Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2021 recipient: Daniel Kaluuya
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	Daniel Kaluuya Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Website	oscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actress winner.

At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of this award for his role in Come and Get It.^[1] Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded plaques instead of statuettes.^[2] Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes.^[3] Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.^[4]

Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards. Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Claude Rains, and Al Pacino were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actors. As of the 2021 ceremony, Daniel Kaluuya is the most recent winner in this category for his performance as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah.

Winners and nominees[]

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year.^[5]

Table key

	Indicates the winner
†	Indicates posthumous winner

1930s[]

Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for Come and Get It (1936). He later won for his roles in Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940).

Joseph Schildkraut won for his performance in The Life of Emile Zola (1937).

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1936 (9th)	Walter Brennan	Swan Bostrom	Come and Get It	[6]
	Mischa Auer	Carlo	My Man Godfrey
	Stuart Erwin	Amos Dodd	Pigskin Parade
	Basil Rathbone	Tybalt – Nephew to Lady Capulet	Romeo and Juliet
	Akim Tamiroff	General Yang	The General Died at Dawn
1937 (10th)	Joseph Schildkraut	Captain Alfred Dreyfus	The Life of Emile Zola	[7]
	Ralph Bellamy	Dan Leeson	The Awful Truth
	Thomas Mitchell	Dr. Kersaint	The Hurricane
	H. B. Warner	Chang	Lost Horizon
	Roland Young	Cosmo Topper	Topper
1938 (11th)	Walter Brennan	Peter Goodwin	Kentucky	[8]
	John Garfield	Mickey Borden	Four Daughters
	Gene Lockhart	Regis	Algiers
	Robert Morley	King Louis XVI	Marie Antoinette
	Basil Rathbone	King Louis XI	If I Were King
1939 (12th)	Thomas Mitchell	Dr. Josiah Boone	Stagecoach	[9]
	Brian Aherne	Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg	Juarez
	Harry Carey	President of the Senate	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
	Brian Donlevy	Sgt. Markoff	Beau Geste
	Claude Rains	Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1940s[]

Van Heflin won for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942).

Charles Coburn won for his performance in The More the Merrier (1943).

Barry Fitzgerald won for his performance in Going My Way (1944). He is the only performer to be nominated in both lead and supporting for the same role.

Edmund Gwenn won for his performance in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Walter Huston won for his performance in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1940 (13th)	Walter Brennan	Judge Roy Bean	The Westerner	[10]
	Albert Bassermann	Van Meer	Foreign Correspondent
	William Gargan	Joe	They Knew What They Wanted
	Jack Oakie	Benzino Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)	The Great Dictator
	James Stephenson	Howard Joyce	The Letter
1941 (14th)	Donald Crisp	Gwilym Morgan	How Green Was My Valley	[11]
	Walter Brennan	Pastor Rosier Pile	Sergeant York
	Charles Coburn	John P. Merrick	The Devil and Miss Jones
	James Gleason	Max Corkle	Here Comes Mr. Jordan
	Sydney Greenstreet	Kasper Gutman	The Maltese Falcon
1942 (15th)	Van Heflin	Jeff Hartnett	Johnny Eager	[12]
	William Bendix	Pvt. Aloysius "Smacksie" Randall	Wake Island
	Walter Huston	Jerry Cohan	Yankee Doodle Dandy
	Frank Morgan	The Pirate	Tortilla Flat
	Henry Travers	James Ballard	Mrs. Miniver
1943 (16th)	Charles Coburn	Benjamin Dingle	The More the Merrier	[13]
	Charles Bickford	Father Peyramale	The Song of Bernadette
	J. Carrol Naish	Giuseppe	Sahara
	Claude Rains	Capt. Louis Renault	Casablanca
	Akim Tamiroff	Pablo	For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944 (17th)	Barry Fitzgerald	Father Fitzgibbon	Going My Way	[14]
	Hume Cronyn	Paul Roeder	The Seventh Cross
	Claude Rains	Job Skeffington	Mr. Skeffington
	Clifton Webb	Waldo Lydecker	Laura
	Monty Woolley	Colonel William G. Smollett	Since You Went Away
1945 (18th)	James Dunn	Johnny Nolan	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	[15]
	Michael Chekhov	Dr. Alexander "Alex" Brulov	Spellbound
	John Dall	Morgan Evans	The Corn Is Green
	Robert Mitchum	Lt. Capt. Bill Walker	G. I. Joe
	J. Carrol Naish	Charley Martin	A Medal for Benny
1946 (19th)	Harold Russell	Homer Parrish	The Best Years of Our Lives	[16]
	Charles Coburn	Alexander Gow	The Green Years
	William Demarest	Steve Martin	The Jolson Story
	Claude Rains	Alexander Sebastian	Notorious
	Clifton Webb	Elliott Templeton	The Razor's Edge
1947 (20th)	Edmund Gwenn	Kris Kringle	Miracle on 34th Street	[17]
	Charles Bickford	Joseph Clancy	The Farmer's Daughter
	Thomas Gomez	Pancho	Ride the Pink Horse
	Robert Ryan	Montgomery	Crossfire
	Richard Widmark	Tommy Udo	Kiss of Death
1948 (21st)	Walter Huston	Howard	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	[18]
	Charles Bickford	Black McDonald	Johnny Belinda
	José Ferrer	The Dauphin – Charles VII, later King of France	Joan of Arc
	Oscar Homolka	Uncle Chris Halverson	I Remember Mama
	Cecil Kellaway	Horace (A Leprechaun)	The Luck of the Irish
1949 (22nd)	Dean Jagger	Major Harvey Stovall	Twelve O'Clock High	[19]
	John Ireland	Jack Burden	All the King's Men
	Arthur Kennedy	Connie Kelly	Champion
	Ralph Richardson	Dr. Austin Sloper	The Heiress
	James Whitmore	Sgt. Kinnie	Battleground

