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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. For a list sorted by
actor, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees. For a list sorted by
movie title, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films).
The trophy for the award was originally a plaque.
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 Aherne - Juarez
Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste
Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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 Demarest - 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
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 Hunnicutt - 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
1960 Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
Peter Falk - Murder, Inc.
Jack Kruschen - The Apartment
Sal Mineo - Exodus
Chill Wills - 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
Edmond 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
1970 John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
Richard S. 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
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
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
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 L. 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
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
2004 Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
Alan Alda - The Aviator
Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
Jamie Foxx - Collateral
Clive Owen - Closer
2005 George Clooney - Syriana
Matt Dillon - Crash
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt - A History of Violence