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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.
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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
Malden won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and showed his range as an actor in roles such as that of Father Corrigan in On the Waterfront (1954) and the lecherous Archie Lee in Baby Doll (1956).
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.
All Oscar Acting nominees and winners in Best Actor/ Best Actress in a Leading Role or in a Supporting Role. Only actors with at least 4 noms (including wins) are on this list. This list is ranked by the number of acting wins, followed by number of acting noms and the rest by year. #1-7: 3 Wins. #8-44: 2 Wins.
This list of actors with Academy Award nominations includes all male and female actors with Academy Award nominations for lead and supporting roles in motion pictures, and the total nominations and wins for each actor. Nominations in non-acting categories, such as for producing, directing or writing, are not included.
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Mar 11, 2024 · An updated visual history of every Academy Award-winning Best Supporting Actor, from the very first Oscar winner to the most recent.
