The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry.
At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of this award for his role in Come and Get It. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded plaques instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards. Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2018 ceremony, Sam Rockwell is the most recent winner in this category for his role as Officer Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Winners and nominees[]
In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year.
Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940).
Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in Johnny Eager.
Charles Coburn won for his performance in 1943's The More the Merrier.
George Sanders won for his role in 1950's All About Eve.
Anthony Quinn won twice for his roles in Viva Zapata! (1952) and Lust for Life (1956).
Frank Sinatra won for his performance in 1953's From Here to Eternity.
Jack Lemmon won for his role in Mister Roberts (1955).
Peter Ustinov won twice for his performances in Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964).
Melvyn Douglas won twice in this category for his roles in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979).
For his role as the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret, Joel Grey won this award in 1972, becoming one of eight individuals to win both an Oscar and a Tony Award for the same role.
Robert De Niro won for his performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
George Burns won for his performance in The Sunshine Boys. (1975).
Jason Robards won two consecutive awards in 1976 and 1977 for his roles in All the President's Men and Julia.
Christopher Walken earned two nominations in this category resulting in a win for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978).
At age 20, Timothy Hutton became the youngest winner in this category for his role as Conrad Jarrett in the 1980 film Ordinary People.
Louis Gossett Jr. won for his performance in 1982's An Officer and a Gentleman, becoming the first black actor to win in this category.
Jack Nicholson won for his role in Terms of Endearment (1983).
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Michael Caine won twice for his roles in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and The Cider House Rules (1999).
Sean Connery won for his performance in The Untouchables (1987).
Kevin Kline won for his performance in A Fish Called Wanda (1988).
Denzel Washington won for his role in Glory (1989).
Joe Pesci won for his performace as Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas.
Tommy Lee Jones won for his role in The Fugitive (1993).
Martin Landau won for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994).
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Robin Williams won for his performance in Good Will Hunting (1997).
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Benicio del Toro won for his role in 2000's Traffic.
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Jim Broadbent won for his performance as John Bayley in Iris (2001).
Tim Robbins won for his performance in Mystic River (2003).
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Morgan Freeman won for his performance in Million Dollar Baby (2004).
George Clooney won for his role Syriana (2005).
Alan Arkin won for his performance in 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.
Javier Bardem won for his performance in No Country for Old Men (2007).
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Heath Ledger won posthumously for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight (2008), the first win for portraying a comic book character.
Christoph Waltz won twice for his roles in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012).
Christian Bale won for his performance as Dicky Eklund in The Fighter (2010).
At age 82, Christopher Plummer became the oldest acting Oscar winner for his performance in Beginners (2011).
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Jared Leto won for his role as a trans woman in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
