Screen Actors Guild Award For Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Supporting Role

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.

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 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.

 

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).

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2020s

Two awards

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

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))

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture