Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award given annually by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was first introduced in 1977 to reward the best performance by a supporting actor.

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Current recipient: Glynn Turman
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Country	United States
Presented by	Los Angeles Film Critics Association
First awarded	Jason Robards Julia (1977)
Currently held by	Glynn Turman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Website	lafca.net

Winners

• † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• ‡ = Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

1970s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1977	Jason Robards	Julia	Dashiell Hammett †
1978	Robert Morley	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?	Max
1979	Melvyn Douglas	Being There	Benjamin Turnbull Rand †
		The Seduction of Joe Tynan	Senator Birney

1980s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1980	Timothy Hutton	Ordinary People	Conrad Jarrett †
1981	John Gielgud	Arthur	Hobson †
1982	John Lithgow	The World According to Garp	Roberta Muldoon ‡
1983	Jack Nicholson	Terms of Endearment	Garrett Breedlove †
1984	Adolph Caesar	A Soldier's Story	Sergeant Waters ‡
1985	John Gielgud	Plenty	Leonard Darwin
		The Shooting Party	Cornelius Cardew
1986	Dennis Hopper	Blue Velvet	Frank Booth
		Hoosiers	Shooter Flatch ‡
1987	Morgan Freeman	Street Smart	Fast Black ‡
1988	Alec Guinness	Little Dorrit	William Dorrit ‡
1989	Danny Aiello	Do the Right Thing	Sal ‡

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1990	Joe Pesci	Goodfellas	Tommy DeVito †
1991	Michael Lerner	Barton Fink	Jack Lipnick ‡
1992	Gene Hackman	Unforgiven	Little Bill Daggett †
1993	Tommy Lee Jones	The Fugitive	Samuel Gerard †
1994	Martin Landau	Ed Wood	Bela Lugosi †
1995	Don Cheadle	Devil in a Blue Dress	Mouse Alexander
1996	Edward Norton	Everyone Says I Love You	Holden Spence
		The People vs. Larry Flynt	Alan Isaacman
		Primal Fear	Aaron Stampler ‡
1997	Burt Reynolds	Boogie Nights	Jack Horner ‡
1998	Bill Murray	Rushmore	Herman Blume
		Wild Things	Kenneth Bowden
	Billy Bob Thornton	A Simple Plan	Jacob Mitchell ‡
1999	Christopher Plummer	The Insider	Mike Wallace

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2000	Willem Dafoe	Shadow of the Vampire	Max Schreck ‡
2001	Jim Broadbent	Iris	John Bayley †
		Moulin Rouge!	Harold Zidler
2002	Chris Cooper	Adaptation.	John Laroche †
2003	Bill Nighy	AKA	Louis Gryffoyn
		I Capture the Castle	James Mortmain
		Lawless Heart	Dan
		Love Actually	Billy Mack
2004	Thomas Haden Church	Sideways	Jack Lopate ‡
2005	William Hurt	A History of Violence	Richie Cusack ‡
2006	Michael Sheen	The Queen	Tony Blair
2007	Vlad Ivanov	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	Mr. Bebe
2008	Heath Ledger (posthumous)	The Dark Knight	The Joker †
2009	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Col. Hans Landa †

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2010	Niels Arestrup	A Prophet (Un prophète)	César Luciani
2011	Christopher Plummer	Beginners	Hal Fields †
2012	Dwight Henry	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Wink
2013	James Franco	Spring Breakers	Alien
	Jared Leto	Dallas Buyers Club	Rayon †
2014	J. K. Simmons	Whiplash	Terrence Fletcher †
2015	Michael Shannon	99 Homes	Rick Carver
2016	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	Juan †
2017	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project	Bobby Hicks ‡
2018	Steven Yeun	Burning	Ben
2019	Song Kang-ho	Parasite	Kim Ki-taek

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2020	Glynn Turman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Toledo

Multiple winners

2 wins

• Willem Dafoe (2000, 2017)
• John Gielgud (1981, 1985)
• Christopher Plummer (1999, 2011)

See also

• National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor
• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
• National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor