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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
One of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry 
Category: Movies & TV (100)
Launched in 1950.
Countries: United States (76%), United Kingdom (9%), (7%)
Main connections: Actor, Alan Arkin, Academy Award for Best Picture
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Journey to Italy - Sanders was a well-known actor of the era who had won an Academy Award in 1951
Arthur Hunnicutt - In 1952, he earned an Oscar nomination for Supporting Actor in the Howard Hawks western "The Big Sky"
Eddie Albert - He was nominated for the Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in "Roman Holiday", and in 1973 for "The Heartbreak Kid"
Jack Lemmon - Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for Mister Roberts and the Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger, becoming the first actor to achieve this double.
Robert Stack - In 1957, Stack was nominated for an Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for "Written on the Wind"
Ian Bannen - Ian Bannen received in 1965 an Academy *award nomination for "Best Supporting Actor" for his performance in 'The Flight of the Phoenix' as one of the survivor of a plane crash, Ratbags Crow
Rupert Crosse - Crosse was the first African American to be nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy *award for his role in the 1969 adaptation of William Faulkner's "The Reivers"
Jeff Bridges - His first major role came in the 1971 film "The Last Picture Show", for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor
Roy Scheider - In 1971, he appeared in two highly popular movies, "Klute" and "The French Connection"; the latter, in which he played a fictionalized version of New York City detective Sonny Grosso, gained him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor
Gene Hackman - In 1971, he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award again, this time for 1970's I Never Sang for My Father, working alongside Melvyn Douglas and Estelle Parsons.
Eddie Albert - In 1972, Albert resumed his film career and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as an overprotective father, in "The Heartbreak Kid" and delivered a memorable performance as an evil prison warden in 1974's "The Longest Yard"
Jeff Bridges - He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"
Bruce Dern - Other memorable roles include Tom Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"; or a psychotic Goodyear Blimp pilot who launches a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl in 1977's "Black Sunday", and as Captain Bob Hyde in 1978's "Coming Home", for which he received an Academy *award nomination for Best Supporting Actor
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Network (film) - Finch died before the 1977 Academy *awards ceremony and was the only performer to win a posthumous Academy *award until Heath Ledger won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2009
Hannah and Her Sisters - "Hannah and Her Sisters" won Academy *awards for Best Original Screenplay and for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, the first film to win both supporting actor *awards since "Julia" in 1977, nearly nine years before, and the last until "The Fighter" over two decades later
Bruce Dern - He has appeared in more than 80 feature films, and received Academy *award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for the 1978 film "Coming Home" and Best Actor for the 2013 film "Nebraska"
Alan Arkin - He is known for starring in such films as "Wait Until Dark", " The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming", "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", "Catch-22", "The In-Laws", "Edward Scissorhands", "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Marley & Me", and "Little Miss Sunshine", for which he won an Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor in 2006
Frederic Forrest - He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in the 1979 musical drama "The Rose"
Ian Holm - He was nominated for the 1981 Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in "Chariots of Fire"
John Lithgow - In 1983 and 1984, Lithgow was nominated for the Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as Roberta Muldoon in "The World According to Garp" and as Sam Burns in "Terms of Endearment"
John Malkovich - He made his feature film debut in 1984, as Sally Field's blind boarder Mr. Will in Places in the Heart; for his portrayal of Mr. Will, Malkovich received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Almond applauded Ruck's performance, going so far as saying he deserved the Best Supporting Actor Academy *award of 1986: "His performance is what elevates the film, allows it to assume the power of a modern parable
James Woods - He has been twice nominated for an Academy *award: first, for Best Actor, for playing a journalist chronicling events in El Salvador in the early Oliver Stone film "Salvador" , and again in 1996, for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance as real-life white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in drama "Ghosts of Mississippi"
Denzel Washington - In 1987 Washington starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Alec Guinness - In 1988, he received an Academy *award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for "Little Dorrit"
Dean Stockwell - " In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Mafia boss Tony "the Tiger" Russo in the comedy "Married to the Mob"
Denzel Washington - In 1989 Washington won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a defiant self-possessed ex-slave soldier in the film Glory.
River Phoenix - In early 1989, Phoenix was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and received the Best Supporting Actor honor from the National Board of Review for his role in "Running on Empty"
Jack Palance - During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy *awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in "City Slickers"
Gene Hackman - In 1992, he played the sadistic sheriff "Little" Bill Daggett in the western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor.
Tommy Lee Jones - He has received four Academy *award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film "The Fugitive"
Gene Kranz - Ed Harris played Kranz in the 1995 film, "Apollo 13", and received an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Tom Cruise - In 1996, he took on the title role in Jerry Maguire, for which he earned a Golden Globe and his second nomination for an Academy Award.
Robert Forster - He was nominated for an Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for "Jackie Brown", which he credits with reviving his career
Ken Watanabe - He co-starred with Koji Yakusho in the 1998 "Kizuna", for which he was nominated for the Japanese Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor
Robin Williams - In 1998, he won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his role as a psychologist in Good Will Hunting.
For example, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000
Tom Cruise - In 1999, Cruise costarred with wife Nicole Kidman in the erotic Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut, and played motivational speaker Frank T.J. Mackey in the ensemble film Magnolia, for which he received another Golden Globe and nomination for an Academy Award.
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Magnolia (film) - Of the ensemble cast, Tom Cruise was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 72nd Academy *awards, and won the *award in that category at the Golden Globes of 2000
Clive Owen - In 2005, Owen won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA *award and was nominated for an Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for his appearance in the drama "Closer"
George Clooney - At the 2006 Academy Awards, Clooney was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, as well as Best Supporting Actor for Syriana.
