Best Supporting Actor
Acting · 90 ceremonies · 1936-present
2025 (98th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Col. Steven J. Lockjaw, One Battle after Another
Sensei Sergio St. Carlos, One Battle after Another
The Creature, Frankenstein
Delta Slim, Sinners
Gustav Borg, Sentimental Value
2024 (97th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Benji Kaplan, A Real Pain
Igor, Anora
Pete Seeger, A Complete Unknown
Harrison Leo Van Buren Sr., The Brutalist
Roy Cohn, The Apprentice
2023 (96th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer
Clifford Ellison, American Fiction
William Hale, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ken, Barbie
Duncan Wedderburn, Poor Things
2022 (95th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Waymond Wang, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Colm Doherty, The Banshees of Inisherin
James, Causeway
Uncle Boris, The Fabelmans
Dominic Kearney, The Banshees of Inisherin
2021 (94th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Frank Rossi, CODA
Pop, Belfast
George Burbank, The Power of the Dog
William Frawley, Being the Ricardos
Peter Gordon, The Power of the Dog
2020 (93rd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Fred Hampton, Judas and the Black Messiah
Abbie Hoffman, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Sam Cooke, One Night in Miami...
Bill O’Neal, Judas and the Black Messiah
2019 (92nd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Cliff Booth, Once upon a Time...in Hollywood
Fred Rogers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict, The Two Popes
Jimmy Hoffa, The Irishman
Russell Bufalino, The Irishman
2018 (91st)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dr. Donald Shirley, Green Book
Flip Zimmerman, BlacKkKlansman
Bobby, A Star Is Born
Jack Hock, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
George W. Bush, Vice
2017 (90th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2016 (89th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Juan, Moonlight
Marcus Hamilton, Hell or High Water
Patrick Chandler, Manchester by the Sea
Bobby Andes, Nocturnal Animals
2015 (88th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Rudolf Abel, Bridge of Spies
Michael Burry, The Big Short
John Fitzgerald, The Revenant
Mike Rezendes, Spotlight
Rocky Balboa, Creed
2014 (87th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2013 (86th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Rayon, Dallas Buyers Club
Richie DiMaso, American Hustle
Edwin Epps, 12 Years a Slave
Donnie Azoff, The Wolf of Wall Street
2012 (85th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dr. King Schultz, Django Unchained
Lester Siegel, Argo
Lancaster Dodd, The Master
Thaddeus Stevens, Lincoln
2011 (84th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sir Laurence Olivier, My Week with Marilyn
Peter Brand, Moneyball
Paddy Conlon, Warrior
The Renter, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2010 (83rd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dicky Eklund, The Fighter
Teardrop, Winter's Bone
James Coughlin, The Town
Lionel Logue, The King's Speech
2009 (82nd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Col. Hans Landa, Inglourious Basterds
Francois Pienaar, Invictus
Captain Tony Stone, The Messenger
Tolstoy, The Last Station
George Harvey, The Lovely Bones
2008 (81st)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Joker, The Dark Knight
Dan White, Milk
Kirk Lazarus, Tropic Thunder
Father Brendan Flynn, Doubt
John Givings, Revolutionary Road
2007 (80th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Anton Chigurh, No Country for Old Men
Gust Avrakotos, Charlie Wilson's War
Ron Franz, Into the Wild
Arthur Edens, Michael Clayton
2006 (79th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Grandpa, Little Miss Sunshine
Ronnie J. McGorvey, Little Children
Solomon Vandy, Blood Diamond
James 'Thunder' Early, Dreamgirls
Dignam, The Departed
2005 (78th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Bob Barnes, Syriana
Officer Ryan, Crash
Joe Gould, Cinderella Man
Jack Twist, Brokeback Mountain
Richie Cusack, A History of Violence
2004 (77th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris, Million Dollar Baby
Senator Ralph Owen Brewster, The Aviator
Max, Collateral
Larry, Closer
2003 (76th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dave Boyle, Mystic River
Shelly Kaplow, The Cooler
Jack Jordan, 21 Grams
Mateo, In America
Katsumoto, The Last Samurai
2002 (75th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
John Laroche, Adaptation
John Rooney, Road to Perdition
Amos Hart, Chicago
Frank Abagnale, Catch Me If You Can
2001 (74th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2000 (73rd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Javier Rodriguez, Traffic
President Jackson Evans, The Contender
Max Schreck, Shadow of the Vampire
Ed Masry, Erin Brockovich
Commodus, Gladiator
1999 (72nd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dr. Wilbur Larch, The Cider House Rules
Frank T.J. Mackey, Magnolia
John Coffey, The Green Mile
Dickie Greenleaf, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
1998 (71st)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Glen Whitehouse, Affliction
Jerome Facher, A Civil Action
Christof, The Truman Show
Philip Henslowe, Shakespeare in Love
1997 (70th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sean McGuire, Good Will Hunting
Max Cherry, Jackie Brown
John Quincy Adams, Amistad
Simon Bishop, As Good as It Gets
Jack Horner, Boogie Nights
1996 (69th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Rod Tidwell, Jerry Maguire
Jerry Lundegaard, Fargo
Peter Helfgott, Shine
Aaron Stampler, Primal Fear
