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. 

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
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1936<small>(9th)</small>
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| Walter Brennan| Come and Get It| Swan Bostrom 
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| Mischa Auer
| My Man Godfrey
| Carlo
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| Stuart Erwin
| Pigskin Parade
| Amos Dodd
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| Basil Rathbone
| Romeo and Juliet
| Tybalt – Nephew to Lady Capulet
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| Akim Tamiroff
| The General Died at Dawn
| General Yang
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1937(10th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Joseph Schildkraut| The Life of Emile Zola| Captain Alfred Dreyfus 
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| Ralph Bellamy
| The Awful Truth
| 'Dan' Leeson
|-
| Thomas Mitchell
| The Hurricane
| Dr. Kersaint
|-
| H. B. Warner
| Lost Horizon
| Chang
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| Roland Young
| Topper
| Cosmo Topper
|-
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1938<small>(11th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Walter Brennan| Kentucky| Peter Goodwin 
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| John Garfield
| Four Daughters
| Mickey Borden
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| Gene Lockhart
| Algiers
| Regis
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| Robert Morley
| Marie Antoinette
| King Louis XVI
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| Basil Rathbone
| If I Were King
| King Louis XI
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1939(12th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Thomas Mitchell| Stagecoach| Dr. Josiah Boone 
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| Brian Aherne
| Juarez
| Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg
|-
| Harry Carey
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
| President of the Senate
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| Brian Donlevy
| Beau Geste
| Sgt. Markoff
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| Claude Rains
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
| Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine
|}

