The Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Winners and nominees

Best Supporting Actor - Drama

1990s

• 1996: Armin Mueller-Stahl - Shine
  • Steve Buscemi - Fargo
  • Robert Carlyle - Trainspotting
  • Jeremy Irons - Stealing Beauty
  • John Lynch - Moll Flanders
  • Paul Scofield - The Crucible
• 1997: Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
  • Billy Connolly - Mrs. Brown
  • Danny DeVito - The Rainmaker
  • Samuel L. Jackson - Eve's Bayou
  • Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
• 1998: Donald Sutherland - Without Limits
  • Robert Duvall - A Civil Action
  • Jason Patric - Your Friends & Neighbors
  • Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan
  • Tom Sizemore - Saving Private Ryan
• 1999: Harry J. Lennix - Titus
  • Tom Cruise - Magnolia
  • Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules
  • Doug Hutchison - The Green Mile
  • Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Christopher Plummer - The Insider

2000s

• 2000: Bruce Greenwood - Thirteen Days
  • Jeff Bridges - The Contender
  • Benicio del Toro - Traffic
  • Robert De Niro - Men of Honor
  • Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich
  • Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator
• 2001: Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
  • Jim Broadbent - Iris
  • Billy Crudup - Charlotte Gray
  • Ed Harris - A Beautiful Mind
  • Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Goran Visnjic - The Deep End
• 2002: Dennis Haysbert - Far from Heaven
  • Jeremy Davies - Solaris
  • Viggo Mortensen - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Paul Newman - Road to Perdition
  • Alfred Molina - Frida
  • Dennis Quaid - Far from Heaven
• 2003: Djimon Hounsou - In America
  • Alec Baldwin - The Cooler
  • Jeff Bridges - Seabiscuit
  • Benicio del Toro - 21 Grams
  • Omar Sharif - Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Monsieur Ibrahim)
  • Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai
• 2004: Christopher Walken - Around the Bend
  • David Carradine - Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  • Jamie Foxx - Collateral
  • Alfred Molina - Spider-Man 2
  • Clive Owen - Closer
  • Peter Sarsgaard - Kinsey
• 2005: Danny Huston - The Constant Gardener
  • Chris Cooper - Capote
  • Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
  • Edward Norton - Kingdom of Heaven
  • Mickey Rourke - Sin City
  • Peter Sarsgaard - Jarhead

Best Supporting Actor

• 2006: Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
  • Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
  • Adam Beach - Flags of Our Fathers
  • Jack Nicholson - The Departed
  • Brad Pitt - Babel
  • Donald Sutherland - Aurora Borealis
• 2007(t): Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• 2007(t): Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
  • Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
  • Brian Cox - Zodiac
  • Jeff Daniels - The Lookout
  • Ben Foster - 3:10 to Yuma