Oscar / Best Supporting Actor

The Oscar for best supporting actor honors the achievements of actors in supporting roles.

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Triple award winner	Walter Brennan
Double award winner	Anthony Quinn , Peter Ustinov , Jason Robards , Melvyn Douglas , Michael Caine , Christoph Waltz , Mahershala Ali
Four-time nomination	Walter Brennan , Claude Rains , Arthur Kennedy , Jack Nicholson , Robert Duvall , Al Pacino
Three nominations	Charles Coburn , Charles Bickford , Peter Ustinov , Gig Young , Jason Robards , Jack Palance , Gene Hackman , Martin Landau , Jeff Bridges , Ed Harris , Tommy Lee Jones , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Mark Ruffalo , Willem Dafoe , Christopher Plummer , Joe Pesci

In the table below, the films are listed according to the year in which they were awarded.

1937-1940

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1937	Walter Brennan	Take what you can get	Mischa Auer for My Man Godfrey Stuart Erwin for Pigskin Parade Basil Rathbone for Romeo and Juliet Akim Tamiroff for The General died at dawn
1938	Joseph Schildkraut	The life of Emile Zola	Ralph Bellamy for The Terrible Truth Thomas Mitchell for ... then came Hurricane H. B. Warner for In the Fetters of Shangri-La Roland Young for Topper - The Blonde Ghost
1939	Walter Brennan	The golden whip	John Garfield for Father conducts Gene Lockhart for Algiers Robert Morley for Marie-Antoinette Basil Rathbone for If I Were King
1940	Thomas Mitchell	Ringo	Brian Aherne for Juarez Harry Carey for Mr. Smith goes to Washington Brian Donlevy for Three Foreign Legionnaires Claude Rains for Mr. Smith goes to Washington

1941-1950

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1941	Walter Brennan	The westerner	Albert Bassermann for The Foreign Correspondent William Gargan for They Knew What They Wanted Jack Oakie for The Great Dictator James Stephenson for The Secret of Malampur
1942	Donald Crisp	Breaking weather	Walter Brennan for Sergeant York Charles Coburn for Mary and millionaire James Gleason for Vacation From Heaven Sydney Greenstreet for The Hawk's Trail
1943	Van Heflin	The dead lives	William Bendix for Wake Island Walter Huston for Yankee Doodle Dandy Frank Morgan for Tortilla Flat Henry Travers for Mrs. Miniver
1944	Charles Coburn	Always more, always happier	Charles Bickford for The Song by Bernadette J. Carrol Naish for Sahara Claude Rains for Casablanca Akim Tamiroff for Whom the Hour Strikes
1945	Barry Fitzgerald	The way to luck	Hume Cronyn for The Seventh Cross Claude Rains for The Life of Mrs. Skeffington Clifton Webb for Laura Monty Woolley for When You Said Farewell
1946	James Dunn	A tree grows in Brooklyn	Michael Chekhov for I fight for you John Dall for The Green Grain Robert Mitchum for Battle Storm on Monte Cassino J. Carrol Naish for A Medal for Benny
1947	Harold Russell	The best years of our life	Charles Coburn for The Legacy William Demarest for The Jazz Singer Claude Rains for Notorious Clifton Webb for On a Knife's Edge
1948	Edmund Gwenn	The miracle of Manhattan	Charles Bickford for The Farmer's Daughter Thomas Gomez for Ride on the Pink Horse Robert Ryan for Im Kreuzfeuer Richard Widmark for The Kiss of Death
1949	Walter Huston	The treasure of the Sierra Madre	Charles Bickford for Silent Lips José Ferrer for Johanna von Orleans Oskar Homolka for The Secret of Mother Cecil Kellaway for The Luck of the Irish
1950	Dean Jagger	The commander	John Ireland for The Man Who Wished to Rule Arthur Kennedy for Between Women and Ropes Ralph Richardson for The Heiress James Whitmore for Kesselschlacht

