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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| image | Kieran Culkin at the 2024 New York Film Festival 2 (cropped II).jpg |
| caption | The 2025 recipient: Kieran Culkin |
| awarded_for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
| presenter | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| country | United States |
| year | (for films released in 1936) |
| holder_label | Most recent winner |
| holder | Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (2024) |
| most_awards | Walter Brennan (3) |
| most_nominations | Walter Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, and Mark Ruffalo (4) |
| website |
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actress winner. However, in recent years, it has shifted towards being presented by previous years' Best Supporting Actor winners instead. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette, supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards, when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.
The Best Supporting Actor award has been presented a total of 89 times, to 80 actors. The first winner was Walter Brennan for his role in Come and Get It (1936). The most recent winner is Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain (2024). The record for most wins is three, held by Brennan–who won every other year within a succession of the first five years. Seven other actors have won twice. Brennan is also tied for receiving the most nominations in the category (with four altogether) along with Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, and Mark Ruffalo. For his performance in The Dark Knight (2008), Heath Ledger became the first actor to win posthumously in this category—and second overall. Christopher Plummer is the oldest actor to receive a nomination in any category at age 88, for All the Money in the World (2017).
Nominations process
Nominees are currently 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.
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. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
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1930s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 1936 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (9th) | 1937 | |||||||
| (10th) | 1938 | |||||||
| (11th) | 1939 | |||||||
| (12th) | ||||||||
| **** | *Come and Get It* | |||||||
| Carlo | My Man Godfrey | |||||||
| Pigskin Parade | ||||||||
| Tybalt | Romeo and Juliet | |||||||
| **** | **** | |||||||
| Chang | Lost Horizon | |||||||
| Topper | ||||||||
| **** | *Kentucky* | |||||||
| Four Daughters | ||||||||
| Regis | Algiers | |||||||
| Marie Antoinette | ||||||||
| If I Were King | ||||||||
| **** | *Stagecoach* | |||||||
| Juarez | ||||||||
| President of the Senate | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | |||||||
| Beau Geste | ||||||||
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
1940s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 1940 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (13th) | 1941 | |||||||||||||
| (14th) | 1942 | |||||||||||||
| (15th) | 1943 | |||||||||||||
| (16th) | 1944 | |||||||||||||
| (17th) | 1945 | |||||||||||||
| (18th) | 1946 | |||||||||||||
| (19th) | 1947 | |||||||||||||
| (20th) | 1948 | |||||||||||||
| (21st) | 1949 | |||||||||||||
| (22nd) | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Foreign Correspondent | ||||||||||||||
| Joe | They Knew What They Wanted | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *How Green Was My Valley* | |||||||||||||
| Sergeant York | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Johnny Eager* | |||||||||||||
| Wake Island | ||||||||||||||
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | ||||||||||||||
| Tortilla Flat | ||||||||||||||
| Mrs. Miniver | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Giuseppe | Sahara | |||||||||||||
| Casablanca | ||||||||||||||
| Pablo | For Whom the Bell Tolls | |||||||||||||
| **** | *Going My Way* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Mr. Skeffington | ||||||||||||||
| Laura | ||||||||||||||
| Since You Went Away | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Spellbound | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Notorious | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Miracle on 34th Street* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Pancho | Ride the Pink Horse | |||||||||||||
| Montgomery | Crossfire | |||||||||||||
| Kiss of Death | ||||||||||||||
| Howard | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Johnny Belinda | ||||||||||||||
| Joan of Arc | ||||||||||||||
| I Remember Mama | ||||||||||||||
| Horace (A Leprechaun) | ** | |||||||||||||
| **** | *Twelve O'Clock High* | |||||||||||||
| All the King's Men | ||||||||||||||
| Champion | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Battleground |
1950s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 1950 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (23rd) | 1951 | |||||||||||||
| (24th) | 1952 | |||||||||||||
| (25th) | 1953 | |||||||||||||
| (26th) | 1954 | |||||||||||||
