
Golden Globe Awards
Most Wins for Best Supporting Actor
This list features actors with the most wins for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globe Awards.
RANK | ACTOR | NOMINATIONS | WINS | YEARS |
1 | Brad Pitt | 4 | 2 | 12 Monkeys (1995) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) |
2 | Edmund Gwenn | 2 | 2 | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Mister 880 (1950) |
3 | Edmond O’Brien | 2 | 2 | The Barefoot Contessa (1954) Seven Days in May (1964) |
4 | Richard Attenborough | 2 | 2 | The Sand Pebbles (1966) Doctor Dolittle (1967) |
5 | Martin Landau | 2 | 2 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) Ed Wood (1994) |
6 | Christoph Waltz | 2 | 2 | Inglorious Basterds (2009) Django Unchained (2012) |
7 | Jack Nicholson | 5 | 1 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) |
8 | Ed Harris | 4 | 1 | The Truman Show (1998) |
9 | Red Buttons | 3 | 1 | Sayonara (1957) |
10 | Robert Duvall | 3 | 1 | Tender Mercies (1983) |
11 | Edward Norton | 3 | 1 | Primal Fear (1996) |
12 | Christopher Plummer | 3 | 1 | Beginners (2011) |
13 | John Huston | 2 | 1 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
14 | Peter Ustinov | 2 | 1 | Spartacus (1960) |
15 | Oskar Werner | 2 | 1 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) |
16 | Gig Young | 2 | 1 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) |
17 | Gene Hackman | 2 | 1 | The French Connection (1971) |
18 | Joel Grey | 2 | 1 | Cabaret (1972) |
19 | Fred Astaire | 2 | 1 | The Towering Inferno (1974) |
20 | Laurence Olivier | 2 | 1 | Marathon Man (1976) |
21 | Melvyn Douglas | 2 | 1 | Being There (1979) |
22 | Sean Connery | 2 | 1 | The Untouchables (1987) |
23 | Denzel Washington | 2 | 1 | Glory (1989) |
24 | Tommy Lee Jones | 2 | 1 | The Fugitive (1993) |
25 | Tom Cruise | 2 | 1 | Magnolia (1999) |
26 | Benicio del Toro | 2 | 1 | Traffic (2000) |
27 | Jared Leto | 2 | 1 | Dallas Buyers Club (2013) |
28 | Mahershala Ali | 2 | 1 | Moonlight (2016) |
29 | Sam Rockwell | 2 | 1 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) |
30 | Robert Downey Jr. | 2 | 1 | Oppenheimer (2023) |
31 | Akim Tamiroff | 1 | 1 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) |
32 | Barry Fitzgerald | 1 | 1 | Going My Way (1944) |
33 | J. Carrol Naish | 1 | 1 | A Medal for Benny (1945) |
34 | Clifton Webb | 1 | 1 | The Razor's Edge (1946) |
35 | Walter Huston | 1 | 1 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
36 | James Whitmore | 1 | 1 | Battleground (1949) |
37 | Millard Mitchell | 1 | 1 | My Six Convicts (1952) |
38 | Frank Sinatra | 1 | 1 | From Here to Eternity (1953) |
39 | Arthur Kennedy | 1 | 1 | Trial (1955) |
40 | Earl Holliman | 1 | 1 | The Rainmaker (1956) |
41 | Burl Ives | 1 | 1 | The Big Country (1958) |
42 | Stephen Boyd | 1 | 1 | Ben-Hur (1959) |
43 | Sal Mineo | 1 | 1 | Exodus (1960) |
44 | George Chakiris | 1 | 1 | West Side Story (1961) |
45 | Omar Sharif | 1 | 1 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
46 | Daniel Massey | 1 | 1 | Star! (1968) |
47 | John Mills | 1 | 1 | Ryan's Daughter (1970) |
48 | Ben Johnson | 1 | 1 | The Last Picture Show (1971) |
49 | John Houseman | 1 | 1 | The Paper Chase (1973) |
50 | Richard Benjamin | 1 | 1 | The Sunshine Boys (1975) |
51 | Peter Firth | 1 | 1 | Equus (1977) |
52 | John Hurt | 1 | 1 | Midnight Express (1978) |
53 | Timothy Hutton | 1 | 1 | Ordinary People (1980) |
54 | John Gielgud | 1 | 1 | Arthur (1981) |
55 | Louis Gossett Jr. | 1 | 1 | An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) |
56 | Haing S. Ngor | 1 | 1 | The Killing Fields (1984) |
57 | Klaus Maria Brandauer | 1 | 1 | Out of Africa (1985) |
58 | Tom Berenger | 1 | 1 | Platoon (1986) |
59 | Bruce Davison | 1 | 1 | Longtime Companion (1990) |
60 | Jack Palance | 1 | 1 | City Slickers (1991) |
61 | Burt Reynolds | 1 | 1 | Boogie Nights (1997) |
62 | Jim Broadbent | 1 | 1 | Iris (2001) |
63 | Chris Cooper | 1 | 1 | Adaptation (2002) |
64 | Tim Robbins | 1 | 1 | Mystic River (2003) |
65 | Clive Owen | 1 | 1 | Closer (2004) |
66 | George Clooney | 1 | 1 | Syriana (2005) |
67 | Eddie Murphy | 1 | 1 | Dreamgirls (2006) |
68 | Javier Bardem | 1 | 1 | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
69 | Heath Ledger | 1 | 1 | The Dark Knight (2008) |
70 | Christian Bale | 1 | 1 | The Fighter (2010) |
71 | J. K. Simmons | 1 | 1 | Whiplash (2014) |
72 | Sylvester Stallone | 1 | 1 | Creed (2015) |
73 | Aaron Taylor-Johnson | 1 | 1 | Nocturnal Animals (2016) |
74 | Daniel Kaluuya | 1 | 1 | Judas and the Black Messiah (2020) |
75 | Kodi Smit-McPhee | 1 | 1 | The Power of the Dog (2021) |
76 | Ke Huy Quan | 1 | 1 | Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) |
77 | Kieran Culkin | 1 | 1 | A Real Pain (2024) |
78 | Stellan Skarsgård | 1 | 1 | Sentimental Value (2025) |
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