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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, introduced in 1937 at the 9th Academy Awards, is presented annually for the best achievement in acting by a supporting actor in a film from the previous year.

The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actress winner. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette, supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards, when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.

Sorted chronologically by awards year. Winners in BOLD. Acceptance speech linked in Notes (where available).

UPDATED: May 2026

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AWARD RECORDS:
Most Awards: Walter Brennan (3)
Most Nominations: Walter Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, & Mark Ruffalo (4)
Most Nominations Without a Win: Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, & Mark Ruffalo (4)

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  • Come and Get It

    1

  • The Life of Emile Zola

    2

  • Kentucky

    3

  • Stagecoach

    4

  • The Westerner

    5

  • How Green Was My Valley

    6

  • Johnny Eager

    7

  • The More the Merrier

    8

  • Going My Way

    9

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    10

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    11

  • Miracle on 34th Street

    12

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    13

  • Twelve O'Clock High

    14

  • All About Eve

    15

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    16

  • Viva Zapata!

    17

  • From Here to Eternity

    18

  • The Barefoot Contessa

    19

  • Mister Roberts

    20

  • Lust for Life

    21

  • Sayonara

    22

  • The Big Country

    23

  • Ben-Hur

    24

  • Spartacus

    25

  • West Side Story

    26

  • Sweet Bird of Youth

    27

  • Hud

    28

  • Topkapi

    29

  • A Thousand Clowns

    30

  • The Fortune Cookie

    31

  • Cool Hand Luke

    32

  • The Subject Was Roses

    33

  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

    34

  • Ryan's Daughter

    35

  • The Last Picture Show

    36

  • Cabaret

    37

  • The Paper Chase

    38

  • The Godfather Part II

    39

  • The Sunshine Boys

    40

  • All the President's Men

    41

  • Julia

    42

  • The Deer Hunter

    43

  • Being There

    44

  • Ordinary People

    45

  • Arthur

    46

  • An Officer and a Gentleman

    47

  • Terms of Endearment

    48

  • The Killing Fields

    49

  • Cocoon

    50

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    51

  • The Untouchables

    52

  • A Fish Called Wanda

    53

  • Glory

    54

  • GoodFellas

    55

  • City Slickers

    56

  • Unforgiven

    57

  • The Fugitive

    58

  • Ed Wood

    59

  • The Usual Suspects

    60

  • Jerry Maguire

    61

  • Good Will Hunting

    62

  • Affliction

    63

  • The Cider House Rules

    64

  • Traffic

    65

  • Iris

    66

  • Adaptation.

    67

  • Mystic River

    68

  • Million Dollar Baby

    69

  • Syriana

    70

  • Little Miss Sunshine

    71

  • No Country for Old Men

    72

  • The Dark Knight

    73

  • Inglourious Basterds

    74

  • The Fighter

    75

  • Beginners

    76

  • Django Unchained

    77

  • Dallas Buyers Club

    78

  • Whiplash

    79

  • Bridge of Spies

    80

  • Moonlight

    81

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    82

  • Green Book

    83

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    84

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    85

  • CODA

    86

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    87

  • Oppenheimer

    88

  • A Real Pain

    89

  • One Battle After Another

    90