Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

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Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

HONORS

1937 Walter Brennan (for Come and Get It)

1938 Joseph Schildkraut (for The Life of Emile Zola)

1939 Walter Brennan (for Kentucky)

1940 Thomas Mitchell (for Stagecoach)

1941 Walter Brennan (for The Westerner)

1942 Donald Crisp (for How Green Was My Valley)

1943 Van Heflin (for Johnny Eager)

1944 Charles Coburn (for The More the Merrier)

1945 Barry Fitzgerald (for Going My Way)

1946 James Dunn (for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

1947 Harold Russell (for The Best Years of Our Lives)

1948 Edmund Gwenn (for Miracle on 34th Street)

1949 Walter Huston (for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

1950 Dean Jagger (for Twelve O'Clock High)

1951 George Sanders (for All About Eve)

1952 Karl Malden (for A Streetcar Named Desire)

1953 Anthony Quinn (for Viva Zapata!)

1954 Frank Sinatra (for From Here to Eternity)

1955 Edmond O'Brien (for The Barefoot Contessa)

1956 Jack Lemmon (for Mister Roberts)

1957 Anthony Quinn (for Lust for Life)

1958 Red Buttons (for Sayonara)

1959 Burl Ives (for The Big Country)

1960 Hugh Griffith (for Ben-Hur)

1961 Peter Ustinov (for Spartacus)

1962 George Chakiris (for West Side Story)

1963 Ed Begley, Sr. (for Sweet Bird of Youth)

1964 Melvyn Douglas (for Hud)

1965 Peter Ustinov (for Topkapi)

1966 Martin Balsam (for A Thousand Clowns)

1967 Walter Matthau (for The Fortune Cookie)

1968 George Kennedy (for Cool Hand Luke)

1969 Jack Albertson (for The Subject Was Roses)

1970 Gig Young (for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)

1971 John Mills (for Ryan's Daughter)

1972 Ben Johnson (for The Last Picture Show)

1973 Joel Grey (for Cabaret)

1974 John Houseman (for The Paper Chase)

1975 Robert De Niro (for The Godfather Part II)

1976 George Burns (for The Sunshine Boys)

1977 Jason Robards (for All the President's Men)

1978 Jason Robards (for Julia)

1979 Christopher Walken (for The Deer Hunter)

1980 Melvyn Douglas (for Being There)

1981 Timothy Hutton (for Oridnary People)

1982 John Gielgud (for Arthur)

1983 Lou Gossett, Jr. (for An Officer and a Gentleman)

1984 Jack Nicholson (for Terms of Endearment)

1985 Haing S. Ngor (for The Killing Fields)

1986 Don Ameche (for Cocoon)

1987 Michael Caine (for Hannah and Her Sisters)

1988 Sean Connery (for The Untouchables)

1989 Kevin Kline (for A Fish Called Wanda)

1990 Denzel Washington (for Glory)

1991 Joe Pesci (for Good Fellas)

1992 Jack Palance (for City Slickers)

1993 Gene Hackman (for Unforgiven)

1994 Tommy Lee Jones (for The Fugitive)

1995 Martin Landau (for Ed Wood)

1996 Kevin Spacey (for The Usual Suspects)

1997 Cuba Gooding, Jr. (for Jerry Maguire)

1998 Robin Williams (for Good Will Hunting)

1999 James Coburn (for Affliction)

2000 Michael Caine (for The Cider House Rules)

2001 Benicio Del Toro (for Traffic)

2002 Jim Broadbent (for Iris)

2003 Chris Cooper (for Adaptation)

2004 Tim Robbins (for Mystic River)

2005 Morgan Freeman (for Million Dollar Baby)

2006 George Clooney (for Syriana)

2007 Alan Arkin (for Little Miss Sunshine)

2008 Javier Bardem (for No Country for Old Men)

2009 Heath Ledger (for The Dark Knight)

2010 Christoph Waltz (for Inglourious Basterds)

2011 Christian Bale (for The Fighter)

2012 Christopher Plummer (for Beginning)

2013 Christoph Waltz (for Django Unchained)

2014 Jared Leto (for Dallas Buyers Club)

2015 J. K. Simmons (for Whiplash)

2016 Mark Rylance (for Bridge of Spies)

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