1951-1960

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1951	George Sanders	Everything about Eva	Jeff Chandler for The Broken Arrow Edmund Gwenn for Mister 880 Sam Jaffe for Asphalt-Jungle Erich von Stroheim for Boulevard der Dusk
1952	Karl Malden	End of the line longing	Leo Genn for Quo vadis? Kevin McCarthy for The Death of a Salesman Peter Ustinov for Quo vadis? Gig Young for Come Fill the Cup
1953	Anthony Quinn	Viva Zapata!	Richard Burton for My Cousin Rachel Arthur Hunnicutt for The Big Sky Victor McLaglen for The Winner Jack Palance for Masked Hearts
1954	Frank Sinatra	Damn to all eternity	Eddie Albert for A Heart and a Crown Brandon De Wilde for My Great Friend Shane Jack Palance for My Great Friend Shane Robert Strauss for Stalag 17
1955	Edmond O'Brien	The barefoot countess	Lee J. Cobb for Die Faust im Nacken Karl Malden for Die Faust im Nacken Rod Steiger for Die Faust im Nacken Tom Tully for Die Caine was her destiny
1956	Jack Lemmon	No time for heroism	Arthur Kennedy for The Conspiracy Joe Mantell for Marty Sal Mineo for ... because they don't know what they are doing Arthur O'Connell for Picnic
1957	Anthony Quinn	Vincent van Gogh - A life of passion	Don Murray for Bus Stop Anthony Perkins for Alluring Temptation Mickey Rooney for A Scrap Of Life Robert Stack for Into the Wind
1958	Red buttons	Sayonara	Vittorio De Sica for In Another Land Sessue Hayakawa for Die Brücke am Kwai Arthur Kennedy for Embers under the Ashes Russ Tamblyn for Embers under the Ashes
1959	Burl Ives	Broad land	Theodore Bikel for Escape In Chains Lee J. Cobb for The Karamazov Brothers Arthur Kennedy for Damn They Are All Gig Young for Reporters of Love
1960	Hugh Griffith	Ben Hur	Arthur O'Connell for Anatomy of a Murder George C. Scott for Anatomy of a Murder Robert Vaughn for The Man from Philadelphia Ed Wynn for The Diary of Anne Frank

1961-1970

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1961	Peter Ustinov	Spartacus	Peter Falk for Unterwelt Jack Kruschen for Das Appartement Sal Mineo for Exodus Chill Wills for Alamo
1962	George Chakiris	West Side Story	Montgomery Clift for The Judgment of Nuremberg Peter Falk for The Lower Ten Thousand Jackie Gleason for Sharks of the City George C. Scott for Sharks of the City
1963	Ed Begley	Sweet bird youth	Victor Buono for What Really Happened To Baby Jane? Telly Savalas for The Prisoner of Alcatraz Omar Sharif for Lawrence of Arabia Terence Stamp for The Damned of the Seas
1964	Melvyn Douglas	The wildest among a thousand	Nick Adams for character assassination Bobby Darin for Captain Newman Hugh Griffith for Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows John Huston for The Cardinal
1965	Peter Ustinov	Topkapi	John Gielgud for Becket Stanley Holloway for My Fair Lady Edmond O'Brien for Seven Days in May Lee Tracy for The Candidate
1966	Martin Balsam	A thousand clowns	Ian Bannen for The Flight of the Phoenix Tom Courtenay for Doctor Schiwago Michael Dunn for The Ship of Fools Frank Finlay for Othello
1967	Walter Matthau	The lucky guy	Makoto Iwamatsu for Gunboat on the Yangtze River Kiang James Mason for Georgy Girl George Segal for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Robert Shaw for A Man for All Seasons
1968	George Kennedy	The indomitable	John Cassavetes for The Dirty Dozen Gene Hackman for Bonnie and Clyde Cecil Kellaway for Guess Who's Over for Dinner Michael J. Pollard for Bonnie and Clyde
1969	Jack Albertson	Roses for the lady	Seymour Cassel for Faces Daniel Massey for Star! Jack Wild for Oliver Gene Wilder for Spring for Hitler
1970	Gig Young	Only horses are given the coup de grace	Rupert Crosse for Der Gauner Elliott Gould for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Jack Nicholson for Easy Rider Anthony Quayle for Queen for A Thousand Days

