Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Annual film award
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The Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (formerly Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role) 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.
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Awarded forOutstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
LocationLos Angeles, California
Presented bySAG-AFTRA
First awardMartin Landau for Ed Wood (1994)
| Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | |
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The 2025 recipient: Sean Penn | |
| 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 award | Martin Landau for Ed Wood (1994) |
| Currently held by | Sean Penn for One Battle After Another (2025) |
| 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 Sean Penn who won for his performance in One Battle After Another (2025). 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).
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Cuba Gooding Jr. won for Jerry Maguire (1996).
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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).
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Christopher Walken won for Catch Me If You Can (2002).
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Tim Robbins won for Mystic River (2003).
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Morgan Freeman won for Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Paul Giamatti won for Cinderella Man (2005).
Eddie Murphy won for Dreamgirls (2006).
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Javier Bardem won for No Country for Old Men (2007).
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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).
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Tommy Lee Jones won for Lincoln (2012).
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Jared Leto won for Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
J. K. Simmons won for Whiplash (2014).
Idris Elba won for Beasts of No Nation (2015).
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Sam Rockwell won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
Brad Pitt won for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
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Daniel Kaluuya won for Judas and the Black Messiah (2020).
Troy Kotsur won for CODA (2021).
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Ke Huy Quan won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
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Robert Downey Jr. won for Oppenheimer (2023).
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Kieran Culkin won for A Real Pain (2024)
| Indicates the winner | |
| † | Indicates a posthumous winner |
| † | Indicates a posthumous nominee |
| ‡ | Indicates the Academy Award winner |
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Superlatives
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))
- Benicio del Toro (21 Grams (2003), One Battle After Another (2025))
- 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))
- Edward Norton (Birdman (2014), A Complete Unknown (2024))
- 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))