1950s[]

George Sanders won for his performance in All About Eve (1950).

Karl Malden won for his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Anthony Quinn won twice for his roles in Viva Zapata! (1952) and Lust for Life (1956).

Frank Sinatra won for his performance in From Here to Eternity (1953).

Jack Lemmon won for his performance in Mister Roberts (1955).

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1950 (23rd)	George Sanders	Addison DeWitt	All About Eve	[20]
	Jeff Chandler	Cochise	Broken Arrow
	Edmund Gwenn	"Skipper" Miller	Mister 880
	Sam Jaffe	Dr. Erwin Riedenschneider	The Asphalt Jungle
	Erich von Stroheim	Max von Meyerling	Sunset Boulevard
1951 (24th)	Karl Malden	Harold "Mitch" Mitchell	A Streetcar Named Desire	[21]
	Leo Genn	Petronius	Quo Vadis
	Kevin McCarthy	Biff Loman	Death of a Salesman
	Peter Ustinov	Nero	Quo Vadis
	Gig Young	Boyd Copeland	Come Fill the Cup
1952 (25th)	Anthony Quinn	Eufemio Zapata	Viva Zapata!	[22]
	Richard Burton	Philip Ashley	My Cousin Rachel
	Arthur Hunnicutt	Zeb Calloway Narrator	The Big Sky
	Victor McLaglen	Will "Red" Danaher	The Quiet Man
	Jack Palance	Lester Blaine	Sudden Fear
1953 (26th)	Frank Sinatra	Pvt. Angelo Maggio	From Here to Eternity	[23]
	Eddie Albert	Irving Radovich	Roman Holiday
	Brandon deWilde	Joey Starrett	Shane
	Jack Palance	Jack Wilson
	Robert Strauss	Sgt. Stanislas "Animal" Kasava	Stalag 17
1954 (27th)	Edmond O'Brien	Oscar Muldoon	The Barefoot Contessa	[24]
	Lee J. Cobb	Johnny Friendly	On the Waterfront
	Karl Malden	Father Barry
	Rod Steiger	Charley "The Gent" Malloy
	Tom Tully	Commander DeVriess	The Caine Mutiny
1955 (28th)	Jack Lemmon	Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver	Mister Roberts	[25]
	Arthur Kennedy	Barney Castle	Trial
	Joe Mantell	Angie	Marty
	Sal Mineo	John "Plato" Crawford	Rebel Without a Cause
	Arthur O'Connell	Howard Bevans	Picnic
1956 (29th)	Anthony Quinn	Paul Gauguin	Lust for Life	[26]
	Don Murray	Beauregard "Bo" Decker	Bus Stop
	Anthony Perkins	Josh Birdwell	Friendly Persuasion
	Mickey Rooney	Dooley	The Bold and the Brave
	Robert Stack	Kyle Hadley	Written on the Wind
1957 (30th)	Red Buttons	Airman Joe Kelly	Sayonara	[27]
	Vittorio De Sica	Major Alessandro Rinaldi	A Farewell to Arms
	Sessue Hayakawa	Colonel Saito	The Bridge on the River Kwai
	Arthur Kennedy	Lucas Cross	Peyton Place
	Russ Tamblyn	Norman Page
1958 (31st)	Burl Ives	Rufus Hannassey	The Big Country	[28]
	Theodore Bikel	Sheriff Max Muller	The Defiant Ones
	Lee J. Cobb	Fyodor Karamazov	The Brothers Karamazov
	Arthur Kennedy	Frank Hirsh	Some Came Running
	Gig Young	Dr. Hugo Pine	Teacher's Pet
1959 (32nd)	Hugh Griffith	Sheik Ilderim	Ben-Hur	[29]
	Arthur O'Connell	Parnell Emmett McCarthy	Anatomy of a Murder
	George C. Scott	Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer
	Robert Vaughn	Chester "Chet" Gwynn	The Young Philadelphians
	Ed Wynn	Albert Dussell	The Diary of Anne Frank

