Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees.

The trophy for the award was originally a plaque.

1930s

• 1936 Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
  • Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey
  • Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade
  • Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet
  • Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn

• 1937 Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola
  • Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth
  • Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane
  • H.B. Warner - Lost Horizon
  • Roland Young - Topper

• 1938 Walter Brennan - Kentucky
  • Basil Rathbone - If I Were King
  • John Garfield - Four Daughters
  • Gene Lockhart - Algiers
  • Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette

• 1939 Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach
  • Brian Aheme - Stagecoach
  • Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste
  • Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1940s

• 1940 Walter Brennan - The Westerner
  • Albert Basserman - Foreign Correspondent
  • William Gargan - They Knew What They Wanted
  • Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator
  • James Stephenson - The Letter

• 1941 Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley
  • Walter Brennan - Sergeant York
  • Charles Coburn - The Devil and Miss Jones
  • James Gleason - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  • Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon

• 1942 Van Heflin - Johnny Eager
  • William Bendix - Wake Island
  • Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat
  • Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver

From 1943 winners received statuettes like everybody else.

• 1943 Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier
  • Charles Bickford - The Song of Bernadette
  • J. Naish - Sahara
  • Claude Rains - Casablanca
  • Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls

• 1944 Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
  • Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross
  • Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington
  • Clifton Webb - Laura
  • Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away

• 1945 James Dunn - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
  • Michael Chekhov - Spellbound
  • John Dall - The Corn Is Green
  • Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe
  • J. Naish - A Medal for Benny

• 1946 Harold Russell - The Best Years Of Our Lives
  • Charles Coburn - The Green Years
  • William Demerest - The Jolson Story
  • Claude Rains - Notorious
  • Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge

• 1947 Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street
  • Charles Bickford - The Farmer's Daughter
  • Thomas Gomez - Ride the Pink Horse
  • Robert Ryan - Crossfire
  • Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death

• 1948 Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Charles Bickford - Johnny Belinda
  • José Ferrer - Joan of Arc
  • Oscar Homolka - I Remember Mama
  • Cecil Kellaway - The Luck of the Irish

• 1949 Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High
  • John Ireland - All the King's Men
  • Arthur Kennedy - Champion
  • Ralph Richardson - The Heiress
  • James Whitmore - Battleground

1950s

• 1950 George Sanders - All About Eve
  • Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow
  • Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880
  • Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle
  • Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard

• 1951 Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Leo Genn - Quo Vadis
  • Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Salesman
  • Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis
  • Gig Young - Come Fill the Cup

• 1952 Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!
  • Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel
  • Arthur Hunnicut - The Big Sky
  • Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man
  • Jack Palance - Sudden Fear

• 1953 Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity
  • Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday
  • Brandon de Wilde - Shane
  • Jack Palance - Shane
  • Robert Strauss - Stalag 17

• 1954 Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa
  • Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront
  • Karl Malden - On the Waterfront
  • Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront
  • Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny

• 1955 Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
  • Arthur Kennedy - Trial
  • Joe Mantell - Marty
  • Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause
  • Arthur O'Connell - Picnic

• 1956 Anthony Quinn - Lust For Life
  • Don Murray - Bus Stop
  • Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion
  • Mickey Rooney - The Bold and the Brave
  • Robert Stack - Written on the Wind

• 1957 Red Buttons - Sayonara
  • Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms
  • Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place
  • Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place

• 1958 Burl Ives - The Big Country
  • Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones
  • Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov
  • Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running
  • Gig Young - Teacher's Pet

• 1959 Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur
  • Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder
  • George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder
  • Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians
  • Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank

1960s

• 1960 Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
  • Peter Falk - Murder, Inc.
  • Jack Kruschen - The Apartment
  • Sal Mineo - Exodus
  • Chill Willis - The Alamo

• 1961 George Chakiris - West Side Story
  • Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles
  • Jackie Gleason - The Hustler
  • George C. Scott - The Hustler

• 1962 Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Victor Buono - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Telly Savalas - Birdman of Alcatraz
  • Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia
  • Terence Stamp - Billy Budd

• 1963 Melvyn Douglas - Hud
  • Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor
  • Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D.
  • Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones
  • John Huston - The Cardinal

• 1964 Peter Ustinov - Topkapi
  • John Gielgud - Becket
  • Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady
  • Edmund O'Brien - Seven Days in May
  • Lee Tracy - The Best Man

• 1965 Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns
  • Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix
  • Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago
  • Michael Dunn - Ship of Fools
  • Frank Finlay - Othello

• 1966 Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie
  • Makoto Iwamatsu - The Sand Pebbles
  • James Mason - Georgy Girl
  • George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons

• 1967 George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke
  • John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen
  • Gene Hackman - Bonnie and Clyde
  • Cecil Kellaway - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde

• 1968 Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses
  • Seymour Cassel - Faces
  • Daniel Massey - Star!
  • Jack Wild - Oliver!
  • Gene Wilder - The Producers

• 1969 Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  • Rupert Crosse - The Reivers
  • Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  • Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider
  • Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days

1970s

• 1970 John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
  • Richard Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers
  • Dan George - Little Big Man
  • Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father
  • John Marley - Love Story

• 1971 Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
  • Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show
  • Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof
  • Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes a Great Notion
  • Roy Scheider - The French Connection

