Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor

The following is a list of Saturn Award winners and nominees for Best Supporting Actor (in a film). Burgess Meredith, Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis are the only actors that have won the award twice, while only Javier Bardem, Heath Ledger, and Ke Huy Quan have won both the Saturn Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same performance.

Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
Awarded for	Best performance of the year by a male in a supporting role in a genre film
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
First award	1974/75
Currently held by	Hugh Jackman for Deadpool & Wolverine (2023/2024)
Website	www.saturnawards.org

Winners and nominees

1970s

Year	Actor	Motion Picture	Character
1974/1975 (3rd)	Marty Feldman	Young Frankenstein	Igor
1976 (4th)	Jay Robinson	Train Ride to Hollywood	Dracula
1977 (5th)	Alec Guinness	Star Wars	Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
	Red Buttons	Pete's Dragon	Hoagy
	Peter Cushing	Star Wars	Grand Moff Tarkin
	Burgess Meredith	The Sentinel	Charles Chazen
	Woody Strode	Kingdom of the Spiders	Walter Colby
1978 (6th)	Burgess Meredith	Magic	Ben Greene
	Michael Ansara	The Manitou	John Singing Rock
	Michael Jackson	The Wiz	Scarecrow
	James Mason	Heaven Can Wait	Mr. Jordan
	Leonard Nimoy	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Dr. David Kibner
1979 (7th)	Arte Johnson	Love at First Bite	Renfield
	Richard Kiel	Moonraker	Jaws
	Leonard Nimoy	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Spock
	Donald Pleasence	Dracula	Dr. Jack Seward
	David Warner	Time After Time	John Leslie Stevenson/Jack the Ripper

1980s

Year	Actor	Motion Picture	Character
1980 (8th)	Scatman Crothers	The Shining	Dick Hallorann
	Melvyn Douglas	The Changeling	Senator Joseph Carmichael
	Martin Gabel	The First Deadly Sin	Christopher Langley
	Max von Sydow	Flash Gordon	The Emperor Ming
	Billy Dee Williams	The Empire Strikes Back	Lando Calrissian
1981 (9th)	Burgess Meredith	Clash of the Titans	Ammon
	Paul Freeman	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Dr. René Belloq
	Ralph Richardson	Dragonslayer	Ulrich of Craggenmoor
	Craig Warnock	Time Bandits	Kevin
	Nicol Williamson	Excalibur	Merlin
1982 (10th)	Richard Lynch	The Sword and the Sorcerer	Titus Cromwell
	Rutger Hauer	Blade Runner	Roy Batty
	Walter Koenig	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	Pavel Chekov
	Roddy McDowall	Class of 1984	Terry Corrigan
	Bruce Spence	Mad Max 2	The Gyro Captain
1983 (11th)	John Lithgow	Twilight Zone: The Movie (Segment #4)	John Valentine
	Scatman Crothers	Twilight Zone: The Movie (Segment #2)	Mr. Bloom
	Jonathan Pryce	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Mr. Dark
	Billy Dee Williams	Return of the Jedi	Lando Calrissian
	John Wood	WarGames	Dr. Stephen Falken
1984 (12th)	Tracey Walter	Repo Man	Miller
	John Candy	Splash	Freddie Bauer
	John Lithgow	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	Dr. Emilio Lizardo / Lord John Whorfin
	Dick Miller	Gremlins	Murray Futterman
	Robert Preston	The Last Starfighter	Centauri
1985 (13th)	Roddy McDowall	Fright Night	Peter Vincent
	Crispin Glover	Back to the Future	George McFly
	Joel Grey	Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins	Chiun
	Ian Holm	Dreamchild	Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
	Christopher Lloyd	Back to the Future	Dr. Emmett Brown
1986 (14th)	Bill Paxton	Aliens	Pvt. William Hudson
	James Doohan	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Scotty
	Clu Gulager	Hunter's Blood	Mason Rand
	Walter Koenig	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Pavel Chekov
	Richard Moll	House	Big Ben
1987 (15th)	Richard Dawson	The Running Man	Damon Killian
	Robert De Niro	Angel Heart	Louis Cyphre
	Robert Englund	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	Freddy Krueger
	Barnard Hughes	The Lost Boys	Grandpa
	Bill Paxton	Near Dark	Severen
	Duncan Regehr	The Monster Squad	Count Dracula
1988 (16th)	Robert Loggia	Big	Mr. MacMillan
	Robert Englund	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master	Freddy Krueger
	Jack Gilford	Cocoon: The Return	Bernie Lefkowitz
	Michael Keaton	Beetlejuice	Betelgeuse
	Christopher Lloyd	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Judge Doom
	Mandy Patinkin	Alien Nation	Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco
1989/1990 (17th)	Thomas F. Wilson	Back to the Future Part III	Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen / Biff Tannen
	Jeffrey Combs	Bride of Re-Animator	Dr. Herbert West
	Brad Dourif	The Exorcist III	The Gemini Killer
	Larry Drake	Darkman	Robert G. Durant
	John Glover	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Daniel Clamp
	Tony Goldwyn	Ghost	Carl Bruner
	John Goodman	Arachnophobia	Delbert McClintock
	Al Pacino	Dick Tracy	Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice
	Robert Picardo	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Forster