1960s[]

Peter Ustinov won twice for his roles in Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964).

George Chakiris won for West Side Story (1961).

Melvyn Douglas won twice for his roles in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979).

Walter Matthau won for The Fortune Cookie (1966).

George Kennedy won for Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1960 (33rd)	Peter Ustinov	Lentulus Batiatus	Spartacus	[30]
	Peter Falk	Abe "Kid Twist" Reles	Murder, Inc.
	Jack Kruschen	Dr. Dreyfuss	The Apartment
	Sal Mineo	Dov Landau	Exodus
	Chill Wills	Beekeeper	The Alamo
1961 (34th)	George Chakiris	Bernardo Nuñez	West Side Story	[31]
	Montgomery Clift	Rudolph Petersen	Judgment at Nuremberg
	Peter Falk	Joy Boy	Pocketful of Miracles
	Jackie Gleason	Minnesota Fats	The Hustler
	George C. Scott [A]	Bert Gordon
1962 (35th)	Ed Begley	Tom "Boss" Finley	Sweet Bird of Youth	[32]
	Victor Buono	Edwin Flagg	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	Telly Savalas	Feto Gomez	Birdman of Alcatraz
	Omar Sharif	Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish	Lawrence of Arabia
	Terence Stamp	Billy Budd	Billy Budd
1963 (36th)	Melvyn Douglas	Homer Bannon	Hud	[33]
	Nick Adams	Ben Brown	Twilight of Honor
	Bobby Darin	Corporal Jim Tompkins	Captain Newman, M.D.
	Hugh Griffith	Squire Western	Tom Jones
	John Huston	Cardinal Glennon	The Cardinal
1964 (37th)	Peter Ustinov	Arthur Simon Simpson	Topkapi	[34]
	John Gielgud	Louis VII of France	Becket
	Stanley Holloway	Alfred Doolittle	My Fair Lady
	Edmond O'Brien	Senator Raymond Clark	Seven Days in May
	Lee Tracy	President Art Hockstader	The Best Man
1965 (38th)	Martin Balsam	Arnold Burns	A Thousand Clowns	[35]
	Ian Bannen	"Ratbags" Crow	The Flight of the Phoenix
	Tom Courtenay	Pasha Antipov (Strelnikov)	Doctor Zhivago
	Michael Dunn	Carl Glocken	Ship of Fools
	Frank Finlay	Iago	Othello
1966 (39th)	Walter Matthau	Willie Gingrich	The Fortune Cookie	[36]
	Mako	Po-han	The Sand Pebbles
	James Mason	James Leamington	Georgy Girl
	George Segal	Nick	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
	Robert Shaw	Henry VIII of England	A Man for All Seasons
1967 (40th)	George Kennedy	Dragline	Cool Hand Luke	[37]
	John Cassavetes	Victor R. Franko	The Dirty Dozen
	Gene Hackman	Buck Barrow	Bonnie and Clyde
	Cecil Kellaway	Monsignor Mike Ryan	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
	Michael J. Pollard	C.W. Moss	Bonnie and Clyde
1968 (41st)	Jack Albertson	John Cleary	The Subject Was Roses	[38]
	Seymour Cassel	Chet	Faces
	Daniel Massey	Noël Coward	Star!
	Jack Wild	The Artful Dodger	Oliver!
	Gene Wilder	Leopold "Leo" Bloom	The Producers
1969 (42nd)	Gig Young	Rocky Graver	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	[39]
	Rupert Crosse	Ned McCaslin	The Reivers
	Elliott Gould	Ted Henderson	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
	Jack Nicholson	George Hanson	Easy Rider
	Anthony Quayle	Cardinal Wolsey	Anne of the Thousand Days

1970s[]

Joel Grey won for Cabaret (1972)^[40]

Robert De Niro won for The Godfather Part II (1974).