1971-1980

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1971	John Mills	Ryan's daughter	Richard S. Castellano for Lovers and Other Strangers Dan George for Little Big Man Gene Hackman for No Song for My Father John Marley for Love Story
1972	Ben Johnson	The last performance	Jeff Bridges for The Last Performance Leonard Frey for Anatevka Richard Jaeckel for You Want to Be Giants Roy Scheider for Focal Point Brooklyn
1973	Joel Gray	Cabaret	Eddie Albert for Changing Horses on Wedding Night James Caan for The Godfather Robert Duvall for The Godfather Al Pacino for The Godfather
1974	John Houseman	Time of exams	Vincent Gardenia for The Last Game Jack Gilford for Save the Tiger Jason Anthony Miller for The Exorcist Randy Quaid for The Last Command
1975	Robert De Niro	The Godfather - Part II	Fred Astaire for Flaming Inferno Jeff Bridges for The Last Bite the Dogs Michael V. Gazzo for The Godfather - Part II Lee Strasberg for The Godfather - Part II
1976	George Burns	The Sunny Boys	Brad Dourif for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Burgess Meredith for Grasshopper Day Chris Sarandon for Dog Days Jack Warden for Shampoo
1977	Jason Robards	The incorruptible	Ned Beatty for Network Burgess Meredith for Rocky Laurence Olivier for The Marathon Man Burt Young for Rocky
1978	Jason Robards	Julia	Mikhail Baryshnikov for Am Wendpunkt Peter Firth for Equus - Blind Horses Alec Guinness for Star Wars Maximilian Schell for Julia
1979	Christopher Walken	Those who go through hell	Bruce Dern for Coming Home Richard Farnsworth for A Farm in Montana John Hurt for Midnight Express Jack Warden for Heaven Should Wait
1980	Melvyn Douglas	Welcome Mr. Chance	Robert Duvall for Apocalypse Now Frederic Forrest for The Rose Justin Henry for Kramer against Kramer Mickey Rooney for The Black Stallion

1981-1990

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1981	Timothy Hutton	A perfectly normal family	Judd Hirsch for A Normal Family Michael O'Keefe for The Great Santini Joe Pesci for Like a Wild Bull Jason Robards for Melvin and Howard
1982	John Gielgud	Arthur - Not a child of sadness	James Coco for Mrs. Hines and daughter Ian Holm for Victoria's Hour Jack Nicholson for Reds Howard E. Rollins Junior for Ragtime
1983	Louis Gossett junior	An officer and a gentleman	Charles Durning for The Most Beautiful Whorehouse in Texas John Lithgow for Garp and How He Saw the World James Mason for The Verdict - The Truth and Nothing But the Truth Robert Preston for Victor / Victoria
1984	Jack Nicholson	Time of tenderness	Charles Durning for To Be or Not To Be John Lithgow for Time Of Tenderness Sam Shepard for The Stuff The Heroes Are Made Of Rip Torn for Cross Creek
1985	Haing S. Ngor	The Killing Fields - Screaming Land	Adolph Caesar for Sergeant Waters - A Soldier's Tale John Malkovich for A Place in the Heart Pat Morita for Karate Kid Ralph Richardson for Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1986	Don Ameche	Cocoon	Klaus Maria Brandauer for Out of Africa William Hickey for Die Ehre der Prizzis Robert Loggia for Das Messer Eric Roberts for Runaway Train
1987	Michael Caine	Hannah and her sisters	Tom Berenger for Platoon Willem Dafoe for Platoon Denholm Elliott for Room with a View Dennis Hopper for Free Throw
1988	Sean Connery	The Untouchables - The incorruptible	Albert Brooks for News Fever - Broadcast News Morgan Freeman for Glittering Asphalt Vincent Gardenia for Moonstruck Denzel Washington for Freedom Cry
1989	Kevin Kline	A fish called Wanda	Alec Guinness for Klein Dorrit Martin Landau for Tucker River Phoenix for Escape into the Unknown Dean Stockwell for The Mafiosi Bride
1990	Denzel Washington	Glory	Danny Aiello for Do the Right Thing Dan Aykroyd for Miss Daisy and her chauffeur Marlon Brando for White Time of Drought Martin Landau for Crime and Other Trifles

1991-2000

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1991	Joe Pesci	Good Fellas - Three decades in the Mafia	Bruce Davison for Longtime Companion Andy García for The Godfather - Part III Graham Greene for Who Dances With Wolves Al Pacino for Dick Tracy
1992	Jack Palance	City Slickers - The big city heroes	Tommy Lee Jones for JFK - Tatort Dallas Harvey Keitel for Bugsy Ben Kingsley for Bugsy Michael Lerner for Barton Fink
1993	Gene Hackman	Merciless	Jaye Davidson for The Crying Game Jack Nicholson for A Matter of Honor Al Pacino for Glengarry Glen Ross David Paymer for The Last Comedian - Mr. Saturday Night
1994	Tommy Lee Jones	On the run	Leonardo DiCaprio for Gilbert Grape - Somewhere in Iowa Ralph Fiennes for Schindler's List John Malkovich for In the Line of Fire Pete Postlethwaite for In the Name of the Father
1995	Martin Landau	Ed Wood	Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction Chazz Palminteri for Bullets Over Broadway Paul Scofield for Quiz Show Gary Sinise for Forrest Gump
1996	Kevin Spacey	The usual suspects	James Cromwell for A Piglet Called Babe Ed Harris for Apollo 13 Brad Pitt for 12 Monkeys Tim Roth for Rob Roy
1997	Cuba Gooding junior	Jerry Maguire - Game of Life	William H. Macy for Fargo Armin Mueller-Stahl for Shine - The Path into Light Edward Norton for Twilight James Woods for Das Assentat
1998	Robin Williams	Good Will Hunting	Robert Forster for Jackie Brown Anthony Hopkins for Amistad Greg Kinnear for It couldn't be better Burt Reynolds for Boogie Nights
1999	James Coburn	The hunted	Robert Duvall for Civil Litigation Ed Harris for The Truman Show Geoffrey Rush for Shakespeare in Love Billy Bob Thornton for A Simple Plan
2000	Michael Caine	God's work & devil's contribution	Tom Cruise for Magnolia Michael Clarke Duncan for The Green Mile Jude Law for The Talented Mr. Ripley Haley Joel Osment for The Sixth Sense

