Academy Awards: Best actor in a supporting role

  1. 2009

  2. Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
  3. Christopher Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
  4. Matt Damon - Invictus
  5. Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
  6. Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
  7. 2008

  8. Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
  9. Josh Brolin - Milk
  10. Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
  11. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
  12. Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
  13. 2007

  14. Casey Affleck - The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
  15. Hal Holbrook - Into The Wild
  16. Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men
  17. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
  18. Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
  19. 2006

  20. Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
  21. Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
  22. Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
  23. Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
  24. Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
  25. 2005

  26. George Clooney - Syriana
  27. Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
  28. Matt Dillon - Crash
  29. Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
  30. William Hurt - A History Of Violence
  31. 2004

  32. Alan Alda - The Aviator
  33. Clive Owen - Closer
  34. Jamie Foxx - Collateral
  35. Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
  36. Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
  37. 2003

  38. Alec Baldwin - The Cooler
  39. Benicion Del Toro - 21 Grams
  40. Djimon Hounsou - In America
  41. Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai
  42. Tim Robbins - Mystic River
  43. 2002

  44. Chris Cooper - Adaptation.
  45. Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can
  46. Ed Harris - The Hours
  47. John C. Reilly - Chicago
  48. Paul Newman - Road To Perdition
  49. 2001

  50. Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
  51. Ethan Hawke - Training Day
  52. Ian McKellen - The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
  53. Jim Broadbent - Iris
  54. Jon Voight - Ali
  55. 2000

  56. Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich
  57. Benicio Del Toro - Traffic
  58. Jeff Bridges - The Contender
  59. Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator
  60. Willem Dafoe - Shadow Of The Vampire
  61. 1999

  62. Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
  63. Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley
  64. Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules
  65. Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile
  66. Tom Cruise - Magnolia
  67. 1998

  68. Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan
  69. Ed Harris - The Truman Show
  70. Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare In Love
  71. James Coburn - Affliction
  72. Robert Duvall - A Civil Action
  73. 1997

  74. Anthony Hopkins - Amistad
  75. Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
  76. Greg Kinnear - As Good As It Gets
  77. Robert Forster - Jackie Brown
  78. Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
  79. 1996

  80. Armin Mueller-Stahl - Shine
  81. Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire
  82. Edward Norton - Primal Fear
  83. James Woods - Ghosts Of Mississippi
  84. William H. Macy - Fargo
  85. 1995

  86. Brad Pitt - Twelve Monkeys
  87. Ed Harris - Apollo 13
  88. James Cromwell - Babe
  89. Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
  90. Tim Roth - Rob Roy
  91. 1994

  92. Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway
  93. Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump
  94. Martin Landau - Ed Wood
  95. Paul Scofield - Quiz Show
  96. Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
  97. 1993

  98. John Malkovich - In The Line Of Fire
  99. Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  100. Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List
  101. Pete Postlethwaite - In The Name Of The Father
  102. Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
  103. 1992

  104. Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross
  105. David Paymer - Mr. Saturday Night
  106. Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
  107. Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men
  108. Jaye Davidson - The Crying Game
  109. 1991

  110. Ben Kingsley - Bugsy
  111. Harvey Keitel - Bugsy
  112. Jack Palance - City Slickers
  113. Michael Lerner - Barton Fink
  114. Tommy Lee Jones - JFK
  115. 1990

  116. Al Pacino - Dick Tracy
  117. Andy Garcia - The Godfather: Part III
  118. Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion
  119. Graham Greene - Dances With Wolves
  120. Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
  121. 1989

  122. Dan Aykroyd - Driving Miss Daisy
  123. Danny Aiello - Do The Right Thing
  124. Denzel Washington - Glory
  125. Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season
  126. Martin Landau - Crimes And Misdemeanors
  127. 1988

  128. Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit
  129. Dean Stockwell - Married To The Mob
  130. Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
  131. Martin Landau - Tucker: A Man And His Dream
  132. River Phoenix - Running On Empty
  133. 1987

  134. Albert Brooks - Broadcast News
  135. Denzel Washington - Cry Freedom
  136. Morgan Freeman - Street Smart
  137. Sean Connery - The Untouchables
  138. Vincent Gardenia - Moonstruck
  139. 1986

  140. Denholm Elliott - A Room With A View
  141. Dennis Hopper - Hoosiers
  142. Michael Caine - Hannah And Her Sisters
  143. Tom Berenger - Platoon
  144. Willem Dafoe - Platoon
  145. 1985

  146. Don Ameche - Cocoon
  147. Eric Roberts - Runaway Train
  148. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out Of Africa
  149. Robert Loggia - Jagged Edge
  150. William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor
  151. 1984

  152. Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story
  153. Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
  154. John Malkovich - Places In The Heart
  155. Pat Morita - The Karate Kid
  156. Ralph Richardson - Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes
  157. 1983

  158. Charles Dunning - To Be Or Not To Be
  159. Jack Nicholson - Terms Of Endearment
  160. John Lithgow - Terms Of Endearment
  161. Rip Torn - Cross Creek
  162. Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff
  163. 1982