J. K. Simmons won for his role in Whiplash (2014).
Mark Rylance won for portraying Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies (2015).
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Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar for his role in Moonlight (2016).
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| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | ||||
| 1936 (9th) |
Walter Brennan ‡ | Swan Bostrom | Come and Get It | |
| Mischa Auer | Carlo | My Man Godfrey | ||
| Stuart Erwin | Amos Dodd | Pigskin Parade | ||
| Basil Rathbone | Tybalt - Nephew to Lady Capulet | Romeo and Juliet | ||
| Akim Tamiroff | General Yang | The General Died at Dawn | ||
| 1937 (10th) |
Joseph Schildkraut ‡ | Capt. Alfred Dreyfus | The Life of Emile Zola | |
| Ralph Bellamy | Dan Leeson | The Awful Truth | ||
| Thomas Mitchell | Dr. Kersaint | The Hurricane | ||
| H. B. Warner | Chang | Lost Horizon | ||
| Roland Young | Cosmo Topper | Topper | ||
| 1938 (11th) |
Walter Brennan ‡ | Peter Goodwin | Kentucky | |
| John Garfield | Mickey Borden | Four Daughters | ||
| Gene Lockhart | Regis | Algiers | ||
| Robert Morley | King Louis XVI | Marie Antoinette | ||
| Basil Rathbone | King Louis XI | If I Were King | ||
| 1939 (12th) |
Thomas Mitchell ‡ | Dr. Josiah Boone | Stagecoach | |
| Brian Aherne | Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg | Juarez | ||
| Harry Carey | President of the Senate | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | ||
| Brian Donlevy | Sgt. Markoff | Beau Geste | ||
| Claude Rains | Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | ||
| 1940s | ||||
| 1940 (13th) |
Walter Brennan ‡ | Judge Roy Bean | The Westerner | |
| Albert Bassermann | Van Meer | Foreign Correspondent | ||
| William Gargan | Joe | They Knew What They Wanted | ||
| Jack Oakie | Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria) | The Great Dictator | ||
| James Stephenson | Howard Joyce | The Letter | ||
| 1941 (14th) |
Donald Crisp ‡ | Gwilym Morgan | How Green Was My Valley | |
| Walter Brennan | Pastor Rosier Pile | Sergeant York | ||
| Charles Coburn | John P. Merrick | The Devil and Miss Jones | ||
| James Gleason | Max Corkle | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | ||
| Sydney Greenstreet | Kasper Gutman | The Maltese Falcon | ||
| 1942 (15th) |
Van Heflin ‡ | Jeff Hartnett | Johnny Eager | |
| William Bendix | Pvt. Aloysius "Smacksie" Randall | Wake Island | ||
| Walter Huston | Jerry Cohan | Yankee Doodle Dandy | ||
| Frank Morgan | The Pirate | Tortilla Flat | ||
| Henry Travers | James Ballard | Mrs. Miniver | ||
| 1943 (16th) |
Charles Coburn ‡ | Benjamin Dingle | The More the Merrier | |
| Charles Bickford | Father Peyramale | The Song of Bernadette | ||
| J. Carrol Naish | Giuseppe | Sahara | ||
| Claude Rains | Capt. Louis Renault | Casablanca | ||
| Akim Tamiroff | Pablo | For Whom the Bell Tolls | ||
| 1944 (17th) |
Barry Fitzgerald ‡ | Father Fitzgibbon | Going My Way | |
| Hume Cronyn | Paul Roeder | The Seventh Cross | ||
| Claude Rains | Job Skeffington | Mr. Skeffington | ||
| Clifton Webb | Waldo Lydecker | Laura | ||
| Monty Woolley | Colonel William G. Smollett | Since You Went Away | ||
| 1945 (18th) |
James Dunn ‡ | Johnny Nolan | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | |
| Michael Chekhov | Dr. Alexander "Alex" Brulov | Spellbound | ||
| John Dall | Morgan Evans | The Corn Is Green | ||
| Robert Mitchum | Lt. Capt. Bill Walker | G. I. Joe | ||
| J. Carrol Naish | Charley Martin | A Medal for Benny | ||
| 1946 (19th) |
Harold Russell ‡ | Homer Parrish | The Best Years of Our Lives | |
| Charles Coburn | Alexander Gow | The Green Years | ||
| William Demarest | Steve Martin | The Jolson Story | ||
| Claude Rains | Alexander Sebastian | Notorious | ||
| Clifton Webb | Elliott Templeton | The Razor's Edge | ||
| 1947 (20th) |
Edmund Gwenn ‡ | Kris Kringle | Miracle on 34th Street | |
| Charles Bickford | Joseph Clancy | The Farmer's Daughter | ||
| Thomas Gomez | Pancho | Ride the Pink Horse | ||
