List of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (by actor)

This is a list of all actors nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (which presents a list sorted by year), sorted by actor. Winners are indicated in bold. Also see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films), which presents the same information sorted by movie name.

A

* 1963 Nick Adams - "Twilight of Honor"
* 2007 Casey Affleck - "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
* 1939 Brian Aherne - "Juarez"
* 1989 Danny Aiello - "Do the Right Thing"
* 1953 Eddie Albert - "Roman Holiday"
* 1972 Eddie Albert - "The Heartbreak Kid"
* 1968 Jack Albertson - "The Subject Was Roses"
* 2004 Alan Alda, "The Aviator"
* 1985 Don Ameche - "Cocoon"
* 2006 Alan Arkin - "Little Miss Sunshine"
* 1974 Fred Astaire - "The Towering Inferno"
* 1936 Mischa Auer - "My Man Godfrey"
* 1989 Dan Aykroyd - "Driving Miss Daisy"

B

* 2003 Alec Baldwin, "The Cooler"
* 1965 Martin Balsam - "A Thousand Clowns"
* 1965 Ian Bannen - "The Flight of the Phoenix"
* 2007 Javier Bardem - "No Country for Old Men"
* 1977 Mikhail Baryshnikov - "The Turning Point"
* 1940 Albert Basserman - "Foreign Correspondent"
* 1976 Ned Beatty - "Network"
* 1962 Ed Begley - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
* 1937 Ralph Bellamy - "The Awful Truth"
* 1942 William Bendix - "Wake Island"
* 1986 Tom Berenger - "Platoon"
* 1943 Charles Bickford - "The Song of Bernadette"
* 1947 Charles Bickford - "The Farmer's Daughter"
* 1948 Charles Bickford - "Johnny Belinda"
* 1958 Theodore Bikel - "The Defiant Ones"
* 1985 Klaus Brandauer - "Out of Africa"
* 1989 Marlon Brando - "A Dry White Season"
* 1936 Walter Brennan - "Come and Get It"
* 1938 Walter Brennan - "Kentucky"
* 1940 Walter Brennan - "The Westerner"
* 1941 Walter Brennan - "Sergeant York"
* 1971 Jeff Bridges - "The Last Picture Show"
* 1974 Jeff Bridges - "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"
* 2000 Jeff Bridges - "The Contender"
* 2001 Jim Broadbent - "Iris"
* 1987 Albert Brooks - "Broadcast News"
* 1962 Victor Buono - "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
* 1975 George Burns - "The Sunshine Boys"
* 1952 Richard Burton - "My Cousin Rachel"
* 1957 Red Buttons - "Sayonara"

C

* 1972 James Caan - "The Godfather"
* 1984 Adolph Caesar - "A Soldier's Story"
* 1986 Michael Caine - "Hannah and Her Sisters"
* 1999 Michael Caine - "The Cider House Rules"
* 1939 Harry Carey - "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
* 1967 John Cassavetes - "The Dirty Dozen"
* 1968 Seymour Cassel - "Faces"
* 1970 Richard S. Castellano - "Lovers and Other Strangers"
* 1961 George Chakiris - "West Side Story"
* 1950 Jeff Chandler - "Broken Arrow"
* 1945 Michael Chekhov - "Spellbound"
* 2004 Thomas Haden Church, "Sideways"
* 1961 Montgomery Clift - "Judgment at Nuremberg"
* 2005 George Clooney - "Syriana"
* 1954 Lee J. Cobb - "On the Waterfront"
* 1958 Lee J. Cobb - "The Brothers Karamazov"
* 1941 Charles Coburn - "The Devil and Miss Jones"
* 1943 Charles Coburn - "The More the Merrier"
* 1946 Charles Coburn - "The Green Years"
* 1998 James Coburn - "Affliction"
* 1981 James Coco - "Only When I Laugh"
* 1987 Sean Connery - "The Untouchables"
* 2002 Chris Cooper - "Adaptation."
* 1965 Tom Courtenay - "Doctor Zhivago"
* 1941 Donald Crisp - "How Green Was My Valley"
* 1995 James Cromwell - "Babe"
* 1944 Hume Cronyn - "The Seventh Cross"
* 1969 Rupert Crosse - "The Reivers"
* 1999 Tom Cruise - "Magnolia"

