Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy. From 1996 to 2005, two categories were presented for supporting performances by male actors, one for performances in a drama film and other for performances in comedy or musical films. In 2006, both categories were merged into the current category without distinction by genre.

Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The 2024 recipient: Guy Pearce
Awarded for	Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First award	1996
Currently held by	Guy Pearce – The Brutalist (2024)

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed in bold type.

Drama (1996–2005)

Year	Actor	Film	Role
1996 [1]	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Shine	Peter Helfgott
	Steve Buscemi	Fargo	Carl Showalter
	Robert Carlyle	Trainspotting	Francis "Franco" Begbie
	Jeremy Irons	Stealing Beauty	Alex Parrish
	John Lynch	Moll Flanders	Jonathan (the Artist)
	Paul Scofield	The Crucible	Thomas Danforth
1997 [2]	Burt Reynolds	Boogie Nights	Jack Horner
	Billy Connolly	Mrs Brown	John Brown
	Danny DeVito	The Rainmaker	Deck Shifflet
	Samuel L. Jackson	Eve's Bayou	Louis Batiste
	Robin Williams	Good Will Hunting	Dr. Sean Maguire
1998 [3]	Donald Sutherland	Without Limits	Bill Bowerman
	Robert Duvall	A Civil Action	Jerome Facher
	Jason Patric	Your Friends & Neighbors	Cary
	Billy Bob Thornton	A Simple Plan	Jacob Mitchell
	Tom Sizemore	Saving Private Ryan	Mike Horvath
1999 [4]	Harry J. Lennix	Titus	Aaron
	Tom Cruise	Magnolia	Frank "T.J." Mackey
	Michael Caine	The Cider House Rules	Wilbur Larch
	Doug Hutchison	The Green Mile	Percy Wetmore
	Jude Law	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Dickie Greenleaf
	Christopher Plummer	The Insider	Mike Wallace
2000 [5]	Bruce Greenwood	Thirteen Days	John F. Kennedy
	Jeff Bridges	The Contender	Jackson Evans
	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Javier Rodriguez
	Robert De Niro	Men of Honor	Billy Sunday
	Albert Finney	Erin Brockovich	Edward L. Masry
	Joaquin Phoenix	Gladiator	Commodus
2001 [6][7]	Ben Kingsley	Sexy Beast	Don Logan
	Jim Broadbent	Iris	John Bayley
	Billy Crudup	Charlotte Gray	Julien Levade
	Ed Harris	A Beautiful Mind	William Parcher
	Ian McKellen	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gandalf
	Goran Visnjic	The Deep End	Alek "Al" Spera
2002 [8]	Dennis Haysbert	Far from Heaven	Raymond Deagan
	Jeremy Davies	Solaris	Snow
	Viggo Mortensen	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Aragorn
	Paul Newman	Road to Perdition	John Rooney
	Alfred Molina	Frida	Diego Rivera
	Dennis Quaid	Far from Heaven	Frank Whitaker
2003 [9]	Djimon Hounsou	In America	Mateo
	Alec Baldwin	The Cooler	Shelly Kaplow
	Jeff Bridges	Seabiscuit	Charles S. Howard
	Benicio del Toro	21 Grams	Jack Jordan
	Omar Sharif	Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran	Ibrahim Demildji
	Ken Watanabe	The Last Samurai	Moritsugu Katsumoto
2004 [10]	Christopher Walken	Around the Bend	Turner Lair
	David Carradine	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Bill
	Jamie Foxx	Collateral	Max Durocher
	Alfred Molina	Spider-Man 2	Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus
	Clive Owen	Closer	Larry Gray
	Peter Sarsgaard	Kinsey	Clyde Martin
2005 [11]	Danny Huston	The Constant Gardener	Sandy Woodrow
	Chris Cooper	Capote	Alvin Dewey
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Brokeback Mountain	Jack Twist
	Edward Norton	Kingdom of Heaven	Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
	Mickey Rourke	Sin City	Marv
	Peter Sarsgaard	Jarhead	Alan Troy

Musical or Comedy (1996–2005)