 1940s 
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1940(13th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Walter Brennan| The Westerner| Judge Roy Bean 
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| Albert Basserman
| Foreign Correspondent
| Van Meer
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| William Gargan
| They Knew What They Wanted
| Joe
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| Jack Oakie
| The Great Dictator
| Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)
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| James Stephenson
| The Letter
| Howard Joyce
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1941(13th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Donald Crisp| How Green Was My Valley| Gwilym Morgan 
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| Walter Brennan
| Sergeant York
| Pastor Rosier Pile
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| Charles Coburn
| The Devil and Miss Jones
| John P. Merrick
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| James Gleason
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan
| Max Corkle
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| Sydney Greenstreet
| The Maltese Falcon
| Kasper Gutman
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1942(15th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Van Heflin| Johnny Eager| Jeff Hartnett 
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| William Bendix
| Wake Island
| Pvt. Aloysius K. 'Smacksie' Randall
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| Walter Huston
| Yankee Doodle Dandy
| Jerry Cohan
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| Frank Morgan
| Tortilla Flat
| The Pirate
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| Henry Travers
| Mrs. Miniver
| James Ballard
|-
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1943(16th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Charles Coburn| The More the Merrier| Benjamin Dingle 
|-
| Charles Bickford
| The Song of Bernadette
| Father Peyramale
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| J. Carrol Naish
| Sahara
| Giuseppe
|-
| Claude Rains
| Casablanca
| Captain Louis Renault
|-
| Akim Tamiroff
| For Whom the Bell Tolls
| Pablo
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|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1944(17th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Barry Fitzgerald| Going My Way| Father Fitzgibbon 
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| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1945(18th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1946(19th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1947(20th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Edmund Gwenn| Miracle on 34th Street| Kris Kringle 
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| 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
|-
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1948<small>(21st)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Walter Huston| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre| Howard 
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| Charles Bickford
| Johnny Belinda
| Black McDonald
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| José Ferrer
| Joan of Arc
| The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
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| Oskar Homolka
| I Remember Mama
| Uncle Chris Halverson
|-
| Cecil Kellaway
| The Luck of the Irish
| Horace (A Leprechaun)
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1949(22nd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Dean Jagger| Twelve O'Clock High| Major Harvey Stovall 
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| 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 
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1950<small>(23rd)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| George Sanders| All About Eve| Addison De Witt 
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| Jeff Chandler
| Broken Arrow
| Cochise
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| Edmund Gwenn
| Mister 880
| 'Skipper' Miller
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| Sam Jaffe
| The Asphalt Jungle
| Dr. Erwin Riedenschneider
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| Erich von Stroheim
| Sunset Boulevard
| Max von Meyerling
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1951<small>(24th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Karl Malden| A Streetcar Named Desire| Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell 
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| Leo Genn
| Quo Vadis
| Petronius
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| Kevin McCarthy
| Death of a Salesman
| Biff Loman
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| Peter Ustinov
| Quo Vadis
| Nero
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| Gig Young
| Come Fill the Cup
| Boyd Copeland
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1952<small>(25th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Anthony Quinn| Viva Zapata!| Eufemio Zapata 
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| Richard Burton
| My Cousin Rachel
| Philip Ashley
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| Arthur Hunnicutt
| The Big Sky
| Zeb CallowayNarrator
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| Victor McLaglen
| The Quiet Man
| 'Red' Will Danaher
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| Jack Palance
| Sudden Fear
| Lester Blaine
|-
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1953<small>(26th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Frank Sinatra| From Here to Eternity| Pvt. Angelo Maggio 
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| Eddie Albert
| Roman Holiday
| Irving Radovich
|-
| Brandon deWilde
| Shane
| Joey Starrett
|-
| Jack Palance
| Shane
| Jack Wilson
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| Robert Strauss
| Stalag 17
| S/Sgt. Stanislas 'Animal' Kasava
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1954<small>(27th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Edmond O'Brien| The Barefoot Contessa| Oscar Muldoon 
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| 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
|-
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1955<small>(28th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Jack Lemmon| Mister Roberts| Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver 
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| Arthur Kennedy
| Trial
| Barney Castle
|-
| Joe Mantell
| Marty
| Angie
|-
| Sal Mineo
| Rebel Without a Cause
| John 'Plato' Crawford
|-
| Arthur O'Connell
| Picnic
| Howard Bevans
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1956<small>(29th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1957<small>(30th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1958<small>(31st)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Burl Ives| The Big Country| Rufus Hannassey 
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| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1959(32nd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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 
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1960<small>(33rd)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Peter Ustinov| Spartacus| Lentulus Batiatus 
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| Peter Falk
| Murder, Inc.
| Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles
|-
| Jack Kruschen
| The Apartment
| Dr. Dreyfuss
|-
| Sal Mineo
| Exodus
| Dov Landau
|-
| Chill Wills
| The Alamo
| Beekeeper
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1961(34th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1962<small>(35th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1963(36th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1964<small>(37th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1965(38th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1966(39th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1967<small>(40th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1968<small>(41st)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1969(42nd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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 
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1970<small>(43rd)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1971(44th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1972(45th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1973<small>(46th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1974(47th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1975<small>(48th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1976(49th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1977<small>(50th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1978<small>(51st)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1979(52nd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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 
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1980<small>(53rd)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1981(54th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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.
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1982(55th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1983<small>(56th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1984(57th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1985<small>(58th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1986(59th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1987<small>(60th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Sean Connery| The Untouchables| Jim Malone 
|-
| Albert Brooks
| Broadcast News
| Aaron Altman
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| Morgan Freeman
| Street Smart
| Fast Black
|-
| Vincent Gardenia
| Moonstruck
| Cosmo Castorini
|-
| Denzel Washington
| Cry Freedom
| Steve Biko
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1988<small>(61st)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1989(62nd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Denzel Washington| Glory| Pvt. Silas Trip 
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| 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 
{| class="wikitable"
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! width="19%" | Role(s)
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1990<small>(63rd)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Joe Pesci| Goodfellas| Tommy DeVito 
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| Bruce Davison
| Longtime Companion
| David
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| Andy García
| The Godfather Part III
| Vincent Mancini
|-
| Graham Greene
| Dances with Wolves
| Kicking Bird
|-
| Al Pacino
| Dick Tracy
| Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1991(64th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Jack Palance| City Slickers| Curly Washburn 
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| Tommy Lee Jones
| JFK
| Clay Shaw
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| Harvey Keitel
| Bugsy
| Mickey Cohen
|-
| Ben Kingsley
| Bugsy
| Meyer Lansky
|-
| Michael Lerner
| Barton Fink
| Jack Lipnick
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1992(65th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Gene Hackman| Unforgiven| Little Bill Daggett 
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| Jaye Davidson
| The Crying Game
| Dil
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| Jack Nicholson
| A Few Good Men
| Colonel Nathan R. Jessep
|-
| Al Pacino
| Glengarry Glen Ross
| Ricky Roma
|-
| David Paymer
| Mr. Saturday Night
| Stan Young
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1993<small>(66th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1994(67th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1995<small>(68th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Kevin Spacey| The Usual Suspects| Roger 'Verbal' Kint 
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| James Cromwell
| Babe
| Farmer Arthur Hoggett
|-
| Ed Harris
| Apollo 13
| Gene Kranz
|-
| Brad Pitt
| 12 Monkeys
| Jeffrey Goines
|-
| Tim Roth
| Rob Roy
| Archibald Cunningham
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1996(69th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1997<small>(70th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1998<small>(71st)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1999(72nd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Michael Caine| The Cider House Rules| Dr. Wilbur Larch 
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| 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 
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! width="19%" | Role(s)
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2000<small>(73rd)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Benicio del Toro| Traffic| Javier Rodríguez 
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| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2001(74th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2002(75th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| Chris Cooper| Adaptation| John Laroche 
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| 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.
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2003<small>(76th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2004(77th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2005<small>(78th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2006(79th)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2007<small>(80th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2008<small>(81st)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2009(82nd)</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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 
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! width="2%" | Source
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|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2010<small>(83rd)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2011(84th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 2012(85th)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| 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
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2013 (86th) 
| style="background:#FAEB86" |  | style="background:#FAEB86" | Rayon| style="background:#FAEB86" | Dallas Buyers Club| rowspan=5|
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|Captain Phillips
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|American Hustle
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|12 Years a Slave
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! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2014 (87th) 
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|Boyhood
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|Birdman
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|Foxcatcher
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! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2015 (88th) 
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! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2016 (89th) 
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! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2017 (90th) 
| style="background:#FAEB86" |  | style="background:#FAEB86" | | style="background:#FAEB86" | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri| rowspan=5|
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|The Florida Project
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|Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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|The Shape of Water
|-
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|All the Money in the World
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! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2018 (91st) 
| style="background:#FAEB86" |  | style="background:#FAEB86" | | style="background:#FAEB86" | Green Book| rowspan=5| 
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|BlacKkKlansman
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|A Star Is Born
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|Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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|Vice
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! scope="row" rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2019 (92nd) 
| style="background:#FAEB86" |  | style="background:#FAEB86" | | style="background:#FAEB86" | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood''| rowspan=5|
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|A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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|The Two Popes
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|rowspan="2"|The Irishman
|-
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|-
|}

 Multiple wins 2 winsMichael Caine
Melvyn Douglas
Jason Robards
Anthony Quinn
Peter Ustinov3 winsWalter Brennan

 Multiple nominations 2 nominationsEddie 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 Malkovich2 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 Webb3 nominationsCharles Bickford
Jeff Bridges
Charles Coburn
Robert Duvall
Gene Hackman
Ed Harris
Martin Landau
Al Pacino
Jack Palance
Jason Robards
Peter Ustinov
Gig Young4 nominations'''
Walter Brennan
Arthur Kennedy
Jack Nicholson
Claude Rains

Related pages
 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

References

Other websites 
 Oscars.org (official Academy site)

Supporting actor