1990s

Year	Actor	Motion Picture	Character
1991 (18th)	William Sadler	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey	Grim Reaper
	Alan Arkin	Edward Scissorhands	Bill Boggs
	Patrick Bergin	Sleeping with the Enemy	Martin Burney
	Wayne Newton	The Dark Backward	Jackie Chrome
	Robert Patrick	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	T-1000
	Alan Rickman	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Sheriff George of Nottingham
1992 (19th)	Robin Williams	Aladdin	Genie (voice)
	Danny DeVito	Batman Returns	Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin
	Charles S. Dutton	Alien 3	Leonard Dillon
	Anthony Hopkins	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Abraham Van Helsing
	Sam Neill	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	David Jenkins
	Kevin Spacey	Consenting Adults	Eddy Otis
	Ray Wise	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	Leland Palmer
1993 (20th)	Lance Henriksen	Hard Target	Emil Fouchon
	Jeff Goldblum	Jurassic Park	Dr. Ian Malcolm
	Charles Grodin	Heart and Souls	Harrison Winslow
	Wayne Knight	Jurassic Park	Dennis Nedry
	John Malkovich	In the Line of Fire	Mitch Leary
	Tom Sizemore	Heart and Souls	Milo Peck
	J. T. Walsh	Needful Things	Danforth "Buster" Keeton III
1994 (21st)	Gary Sinise	Forrest Gump	Lieutenant Dan Taylor
	Richard Attenborough	Miracle on 34th Street	Kris Kringle
	Robert De Niro	Frankenstein	The Creature
	Raúl Juliá (posthumously)	Street Fighter	General M. Bison
	Bill Paxton	True Lies	Simon
	James Spader	Wolf	Stewart Swinton
1995 (22nd)	Brad Pitt	12 Monkeys	Jeffrey Goines
	Harvey Keitel	From Dusk till Dawn	Jacob Fuller
	Val Kilmer	Heat	Chris Shiherlis
	Tim Roth	Rob Roy	Archibald Cunningham
	Quentin Tarantino	From Dusk till Dawn	Richie Gecko
	Christopher Walken	The Prophecy	Gabriel
1996 (23rd)	Brent Spiner	Star Trek: First Contact	Lt. Commander Data
	Jeffrey Combs	The Frighteners	Milton Dammers
	Edward Norton	Primal Fear	Aaron Stampler
	Joe Pantoliano	Bound	Caesar
	Brent Spiner	Independence Day	Dr. Brackish Okun
	Skeet Ulrich	Scream	Billy Loomis
1997 (24th)	Vincent D'Onofrio	Men in Black	Edgar / Bug
	Steve Buscemi	Con Air	Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene
	Robert Forster	Jackie Brown	Max Cherry
	Will Patton	The Postman	General Bethlehem
	Pete Postlethwaite	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Roland Tembo
	J. T. Walsh	Breakdown	Warren "Red" Barr
1998 (25th)	Ian McKellen	Apt Pupil	Kurt Dussander / Arthur Denker
	Ben Affleck	Armageddon	A. J. Frost
	Dennis Franz	City of Angels	Nathaniel Messinger
	Ed Harris	The Truman Show	Christof
	Gary Oldman	Lost in Space	Dr. Zachary Smith / Spider Smith
	Billy Bob Thornton	A Simple Plan	Jacob Mitchell
1999 (26th)	Michael Clarke Duncan	The Green Mile	John Coffey
	Laurence Fishburne	The Matrix	Morpheus
	Jude Law	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Dickie Greenleaf
	Ewan McGregor	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	Obi-Wan Kenobi
	Alan Rickman	Galaxy Quest	Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus
	Christopher Walken	Sleepy Hollow	Hessian Horseman

