Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor explained

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
Awarded For:	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Presenter:	Broadcast Film Critics Association
Location:	Los Angeles, California
Holder:	Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer (2023)
Website:	www.criticschoice.com

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.

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

1990s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
	Ed Harris (TIE)	Gene Kranz	Apollo 13
	Kevin Spacey (TIE)	Roger "Verbal" Kint / Keyser Söze	The Usual Suspects
	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Rodney "Rod" Tidwell	Jerry Maguire
	Anthony Hopkins	John Quincy Adams	Amistad
	Billy Bob Thornton	Jacob Mitchell	A Simple Plan
	Michael Clarke Duncan	John Coffey	The Green Mile

2000s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
	Joaquin Phoenix	Commodus / Abbé du Coulmier / Willie Gutierrez	Gladiator / Quills / The Yards
	Ben Kingsley	Don Logan	Sexy Beast
			Iris
			Ali
	Chris Cooper	John Laroche	Adaptation.
			Frida
		John Rooney	Road to Perdition
	Tim Robbins	Dave Boyle	Mystic River
		Shelly Kaplow	The Cooler
		Dr. Stephen Marturin
		Jack Jordan	21 Grams
		Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto	The Last Samurai
	Thomas Haden Church	Jack Cole	Sideways
		Max Durocher	Collateral
		Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris	Million Dollar Baby
		Larry Gray	Closer
			Kinsey
	Paul Giamatti	Joe Gould	Cinderella Man
		Sgt. John Ryan	Crash
		Cameron Thayer
		Bob Barnes	Syriana
		Denny Davies	The Upside of Anger
			Brokeback Mountain
	Eddie Murphy	James "Thunder" Early	Dreamgirls
			Hollywoodland
		Edwin Hoover	Little Miss Sunshine
			Flags of Our Fathers
		Solomon Vandy	Blood Diamond
		Francis "Frank" Costello	The Departed
	Javier Bardem	Anton Chigurh	No Country for Old Men
			The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
			Charlie Wilson's War
		Ron Franz	Into the Wild
		Arthur Edens	Michael Clayton
	Heath Ledger (posthumously)	Joker	The Dark Knight
			Milk
		Scott Smith
		Kirk Lazarus	Tropic Thunder
		Father Brendan Flynn	Doubt
2009 ^[1]	Christoph Waltz	Col. Hans Landa	Inglourious Basterds
			Invictus
		Cpt. Tony Stone	The Messenger
			Me and Orson Welles
		Jack Mellor	An Education
		George Harvey	The Lovely Bones

2010s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2010 ^[2]	Christian Bale	Richard "Dicky" Eklund Jr.	The Fighter
			The Social Network
		James "Jem" Coughlin	The Town
		Kenny Waters	Conviction
		Paul Hatfield	The Kids Are All Right
			The King's Speech
2011 ^[3] ^[4]	Christopher Plummer	Hal Fields	Beginners
			My Week with Marilyn
		Bernie Rose	Drive
		Paddy Conlon	Warrior
		Matt Freehauf	Young Adult
		Caesar	Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2012 ^[5]	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Lancaster Dodd	The Master
		Lester Siegel	Argo
			Skyfall
		Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr.	Silver Linings Playbook
			Lincoln
		Dallas	Magic Mike
2013 ^[6] ^[7]	Jared Leto	Rayon	Dallas Buyers Club
			Captain Phillips
			Rush
		FBI Agent Richard "Richie" DiMaso	American Hustle
			12 Years a Slave
		Albert	Enough Said
2014 ^[8]	J. K. Simmons	Terence Fletcher	Whiplash
		Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen	Inherent Vice
		Judge Joseph Palmer	The Judge
		Mason Evans Sr.	Boyhood
		Mike Shiner	Birdman
			Foxcatcher
2015 ^[9] ^[10]	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky Balboa	Creed
			Love & Mercy
		John Fitzgerald	The Revenant
			Spotlight
			Bridge of Spies
		Rick Carver	99 Homes
2016 ^[11]	Mahershala Ali	Juan	Moonlight
		Marcus Hamilton	Hell or High Water
		Tanner Howard
		Patrick Chandler	Manchester by the Sea
			Lion
		Detective Bobby Andes	Nocturnal Animals
2017 ^[12] ^[13]	Sam Rockwell	Officer Jason Dixon	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
		Oliver	Call Me by Your Name
		Mr. Perlman
		Bobby Hicks	The Florida Project
		Giles	The Shape of Water
			Logan
2018 ^[14] ^[15]	Mahershala Ali	Don Shirley	Green Book
		Nic Sheff	Beautiful Boy
		Flip Zimmerman	BlacKkKlansman
		Bobby Maine	A Star Is Born
		Jack Hock	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
			Black Panther
2019 ^[16]	Brad Pitt	Cliff Booth	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
			The Irishman
		Russell Bufalino
		Thomas Wake	The Lighthouse
			A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
			The Two Popes