Year	Actor	Film	Role
1996	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Jerry Maguire	Rod Tidwell
	Woody Allen	Everyone Says I Love You	Joe Berlin
	Danny DeVito	Matilda	Harry Wormwood
	Gene Hackman	The Birdcage	Kevin Keeley
	Ian McKellen	Cold Comfort Farm	Amos Starkadder
1997	Rupert Everett	My Best Friend's Wedding	George Downes
	Mark Addy	The Full Monty	Dave Horsefall
	Cuba Gooding Jr.	As Good as It Gets	Frank Sachs
	Greg Kinnear		Simon Bishop
	Rip Torn	Men in Black	Agent Zed
1998	Bill Murray	Rushmore	Herman Blume
	Jeff Daniels	Pleasantville	Bill Johnson
	John Goodman	The Big Lebowski	Walter Sobchak
	Bill Nighy	Still Crazy	Ray Simms
	Geoffrey Rush	Shakespeare in Love	Philip Henslowe
1999	William H. Macy	Happy, Texas	Chappy Dent
	Dan Hedaya	Dick	Richard Nixon
	Rhys Ifans	Notting Hill	Spike
	Bill Murray	Cradle Will Rock	Tommy Crickshaw
	Ving Rhames	Bringing Out the Dead	Marcus
	Alan Rickman	Dogma	Metatron
2000	Willem Dafoe	Shadow of the Vampire	Max Schreck
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Almost Famous	Lester Bangs
	Morgan Freeman	Nurse Betty	Charlie
	Tim Blake Nelson	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Delmar O'Donnell
	Brad Pitt	Snatch.	Mickey O'Neil
	Owen Wilson	Shanghai Noon	Roy O'Bannon
2001	Jim Broadbent	Moulin Rouge!	Harold Zidler
	Steve Buscemi	Ghost World	Seymour
	Hugh Grant	Bridget Jones's Diary	Daniel Cleaver
	Carl Reiner	Ocean's Eleven	Saul Bloom
	Ben Stiller	The Royal Tenenbaums	Chas Tenenbaum
	Owen Wilson	The Royal Tenenbaums	Eli Cash
2002	Michael Constantine	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Kostas "Gus" Portokalos
	Chris Cooper	Adaptation.	John Laroche
	Jake Gyllenhaal	The Good Girl	Thomas "Holden" Worther
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Punch-Drunk Love	Dean Trumbell
	Nicky Katt	Full Frontal	Adolf Hitler
	John C. Reilly	The Good Girl	Phil Last
2003	Eugene Levy	A Mighty Wind	Mitch Cohen
	Johnny Depp	Once Upon a Time in Mexico	Sheldon Jeffrey Sands (Eyeless Jack)
	Bill Nighy	Love Actually	Billy Mack
	Sam Rockwell	Matchstick Men	Frank Mercer
	Geoffrey Rush	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Hector Barbossa
	Thomas Sangster	Love Actually	Sam
2004	Thomas Haden Church	Sideways	Jack Cole
	Joseph Fiennes	The Merchant of Venice	Bassanio
	Jeremy Irons	Being Julia	Michael Gosselyn
	Peter Sarsgaard	Garden State	Mark
	Mark Wahlberg	I Heart Huckabees	Tommy Corn
	Patrick Wilson	The Phantom of the Opera	Viscount Raoul de Chagny
2005	Val Kilmer	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	"Gay" Perry van Shrike
	Tom Arnold	Happy Endings	Frank McKee
	Corbin Bernsen	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Harlan Dexter
	Steve Coogan	Happy Endings	Charley Peppitone
	Craig T. Nelson	The Family Stone	Kelly Stone
	Jason Schwartzman	Shopgirl	Jeremy