2000s

Year	Actor	Motion Picture	Character
2000 (27th)	Willem Dafoe	Shadow of the Vampire	Max Schreck
	Jason Alexander	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	Boris Badenov
	Dennis Quaid	Frequency	Frank Sullivan
	Giovanni Ribisi	The Gift	Buddy Cole
	Will Smith	The Legend of Bagger Vance	Bagger Vance
	Patrick Stewart	X-Men	Professor Charles Xavier
2001 (28th)	Ian McKellen	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gandalf the Grey
	Robbie Coltrane	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Rubeus Hagrid
	Mark Dacascos	Brotherhood of the Wolf	Mani
	Eddie Murphy	Shrek	Donkey (voice)
	Jeremy Piven	Serendipity	Dean Kansky
	Tim Roth	Planet of the Apes	General Thade
2002 (29th)	Andy Serkis	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Sméagol / Gollum
	Ralph Fiennes	Red Dragon	Francis Dolarhyde
	Tom Hardy	Star Trek: Nemesis	Praetor Shinzon
	Toby Stephens	Die Another Day	Gustav Graves
	Max von Sydow	Minority Report	Director Lamar Burgess
	Robin Williams	Insomnia	Walter Finch
2003 (30th)	Sean Astin	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Samwise Gamgee
	Sonny Chiba	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Hattori Hanzō
	Ian McKellen	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Gandalf the White
	Geoffrey Rush	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Captain Hector Barbossa
	Andy Serkis	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Smeagol / Gollum
	Ken Watanabe	The Last Samurai	Katsumoto Moritsugu
2004 (31st)	David Carradine	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Bill
	Alfred Molina	Spider-Man 2	Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus
	Gary Oldman	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Sirius Black
	Giovanni Ribisi	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Dex
	Liev Schreiber	The Manchurian Candidate	Raymond Shaw
	John Turturro	Secret Window	John Shooter
2005 (32nd)	Mickey Rourke	Sin City	Marv
	William Hurt	A History of Violence	Richie Cusack
	Val Kilmer	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Gay Perry
	Ian McDiarmid	Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious
	Cillian Murphy	Red Eye	Jackson Rippner
	Liam Neeson	Batman Begins	Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul
2006 (33rd)	Ben Affleck	Hollywoodland	George Reeves
	Kelsey Grammer	X-Men: The Last Stand	Dr. Hank McCoy / Beast
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Mission: Impossible III	Owen Davian
	Sergi López	Pan's Labyrinth	Captain Vidal
	James Marsden	Superman Returns	Richard White
	Bill Nighy	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Davy Jones
2007 (34th)	Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh
	Ben Foster	3:10 to Yuma	Charlie Prince
	James Franco	Spider-Man 3	Harry Osborn / New Goblin
	Justin Long	Live Free or Die Hard	Matthew "Matt" Farrell
	Alan Rickman	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Judge Turpin
	David Wenham	300	Dilios
2008 (35th)	Heath Ledger (posthumously)	The Dark Knight	The Joker
	Jeff Bridges	Iron Man	Obadiah Stane
	Aaron Eckhart	The Dark Knight	Harvey Dent / Two-Face
	Woody Harrelson	Transsiberian	Roy
	Shia LaBeouf	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Mutt Williams
	Bill Nighy	Valkyrie	General Friedrich Olbricht
2009 (36th)	Stephen Lang	Avatar	Colonel Miles Quaritch
	Woody Harrelson	Zombieland	Tallahassee
	Frank Langella	The Box	Arlington Steward
	Jude Law	Sherlock Holmes	Dr. John Watson
	Stanley Tucci	The Lovely Bones	George Harvey
	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Colonel Hans Landa

