Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit. It is presented each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is to recognize an actor with an outstanding performance in a movie. Since the beginning, the award has commonly been called the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2022 recipient: Ke Huy Quan
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded	1937 (for performance in films released during the 1936 film season)
Most recent winner	Ke Huy Quan Everything Everywhere All at Once (2023)
Website	oscars.org

Actors are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves. Winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.

1930s

Year	Actor	Movie	Role(s)
1936 (9th)
	Walter Brennan	Come and Get It	Swan Bostrom
	Mischa Auer	My Man Godfrey	Carlo
	Stuart Erwin	Pigskin Parade	Amos Dodd
	Basil Rathbone	Romeo and Juliet	Tybalt – Nephew to Lady Capulet
	Akim Tamiroff	The General Died at Dawn	General Yang
1937 (10th)
	Joseph Schildkraut	The Life of Emile Zola	Captain Alfred Dreyfus
	Ralph Bellamy	The Awful Truth	'Dan' Leeson
	Thomas Mitchell	The Hurricane	Dr. Kersaint
	H. B. Warner	Lost Horizon	Chang
	Roland Young	Topper	Cosmo Topper
1938 (11th)
	Walter Brennan	Kentucky	Peter Goodwin
	John Garfield	Four Daughters	Mickey Borden
	Gene Lockhart	Algiers	Regis
	Robert Morley	Marie Antoinette	King Louis XVI
	Basil Rathbone	If I Were King	King Louis XI
1939 (12th)
	Thomas Mitchell	Stagecoach	Dr. Josiah Boone
	Brian Aherne	Juarez	Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg
	Harry Carey	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	President of the Senate
	Brian Donlevy	Beau Geste	Sgt. Markoff
	Claude Rains	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine

1940s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
1940 (13th)
	Walter Brennan	The Westerner	Judge Roy Bean
	Albert Basserman	Foreign Correspondent	Van Meer
	William Gargan	They Knew What They Wanted	Joe
	Jack Oakie	The Great Dictator	Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)
	James Stephenson	The Letter	Howard Joyce
1941 (13th)
	Donald Crisp	How Green Was My Valley	Gwilym Morgan
	Walter Brennan	Sergeant York	Pastor Rosier Pile
	Charles Coburn	The Devil and Miss Jones	John P. Merrick
	James Gleason	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Max Corkle
	Sydney Greenstreet	The Maltese Falcon	Kasper Gutman
1942 (15th)
	Van Heflin	Johnny Eager	Jeff Hartnett
	William Bendix	Wake Island	Pvt. Aloysius K. 'Smacksie' Randall
	Walter Huston	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Jerry Cohan
	Frank Morgan	Tortilla Flat	The Pirate
	Henry Travers	Mrs. Miniver	James Ballard
1943 (16th)[1]
	Charles Coburn	The More the Merrier	Benjamin Dingle
	Charles Bickford	The Song of Bernadette	Father Peyramale
	J. Carrol Naish	Sahara	Giuseppe
	Claude Rains	Casablanca	Captain Louis Renault
	Akim Tamiroff	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Pablo
1944 (17th)
	Barry Fitzgerald	Going My Way	Father Fitzgibbon
	Hume Cronyn	The Seventh Cross	Paul Roeder
	Claude Rains	Mr. Skeffington	Job Skeffington
	Clifton Webb	Laura	Waldo Lydecker
	Monty Woolley	Since You Went Away	Colonel William G. Smollett
1945 (18th)
	James Dunn	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Johnny Nolan
	Michael Chekhov	Spellbound	Dr. Alexander 'Alex' Brulov
	John Dall	The Corn Is Green	Morgan Evans
	Robert Mitchum	The Story of G.I. Joe	Lt. / Capt. Bill Walker
	J. Carrol Naish	A Medal for Benny	Charley Martin
1946 (19th)
	Harold Russell	The Best Years of Our Lives	Homer Parrish
	Charles Coburn	The Green Years	Alexander Gow
	William Demarest	The Jolson Story	Steve Martin
	Claude Rains	Notorious	Alexander Sebastian
	Clifton Webb	The Razor's Edge	Elliott Templeton
1947 (20th)
	Edmund Gwenn	Miracle on 34th Street	Kris Kringle
	Charles Bickford	The Farmer's Daughter	Joseph Clancy
	Thomas Gomez	Ride the Pink Horse	Pancho
	Robert Ryan	Crossfire	Montgomery
	Richard Widmark	Kiss of Death	Tommy Udo
1948 (21st)
	Walter Huston	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Howard
	Charles Bickford	Johnny Belinda	Black McDonald
	José Ferrer	Joan of Arc	The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
	Oskar Homolka	I Remember Mama	Uncle Chris Halverson
	Cecil Kellaway	The Luck of the Irish	Horace (A Leprechaun)
1949 (22nd)
	Dean Jagger	Twelve O'Clock High	Major Harvey Stovall
	John Ireland	All the King's Men	Jack Burden
	Arthur Kennedy	Champion	Connie Kelly
	Ralph Richardson	The Heiress	Dr. Austin Sloper
	James Whitmore	Battleground	Sgt. Kinnie