| (27th) | 1955 | |||||||||||||
| (28th) | 1956 | |||||||||||||
| (29th) | 1957 | |||||||||||||
| (30th) | 1958 | |||||||||||||
| (31st) | 1959 | |||||||||||||
| (32nd) | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *All About Eve* | |||||||||||||
| Cochise | Broken Arrow | |||||||||||||
| Mister 880 | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Sunset Boulevard | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Petronius | Quo Vadis | |||||||||||||
| Death of a Salesman | ||||||||||||||
| Nero | Quo Vadis | |||||||||||||
| Come Fill the Cup | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Viva Zapata!* | |||||||||||||
| My Cousin Rachel | ||||||||||||||
| Narrator | ** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Sudden Fear | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *From Here to Eternity* | |||||||||||||
| Roman Holiday | ||||||||||||||
| Shane | ||||||||||||||
| Stalag 17 | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| On the Waterfront | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Mister Roberts* | |||||||||||||
| Trial | ||||||||||||||
| Angie | Marty | |||||||||||||
| Rebel Without a Cause | ||||||||||||||
| Picnic | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Lust for Life* | |||||||||||||
| Bus Stop | ||||||||||||||
| Friendly Persuasion | ||||||||||||||
| Dooley | ** | |||||||||||||
| Written on the Wind | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Sayonara* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Peyton Place | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Some Came Running | ||||||||||||||
| Teacher's Pet | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Ben-Hur* | |||||||||||||
| Anatomy of a Murder | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** |
1960s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 1960 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (33rd) | 1961 | |||||||||||||
| (34th) | 1962 | |||||||||||||
| (35th) | 1963 | |||||||||||||
| (36th) | 1964 | |||||||||||||
| (37th) | 1965 | |||||||||||||
| (38th) | 1966 | |||||||||||||
| (39th) | 1967 | |||||||||||||
| (40th) | 1968 | |||||||||||||
| (41st) | 1969 | |||||||||||||
| (42nd) | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Spartacus* | |||||||||||||
| Murder, Inc. | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Exodus | ||||||||||||||
| Beekeeper | ** | |||||||||||||
| **** | *West Side Story* | |||||||||||||
| Judgment at Nuremberg | ||||||||||||||
| Pocketful of Miracles | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| § | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Sweet Bird of Youth* | |||||||||||||
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | ||||||||||||||
| Birdman of Alcatraz | ||||||||||||||
| Lawrence of Arabia | ||||||||||||||
| Billy Budd | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Hud* | |||||||||||||
| Twilight of Honor | ||||||||||||||
| Captain Newman, M.D. | ||||||||||||||
| Tom Jones | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Topkapi* | |||||||||||||
| King Louis VII | Becket | |||||||||||||
| My Fair Lady | ||||||||||||||
| Seven Days in May | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Doctor Zhivago | ||||||||||||||
| Ship of Fools | ||||||||||||||
| Iago | Othello | |||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Mako | Po-han | ** | ||||||||||||
| Georgy Girl | ||||||||||||||
| Nick | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |||||||||||||
| King Henry VIII | ** | |||||||||||||
| Dragline | *Cool Hand Luke* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Bonnie and Clyde | ||||||||||||||
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | ||||||||||||||
| Bonnie and Clyde | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Chet | Faces | |||||||||||||
| Star! | ||||||||||||||
| Oliver! | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | ||||||||||||||
| Easy Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Anne of the Thousand Days |
1970s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 1970 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (43rd) | 1971 | |||||||||||||
| (44th) | 1972 | |||||||||||||
| (45th) | 1973 | |||||||||||||
| (46th) | 1974 | |||||||||||||
| (47th) | 1975 | |||||||||||||
| (48th) | 1976 | |||||||||||||
| (49th) | 1977 | |||||||||||||
| (50th) | 1978 | |||||||||||||
| (51st) | 1979 | |||||||||||||
| (52nd) | ||||||||||||||
| Michael | *Ryan's Daughter* | |||||||||||||
| Lovers and Other Strangers | ||||||||||||||
| Old Lodge Skins | Little Big Man | |||||||||||||
| I Never Sang for My Father | ||||||||||||||
| Love Story | ||||||||||||||
| Sam the Lion | ****** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Fiddler on the Roof | ||||||||||||||
| Sometimes a Great Notion | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| The Master of Ceremonies | *Cabaret* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Bang the Drum Slowly | ||||||||||||||
| Save the Tiger | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Lightfoot | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Dog Day Afternoon | ||||||||||||||
