National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Award from the National Society of Film Critics: Best Supporting Actor
Winner of the National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actor. The award is presented every year in early January for the best film productions and film-makers of the past calendar year. 1975 and 1977 were two award ceremonies held in January and December, prompting the National Society of Film Critics Award was not awarded in 1976 and 1978.
The most successful in this category were the American actor Gene Hackman and Jack Nicholson, who could win the award twice each. Seven succeeded Film Critics Association in advance of the Oscar winners present, it will ultimately happen in 2010, when Christoph Waltz ( Inglourious Basterds ) together with the US - American Paul Schneider ( Bright Star ) could enter the list of winners.
At the last ceremony in 2014, the Americans James Franco ( Spring Breakers ) won by four points against his compatriot Jared Leto ( Dallas Buyers Club, 20 points) and Barkhad Abdi ( Captain Phillips, 14 points).
* = Actor, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor of the Year for her role later
- National Society of Film Critics