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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.
- Ke Huy Quan. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022) This was the first career Oscar nomination for Quan. He plays Evelyn’s (Michelle Yeoh) docile husband Waymond Wang, as well as more confident versions of Waymond in other dimensions.
- Troy Kotsur. “CODA” (2021) 2021 Best Supporting Actor nominees: Ciaran Hinds (“Belfast”) Troy Kotsur (“CODA”) Jesse Plemons (“The Power of the Dog”) J.K. Simmons (“Being the Ricardos”)
- Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah. “Judas and the Black Messiah” (2020) Kaluuya won for playing civil rights activist Fred Hampton, who was murdered by police in 1969 at age 21.
- Brad Pitt. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (2019) Pitt swept the season for playing a stuntman working with an down-and-out TV star (Leonardo DiCaprio) in 1969 Hollywood.
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Each year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honours the man who delivered the most outstanding performance in a supporting role in a movie of a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. The winning actor is given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar at the annual ceremony. The first Academy Awards presentation an...
•1937: Walter Brennan (Come and Get It)
•1938: Joseph Schildkraut (The Life of Emile Zola)
•1940: Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach)
•1941: Walter Brennan (The Westerner)
•1942: Donald Crisp (How Green Was My Valley)
•1943: Van Heflin (Johnny Eager)
•1944: Charles Coburn (The More the Merrier)
•1945: Barry Fitzgerald (Going My Way)
•1960: Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur)
•1961: Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)
•1962: George Chakiris (West Side Story)
•1963: Ed Begley (Sweet Bird of Youth)
•1964: Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
•1965: Peter Ustinov (Topkapi)
•1980: Melvyn Douglas (Being There)
•1981: Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)
•1982: John Gielgud (Arthur)
•1983: Louis Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman)
•1984: Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)
•1985: Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields)
•2000: Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules)
•2001: Benicio Del Toro (Traffic)
•2002: Jim Broadbent (Iris)
•2003: Chris Cooper (Adaptation)
•2004: Tim Robbins (Mystic River)
•2005: Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)
•2020: Brad Pitt (Once upon a Time in…Hollywood)
•2021: Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
•2022: Troy Kotsur (CODA)
•2023: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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87 people. Sort by List order. 1. Walter Brennan. Actor. Soundtrack. The Westerner (1940) In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering.
Aug 1, 2021 · A list of the best supporting actor Oscar winners from 1936 to 2022, with brief profiles of their roles and careers. Find out who won the most awards, who made history, and who impressed the critics and audiences.
1. Walter Brennan. Actor | The Westerner. In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and ...
Mar 11, 2024 · Find out who won the Oscar for best supporting actor in each year from 1999 to 2023, and who they beat in the process. See the full list of nominees and sources for each category.