• 1972 Joel Grey - Cabaret
  • Eddie Albert - The Heartbreak Kid
  • James Caan - The Godfather
  • Robert Duvall - The Godfather
  • Al Pacino - The Godfather

• 1973 John Houseman - The Paper Chase
  • Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly
  • Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger
  • Jason Miller - The Exorcist
  • Randy Quaid - The Last Detail

• 1974 Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II
  • Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno
  • Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
  • Michael Gazzo - The Godfather Part II
  • Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II

• 1975 George Burns - The Sunshine Boys
  • Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust
  • Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon
  • Jack Warden - Shampoo

• 1976 Jason Robards - All the President's Men
  • Ned Beatty - Network
  • Burgess Meredith - Rocky
  • Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
  • Burt Young - Rocky

• 1977 Jason Robards - Julia
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point
  • Peter Firth - Equus
  • Alec Guinness - Star Wars
  • Maximilian Schell - Julia

• 1978 Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
  • Bruce Dern - Coming Home
  • Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman
  • John Hurt - Midnight Express
  • Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait

• 1979 Melvyn Douglas - Being There
  • Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
  • Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Frederic Forrest - The Rose
  • Mickey Rooney - The Black Stallion

1980s

• 1980 Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
  • Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People
  • Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini
  • Joe Pesci - Raging Bull
  • Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard

• 1981 John Gielgud - Arthur
  • James Coco - Only When I Laugh
  • Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire
  • Jack Nicholson - Reds
  • Howard Rollins - Ragtime (film)

• 1982 Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer and A Gentleman
  • Charles Durning - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
  • John Lithgow - The World According to Garp
  • James Mason - The Verdict
  • Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria

• 1983 Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
  • Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be
  • John Lithgow - Terms of Endearment
  • Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff
  • Rip Torn - Cross Creek

• 1984 Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
  • Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story
  • John Malkovich - Places in the Heart
  • Noriyuki Morita - The Karate Kid
  • Ralph Richardson - Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

• 1985 Don Ameche - Cocoon
  • Klaus Brandauer - Out of Africa
  • William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor
  • Robert Loggia - Jagged Edge
  • Eric Roberts - Runaway Train

• 1986 Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Tom Berenger - Platoon
  • Willem Dafoe - Platoon
  • Denholm Elliott - A Room with a View
  • Dennis Hopper - Hoosiers

• 1987 Sean Connery - The Untouchables
  • Albert Brooks - Broadcast News
  • Morgan Freeman - Street Smart
  • Vincent Gardenia - Moonstruck
  • Denzel Washington - Cry Freedom

• 1988 Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
  • Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit
  • Martin Landau - Tucker: The Man and His Dream
  • River Phoenix - Running on Empty
  • Dean Stockwell - Married to the Mob

• 1989 Denzel Washington - Glory
  • Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing
  • Dan Aykroyd - Driving Miss Daisy
  • Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season
  • Martin Landau - Crimes and Misdemeanors

1990s

• 1990 Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
  • Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion
  • Andy Garcia - The Godfather Part III
  • Graham Greene - Dances with Wolves
  • Al Pacino - Dick Tracy

• 1991 Jack Palance - City Slickers
  • Harvey Keitel - Bugsy
  • Ben Kingsley - Bugsy
  • Michael Lerner - Barton Fink
  • Tommy Lee Jones - JFK

• 1992 Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
  • Jaye Davidson - The Crying Game
  • Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men
  • Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross
  • David Paymer - Mr. Saturday Night

• 1993 Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
  • Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List
  • John Malkovich - In the Line of Fire
  • Pete Postlethwaite - In the Name of the Father

• 1994 Martin Landau - Ed Wood
  • Samuel Jackson - Pulp Fiction
  • Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway
  • Paul Scofield - Quiz Show
  • Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump

• 1995 Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
  • James Cromwell - Babe
  • Edward Harris - Apollo 13
  • Brad Pitt - Twelve Monkeys
  • Tim Roth - Rob Roy

• 1996 Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire
  • William H. Macy - Fargo
  • Edward Norton - Primal Fear
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl - Shine
  • James Woods - Ghosts of Mississippi

• 1997 Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
  • Robert Forster - Jackie Brown
  • Anthony Hopkins - Amistad
  • Greg Kinnear - As Good as It Gets
  • Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights

• 1998 James Coburn - Affliction
  • Robert Duvall - A Civil Action
  • Edward Harris - The Truman Show
  • Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare in Love
  • Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan

• 1999 Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules
  • Tom Cruise - Magnolia
  • Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile
  • Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense

2000s

• 2000 Benicio Del Toro - Traffic
  • Jeff Bridges - The Contender
  • Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire
  • Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich
  • Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator

• 2001 Jim Broadbent - Iris
  • Ethan Hawke - Training Day
  • Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
  • Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Jon Voight - Ali

• 2002 Chris Cooper - Adaptation
  • Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can
  • John C. Reilly - Chicago
  • Ed Harris - The Hours
  • Paul Newman - Road to Perdition

• 2003 Tim Robbins, Mystic River
  • Alec Baldwin, The Cooler
  • Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams
  • Djimon Hounsou, In America
  • Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai

See also: Best Picture - Best Actor - Best Actress - Best Supporting Actor - Best Supporting Actress - Best Director

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