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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that 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,[1] when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.[2]

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

The Best Supporting Actor award has been presented a total of 88 times, to 79 actors. The first winner was Walter Brennan for his role in Come and Get It. The most recent winner is Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer.[3] The record for most wins is three, held by Brennan–who won every other year within a succession of the first five years. Seven other actors have won twice. Brennan is also tied for receiving the most nominations in the category (with four altogether) along with Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, and Mark Ruffalo.

(1939) -- Harry Carey Sr. and Claude Rains

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

(1951) -- Leo Genn and Peter Ustinov

Quo Vadis

(1953) -- Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance

Shane

(1954) -- Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger

On the Waterfront

(1957) -- Arthur Kennedy and Russ Tamblyn

Peyton Place

(1959)-- Arthur O'Connell and George C. Scott

Anatomy of a Murder

(1961) -- Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott

The Hustler

(1967) -- Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard

Bonnie and Clyde

(1971) -- Jeff Bridges and Ben Johnson

The Last Picture Show

(1972) -- James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino

The Godfather

(1974) -- Robert De Niro, Michael V. Gazzo, and Lee Strasberg

The Godfather Part II

(1976) -- Burgess Meredith and Burt Young

Rocky

(1977) -- Jason Robards and Maximilian Schell

Julia

(1980) -- Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton

Ordinary People

(1983) -- John Lithgow and Jack Nicholson

Terms of Endearment

(1986) -- Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe

Platoon

(1991) -- Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley

Bugsy

(2017) -- Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

(2019) -- Al Pacino and Joe Pesci

The Irishman

(2020)[d] -- Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield

Judas and the Black Messiah

(2021) -- Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee

The Power of the Dog

(2022) -- Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan

The Banshees of Inisherin

All Academy Award acting nominees

List of awards for supporting actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

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Reel Winners: Movie Award Trivia

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New York

Levy, Emanuel (2003), All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards, , United States: Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-82641-452-6

New York

Thise, Mark (2008), , New York, United States: Limelight Editions, ISBN 978-0-87910-351-4

Hollywood Winners & Losers A to Z

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Oscars.org

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The Academy Awards Database

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