kaluuya won for Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)

Ke Huy Quan won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Robert Downey Jr. won for Oppenheimer (2023)

1990s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
1995	Ed Harris (TIE)	Gene Kranz	Apollo 13
	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
	Jim Broadbent	John Bayley	Iris
	Jon Voight	Howard Cosell	Ali
2002	Chris Cooper	John Laroche	Adaptation.
	Alfred Molina	Diego Rivera	Frida
	Paul Newman	John Rooney	Road to Perdition
2003	Tim Robbins	Dave Boyle	Mystic River
	Alec Baldwin	Shelly Kaplow	The Cooler
	Paul Bettany	Dr. Stephen Marturin	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
	Benicio del Toro	Jack Jordan	21 Grams
	Ken Watanabe	Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto	The Last Samurai
2004	Thomas Haden Church	Jack Cole	Sideways
	Jamie Foxx	Max Durocher	Collateral
	Morgan Freeman	Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris	Million Dollar Baby
	Clive Owen	Larry Gray	Closer
	Peter Sarsgaard	Clyde Martin	Kinsey
2005	Paul Giamatti	Joe Gould	Cinderella Man
	Matt Dillon	Sgt. John Ryan	Crash
	Terrence Howard	Cameron Thayer
	George Clooney	Bob Barnes	Syriana
	Kevin Costner	Denny Davies	The Upside of Anger
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Jack Twist	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Eddie Murphy	James "Thunder" Early	Dreamgirls
	Ben Affleck	George Reeves	Hollywoodland
	Alan Arkin	Edwin Hoover	Little Miss Sunshine
	Adam Beach	Ira Hayes	Flags of Our Fathers
	Djimon Hounsou	Solomon Vandy	Blood Diamond
	Jack Nicholson	Francis "Frank" Costello	The Departed
2007	Javier Bardem	Anton Chigurh	No Country for Old Men
	Casey Affleck	Robert Ford	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Gust Avrakotos	Charlie Wilson's War
	Hal Holbrook	Ron Franz	Into the Wild
	Tom Wilkinson	Arthur Edens	Michael Clayton
2008	Heath Ledger (posthumously)	Joker	The Dark Knight
	Josh Brolin	Dan White	Milk
	James Franco	Scott Smith
	Robert Downey Jr.	Kirk Lazarus	Tropic Thunder
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Father Brendan Flynn	Doubt
2009 [1]	Christoph Waltz	Col. Hans Landa	Inglourious Basterds
	Matt Damon	Francois Pienaar	Invictus
	Woody Harrelson	Cpt. Tony Stone	The Messenger
	Christian McKay	Orson Welles	Me and Orson Welles
	Alfred Molina	Jack Mellor	An Education
	Stanley Tucci	George Harvey	The Lovely Bones