D

* 1986 Willem Dafoe - "Platoon"
* 2000 Willem Dafoe - "Shadow of the Vampire"
* 1945 John Dall - "The Corn Is Green"
* 1963 Bobby Darin - "Captain Newman, M.D."
* 1990 Bruce Davison - "Longtime Companion"
* 1992 Jaye Davidson - "The Crying Game"
* 1974 Robert De Niro - "The Godfather Part II"
* 1957 Vittorio De Sica - "A Farewell to Arms"
* 1953 Brandon de Wilde - "Shane"
* 2000 Benicio del Toro - "Traffic"
* 2003 Benicio del Toro, "21 Grams"
* 1946 William Demarest - "The Jolson Story"
* 1978 Bruce Dern - "Coming Home"
* 1993 Leonardo DiCaprio - "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"
* 2005 Matt Dillon - "Crash"
* 1939 Brian Donlevy - "Beau Geste"
* 1963 Melvyn Douglas - "Hud"
* 1979 Melvyn Douglas - "Being There"
* 1975 Brad Dourif - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
* 1999 Michael Clarke Duncan - "The Green Mile"
* 1945 James Dunn - "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"
* 1965 Michael Dunn - "Ship of Fools"
* 1982 Charles Durning - "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"
* 1983 Charles Durning - "To Be or Not to Be"
* 1972 Robert Duvall - "The Godfather"
* 1979 Robert Duvall - "Apocalypse Now"
* 1998 Robert Duvall - "A Civil Action"

E

* 1986 Denholm Elliott - "A Room with a View"
* 1936 Stuart Erwin - "Pigskin Parade"

F

* 1960 Peter Falk - "Murder, Inc."
* 1961 Peter Falk - "Pocketful of Miracles"
* 1978 Richard Farnsworth - "Comes a Horseman"
* 1948 José Ferrer - "Joan of Arc"
* 1993 Ralph Fiennes - "Schindler's List"
* 1965 Frank Finlay - "Othello"
* 2000 Albert Finney - "Erin Brockovich"
* 1977 Peter Firth - "Equus"
* 1944 Barry Fitzgerald - "Going My Way"
* 1979 Frederic Forrest - "The Rose"
* 1997 Robert Forster - "Jackie Brown"
* 2004 Jamie Foxx, "Collateral"
* 1987 Morgan Freeman - "Street Smart"
* 2004 Morgan Freeman, "Million Dollar Baby"
* 1971 Leonard Frey - "Fiddler on the Roof"

G

* 1990 Andy Garcia - "The Godfather Part III"
* 1973 Vincent Gardenia - "Bang the Drum Slowly"
* 1987 Vincent Gardenia - "Moonstruck"
* 1938 John Garfield - "Four Daughters"
* 1940 William Gargan - "They Knew What They Wanted"
* 1974 Michael V. Gazzo - "The Godfather Part II"
* 1951 Leo Genn - "Quo Vadis"
* 1970 Dan George - "Little Big Man"
* 2005 Paul Giamatti - "Cinderella Man"
* 1964 John Gielgud - "Becket"
* 1981 John Gielgud - "Arthur"
* 1973 Jack Gilford - "Save the Tiger"
* 1961 Jackie Gleason - "The Hustler"
* 1941 James Gleason - "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"
* 1947 Thomas Gomez - "Ride the Pink Horse"
* 1996 Cuba Gooding, Jr. - "Jerry Maguire"
* 1982 Louis Gossett, Jr. - "An Officer and A Gentleman"
* 1969 Elliott Gould - "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
* 1990 Graham Greene - "Dances with Wolves"
* 1941 Sydney Greenstreet - "The Maltese Falcon"
* 1972 Joel Grey - "Cabaret"
* 1959 Hugh Griffith - "Ben-Hur"
* 1963 Hugh Griffith - "Tom Jones"
* 1977 Alec Guinness - ""
* 1988 Alec Guinness - "Little Dorrit"
* 1947 Edmund Gwenn - "Miracle on 34th Street"
* 1950 Edmund Gwenn - "Mister 880"
* 2005 Jake Gyllenhaal - "Brokeback Mountain"

