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
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
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
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
1998 Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan
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
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
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 Gazzo - The Godfather Part II
1951 Leo Genn - Quo Vadis
1970 Dan George - Little Big 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 - Star Wars
1988 Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit
1947 Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street
1950 Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880

H

1967 Gene Hackman - Bonnie and Clyde
1970 Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father
1992 Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
1995 Edward Harris - Apollo 13
1998 Edward 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
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
1973 John Houseman - The Paper Chase
1952 Arthur Hunnicut - The Big Sky
1978 John Hurt - Midnight Express
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 - Tucker: The Man and His Dream
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 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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
1956 Don Murray - Bus Stop

N

1943 J. Naish - Sahara
1945 J. 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 Edmund O'Brien - Seven Days in May
1955 Arthur O'Connell - Picnic (movie)
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
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

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
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