Nominees and winners of the Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (bold face indicates winner):

• 2007
  • Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
  • Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
  • Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
• 2006
  • Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
  • Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
  • Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
  • Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
  • Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
• 2005
  • George Clooney - Syriana
  • Matt Dillon - Crash
  • Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
  • Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
  • William Hurt - A History of Violence
• 2004
  • Alan Alda - The Aviator
  • Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
  • Jamie Foxx - Collateral
  • Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
  • Clive Owen - Closer
• 2003
  • Alec Baldwin - The Cooler
  • Benicio Del Toro - 21 Grams
  • Djimon Hounsou - In America
  • Tim Robbins - Mystic River
  • Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai
• 2002
  • Chris Cooper - Adaptation
  • Ed Harris - The Hours
  • Paul Newman - Road to Perdition
  • John C. Reilly - Chicago
  • Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can
• 2001
  • Jim Broadbent - Iris
  • Ethan Hawke - Training Day
  • Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
  • Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Jon Voight - Ali
• 2000
  • Jeff Bridges - The Contender
  • Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire
  • Benicio Del Toro- Traffic
  • Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich
  • Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator
• 1999
  • Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules
  • Tom Cruise - Magnolia
  • Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile
  • Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
• 1998
  • James Coburn - Affliction
  • Robert Duvall - A Civil Action
  • Ed Harris - The Truman Show
  • Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare in Love
  • Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan
• 1997
  • Robert Forster - Jackie Brown
  • Anthony Hopkins - Amistad
  • Greg Kinnear - As Good As It Gets
  • Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
  • Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
• 1996
  • Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire
  • William H. Macy - Fargo
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl - Shine
  • Edward Norton - Primal Fear
  • James Woods - Ghosts of Mississippi
• 1995
  • James Cromwell - Babe
  • Ed Harris - Apollo 13
  • Brad Pitt - 12 Monkeys
  • Tim Roth - Rob Roy
  • Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
• 1994
  • Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
  • Martin Landau - Ed Wood
  • Chazz Palminteri - Bullets over Broadway
  • Paul Scofield - Quiz Show
  • Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump
• 1993
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List
  • Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
  • John Malkovich - In the Line of Fire
  • Pete Postlethwaite - In the Name of the Father
• 1992
  • Jaye Davidson - The Crying Game
  • Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
  • Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men
  • Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross
  • David Paymer - Mr. Saturday Night
• 1991
  • Tommy Lee Jones - JFK
  • Harvey Keitel - Bugsy
  • Ben Kingsley - Bugsy
  • Michael Lerner - Barton Fink
  • Jack Palance - City Slickers
• 1990
  • Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion
  • Andy Garcia - The Godfather, Part III
  • Graham Greene (act) - Dances With Wolves
  • Al Pacino - Dick Tracy
  • Joe Pesci - Good Fellas
• 1989
  • Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing
  • Dan Aykroyd - Driving Miss Daisy
  • Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season
  • Martin Landau - Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Denzel Washington - Glory
• 1988
  • Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit
  • Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
  • Martin Landau - Tucker The Man and His Dream
  • River Phoenix - Running on Empty
  • Dean Stockwell - Married to the Mob
• 1987
  • Albert Brooks - Broadcast News
  • Sean Connery - The Untouchables
  • Morgan Freeman - Street Smart
  • Vincent Gardenia - Moonstruck
  • Denzel Washington - Cry Freedom
• 1986
  • Tom Berenger - Platoon
  • Willem Dafoe - Platoon
  • Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Denholm Elliott - A Room with a View
  • Dennis Hopper - Hoosiers
• 1985
  • Don Ameche - Cocoon
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of Africa
  • William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor
  • Robert Loggia - Jagged Edge
  • Eric Roberts - Runaway Train
• 1984
  • Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story
  • John Malkovich - Places in the Heart
  • Noriyuki Pat Morita - The Karate Kid
  • Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
  • Ralph Richardson - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• 1983
  • John Lithgow - Terms of Endearment
  • Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
  • Charles Durning - To Be or Not To Be (1983)
  • Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff
  • Rip Torn - Cross Creek
• 1982
  • Charles Durning - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
  • Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman
  • John Lithgow - The World According to Garp
  • James Mason - The Verdict
  • Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria
• 1981
  • James Coco - Only When I Laugh
  • John Gielgud - Arthur
  • Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire
  • Jack Nicholson - Reds
  • Howard E. Rollins, Jr. - Ragtime
• 1980
  • Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People
  • Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
  • Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini
  • Joe Pesci - Raging Bull
  • Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard
• 1979
  • Melvyn Douglas - Being There
  • Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
  • Frederic Forrest - The Rose
  • Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Mickey Rooney - The Black Stallion
• 1978
  • Bruce Dern - Coming Home
  • Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman
  • John Hurt - Midnight Express
  • Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
  • Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
• 1977
  • Jason Robards - Julia
  • Maximilian Schell - Julia
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point
  • Peter Firth - Equus
  • Alec Guinness - Star Wars
• 1976
  • Burgess Meredith - Rocky
  • Burt Young - Rocky
  • Ned Beatty - Network
  • Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
  • Jason Robards - All the President's Men
• 1975
  • George Burns - The Sunshine Boys
  • Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust
  • Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon
  • Jack Warden - Shampoo
• 1974
  • Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II
  • Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II
  • Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II
  • Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno
  • Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• 1973
  • Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly
  • Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger
  • John Houseman - The Paper Chase
  • Jason Miller - The Exorcist
  • Randy Quaid - The Last Detail
• 1972
  • James Caan - The Godfather
  • Robert Duvall - The Godfather
  • Al Pacino - The Godfather
  • Eddie Albert - The Heartbreak Kid
  • Joel Grey - Cabaret
• 1971
  • Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show
  • Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
  • Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof
  • Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes a Great Notion
  • Roy Scheider - The French Connection
• 1970
  • Richard Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers
  • Chief Dan George - Little Big Man
  • Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father
  • John Marley - Love Story
  • John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
• 1969
  • Rupert Crosse - The Reivers
  • Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  • Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider
  • Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days
  • Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• 1968
  • Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses
  • Seymour Cassel - Faces
  • Daniel Massey - Star!
  • Jack Wild - Oliver!
  • Gene Wilder - The Producers
• 1967
  • John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen
  • Gene Hackman - Bonnie and Clyde
  • Cecil Kellaway - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke
  • Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde
• 1966
  • Mako The - Sand Pebbles
  • James Mason - Georgy Girl
  • Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie
  • George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons
• 1965
  • Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns
  • Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix
  • Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago
  • Michael Dunn - Ship of Fools
  • Frank Finlay - Othello
• 1964
  • John Gielgud - Becket
  • Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady
  • Edmond O'Brien - Seven Days in May
  • Lee Tracy - The Best Man
  • Peter Ustinov - Topkapi
• 1963
  • Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor
  • Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D.
  • Melvyn Douglas - Hud
  • Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones
  • John Huston - The Cardinal
• 1962
  • Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Victor Buono - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Telly Savalas - Birdman of Alcatraz
  • Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia
  • Terence Stamp - Billy Budd
• 1961
  • Jackie Gleason - The Hustler
  • George C. Scott - The Hustler
  • George Chakiris - West Side Story
  • Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles
• 1960
  • Peter Falk - Murder, Inc.
  • Jack Kruschen - The Apartment
  • Sal Mineo - Exodus
  • Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
  • Chill Wills - The Alamo
• 1959
  • Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder
  • George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder
  • Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur
  • Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians
  • Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank
• 1958
  • Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones
  • Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
  • Burl Ives - The Big Country
  • Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running
  • Gig Young - Teacher's Pet
• 1957
  • Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place
  • Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place
  • Red Buttons - Sayonara
  • Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms (1957)
  • Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai
• 1956
  • Don Murray - Bus Stop
  • Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion
  • Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life
  • Mickey Rooney - The Bold and the Brave
  • Robert Stack - Written on the Wind
• 1955
  • Arthur Kennedy - Trial
  • Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
  • Joe Mantell - Marty
  • Sal Mineo - Rebel without a Cause
  • Arthur O'Connell - Picnic
• 1954
  • Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront
  • Karl Malden - On the Waterfront
  • Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront
  • Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa
  • Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny
• 1953
  • Brandon De Wilde - Shane
  • Jack Palance - Shane
  • Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday
  • Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity
  • Robert Strauss - Stalag 17
• 1952
  • Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel
  • Arthur Hunnicutt - The Big Sky
  • Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man
  • Jack Palance - Sudden Fear
  • Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!
• 1951
  • Leo Genn - Quo Vadis
  • Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis
  • Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Salesman
  • Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Gig Young - Come Fill the Cup
• 1950
  • Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow
  • Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880
  • Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle
  • George Sanders - All about Eve
  • Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Blvd.
• 1949
  • John Ireland - All the King's Men
  • Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High
  • Arthur Kennedy - Champion
  • Ralph Richardson - The Heiress
  • James Whitmore - Battleground
• 1948
  • Charles Bickford - Johnny Belinda
  • José Ferrer - Joan of Arc
  • Oscar Homolka - I Remember Mama
  • Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Cecil Kellaway - The Luck of the Irish
• 1947
  • Charles Bickford - The Farmer's Daughter
  • Thomas Gomez - Ride the Pink Horse
  • Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street
  • Robert Ryan - Crossfire
  • Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death
• 1946
  • Charles Coburn - The Green Years
  • William Demarest - The Jolson Story
  • Claude Rains - Notorious
  • Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge
• 1945
  • Michael Chekhov - Spellbound
  • John Dall - The Corn Is Green
  • James Dunn - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Robert Mitchum - G. I. Joe
  • J. Carrol Naish - A Medal for Benny
• 1944
  • Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross
  • Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
  • Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington
  • Clifton Webb - Laura
  • Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away
• 1943
  • Charles Bickford - The Song of Bernadette
  • Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier
  • J. Carrol Naish - Sahara
  • Claude Rains - Casablanca
  • Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls
• 1942
  • William Bendix - Wake Island
  • Van Heflin - Johnny Eager
  • Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat
  • Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver
• 1941
  • Walter Brennan - Sergeant York
  • Charles Coburn - The Devil and Miss Jones
  • Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley
  • James Gleason - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  • Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon
• 1940
  • Albert Basserman - Foreign Correspondent
  • Walter Brennan - The Westerner
  • William Gargan - They Knew What They Wanted
  • Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator
  • James Stephenson - The Letter (1940)
• 1939
  • Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Brian Aherne - Juarez
  • Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste
  • Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach
• 1938
  • Walter Brennan - Kentucky
  • John Garfield - Four Daughters
  • Gene Lockhart - Algiers
  • Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette
  • Basil Rathbone - If I Were King
• 1937
  • Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth
  • Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane
  • Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola
  • H. B. Warner - [Lost Horizon
  • Roland Young - Topper
• 1936
  • Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey
  • Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
  • Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade
  • Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet (1936)
  • Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn