Best Supporting Actor Performances I've Seen

  1. 1943- Akim Tamiroff- For Whom the Bell Tolls
  2. 1944- Barry Fitzgerald- Going My Way
  3. 1945- J. Carrol Naish- A Medal for Benny
  4. 1946- Clifton Webb- The Razor's Edge
  5. 1947- Edmund Gwenn- Miracle on 34th Street
  6. 1948- Walter Huston- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  7. 1949- James Whitmore- Battleground
  8. 1950- Edmund Gwenn- Mister 880
  9. 1951- Peter Ustinov- Quo Vadis
  10. 1952- Millard Mitchell- My Six Convicts
  11. 1953- Frank Sinatra- From Here to Eternity
  12. 1954- Edmond O'Brien- The Barefoot Contessa
  13. 1955- Arthur Kennedy- Trial
  14. 1956- Earl Holliman- The Rainmaker
  15. 1957- Red Buttons- Sayonara
  16. 1958- Burl Ives- The Big Country
  17. 1959- Stephen Boyd- Ben-Hur
  18. 1960- Sal Mineo- Exodus
  19. 1961- George Chakiris- West Side Story
  20. 1962- Omar Sharif- Lawrence of Arabia
  21. 1963- John Huston- The Cardinal
  22. 1964- Edmond O'Brien- Seven Days in May
  23. 1965- Oskar Werner- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
  24. 1966- Richard Attenborough- The Sand Pebbles
  25. 1967- Richard Attenborough- Doctor Dolittle
  26. 1968- Daniel Massey- Star!
  27. 1969- Gig Young- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  28. 1970- John Mills- Ryan's Daughter
  29. 1971- Ben Johnson- The Last Picture Show
  30. 1972- Joel Grey- Cabaret
  31. 1973- John Houseman- The Paper Chase
  32. 1974- Fred Astaire- The Towering Inferno
  33. 1975- Richard Benjamin- The Sunshine Boys
  34. 1976- Laurence Olivier- Marathon Man
  35. 1977- Peter Firth- Equus
  36. 1978- John Hurt- Midnight Express
  37. 1979- Robert Duvall- Apocalypse Now
  38. 1980- Timothy Hutton- Ordinary People
  39. 1981- John Gielgud- Arthur
  40. 1982- Lou Gossett Jr.- An Officer and a Gentleman
  41. 1983- Jack Nicholson- Terms of Endearment
  42. 1984- Haing S. Ngor- The Killing Fields
  43. 1985- Klaus Maria Brandauer- Out of Africa
  44. 1986- Tom Berenger- Platoon
  45. 1987- Sean Connery- The Untouchables
  46. 1988- Martin Landau- Tucker: The Man and His Dream
  47. 1989- Denzel Washington- Glory
  48. 1990- Bruce Davison- Longtime Companion
  49. 1991- Jack Palance- City Slickers
  50. 1992- Gene Hackman- Unforgiven
  51. 1993- Tommy Lee Jones- The Fugitive
  52. 1994- Martin Landau- Ed Wood
  53. 1995- Brad Pitt- Twelve Monkeys
  54. 1996- Edward Norton- Primal Fear
  55. 1997- Burt Reynolds- Boogie Nights
  56. 1998- Ed Harris- The Truman Show
  57. 1999- Tom Cruise- Magnolia
  58. 2000- Benicio Del Toro- Traffic
  59. 2001- Jim Broadbent- Iris
  60. 2002- Chris Cooper- Adaptation
  61. 2003- Tim Robbins- Mystic River
  62. 2004- Clive Owen- Closer
  63. 2005- George Clooney- Syriana
  64. 2006- Eddie Murphy- Dreamgirls
  65. 2007- Javier Bardem- No Country for Old Men
  66. 2008- Heath Ledger- The Dark Knight