George Burns won for his performance in The Sunshine Boys (1975).

Jason Robards won two consecutive awards for his roles in All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977).

Christopher Walken won for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978).

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1970 (43rd)	John Mills	Michael	Ryan's Daughter	[41]
	Richard S. Castellano	Frank Vecchio	Lovers and Other Strangers
	Chief Dan George	Old Lodge Skins	Little Big Man
	Gene Hackman	Gene Garrison	I Never Sang for My Father
	John Marley	Phil Cavalleri	Love Story
1971 (44th)	Ben Johnson	Sam the Lion	The Last Picture Show	[42]
	Jeff Bridges	Duane Jackson	The Last Picture Show
	Leonard Frey	Motel Kamzoil	Fiddler on the Roof
	Richard Jaeckel	Joe Ben Stamper	Sometimes a Great Notion
	Roy Scheider	Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo	The French Connection
1972 (45th)	Joel Grey	Master of Ceremonies	Cabaret	[43]
	Eddie Albert	Mr. Corcoran	The Heartbreak Kid
	James Caan	Santino "Sonny" Corleone	The Godfather
	Robert Duvall	Tom Hagen
	Al Pacino	Michael Corleone
1973 (46th)	John Houseman	Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.	The Paper Chase	[44]
	Vincent Gardenia	Dutch Schnell	Bang the Drum Slowly
	Jack Gilford	Phil Greene	Save the Tiger
	Jason Miller	Father Damien Karras	The Exorcist
	Randy Quaid	Larry Meadows	The Last Detail
1974 (47th)	Robert De Niro	Vito Corleone	The Godfather Part II	[45]
	Fred Astaire	Harlee Claiborne	The Towering Inferno
	Jeff Bridges	Lightfoot	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
	Michael V. Gazzo	Frank Pentangeli	The Godfather Part II
	Lee Strasberg	Hyman Roth
1975 (48th)	George Burns	Al Lewis	The Sunshine Boys	[46]
	Brad Dourif	Billy Bibbit	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
	Burgess Meredith	Harry Greener	The Day of the Locust
	Chris Sarandon	Leon Shermer	Dog Day Afternoon
	Jack Warden	Lester Karpf	Shampoo
1976 (49th)	Jason Robards	Ben Bradlee	All the President's Men	[47]
	Ned Beatty	Arthur Jensen	Network
	Burgess Meredith	Mickey Goldmill	Rocky
	Laurence Olivier	Dr. Christian Szell	Marathon Man
	Burt Young	Paulie Pennino	Rocky
1977 (50th)	Jason Robards	Dashiell Hammett	Julia	[48]
	Mikhail Baryshnikov	Yuri Kopeikine	The Turning Point
	Peter Firth	Alan Strang	Equus
	Alec Guinness	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Star Wars
	Maximilian Schell	Johann	Julia
1978 (51st)	Christopher Walken	Nikonar "Nick" Chevotarevich	The Deer Hunter	[49]
	Bruce Dern	Capt. Bob Hyde	Coming Home
	Richard Farnsworth	Dodger	Comes a Horseman
	John Hurt	Max	Midnight Express
	Jack Warden	Max Corkle	Heaven Can Wait
1979 (52nd)	Melvyn Douglas	Benjamin Turnbull Rand	Being There	[50]
	Robert Duvall	Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore	Apocalypse Now
	Frederic Forrest	Houston Dyer	The Rose
	Justin Henry	Billy Kramer	Kramer vs. Kramer
	Mickey Rooney	Henry Dailey	The Black Stallion

1980s[]

Sir John Gielgud won for Arthur (1981).

Louis Gossett Jr. won for his performance in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), becoming the first black actor to win in this category.^[51]

Jack Nicholson won for Terms of Endearment (1983).

Sean Connery won for his performance in The Untouchables (1987).

Denzel Washington won for his performance in Glory (1989).

