The Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor (aka Best Supporting Male) is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards. Alan Arkin is the only winner to have won both this award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor the same year.
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| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Morgan Freeman | Street Smart | Fast Black ‡ |
| Wings Hauser | Tough Guys Don't Dance | Capt. Alvin Luther Regency | |
| James Earl Jones | Matewan | 'Few Clothes' Johnson | |
| Vincent Price | The Whales of August | Mr. Maranov | |
| David Strathairn | Matewan | Sid Hatfield | |
| 1988 | Lou Diamond Phillips | Stand and Deliver | Angel Guzman |
| Ernest Borgnine | Spike of Bensonhurst | Baldo Cacetti | |
| Divine | Hairspray | Edna Turnblad / Arvin Hodgepile | |
| John Lone | The Moderns | Bertram Stone | |
| John Turturro | Five Corners | Heinz | |
| 1989 | Max Perlich | Drugstore Cowboy | David |
| Steve Buscemi | Mystery Train | Charlie the Barber | |
| Scott Coffey | Shag | Chip Gaillard | |
| Gary Farmer | Powwow Highway | Philbert Bono | |
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins | Mystery Train | Night Clerk |
| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | John Hawkes | Winter's Bone | Teardrop ‡ |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Mother and Child | Paul | |
| Bill Murray | Get Low | Frank Quinn | |
| John Ortiz | Jack Goes Boating | Clyde | |
| Mark Ruffalo | The Kids Are All Right | Paul ‡ | |
| 2011 | Albert Brooks | Drive | Bernie Rose |
| John Hawkes | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Patrick | |
| Christopher Plummer | Beginners | Hal | |
| John C. Reilly | Cedar Rapids | Dean Ziegler | |
| Corey Stoll | Midnight in Paris | Ernest Hemingway |
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