| Shampoo | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *All the President's Men* | |||||||||||||
| Network | ||||||||||||||
| Rocky | ||||||||||||||
| Marathon Man | ||||||||||||||
| Rocky | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Julia* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Equus | ||||||||||||||
| Star Wars | ||||||||||||||
| Johann | Julia | |||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Coming Home | ||||||||||||||
| Dodger | Comes a Horseman | |||||||||||||
| Max | Midnight Express | |||||||||||||
| Heaven Can Wait | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Being There* | |||||||||||||
| Apocalypse Now | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Kramer vs. Kramer | ||||||||||||||
| ** |
1980s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 1980 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (53rd) | 1981 | |||||||||||||
| (54th) | 1982 | |||||||||||||
| (55th) | 1983 | |||||||||||||
| (56th) | 1984 | |||||||||||||
| (57th) | 1985 | |||||||||||||
| (58th) | 1986 | |||||||||||||
| (59th) | 1987 | |||||||||||||
| (60th) | 1988 | |||||||||||||
| (61st) | 1989 | |||||||||||||
| (62nd) | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Ordinary People* | |||||||||||||
| Ordinary People | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Raging Bull | ||||||||||||||
| Melvin and Howard | ||||||||||||||
| Hobson | *Arthur* | |||||||||||||
| Only When I Laugh | ||||||||||||||
| Chariots of Fire | ||||||||||||||
| Reds | ||||||||||||||
| Ragtime | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| The Governor of Texas | ** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Victor/Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Terms of Endearment* | |||||||||||||
| To Be or Not to Be | ||||||||||||||
| Terms of Endearment | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Cross Creek | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Places in the Heart | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| † | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | |||||||||||||
| **** | *Cocoon* | |||||||||||||
| and | Out of Africa | |||||||||||||
| Prizzi's Honor | ||||||||||||||
| Jagged Edge | ||||||||||||||
| Runaway Train | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Hannah and Her Sisters* | |||||||||||||
| Platoon | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Hoosiers | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Broadcast News | ||||||||||||||
| Street Smart | ||||||||||||||
| Moonstruck | ||||||||||||||
| Cry Freedom | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Little Dorrit | ||||||||||||||
| Tucker: The Man and His Dream | ||||||||||||||
| Running on Empty | ||||||||||||||
| Married to the Mob | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Glory* | |||||||||||||
| Do the Right Thing | ||||||||||||||
| Driving Miss Daisy | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Crimes and Misdemeanors |
1990s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 1990 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (63rd) | 1991 | |||||||||||||
| (64th) | 1992 | |||||||||||||
| (65th) | 1993 | |||||||||||||
| (66th) | 1994 | |||||||||||||
| (67th) | 1995 | |||||||||||||
| (68th) | 1996 | |||||||||||||
| (69th) | 1997 | |||||||||||||
| (70th) | 1998 | |||||||||||||
| (71st) | 1999 | |||||||||||||
| (72nd) | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *GoodFellas* | |||||||||||||
| David | Longtime Companion | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Kicking Bird | Dances With Wolves | |||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *City Slickers* | |||||||||||||
| JFK | ||||||||||||||
| Bugsy | ||||||||||||||
| Barton Fink | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Unforgiven* | |||||||||||||
| Dil | ** | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Glengarry Glen Ross | ||||||||||||||
| Mr. Saturday Night | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape | ||||||||||||||
| Schindler's List | ||||||||||||||
| In the Line of Fire | ||||||||||||||
| In the Name of the Father | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Ed Wood* | |||||||||||||
| Pulp Fiction | ||||||||||||||
| Cheech | Bullets Over Broadway | |||||||||||||
| Quiz Show | ||||||||||||||
| Forrest Gump | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Babe | ||||||||||||||
| Apollo 13 | ||||||||||||||
| 12 Monkeys | ||||||||||||||
| Rob Roy | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Jerry Maguire* | |||||||||||||
| Fargo | ||||||||||||||
| Shine | ||||||||||||||
| Primal Fear | ||||||||||||||
| Ghosts of Mississippi | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Good Will Hunting* | |||||||||||||
| Jackie Brown | ||||||||||||||
| Amistad | ||||||||||||||
| As Good as It Gets | ||||||||||||||
| Boogie Nights | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Affliction* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Christof | ** | |||||||||||||
| Shakespeare in Love | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Magnolia | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** |