H

* 1967 Gene Hackman - "Bonnie and Clyde"
* 1970 Gene Hackman - "I Never Sang for My Father"
* 1992 Gene Hackman - "Unforgiven"
* 2006 Jackie Earle Haley - "Little Children"
* 1995 Ed Harris - "Apollo 13"
* 1998 Ed Harris - "The Truman Show"
* 2002 Ed Harris - "The Hours"
* 2001 Ethan Hawke - "Training Day"
* 1957 Sessue Hayakawa - "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
* 1942 Van Heflin - "Johnny Eager"
* 1979 Justin Henry - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
* 1985 William Hickey - "Prizzi's Honor"
* 1980 Judd Hirsch - "Ordinary People"
* 2007 Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Charlie Wilson's War"
* 2007 Hal Holbrook - "Into the Wild"
* 1964 Stanley Holloway - "My Fair Lady"
* 1981 Ian Holm - "Chariots of Fire"
* 1948 Oscar Homolka - "I Remember Mama"
* 1997 Anthony Hopkins - "Amistad"
* 1986 Dennis Hopper - "Hoosiers"
* 2003 Djimon Hounsou - "In America"
* 2006 Djimon Hounsou - "Blood Diamond"
* 1973 John Houseman - "The Paper Chase"
* 1952 Arthur Hunnicutt - "The Big Sky"
* 1978 John Hurt - "Midnight Express"
* 2005 William Hurt - "A History of Violence"
* 1963 John Huston - "The Cardinal"
* 1942 Walter Huston - "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
* 1948 Walter Huston - "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
* 1980 Timothy Hutton - "Ordinary People"

I

* 1949 John Ireland - "All the King's Men"
* 1958 Burl Ives - "The Big Country"
* 1966 Makoto Iwamatsu - "The Sand Pebbles"

J

* 1994 Samuel L. Jackson - "Pulp Fiction"
* 1971 Richard Jaeckel - "Sometimes a Great Notion"
* 1950 Sam Jaffe - "The Asphalt Jungle"
* 1949 Dean Jagger - "Twelve O'Clock High"
* 1971 Ben Johnson - "The Last Picture Show"
* 1991 Tommy Lee Jones - "JFK"
* 1993 Tommy Lee Jones - "The Fugitive"

K

* 1991 Harvey Keitel - "Bugsy"
* 1948 Cecil Kellaway - "The Luck of the Irish"
* 1967 Cecil Kellaway - "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
* 1949 Arthur Kennedy - "Champion"
* 1955 Arthur Kennedy - "Trial"
* 1957 Arthur Kennedy - "Peyton Place"
* 1958 Arthur Kennedy - "Some Came Running"
* 1967 George Kennedy - "Cool Hand Luke"
* 1991 Ben Kingsley - "Bugsy"
* 2001 Ben Kingsley - "Sexy Beast"
* 1997 Greg Kinnear - "As Good as It Gets"
* 1988 Kevin Kline - "A Fish Called Wanda"
* 1960 Jack Kruschen - "The Apartment"

L

* 1988 Martin Landau - ""
* 1989 Martin Landau - "Crimes and Misdemeanors"
* 1994 Martin Landau - "Ed Wood"
* 1999 Jude Law - "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
* 1955 Jack Lemmon - "Mister Roberts"
* 1991 Michael Lerner - "Barton Fink"
* 1982 John Lithgow - "The World According to Garp"
* 1983 John Lithgow - "Terms of Endearment"
* 1938 Gene Lockhart - "Algiers"
* 1985 Robert Loggia - "Jagged Edge"