Byron De La Beckwith, Ghosts of Mississippi
1995 (68th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1994 (67th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood
Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
Mark Van Doren, Quiz Show
Lieutenant Dan, Forrest Gump
1993 (66th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Samuel Gerard, The Fugitive
Arnie Grape, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Amon Goeth, Schindler's List
Mitch Leary, In the Line of Fire
Giuseppe Conlon, In the Name of the Father
1992 (65th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1991 (64th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1990 (63rd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Tommy DeVito, Good Fellas
Vincent Mancini, The Godfather, Part III
Kicking Bird, Dances With Wolves
Big Boy Caprice, Dick Tracy
1989 (62nd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Trip, Glory
Boolie Werthan, Driving Miss Daisy
McKenzie, A Dry White Season
Judah Rosenthal, Crimes and Misdemeanors
1988 (61st)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1987 (60th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Jim Malone, The Untouchables
Aaron Altman, Broadcast News
Fast Black, Street Smart
Cosmo Castorini, Moonstruck
Steve Biko, Cry Freedom
1986 (59th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1985 (58th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1984 (57th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dith Pran, The Killing Fields
Sgt. Waters, A Soldier's Story
Mr. Will, Places in the Heart
The Sixth Earl of Greystoke, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1983 (56th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Garrett Breedlove, Terms of Endearment
Col. Erhardt, To Be or Not to Be
Sam Burns, Terms of Endearment
Chuck Yeager, The Right Stuff
Marsh Turner, Cross Creek
1982 (55th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sgt. Emil Foley, An Officer and a Gentleman
The Governor, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Roberta Muldoon, The World According to Garp
Edward Concannon, The Verdict
1981 (54th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Hobson, Arthur
Jimmy Perry, Only When I Laugh
Sam Mussabini, Chariots of Fire
Eugene O'Neill, Reds
Coalhouse Walker, Jr., Ragtime
1980 (53rd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Conrad Jarrett, Ordinary People
Dr. Berger, Ordinary People
Ben Meechum, The Great Santini
Joey LaMotta, Raging Bull
Howard Hughes, Melvin and Howard
1979 (52nd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Benjamin Rand, Being There
Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
Dyer, The Rose
Billy Kramer, Kramer vs. Kramer
Henry Dailey, The Black Stallion
1978 (51st)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Captain Bob Hyde, Coming Home
Max Corkle, Heaven Can Wait
1977 (50th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dashiell Hammett, Julia
Yuri Kopeikine, The Turning Point
Alan Strang, Equus
Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi, Star Wars
Johann, Julia
1976 (49th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Ben Bradlee, All the President's Men
Arthur Jensen, Network
Mickey, Rocky
Szell, Marathon Man
Paulie, Rocky
1975 (48th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1974 (47th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Vito Corleone, The Godfather Part II
Harlee Claiborne, The Towering Inferno
Lightfoot, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Frankie Pentangeli, The Godfather Part II
Hyman Roth, The Godfather Part II
1973 (46th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Professor Kingsfield, The Paper Chase
Dutch Schnell, Bang the Drum Slowly
Phil Greene, Save the Tiger
Father Damian Karras, The Exorcist
Meadows, The Last Detail
1972 (45th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mr. Corcoran, The Heartbreak Kid
Sonny Corleone, The Godfather
Tom Hagen, The Godfather
Michael Corleone, The Godfather
1971 (44th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sam the Lion, The Last Picture Show
Duane Jackson, The Last Picture Show
Joe Ben Stamper, Sometimes a Great Notion
Buddy Russo, The French Connection
1970 (43rd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Michael, Ryan's Daughter
Frank Vecchio, Lovers and Other Strangers
Old Lodge Skins, Little Big Man
Gene Garrison, I Never Sang for My Father
Phil Cavilleri, Love Story
1969 (42nd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Ned McCaslin, The Reivers
Ted Henderson, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
George Hanson, Easy Rider
Cardinal Wolsey, Anne of the Thousand Days
1968 (41st)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1967 (40th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dragline, Cool Hand Luke
Victor Franko, The Dirty Dozen
Buck Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde
Monsignor Ryan, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
C.W. Moss, Bonnie and Clyde
1966 (39th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Willie Gingrich, The Fortune Cookie
Po-Han, The Sand Pebbles
James Leamington, Georgy Girl
King Henry VIII, A Man for All Seasons
1965 (38th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Arnold Burns, A Thousand Clowns
Pasha Antipov/Strelnikoff, Doctor Zhivago
Glocken, Ship of Fools
Iago, Othello
1964 (37th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Arthur Simpson, Topkapi
King Louis VII of France, Becket
Alfred P. Doolittle, My Fair Lady
Senator Raymond Clark, Seven Days in May
Art Hockstader, The Best Man
1963 (36th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Homer Bannon, Hud
Ben Brown, Twilight of Honor
Corp. Jim Tompkins, Captain Newman, M.D.
