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2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

The Lighthouse
Willem Dafoe
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Richard E. Grant
2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sam Rockwell
2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Hell or High Water
Ben Foster
2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Beasts of No Nation
Idris Elba
2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Whiplash
J.K. Simmons
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Dallas Buyers Club
Jared Leto
2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Magic Mike
Matthew McConaughey
2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Beginners
Christopher Plummer
2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Winter’s Bone
John Hawkes
2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

The Messenger
Woody Harrelson
2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Milk
James Franco
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Talk to Me
Chiwetel Ejiofor
2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Little Miss Sunshine
Alan Arkin
2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Crash
Matt Dillon
2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Sideways
Thomas Haden Church
2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

In America
Djimon Hounsou
2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Far from Heaven
Dennis Quaid
2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Ghost World
Steve Buscemi
2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Shadow of the Vampire
Willem Dafoe
2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Happy, Texas
Steve Zahn
1999 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Rushmore
Bill Murray
1998 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Chasing Amy
Jason Lee
1997 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Basquiat
Benicio Del Toro
1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

The Usual Suspects
Benicio Del Toro
1995 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Bullets Over Broadway
Chazz Palminteri
1994 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Twenty Bucks
Christopher Lloyd
1993 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Reservoir Dogs
Steve Buscemi
1992 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

City of Hope
David Strathairn
1991 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Longtime Companion
Bruce Davison
1990 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Drugstore Cowboy
Max Perlich
1989 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male

Stand and Deliver
Lou Diamond Phillips
1988 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Male