1950s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
1950 (23rd)
	George Sanders	All About Eve	Addison De Witt
	Jeff Chandler	Broken Arrow	Cochise
	Edmund Gwenn	Mister 880	'Skipper' Miller
	Sam Jaffe	The Asphalt Jungle	Dr. Erwin Riedenschneider
	Erich von Stroheim	Sunset Boulevard	Max von Meyerling
1951 (24th)
	Karl Malden	A Streetcar Named Desire	Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
	Leo Genn	Quo Vadis	Petronius
	Kevin McCarthy	Death of a Salesman	Biff Loman
	Peter Ustinov	Quo Vadis	Nero
	Gig Young	Come Fill the Cup	Boyd Copeland
1952 (25th)
	Anthony Quinn	Viva Zapata!	Eufemio Zapata
	Richard Burton	My Cousin Rachel	Philip Ashley
	Arthur Hunnicutt	The Big Sky	Zeb Calloway Narrator
	Victor McLaglen	The Quiet Man	'Red' Will Danaher
	Jack Palance	Sudden Fear	Lester Blaine
1953 (26th)
	Frank Sinatra	From Here to Eternity	Pvt. Angelo Maggio
	Eddie Albert	Roman Holiday	Irving Radovich
	Brandon deWilde	Shane	Joey Starrett
	Jack Palance	Shane	Jack Wilson
	Robert Strauss	Stalag 17	S/Sgt. Stanislas 'Animal' Kasava
1954 (27th)
	Edmond O'Brien	The Barefoot Contessa	Oscar Muldoon
	Lee J. Cobb	On the Waterfront	Johnny Friendly
	Karl Malden	On the Waterfront	Father Barry
	Rod Steiger	On the Waterfront	Charley 'the Gent' Malloy
	Tom Tully	The Caine Mutiny	Commander DeVriess
1955 (28th)
	Jack Lemmon	Mister Roberts	Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver
	Arthur Kennedy	Trial	Barney Castle
	Joe Mantell	Marty	Angie
	Sal Mineo	Rebel Without a Cause	John 'Plato' Crawford
	Arthur O'Connell	Picnic	Howard Bevans
1956 (29th)
	Anthony Quinn	Lust for Life	Paul Gauguin
	Don Murray	Bus Stop	Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
	Anthony Perkins	Friendly Persuasion	Josh Birdwell
	Mickey Rooney	The Bold and the Brave	Dooley
	Robert Stack	Written on the Wind	Kyle Hadley
1957 (30th)
	Red Buttons	Sayonara	Airman Joe Kelly
	Vittorio De Sica	A Farewell to Arms	Major Alessandro Rinaldi
	Sessue Hayakawa	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Saito
	Arthur Kennedy	Peyton Place	Lucas Cross
	Russ Tamblyn	Peyton Place	Norman Page
1958 (31st)
	Burl Ives	The Big Country	Rufus Hannassey
	Theodore Bikel	The Defiant Ones	Sheriff Max Muller
	Lee J. Cobb	The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Karamazov
	Arthur Kennedy	Some Came Running	Frank Hirsh
	Gig Young	Teacher's Pet	Dr. Hugo Pine
1959 (32nd)
	Hugh Griffith	Ben-Hur	Sheik Ilderim
	Arthur O'Connell	Anatomy of a Murder	Parnell Emmett McCarthy
	George C. Scott	Anatomy of a Murder	Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer
	Robert Vaughn	The Young Philadelphians	Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn
	Ed Wynn	The Diary of Anne Frank	Albert Dussell

1960s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
1960 (33rd)
	Peter Ustinov	Spartacus	Lentulus Batiatus
	Peter Falk	Murder, Inc.	Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles
	Jack Kruschen	The Apartment	Dr. Dreyfuss
	Sal Mineo	Exodus	Dov Landau
	Chill Wills	The Alamo	Beekeeper
1961 (34th)
	George Chakiris	West Side Story	Bernardo
	Montgomery Clift	Judgment at Nuremberg	Rudolph Petersen
	Peter Falk	Pocketful of Miracles	Joy Boy
	Jackie Gleason	The Hustler	Minnesota Fats
	George C. Scott (declined nomination)	The Hustler	Bert Gordon
1962 (35th)
	Ed Begley	Sweet Bird of Youth	Tom 'Boss' Finley
	Victor Buono	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Edwin Flagg
	Telly Savalas	Birdman of Alcatraz	Feto Gomez
	Omar Sharif	Lawrence of Arabia	Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish
	Terence Stamp	Billy Budd	Billy Budd
1963 (36th)
	Melvyn Douglas	Hud	Homer Bannon
	Nick Adams	Twilight of Honor	Ben Brown
	Bobby Darin	Captain Newman, M.D.	Corporal Jim Tompkins
	Hugh Griffith	Tom Jones	Squire Western
	John Huston	The Cardinal	Cardinal Glennon
1964 (37th)
	Peter Ustinov	Topkapi	Arthur Simon Simpson
	John Gielgud	Becket	Louis VII of France
	Stanley Holloway	My Fair Lady	Alfred Doolittle
	Edmond O'Brien	Seven Days in May	Senator Raymond Clark
	Lee Tracy	The Best Man	President Art Hockstader
1965 (38th)
	Martin Balsam	A Thousand Clowns	Arnold Burns
	Ian Bannen	The Flight of the Phoenix	'Ratbags' Crow
	Tom Courtenay	Doctor Zhivago	Pasha Antipov (Strelnikov)
	Michael Dunn	Ship of Fools	Carl Glocken
	Frank Finlay	Othello	Iago
1966 (39th)
	Walter Matthau	The Fortune Cookie	Willie Gingrich
	Mako	The Sand Pebbles	Po-han
	James Mason	Georgy Girl	James Leamington
	George Segal	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nick
	Robert Shaw	A Man for All Seasons	Henry VIII of England
1967 (40th)
	George Kennedy	Cool Hand Luke	Dragline
	John Cassavetes	The Dirty Dozen	Victor P. Franko
	Gene Hackman	Bonnie and Clyde	Buck Barrow
	Cecil Kellaway	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Monsignor Mike Ryan
	Michael J. Pollard	Bonnie and Clyde	C.W. Moss
1968 (41st)
	Jack Albertson	The Subject Was Roses	John Cleary
	Seymour Cassel	Faces	Chet
	Daniel Massey	Star!	Noël Coward
	Jack Wild	Oliver!	The Artful Dodger
	Gene Wilder	The Producers	Leo Bloom
1969 (42nd)
	Gig Young	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Rocky Graver
	Rupert Crosse	The Reivers	Ned McCaslin
	Elliott Gould	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Ted Henderson
	Jack Nicholson	Easy Rider	George Hanson
	Anthony Quayle	Anne of the Thousand Days	Cardinal Wolsey

