Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2024 recipient: Kieran Culkin
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Country	United States
First awarded	1937
Currently held by	Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (2025)

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. The most recent winner is Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain. 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.

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.

In the first three years of the awards, actors and actresses were nominated as the best individuals in their categories, along with all qualifying cumulative work. The current system, in which an actor is nominated for a specific performance in a single film, was introduced for the 4th Academy Awards, in the lead acting categories. Simultaneously, along with the introduction of the supporting acting categories, all four acting categories were limited to a maximum five nominations per year.

Walter Brennan was the inaugural winner, thrice over, for: Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), & The Westerner (1940).

Joseph Schildkraut won for The Life of Émile Zola (1937).

Thomas Mitchell won for Stagecoach (1939); first male to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting".

Donald Crisp won for How Green Was My Valley (1941).

Van Heflin won for Johnny Eager (1942).

Charles Coburn won for The More the Merrier (1943).

Barry Fitzgerald won for Going My Way (1944); only actor nommed in both lead + supporting for the same performance.

James Dunn won for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945).

Harold Russell won for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); w/ an Honorary bonus, became only person to earn two Oscars for the same role.

Edmund Gwenn won for Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Walter Huston won for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).

Dean Jagger won for Twelve O'Clock High (1949).

George Sanders won for All About Eve (1950).

Karl Malden won for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Anthony Quinn won twice, for Viva Zapata! (1952) & Lust for Life (1956); first latino to win in this category.

Frank Sinatra won for From Here to Eternity (1953).

Edmond O'Brien won for The Barefoot Contessa (1954).

Jack Lemmon won for Mister Roberts (1955).

Red Buttons won for Sayonara (1957).

Burl Ives won for The Big Country (1958).

Hugh Griffith won for Ben-Hur (1959).

Peter Ustinov won twice, for Spartacus (1960) & Topkapi (1964).

George Chakiris won for West Side Story (1961).

Ed Begley Sr. won for Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).

Melvyn Douglas won twice, for Hud (1963) & Being There (1979).

Martin Balsam won for A Thousand Clowns (1965).

Walter Matthau won for The Fortune Cookie (1966).

George Kennedy won for Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Jack Albertson won for The Subject Was Roses (1968).

Gig Young won for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969).

John Mills won for Ryan's Daughter (1970); first winner using BSL.

Ben Johnson won for The Last Picture Show (1971); this category's shortest winning performance, at 9m54s.

Joel Grey won for Cabaret (1972).

John Houseman won for The Paper Chase (1973).

Robert De Niro won for The Godfather Part II (1974); first non-English dialogue role (Italian) in this category to win.

George Burns won for The Sunshine Boys (1975).

Jason Robards Jr. won twice consecutively—for All the President's Men (1976) & Julia (1977).

Christopher Walken won for The Deer Hunter (1978).

Timothy Hutton won for Ordinary People (1980); this category's youngest winner, at age 20.

John Gielgud won for Arthur (1981); first out LGBTQ+ winner in this category.

Louis Gossett Jr. won for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); first black winner for this category.

Jack Nicholson won for Terms of Endearment (1983).

Haing S. Ngor won for The Killing Fields (1984); first Asian to win in the category.

Don Ameche won for Cocoon (1985).

Michael Caine won twice, for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) & The Cider House Rules (1999).

Sean Connery won for The Untouchables (1987).

Kevin Kline won for A Fish Called Wanda (1988).

Denzel Washington won for Glory (1989).

Joe Pesci won for GoodFellas (1990).

Jack Palance won for City Slickers (1991).

Gene Hackman won for Unforgiven (1992).

Tommy Lee Jones won for The Fugitive (1993).

Martin Landau won for Ed Wood (1994).

Kevin Spacey won for The Usual Suspects (1995).

Cuba Gooding Jr. won for Jerry Maguire (1996).

Robin Williams won for Good Will Hunting (1997).

James Coburn won for Affliction (1997).

Benicio del Toro won for Traffic (2000); first Spanish-language performance to win.

Jim Broadbent won for Iris (2001).

Chris Cooper won for Adaptation. (2002).

Tim Robbins won for Mystic River (2003).

Morgan Freeman won for Million Dollar Baby (2004).

George Clooney won for Syriana (2005).

Alan Arkin won for Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

Javier Bardem won for No Country for Old Men (2007).

Heath Ledger won for The Dark Knight (2008); category's first posthumous win, + the first ever for a comic book role.

Christoph Waltz won twice, for Inglourious Basterds (2009) & Django Unchained (2012).

Christian Bale won for The Fighter (2010).

Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2011); this category's oldest winner, at age 82.

Jared Leto won for Dallas Buyers Club (2013).

J. K. Simmons won for Whiplash (2014).

Mark Rylance won for Bridge of Spies (2015).

Mahershala Ali won twice, for Moonlight (2016) & Green Book (2018).

Sam Rockwell won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

Brad Pitt won for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

Daniel Kaluuya won for Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).

Troy Kotsur won for CODA (2021); first deaf male win.

Ke Huy Quan won for Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

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.

1930s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
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	Romeo and Juliet
	Akim Tamiroff	General Yang	The General Died at Dawn
1937 (10th)	Joseph Schildkraut	Captain 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 Sr.	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

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
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	Benzino 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	The Story of 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

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1950 (23rd)	George Sanders	Addison DeWitt	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

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1960 (33rd)	Peter Ustinov	Lentulus Batiatus	Spartacus
	Peter Falk	Abe "Kid Twist" Reles	Murder, Inc.
	Jack Kruschen	Dr. David 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 §	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	King Louis VII	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	Pavel "Pasha" Antipov / Strelnikov	Doctor Zhivago
	Michael Dunn	Carl Glocken	Ship of Fools
	Frank Finlay	Iago	Othello
1966 (39th)	Walter Matthau	"Whiplash 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	King Henry VIII	A Man for All Seasons
1967 (40th)	George Kennedy	Dragline	Cool Hand Luke
	John Cassavetes	Victor R. 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 Bloom	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 Thomas Wolsey	Anne of the Thousand Days

1970s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
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	Buddy "Cloudy" Russo	The French Connection
1972 (45th)	Joel Grey	The Master of Ceremonies	Cabaret
	Eddie Albert	Mr. Corcoran	The Heartbreak Kid
	James Caan	Santino "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	Captain 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 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

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
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 E. Rollins Jr.	Coalhouse Walker Jr.	Ragtime
1982 (55th)	Louis Gossett Jr.	Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley	An Officer and a Gentleman
	Charles Durning	The Governor of Texas	The Best Little ... 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. Vernon Waters	A Soldier's Story
	John Malkovich	Mr. Will	Places in the Heart
	Pat Morita	Mr. 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 and Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke	Out of Africa
	William Hickey	Don Corrado Prizzi	Prizzi's Honor
	Robert Loggia	Sam Ransom	Jagged Edge
	Eric Roberts	Buck McGeehy	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

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
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	Col. 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 Göth	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	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	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

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
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	Emperor Commodus	Gladiator
2001 (74th)	Jim Broadbent	John Bayley	Iris
	Ethan Hawke	Jake Hoyt	Training Day
	Ben Kingsley	Don Logan	... 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	Bob Barnes	Syriana
	Matt Dillon	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 Sergeant 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	Doubt
	Michael Shannon	John Givings Jr.	Revolutionary Road
2009 (82nd)	Christoph Waltz	SS Colonel Hans Landa	Inglourious Basterds
	Matt Damon	Francois Pienaar	Invictus
	Woody Harrelson	Captain Tony Stone	The Messenger
	Christopher Plummer	Leo Tolstoy	The Last Station
	Stanley Tucci	George Harvey	The Lovely Bones

2010s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
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 & Incredibly Close
2012 (85th)	Christoph Waltz	Dr. King Schultz	Django Unchained
	Alan Arkin	Lester Siegel	Argo
	Robert De Niro	Patrizio 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	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	Bobby Andes	Nocturnal Animals
2017 (90th)	Sam Rockwell	Jason Dixon	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
	Willem Dafoe	Bobby Hicks	The Florida Project
	Woody Harrelson	Bill Willoughby	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
	Richard Jenkins	Giles	The Shape of Water
	Christopher Plummer	J. Paul Getty	All the Money in the World
2018 (91st)	Mahershala Ali	Don Shirley	Green Book
	Adam Driver	Philip "Flip" Zimmerman	BlacKkKlansman
	Sam Elliott	Bobby Maine	A Star Is Born
	Richard E. Grant	Jack Hock	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
	Sam Rockwell	George W. Bush	Vice
2019 (92nd)	Brad Pitt	Cliff Booth	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Tom Hanks	Fred Rogers	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
	Anthony Hopkins	Pope Benedict XVI	The Two Popes
	Al Pacino	Jimmy Hoffa	The Irishman
	Joe Pesci	Russell Bufalino

2020s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2020/21 (93rd)	Daniel Kaluuya	Fred Hampton	Judas and the Black Messiah
	Sacha Baron Cohen	Abbie Hoffman	The Trial of the Chicago 7
	Leslie Odom Jr.	Sam Cooke	One Night in Miami...
	Paul Raci	Joe	Sound of Metal
	LaKeith Stanfield	William O'Neal	Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 (94th)	Troy Kotsur	Frank Rossi	CODA
	Ciarán Hinds	Pop	Belfast
	Jesse Plemons	George Burbank	The Power of the Dog
	J. K. Simmons	William Frawley	Being the Ricardos
	Kodi Smit-McPhee	Peter Gordon	The Power of the Dog
2022 (95th)	Ke Huy Quan	Waymond Wang	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Brendan Gleeson	Colm Doherty	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Brian Tyree Henry	James Aucoin	Causeway
	Judd Hirsch	Boris Podgorny	The Fabelmans
	Barry Keoghan	Dominic Kearney	The Banshees of Inisherin
2023 (96th)	Robert Downey Jr.	Lewis Strauss	Oppenheimer
	Sterling K. Brown	Clifford "Cliff" Ellison	American Fiction
	Robert De Niro	William King Hale	Killers of the Flower Moon
	Ryan Gosling	Ken	Barbie
	Mark Ruffalo	Duncan Wedderburn	Poor Things
2024 (97th)	Kieran Culkin	Benjamin "Benji" Kaplan	A Real Pain
	Yura Borisov	Igor	Anora
	Edward Norton	Pete Seeger	A Complete Unknown
	Guy Pearce	Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr.	The Brutalist
	Jeremy Strong	Roy Cohn	The Apprentice

Multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actor awards:

The following individuals received three or more Best Supporting Actor nominations:

Age superlatives

Films with multiple Supporting Actor nominations

There have been 22 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

Multiple character nominations

• Max "Pop" Corkle from Here Comes Mr. Jordan (James Gleason, 1941) & 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.

Related pages

• BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Óscar al mejor actor de reparto para niños

• BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress