Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

This gallery contains a complete collection of all Academy Award winners in the category of Best Supporting Actor. All winning film roles are included as Wikipedia article links in the captions for each actor, along with a brief account of any additional nominations in the category they may have received, or other relevant information.

1930s

1936 and 1938ː Walter Brennan was the inaugural winner for his work in Come and Get It. Two years later he won for Kentucky, and would win one final time in 1940.
1937: Joseph Schildkraut won for his portrayal of Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola.
1939: Thomas Mitchell won for his role in Stagecoach.

1940s

1940: Walter Brennan won his third and final award for portraying Roy Bean in The Westerner.
1941ː Donald Crisp won for How Green Was My Valley.
1942ː Van Heflin won for his role in Johnny Eager.
1943ː Charles Coburn won for his role in The More the Merrier, having been previously nominated in 1941. He would obtain one final nomination in 1946.
1944ː Barry Fitzgerald won for Going My Way. He's the only actor to be nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the for the same performance.^[1]
1945ː James Dunn won for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
1946: Harold Russell won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Best Years of Our Lives.
1947: Edmund Gwenn won for Miracle on 34th Street. He'd be nominated in the category again three years later.
1948ː Walter Huston won for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. He was previously nominated in 1942.
1949ː Dean Jagger won for his role in Twelve O'Clock High.

1950s

1950: George Sanders won Best Supporting Actor for All About Eve.
1951: Karl Malden won for his work in the film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, and obtained another nomination in 1954.
1952 and 1956ː Anthony Quinn is the first Latino to win an acting Oscar. He first won for playing Eufemio Zapata in Viva Zapata!, and four years later for portraying Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life.
1953: Frank Sinatra won for From Here to Eternity.
1954: Edmond O'Brien won for his role in The Barefoot Contessa, and was nominated again in 1964.
1955: Jack Lemmon won for Mister Roberts.
1957: Red Buttons won the award for his role in Sayonara.
1958: Burl Ives won for his work in The Big Country.
1959: Hugh Griffith won for Ben-Hur, and was nominated again in 1963.

1960s

1960 and 1964ː Peter Ustinov won twice. First for Spartacus, and then for Topkapi. He was additionally nominated in 1951.
1961: George Chakiris won for his role in West Side Story.
1962: Ed Begley won for Sweet Bird of Youth, his only nomination and win.
1963: Melvyn Douglas first won the Oscar for his role in Hud. He'd go on to win again in 1979.
1965 Martin Balsam won for his work in A Thousand Clowns.
1966: Walter Matthau won his only Oscar in the category for his performance in The Fortune Cookie.
1967: George Kennedy won for Cool Hand Luke.
1968: Jack Albertson won for his role in The Subject Was Roses.
1969: Gig Young won for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? He was previously nominated in 1951 and 1958.

1970s

1970: John Mills won for Ryan's Daughter.
1971: Ben Johnson won for his work in The Last Picture Show.
1972: Joel Grey won for his work in the film adaptation of Cabaret.
1973: John Houseman won for The Paper Chase.
1974: Robert De Niro won for portraying Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II. He'd receive two more nominations, in 2012 and 2023
1975: George Burns won for The Sunshine Boys, his only nomination and win.
1976 and 1977: Jason Robards won two years consecutively, for All the President's Men and Julia. He received one final nomination in 1980.
1978: Christopher Walken won for The Deer Hunter and was nominated again in 2002.
1979: Melvyn Douglas won his second and final Oscar for Being There.

1980s

1980: Timothy Hutton won Ordinary People at age 20, becoming the category's youngest winner.
1981: John Gielgud won for his role in Arthur. He's the category's first out LGBTQ+ winner, and was previously nominated in 1964.
1982: Louis Gossett Jr. is the category's first black winner. He won for An Officer and a Gentleman.
1983: Jack Nicholson won for his work in Terms of Endearment. He was previously nominated in 1969 and 1981, and would score one final nomination in 1992.
1984: Haing S. Ngor won for The Killing Fields, becoming the first actor of Asian descent to win the award.
1985: Don Ameche won for Cocoon.
1986ː Michael Caine first won for Hannah and Her Sisters. He'd win the award again in 1999.
1987: Sean Connery won for his work in The Untouchables.
1988ː Kevin Kline won for his work in A Fish Called Wanda.
1989: Denzel Washington won for his role in Glory, having been previously nominated in 1987.

1990s

1990: Joe Pesci won for GoodFellas. He was nominated in 1980, and would be nominated again in 2019.
1991: Jack Palance won for City Slickers, having been nominated in 1952 and 1953.
1992: Gene Hackman won for his work in Unforgiven. Prior to winning, he'd already been nominated twice: in 1967 and 1970.
1993: Tommy Lee Jones won for The Fugitive, having been nominated two years prior. He'd be nominated in the category again in 2012.
1994: Martin Landau won for his portrayal of Béla Lugosi in Ed Wood. He was previously nominated in 1988 and 1989.
1995: Kevin Spacey won for playing Keyser Söze in The Usual Suspects.
1996: Cuba Gooding Jr. won for Jerry Maguire.
1997: Robin Williams won for his performance in Good Will Hunting.
1998ː James Coburn won for Affliction, his only nomination and win.
1999ː Michael Caine won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Cider House Rules.

2000s

2000: Benicio del Toro won for Traffic. It was the first Spanish-language winning performance.
2001: Jim Broadbent won for portraying writer John Bayley in Iris.
2002: Chris Cooper won for Adaptation.
2003: Tim Robbins won for his work in Mystic River.
2004: Morgan Freeman won for Million Dollar Baby, having been previously nominated in 1987.
2005: George Clooney won for Syriana.
2006: Alan Arkin won for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine. He'd be nominated in the category again in 2012.
2007: Javier Bardem won for No Country for Old Men.
2008: Heath Ledger won for his portrayal of The Joker in The Dark Knight. He's the first actor to win posthumously in the category, and for playing a comic book character.
2009: Christoph Waltz won his first Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Inglourious Basterds. He'd win again three years later.

2010s

2010: Christian Bale won for portraying Dicky Eklund in The Fighter. He'd score another nomination in 2015.
2011: Christopher Plummer is the oldest actor to receive a nomination in any acting category, having been first nominated in 2009. His win for Beginners at age 82, made him the category's oldest winner. He'd be again up for Supporting Actor in 2017.
2012: Christoph Waltz won the award a second time for Django Unchained.
2013: Jared Leto won for Dallas Buyers Club.
2014: J.K. Simmons won for Whiplash, and would be nominated again in 2021.
2015: Mark Rylance won for playing Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies.
2016 and 2018: Mahershala Ali won for Moonlight and Green Book.
2017: Sam Rockwell won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and received another nomination two years later.
2019: Brad Pitt won for his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He was previously nominated in 1995.