Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor is an annual award given by the Detroit Film Critics Society to honor the best supporting actor of that year.

Winners

  indicates the winners.

• † indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

2000s

Year	Actor	Film
2007 [1]	Javier Bardem †	No Country for Old Men
	Casey Affleck	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
	Paul Dano	There Will Be Blood
	Hal Holbrook	Into the Wild
	Tom Wilkinson	Michael Clayton
2008 [2]	Heath Ledger †	The Dark Knight
	Robert Downey Jr.	Tropic Thunder
	James Franco	Pineapple Express
	Eddie Marsan	Happy-Go-Lucky
	Michael Shannon	Revolutionary Road
2009 [3]	Christoph Waltz †	Inglourious Basterds[4]
	Woody Harrelson	The Messenger
	Woody Harrelson	Zombieland
	Christian McKay	Me and Orson Welles
	Stanley Tucci	The Lovely Bones

2010s

Year	Actor	Film
2010 [5]	Christian Bale †	The Fighter[6]
	Andrew Garfield	The Social Network
	John Hawkes	Winter's Bone
	Sam Rockwell	Conviction
	Mark Ruffalo	The Kids Are All Right
	Geoffrey Rush	The King's Speech
2011 [7]	Christopher Plummer †	Beginners
	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn
	Albert Brooks	Drive
	Ryan Gosling	Crazy, Stupid, Love
	Patton Oswalt	Young Adult
2012 [8]	Robert De Niro	Silver Linings Playbook
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master
	Tommy Lee Jones	Lincoln
	Matthew McConaughey	Magic Mike
	Ewan McGregor	The Impossible
	Ezra Miller	The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2013 [9]	Jared Leto †	Dallas Buyers Club[10]
	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips
	James Franco	Spring Breakers
	Matthew McConaughey	Mud
	Stanley Tucci	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 [11]	J. K. Simmons †	Whiplash
	Josh Brolin	Inherent Vice
	Ethan Hawke	Boyhood
	Edward Norton	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
	Mark Ruffalo	Foxcatcher
2015 [12]	Liev Schreiber	Spotlight
	Paul Dano	Love & Mercy
	Benicio Del Toro	Sicario
	Oscar Isaac	Ex Machina
	Jacob Tremblay	Room
2016 [13]	Jeff Bridges	Hell or High Water
	Mahershala Ali †	Moonlight
	Alden Ehrenreich	Hail, Caesar!
	Ralph Fiennes	A Bigger Splash
	Lucas Hedges	Manchester by the Sea
2017 [14]	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project
	Richard Jenkins	The Shape of Water
	Sam Rockwell †	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
	Patrick Stewart	Logan
	Michael Stuhlbarg	Call Me by Your Name
2018 [15]	Josh Hamilton	Eighth Grade[16]
	Mahershala Ali †	Green Book
	Sam Elliott	A Star is Born
	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
	Jesse Plemons	Game Night
2019 [17]	Joe Pesci	The Irishman
	Willem Dafoe	The Lighthouse
	Tom Hanks	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
	Brad Pitt †	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Sam Rockwell	Richard Jewell
	Wesley Snipes	Dolemite Is My Name

2020s

• 2020: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah^[18]
• 2021: Jon Bernthal, King Richard