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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Nominees

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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  • Romeo and Juliet

    1

  • Come and Get It

    2

  • The General Died at Dawn

    3

  • My Man Godfrey

    4

  • Pigskin Parade

    5

  • The Life of Emile Zola

    6

  • The Awful Truth

    7

  • Lost Horizon

    8

  • The Hurricane

    9

  • Topper

    10

  • Four Daughters

    11

  • Algiers

    12

  • If I Were King

    13

  • Kentucky

    14

  • Marie Antoinette

    15

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    16

  • Stagecoach

    17

  • Beau Geste

    18

  • Juarez

    19

  • Foreign Correspondent

    20

  • The Great Dictator

    21

  • The Letter

    22

  • They Knew What They Wanted

    23

  • The Westerner

    24

  • How Green Was My Valley

    25

  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan

    26

  • The Maltese Falcon

    27

  • Sergeant York

    28

  • The Devil and Miss Jones

    29

  • Mrs. Miniver

    30

  • Wake Island

    31

  • Yankee Doodle Dandy

    32

  • Johnny Eager

    33

  • Tortilla Flat

    34

  • Casablanca

    35

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls

    36

  • The More the Merrier

    37

  • The Song of Bernadette

    38

  • Sahara

    39

  • Going My Way

    40

  • Since You Went Away

    41

  • Laura

    42

  • Mr. Skeffington

    43

  • The Seventh Cross

    44

  • Spellbound

    45

  • The Corn Is Green

    46

  • Story of G.I. Joe

    47

  • A Medal for Benny

    48

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    49

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    50

  • The Razor's Edge

    51

  • The Green Years

    52

  • The Jolson Story

    53

  • Notorious

    54

  • Crossfire

    55

  • Miracle on 34th Street

    56

  • The Farmer's Daughter

    57

  • Kiss of Death

    58

  • Ride the Pink Horse

    59

  • Johnny Belinda

    60

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    61

  • I Remember Mama

    62

  • Joan of Arc

    63

  • The Luck of the Irish

    64

  • All the King's Men

    65

  • Battleground

    66

  • The Heiress

    67

  • Twelve O'Clock High

    68

  • Champion

    69

  • All About Eve

    70

  • Sunset Boulevard

    71

  • The Asphalt Jungle

    72

  • Broken Arrow

    73

  • Mister 880

    74

  • Quo Vadis

    75

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    76

  • Come Fill the Cup

    77

  • Death of a Salesman

    78

  • The Quiet Man

    79

  • The Big Sky

    80

  • My Cousin Rachel

    81

  • Sudden Fear

    82

  • Viva Zapata!

    83

  • From Here to Eternity

    84

  • Roman Holiday

    85

  • Shane

    86

  • Stalag 17

    87

  • On the Waterfront

    88

  • The Caine Mutiny

    89

  • The Barefoot Contessa

    90

  • Marty

    91

  • Mister Roberts

    92

  • Picnic

    93

  • Rebel Without a Cause

    94

  • Trial

    95

  • Friendly Persuasion

    96

  • The Bold and the Brave

    97

  • Bus Stop

    98

  • Lust for Life

    99

  • Written on the Wind

    100