Who Won Supporting Actor Academy Awards?
From Walter Brennan in 1937 to Robert Downey Jr in 2024, the Academy Awards have recognized great performances by actors in supporting roles throughout the years. Multiple winners of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar have included Michael Caine, Jason Robards, Anthony Quinn, and Walter Brennan.
| 2024 (96th) |
Robert Downey Jr. Oppenheimer Other Nominees: Sterling K Brown (American Fiction); Robert De Niro (Killers Of The Flower Moon); Ryan Gosling (Barbie); Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things) |
| 2023 (95th) |
Ke Huy Quan Everything Everywhere All At Once Other Nominees: Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees Of Inisherin); Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway); Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans); Barry Keoghan (The Banshees Of Inisherin) |
| 2022 (94th) |
Troy Kotsur CODA Other Nominees: Ciarán Hinds (Belfast); Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog); J. K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos); Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog) |
| 2021 (93rd) |
Daniel Kaluuya Judas And The Black Messiah Other Nominees: Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7); Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami...); Paul Raci (Sound of Metal); Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah) |
| 2020 (92nd) |
Brad Pitt Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Other Nominees: Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood); Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes); Al Pacino (The Irishman); Joe Pesci (The Irishman) |
| 2019 (91st) |
Mahershala Ali Green Book Other Nominees: Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman); Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born); Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?); Sam Rockwell (Vice) |
| Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Sam Rockwell | (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) |  |
| 2017 | Mahershala Ali | (Moonlight) |  |
| 2016 | Mark Rylance | (Bridge Of Spies) |  |
| 2015 | J.K. Simmons | (Whiplash) |  |
| 2014 | Jared Leto | (Dallas Buyers Club) |  |
| 2013 | Christoph Waltz | (Django Unchained) |  |
| 2012 | Christopher Plummer | (Beginners) |  |
| 2011 | Christian Bale | (The Fighter) |  |
| 2010 | Christoph Waltz | (Inglourious Basterds) |  |
| 2009 | Heath Ledger | (The Dark Knight) |  |
| 2008 | Javier Bardem | (No Country For Old Men) |  |
| 2007 | Alan Arkin | (Little Miss Sunshine) |  |
| 2006 | George Clooney | (Syriana) |  |
| 2005 | Morgan Freeman | (Million Dollar Baby) |  |
| 2004 | Tim Robbins | (Mystic River) |  |
| 2003 | Chris Cooper | (Adaptation) |  |
| 2002 | Jim Broadbent | (Iris) |  |
| 2001 | Benicio del Toro | (Traffic) |  |
| 2000 | Michael Caine | (The Cider House Rules) |  |
| 1999 | James Coburn | (Affliction) |  |
| 1998 | Robin Williams | (Good Will Hunting) |  |
| 1997 | Cuba Gooding, Jr. | (Jerry Maguire) |  |
| 1996 | Kevin Spacey | (The Usual Suspects) |  |
| 1995 | Martin Landau | (Ed Wood) |  |
| 1994 | Tommy Lee Jones | (The Fugitive) |  |
| 1993 | Gene Hackman | (Unforgiven) |  |
| 1992 | Jack Palance | (City Slickers) |  |
| 1991 | Joe Pesci | (Goodfellas) |  |
| 1990 | Denzel Washington | (Glory) |  |
| 1989 | Kevin Kline | (A Fish Called Wanda) |  |
| 1988 | Sean Connery | (The Untouchables) |  |
| 1987 | Michael Caine | (Hannah And Her Sisters) |  |
| 1986 | Don Ameche | (Cocoon) |  |
| 1985 | Haing S. Ngor | (The Killing Fields) |  |
| 1984 | Jack Nicholson | (Terms Of Endearment) |  |
| 1983 | Louis Gossett, Jr. | (An Officer And A Gentleman) |  |
| 1982 | John Gielgud | (Arthur) |  |
| 1981 | Timothy Hutton | (Ordinary People) |  |
| 1980 | Melvyn Douglas | (Being There) |  |
| 1979 | Christopher Walken | (The Deer Hunter) |  |
| 1978 | Jason Robards | (Julia) |  |
| 1977 | Jason Robards | (All The President's Men) |  |
| 1976 | George Burns | (The Sunshine Boys) |  |
| 1975 | Robert De Niro | (The Godfather Part II) |  |
| 1974 | John Houseman | (The Paper Chase) |  |
| 1973 | Joel Grey | (Cabaret) |  |
| 1972 | Ben Johnson | The Last Picture Show | |
| 1971 | John Mills | Ryan's Daughter | |
| 1970 | Gig Young | They Shoot Horses Don't They? | |
| 1969 | Jack Albertson | The Subject Was Roses | |
| 1968 | George Kennedy | Cool Hand Luke | |
| 1967 | Walter Matthau | The Fortune Cookie | |
| 1966 | Martin Balsam | A Thousand Clowns | |
| 1965 | Peter Ustinov | Topkapi | |
| 1964 | Melvyn Douglas | Hud | |
| 1963 | Ed Begley | Sweet Bird of Youth | |
| 1962 | George Chakiris | West Side Story |  |
| 1961 | Peter Ustinov | Spartacus | |
| 1960 | Hugh Griffith | Ben-Hur |  |
| 1959 | Burl Ives | The Big Country | |
| 1958 | Red Buttons | Sayonara | |
| 1957 | Anthony Quinn | Lust For Life | |
| 1956 | Jack Lemmon | Mister Roberts | |
| 1955 | Edmond O'Brien | The Barefoot Contessa | |
| 1954 | Frank Sinatra | From Here To Eternity | |
| 1953 | Anthony Quinn | Viva Zapata! | |
| 1952 | Karl Malden | A Streetcar Named Desire | |
| 1951 | George Sanders | All About Eve |  |
| 1950 | Dean Jagger | Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 1949 | Walter Huston | The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre | |
| 1948 | Edmund Gwenn | Miracle On 34th Street | |
| 1947 | Harold Russell | The Best Years Of Our Lives | |
| 1946 | James Dunn | A Tree Grows In Brooklyn | |
| 1945 | Barry Fitzgerald | Going My Way | |
| 1944 | Charles Coburn | The More The Merrier | |
| 1943 | Van Heflin | Johnny Eager | |
| 1942 | Donald Crisp | How Green Was My Valley | |
| 1941 | Walter Brennan | The Westerner | |
| 1940 | Thomas Mitchell | Stagecoach | |
| 1939 | Walter Brennan | Kentucky | |
| 1938 | Joseph Schildkraut | The Life Of Emile Zola | |
| 1937 | Walter Brennan | Come And Get It |