Motion Picture

Year	Actor	Film	Role
2006 [12][13]	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Departed	William "Billy" Costigan, Jr.
	Alan Arkin	Little Miss Sunshine	Edwin Hoover
	Adam Beach	Flags of Our Fathers	Ira Hayes
	Jack Nicholson	The Departed	Frank Costello
	Brad Pitt	Babel	Richard Jones
	Donald Sutherland	Aurora Borealis	Ronald Shorter
2007 [14][15]	Casey Affleck	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Robert Ford
	Tom Wilkinson	Michael Clayton	Arthur Edens
	Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh
	Brian Cox	Zodiac	Melvin Belli
	Jeff Daniels	The Lookout	Lewis
	Ben Foster	3:10 to Yuma	Charlie Prince
2008 [16]	Michael Shannon	Revolutionary Road	John Givings, Jr.
	Robert Downey Jr.	Tropic Thunder	Kirk Lazarus
	James Franco	Milk	Scott Smith
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Doubt	Father Brendan Flynn
	Heath Ledger (posthumous)	The Dark Knight	The Joker
	Rade Šerbedžija	Fugitive Pieces	Athos
2009 [17][18]	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Col. Hans Landa
	Woody Harrelson	The Messenger	Capt. Tony Stone
	James McAvoy	The Last Station	Valentin Bulgakov
	Alfred Molina	An Education	Jack Miller
	Timothy Spall	The Damned United	Peter Taylor
2010 [19]	Christian Bale	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund
	Pierce Brosnan	The Ghost Writer	Adam Lang
	Andrew Garfield	The Social Network	Eduardo Saverin
	Tommy Lee Jones	The Company Men	Gene McClary
	Bill Murray	Get Low	Frank Quinn
	Sean Penn	Fair Game	Joseph C. Wilson
	Jeremy Renner	The Town	James "Jem" Coughlin
	Geoffrey Rush	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue
2011 [20][21]	Albert Brooks	Drive	Bernie Rose
	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn	Laurence Olivier
	Colin Farrell	Horrible Bosses	Bobby Pellitt
	Jonah Hill	Moneyball	Peter Brand
	Viggo Mortensen	A Dangerous Method	Sigmund Freud
	Nick Nolte	Warrior	Paddy Conlon
	Christopher Plummer	Beginners	Hal Fields
	Andy Serkis	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Caesar
	Christoph Waltz	Carnage	Alan Cowan
	Hugo Weaving	Oranges and Sunshine	Jack
2012 [22][23]	Javier Bardem	Skyfall	Raoul Silva
	Robert De Niro	Silver Linings Playbook	Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr.
	John Goodman	Flight	Harling Mays
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master	Lancaster Dodd
	Tommy Lee Jones	Lincoln	Thaddeus Stevens
	Eddie Redmayne	Les Misérables	Marius Pontmercy
2013 [24][25]	Jared Leto	Dallas Buyers Club	Rayon
	Casey Affleck	Out of the Furnace	Rodney Baze, Jr.
	Bradley Cooper	American Hustle	Richie DiMaso
	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave	Edwin Epps
	Harrison Ford	42	Branch Rickey
	Ryan Gosling	The Place Beyond the Pines	Luke Glanton
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Prisoners	Detective Loki
	Tom Hanks	Saving Mr. Banks	Walt Disney
2014 [26][27]	J. K. Simmons	Whiplash	Terence Fletcher
	Robert Duvall	The Judge	Judge Joseph Palmer
	Ethan Hawke	Boyhood	Mason Evans, Sr.
	Edward Norton	Birdman	Mike Shiner
	Mark Ruffalo	Foxcatcher	Dave Schultz
	Andy Serkis	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Caesar
2015 [28]	Christian Bale	The Big Short	Michael Burry
	Paul Dano	Love & Mercy	Brian Wilson
	Benicio del Toro	Sicario	Alejandro Gillick
	Michael Keaton	Spotlight	Walter "Robby" Robinson
	Mark Ruffalo		Michael Rezendes
	Sylvester Stallone	Creed	Rocky Balboa
2016[29]	Jeff Bridges	Hell or High Water	Marcus Hamilton
	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	Juan
	Hugh Grant	Florence Foster Jenkins	St. Clair Bayfield
	Lucas Hedges	Manchester by the Sea	Patrick Chandler
	Eddie Murphy	Mr. Church	Henry Joseph Church
	Dev Patel	Lion	Saroo Brierley
2017 [30][31]	Sam Rockwell	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Officer Jason Dixon
	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project	Bobby Hicks
	Armie Hammer	Call Me by Your Name	Oliver
	Dustin Hoffman	The Meyerowitz Stories	Harold Meyerowitz
	Mark Rylance	Dunkirk	Mr. Dawson
	Michael Shannon	The Shape of Water	Colonel Richard Strickland
2018 [32]	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock
	Mahershala Ali	Green Book	Don Shirley
	Timothée Chalamet	Beautiful Boy	Nic Sheff
	Russell Crowe	Boy Erased	Marshall Eamons
	Adam Driver	BlacKkKlansman	Detective Flip Zimmerman
	Sam Elliott	A Star Is Born	Bobby Maine
2019 [33]	Willem Dafoe	The Lighthouse	Thomas Wake
	Tom Hanks	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Fred Rogers
	Anthony Hopkins	The Two Popes	Pope Benedict XVI
	Joe Pesci	The Irishman	Russell Bufalino
	Wendell Pierce	Burning Cane	Reverend Tillman
	Brad Pitt	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Cliff Booth
2020 [34][35]	Chadwick Boseman (posthumous)	Da 5 Bloods	Norman Earl "Stormin' Norman" Holloway
	Sacha Baron Cohen	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Abbie Hoffman
	Kingsley Ben-Adir	One Night in Miami...	Malcolm X
	Brian Dennehy	Driveways	Del
	Bill Murray	On the Rocks	Felix Keane
	David Strathairn	Nomadland	David
2021 [36]	Kodi Smit-McPhee	The Power of the Dog	Peter Gordon
	Robin de Jesús	tick, tick... BOOM!	Michael
	Jamie Dornan	Belfast	Pa
	Ciarán Hinds		Pop
	Jared Leto	House of Gucci	Paolo Gucci
	J. K. Simmons	Being the Ricardos	William Frawley
2022
	Ke Huy Quan	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang
	Paul Dano	The Fabelmans	Burt Fabelman
	Brendan Gleeson	The Banshees of Inisherin	Colm Doherty
	Eddie Redmayne	The Good Nurse	Charles Cullen
	Jeremy Strong	Armageddon Time	Irving Graff
	Ben Whishaw	Women Talking	August Epp
2023
	Mark Ruffalo	Poor Things	Duncan Wedderburn
	Robert De Niro	Killers of the Flower Moon	William King Hale
	Robert Downey Jr.	Oppenheimer	Lewis Strauss
	Ryan Gosling	Barbie	Ken
	Charles Melton	May December	Joe Yoo
	Dominic Sessa	The Holdovers	Angus Tully
2024	Guy Pearce	The Brutalist	Harrison Lee Van Buren
	Yura Borisov	Anora	Igor
	Kieran Culkin	A Real Pain	Benji Kaplan
	Clarence Maclin	Sing Sing	Himself
	Edward Norton	A Complete Unknown	Pete Seeger
	Denzel Washington	Gladiator II	Macrinus

See also

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male