2010s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2010 [2]	Christian Bale	Richard "Dicky" Eklund Jr.	The Fighter
	Andrew Garfield	Eduardo Saverin	The Social Network
	Jeremy Renner	James "Jem" Coughlin	The Town
	Sam Rockwell	Kenny Waters	Conviction
	Mark Ruffalo	Paul Hatfield	The Kids Are All Right
	Geoffrey Rush	Lionel Logue	The King's Speech
2011 [3][4]	Christopher Plummer	Hal Fields	Beginners
	Kenneth Branagh	Laurence Olivier	My Week with Marilyn
	Albert Brooks	Bernie Rose	Drive
	Nick Nolte	Paddy Conlon	Warrior
	Patton Oswalt	Matt Freehauf	Young Adult
	Andy Serkis	Caesar	Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2012 [5]	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Lancaster Dodd	The Master
	Alan Arkin	Lester Siegel	Argo
	Javier Bardem	Raoul Silva	Skyfall
	Robert De Niro	Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr.	Silver Linings Playbook
	Tommy Lee Jones	Thaddeus Stevens	Lincoln
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas	Magic Mike
2013 [6][7]	Jared Leto	Rayon	Dallas Buyers Club
	Barkhad Abdi	Abduwali Muse	Captain Phillips
	Daniel Brühl	Niki Lauda	Rush
	Bradley Cooper	FBI Agent Richard "Richie" DiMaso	American Hustle
	Michael Fassbender	Edwin Epps	12 Years a Slave
	James Gandolfini	Albert	Enough Said
2014 [8]	J. K. Simmons	Terence Fletcher	Whiplash
	Josh Brolin	Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen	Inherent Vice
	Robert Duvall	Judge Joseph Palmer	The Judge
	Ethan Hawke	Mason Evans Sr.	Boyhood
	Edward Norton	Mike Shiner	Birdman
	Mark Ruffalo	Dave Schultz	Foxcatcher
2015 [9][10]	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky Balboa	Creed
	Paul Dano	Brian Wilson	Love & Mercy
	Tom Hardy	John Fitzgerald	The Revenant
	Mark Ruffalo	Michael Rezendes	Spotlight
	Mark Rylance	Rudolf Abel	Bridge of Spies
	Michael Shannon	Rick Carver	99 Homes
2016 [11]	Mahershala Ali	Juan	Moonlight
	Jeff Bridges	Marcus Hamilton	Hell or High Water
	Ben Foster	Tanner Howard
	Lucas Hedges	Patrick Chandler	Manchester by the Sea
	Dev Patel	Saroo Brierley	Lion
	Michael Shannon	Detective Bobby Andes	Nocturnal Animals
2017 [12][13]	Sam Rockwell	Officer Jason Dixon	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
	Armie Hammer	Oliver	Call Me by Your Name
	Michael Stuhlbarg	Mr. Perlman
	Willem Dafoe	Bobby Hicks	The Florida Project
	Richard Jenkins	Giles	The Shape of Water
	Patrick Stewart	Professor Charles Xavier	Logan
2018 [14][15]	Mahershala Ali	Don Shirley	Green Book
	Timothée Chalamet	Nic Sheff	Beautiful Boy
	Adam Driver	Flip Zimmerman	BlacKkKlansman
	Sam Elliott	Bobby Maine	A Star Is Born
	Richard E. Grant	Jack Hock	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
	Michael B. Jordan	N'Jadaka / Erik "Killmonger" Stevens	Black Panther
2019 [16]	Brad Pitt	Cliff Booth	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Al Pacino	Jimmy Hoffa	The Irishman
	Joe Pesci	Russell Bufalino
	Willem Dafoe	Thomas Wake	The Lighthouse
	Tom Hanks	Fred Rogers	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
	Anthony Hopkins	Pope Benedict XVI	The Two Popes

2020s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2020 [17][18]	Daniel Kaluuya	Fred Hampton	Judas and the Black Messiah
	Sacha Baron Cohen	Abbie Hoffman	The Trial of the Chicago 7
	Chadwick Boseman	"Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway	Da 5 Bloods
	Bill Murray	Felix Keane	On the Rocks
	Leslie Odom Jr.	Sam Cooke	One Night in Miami...
	Paul Raci	Joe	Sound of Metal
2021 [19]	Troy Kotsur	Frank Rossi	CODA
	Jamie Dornan	Pa	Belfast
	Ciarán Hinds	Pop
	Jared Leto	Paolo Gucci	House of Gucci
	J. K. Simmons	William Frawley	Being the Ricardos
	Kodi Smit-McPhee	Peter Gordon	The Power of the Dog
2022 [20]	Ke Huy Quan	Waymond Wang	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Judd Hirsch	Boris Podgorny	The Fabelmans
	Paul Dano	Burt Fabelman
	Brendan Gleeson	Colm Doherty	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Barry Keoghan	Dominic Kearney
	Brian Tyree Henry	James	Causeway
2023	Robert Downey Jr.	Lewis Strauss	Oppenheimer
	Sterling K. Brown	Clifford "Cliff" Ellison	American Fiction
	Robert De Niro	William King Hale	Killers of the Flower Moon
	Ryan Gosling	Ken	Barbie
	Charles Melton	Joe Yoo	May December
	Mark Ruffalo	Duncan Wedderburn	Poor Things
2024	Kieran Culkin	Benji Kaplan	A Real Pain
	Yura Borisov	Igor	Anora
	Clarence Maclin	himself	Sing Sing
	Edward Norton	Pete Seeger	A Complete Unknown
	Guy Pearce	Harrison Lee Van Buren	The Brutalist
	Denzel Washington	Macrinus	Gladiator II

Multiple nominees

2 nominations Mahershala Ali Alan Arkin Javier Bardem Josh Brolin Willem Dafoe Paul Dano Robert De Niro Robert Downey Jr. Anthony Hopkins Jared Leto Alfred Molina Edward Norton Sam Rockwell J. K. Simmons Michael Shannon

3 nominations Philip Seymour Hoffman 4 nominations Mark Ruffalo

Multiple winners

2 wins

• Mahershala Ali

See also

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role