2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male Winner and Nominees

Whiplash

J.K. Simmons

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Edward Norton

Boyhood

Ethan Hawke

Love Is Strange

Alfred Molina

Nightcrawler

Riz Ahmed