  164. Charles Dunning - The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
  165. James Mason - The Verdict
  166. John Lithgow - The World According To Garp
  167. Louis Gosset Jr. - An Officer And A Gentleman
  168. Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria
  169. 1981

  170. Howard E. Rollins Jr. - Ragtime
  171. Ian Holm - Chariots Of Fire
  172. Jack Nicholson - Reds
  173. James Coco - Only When I Laugh
  174. John Gielgud - Arthur
  175. 1980

  176. Jason Robards - Melvin And Howard
  177. Joe Pesci - Raging Bull
  178. Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People
  179. Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini
  180. Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
  181. 1979

  182. Frederic Forrest - The Rose
  183. Justin Henry - Kramer Vs. Kramer
  184. Melvyn Douglas - Being There
  185. Mickey Rooney - The Black Stallion
  186. Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
  187. 1978

  188. Bruce Dern - Coming Home
  189. Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
  190. Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait
  191. John Hurt - Midnight Express
  192. Richard Farnsworth - Comes A Horseman
  193. 1977

  194. Alec Guinness - Star Wars
  195. Jason Robards - Julia
  196. Maximilian Schell - Julia
  197. Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point
  198. Peter Firth - Equus
  199. 1976

  200. Burgess Meredith - Rocky
  201. Burt Young - Rocky
  202. Jason Robards - All The President's Men
  203. Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
  204. Ned Beatty - Network
  205. 1975

  206. Brad Dourif - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  207. Burgess Meredith - The Day Of The Locust
  208. Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon
  209. George Burns - The Sunshine Boys
  210. Jack Warden - Shampoo
  211. 1974

  212. Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno
  213. Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt And Lightfoot
  214. Lee Strasberg - The Godfather: Part II
  215. Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather: Part II
  216. Robert De Niro - The Godfather: Part II
  217. 1973

  218. Jack Gilford - Save The Tiger
  219. Jason Miller - The Exorcist
  220. John Houseman - The Paper Chase
  221. Randy Quaid - The Last Detail
  222. Vincent Gardenia - Bang The Drum Slowly
  223. 1972

  224. Al Pacino - The Godfather
  225. Eddie Albert - The Heartbreak Kid
  226. James Caan - The Godfather
  227. Joel Grey - Cabaret
  228. Robert Duvall - The Godfather
  229. 1971

  230. Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
  231. Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show
  232. Leonard Frey - Fiddler On The Roof
  233. Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes A Great Notion
  234. Roy Scheider - The French Connection
  235. 1970

  236. Chief Dan George - Little Big Man
  237. Gene Hackman - I Never Sang For My Father
  238. John Marley - Love Story
  239. John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
  240. Richard S. Castellano - Lovers And Other Strangers
  241. 1969

  242. Anthony Quayle - Anne Of The Thousand Days
  243. Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  244. Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  245. Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider
  246. Rupert Crosse - The Reivers
  247. 1968

  248. Daniel Massey - Star!
  249. Gene Wilder - The Producers
  250. Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses
  251. Jack Wild - Oliver!
  252. Seymour Cassel - Faces
  253. 1967

  254. Cecil Kellaway - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
  255. Gene Hackman - Bonnie And Clyde
  256. George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke
  257. John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen
  258. Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie And Clyde
  259. 1966

  260. George Segal - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
  261. James Mason - George Girl
  262. Mako - The Sand Pebbles
  263. Robert Shaw - A Man For All Seasons
  264. Walther Matthau - The Fortune Cookie
  265. 1965

  266. Frank Finlay - Othello
  267. Ian Bannen - The Flight Of The Phoenix
  268. Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns
  269. Michael Dunn - Ship Of Fools
  270. Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago
  271. 1964

  272. Edmond O'Brien - Seven Days In May
  273. John Gielgud - Becket
  274. Lee Tracy - The Best Man
  275. Peter Ustinov - Topkapi
  276. Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady
  277. 1963

  278. Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D.
  279. Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones
  280. John Huston - The Cardinal
  281. Melvyn Douglas - Hud
  282. Nick Adams - Twilight Of Honor
  283. 1962

  284. Ed Begley - Sweet Bird Of Youth
  285. Omar Sharif - Lawrence Of Arabia
  286. Telly Savalas - Birdman Of Alcatraz
  287. Terence Stamp - Billy Budd
  288. Victor Buono - What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
  289. 1961

  290. George Chakiris - West Side Story
  291. George C. Scott - The Hustler
  292. Jackie Gleason - The Hustler
  293. Montgomery Clift - Judgment At Nuremberg
  294. Peter Falk - Pocketful Of Miracles
  295. 1960

  296. Chill Wills - The Alamo
  297. Jack Kruschen - The Apartment
  298. Peter Falk - Murder, Inc.
  299. Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
  300. Sal Mineo - Exodus
  301. 1959

  302. Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy Of A Murder
  303. Ed Wynn - The Diary Of Anne Frank
  304. George C. Scott - Anatomy Of A Murder
  305. Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur
  306. Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians
  307. 1958

  308. Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running
  309. Burl Ives - The Big Country
  310. Gig Young - Teacher's Pet
  311. Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov
  312. Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones
  313. 1957

  314. Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place
  315. Red Buttons - Sayonara
  316. Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place
  317. Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge On The River Kwai
  318. Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell To Arms
  319. 1956

  320. Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion
  321. Anthony Quinn - Lust For Life
  322. Don Murray - Bus Stop
  323. Mickey Rooney - The Bold And The Brave
  324. Robert Stack - Written On The Wind
  325. 1955

  326. Arthur Kennedy - Trial
  327. Arthur O'Connell - Picnic
  328. Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
  329. Joe Mantell - Marty
  330. Sal Mineo - Rebel Without A Cause
  331. 1954

  332. Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa
  333. Karl Malden - On The Waterfront
  334. Lee J. Cobb - On The Waterfront
  335. Rod Steiger - On The Waterfront
  336. Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny
  337. 1953

  338. Brandon De Wilde - Shane
  339. Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday
  340. Frank Sinatra - From Here To Eternity
  341. Jack Palance - Shane
  342. Robert Strauss - Stalag 17
  343. 1952

  344. Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!
  345. Arthur Hunnicutt - The Big Sky
  346. Jack Palance - Sudden Fear
  347. Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel
  348. Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man
  349. 1951

  350. Gig Young - Come Fill The Cup
  351. Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire
  352. Kevin McCarthy - Death Of A Salesman
  353. Leo Genn - Quo Vadis
  354. Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis
  355. 1950

  356. Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880
  357. Erich Von Stroheim - Sunset Blvd.
  358. George Sanders - All About Eve
  359. Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow
  360. Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle
  361. 1949

  362. Arthur Kennedy - Champion
  363. Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High
  364. James Whitmore - Battleground
  365. John Ireland - All The King's Men
  366. Ralph Richardson - The Heiress
  367. 1948

  368. Cecil Kellaway - The Luck Of The Irish
  369. Charles Bickford - Johnny Belinda
  370. José Ferrer - Joan Of Arc
  371. Oskar Homolka - I Remember Mama
  372. Walter Huston - The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
  373. 1947

  374. Charles Bickford - The Farmer's Daughter
  375. Edmund Gwenn - Miracle On 34th Street
  376. Richard Widmark - Kiss Of Death
  377. Robert Ryan - Crossfire
  378. Thomas Gomez - Ride The Pink Horse
  379. 1946

  380. Charles Coburn - The Green Years
  381. Claude Rains - Notorious
  382. Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge
  383. Harold Russell - The Best Years Of Our Lives
  384. William Demarest - The Jolson Story
  385. 1945

  386. James Dunn - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
  387. J. Carrol Naish - A Medal For Benny
  388. John Dall - The Corn Is Green
  389. Michael Chekhov - Spellbound
  390. Robert Mitchum - The Story Of G.I. Joe
  391. 1944

  392. Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
  393. Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington
  394. Clifton Webb - Laura
  395. Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away
  396. Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross
  397. 1943

  398. Akim Tamiroff - For Whom The Bell Tolls
  399. Charles Bickford - The Song Of Bernadette
  400. Charles Coburn - The More The Merrier
  401. Claude Rains - Casablanca
  402. J. Carrol Naish - Sahara
  403. 1942

  404. Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat
  405. Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver
  406. Van Heflin - Johnny Eager
  407. Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy
  408. William Bendix - Wake Island
  409. 1941

  410. Charles Coburn - The Devil And Miss Jones
  411. Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley
  412. James Gleason - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  413. Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon
  414. Walter Brennan - Sergeant York
  415. 1940

  416. Albert Bassermann - Foreign Correspondent
  417. Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator
  418. James Stephenson - The Letter
  419. Walter Brennan - The Westerner
  420. William Gargan - They Knew What They Wanted
  421. 1939

  422. Brian Aherne - Juarez
  423. Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste
  424. Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
  425. Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
  426. Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach
  427. 1938

  428. Basil Rathbone - If I Were King
  429. Gene Lockhart - Algiers
  430. John Garfield - Four Daughters
  431. Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette
  432. Walter Brennan - Kentucky
  433. 1937

  434. H.B. Warner - Lost Horizon
  435. Joseph Schildkraut - The Life Of Emile Zola
  436. Ralph Bellamy - The Awul Truth
  437. Roland Young - Topper
  438. Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane
  439. 1936

  440. Akim Tamiroff - The General Died At Dawn
  441. Basil Rathbone - Romeo And Juliet
  442. Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey
  443. Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade
  444. Walter Brennan - Come And Get It
Author Comments: 

I was originally going to make this a Best Director awards list. But then I noticed that they are very often the same movies as the Best Picture awards.