Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 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.

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.

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) )
 * 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) )