1970s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
1970 (43rd)
	John Mills	Ryan's Daughter	Michael
	Richard S. Castellano	Lovers and Other Strangers	Frank Vecchio
	Chief Dan George	Little Big Man	Old Lodge Skins
	Gene Hackman	I Never Sang for My Father	Gene Garrison
	John Marley	Love Story	Phil Cavalleri
1971 (44th)
	Ben Johnson	The Last Picture Show	Sam the Lion
	Jeff Bridges	The Last Picture Show	Duane Jackson
	Leonard Frey	Fiddler on the Roof	Motel Kamzoil
	Richard Jaeckel	Sometimes a Great Notion	Joe Ben Stamper
	Roy Scheider	The French Connection	Detective Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo
1972 (45th)
	Joel Grey	Cabaret	Master of Ceremonies
	Eddie Albert	The Heartbreak Kid	Mr. Corcoran
	James Caan	The Godfather	Sonny Corleone
	Robert Duvall	The Godfather	Tom Hagen
	Al Pacino	The Godfather	Michael Corleone
1973 (46th)
	John Houseman	The Paper Chase	Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
	Vincent Gardenia	Bang the Drum Slowly	Dutch Schnell
	Jack Gilford	Save the Tiger	Phil Greene
	Jason Miller	The Exorcist	Father Damien Karras
	Randy Quaid	The Last Detail	Larry Meadows
1974 (47th)
	Robert De Niro	The Godfather Part II	Vito Corleone
	Fred Astaire	The Towering Inferno	Harlee Claiborne
	Jeff Bridges	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot	Lightfoot
	Michael V. Gazzo	The Godfather Part II	Frank Pentangeli
	Lee Strasberg	The Godfather Part II	Hyman Roth
1975 (48th)
	George Burns	The Sunshine Boys	Al Lewis
	Brad Dourif	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Billy Bibbit
	Burgess Meredith	The Day of the Locust	Harry Greener
	Chris Sarandon	Dog Day Afternoon	Leon Shermer
	Jack Warden	Shampoo	Lester Karpf
1976 (49th)
	Jason Robards	All the President's Men	Ben Bradlee
	Ned Beatty	Network	Arthur Jensen
	Burgess Meredith	Rocky	Mickey Goldmill
	Laurence Olivier	Marathon Man	Dr. Christian Szell
	Burt Young	Rocky	Paulie Pennino
1977 (50th)
	Jason Robards	Julia	Dashiell Hammett
	Mikhail Baryshnikov	The Turning Point	Yuri Kopeikine
	Peter Firth	Equus	Alan Strang
	Alec Guinness	Star Wars	Obi-Wan Kenobi
	Maximilian Schell	Julia	Johann
1978 (51st)
	Christopher Walken	The Deer Hunter	Nikonar 'Nick' Chevotarevich
	Bruce Dern	Coming Home	Captain Bob Hyde
	Richard Farnsworth	Comes a Horseman	Dodger
	John Hurt	Midnight Express	Max
	Jack Warden	Heaven Can Wait	Max Corkle
1979 (52nd)
	Melvyn Douglas	Being There	Benjamin Turnbull Rand
	Robert Duvall	Apocalypse Now	Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore
	Frederic Forrest	The Rose	Huston Dyer
	Justin Henry	Kramer vs. Kramer	Billy Kramer
	Mickey Rooney	The Black Stallion	Henry Dailey