2010s

Year	Actor	Motion Picture	Character
2010 (37th)	Andrew Garfield	Never Let Me Go	Tommy D
	Christian Bale	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund
	Tom Hardy	Inception	Eames
	Garrett Hedlund	Tron: Legacy	Sam Flynn
	John Malkovich	Red	Marvin Boggs
	Mark Ruffalo	Shutter Island	Chuck Aule / Dr. Lester Sheehan
2011 (38th)	Andy Serkis	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Caesar
	Ralph Fiennes	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Lord Voldemort
	Harrison Ford	Cowboys & Aliens	Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde
	Tom Hiddleston	Thor	Loki
	Alan Rickman	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Severus Snape
	Stanley Tucci	Captain America: The First Avenger	Dr. Abraham Erskine
2012 (39th)	Clark Gregg	The Avengers	Agent Phil Coulson
	Javier Bardem	Skyfall	Raoul Silva
	Michael Fassbender	Prometheus	David 8
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	The Dark Knight Rises	John Blake
	Ian McKellen	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Gandalf the Grey
	Christoph Waltz	Django Unchained	Dr. King Schultz
2013 (40th)	Ben Kingsley	Iron Man 3	Trevor Slattery
	Daniel Brühl	Rush	Niki Lauda
	George Clooney	Gravity	Matt Kowalski
	Benedict Cumberbatch	Star Trek Into Darkness	John Harrison / Khan
	Harrison Ford	Ender's Game	Colonel Hyrum Graff
	Tom Hiddleston	Thor: The Dark World	Loki
	Bill Nighy	About Time	James Lake
2014 (41st)	Richard Armitage	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Thorin Oakenshield
	Josh Brolin	Inherent Vice	Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen
	Samuel L. Jackson	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Nick Fury
	Anthony Mackie		Sam Wilson / Falcon
	Andy Serkis	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Caesar
	J. K. Simmons	Whiplash	Terence Fletcher
2015 (42nd)	Adam Driver	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Kylo Ren
	Paul Bettany	Avengers: Age of Ultron	J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision
	Michael Douglas	Ant-Man	Hank Pym
	Walton Goggins	The Hateful Eight	Sheriff Chris Mannix
	Simon Pegg	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	Benji Dunn
	Michael Shannon	99 Homes	Rick Carver
2016 (43rd)	John Goodman	10 Cloverfield Lane	Howard Stambler
	Chadwick Boseman	Captain America: Civil War	T'Challa / Black Panther
	Dan Fogler	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Jacob Kowalski
	Diego Luna	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Cassian Andor
	Zachary Quinto	Star Trek Beyond	Commander Spock
	Christopher Walken	The Jungle Book	King Louie (voice)
2017 (44th)	Patrick Stewart	Logan	Charles Xavier / Professor X
	Harrison Ford	Blade Runner 2049	Rick Deckard
	Michael B. Jordan	Black Panther	N'Jadaka / Erik "Killmonger" Stevens
	Michael Keaton	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Adrian Toomes / Vulture
	Chris Pine	Wonder Woman	Steve Trevor
	Michael Rooker	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Yondu
	Bill Skarsgård	It	It / Pennywise the Dancing Clown
2018/2019 (45th)	Josh Brolin	Avengers: Infinity War	Thanos
	John Lithgow	Pet Sematary	Jud Crandall
	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Mary Poppins Returns	Jack
	Lewis Pullman	Bad Times at the El Royale	Miles Miller
	Jeremy Renner	Avengers: Endgame	Clint Barton / Hawkeye
	Will Smith	Aladdin	Genie
	Steven Yeun	Burning	Ben
2019/2020 (46th)	Bill Hader	It Chapter Two	Richard "Richie" Tozier
	Adam Driver	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	Kylo Ren
	Chris Evans	Knives Out	Hugh Ransom Drysdale
	Ian McDiarmid	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	Emperor Palpatine
	Robert Pattinson	Tenet	Neil
	Donnie Yen	Mulan	Commander Tung

2020s

Year	Actor	Motion Picture	Character
2021/2022 (50th)	Ke Huy Quan	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang
	Paul Dano	The Batman	Edward Nashton / Riddler
	Colin Farrell		Oswald "Oz" Cobb / Penguin
	Ethan Hawke	The Black Phone	The Grabber
	Richard Jenkins	Nightmare Alley	Ezra Grindle
	Alfred Molina	Spider-Man: No Way Home	Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus
	Benedict Wong	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Wong
2022/2023 (51st)	Nicolas Cage	Renfield	Dracula
	Robert Downey Jr.	Oppenheimer	Lewis Strauss
	Ryan Gosling	Barbie	Ken
	Michael Keaton	The Flash	Bruce Wayne / Batman
	Stephen Lang	Avatar: The Way of Water	Miles Quaritch
	Mads Mikkelsen	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	Jürgen Voller
2023/2024 (52nd)	Hugh Jackman	Deadpool & Wolverine	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine
	Josh Brolin	Dune: Part Two	Gurney Halleck
	Austin Butler		Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
	Nicolas Cage	Longlegs	Dale Kobble / Longlegs
	Willem Dafoe	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice	Wolf Jackson
	David Jonsson	Alien: Romulus	Andy Carradine
	Owen Teague	Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes	Noa

Multiple nominations

4 nominations

• Ian McKellen
• Alan Rickman
• Andy Serkis

3 nominations

• Josh Brolin
• Harrison Ford
• John Lithgow
• Burgess Meredith
• Bill Nighy
• Bill Paxton
• Christopher Walken

2 nominations

• Javier Bardem
• Nicolas Cage
• Jeffrey Combs
• Scatman Crothers
• Willem Dafoe
• Robert De Niro
• Adam Driver
• Robert Englund
• Ralph Fiennes
• John Goodman
• Tom Hardy
• Woody Harrelson
• Tom Hiddleston
• Michael Keaton
• Val Kilmer
• Walter Koenig
• Stephen Lang
• Frank Langella
• Jude Law
• Christopher Lloyd
• John Malkovich
• Ian McDiarmid
• Roddy McDowall
• Alfred Molina
• Leonard Nimoy
• Gary Oldman
• Giovanni Ribisi
• Tim Roth
• Will Smith
• Brent Spiner
• Patrick Stewart
• Max von Sydow
• Stanley Tucci
• J.T. Walsh
• Christoph Waltz
• Billy Dee Williams
• Robin Williams

Multiple wins

2 wins

• Ian McKellen
• Burgess Meredith
• Andy Serkis

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