2000s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 2000 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (73rd) | 2001 | |||||||||||||
| (74th) | 2002 | |||||||||||||
| (75th) | 2003 | |||||||||||||
| (76th) | 2004 | |||||||||||||
| (77th) | 2005 | |||||||||||||
| (78th) | 2006 | |||||||||||||
| (79th) | 2007 | |||||||||||||
| (80th) | 2008 | |||||||||||||
| (81st) | 2009 | |||||||||||||
| (82nd) | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Traffic* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Shadow of the Vampire | ||||||||||||||
| Erin Brockovich | ||||||||||||||
| Emperor Commodus | Gladiator | |||||||||||||
| **** | *Iris* | |||||||||||||
| Training Day | ||||||||||||||
| Sexy Beast | ||||||||||||||
| Gandalf the Grey | ** | |||||||||||||
| Ali | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Adaptation* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Road to Perdition | ||||||||||||||
| Chicago | ||||||||||||||
| Catch Me If You Can | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Mystic River* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| 21 Grams | ||||||||||||||
| Mateo | In America | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Million Dollar Baby* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Sideways | ||||||||||||||
| Collateral | ||||||||||||||
| Closer | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Syriana* | |||||||||||||
| Crash | ||||||||||||||
| Cinderella Man | ||||||||||||||
| Brokeback Mountain | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Little Miss Sunshine* | |||||||||||||
| Little Children | ||||||||||||||
| Blood Diamond | ||||||||||||||
| Dreamgirls | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *No Country for Old Men* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Charlie Wilson's War | ||||||||||||||
| Into the Wild | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Clayton | ||||||||||||||
| † | The Joker | ****** | ||||||||||||
| Milk | ||||||||||||||
| Tropic Thunder | ||||||||||||||
| Doubt | ||||||||||||||
| Revolutionary Road | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Inglourious Basterds* | |||||||||||||
| Invictus | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** |
2010s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 2010 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (83rd) | 2011 | |||||||||||||
| (84th) | 2012 | |||||||||||||
| (85th) | 2013 | |||||||||||||
| (86th) | 2014 | |||||||||||||
| (87th) | 2015 | |||||||||||||
| (88th) | 2016 | |||||||||||||
| (89th) | 2017 | |||||||||||||
| (90th) | 2018 | |||||||||||||
| (91st) | 2019 | |||||||||||||
| (92nd) | ||||||||||||||
| **** | ****** | |||||||||||||
| Winter's Bone | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Beginners* | |||||||||||||
| My Week with Marilyn | ||||||||||||||
| Moneyball | ||||||||||||||
| Warrior | ||||||||||||||
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Django Unchained* | |||||||||||||
| Argo | ||||||||||||||
| Silver Linings Playbook | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Lincoln | ||||||||||||||
| Rayon | *Dallas Buyers Club* | |||||||||||||
| Captain Phillips | ||||||||||||||
| American Hustle | ||||||||||||||
| 12 Years a Slave | ||||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Whiplash* | |||||||||||||
| ** | ||||||||||||||
| Boyhood | ||||||||||||||
| Birdman | ||||||||||||||
| Foxcatcher | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Bridge of Spies* | |||||||||||||
| Juan | *Moonlight* | |||||||||||||
| Hell or High Water | ||||||||||||||
| Manchester by the Sea | ||||||||||||||
| Lion | ||||||||||||||
| Nocturnal Animals | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* | |||||||||||||
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | ||||||||||||||
| Giles | ||||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Green Book* | |||||||||||||
| BlacKkKlansman | ||||||||||||||
| Can You Ever Forgive Me? | ||||||||||||||
| Vice | ||||||||||||||
| **** | *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* |
2020s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. | 2020/21 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (93rd) | ||||||||||
| 2021 | ||||||||||
| (94th) | 2022 | |||||||||
| (95th) | 2023 | |||||||||
| (96th) | 2024 | |||||||||
| (97th) | 2025 | |||||||||
| (98th) | ||||||||||
| **** | *Judas and the Black Messiah* | |||||||||
| One Night in Miami... | ||||||||||
| Joe | Sound of Metal | |||||||||
| Judas and the Black Messiah | ||||||||||
| **** | *CODA* | |||||||||
| Pop | Belfast | |||||||||
| Being the Ricardos | ||||||||||
| **** | *Everything Everywhere All at Once* | |||||||||
| Causeway | ||||||||||
| **** | *Oppenheimer* | |||||||||
| American Fiction | ||||||||||
| Killers of the Flower Moon | ||||||||||
| Ken | Barbie | |||||||||
| Poor Things | ||||||||||
| **** | *A Real Pain* | |||||||||
| Igor | Anora | |||||||||
| One Battle After Another | ||||||||||
| Frankenstein | ||||||||||
| Sinners | ||||||||||
| One Battle After Another | ||||||||||
| Sentimental Value |
Multiple wins and nominations
The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actor awards:
| Wins | Actor | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Walter Brennan | 4 |
| 2 | Jason Robards | 3 |
| Peter Ustinov | ||
| Mahershala Ali | 2 | |
| Michael Caine | ||
| Melvyn Douglas | ||
| Anthony Quinn | ||
| Christoph Waltz |
Main article: List of actors with more than one Academy Award nomination in the acting categories#Most nominations by category (actor)
The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actor nominations:
| Nominations | Actor |
|---|---|
| 4 | Walter Brennan |
| Jeff Bridges | |
| Robert Duvall | |
| Arthur Kennedy | |
| Jack Nicholson | |
| Al Pacino | |
| Claude Rains | |
| Mark Ruffalo | |
| 3 | Charles Bickford |
| Charles Coburn | |
| Willem Dafoe | |
| Benicio Del Toro | |
| Robert De Niro | |
| Gene Hackman | |
| Ed Harris | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | |
| Tommy Lee Jones | |
| Martin Landau | |
| Edward Norton | |
| Jack Palance | |
| Joe Pesci | |
| Christopher Plummer | |
| Jason Robards | |
| Peter Ustinov | |
| Gig Young | |
| 2 | Eddie Albert |
| Mahershala Ali | |
| Alan Arkin | |
| Christian Bale | |
| Michael Caine | |
| Lee J. Cobb | |
| Robert Downey Jr. | |
| Charles Durning | |
| Peter Falk | |
| Morgan Freeman | |
| Vincent Gardenia | |
| John Gielgud | |
| Hugh Griffith | |
| Alec Guinness | |
| Edmund Gwenn | |
| Woody Harrelson | |
| Ethan Hawke | |
| Jonah Hill | |
| Judd Hirsch | |
| Anthony Hopkins | |
| Djimon Hounsou | |
| Walter Huston | |
| Cecil Kellaway | |
| Ben Kingsley | |
| John Lithgow | |
| Karl Malden | |
| John Malkovich | |
| James Mason | |
| Burgess Meredith | |
| Sal Mineo | |
| Thomas Mitchell | |
| J. Carrol Naish | |
| Edmond O'Brien | |
| Arthur O'Connell | |
| Brad Pitt | |
| Anthony Quinn | |
| Basil Rathbone | |
| Ralph Richardson | |
| Sam Rockwell | |
| Mickey Rooney | |
| Geoffrey Rush | |
| George C. Scott | |
| Michael Shannon | |
| J. K. Simmons | |
| Akim Tamiroff | |
| Christopher Walken | |
| Christoph Waltz | |
| Jack Warden | |
| Denzel Washington | |
| Clifton Webb |
Age superlatives
Main article: List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees#Best Actor in a Supporting Role
| Record | Actor | Film | Age (in years) | Ref. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest winner | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | 82 | title=Oldest/Youngest Acting Nominees and Winners | url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics/indexStats.html | access-date=May 17, 2015 | publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301005626/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics%2FindexStats.html | archive-date=March 1, 2009}} |
| Oldest nominee | All the Money in the World | 88 | ||||||||
| Youngest winner | Timothy Hutton | Ordinary People | 20 | |||||||
| Youngest nominee | Justin Henry | Kramer vs. Kramer | 8 |
Films with multiple Supporting Actor nominations
There have been 23 instances in which films have produced more than one nominee within this category. All resulted in two nominations, with the exceptions of On the Waterfront (1954), The Godfather (1972), and The Godfather Part II (1974), which each obtained three.
Winners are in bold.
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) – Harry Carey Sr. and Claude Rains
- Quo Vadis (1951) – Leo Genn and Peter Ustinov
- Shane (1953) – Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance
- On the Waterfront (1954) – Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger
- Peyton Place (1957) – Arthur Kennedy and Russ Tamblyn
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959) – Arthur O'Connell and George C. Scott
- The Hustler (1961) – Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) – Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard
- The Last Picture Show (1971) – Jeff Bridges and Ben Johnson
- The Godfather (1972) – James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino
- The Godfather Part II (1974) – Robert De Niro, Michael V. Gazzo, and Lee Strasberg
- Rocky (1976) – Burgess Meredith and Burt Young
- Julia (1977) – Jason Robards and Maximilian Schell
- Ordinary People (1980) – Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton
- Terms of Endearment (1983) – John Lithgow and Jack Nicholson
- Platoon (1986) – Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe
- Bugsy (1991) – Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) – Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell
- The Irishman (2019) – Al Pacino and Joe Pesci
- Judas and the Black Messiah (2020) – Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield
- The Power of the Dog (2021) – Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee
- The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) – Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan
- One Battle After Another (2025) – Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn
Multiple character nominations
- Max "Pop" Corkle from Here Comes Mr. Jordan (James Gleason, 1941) and Heaven Can Wait (Jack Warden, 1978)
Thus far, this is the only instance of the same character producing two nominated performances within this particular same category.
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