1980s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
1980 (53rd)
	Timothy Hutton	Ordinary People	Conrad Jarrett
	Judd Hirsch	Ordinary People	Dr. Tyrone C. Berger
	Michael O'Keefe	The Great Santini	Ben Meechum
	Joe Pesci	Raging Bull	Joey LaMotta
	Jason Robards	Melvin and Howard	Howard Hughes
1981 (54th)
	John Gielgud	Arthur	Hobson
	James Coco	Only When I Laugh	Jimmy Perry
	Ian Holm	Chariots of Fire	Sam Mussabini
	Jack Nicholson	Reds	Eugene O'Neill
	Howard Rollins	Ragtime	Coalhouse Walker Jr.
1982 (55th)
	Louis Gossett, Jr.	An Officer and a Gentleman	Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
	Charles Durning	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas	Governor
	John Lithgow	The World According to Garp	Roberta Muldoon
	James Mason	The Verdict	Ed Concannon
	Robert Preston	Victor Victoria	Carroll 'Toddy' Todd
1983 (56th)
	Jack Nicholson	Terms of Endearment	Garrett Breedlove
	Charles Durning	To Be or Not to Be	Colonel Erhardt
	John Lithgow	Terms of Endearment	Sam Burns
	Sam Shepard	The Right Stuff	Chuck Yeager
	Rip Torn	Cross Creek	Marsh Turner
1984 (57th)
	Haing S. Ngor	The Killing Fields	Dith Pran
	Adolph Caesar	A Soldier's Story	Sergeant Waters
	John Malkovich	Places in the Heart	Mr. Will
	Pat Morita	The Karate Kid	Kesuke Miyagi
	Ralph Richardson (posthumous nomination)	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	The Sixth Earl of Greystoke
1985 (58th)
	Don Ameche	Cocoon	Arthur Selwyn
	Klaus Maria Brandauer	Out of Africa	Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke
	William Hickey	Prizzi's Honor	Don Corrado Prizzi
	Robert Loggia	Jagged Edge	Sam Ransom
	Eric Roberts	Runaway Train	Buck
1986 (59th)
	Michael Caine	Hannah and Her Sisters	Elliot
	Tom Berenger	Platoon	Sgt. Bob Barnes
	Willem Dafoe	Platoon	Sgt. Elias Grodin
	Denholm Elliott	A Room with a View	Mr. Emerson
	Dennis Hopper	Hoosiers	Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch
1987 (60th)
	Sean Connery	The Untouchables	Jim Malone
	Albert Brooks	Broadcast News	Aaron Altman
	Morgan Freeman	Street Smart	Fast Black
	Vincent Gardenia	Moonstruck	Cosmo Castorini
	Denzel Washington	Cry Freedom	Steve Biko
1988 (61st)
	Kevin Kline	A Fish Called Wanda	Otto West
	Alec Guinness	Little Dorrit	William Dorrit
	Martin Landau	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Abe Karatz
	River Phoenix	Running on Empty	Danny Pope
	Dean Stockwell	Married to the Mob	Tony 'The Tiger' Russo
1989 (62nd)
	Denzel Washington	Glory	Pvt. Silas Trip
	Danny Aiello	Do the Right Thing	Sal Frangione
	Dan Aykroyd	Driving Miss Daisy	Boolie Werthan
	Marlon Brando	A Dry White Season	Ian Mackenzie
	Martin Landau	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Judah Rosenthal

1990s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
1990 (63rd)
	Joe Pesci	Goodfellas	Tommy DeVito
	Bruce Davison	Longtime Companion	David
	Andy García	The Godfather Part III	Vincent Mancini
	Graham Greene	Dances with Wolves	Kicking Bird
	Al Pacino	Dick Tracy	Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice
1991 (64th)
	Jack Palance	City Slickers	Curly Washburn
	Tommy Lee Jones	JFK	Clay Shaw
	Harvey Keitel	Bugsy	Mickey Cohen
	Ben Kingsley	Bugsy	Meyer Lansky
	Michael Lerner	Barton Fink	Jack Lipnick
1992 (65th)
	Gene Hackman	Unforgiven	Little Bill Daggett
	Jaye Davidson	The Crying Game	Dil
	Jack Nicholson	A Few Good Men	Colonel Nathan R. Jessep
	Al Pacino	Glengarry Glen Ross	Ricky Roma
	David Paymer	Mr. Saturday Night	Stan Young
1993 (66th)
	Tommy Lee Jones	The Fugitive	Marshall Samuel Gerard
	Leonardo DiCaprio	What's Eating Gilbert Grape	Arnie Grape
	Ralph Fiennes	Schindler's List	Amon Göth
	John Malkovich	In the Line of Fire	Mitch Leary
	Pete Postlethwaite	In the Name of the Father	Giuseppe Conlon
1994 (67th)
	Martin Landau	Ed Wood	Béla Lugosi
	Samuel L. Jackson	Pulp Fiction	Jules Winnfield
	Chazz Palminteri	Bullets Over Broadway	Cheech
	Paul Scofield	Quiz Show	Mark Van Doren
	Gary Sinise	Forrest Gump	Lieutenant Dan Taylor
1995 (68th)
	Kevin Spacey	The Usual Suspects	Roger 'Verbal' Kint
	James Cromwell	Babe	Farmer Arthur Hoggett
	Ed Harris	Apollo 13	Gene Kranz
	Brad Pitt	12 Monkeys	Jeffrey Goines
	Tim Roth	Rob Roy	Archibald Cunningham
1996 (69th)
	Cuba Gooding, Jr.	Jerry Maguire	Rod Tidwell
	William H. Macy	Fargo	Jerry Lundegaard
	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Shine	Peter Helfgott
	Edward Norton	Primal Fear	Aaron Stampler
	James Woods	Ghosts of Mississippi	Byron De La Beckwith
1997 (70th)
	Robin Williams	Good Will Hunting	Sean Maguire
	Robert Forster	Jackie Brown	Max Cherry
	Anthony Hopkins	Amistad	John Quincy Adams
	Greg Kinnear	As Good as It Gets	Simon Bishop
	Burt Reynolds	Boogie Nights	Jack Horner
1998 (71st)
	James Coburn	Affliction	Glen Whitehouse
	Robert Duvall	A Civil Action	Jerome Facher
	Ed Harris	The Truman Show	Christof
	Geoffrey Rush	Shakespeare in Love	Philip Henslowe
	Billy Bob Thornton	A Simple Plan	Jacob Mitchell
1999 (72nd)
	Michael Caine	The Cider House Rules	Dr. Wilbur Larch
	Tom Cruise	Magnolia	Frank T.J. Mackey
	Michael Clarke Duncan	The Green Mile	John Coffey
	Jude Law	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Dickie Greenleaf
	Haley Joel Osment	The Sixth Sense	Cole Sear