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1980 (53rd)	Timothy Hutton	Conrad Jarrett	Ordinary People	[52]
	Judd Hirsch	Dr. Tyrone C. Berger	Ordinary People
	Michael O'Keefe	Ben Meechum	The Great Santini
	Joe Pesci	Joey LaMotta	Raging Bull
	Jason Robards	Howard Hughes	Melvin and Howard
1981 (54th)	John Gielgud	Hobson	Arthur	[53]
	James Coco	Jimmy Perry	Only When I Laugh
	Ian Holm	Sam Mussabini	Chariots of Fire
	Jack Nicholson	Eugene O'Neill	Reds
	Howard Rollins	Coalhouse Walker Jr.	Ragtime
1982 (55th)	Louis Gossett Jr.	Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley	An Officer and a Gentleman	[54]
	Charles Durning	Governor	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
	John Lithgow	Roberta Muldoon	The World According to Garp
	James Mason	Ed Concannon	The Verdict
	Robert Preston	Carroll "Toddy" Todd	Victor/Victoria
1983 (56th)	Jack Nicholson	Garrett Breedlove	Terms of Endearment	[55]
	Charles Durning	Colonel Erhardt	To Be or Not to Be
	John Lithgow	Sam Burns	Terms of Endearment
	Sam Shepard	Chuck Yeager	The Right Stuff
	Rip Torn	Marsh Turner	Cross Creek
1984 (57th)	Haing S. Ngor	Dith Pran	The Killing Fields	[56]
	Adolph Caesar	Sgt. Waters	A Soldier's Story
	John Malkovich	Mr. Will	Places in the Heart
	Pat Morita	Kesuke Miyagi	The Karate Kid
	Ralph Richardson (posthumous)	The Sixth Earl of Greystoke	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1985 (58th)	Don Ameche	Arthur Selwyn	Cocoon	[57]
	Klaus Maria Brandauer	Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke	Out of Africa
	William Hickey	Don Corrado Prizzi	Prizzi's Honor
	Robert Loggia	Sam Ransom	Jagged Edge
	Eric Roberts	Buck McGeehy	Runaway Train
1986 (59th)	Michael Caine	Elliott Daniels	Hannah and Her Sisters	[58]
	Tom Berenger	Sgt. Bob Barnes	Platoon
	Willem Dafoe	Sgt. Elias Grodin
	Denholm Elliott	Mr. Emerson	A Room with a View
	Dennis Hopper	Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch	Hoosiers
1987 (60th)	Sean Connery	Jimmy Malone	The Untouchables	[59]
	Albert Brooks	Aaron Altman	Broadcast News
	Morgan Freeman	Leo "Fast Black" Smalls Jr.	Street Smart
	Vincent Gardenia	Cosmo Castorini	Moonstruck
	Denzel Washington	Steve Biko	Cry Freedom
1988 (61st)	Kevin Kline	Otto West	A Fish Called Wanda	[60]
	Alec Guinness	William Dorrit	Little Dorrit
	Martin Landau	Abe Karatz	Tucker: The Man and His Dream
	River Phoenix	Danny Pope	Running on Empty
	Dean Stockwell	Tony "The Tiger" Russo	Married to the Mob
1989 (62nd)	Denzel Washington	Pvt. Trip	Glory	[61]
	Danny Aiello	Sal Frangione	Do the Right Thing
	Dan Aykroyd	Boolie Werthan	Driving Miss Daisy
	Marlon Brando	Ian Mackenzie	A Dry White Season
	Martin Landau	Judah Rosenthal	Crimes and Misdemeanors

1990s[]

Joe Pesci won for his portrayal of Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas (1990).

Tommy Lee Jones won for his performance in The Fugitive (1993).

Martin Landau won for Ed Wood (1994)

Robin Williams won for his performance in Good Will Hunting (1997).

Michael Caine won twice for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and The Cider House Rules (1999).