2020s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2020 ^[17] ^[18]	Daniel Kaluuya	Fred Hampton	Judas and the Black Messiah
			The Trial of the Chicago 7
		"Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway	Da 5 Bloods
		Felix Keane	On the Rocks
			One Night in Miami...
		Joe	Sound of Metal
2021 ^[19]	Troy Kotsur	Frank Rossi	CODA
		Pa	Belfast
		Pop
			House of Gucci
			Being the Ricardos
		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
		Colm Doherty	The Banshees of Inisherin
		Dominic Kearney
		James	Causeway
	Robert Downey Jr.	Lewis Strauss	Oppenheimer
		Clifford "Cliff" Ellison	American Fiction
	Robert De Niro		Killers of the Flower Moon
			Barbie
		Joe Yoo	May December
		Duncan Wedderburn	Poor Things

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
• 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

External links

• Critics' Choice Movie Awards (official site)

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Basterds," "Nine" Lead Critics Choice Nods. Knegt. Peter. December 14, 2009. IndieWire. SnagFilms. December 18, 2011.
2. Web site: The 16th Critics' Choice Movie Awards Nominees . January 14, 2011 . . December 18, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120830140454/http://bfca.org/ccawards/2010.php . August 30, 2012 .
3. Web site: 'Hugo' and 'The Artist' Top the Broadcast Film Critics' List of Nominations With 11 Each. Kilday. Gregg. December 13, 2011. The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. December 18, 2011.
4. News: Kiwi comedian beat outs major stars to snare a Critics' Choice Movie Award for The Muppet Movie. January 13, 2012. The Daily Telegraph. News Limited. January 13, 2012.
5. Web site: 'Lincoln' leads the 18th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations with a record 13 noms . December 11, 2012 . . December 19, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121215082305/http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/ . December 15, 2012 .
6. Web site: 19th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations. December 16, 2013. Broadcast Film Critics Association. December 16, 2013. June 8, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180608110521/http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/19th-annual-critics-choice-movie-awards-nominations/. dead.
7. Web site: 19th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (2014) – Best Picture: 12 Years A Slave. January 16, 2014. Broadcast Film Critics Association. January 20, 2014.
8. Web site: Birdman Is The Big Winner At The Critics' Choice Awards. White. James. January 16, 2015. Empire. January 17, 2015.
9. Web site: Critics' Choice Award Nominations: Complete List. Gray. Tim. December 14, 2015. Variety. December 14, 2015.
10. Web site: Critics’ Choice Awards: Winners List. January 17, 2016. Variety. January 22, 2016.
11. Web site: 'La La Land,' 'Arrival,' 'Moonlight' Top Critics' Choice Nominations. Kilday. Gregg. December 1, 2016. The Hollywood Reporter. December 1, 2016.
12. Web site: Critics' Choice Awards Nominations: 'The Shape Of Water' Leads With 14 Nods; Netflix Tops TV Contenders. Pedersen. Erik. Hammond. Pete. December 6, 2017. Deadline Hollywood. December 6, 2017.
13. Web site: 'Shape of Water,' 'Big Little Lies,' 'Handmaid's Tale' Top Critics' Choice Awards. Tapley. Kristopher. January 11, 2018. Variety. January 12, 2018.
14. Web site: Critics’ Choice Awards Nominations: 'The Favourite' Tops With 14, 'Black Panther' A Marvel, 'First Man' Rebounds; 'The Americans' Leads TV Series. Hammond. Pete. December 10, 2018. Deadline Hollywood. en. December 10, 2018.
15. News: Critics' Choice Awards 2019: The winners list. January 14, 2019. USA Today. January 14, 2019.
16. Web site: Critics' Choice: 'The Irishman,' 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Lead Movie Nominations. Malkin. Marc. December 8, 2019. Variety. December 9, 2019.
17. Web site: Critics Choice Awards: 'Mank' Leads With 12 Nominations, Netflix Makes History With Four Best Picture Nominees . Davis . Clayton . February 8, 2021 . . February 8, 2021.
18. Web site: Critics Choice Awards: 'Nomadland', 'The Crown' Among Top Honorees – Complete Winners List . Ramos . Dino-Ray . March 7, 2021 . . March 7, 2021.
19. Web site: Critics Choice Awards 2022: ‘The Power of the Dog,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Succession’ Win Big (Full Winners List) . Jackson . Angelique . Shanfeld . Ethan . March 13, 2022 . . January 16, 2023.
20. Web site: Critics‘ Choice Awards 2023 Full Winners List: ’Everything Everywhere All at Once,‘ ’Abbott Elementary‘ and ‘Better Call Saul’ Take Top Honors . Panaligan . EJ . Earl . William . January 15, 2023 . . January 16, 2023.