| Robert Ryan | Montgomery | Crossfire | ||
| Richard Widmark | Tommy Udo | Kiss of Death | ||
| 1948 (21st) |
Walter Huston ‡ | Howard | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | |
| Charles Bickford | Black McDonald | Johnny Belinda | ||
| José Ferrer | The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France | Joan of Arc | ||
| Oskar Homolka | Uncle Chris Halverson | I Remember Mama | ||
| Cecil Kellaway | Horace (A Leprechaun) | The Luck of the Irish | ||
| 1949 (22nd) |
Dean Jagger ‡ | Major Harvey Stovall | Twelve O'Clock High | |
| John Ireland | Jack Burden | All the King's Men | ||
| Arthur Kennedy | Connie Kelly | Champion | ||
| Ralph Richardson | Dr. Austin Sloper | The Heiress | ||
| James Whitmore | Sgt. Kinnie | Battleground | ||
| 1950s | ||||
| 1950 (23rd) |
George Sanders ‡ | Addison De Witt | All About Eve | |
| Jeff Chandler | Cochise | Broken Arrow | ||
| Edmund Gwenn | "Skipper" Miller | Mister 880 | ||
| Sam Jaffe | Dr. Erwin Riedenschneider | The Asphalt Jungle | ||
| Erich von Stroheim | Max von Meyerling | Sunset Boulevard | ||
| 1951 (24th) |
Karl Malden ‡ | Harold "Mitch" Mitchell | A Streetcar Named Desire | |
| Leo Genn | Petronius | Quo Vadis | ||
| Kevin McCarthy | Biff Loman | Death of a Salesman | ||
| Peter Ustinov | Nero | Quo Vadis | ||
| Gig Young | Boyd Copeland | Come Fill the Cup | ||
| 1952 (25th) |
Anthony Quinn ‡ | Eufemio Zapata | Viva Zapata! | |
| Richard Burton | Philip Ashley | My Cousin Rachel | ||
| Arthur Hunnicutt | Zeb Calloway Narrator |
The Big Sky | ||
| Victor McLaglen | Will "Red" Danaher | The Quiet Man | ||
| Jack Palance | Lester Blaine | Sudden Fear | ||
| 1953 (26th) |
Frank Sinatra ‡ | Pvt. Angelo Maggio | From Here to Eternity | |
| Eddie Albert | Irving Radovich | Roman Holiday | ||
| Brandon deWilde | Joey Starrett | Shane | ||
| Jack Palance | Jack Wilson | |||
| Robert Strauss | Sgt. Stanislas "Animal" Kasava | Stalag 17 | ||
| 1954 (27th) |
Edmond O'Brien ‡ | Oscar Muldoon | The Barefoot Contessa | |
| Lee J. Cobb | Johnny Friendly | On the Waterfront | ||
| Karl Malden | Father Barry | |||
| Rod Steiger | Charley "The Gent" Malloy | |||
| Tom Tully | Commander DeVriess | The Caine Mutiny | ||
| 1955 (28th) |
Jack Lemmon ‡ | Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver | Mister Roberts | |
| Arthur Kennedy | Barney Castle | Trial | ||
| Joe Mantell | Angie | Marty | ||
| Sal Mineo | John "Plato" Crawford | Rebel Without a Cause | ||
| Arthur O'Connell | Howard Bevans | Picnic | ||
| 1956 (29th) |
Anthony Quinn ‡ | Paul Gauguin | Lust for Life | |
| Don Murray | Beauregard "Bo" Decker | Bus Stop | ||
| Anthony Perkins | Josh Birdwell | Friendly Persuasion | ||
| Mickey Rooney | Dooley | The Bold and the Brave | ||
| Robert Stack | Kyle Hadley | Written on the Wind | ||
| 1957 (30th) |
Red Buttons ‡ | Airman Joe Kelly | Sayonara | |
| Vittorio De Sica | Major Alessandro Rinaldi | A Farewell to Arms | ||
| Sessue Hayakawa | Colonel Saito | The Bridge on the River Kwai | ||
| Arthur Kennedy | Lucas Cross | Peyton Place | ||
| Russ Tamblyn | Norman Page | |||
| 1958 (31st) |
Burl Ives ‡ | Rufus Hannassey | The Big Country | |
| Theodore Bikel | Sheriff Max Muller | The Defiant Ones | ||
| Lee J. Cobb | Fyodor Karamazov | The Brothers Karamazov | ||
| Arthur Kennedy | Frank Hirsh | Some Came Running | ||
| Gig Young | Dr. Hugo Pine | Teacher's Pet | ||
| 1959 (32nd) |
Hugh Griffith ‡ | Sheik Ilderim | Ben-Hur | |
| Arthur O'Connell | Parnell Emmett McCarthy | Anatomy of a Murder | ||
| George C. Scott | Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer | |||
| Robert Vaughn | Chester "Chet" Gwynn | The Young Philadelphians | ||
| Ed Wynn | Albert Dussell | The Diary of Anne Frank | ||
| 1960s | ||||
| 1960 (33rd) |
Peter Ustinov ‡ | Lentulus Batiatus | Spartacus | |
| Peter Falk | Abe "Kid Twist" Reles | Murder, Inc. | ||
| Jack Kruschen | Dr. Dreyfuss | The Apartment | ||
| Sal Mineo | Dov Landau | Exodus | ||
| Chill Wills | Beekeeper | The Alamo | ||
| 1961 (34th) |
George Chakiris ‡ | Bernardo Nuñez | West Side Story | |
| Montgomery Clift | Rudolph Petersen | Judgment at Nuremberg | ||
| Peter Falk | Joy Boy | Pocketful of Miracles | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Minnesota Fats | The Hustler | ||
| George C. Scott Template:Ref label | Bert Gordon | |||
| 1962 (35th) |
Ed Begley ‡ | Tom "Boss" Finley | Sweet Bird of Youth | |
| Victor Buono | Edwin Flagg | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | ||
| Telly Savalas | Feto Gomez | Birdman of Alcatraz | ||
| Omar Sharif | Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish | Lawrence of Arabia | ||
| Terence Stamp | Billy Budd | Billy Budd | ||
| 1963 (36th) |
Melvyn Douglas ‡ | Homer Bannon | Hud | |
| Nick Adams | Ben Brown | Twilight of Honor | ||
| Bobby Darin | Corporal Jim Tompkins | Captain Newman, M.D. | ||
| Hugh Griffith | Squire Western | Tom Jones | ||
| John Huston | Cardinal Glennon | The Cardinal | ||
| 1964 (37th) |
Peter Ustinov ‡ | Arthur Simon Simpson | Topkapi | |
| John Gielgud | Louis VII of France | Becket | ||
| Stanley Holloway | Alfred Doolittle | My Fair Lady | ||
| Edmond O'Brien | Senator Raymond Clark | Seven Days in May | ||
| Lee Tracy | President Art Hockstader | The Best Man | ||
| 1965 (38th) |
Martin Balsam ‡ | Arnold Burns | A Thousand Clowns | |
| Ian Bannen | "Ratbags" Crow | The Flight of the Phoenix | ||
| Tom Courtenay | Pasha Antipov (Strelnikov) | Doctor Zhivago | ||
| Michael Dunn | Carl Glocken | Ship of Fools | ||
| Frank Finlay | Iago | Othello | ||
| 1966 (39th) |
Walter Matthau ‡ | Willie Gingrich | The Fortune Cookie | |
| Mako | Po-han | The Sand Pebbles | ||
| James Mason | James Leamington | Georgy Girl | ||
| George Segal | Nick | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
| Robert Shaw | Henry VIII of England | A Man for All Seasons | ||
| 1967 (40th) |
George Kennedy ‡ | Dragline | Cool Hand Luke | |
| John Cassavetes | Victor P. Franko | The Dirty Dozen | ||
| Gene Hackman | Buck Barrow | Bonnie and Clyde | ||
| Cecil Kellaway | Monsignor Mike Ryan | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | ||
| Michael J. Pollard | C.W. Moss | Bonnie and Clyde | ||
| 1968 (41st) |
Jack Albertson ‡ | John Cleary | The Subject Was Roses | |
| Seymour Cassel | Chet | Faces | ||
| Daniel Massey | Noël Coward | Star! | ||
| Jack Wild | The Artful Dodger | Oliver! | ||
| Gene Wilder | Leo Bloo] | The Producers | ||
| 1969 (42nd) |
Gig Young ‡ | Rocky Graver | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | |
| Rupert Crosse | Ned McCaslin | The Reivers | ||
| Elliott Gould | Ted Henderson | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | ||
| Jack Nicholson | George Hanson | Easy Rider | ||
| Anthony Quayle | Cardinal Wolsey | Anne of the Thousand Days | ||
| 1970s | ||||
| 1970 (43rd) |
John Mills ‡ | Michael | Ryan's Daughter | |
| Richard S. Castellano | Frank Vecchio | Lovers and Other Strangers | ||
| Chief Dan George | Old Lodge Skins | Little Big Man | ||
| Gene Hackman | Gene Garrison | I Never Sang for My Father | ||
| John Marley | Phil Cavalleri | Love Story | ||
| 1971 (44th) |
Ben Johnson ‡ | Sam the Lion | The Last Picture Show | |
| Jeff Bridges | Duane Jackson | The Last Picture Show | ||
| Leonard Frey | Motel Kamzoil | Fiddler on the Roof | ||
| Richard Jaeckel | Joe Ben Stamper | Sometimes a Great Notion | ||
| Roy Scheider | Det. Buddy "Cloudy" Russo | The French Connection | ||
| 1972 (45th) |
Joel Grey ‡ | Master of Ceremonies | Cabaret | |
| Eddie Albert | Mr. Corcoran | The Heartbreak Kid | ||
| James Caan | Sonny Corleone | The Godfather | ||
| Robert Duvall | Tom Hagen | |||
| Al Pacino | Michael Corleone | |||
| 1973 (46th) |
John Houseman ‡ | Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. | The Paper Chase | |
| Vincent Gardenia | Dutch Schnell | Bang the Drum Slowly | ||
| Jack Gilford | Phil Greene | Save the Tiger | ||
| Jason Miller | Father Damien Karras | The Exorcist | ||
| Randy Quaid | Larry Meadows | The Last Detail | ||
| 1974 (47th) |
Robert De Niro ‡ | Vito Corleone | The Godfather Part II | |
| Fred Astaire | Harlee Claiborne | The Towering Inferno | ||
| Jeff Bridges | Lightfoot | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | ||