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1990 (63rd)	Joe Pesci	Tommy DeVito	Goodfellas	[62]
	Bruce Davison	David	Longtime Companion
	Andy García	Vincent Mancini	The Godfather Part III
	Graham Greene	Kicking Bird	Dances with Wolves
	Al Pacino	Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice	Dick Tracy
1991 (64th)	Jack Palance	Curly Washburn	City Slickers	[63]
	Tommy Lee Jones	Clay Shaw	JFK
	Harvey Keitel	Mickey Cohen	Bugsy
	Ben Kingsley	Meyer Lansky
	Michael Lerner	Jack Lipnick	Barton Fink
1992 (65th)	Gene Hackman	Little Bill Daggett	Unforgiven	[64]
	Jaye Davidson	Dil	The Crying Game
	Jack Nicholson	Colonel Nathan R. Jessep	A Few Good Men
	Al Pacino	Richard "Ricky" Roma	Glengarry Glen Ross
	David Paymer	Stan Young	Mr. Saturday Night
1993 (66th)	Tommy Lee Jones	U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard	The Fugitive	[65]
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Arnie Grape	What's Eating Gilbert Grape
	Ralph Fiennes	Amon Göth	Schindler's List
	John Malkovich	Mitch Leary	In the Line of Fire
	Pete Postlethwaite	Giuseppe Conlon	In the Name of the Father
1994 (67th)	Martin Landau	Béla Lugosi	Ed Wood	[66]
	Samuel L. Jackson	Jules Winnfield	Pulp Fiction
	Chazz Palminteri	Cheech	Bullets over Broadway
	Paul Scofield	Mark Van Doren	Quiz Show
	Gary Sinise	Lt. Dan Taylor	Forrest Gump
1995 (68th)	Kevin Spacey	Roger "Verbal" Kint	The Usual Suspects	[67]
	James Cromwell	Farmer Arthur Hoggett	Babe
	Ed Harris	Gene Kranz	Apollo 13
	Brad Pitt	Jeffrey Goines	12 Monkeys
	Tim Roth	Archibald Cunningham	Rob Roy
1996 (69th)	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Rod Tidwell	Jerry Maguire	[68]
	William H. Macy	Jerry Lundegaard	Fargo
	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Peter Helfgott	Shine
	Edward Norton	Aaron Stampler	Primal Fear
	James Woods	Byron De La Beckwith	Ghosts of Mississippi
1997 (70th)	Robin Williams	Dr. Sean Maguire	Good Will Hunting	[69]
	Robert Forster	Max Cherry	Jackie Brown
	Anthony Hopkins	John Quincy Adams	Amistad
	Greg Kinnear	Simon Bishop	As Good as It Gets
	Burt Reynolds	Jack Horner	Boogie Nights
1998 (71st)	James Coburn	Glen Whitehouse	Affliction	[70]
	Robert Duvall	Jerome Facher	A Civil Action
	Ed Harris	Christof	The Truman Show
	Geoffrey Rush	Philip Henslowe	Shakespeare in Love
	Billy Bob Thornton	Jacob Mitchell	A Simple Plan
1999 (72nd)	Michael Caine	Dr. Wilbur Larch	The Cider House Rules	[71]
	Tom Cruise	Frank T.J. Mackey	Magnolia
	Michael Clarke Duncan	John Coffey	The Green Mile
	Jude Law	Dickie Greenleaf	The Talented Mr. Ripley
	Haley Joel Osment	Cole Sear	The Sixth Sense

2000s[]

Benicio del Toro won for Traffic (2000).

Morgan Freeman won for Million Dollar Baby (2004).

Javier Bardem won for No Country for Old Men (2007).

Heath Ledger won for The Dark Knight (2008), becoming both the first actor to win in this category posthumously and the first win for portraying a comic book character.^[72]

Christoph Waltz won twice for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012).

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

2010s[]

Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2011), the oldest winner at age 82.

J. K. Simmons won for Whiplash (2014).

Mark Rylance won for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies (2015).

Mahershala Ali won twice for Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018).

Sam Rockwell won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Brad Pitt won for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2010 (83rd)	Christian Bale	Dicky Eklund	The Fighter	[83]
	John Hawkes	Teardrop Dolly	Winter's Bone
	Jeremy Renner	James "Jem" Coughlin	The Town
	Mark Ruffalo	Paul Hatfield	The Kids Are All Right
	Geoffrey Rush	Lionel Logue	The King's Speech
2011 (84th)	Christopher Plummer	Hal Fields	Beginners	[84]
	Kenneth Branagh	Laurence Olivier	My Week with Marilyn
	Jonah Hill	Peter Brand	Moneyball
	Nick Nolte	Paddy Conlon	Warrior
	Max von Sydow	The Renter	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2012 (85th)	Christoph Waltz	Dr. King Schultz	Django Unchained	[85]
	Alan Arkin	Lester Siegel	Argo
	Robert De Niro	Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Sr.	Silver Linings Playbook
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Lancaster Dodd	The Master
	Tommy Lee Jones	Thaddeus Stevens	Lincoln
2013 (86th)	Jared Leto	Rayon	Dallas Buyers Club	[86]
	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	[87]
	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	[88]
	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	[89]
	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	[90]
	Willem Dafoe	Bobby Hicks	The Florida Project
	Woody Harrelson	Chief William "Bill" 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	[91]
	Adam Driver	Detective 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	[92]
	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

