Oscar Winners for Best Supporting Actor

The Oscars have been awarded annually since 1927 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

• Tommy Lee Jones (born 1946)

  American actor, writer and director.

  • 1993 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Fugitive
• Jack Albertson (born 1907, died 1981)

  American actor.

  • 1968 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Subject Was Roses
• Red Buttons (born 1919)

  American actor. Original name: Aaron Chwatt.

  • 1957 Academy Award winner for his performance in Sayonara
• Gig Young (born 1913, died 1978)

  American actor. Original name: Byron Elsworth Barr.

  • 1969 Academy Award winner for his performance in They Shoot Horses, Don''t They?
• Walter Brennan (born 1894, died 1974)

  American actor.

  • Three-time Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor: 1936, for Come and Get It; 1938, for Kentucky; and 1940, for The Westerner
• Charles Coburn (born 1877, died 1961)

  American actor.

  • 1943 Academy Award winner for his performance in The More the Merrier
• Donald Crisp (born 1880, died 1974)

  Scottish-born American actor.

  • 1941 Academy Award winner for his performance in How Green Was My Valley
• Melvyn Douglas (born 1901, died 1981)

  American actor.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor: 1963, for Hud; 1979, for Being There
• James Dunn (born 1905, died 1967)

  American actor.

  • 1945 Academy Award winner for his performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Barry Fitzgerald (born 1888, died 1961)

  American actor. Original name: William Joseph Shields.

  • 1944 Academy Award winner for his performance in Going My Way
• Louis Gossett, Jr. (born 1936)

  American actor and producer.

  • 1982 Academy Award winner for his performance in An Officer and a Gentleman
• Edmund Gwenn (born 1875, died 1959)

  British actor.

  • 1947 Academy Award winner for his performance in Miracle on 34th Street
• Van Heflin (born 1910, died 1971)

  American actor.

  • 1942 Academy Award winner for his performance in Johnny Eager
• Walter Huston (born 1884, died 1950)

  Canadian-born American actor. Father of director John Huston.

  • 1948 Academy Award winner for his performance in Treasure of Sierra Madre
• Dean Jagger (born 1905, died 1991)

  American actor.

  • 1949 Academy Award winner for his performance in Twelve O''Clock High
• George Kennedy (born 1925)

  American actor.

  • 1967 Academy Award winner for his performance in Cool Hand Luke
• Karl Malden (born 1914)

  American actor and director. Original name: Malden Sekulovich.

  • 1951 Academy Award winner for his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire
• Thomas E. Mitchell (born 1892, died 1962)

  American actor.

  • 1939 Academy Award winner for his performance in Stage Coach
• Robin Williams (born 1952)

  American comedian and actor.

  • 1997 Academy Award winner for his performance in Good Will Hunting
• Edmond O'Brien (born 1915, died 1985)

  American actor, director and producer.

  • 1954 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Barefoot Contessa
• Anthony Quinn (born 1916)

  Mexican-American actor, director and producer.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor: 1952, for Viva Zapata!; 1956, for Lust for Life
• Harold Russell (born 1914)

  Canadian actor.

  • 1946 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Best Years of Our Lives
• George Sanders (born 1906, died 1972)

  American actor.

  • 1950 Academy Award winner for his performance in All About Eve
• Joseph Schildkraut (born 1895, died 1964)

  Austrian actor.

  • 1937 Academy Award winner for his performance in Life of Emile Zola
• Don Ameche (born 1908, died 1993)

  American actor.

  • 1985 Academy Award winner for his performance in Cocoon
• Joel Grey (born 1932)

  American actor. Original name: Joe Katz.

  • 1972 Academy Award winner for his performance in Cabaret
• Jack Nicholson (born 1937)

  American actor.

  • 1983 Academy Award winner for his performance in Terms of Endearment
• Jack Lemmon (born 1925)

  American actor and comedian.

  • 1955 Academy Award winner for his performance in Mister Roberts
• Walter Matthau (born 1920)

  American actor and director.

  • 1966 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Fortune Cookie
• Frank Sinatra (born 1915, died 1998)

  American singer and actor.

  • 1953 Academy Award winner for his performance in From Here to Eternity
• Burl Ives (born 1909, died 1995)

  American actor and singer.

  • 1958 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Big Country
• Hugh Griffith (born 1912, died 1980)

  British actor.

  • 1959 Academy Award winner for his performance in Ben-Hur
• Peter Ustinov (born 1921)

  English actor, writer, director and producer.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor: 1960, for Spartacus; 1964, for Tokapi
• George Chakiris (born 1934)

  American actor.

  • 1961 Academy Award winner for his performance in West Side Story
• Ed Begley (born 1901, died 1970)

  American actor.

  • 1962 Academy Award winner for his performance in Sweet Bird of Youth
• Martin Balsam (born 1919, died 1996)

  American actor.

  • 1965 Academy Award winner for his performance in A Thousand Clowns
• John Mills (born 1908)

  English actor, director and producer.

  • 1970 Academy Award winner for his performance in Ryan''s Daughter
• Gene Hackman (born 1930)

  American actor.

  • 1992 Academy Award winner for his performance in Unforgiven
• John Houseman (born 1902, died 1988)

  Romanian-American actor, writer and producer.

  • 1973 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Paper Chase
• Robert De Niro (born 1943)

  American actor, director and producer.

  • 1974 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Godfather, Part II
• Jason Robards, Jr. (born 1922)

  American actor.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor: 1976, for All the President''s Men; 1977, for Julia
• Christopher Walken (born 1943)

  American actor.

  • 1978 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Deer Hunter
• Timothy Hutton (born 1960)

  American actor, director and producer.

  • 1980 Academy Award winner for his performance in Ordinary People
• John Gielgud (born 1904, died 2000)

  English actor and director.

  • 1981 Academy Award winner for his performance in Arthur
• Michael Caine (born 1933)

  British actor. Original name: Maurice Micklewhite.

  • 1986 Academy Award winner for his performance in Hannah and Her Sisters
  • 1999 Academy Award winner for The Cider House Rules
• (Thomas) Sean Connery (born 1930)

  Scottish actor and producer.

  • 1987 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Untouchables
• Kevin Kline (born 1947)

  American actor and director.

  • 1988 Academy Award winner for his performance in A Fish Called Wanda
• Joe Pesci (born 1943)

  American actor.

  • 1990 Academy Award winner for his performance in Goodfellas
• Martin Landau (born 1931)

  American actor.

  • 1994 Academy Award winner for his performance in Ed Wood
• Kevin Spacey (born 1959)

  American actor, director and producer.

  • 1995 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Usual Suspects
• Ben Johnson (born 1918, died 1996)

  American actor and writer.

  • 1971 Academy Award winner for his performance in The Last Picture Show
• James Coburn Jr (born 1928)

  American actor, director and producer

  • 1998 Academy Awards winner for playing the role of Glen in Affliction