M

* 1996 William H. Macy - "Fargo"
* 1951 Karl Malden - "A Streetcar Named Desire"
* 1954 Karl Malden - "On the Waterfront"
* 1984 John Malkovich - "Places in the Heart"
* 1993 John Malkovich - "In the Line of Fire"
* 1955 Joe Mantell - "Marty"
* 1970 John Marley - "Love Story"
* 1966 James Mason - "Georgy Girl"
* 1982 James Mason - "The Verdict"
* 1968 Daniel Massey - "Star!"
* 1966 Walter Matthau - "The Fortune Cookie"
* 1951 Kevin McCarthy - "Death of a Salesman"
* 2001 Ian McKellen - ""
* 1952 Victor McLaglen - "The Quiet Man"
* 1975 Burgess Meredith - "The Day of the Locust"
* 1976 Burgess Meredith - "Rocky"
* 1973 Jason Miller - "The Exorcist"
* 1970 John Mills - "Ryan's Daughter"
* 1955 Sal Mineo - "Rebel Without a Cause"
* 1960 Sal Mineo - "Exodus"
* 1937 Thomas Mitchell - "The Hurricane"
* 1939 Thomas Mitchell - "Stagecoach"
* 1945 Robert Mitchum - "The Story of G.I. Joe"
* 1942 Frank Morgan - "Tortilla Flat"
* 1984 Noriyuki Morita - "The Karate Kid"
* 1938 Robert Morley - "Marie Antoinette"
* 1996 Armin Mueller-Stahl - "Shine"
* 2006 Eddie Murphy - "Dreamgirls"
* 1956 Don Murray - "Bus Stop"

N

* 1943 J. Carroll Naish - "Sahara"
* 1945 J. Carroll Naish - "A Medal for Benny"
* 2002 Paul Newman - "Road to Perdition"
* 1984 Haing S. Ngor - "The Killing Fields"
* 1969 Jack Nicholson - "Easy Rider"
* 1981 Jack Nicholson - "Reds"
* 1983 Jack Nicholson - "Terms of Endearment"
* 1992 Jack Nicholson - "A Few Good Men"
* 1996 Edward Norton - "Primal Fear"

O

* 1954 Edmond O'Brien - "The Barefoot Contessa"
* 1964 Edmond O'Brien - "Seven Days in May"
* 1955 Arthur O'Connell - "Picnic"
* 1959 Arthur O'Connell - "Anatomy of a Murder"
* 1980 Michael O'Keefe - "The Great Santini"
* 1940 Jack Oakie - "The Great Dictator"
* 1976 Laurence Olivier - "Marathon Man"
* 1999 Haley Joel Osment - "The Sixth Sense"
* 2004 Clive Owen, "Closer"

P

* 1972 Al Pacino - "The Godfather"
* 1990 Al Pacino - "Dick Tracy"
* 1992 Al Pacino - "Glengarry Glen Ross"
* 1952 Jack Palance - "Sudden Fear"
* 1953 Jack Palance - "Shane"
* 1991 Jack Palance - "City Slickers"
* 1994 Chazz Palminteri - "Bullets Over Broadway"
* 1992 David Paymer - "Mr. Saturday Night"
* 1956 Anthony Perkins - "Friendly Persuasion"
* 1980 Joe Pesci - "Raging Bull"
* 1990 Joe Pesci - "Goodfellas"
* 2000 Joaquin Phoenix - "Gladiator"
* 1988 River Phoenix - "Running on Empty"
* 1995 Brad Pitt - "Twelve Monkeys"
* 1967 Michael J. Pollard - "Bonnie and Clyde"
* 1993 Pete Postlethwaite - "In the Name of the Father"
* 1982 Robert Preston - "Victor/Victoria"

Q

* 1973 Randy Quaid - "The Last Detail"
* 1969 Anthony Quayle - "Anne of the Thousand Days"
* 1952 Anthony Quinn - "Viva Zapata!"
* 1956 Anthony Quinn - "Lust for Life"

R

* 1939 Claude Rains - "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
* 1943 Claude Rains - "Casablanca"
* 1944 Claude Rains - "Mr. Skeffington"
* 1946 Claude Rains - "Notorious"
* 1936 Basil Rathbone - "Romeo and Juliet"
* 1938 Basil Rathbone - "If I Were King"
* 2002 John C. Reilly - "Chicago"
* 1997 Burt Reynolds - "Boogie Nights"
* 1949 Ralph Richardson - "The Heiress"
* 1984 Ralph Richardson - "Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes"
* 1976 Jason Robards - "All the President's Men"
* 1977 Jason Robards - "Julia"
* 1980 Jason Robards - "Melvin and Howard"
* 2003 Tim Robbins, "Mystic River"
* 1985 Eric Roberts - "Runaway Train"
* 1981 Howard Rollins - "Ragtime"
* 1956 Mickey Rooney - "The Bold and the Brave"
* 1979 Mickey Rooney - "The Black Stallion"
* 1995 Tim Roth - "Rob Roy"
* 1998 Geoffrey Rush - "Shakespeare in Love"
* 1946 Harold Russell - "The Best Years of Our Lives"
* 1947 Robert Ryan - "Crossfire"

