Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
	The 2023 recipient: Robert Downey Jr.
Awarded for	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	SAG-AFTRA
First awarded	Martin Landau for Ed Wood (1994)
Currently held by	Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer (2023)
Website	sagawards.org

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild. It has been presented since the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995 to a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.

The award has been presented 30 times, and 29 actors have won the award. Martin Landau was the award's first winner for Ed Wood (1994). The most recent winner is Robert Downey Jr. who won for his performance in Oppenheimer (2023). Mahershala Ali is the only actor to have won the award twice. The record for the most nominations is shared by Chris Cooper, Willem Dafoe, and Jared Leto with three nominations each.

Winners and nominees

Martin Landau was the award's first winner, for Ed Wood (1994).

Ed Harris won for Apollo 13 (1995).

Cuba Gooding Jr. won for Jerry Maguire (1996).

Robin Williams won for Good Will Hunting (1997).

Robert Duvall won for A Civil Action (1998).

Michael Caine won for The Cider House Rules (1999).

Albert Finney won for Erin Brockovich (2000).

Ian McKellen won for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).

Christopher Walken won for Catch Me If You Can (2002).

Tim Robbins won for Mystic River (2003).

Morgan Freeman won for in Million Dollar Baby

Paul Giamatti won for Cinderella Man (2005).

Eddie Murphy won for Dreamgirls (2006).

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

Heath Ledger won posthumously for The Dark Knight (2008).

Christoph Waltz won for Inglourious Basterds (2009).

Christian Bale won for The Fighter (2010).

Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2011).

Tommy Lee Jones won for Lincoln (2012).

Jared Leto won for Dallas Buyers Club (2013).

J. K. Simmons won for Whiplash (2014).

Idris Elba won for Darkest Hour (2015).

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

Sam Rockwell won forThree 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).

Troy Kotsur won for CODA (2021).

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

Table key
‡	Indicates the winner
†	Indicates a posthumous winner
†	Indicates a posthumous nominee

1990s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
1994 (1st)	Martin Landau ‡	Ed Wood	Bela Lugosi	^[1]
	Samuel L. Jackson	Pulp Fiction	Jules Winnfield
	Chazz Palminteri	Bullets over Broadway	Cheech
	Gary Sinise	Forrest Gump	Lt. Dan Taylor
	John Turturro	Quiz Show	Herb Stempel
1995 (2nd)	Ed Harris ‡	Apollo 13	Gene Kranz	^[2]
	Kevin Bacon	Murder in the First	Henri Young
	Kenneth Branagh	Othello	Iago
	Don Cheadle	Devil in a Blue Dress	Mouse Alexander
	Kevin Spacey	The Usual Suspects	Roger "Verbal" Kint
1996 (3rd)	Cuba Gooding Jr. ‡	Jerry Maguire	Rod Tidwell	^[3]
	Hank Azaria	The Birdcage	Agador Spartacus
	Nathan Lane	The Birdcage	Albert Goldman
	William H. Macy	Fargo	Jerry Lundegaard
	Noah Taylor	Shine	David Helfgott – Adolescent
1997 (4th)	Robin Williams ‡	Good Will Hunting	Sean Maguire	^[4]
	Billy Connolly	Mrs Brown	John Brown
	Anthony Hopkins	Amistad	John Quincy Adams
	Greg Kinnear	As Good as It Gets	Simon Bishop
	Burt Reynolds	Boogie Nights	Jack Horner
1998 (5th)	Robert Duvall ‡	A Civil Action	Jerome Facher	^[5]
	James Coburn	Affliction	Glen Whitehouse
	David Kelly	Waking Ned Devine	Michael O'Sullivan
	Geoffrey Rush	Shakespeare in Love	Philip Henslowe
	Billy Bob Thornton	A Simple Plan	Jacob Mitchell
1999 (6th)	Michael Caine ‡	The Cider House Rules	Dr. Wilbur Larch	^[6]
	Chris Cooper	American Beauty	Col. Frank Fitts
	Tom Cruise	Magnolia	Frank T.J. Mackey
	Michael Clarke Duncan	The Green Mile	John Coffey
	Haley Joel Osment	The Sixth Sense	Cole Sear