2020s[]

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2020/21 [93] (93rd)	Daniel Kaluuya	Fred Hampton	Judas and the Black Messiah	[94]
	Sacha Baron Cohen	Abbie Hoffman	The Trial of the Chicago 7
	Leslie Odom Jr.	Sam Cooke	One Night in Miami...
	Paul Raci	Joe	Sound of Metal
	Lakeith Stanfield	William "Bill" O'Neal	Judas and the Black Messiah

Multiple wins and nominations[]

Multiple portrayals of a role across different adaptations[]

Multiple nominations from the same film[]

• Harry Carey and Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Leo Genn and Peter Ustinov in Quo Vadis (1951)
• Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance in Shane (1953)
• Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger in On the Waterfront (1954)
• Arthur Kennedy and Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place (1957)
• Arthur O'Connell and George C. Scott in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott in The Hustler (1961)
• Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Jeff Bridges and Ben Johnson (winner) in The Last Picture Show (1971)
• James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972)
• Robert De Niro (winner), Michael V. Gazzo, and Lee Strasberg in The Godfather Part II (1974)
• Burgess Meredith and Burt Young in Rocky (1976)
• Jason Robards (winner) and Maximilian Schell in Julia (1977)
• Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton (winner) in Ordinary People (1980)
• John Lithgow and Jack Nicholson (winner) in Terms of Endearment (1983)
• Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe in Platoon (1986)
• Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley in Bugsy (1991)
• Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell (winner) in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
• Al Pacino and Joe Pesci in The Irishman (2019)
• Daniel Kaluuya (winner) and Lakeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)

Age superlatives[]

Diversity of nominees/winners[]

Asian nominees/winners[]

Nine actors with Asian descent and/or nationality have been nominated a total of eleven times in this category, and one actor has won this award.

• 1936 – / Akim Tamiroff for The General Died at Dawn as General Yang
• 1943 – / Akim Tamiroff for For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo (0 of 2)
• 1957 – Sessue Hayakawa for The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Saito
• 1962 – / Omar Sharif for Lawrence of Arabia as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish
• 1966 – / Mako Iwamatsu for The Sand Pebbles as Po-Han
• 1984 – // Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields as Dith Pran
• 1984 – / Pat Morita for The Karate Kid as Mr. Miyagi
• 1991 – / Ben Kingsley for Bugsy as Meyer Lansky
• 2001 – / Ben Kingsley for Sexy Beast as Don Logan (0 of 2)
• 2003 – Ken Watanabe for The Last Samurai as Lord Katsumoto
• 2016 – / Dev Patel for Lion as Saroo Brierley

Black nominees/winners[]

Eighteen black actors have been nominated a total of 22 times in this category, and six actors have won this award (with Mahershala Ali winning twice).

• 1969 – Rupert Crosse for The Reivers as Ned
• 1981 – Howard Rollins for Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
• 1982 – Louis Gossett Jr. for An Officer and a Gentleman as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
• 1984 – Adolph Caesar for A Soldier's Story as Sgt. Waters
• 1987 – Morgan Freeman for Street Smart as Fast Black
• 1987 – Denzel Washington for Cry Freedom as Steve Biko
• 1989 – Denzel Washington for Glory as Pvt. Trip (1 of 2)
• 1992 – Jaye Davidson for The Crying Game as Dil
• 1994 – Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction as Jules Winnfield
• 1996 – Cuba Gooding Jr. for Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell
• 1999 – Michael Clarke Duncan for The Green Mile as John Coffey
• 2003 – / Djimon Hounsou for In America as Mateo
• 2004 – Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby as Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris (1 of 2)
• 2004 – Jamie Foxx for Collateral as Max
• 2006 – / Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond as Solomon Vandy (0 of 2)
• 2006 – Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls as James "Thunder" Early
• 2013 – Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse
• 2016 – Mahershala Ali for Moonlight as Juan
• 2018 – Mahershala Ali for Green Book as Don Shirley (2 of 2)
• 2020 – / Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
• 2020 – Leslie Odom Jr. for One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke
• 2020 – Lakeith Stanfield for Judas and the Black Messiah as William O'Neal

Hispanic/Latin American nominees/winners[]

Seven actors of Hispanic/Latin American descent and/or nationality have been nominated a total of nine times in this category, and three actors have won this award (with Anthony Quinn winning twice).