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)
2000 (73rd)
	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Javier Rodríguez
	Jeff Bridges	The Contender	President Jackson Evans
	Willem Dafoe	Shadow of the Vampire	Max Schreck
	Albert Finney	Erin Brockovich	Edward L. Masry
	Joaquin Phoenix	Gladiator	Commodus
2001 (74th)
	Jim Broadbent	Iris	John Bayley
	Ethan Hawke	Training Day	Jake Hoyt
	Ben Kingsley	Sexy Beast	Don Logan
	Ian McKellen	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gandalf
	Jon Voight	Ali	Howard Cosell
2002 (75th)
	Chris Cooper	Adaptation	John Laroche
	Ed Harris	The Hours	Richard Brown
	Paul Newman	Road to Perdition	John Rooney
	John C. Reilly	Chicago	Amos Hart
	Christopher Walken	Catch Me If You Can	Frank Abagnale Sr.
2003 (76th)
	Tim Robbins	Mystic River	Dave Boyle
	Alec Baldwin	The Cooler	Shelly Kaplow
	Benicio del Toro	21 Grams	Jack Jordan
	Djimon Hounsou	In America	Mateo
	Ken Watanabe	The Last Samurai	Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto
2004 (77th)
	Morgan Freeman	Million Dollar Baby	Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris
	Alan Alda	The Aviator	Senator Owen Brewster
	Thomas Haden Church	Sideways	Jack
	Jamie Foxx	Collateral	Max Durocher
	Clive Owen	Closer	Larry Gray
2005 (78th)
	George Clooney	Syriana	Bob Barnes
	Matt Dillon	Crash	Sergeant John Ryan
	Paul Giamatti	Cinderella Man	Joe Gould
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Brokeback Mountain	Jack Twist
	William Hurt	A History of Violence	Richie Cusack
2006 (79th)
	Alan Arkin	Little Miss Sunshine	Edwin Hoover
	Jackie Earle Haley	Little Children	Ronald James McGorvey
	Djimon Hounsou	Blood Diamond	Solomon Vandy
	Eddie Murphy	Dreamgirls	James "Thunder" Early
	Mark Wahlberg	The Departed	Sgt. Sean Dignam
2007 (80th)
	Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh
	Casey Affleck	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Robert Ford
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Charlie Wilson's War	Gust Avrakotos
	Hal Holbrook	Into the Wild	Ron Franz
	Tom Wilkinson	Michael Clayton	Arthur Edens
2008 (81st)
	Heath Ledger (posthumous win)	The Dark Knight	The Joker
	Josh Brolin	Milk	Dan White
	Robert Downey, Jr.	Tropic Thunder	Kirk Lazarus
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Doubt	Father Brendan Flynn
	Michael Shannon	Revolutionary Road	John Givings
2009 (82nd)
	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Col. Hans Landa
	Matt Damon	Invictus	Francois Pienaar
	Woody Harrelson	The Messenger	Captain Tony Stone
	Christopher Plummer	The Last Station	Leo Tolstoy
	Stanley Tucci	The Lovely Bones	George Harvey