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2000 (7th)	Albert Finney ‡	Erin Brockovich	Edward L. Masry	^[7]
	Jeff Bridges	The Contender	President Jackson Evans
	Willem Dafoe	Shadow of the Vampire	Max Schreck
	Gary Oldman	The Contender	Shelly Runyon
	Joaquin Phoenix	Gladiator	Commodus
2001 (8th)	Ian McKellen ‡	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gandalf	^[8]
	Jim Broadbent	Iris	John Bayley
	Hayden Christensen	Life as a House	Sam Monroe
	Ethan Hawke	Training Day	Jake Hoyt
	Ben Kingsley	Sexy Beast	Don Logan
2002 (9th)	Christopher Walken ‡	Catch Me If You Can	Frank Abagnale Sr.	^[9]
	Chris Cooper	Adaptation.	John Laroche
	Ed Harris	The Hours	Richard Brown
	Alfred Molina	Frida	Diego Rivera
	Dennis Quaid	Far from Heaven	Frank Whitaker
2003 (10th)	Tim Robbins ‡	Mystic River	Dave Boyle	^[10]
	Alec Baldwin	The Cooler	Shelly Kaplow
	Chris Cooper	Seabiscuit	Tom Smith
	Benicio del Toro	21 Grams	Jack Jordan
	Ken Watanabe	The Last Samurai	Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto
2004 (11th)	Morgan Freeman ‡	Million Dollar Baby	Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris	^[11]
	Thomas Haden Church	Sideways	Jack Cole
	Jamie Foxx	Collateral	Max Durocher
	James Garner	The Notebook	Old Noah Calhoun
	Freddie Highmore	Finding Neverland	Peter Llewelyn Davies
2005 (12th)	Paul Giamatti ‡	Cinderella Man	Joe Gould	^[12]
	Don Cheadle	Crash	Det. Graham Waters
	Matt Dillon	Crash	Sgt. John Ryan
	George Clooney	Syriana	Bob Barnes
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Brokeback Mountain	Jack Twist
2006 (13th)	Eddie Murphy ‡	Dreamgirls	James "Thunder" Early	^[13]
	Alan Arkin	Little Miss Sunshine	Edwin Hoover
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Departed	William "Billy" Costigan, Jr.
	Jackie Earle Haley	Little Children	Ronald "Ronnie" McGorvey
	Djimon Hounsou	Blood Diamond	Solomon Vandy
2007 (14th)	Javier Bardem ‡	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh	^[14]
	Casey Affleck	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Robert Ford
	Hal Holbrook	Into the Wild	Ron Franz
	Tommy Lee Jones	No Country for Old Men	Ed Tom Bell
	Tom Wilkinson	Michael Clayton	Arthur Edens
2008 (15th)	Heath Ledger †	The Dark Knight	Joker	^[15]
	Josh Brolin	Milk	Dan White
	Robert Downey Jr.	Tropic Thunder	Kirk Lazarus
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Doubt	Father Brendan Flynn
	Dev Patel	Slumdog Millionaire	Jamal Malik
2009 (16th)	Christoph Waltz ‡	Inglourious Basterds	Col. Hans Landa	^[16]
	Matt Damon	Invictus	Francois Pienaar
	Woody Harrelson	The Messenger	Captain Tony Stone
	Christopher Plummer	The Last Station	Leo Tolstoy
	Stanley Tucci	The Lovely Bones	George Harvey

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2010 (17th)	Christian Bale ‡	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund	^[17]
	John Hawkes	Winter's Bone	Teardrop Dolly
	Jeremy Renner	The Town	James "Jem" Coughlin
	Mark Ruffalo	The Kids Are All Right	Paul Hatfield
	Geoffrey Rush	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue
2011 (18th)	Christopher Plummer ‡	Beginners	Hal Fields	^[18]
	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn	Laurence Olivier
	Armie Hammer	J. Edgar	Clyde Tolson
	Jonah Hill	Moneyball	Peter Brand
	Nick Nolte	Warrior	Paddy Conlon
2012 (19th)	Tommy Lee Jones ‡	Lincoln	Thaddeus Stevens	^[19]
	Alan Arkin	Argo	Lester Siegel
	Javier Bardem	Skyfall	Raoul Silva
	Robert De Niro	Silver Linings Playbook	Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr.
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master	Lancaster Dodd
2013 (20th)	Jared Leto ‡	Dallas Buyers Club	Rayon	^[20]
	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips	Abduwali Muse
	Daniel Brühl	Rush	Niki Lauda
	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave	Edwin Epps
	James Gandolfini †	Enough Said	Albert
2014 (21st)	J. K. Simmons ‡	Whiplash	Terrence Fletcher	^[21]
	Robert Duvall	The Judge	Judge Joseph Palmer
	Ethan Hawke	Boyhood	Mason Evans Sr.
	Edward Norton	Birdman	Mike Shiner
	Mark Ruffalo	Foxcatcher	Dave Schultz
2015 (22nd)	Idris Elba ‡	Beasts of No Nation	Commandant	^[22]
	Christian Bale	The Big Short	Michael Burry
	Mark Rylance	Bridge of Spies	Rudolf Abel
	Michael Shannon	99 Homes	Rick Carver
	Jacob Tremblay	Room	Jack Newsome
2016 (23rd)	Mahershala Ali ‡	Moonlight	Juan	^[23]
	Jeff Bridges	Hell or High Water	Marcus Hamilton
	Hugh Grant	Florence Foster Jenkins	St. Clair Bayfield
	Lucas Hedges	Manchester by the Sea	Patrick Chandler
	Dev Patel	Lion	Saroo Brierley
2017 (24th)	Sam Rockwell ‡	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Jason Dixon	^[24]
	Steve Carell	Battle of the Sexes	Bobby Riggs
	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project	Bobby Hicks
	Woody Harrelson	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Sheriff William Willoughby
	Richard Jenkins	The Shape of Water	Giles
2018 (25th)	Mahershala Ali ‡	Green Book	Don Shirley	^[25]
	Timothée Chalamet	Beautiful Boy	Nic Sheff
	Adam Driver	BlacKkKlansman	Detective Philip "Flip" Zimmerman
	Sam Elliott	A Star Is Born	Bobby Maine
	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock
2019 (26th)	Brad Pitt ‡	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Cliff Booth	^[26]
	Jamie Foxx	Just Mercy	Walter McMillian
	Tom Hanks	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Fred Rogers
	Al Pacino	The Irishman	Jimmy Hoffa
	Joe Pesci	The Irishman	Russell Bufalino