2001-2010

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
2001	Benicio del Toro	Traffic - power of the cartel	Jeff Bridges for Character Assassination - Beyond Morals Willem Dafoe for Shadow of the Vampire Albert Finney for Erin Brockovich Joaquin Phoenix for Gladiator
2002	Jim Broadbent	iris	Ethan Hawke for Training Day Ben Kingsley for Sexy Beast Ian McKellen for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Jon Voight for Ali
2003	Chris Cooper	Adaptation - The Orchid Thief	Ed Harris for The Hours Paul Newman for Road to Perdition John C. Reilly for Chicago Christopher Walken for Catch Me If You Can
2004	Tim Robbins	Mystic River	Alec Baldwin for The Cooler - Alles auf Liebe Benicio del Toro for 21 grams Djimon Hounsou for In America Ken Watanabe for Last Samurai
2005	Morgan Freeman	Million dollar baby	Alan Alda for Aviator Thomas Haden Church for Sideways Jamie Foxx for Collateral Clive Owen for Hautnah
2006	George Clooney	Syriana	Matt Dillon for LA Crash Paul Giamatti for Das Comeback Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain William Hurt for A History of Violence
2007	Alan Arkin	Little Miss Sunshine	Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls Mark Wahlberg for Departed - Unter Feinden
2008	Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men	Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War Hal Holbrook for Into the Wild Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton
2009	Heath Ledger (posthumous)	The Dark Knight	Josh Brolin for Milk Robert Downey Junior for Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman for Faith Michael Shannon for Times of Troubles
2010	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Matt Damon for Invictus - Unconquered Woody Harrelson for The Messenger - The Last Message Christopher Plummer for A Russian Summer Stanley Tucci for In My Heaven

2011-2020

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
2011	Christian Bale	The Fighter	John Hawkes for Winter's Bone Jeremy Renner for The Town Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right Geoffrey Rush for The King's Speech
2012	Christopher Plummer	Beginners	Kenneth Branagh for My Week with Marilyn Jonah Hill for The Art of Winning - Moneyball Nick Nolte for Warrior Max von Sydow for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2013	Christoph Waltz	Django Unchained	Alan Arkin for Argo Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln
2014	Jared Leto	Dallas Buyers Club	Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips Bradley Cooper for American Hustle Michael Fassbender for 12 Years a Slave Jonah Hill for The Wolf of Wall Street
2015	JK Simmons	Whiplash	Robert Duvall for The Judge - Right or Honor Ethan Hawke for Boyhood Edward Norton for Birdman or (The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness) Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher
2016	Mark Rylance	Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator	Christian Bale for The Big Short Tom Hardy for The Revenant Mark Ruffalo for Spotlight Sylvester Stallone for Creed - Rocky's Legacy
2017	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	Jeff Bridges for Hell or High Water Lucas Hedges for Manchester by the Sea Dev Patel for Lion - The Long Road Home Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals
2018	Sam Rockwell	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project Woody Harrelson for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Richard Jenkins for Shape of Water Christopher Plummer for Alles Geld der Welt
2019	Mahershala Ali	Green Book - A special friendship	Adam Driver for BlacKkKlansman Sam Elliott for A Star Is Born Richard E. Grant for Can You Ever Forgive Me? Sam Rockwell for Vice - The Second Man
2020	Brad Pitt	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Tom Hanks for The Wonderful Mr. Rogers Anthony Hopkins for The Two Popes Al Pacino for The Irishman Joe Pesci for The Irishman