| Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
| Currently held by | Brad Pitt for Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019) |
| Website | http://www.goldenglobes.com/ |
The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year.
The formal title has varied since its inception; since 2005, the award has officially been called "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture".
Six actors have won the award twice: Richard Attenborough, Edmund Gwenn, Martin Landau, Edmond O'Brien, Christoph Waltz, and Brad Pitt.
Winners and nominees
1940s
| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Akim Tamiroff | Pablo | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| 1944 | Barry Fitzgerald | Father Fitzgibbon | Going My Way |
| 1945 | J. Carrol Naish | Charley Martin | A Medal for Benny |
| 1946 | Clifton Webb | Elliott Templeton | The Razor's Edge |
| 1947 | Edmund Gwenn | Kris Kringle | Miracle on 34th Street |
| 1948 | Walter Huston | Howard | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 1949 | James Whitmore | Kinnie | Battleground |
1950s
| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Edmund Gwenn | 'Skipper' Miller | Mister 880 |
| George Sanders | Addison DeWitt | All About Eve | |
| Erich von Stroheim | Max Von Mayerling | Sunset Boulevard | |
| 1951 | Peter Ustinov | Nero | Quo Vadis |
| 1952 | Millard Mitchell | James Connie | My Six Convicts |
| Kurt Kasznar | Uncle Louis Bonnard | The Happy Time | |
| Gilbert Roland | Victor 'Gaucho' Ribera | The Bad and the Beautiful | |
| 1953 | Frank Sinatra | Pvt. Angelo Maggio | From Here to Eternity |
| 1954 | Edmond O'Brien | Oscar Muldoon | The Barefoot Contessa |
| 1955 | Arthur Kennedy | Barney | Trial |
| 1956 | Earl Holliman | Jim Curry | The Rainmaker |
| Eddie Albert | Capt. McLean | The Teahouse of the August Moon | |
| Oscar Homolka | General Kutuzov | War and Peace | |
| Anthony Quinn | Paul Gauguin | Lust for Life | |
| Eli Wallach | Silva Vacarro | Baby Doll | |
| 1957 | Red Buttons | Joe Kelly | Sayonara |
| Lee J. Cobb | Juror #3 | 12 Angry Men | |
| Sessue Hayakawa | Colonel Saito | The Bridge on the River Kwai | |
| Nigel Patrick | Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles | Raintree County | |
| Ed Wynn | Paul Beaseley | The Great Man | |
| 1958 | Burl Ives | Rufus Hannassey | The Big Country |
| Harry Guardino | Angelo Donatello | Houseboat | |
| David Ladd | David Chandler | The Proud Rebel | |
| Gig Young | Dr. Hugo Pine | Teacher's Pet | |
| Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | Jacob 'Jake' Diamond | Home Before Dark | |
| 1959 | Stephen Boyd | Messala | Ben-Hur |
| Fred Astaire | Julian Osborn | On the Beach | |
| Tony Randall | Jonathan Forbes | Pillow Talk | |
| Robert Vaughn | Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn | The Young Philadelphians | |
| Joseph N. Welch | Judge Weaver | Anatomy of a Murder |
1960s
| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Sal Mineo | Dov Landau | Exodus |
| Lee Kinsolving | Sammy Goldenbaum | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | |
| Ray Stricklyn | Jeb Lucas Tyler | The Plunderers | |
| Woody Strode | Draba | Spartacus | |
| Peter Ustinov | Lentulus Batiatus | ||
| 1961 | George Chakiris | Bernardo | West Side Story |
| Montgomery Clift | Rudolph Petersen | Judgment at Nuremberg | |
| Jackie Gleason | Minnesota Fats | The Hustler | |
| Tony Randall | Peter 'Pete' Ramsey | Lover Come Back | |
| George C. Scott | Bert Gordon | The Hustler | |
| 1962 | Omar Sharif | Sherif Ali | Lawrence of Arabia |
| Ed Begley | Tom Boss Finley | Sweet Bird of Youth | |
| Victor Buono | Edwin Flagg | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | |
| Harry Guardino | Sgt. Joseph Contini | The Pigeon That Took Rome | |
| Ross Martin | Garland Humphrey 'Red' Lynch | Experiment in Terror | |
| Paul Newman | The Battler | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | |
| Cesar Romero | Robert Swan / Adam Wright | If a Man Answers | |
| Telly Savalas | Feto Gomez | Birdman of Alcatraz | |
| Peter Sellers | Clare Quilty | Lolita | |
| Harold J. Stone | Frank Garnell | The Chapman Report | |
| 1963 | John Huston | Cardinal Glennon | The Cardinal |
| Lee J. Cobb | Harry R. Baker | Come Blow Your Horn | |
| Bobby Darin | Cpl. Jim Tompkins | Captain Newman, M.D. | |
| Melvyn Douglas | Homer Bannon | Hud | |
| Hugh Griffith | Squire Western | Tom Jones | |
| Paul Mann | Aleko Sinnikoglou | America America | |
| Roddy McDowall | Octavian, alias Augustus | Cleopatra | |
| Gregory Rozakis | Hohannes Gardashian | America America | |
| 1964 | Edmond O'Brien | Senator Ray Clark | Seven Days in May |
| Cyril Delevanti | Nonno | The Night of the Iguana | |
| Stanley Holloway | Alfred P. Doolittle | My Fair Lady | |
| Gilbert Roland | Dull Knife | Cheyenne Autumn | |
| Lee Tracy | Art Hockstader | The Best Man | |
| 1965 | Oskar Werner | Fiedler | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| Red Buttons | Arthur Landau | Harlow | |