Mark Wahlberg - He appeared as a foul-mouthed Massachusetts State Police detective in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed thriller, "The Departed" in 2006, which netted him an Academy *award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, and an NSFC Best Supporting Actor *award
Jonah Hill - Hill was first nominated for a Teen Choice *award for his role in "Accepted" as Sherman Schrader and in 2011 was nominated for an Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for his dramatic turn in "Moneyball"
Casey Affleck - Affleck gained widespread recognition in 2007, starring in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and "Gone Baby Gone", directed by his brother Ben
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Dreamgirls (film) - For the 2007 Golden Globe *awards, "Dreamgirls" was nominated in five categories: Best Picture - Comedy or Musical, Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical , Best Supporting Actor , Best Supporting Actress , and Best Original Song
Eddie Murphy - In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in "Dreamgirls"
Kazunari Ninomiya - On January 7, 2007, "New York Times" film critic A. O. Scott listed Ninomiya as an ideal Oscar candidate for Best Supporting Actor
Eddie Murphy - Murphy was nominated for an Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor on January 23, 2007, but lost to Alan Arkin for his performance in "Little Miss Sunshine"
Alan Arkin - On February 11, 2007 he received a BAFTA Film *award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of Grandfather Edwin in "Little Miss Sunshine"
Alan Arkin - On February 25, 2007, upon winning the Academy *award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Arkin, who plays a foul-mouthed grandfather with a taste for heroin said, "More than anything, I'm deeply moved by the open-hearted appreciation our small film has received, which in these fragmented times speaks so openly of the possibility of innocence, growth and connection"
He won the Best Supporting Actor award for his portrayal of the Joker in "The Dark Knight", 2008
Heath Ledger - Film critics, co-stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Michael Caine and many of Ledger's colleagues in the film community joined Bale in calling for and predicting a nomination for the 2008 Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor in recognition of Ledger's achievement in "The Dark Knight
Philip Seymour Hoffman - In 2008, he was nominated for Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role, which he lost to Javier Bardem for "No Country for Old Men"
Christoph Waltz - Cannes Film Festival - He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in the 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds", for which he won the Best Actor *award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild *award and Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009
Peter Finch - He was the only posthumous winner of an Oscar in an acting category until Heath Ledger won the Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009
Quentin Tarantino - In 2009, his film Inglourious Basterds was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, winning one for Best Supporting Actor.
Jeremy Renner - In 2010, Renner's performance in Ben Affleck's "The Town" alongside Jon Hamm, Blake Lively, Slaine and Michael Yebba garnered him rave reviews and his second Academy *award nomination for Best Supporting Actor
Inglourious Basterds - In February 2010, the film was nominated for eight Academy *awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Waltz, and Best Original Screenplay
Christopher Plummer - Still, on Oscar night, March 7, 2010, Plummer lost the Best Supporting Actor nomination to Christoph Waltz in the Quentin Tarantino 2009 war film "Inglourious Basterds"
Nick Nolte - In 2011, Nolte portrayed recovering alcoholic Paddy Conlon, dealing with his two estranged sons competing in an MMA tournament in the film "Warrior", for which he received an Academy *award nomination for Best Supporting Actor
Winter's Bone - It received four 2011 Academy *award nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine - He was nominated for the Academy *award for Best Actor for his performances in "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" and "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and the Academy *award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Argo", winning the *award in 2007 for the former
Christopher Plummer - In 2012, he was nominated for his second Academy *award, again for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in "Beginners"
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Reds (film) - Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Maureen Stapleton were nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, the last time a film was nominated in all four acting categories until "Silver Linings Playbook" in 2012
Christoph Waltz - He played German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz, opposite Jamie Foxx, in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained", for which he received the 2013 Academy, Golden Globe and the British Academy Film *awards for Best Supporting Actor
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Captain Phillips (film) - In 2014, "Captain Phillips" received six Academy *award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Abdi, but did not win in any of the categories
As of the 2015 ceremony, J.K. Simmons is the most recent winner in this category for his role in "Whiplash"
Robert Duvall - In 2015, at age 84, Duvall became the oldest person ever nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, with a nomination for the film "The Judge
Hal Holbrook - Until Robert Duvall was nominated for an Academy *award in 2015, Holbrook was the oldest actor to receive an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination
Damien Chazelle - It won three of them, Best Supporting Actor for Simmons, Best Achievement in Film Editing and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, on February 22, 2015
As of the 2016 ceremony, Mark Rylance is the most recent winner in this category for his role as Rudolf Abel in "Bridge of Spies"
Bugsy - As of 2016, the film is the most recent to receive more than one nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category
Tom Hardy - On 14th January 2016 Tom Hardy received his first Academy *award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Revenant
Tom Hardy - On 14 January 2016 Hardy received his first Academy *award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Revenant"
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The Revenant (2015 film) - On January 14, 2016, the film received 12 Academy *award nominations, including the Best Picture and Best Director, as well as Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor for DiCaprio and Hardy, respectively
As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in this category for his role as Juan in "Moonlight"
As of the 2018 ceremony, Sam Rockwell is the most recent winner in this category for his role as Officer Jason Dixon in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali - Ali played Don Shirley in the 2018 film "Green Book", receiving his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination
Sam Rockwell - In 2018, his portrayal of George W. Bush in the Dick Cheney biopic "Vice" earned him his second Academy Award nomination in the same category
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