Squire Western, Tom Jones
Cardinal Glennon, The Cardinal
1962 (35th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Tom 'Boss' Finley, Sweet Bird of Youth
Edwin Flagg, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Feto Gomez, Birdman of Alcatraz
Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish, Lawrence of Arabia
Billy Budd, Billy Budd
1961 (34th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Bernardo, West Side Story
Rudolph Petersen, Judgment at Nuremberg
Joy Boy, Pocketful of Miracles
Minnesota Fats, The Hustler
Bert Gordon, The Hustler
1960 (33rd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1959 (32nd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sheik Ilderim, Ben-Hur
Parnell McCarthy, Anatomy of a Murder
Claude Dancer, Anatomy of a Murder
Chester Gwynn, The Young Philadelphians
Mr. Dussell, The Diary of Anne Frank
1958 (31st)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Rufus Hannassey, The Big Country
Sheriff Max Muller, The Defiant Ones
Fyodor Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov
Frank Hirsh, Some Came Running
Dr. Hugo Pine, Teacher's Pet
1957 (30th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Joe Kelly, Sayonara
Major Alessandro Rinaldi, A Farewell to Arms
Lucas Cross, Peyton Place
Norman Page, Peyton Place
1956 (29th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1955 (28th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1954 (27th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Oscar Muldoon, The Barefoot Contessa
Johnny Friendly, On the Waterfront
Father Barry, On the Waterfront
Charles Malloy, On the Waterfront
Captain DeVriess, The Caine Mutiny
1953 (26th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Angelo Maggio, From Here to Eternity
Irving Radovich, Roman Holiday
Joey Starrett, Shane
Wilson, Shane
Stosh/'Animal', Stalag 17
1952 (25th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Eufemio Zapata, Viva Zapata!
Philip Ashley, My Cousin Rachel
Zeb Callaway, The Big Sky
Red Will Danaher, The Quiet Man
Lester Blaine, Sudden Fear
1951 (24th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1950 (23rd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Addison De Witt, All about Eve
Cochise, Broken Arrow
Skipper Miller, Mister 880
Dr. Erwin Riedenschneider, The Asphalt Jungle
Max Von Mayerling, Sunset Blvd.
1949 (22nd)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Major Stovall, Twelve O'Clock High
Jack Burden, All the King's Men
Connie Kelly, Champion
Dr. Austin Sloper, The Heiress
Kinnie, Battleground
1948 (21st)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1947 (20th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Kris Kringle, Miracle on 34th Street
Pancho, Ride the Pink Horse
Montgomery, Crossfire
Tommy Udo, Kiss of Death
1946 (19th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Homer Parrish, The Best Years of Our Lives
Alexander Gow, The Green Years
Steve Martin, The Jolson Story
Alexander Sebastian, Notorious
Elliott Templeton, The Razor's Edge
1945 (18th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Johnny Nolan, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Dr. Alex Brulov, Spellbound
Morgan Evans, The Corn Is Green
Lieutenant Walker, G. I. Joe
Charlie Martini, A Medal for Benny
1944 (17th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Father Fitzgibbon, Going My Way
Paul Roeder, The Seventh Cross
Job Skeffington, Mr. Skeffington
Waldo Lydecker, Laura
Colonel Smollett, Since You Went Away
1943 (16th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Benjamin Dingle, The More the Merrier
Dean Peyramale, The Song of Bernadette
Giuseppe, Sahara
Captain Louis Renault, Casablanca
1942 (15th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Jeff Hartnett, Johnny Eager
Smacksie Randall, Wake Island
Jerry Cohan, Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Pirate, Tortilla Flat
Mr. Ballard, Mrs. Miniver
1941 (14th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mr. Morgan, How Green Was My Valley
Pastor Posier Pile, Sergeant York
John P. Merrick, The Devil and Miss Jones
Max Corkle, Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Kaspar Gutman, The Maltese Falcon
1940 (13th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Judge Roy Bean, The Westerner
Van Meer, Foreign Correspondent
Joe, the Foreman, They Knew What They Wanted
Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, The Great Dictator
Howard Joyce, The Letter
1939 (12th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Dr. Josiah Boone, Stagecoach
Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg, Juarez
President of the Senate, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Sergeant Markoff, Beau Geste
Senator Joseph Paine, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1938 (11th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Peter Goodwin, Kentucky
Mickey Borden, Four Daughters
Regis, Algiers
King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette
Louis XI, If I Were King
1937 (10th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, The Life of Emile Zola
Daniel Leeson, The Awful Truth
Doctor Kersaint, The Hurricane
Chang, Lost Horizon
Cosmo Topper, Topper
1936 (9th)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Swan Bostrom, Come and Get It
Carlo, My Man Godfrey
Amos Dodd, Pigskin Parade
Tybalt, Romeo and Juliet
General Yang, The General Died at Dawn
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1936-present