| Michael V. Gazzo | Frank Pentangeli | The Godfather Part II | ||
| Lee Strasberg | Hyman Roth | |||
| 1975 (48th) |
George Burns ‡ | Al Lewis | The Sunshine Boys | |
| Brad Dourif | Billy Bibbit | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | ||
| Burgess Meredith | Harry Greener | The Day of the Locust | ||
| Chris Sarandon | Leon Shermer | Dog Day Afternoon | ||
| Jack Warden | Lester Karpf | Shampoo | ||
| 1976 (49th) |
Jason Robards ‡ | Ben Bradlee | All the President's Men | |
| Ned Beatty | Arthur Jensen | Network | ||
| Burgess Meredith | Mickey Goldmill | Rocky | ||
| Laurence Olivier | Dr. Christian Szell | Marathon Man | ||
| Burt Young | Paulie Pennino | Rocky | ||
| 1977 (50th) |
Jason Robards ‡ | Dashiell Hammett | Julia | |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | Yuri Kopeikine | The Turning Point | ||
| Peter Firth | Alan Strang | Equus | ||
| Alec Guinness | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Star Wars | ||
| Maximilian Schell | Johann | Julia | ||
| 1978 (51st) |
Christopher Walken ‡ | Nikonar "Nick" Chevotarevich | The Deer Hunter | |
| Bruce Dern | Capt. Bob Hyde | Coming Home | ||
| Richard Farnsworth | Dodger | Comes a Horseman | ||
| John Hurt | Max | Midnight Express | ||
| Jack Warden | Max Corkle | Heaven Can Wait | ||
| 1979 (52nd) |
Melvyn Douglas ‡ | Benjamin Turnbull Rand | Being There | |
| Robert Duvall | Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore | Apocalypse Now | ||
| Frederic Forrest | Houston Dyer | The Rose | ||
| Justin Henry | Billy Kramer | Kramer vs. Kramer | ||
| Mickey Rooney | Henry Dailey | The Black Stallion | ||
| 1980s | ||||
| 1980 (53rd) |
Timothy Hutton ‡ | Conrad Jarrett | Ordinary People | |
| Judd Hirsch | Dr. Tyrone C. Berger | Ordinary People | ||
| Michael O'Keefe | Ben Meechum | The Great Santini | ||
| Joe Pesci | Joey LaMotta | Raging Bull | ||
| Jason Robards | Howard Hughes | Melvin and Howard | ||
| 1981 (54th) |
John Gielgud ‡ | Hobson | Arthur | |
| James Coco | Jimmy Perry | Only When I Laugh | ||
| Ian Holm | Sam Mussabini | Chariots of Fire | ||
| Jack Nicholson | Eugene O'Neill | Reds | ||
| Howard Rollins | Coalhouse Walker, Jr. | Ragtime | ||
| 1982 (55th) |
Louis Gossett Jr. ‡ | Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley | An Officer and a Gentleman | |
| Charles Durning | Governor | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | ||
| John Lithgow | Roberta Muldoon | The World According to Garp | ||
| James Mason | Ed Concannon | The Verdict | ||
| Robert Preston | Carroll "Toddy" Todd | Victor/Victoria | ||
| 1983 (56th) |
Jack Nicholson ‡ | Garrett Breedlove | Terms of Endearment | |
| Charles Durning | Colonel Erhardt | To Be or Not to Be | ||
| John Lithgow | Sam Burns | Terms of Endearment | ||
| Sam Shepard | Chuck Yeager | The Right Stuff | ||
| Rip Torn | Marsh Turner | Cross Creek | ||
| 1984 (57th) |
Haing S. Ngor ‡ | Dith Pran | The Killing Fields | |
| Adolph Caesar | Sgt. Waters | A Soldier's Story | ||
| John Malkovich | Mr. Will | Places in the Heart | ||
| Pat Morita | Kesuke Miyagi | The Karate Kid | ||
| Ralph Richardson | The Sixth Earl of Greystoke | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | ||
| 1985 (58th) |
Don Ameche ‡ | Arthur Selwyn | Cocoon | |
| Klaus Maria Brandauer | Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke | Out of Africa | ||
| William Hickey | Don Corrado Prizzi | Prizzi's Honor | ||
| Robert Loggia | Sam Ransom | Jagged Edge | ||
| Eric Roberts | Buck | Runaway Train | ||
| 1986 (59th) |
Michael Caine ‡ | Elliott Daniels | Hannah and Her Sisters | |
| Tom Berenger | Sgt. Bob Barnes | Platoon | ||
| Willem Dafoe | Sgt. Elias Grodin | |||
| Denholm Elliott | Mr. Emerson | A Room with a View | ||
| Dennis Hopper | Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch | Hoosiers | ||
| 1987 (60th) |
Sean Connery ‡ | Jimmy Malone | The Untouchables | |
| Albert Brooks | Aaron Altman | Broadcast News | ||
| Morgan Freeman | Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr. | Street Smart | ||
| Vincent Gardenia | Cosmo Castorini | Moonstruck | ||