• 1947 – / Thomas Gomez for Ride the Pink Horse as Pancho
• 1948 – José Ferrer for Joan of Arc as The Dauphin, Charles VII
• 1952 – Anthony Quinn for Viva Zapata! as Eufemio Zapata
• 1956 – Anthony Quinn for Lust for Life as Paul Gauguin (2 of 2)
• 1990 – / Andy García for The Godfather Part III as Vincent Corleone
• 2000 – Benicio del Toro for Traffic as Javier Rodriguez
• 2000 – / Joaquin Phoenix for Gladiator as Commodus
• 2003 – Benicio del Toro for 21 Grams as Jack Jordan (1 of 2)
• 2007 – Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh

Indigenous nominees[]

Two indigenous actors have been nominated in this category.

• 1970 – (Coast Salish – Indigenous Canadian) Chief Dan George for Little Big Man as Old Lodge Skins
• 1990 – (Oneida – Indigenous Canadian) Graham Greene for Dances With Wolves as Kicking Bird

Oceanic nominees/winners[]

Two Oceanic actors have been nominated a total of three times in this category, and one actor has won this award.

• 1998 – Geoffrey Rush for Shakespeare in Love as Philip Henslowe
• 2008 – Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight as The Joker †
• 2010 – Geoffrey Rush for The King's Speech as Lionel Logue (0 of 2)

LGBTQ nominees/winners[]

Eight LGBTQ actors have been nominated a total of ten times in this category, and three actors have won this award (with three gay actors having won).

• 1955 – Sal Mineo (Bisexual) for Rebel Without a Cause as John "Plato" Crawford
• 1956 – Anthony Perkins (Bisexual) for Friendly Persuasion as Josh Birdwell
• 1960 – Sal Mineo (Bisexual) for Exodus as Dov Landau (0 of 2)
• 1964 – John Gielgud (Gay) for Becket as King Louis VII of France
• 1972 – Joel Grey (Gay) for Cabaret as Master of Ceremonies
• 1981 – John Gielgud (Gay) for Arthur as Hobson (1 of 2)
• 1989 – Marlon Brando (Bisexual) for A Dry White Season as Ian McKenzie
• 1992 – Jaye Davidson (Gay) for The Crying Game as Dil
• 1995 – Kevin Spacey (Gay) for The Usual Suspects as Roger "Verbal" Kint
• 2001 – Ian McKellen (Gay) for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gandalf

Disabled nominees/winners[]

Four disabled actors have been nominated a total of five times in this category, and one actor has won this award.

• 1946 – Harold Russell (Double hand amputee) for The Best Years of Our Lives as Homer Parrish
• 1989 – Dan Aykroyd (Autism and Tourette syndrome) for Driving Miss Daisy as Boolie Werthan
• 1993 – Leonardo DiCaprio (OCD) for What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Arnie Grape
• 1997 – Anthony Hopkins (Autism) for Amistad as John Quincy Adams
• 2019 – Anthony Hopkins (Autism) for The Two Popes as Pope Benedict XVI (0 of 2)

Non-English language nominees/winners[]

Seven actors with non-English performances have been nominated a total of seven times in this category, and four actors have won this award (with Italian performances winning twice).

• 1970 – (British Sign Language) John Mills for Ryan's Daughter as Michael
• 1974 – (Italian) Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II as Vito Corleone
• 1990 – (Lakota) Graham Greene for Dances With Wolves as Kicking Bird
• 2000 – (Spanish) Benicio del Toro for Traffic as Javier Rodriguez
• 2009 – // (German/French/Italian) Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds as Standartenführer Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa
• 2013 – (Somali) Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse
• 2020 – (American Sign Language) Paul Raci for Sound of Metal as Joe

See also[]

• All Academy Award acting nominees
• List of awards for supporting actor

Notes[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Crouse, Richard (2005). Reel Winners: Movie Award Trivia. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3.
• Kinn, Gail; Piazza, Jim (2014), The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History (5 ed.), New York, United States: Workman Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-57912-986-6
• Thise, Mark (2008), Hollywood Winners & Loseres A to Z, New York, United States: Limelight Editions, ISBN 978-0-87910-351-4

External links[]

• Oscars.org (official Academy website)
• The Academy Awards Database (official website)
• Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional website)