2020s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2020 (27th)	Daniel Kaluuya ‡	Judas and the Black Messiah	Fred Hampton	^[27]
	Sacha Baron Cohen	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Abbie Hoffman
	Chadwick Boseman †	Da 5 Bloods	Norman Earl Holloway
	Jared Leto	The Little Things	Albert Sparma
	Leslie Odom Jr.	One Night in Miami...	Sam Cooke
2021 (28th)	Troy Kotsur ‡	CODA	Frank Rossi	^[28]
	Ben Affleck	The Tender Bar	Charlie Maguire
	Bradley Cooper	Licorice Pizza	Jon Peters
	Jared Leto	House of Gucci	Paolo Gucci
	Kodi Smit-McPhee	The Power of the Dog	Peter Gordon
2022 (29th)	Ke Huy Quan ‡	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang	^[29]
	Paul Dano	The Fabelmans	Burt Fabelman
	Brendan Gleeson	The Banshees of Inisherin	Colm Doherty
	Barry Keoghan	The Banshees of Inisherin	Dominic Kearney
	Eddie Redmayne	The Good Nurse	Charles Cullen
2023 (30th)	Robert Downey Jr. ‡	Oppenheimer	Lewis Strauss	^[30]
	Sterling K. Brown	American Fiction	Clifford "Cliff" Ellison
	Willem Dafoe	Poor Things	Dr. Godwin Baxter
	Robert De Niro	Killers of the Flower Moon	William King Hale
	Ryan Gosling	Barbie	Ken

Superlatives

Superlative	Leading Actor		Supporting Actor		Overall
Actor with most awards	Daniel Day-Lewis	3	Mahershala Ali	2	Daniel Day-Lewis	3
Actor with most nominations	Denzel Washington	6	Chris Cooper, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto	3	Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington	6
Actor with most nominations without ever winning	George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Viggo Mortensen	3	Chris Cooper, Willem Dafoe	3	George Clooney	4
Film with most nominations	The Shawshank Redemption	2	The Banshees of Inisherin, The Birdcage, The Contender, Crash, The Irishman, No Country for Old Men, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	2	The Banshees of Inisherin	3
Oldest winner	Denzel Washington (Fences, 2017)	62	Christopher Plummer (Beginners, 2012)	82	Christopher Plummer (Beginners, 2012)	82
Oldest nominee	Anthony Hopkins (The Father, 2021)	83	Robert Duvall (The Judge, 2015)	83	Robert Duvall (The Judge, 2015)	83
Youngest winner	Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, 1996)	32	Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight, 2009)	28	Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight, 2009)	28
Youngest nominee	Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, 2001)	14	Jacob Tremblay (Room, 2016)	9	Jacob Tremblay (Room, 2016)	9

Multiple winners

Two awards

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight (2016), Green Book (2018))

Multiple nominees

Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.

Two nominations

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight (2016), Green Book (2018))
Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Argo (2012))
Christian Bale (The Fighter (2010), The Big Short (2015))
Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men (2007), Skyfall (2012))
Kenneth Branagh (Othello (1995), My Week With Marilyn (2011))
Jeff Bridges (The Contender (2000), Hell or High Water (2016))
Don Cheadle (Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Crash (2005))
Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023))
Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder (2008), Oppenheimer (2023))
Robert Duvall (A Civil Action (1998), The Judge (2014))
Jamie Foxx (Collateral (2004), Just Mercy (2019))
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger (2009), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017))
Ed Harris (Apollo 13 (1995), The Hours (2002))
Ethan Hawke (Training Day (2001), Boyhood (2014))
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt (2008), The Master (2012))
Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men (2007), Lincoln (2012))
Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Lion (2016))
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station (2009), Beginners (2011))
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right (2010), Foxcatcher (2014))
Geoffrey Rush (Shakespeare in Love (1998), The King's Speech (2010))

Three nominations

Chris Cooper (American Beauty (1999), Adaptation. (2002), Seabiscuit (2003))
Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), Poor Things (2023))
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club (2013), The Little Things (2020), House of Gucci (2021))

References

External links

SAG Awards official site

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