| Frank Finlay | Iago | Othello | |
| Hardy Krüger | Heinrich Dorfmann | The Flight of the Phoenix | |
| Telly Savalas | Sgt. Guffy | Battle of the Bulge | |
| 1966 | Richard Attenborough | Frenchy Burgoyne | The Sand Pebbles |
| Mako | Po-han | The Sand Pebbles | |
| John Saxon | Chuy Medina | The Appaloosa | |
| George Segal | Nick | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| Robert Shaw | Henry VIII | A Man for All Seasons | |
| 1967 | Richard Attenborough | Albert Blossom | Doctor Dolittle |
| John Cassavetes | Victor R. Franko | The Dirty Dozen | |
| George Kennedy | Dragline | Cool Hand Luke | |
| Michael J. Pollard | C.W. Moss | Bonnie and Clyde | |
| Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | Sam Hendrix | Wait Until Dark | |
| 1968 | Daniel Massey | Noël Coward | Star! |
| Beau Bridges | Tim Austin | For Love of Ivy | |
| Ossie Davis | Joseph Lee | The Scalphunters | |
| Hugh Griffith | Lebedev | The Fixer | |
| Martin Sheen | Timmy Cleary | The Subject Was Roses | |
| 1969 | Gig Young | Rocky | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| Red Buttons | Sailor | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | |
| Jack Nicholson | George Hanson | Easy Rider | |
| Anthony Quayle | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | Anne of the Thousand Days | |
| Mitch Vogel | Lucius McCaslin | The Reivers |
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Christian Bale | Dicky Eklund | The Fighter |
| Michael Douglas | Gordon Gekko | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | |
| Andrew Garfield | Eduardo Saverin | The Social Network | |
| Jeremy Renner | James "Jem" Coughlin | The Town | |
| Geoffrey Rush | Lionel Logue | The King's Speech | |
| 2011 | Christopher Plummer | Hal Fields | Beginners |
| Kenneth Branagh | Laurence Olivier | My Week with Marilyn | |
| Albert Brooks | Bernie Rose | Drive | |
| Jonah Hill | Peter Brand | Moneyball | |
| Viggo Mortensen | Sigmund Freud | A Dangerous Method | |
| 2012 | Christoph Waltz | Dr. King Schultz | Django Unchained |
| Alan Arkin | Lester Siegel | Argo | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Calvin J. Candie | Django Unchained | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Lancaster Dodd | The Master | |
| Tommy Lee Jones | Thaddeus Stevens | Lincoln | |
| 2013 | Jared Leto | Rayon | Dallas Buyers Club |
| Barkhad Abdi | Abduwali Muse | Captain Phillips | |
| Daniel Brühl | Niki Lauda | Rush | |
| Bradley Cooper | Richard "Richie" DiMaso | American Hustle | |
| Michael Fassbender | Edwin Epps | 12 Years a Slave | |
| 2014 | |||
| J. K. Simmons | Terence Fletcher | Whiplash | |
| Robert Duvall | Judge Joseph Palmer | The Judge | |
| Ethan Hawke | Mason Evans, Sr. | Boyhood | |
| Edward Norton | Mike Shiner | Birdman | |
| Mark Ruffalo | Dave Schultz | Foxcatcher | |
| 2015 | |||
| Sylvester Stallone | Rocky Balboa | Creed | |
| Paul Dano | Brian Wilson | Love & Mercy | |
| Idris Elba | The Commandant | Beasts of No Nation | |
| Mark Rylance | Rudolf Abel | Bridge of Spies | |
| Michael Shannon | Rick Carver | 99 Homes | |
| 2016 | |||
| Aaron Taylor-Johnson | Ray Marcus | Nocturnal Animals | |
| Mahershala Ali | Juan | Moonlight | |
| Jeff Bridges | Marcus Hamilton | Hell or High Water | |
| Simon Helberg | Cosmé McMoon | Florence Foster Jenkins | |
| Dev Patel | Saroo Brierley | Lion | |
| 2017 | |||
| Sam Rockwell | Jason Dixon | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |
| Willem Dafoe | Bobby Hicks | The Florida Project | |
| Armie Hammer | Oliver | Call Me by Your Name | |
| Richard Jenkins | Giles | The Shape of Water | |
| Christopher Plummer | J. Paul Getty | All the Money in the World | |
| 2018 | |||
| Mahershala Ali | Don Shirley | Green Book | |
| Timothée Chalamet | Nic Sheff | Beautiful Boy | |
| Adam Driver | Flip Zimmerman | BlacKkKlansman | |
| Richard E. Grant | Jack Hock | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | |
| Sam Rockwell | George W. Bush | Vice | |
| 2019 | |||
| Brad Pitt | Cliff Booth | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | |
| Tom Hanks | Fred Rogers | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | |
| Anthony Hopkins | Pope Benedict XVI | The Two Popes | |
| Al Pacino | Jimmy Hoffa | The Irishman | |
| Joe Pesci | Russell Bufalino |
2020s
| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Abbie Hoffman | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Daniel Kaluuya | Fred Hampton | Judas and the Black Messiah | |
| Jared Leto | Albert Sparma | The Little Things | |
| Bill Murray | Felix Keane | On the Rocks | |
| Leslie Odom Jr. | Sam Cooke | One Night in Miami |
Multiple nominations
Multiple awards
- 2 awards
- Richard Attenborough (consecutive)
- Edmund Gwenn
- Martin Landau
- Edmond O'Brien
- Brad Pitt
- Christoph Waltz
See also
- 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
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role