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. 

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)Beginning with the 1943 awards, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded Oscar statuettes similar to those awarded to winners in all other categories, including the leading acting categories.  Prior to this, however, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded plaques. 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 CallowayNarrator 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)    Rayon Dallas Buyers ClubCaptain PhillipsAmerican Hustle12 Years a Slave 2014 (87th)     WhiplashBoyhoodBirdman Foxcatcher 2015 (88th)     Bridge of Spies   2016 (89th)       2017 (90th)     Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriThe Florida ProjectThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriThe Shape of WaterAll the Money in the World 2018 (91st)     Green Book BlacKkKlansmanA Star Is BornCan You Ever Forgive Me?Vice 2019 (92nd)     Once Upon a Time in HollywoodA Beautiful Day in the NeighborhoodThe Two PopesThe Irishman

 Multiple wins 

3 wins
Walter Brennan

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

 Multiple nominations 

4 nominations
Walter Brennan
Arthur Kennedy
Jack Nicholson
Claude Rains

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

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

Related pages
 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

 References 

 Other websites 
 Oscars.org (official Academy site)

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