| Denzel Washington | Steve Biko | Cry Freedom | ||
| 1988 (61st) |
Kevin Kline ‡ | Otto West | A Fish Called Wanda | |
| Alec Guinness | William Dorrit | Little Dorrit | ||
| Martin Landau | Abe Karatz | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | ||
| River Phoenix | Danny Pope | Running on Empty | ||
| Dean Stockwell | Tony "The Tiger" Russo | Married to the Mob | ||
| 1989 (62nd) |
Denzel Washington ‡ | Pvt. Silas Trip | Glory | |
| Danny Aiello | Sal Frangione | Do the Right Thing | ||
| Dan Aykroyd | Boolie Werthan | Driving Miss Daisy | ||
| Marlon Brando | Ian Mackenzie | A Dry White Season | ||
| Martin Landau | Judah Rosenthal | Crimes and Misdemeanors | ||
| 1990s | ||||
| 1990 (63rd) |
Joe Pesci ‡ | Tommy DeVito | Goodfellas | |
| Bruce Davison | David | Longtime Companion | ||
| Andy García | Vincent Mancini | The Godfather Part III | ||
| Graham Greene | Kicking Bird | Dances with Wolves | ||
| Al Pacino | Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice | Dick Tracy | ||
| 1991 (64th) |
Jack Palance ‡ | Curly Washburn | City Slickers | |
| Tommy Lee Jones | Clay Shaw | JFK | ||
| Harvey Keitel | Mickey Cohen | Bugsy | ||
| Ben Kingsley | Meyer Lansky | |||
| Michael Lerner | Jack Lipnick | Barton Fink | ||
| 1992 (65th) |
Gene Hackman ‡ | Little Bill Daggett | Unforgiven | |
| Jaye Davidson | Dil | The Crying Game | ||
| Jack Nicholson | Colonel Nathan R. Jessep | A Few Good Men | ||
| Al Pacino | Richard "Ricky" Roma | Glengarry Glen Ross | ||
| David Paymer | Stan Young | Mr. Saturday Night | ||
| 1993 (66th) |
Tommy Lee Jones ‡ | U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard | The Fugitive | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | Arnie Grape | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | ||
| Ralph Fiennes | Amon Göeth | Schindler's List | ||
| John Malkovich | Mitch Leary | In the Line of Fire | ||
| Pete Postlethwaite | Giuseppe Conlon | In the Name of the Father | ||
| 1994 (67th) |
Martin Landau ‡ | Béla Lugosi | Ed Wood | |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Jules Winnfield | Pulp Fiction | ||
| Chazz Palminteri | Cheech | Bullets over Broadway | ||
| Paul Scofield | Mark Van Doren | Quiz Show | ||
| Gary Sinise | Lt. Dan Taylor | Forrest Gump | ||
| 1995 (68th) |
Kevin Spacey ‡ | Roger "Verbal" Kint | The Usual Suspects | |
| James Cromwell | Farmer Arthur Hoggett | Babe | ||
| Ed Harris | Gene Kranz | Apollo 13 | ||
| Brad Pitt | Jeffrey Goines | 12 Monkeys | ||
| Tim Roth | Archibald Cunningham | Rob Roy | ||
| 1996 (69th) |
Cuba Gooding Jr. ‡ | Rod Tidwell | Jerry Maguire | |
| William H. Macy | Jerry Lundegaard | Fargo | ||
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | Peter Helfgott | Shine | ||
| Edward Norton | Aaron Stampler | Primal Fear | ||
| James Woods | Byron De La Beckwith | Ghosts of Mississippi | ||
| 1997 (70th) |
Robin Williams ‡ | Dr. Sean Maguire | Good Will Hunting | |
| Robert Forster | Max Cherry | Jackie Brown | ||
| Anthony Hopkins | John Quincy Adams | Amistad | ||
| Greg Kinnear | Simon Bishop | As Good as It Gets | ||
| Burt Reynolds | Jack Horner | Boogie Nights | ||
| 1998 (71st) |
James Coburn ‡ | Glen Whitehouse | Affliction | |
| Robert Duvall | Jerome Facher | A Civil Action | ||
| Ed Harris | Christof | The Truman Show | ||
| Geoffrey Rush | Philip Henslowe | Shakespeare in Love | ||
| Billy Bob Thornton | Jacob Mitchell | A Simple Plan | ||
| 1999 (72nd) |
Michael Caine ‡ | Dr. Wilbur Larch | The Cider House Rules | |
| Tom Cruise | Frank T.J. Mackey | Magnolia | ||
| Michael Clarke Duncan | John Coffey | The Green Mile | ||
| Jude Law | Dickie Greenleaf | The Talented Mr. Ripley | ||
| Haley Joel Osment | Cole Sear | The Sixth Sense | ||
| 2000s | ||||
| 2000 (73rd) |
Benicio del Toro ‡ | Javier Rodriguez | Traffic | |
| Jeff Bridges | Jackson Evans | The Contender | ||
| Willem Dafoe | Max Schreck | Shadow of the Vampire | ||
| Albert Finney | Edward L. Masry | Erin Brockovich | ||
| Joaquin Phoenix | Commodus | Gladiator | ||
| 2001 (74th) |
Jim Broadbent ‡ | John Bayley | Iris | |
| Ethan Hawke | Officer Jake Hoyt | Training Day | ||
