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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.
A list of actors who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor from 1936 to 2016, with brief biographies and film credits. See who won three Oscars, played Judas Iscariot, and was a matinée idol in silent films.
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.
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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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Mar 12, 2023 · Ke Huy Quan won the Oscar for his supporting role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night, completing one of the most impressive Hollywood comebacks...
Mar 13, 2023 · Ke Huy Quan really did win almost everything, everywhere this awards season, culminating Sunday with the Oscar for best performance by a supporting actor.
Apr 25, 2021 · Daniel Kaluuya won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his nuanced portrayal of Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” beating out his co-star, Lakeith Stanfield, who was ...