The Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

List of winners and nominees

• 1995 – Kevin Spacey and Ed Harris for several films
• 1996 – Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire
• 1997 – Anthony Hopkins - Amistad
• 1998 – Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan and Primary Colors
• 1999 – Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile

2000s

• 2000: Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator, Quills and The Yards
• 2001: Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
  • Jim Broadbent - Iris
  • John Voight - Ali
• 2002: Chris Cooper - Adaptation.
  • Alfred Molina - Frida
  • Paul Newman - Road to Perdition
• 2003: Tim Robbins - Mystic River
  • Alec Baldwin - The Cooler
  • Paul Bettany - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Benicio del Toro - 21 Grams
  • Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai
• 2004: Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
  • Jamie Foxx - Collateral
  • Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
  • Clive Owen - Closer
  • Peter Sarsgaard - Kinsey
• 2005: Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
  • George Clooney - Syriana
  • Kevin Costner - The Upside of Anger
  • Matt Dillon - Crash
  • Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
  • Terrence Howard - Crash
• 2006: Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
  • Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
  • Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
  • Adam Beach - Flags of Our Fathers
  • Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
  • Jack Nicholson - The Departed
• 2007: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
  • Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
  • Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
  • Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton