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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 | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
First awarded | 1937 |
Most recent winner | Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (2024) |
Most awards | Walter Brennan (3) |
Most nominations | Walter Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, and Mark Ruffalo (4) |
Website | oscars |
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.
Nominees are currently determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.[4]
In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year.[5] For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31.[6] For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.[6] Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.[6]
‡ | Indicates the winner |
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† | Indicates a posthumous winner |
† | Indicates a posthumous nominee |
§ | Indicates actor who refused the nomination |
Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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1936 (9th) |
Walter Brennan ‡ | Swan Bostrom | Come and Get It | [7] |
Mischa Auer | Carlo | My Man Godfrey | ||
Stuart Erwin | Amos Dodd | Pigskin Parade | ||
Basil Rathbone | Tybalt | Romeo and Juliet | ||
Akim Tamiroff | General Yang | The General Died at Dawn | ||
1937 (10th) |
Joseph Schildkraut ‡ | Captain Alfred Dreyfus | The Life of Emile Zola | [8] |
Ralph Bellamy | Dan Leeson | The Awful Truth | ||
Thomas Mitchell | Dr. Kersaint | The Hurricane | ||
H. B. Warner | Chang | Lost Horizon | ||
Roland Young | Cosmo Topper | Topper | ||
1938 (11th) |
Walter Brennan ‡ | Peter Goodwin | Kentucky | [9] |
John Garfield | Mickey Borden | Four Daughters | ||
Gene Lockhart | Regis | Algiers | ||
Robert Morley | King Louis XVI | Marie Antoinette | ||
Basil Rathbone | King Louis XI | If I Were King | ||
1939 (12th) |
Thomas Mitchell ‡ | Dr. Josiah Boone | Stagecoach | [10] |
Brian Aherne | Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg | Juarez | ||
Harry Carey Sr. | President of the Senate | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | ||
Brian Donlevy | Sgt. Markoff | Beau Geste | ||
Claude Rains | Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | ||
The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actor awards:
The following individuals received three or more Best Supporting Actor nominations:
Record | Actor | Film | Age (in years) | Ref. |
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Oldest winner | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | 82 | [99] |
Oldest nominee | All the Money in the World | 88 | [99] | |
Youngest winner | Timothy Hutton | Ordinary People | 20 | [99] |
Youngest nominee | Justin Henry | Kramer vs. Kramer | 8 | [99] |
There have been 22 instances in which films have produced more than one nominee within this category. All resulted in two nominations, with the exceptions of On the Waterfront (1954); The Godfather (1972); and The Godfather Part II (1974), which each obtained three.
Winners are in bold.
Thus far, this is the only instance of the same character producing two nominated performances within this particular same category.
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