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Source
2010 (83rd)
	Christian Bale	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund
	John Hawkes	Winter's Bone	Teardrop Dolly
	Jeremy Renner	The Town	James "Jem" Coughlin
	Mark Ruffalo	The Kids Are All Right	Paul
	Geoffrey Rush	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue
2011 (84th)
	Christopher Plummer	Beginners	Hal Fields
	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn	Laurence Olivier
	Jonah Hill	Moneyball	Peter Brand
	Nick Nolte	Warrior	Paddy Conlon
	Max von Sydow	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	The Renter
2012 (85th)
	Christoph Waltz	Django Unchained	Dr. King Schultz
	Alan Arkin	Argo	Lester Siegel
	Robert De Niro	Silver Linings Playbook	Pat Sr.
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master	Lancaster Dodd
	Tommy Lee Jones	Lincoln	Thaddeus Stevens
2013 (86th)	Jared Leto	Rayon	Dallas Buyers Club	[2]
	Barkhad Abdi	Abduwali Muse	Captain Phillips
	Bradley Cooper	Richard "Richie" DiMaso	American Hustle
	Michael Fassbender	Edwin Epps	12 Years a Slave
	Jonah Hill	Donnie Azoff	The Wolf of Wall Street
2014 (87th)	J. K. Simmons	Terence Fletcher	Whiplash	[3]
	Robert Duvall	Joseph Palmer	The Judge
	Ethan Hawke	Mason Evans, Sr.	Boyhood
	Edward Norton	Mike Shiner	Birdman
	Mark Ruffalo	David Schultz	Foxcatcher
2015 (88th)	Mark Rylance	Rudolf Abel	Bridge of Spies	[4]
	Christian Bale	Michael Burry	The Big Short
	Tom Hardy	John Fitzgerald	The Revenant
	Mark Ruffalo	Michael Rezendes	Spotlight
	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky Balboa	Creed
2016 (89th)	Mahershala Ali	Juan	Moonlight	[5]
	Jeff Bridges	Marcus Hamilton	Hell or High Water
	Lucas Hedges	Patrick Chandler	Manchester by the Sea
	Dev Patel	Saroo Brierley	Lion
	Michael Shannon	Lieutenant Bobby Andes	Nocturnal Animals
2017 (90th)	Sam Rockwell	Officer Jason Dixon	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	[6]
	Willem Dafoe	Bobby Hicks	The Florida Project
	Woody Harrelson	Sheriff William Willoughby	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
	Richard Jenkins	Giles	The Shape of Water
	Christopher Plummer	J. Paul Getty	All the Money in the World
2018 (91st)	Mahershala Ali	Don Shirley	Green Book	[7]
	Adam Driver	Det. Philip "Flip" Zimmerman	BlacKkKlansman
	Sam Elliott	Bobby Maine	A Star Is Born
	Richard E. Grant	Jack Hock	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
	Sam Rockwell	George W. Bush	Vice
2019 (92nd)	Brad Pitt	Cliff Booth	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	[8]
	Tom Hanks	Fred Rogers	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
	Anthony Hopkins	Pope Benedict XVI	The Two Popes
	Al Pacino	Jimmy Hoffa	The Irishman
	Joe Pesci	Russell Bufalino

Multiple wins

2 wins Michael Caine Melvyn Douglas Jason Robards Anthony Quinn Peter Ustinov

3 wins Walter Brennan

Multiple nominations

2 nominations Eddie Albert Michael Caine Lee J. Cobb Benicio del Toro Willem Dafoe Melvyn Douglas Charles Durning Peter Falk Morgan Freeman Vincent Gardenia John Gielgud Hugh Griffith Alec Guinness Edmund Gwenn Djimon Hounsou Walter Huston Ben Kingsley Tommy Lee Jones John Lithgow John Malkovich

2 nominations (cont.) Karl Malden James Mason Burgess Meredith Sal Mineo Thomas Mitchell Edmond O'Brien Joe Pesci Christopher Plummer Anthony Quinn Basil Rathbone Ralph Richardson Mickey Rooney Geoffrey Rush George C. Scott Philip Seymour Hoffman Akim Tamiroff Christopher Walken Jack Warden Denzel Washington Clifton Webb

3 nominations Charles Bickford Jeff Bridges Charles Coburn Robert Duvall Gene Hackman Ed Harris Martin Landau Al Pacino Jack Palance Jason Robards Peter Ustinov Gig Young 4 nominations Walter Brennan Arthur Kennedy Jack Nicholson Claude Rains

Related pages

• BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role