S

* 1950 George Sanders - "All About Eve"
* 1975 Chris Sarandon - "Dog Day Afternoon"
* 1962 Telly Savalas - "Birdman of Alcatraz"
* 1971 Roy Scheider - "The French Connection"
* 1977 Maximilian Schell - "Julia"
* 1937 Joseph Schildkraut - "The Life of Emile Zola"
* 1994 Paul Scofield - "Quiz Show"
* 1959 George C. Scott - "Anatomy of a Murder"
* 1961 George C. Scott - "The Hustler"
* 1966 George Segal - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
* 1962 Omar Sharif - "Lawrence of Arabia"
* 1966 Robert Shaw - "A Man for All Seasons"
* 1983 Sam Shepard - "The Right Stuff"
* 1953 Frank Sinatra - "From Here to Eternity"
* 1994 Gary Sinise - "Forrest Gump"
* 1995 Kevin Spacey - "The Usual Suspects"
* 1956 Robert Stack - "Written on the Wind"
* 1962 Terence Stamp - "Billy Budd"
* 1954 Rod Steiger - "On the Waterfront"
* 1940 James Stephenson - "The Letter"
* 1988 Dean Stockwell - "Married to the Mob"
* 1974 Lee Strasberg - "The Godfather Part II"
* 1953 Robert Strauss - "Stalag 17"

T

* 1957 Russ Tamblyn - "Peyton Place"
* 1936 Akim Tamiroff - "The General Died at Dawn"
* 1943 Akim Tamiroff - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
* 1998 Billy Bob Thornton - "A Simple Plan"
* 1983 Rip Torn - "Cross Creek"
* 1964 Lee Tracy - "The Best Man"
* 1942 Henry Travers - "Mrs. Miniver"
* 1954 Tom Tully - "The Caine Mutiny"

U

* 1951 Peter Ustinov - "Quo Vadis"
* 1960 Peter Ustinov - "Spartacus"
* 1964 Peter Ustinov - "Topkapi"

V

* 1959 Robert Vaughn - "The Young Philadelphians"
* 2001 Jon Voight - "Ali"
* 1950 Erich von Stroheim - "Sunset Boulevard"

W

* 2006 Mark Wahlberg - "The Departed"
* 1978 Christopher Walken - "The Deer Hunter"
* 2002 Christopher Walken - "Catch Me If You Can"
* 1975 Jack Warden - "Shampoo"
* 1978 Jack Warden - "Heaven Can Wait"
* 1937 H. B. Warner - "Lost Horizon"
* 1987 Denzel Washington - "Cry Freedom"
* 1989 Denzel Washington - "Glory"
* 2003 Ken Watanabe - "The Last Samurai"
* 1944 Clifton Webb - "Laura"
* 1946 Clifton Webb - "The Razor's Edge"
* 1949 James Whitmore - "Battleground"
* 1947 Richard Widmark - "Kiss of Death"
* 1968 Jack Wild - "Oliver!"
* 1968 Gene Wilder - "The Producers"
* 2007 Tom Wilkinson - "Michael Clayton"
* 1997 Robin Williams - "Good Will Hunting"
* 1960 Chill Wills - "The Alamo"
* 1996 James Woods - "Ghosts of Mississippi"
* 1944 Monty Woolley - "Since You Went Away"
* 1959 Ed Wynn - "The Diary of Anne Frank"

X

Y

* 1976 Burt Young - "Rocky"
* 1951 Gig Young - "Come Fill the Cup"
* 1958 Gig Young - "Teacher's Pet"
* 1969 Gig Young - "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
* 1937 Roland Young - "Topper"

Z