| Ben Kingsley | Don Logan | Sexy Beast | ||
| Ian McKellen | Gandalf the Grey | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | ||
| Jon Voight | Howard Cosell | Ali | ||
| 2002 (75th) |
Chris Cooper ‡ | John Laroche | Adaptation. | |
| Ed Harris | Richard "Richie" Brown | The Hours | ||
| Paul Newman | John Rooney | Road to Perdition | ||
| John C. Reilly | Amos Hart | Chicago | ||
| Christopher Walken | Frank Abagnale, Sr. | Catch Me If You Can | ||
| 2003 (76th) |
Tim Robbins ‡ | Dave Boyle | Mystic River | |
| Alec Baldwin | Shelly Kaplow | The Cooler | ||
| Benicio del Toro | Jack Jordan | 21 Grams | ||
| Djimon Hounsou | Mateo | In America | ||
| Ken Watanabe | Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto | The Last Samurai | ||
| 2004 (77th) |
Morgan Freeman ‡ | Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris | Million Dollar Baby | |
| Alan Alda | Owen Brewster | The Aviator | ||
| Thomas Haden Church | Jack Cole | Sideways | ||
| Jamie Foxx | Max Durocher | Collateral | ||
| Clive Owen | Larry Gray | Closer | ||
| 2005 (78th) |
George Clooney ‡ | Robert Barnes | Syriana | |
| Matt Dillon | Officer John Ryan | Crash | ||
| Paul Giamatti | Joe Gould | Cinderella Man | ||
| Jake Gyllenhaal | Jack Twist | Brokeback Mountain | ||
| William Hurt | Richie Cusack | A History of Violence | ||
| 2006 (79th) |
Alan Arkin ‡ | Edwin Hoover | Little Miss Sunshine | |
| Jackie Earle Haley | Ronald James McGorvey | Little Children | ||
| Djimon Hounsou | Solomon Vandy | Blood Diamond | ||
| Eddie Murphy | James "Thunder" Early | Dreamgirls | ||
| Mark Wahlberg | Staff Sgt. Sean Dignam | The Departed | ||
| 2007 (80th) |
Javier Bardem ‡ | Anton Chigurh | No Country for Old Men | |
| Casey Affleck | Robert Ford | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | ||
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Gust Avrakotos | Charlie Wilson's War | ||
| Hal Holbrook | Ron Franz | Into the Wild | ||
| Tom Wilkinson | Arthur Edens | Michael Clayton | ||
| 2008 (81st) |
Heath Ledger † | The Joker | The Dark Knight | |
| Josh Brolin | Dan White | Milk | ||
| Robert Downey Jr. | Kirk Lazarus | Tropic Thunder | ||
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Father Brendan Flynn | DoubtDoubt | ||
| Michael Shannon | John Givings, Jr. | Revolutionary Road | ||
| 2009 (82nd) |
Christoph Waltz ‡ | Col. Hans Landa | Inglourious Basterds | |
| Matt Damon | Francois Pienaar | Invictus | ||
| Woody Harrelson | Capt. Tony Stone | The Messenger | ||
| Christopher Plummer | Leo Tolstoy | The Last Station | ||
| Stanley Tucci | George Harvey | The Lovely Bones | ||
| 2010s | ||||
| 2010 (83rd) |
Christian Bale ‡ | Dicky Eklund | The Fighter | |
| John Hawkes | Teardrop Dolly | Winter's Bone | ||
| Jeremy Renner | James "Jem" Coughlin | The Town | ||
| Mark Ruffalo | Paul Hatfield | The Kids Are All Right | ||
| Geoffrey Rush | Lionel Logue | The King's Speech | ||
| 2011 (84th) |
Christopher Plummer ‡ | Hal Fields | Beginners | |
| Kenneth Branagh | Laurence Olivier | My Week with Marilyn | ||
| Jonah Hill | Peter Brand | Moneyball | ||
| Nick Nolte | Paddy Conlon | Warrior | ||
| Max von Sydow | The Renter | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | ||
| 2012 (85th) |
Christoph Waltz ‡ | Dr. King Schultz | Django Unchained | |
| Alan Arkin | Lester Siegel | Argo | ||
| Robert De Niro | Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr. | Silver Linings Playbook | ||
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Lancaster Dodd | The Master | ||
| Tommy Lee Jones | Thaddeus Stevens | Lincoln | ||
| 2013 (86th) |
Jared Leto‡ | Rayon | Dallas Buyers Club | |
| Barkhad Abdi | Abduwali Muse | Captain Phillips | ||
| Bradley Cooper | Richard "Richie" DiMaso | American Hustle | ||
| Michael Fassbender | Edwin Epps | 12 Years a Slave | ||
| Jonah Hill | Donnie Azoff | The Wolf of Wall Street | ||
| 2014 (87th) |
J. K. Simmons ‡ | Terence Fletcher | Whiplash | |
| Robert Duvall | Joseph Palmer | The Judge | ||
| Ethan Hawke | Mason Evans, Sr. | Boyhood | ||
| Edward Norton | Mike Shiner | Birdman | ||
| Mark Ruffalo | David Schultz | Foxcatcher | ||
| 2015 (88th) |
Mark Rylance ‡ | Rudolf Abel | Bridge of Spies | |
| Christian Bale | Michael Burry | The Big Short | ||
| Tom Hardy | John Fitzgerald | The Revenant | ||
| Mark Ruffalo | Michael Rezendes | Spotlight | ||
| Sylvester Stallone | Rocky Balboa | Creed | ||
| 2016 (89th) |
Mahershala Ali ‡ | Juan | Moonlight | |
| Jeff Bridges | Marcus Hamilton | Hell or High Water | ||
| Lucas Hedges | Patrick Chandler | Manchester by the Sea | ||
| Dev Patel | Saroo Brierley | Lion | ||
| Michael Shannon | Lieutenant Bobby Andes | Nocturnal Animals | ||
| 2017 (90th) |
Sam Rockwell ‡ | Officer Jason Dixon | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |
| Willem Dafoe | Bobby Hicks | The Florida Project | ||
| Woody Harrelson | Sheriff William Willoughby | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | ||
| Richard Jenkins | Giles | The Shape of Water | ||
| Christopher Plummer | J. Paul Getty | All the Money in the World | ||
! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2018
(91st)
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| style="background:#FAEB86" | Don Shirley
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Green Book
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| Adam Driver
| Philip "Flip" Zimmerman
| BlacKkKlansman
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| Sam Elliott
| Bobby Maine
| A Star Is Born
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| Richard E. Grant
| Jack Hock
| Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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| Sam Rockwell
| George W. Bush
| Vice
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! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2019
(92nd)
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| style="background:#FAEB86" | Cliff Booth
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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| Tom Hanks
| Fred Rogers
| A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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| Anthony Hopkins
| Pope Benedict XVI
| The Two Popes
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| Al Pacino
| Jimmy Hoffa
| rowspan="2" |The Irishman
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| Joe Pesci
| Russell Bufalino
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Multiple wins and nominations[]
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The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actor awards:
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The following individuals received three or more Best Supporting Actor nominations:
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Age superlatives[]
| Record | Actor | Film | Age (in years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest winner | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | 82 |
| Oldest nominee | All the Money in the World | 88 | |
| Youngest winner | Timothy Hutton | Ordinary People | 20 |
| Youngest nominee | Justin Henry | Kramer vs. Kramer | 8 |
Multiple wins and nominations[]
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The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actor awards:
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The following individuals received three or more Best Supporting Actor nominations:
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Age superlatives[]
| Record | Actor | Film | Age (in years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest winner | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | 82 |
| Oldest nominee | All the Money in the World | 88 | |
| Youngest winner | Timothy Hutton | Ordinary People | 20 |
| Youngest nominee | Justin Henry | Kramer vs. Kramer | 8 |
See also[]
- All Academy Award acting nominees
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- ↑ "The 90th Academy Awards (2019) Nominees and Winners", Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
- ↑ "The 92nd Academy Awards (2020) Nominees", Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).