J.K. Simmons Buys Poquito Más Meals for Police Officers After 2015 Oscars Win

The actor had won his first Academy Award, for his supporting role as an intense and often abusive conductor in Whiplash

Someone give this guy another award, please.

Just days after winning his first Oscar, for his supporting role as an abusive conductor and music teacher in Whiplash, J.K. Simmons bought lunch for three police officers.

The 60-year-old actor, whose personality is nothing like his Academy Award-winning character, had on Tuesday paid their bill at a Poquito Más eatery in Los Angeles. At the restaurant, known for its tacos, he also paid for the meals of two of his friends, spending a total of $50, a company rep confirmed to E! News on Thursday, adding that Simmons is a frequent customer.

TMZ reported that he got a scampi burrito, his usual, for himself and had paid the LAPD cops' bills after spotting the officers in the restaurant.

Simmons had earlier this month carried out a TV interview at a Poquito Más branch in North Hollywood, which the company dubbed his favorite.

Post by Poquito Mas.

Simmons was the frontrunner in his Oscars category at Sunday's ceremony, having won several awards for his role beforehand, and beat nominees Ethan Hawke from Boyhood, Edward Norton from Birdman, Mark Ruffalo from Foxcatcher and Robert Duvall from The Judge.

Simmons, a father of two, gave a moving, tearful acceptance speech in which he called on viewers to telephone their parents.

"Tell them you love them and thank them and listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you," he said.

The actor's mother, Pat, passed away at age 84 one year ago. His father Don, a music professor, died at the same age, in 2012.

In January, Simmons told Howard Stern in an interview on his Sirius XM radio show that his parents always supported his dream, even when he was a struggling actor.

"My parents were 100 percent supportive, always," he said.

Simmons, who was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons, obtained a music degree from the University of Montana in 1978 and worked as a theatre actor on and off Broadway before he concentrated on his TV and movie career. He and his wife Michelle Schumacher met while starring in a stage production of Peter Pan. In 1997, Simmons got his breakout role as inmate Vern Schillinger on the HBO prison series Oz, which also featured his wife as Norma Clarke.

Simmons went on to star on shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order and The Closer and played gruff newsman J. Jonah Jameson in the first Spider-Man film trilogy. He also appeared in the movies Juno, Up in the Air and Thank You for Smoking and has collaborated many times with director and producer Jason Reitman. He can be seen next in the new Terminator sequel, Terminator Genisys.

He also stars in Farmers Insurance commercials and plays the Yellow M&M in M&Ms ads. He told Stern Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson also provide the voices of other M&Ms.

"I do not get free M&Ms," Simmons added. "Well, you know what, I never really asked for free M&Ms. So I probably would."

—Reporting by Baker Machado