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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.
O'Brien won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and also received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role as a drunken senator who ferrets out an attempted coup d'etat in Seven Days in May (1964).
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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
- Brandon Choe
- 2023 — Ke Huy Quan. ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ (2022)
- 2022 – Troy Kotsur. ‘CODA’ (2021)
- 2021 – Daniel Kaluuya. ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ (2020)
- 2020 – Brad Pitt. ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ (2019)
Mar 11, 2024 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Downey Jr. became an Oscar winner on Sunday in a long-awaited victory for the veteran actor who received his first acting nod three decades ago. Downey won best supporting actor for his portrayal of Rear Adm. Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer,” hailed as one of his best performances in years.
Joseph Schildkraut. Actor | The Shop Around the Corner. An imposing Austrian import-turned-matinée idol on the silent screen, Hollywood actor Joseph Schildkraut went on to conquer talking films as well -- with Oscar-winning results.
