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.

1930s

1936 Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
- Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey
- Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade
- Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet
- Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn
1937 Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola
- Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth
- Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane
- H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon
- Roland Young - Topper
1938 Walter Brennan - Kentucky
- Basil Rathbone - If I Were King
- John Garfield - Four Daughters
- Gene Lockhart - Algiers
- Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette
1939 Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach
- Brian Aherne - Juarez
- Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste
- Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1940s

1940 Walter Brennan - The Westerner
1941 Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley
1942 Van Heflin - Johnny Eager
- William Bendix - Wake Island
- Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat
- Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver

From 1943 winners received statuettes like everybody else.

1943 Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier
- Charles Bickford - The Song of Bernadette
- J.Carroll Naish - Sahara
- Claude Rains - Casablanca
- Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944 Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
- Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross
- Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington
- Clifton Webb - Laura
- Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away
1945 James Dunn - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
- Michael Chekhov - Spellbound
- John Dall - The Corn Is Green
- Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe
- J.Caroll Naish - A Medal for Benny
1946 Harold Russell - The Best Years Of Our Lives
- Charles Coburn - The Green Years
- William Demarest - The Jolson Story
- Claude Rains - Notorious
- Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge
1947 Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street
- Charles Bickford - The Farmer's Daughter
- Thomas Gomez - Ride the Pink Horse
- Robert Ryan - Crossfire
- Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death
1948 Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Charles Bickford - Johnny Belinda
- José Ferrer - Joan of Arc
- Oscar Homolka - I Remember Mama
- Cecil Kellaway - The Luck of the Irish
1949 Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High
- John Ireland - All the King's Men
- Arthur Kennedy - Champion
- Ralph Richardson - The Heiress
- James Whitmore - Battleground

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1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

See also