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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 88 times, to 79 actors. The first winner was Walter Brennan for his role in Come and Get It.
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- Walter Brennan (3)
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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)
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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.
- 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.
The previous year's winners for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress present the awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. On February 9, 2020, Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards .
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