New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award given by the New York Film Critics Circle, honoring the finest achievements in film-making.

New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Current recipient: Kieran Culkin
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Country	United States
Presented by	New York Film Critics Circle
First award	Jack Nicholson Easy Rider (1969)
Currently held by	Kieran Culkin A Real Pain (2024)
Website	nyfcc.com

Winners

1960s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1969	Jack Nicholson	Easy Rider	George Hanson

1970s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1970	Chief Dan George	Little Big Man	Old Lodge Skins
1971	Ben Johnson	The Last Picture Show	Sam the Lion
1972	Robert Duvall	The Godfather	Tom Hagen
1973	Robert De Niro	Mean Streets	Johnny Boy
1974	Charles Boyer	Stavisky	Baron Raoul
1975	Alan Arkin	Hearts of the West	Burt Kessler
1976	Jason Robards	All the President's Men	Ben Bradlee
1977	Maximilian Schell	Julia	Johann
1978	Christopher Walken	The Deer Hunter	Nikonar "Nick" Chevotarevich
1979	Melvyn Douglas	Being There	Benjamin Turnbull Rand

1980s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1980	Joe Pesci	Raging Bull	Joey LaMotta
1981	John Gielgud	Arthur	Hobson
1982	John Lithgow	The World According to Garp	Roberta Muldoon
1983	Jack Nicholson	Terms of Endearment	Garrett Breedlove
1984	Ralph Richardson	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	The 6th Earl of Greystoke
1985	Klaus Maria Brandauer	Out of Africa	Bror von Blixen-Finecke
1986	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Beautiful Laundrette	Johnny Burfoot
		A Room with a View	Cecil Vyse
1987	Morgan Freeman	Street Smart	Fast Black
1988	Dean Stockwell	Married to the Mob	Tony Russo
		Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Howard Hughes
1989	Alan Alda	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Lester

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1990	Bruce Davison	Longtime Companion	David
1991	Samuel L. Jackson	Jungle Fever	Gator Purify
1992	Gene Hackman	Unforgiven	Little Bill Daggett
1993	Ralph Fiennes	Schindler's List	Amon Göth
1994	Martin Landau	Ed Wood	Bela Lugosi
1995	Kevin Spacey	Outbreak	Casey Schuler
		Se7en	John Doe
		Swimming with Sharks	Buddy Ackerman
		The Usual Suspects	Roger "Verbal" Kint
1996	Harry Belafonte	Kansas City	Seldom Seen
1997	Burt Reynolds	Boogie Nights	Jack Horner
1998	Bill Murray	Rushmore	Herman Blume
1999	John Malkovich	Being John Malkovich	John Horatio Malkovich

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2000	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Javier Rodriguez
2001	Steve Buscemi	Ghost World	Seymour Johnson
2002	Dennis Quaid	Far from Heaven	Frank Whitaker
2003	Eugene Levy	A Mighty Wind	Mitch Cohen
2004	Clive Owen	Closer	Larry Gray
2005	William Hurt	A History of Violence	Richard "Richie" Cusack
2006	Jackie Earle Haley	Little Children	Ronald James McGorvey
2007	Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh
2008	Josh Brolin	Milk	Dan White
2009	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Col. Hans Landa

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2010	Mark Ruffalo	The Kids Are All Right	Paul Hatfield
2011	Albert Brooks	Drive	Bernie Rose
2012	Matthew McConaughey	Bernie	Danny Buck Davidson
		Magic Mike	Dallas
2013	Jared Leto	Dallas Buyers Club	Rayon
2014	J. K. Simmons	Whiplash	Terence Fletcher
2015	Mark Rylance	Bridge of Spies	Rudolf Abel
2016	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	Juan
2017	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project	Bobby Hicks[1]
2018	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock[2]
2019	Joe Pesci	The Irishman	Russell Bufalino[3]

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2020	Chadwick Boseman	Da 5 Bloods	Norman Earl "Stormin' Norman" Holloway[4]
2021	Kodi Smit-McPhee	The Power of the Dog	Peter Gordon[5]
2022	Ke Huy Quan	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang[6]
2023	Charles Melton	May December	Joe Yoo[7]
2024	Kieran Culkin	A Real Pain	Benji Kaplan[8]

Multiple awards

2 wins

• Jack Nicholson (1969, 1983)
• Joe Pesci (1980, 2019)

See also

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor
• National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor