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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees. For a list sorted by actor, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees. For a list sorted by movie title, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films).The trophy for the award was originally a plaque.
1928 to Present
| Year | Supporting Actor | Picture |
| 1936 | Walter Brennan | Come and Get It |
| 1937 | Joseph Schildkraut | The Life of Emile Zola |
| 1938 | Walter Brennan | Kentucky |
| 1939 | Thomas Mitchell | Stagecoach |
| 1940 | Walter Brennan | The Westerner |
| 1941 | Donald Crisp | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1942 | Van Heflin | Johnny Eager |
| 1943 | Charles Coburn | The More the Merrier |
| 1944 | Barry Fitzgerald | Going My Way |
| 1945 | James Dunn | A Tree Grows In Brooklyn |
| 1946 | Harold Russell | The Best Years Of Our Lives |
| 1947 | Edmund Gwenn | Miracle on 34th Street |
| 1948 | Walter Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 1949 | Dean Jagger | Twelve O'Clock High |
| 1950 | George Sanders | All About Eve |
| 1951 | Karl Malden | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 1952 | Anthony Quinn | Viva Zapata! |
| 1953 | Frank Sinatra | From Here to Eternity |
| 1954 | Edmond O'Brien | The Barefoot Contessa |
| 1955 | Jack Lemmon | Mister Roberts |
| 1956 | Anthony Quinn | Lust for Life |
| 1957 | Red Buttons | Sayonara |
| 1958 | Burl Ives | The Big Country |
| 1959 | Hugh Griffith | Ben-Hur |
| 1960 | Peter Ustinov | Spartacus |
| 1961 | George Chakiris | West Side Story |
| 1962 | Ed Begley | Sweet Bird of Youth |
| 1963 | Melvyn Douglas | Hud |
| 1964 | Peter Ustinov | Topkapi |
| 1965 | Martin Balsam | A Thousand Clowns |
| 1966 | Walter Matthau | The Fortune Cookie |
| 1967 | George Kennedy | Cool Hand Luke |
| 1968 | Jack Albertson | The Subject Was Roses |
| 1969 | Gig Young | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| 1970 | John Mills | Ryan's Daughter |
| 1971 | Ben Johnson | The Last Picture Show |
| 1972 | Joel Grey | Cabaret |
| 1973 | John Houseman | The Paper Chase |
| 1974 | Robert De Niro | The Godfather Part II |
| 1975 | George Burns | The Sunshine Boys |
| 1976 | Jason Robards | All the President's Men |
| 1977 | Jason Robards | Julia |
| 1978 | Christopher Walken | The Deer Hunter |
| 1979 | Melvyn Douglas | Being There |
| 1980 | Timothy Hutton | Ordinary People |
| 1981 | John Gielgud | Arthur |
| 1982 | Louis Gossett, Jr. | An Officer and A Gentleman |
| 1983 | Jack Nicholson | Terms of Endearment |
| 1984 | Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields |
| 1985 | Don Ameche | Cocoon |
| 1986 | Michael Caine | Hannah and Her Sisters |
| 1987 | Sean Connery | The Untouchables |
| 1988 | Kevin Kline | A Fish Called Wanda |
| 1989 | Denzel Washington | Glory |
| 1990 | Joe Pesci | Goodfellas |
| 1991 | Jack Palance | City Slickers |
| 1992 | Gene Hackman | Unforgiven |
| 1993 | Tommy Lee Jones | The Fugitive |
| 1994 | Martin Landau | Ed Wood |
| 1995 | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects |
| 1996 | Cuba Gooding, Jr. | Jerry Maguire |
| 1997 | Robin Williams | Good Will Hunting |
| 1998 | James Coburn | Affliction |
| 1999 | Michael Caine | The Cider House Rules |
| 2000 | Benicio Del Toro | Traffic |
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent | Iris |
| 2002 | Chris Cooper | Adaptation |
| 2003 | Tim Robbins | Mystic River |
| 2004 | Morgan Freeman | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2005 | George Clooney | Syriana |
| 2006 | Alan Arkin | Little Miss Sunshine |
| 2007 | Javier Bardem | No Country for Old Men |
| 2008 | Heath Ledger | The Dark Knight |
