Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit. It is presented each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is to recognize an actor with an outstanding performance in a movie. Since the beginning, the award has commonly been called the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
| Description | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
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Actors are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves. Winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.
1930s
| Year | Actor | Movie | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 (9th) | |||
| Walter Brennan | Come and Get It | Swan Bostrom | |
| Mischa Auer | My Man Godfrey | Carlo | |
| Stuart Erwin | Pigskin Parade | Amos Dodd | |
| Basil Rathbone | Romeo and Juliet | Tybalt – Nephew to Lady Capulet | |
| Akim Tamiroff | The General Died at Dawn | General Yang | |
| 1937 (10th) | |||
| Joseph Schildkraut | The Life of Emile Zola | Captain Alfred Dreyfus | |
| Ralph Bellamy | The Awful Truth | 'Dan' Leeson | |
| Thomas Mitchell | The Hurricane | Dr. Kersaint | |
| H. B. Warner | Lost Horizon | Chang | |
| Roland Young | Topper | Cosmo Topper | |
| 1938 (11th) | |||
| Walter Brennan | Kentucky | Peter Goodwin | |
| John Garfield | Four Daughters | Mickey Borden | |
| Gene Lockhart | Algiers | Regis | |
| Robert Morley | Marie Antoinette | King Louis XVI | |
| Basil Rathbone | If I Were King | King Louis XI | |
| 1939 (12th) | |||
| Thomas Mitchell | Stagecoach | Dr. Josiah Boone | |
| Brian Aherne | Juarez | Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg | |
| Harry Carey | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | President of the Senate | |
| Brian Donlevy | Beau Geste | Sgt. Markoff | |
| Claude Rains | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine |
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Actor | Film | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (83rd) | |||
| Christian Bale | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund | |
| John Hawkes | Winter's Bone | Teardrop Dolly | |
| Jeremy Renner | The Town | James "Jem" Coughlin | |
| Mark Ruffalo | The Kids Are All Right | Paul | |
| Geoffrey Rush | The King's Speech | Lionel Logue | |
| 2011 (84th) | |||
| Christopher Plummer | Beginners | Hal Fields | |
| Kenneth Branagh | My Week with Marilyn | Laurence Olivier | |
| Jonah Hill | Moneyball | Peter Brand | |
| Nick Nolte | Warrior | Paddy Conlon | |
| Max von Sydow | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | The Renter | |
| 2012 (85th) | |||
| Christoph Waltz | Django Unchained | Dr. King Schultz | |
| Alan Arkin | Argo | Lester Siegel | |
| Robert De Niro | Silver Linings Playbook | Pat Sr. | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Master | Lancaster Dodd | |
| Tommy Lee Jones | Lincoln | Thaddeus Stevens |
Multiple wins
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2 wins
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3 wins
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Multiple nominations
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2 nominations
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2 nominations (cont.)
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3 nominations
4 nominations
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Related pages
References
- ↑ Beginning with the 1943 awards, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded Oscar statuettes similar to those awarded to winners in all other categories, including the leading acting categories. Prior to this, however, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded plaques.
Other websites
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
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