Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor

1936 ~ Walter Brennan as Swan Bostrom

NOMINEES:
Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey as Carlo
Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade as Amos Dodd
Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt - Nephew to Lady Capulet
Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn as Gen. Yang

1937 ~ Joseph Schildkraut as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus

NOMINEES:
Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth as 'Dan' Leeson
Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane as Dr. Kersaint
H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon as Chang
Roland Young - Topper as Cosmo Topper

1938 ~ Walter Brennan as Peter Goodwin

NOMINEES:
John Garfield - Four Daughters as Mickey Borden
Gene Lockhart - Algiers as Regis
Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI
Basil Rathbone - If I Were King as King Louis XI

1939 ~ Thomas Mitchell as Doc Boone

NOMINEES:
Brian Aherne - Juarez as Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg
Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as President of the Senate
Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste as Sgt. Markoff
Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine

1940 ~ Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean

NOMINEES:
Albert Basserman - Foreign Correspondent as Van Meer
William Gargan - They Knew What They Wanted as Joe
Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator as Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)
James Stephenson - The Letter as Howard Joyce

1941 ~ Donald Crisp as Mr. Morgan

NOMINEES:
Walter Brennan - Sergeant York as Pastor Rosier Pile
Charles Coburn - The Devil and Miss Jones as John P. Merrick
James Gleason - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Max Corkle
Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon as Kasper Gutman

1942 ~ Van Heflin as Jeff Hartnett

NOMINEES:
William Bendix - Wake Island as Pvt. Aloysius K. 'Smacksie' Randall
Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy as Jerry Cohan
Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat as The Pirate
Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver as Mr. Ballard

1943 ~ Charles Coburn as Benjamin Dingle

NOMINEES:
Charles Bickford - The Song of Bernadette as Father Peyramale
J. Carrol Naish - Sahara as Giuseppe
Claude Rains - Casablanca as Captain Renault
Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo

1944 ~ Barry Fitzgerald as Father Fitzgibbon

NOMINEES:
Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder
Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington as Job Skeffington
Clifton Webb - Laura as Waldo Lydecker
Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away as Colonel William G. Smollett

1945 ~ James Dunn as Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush

NOMINEES:
Michael Chekhov - Spellbound as Dr. Alexander 'Alex' Brulov
John Dall - The Corn Is Green as Morgan Evans
Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe as Lt. / Capt. Bill Walker
J. Carroll Naish - A Medal for Benny as Charley Martin

1946 ~ Harold Russell as Homer Parrish

NOMINEES:
Charles Coburn - The Green Years as Alexander Gow
William Demarest - The Jolson Story as Steve Martin
Claude Rains - Notorious as Alexander Sebastian
Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge as Elliott Templeton

1947 ~ Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle

NOMINEES:
Charles Bickford - The Farmer's Daughter as Joseph Clancy (major-domo)
Thomas Gomez - Ride the Pink Horse as Pancho
Robert Ryan - Crossfire as Montgomery
Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo

1948 ~ Walter Huston as Howard

NOMINEES:
Charles Bickford - Johnny Belinda as Black McDonald
José Ferrer - Joan of Arc as The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
Oscar Homolka - I Remember Mama as Uncle Chris Halverson
Cecil Kellaway - The Luck of the Irish as Horace (A Leprechaun)

1949 ~ Dean Jagger as Major Stovall

NOMINEES:
John Ireland - All the King's Men as Jack Burden
Arthur Kennedy - Champion as Connie Kelly
Ralph Richardson - The Heiress as Dr. Austin Sloper
James Whitmore - Battleground as Kinnie

1950 ~ George Sanders as Addison De Witt

NOMINEES:
Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow as Cochise
Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880 as 'Skipper' Miller
Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard as Max von Meyerling

1951 ~ Karl Malden as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

NOMINEES:
Leo Genn - Quo Vadis as Petronius
Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis as Nero
Gig Young - Come Fill the Cup as Boyd Copeland

1952 ~ Anthony Quinn as Eufemio Zapata

NOMINEES:
Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel as Philip Ashley
Arthur Hunnicutt - The Big Sky as Zeb Calloway/Narrator
Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man as 'Red' Will Danaher
Jack Palance - Sudden Fear as Lester Blaine

1953 ~ Frank Sinatra as Pvt. Angelo Maggio

NOMINEES:
Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
Brandon de Wilde - Shane as Joey Starrett
Jack Palance - Shane as Jack Wilson
Robert Strauss - Stalag 17 as Stanislas 'Animal' Kasava

1954 ~ Edmond O'Brien as Oscar Muldoon

NOMINEES:
Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront as Johnny Friendly
Karl Malden - On the Waterfront as Father Barry
Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront as Charley 'the Gent' Malloy
Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny as Commander DeVriess

1955 ~ Jack Lemmon as Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver

NOMINEES:
Arthur Kennedy - Trial as Barney Castle
Joe Mantell - Marty as Angie
Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause as John 'Plato' Crawford
Arthur O'Connell - Picnic as Howard Bevans

1956 ~ Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin

NOMINEES:
Don Murray - Bus Stop as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion as Josh Birdwell
Mickey Rooney - The Bold and the Brave as Dooley
Robert Stack - Written on the Wind as Kyle Hadley

1957 ~ Red Buttons as Airman Joe Kelly

NOMINEES:
Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms as Major Alessandro Rinaldi
Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Saito
Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place as Lucas Cross
Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place as Norman Page

1958 ~ Burl Ives as Rufus Hannassey

NOMINEES:
Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller
Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov as Fyodor Karamazov
Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh
Gig Young - Teacher's Pet as Dr. Hugo Pine

1959 ~ Hugh Griffith as Sheik Ilderim

NOMINEES:
Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder as Parnell Emmett McCarthy
George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder as Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer
Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians as Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn
Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank as Albert Dussell

1960 ~ Peter Ustinov as Lentulus Batiatus

NOMINEES:
Peter Falk - Murder, Inc. as Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles
Jack Kruschen - The Apartment as Dr. Dreyfuss
Sal Mineo - Exodus as Dov Landau
Chill Wills - The Alamo as Beekeeper

1961 ~ George Chakiris as Bernardo

NOMINEES:
Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg as Rudolph Petersen
Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles as Joy Boy
Jackie Gleason - The Hustler as Minnesota Fats
George C. Scott - The Hustler as Bert Gordon

1962 ~ Ed Begley as Tom 'Boss' Finley

NOMINEES:
Victor Buono - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Edwin Flagg
Telly Savalas - Birdman of Alcatraz as Feto Gomez
Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish
Terence Stamp - Billy Budd as Billy Budd

1963 ~ Melvyn Douglas as Homer Bannon

NOMINEES:
Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor as Ben Brown
Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D. as Corporal Jim Tompkins
Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones as Squire Western
John Huston - The Cardinal as Cardinal Glennon

1964 ~ Peter Ustinov as Arthur Simon Simpson

NOMINEES:
John Gielgud - Becket as Louis VII of France
Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady as Alfred Doolittle
Edmond O'Brien - Seven Days in May as Senator Raymond Clark
Lee Tracy - The Best Man as President Art Hockstader

1965 ~ Martin Balsam as Arnold Burns

NOMINEES:
Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix as 'Ratbags' Crow
Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago as Pasha Antipov
Michael Dunn - Ship of Fools as Carl Glocken
Frank Finlay - Othello as Iago

1966 ~ Walter Matthau as Willie Gingrich

NOMINEES:
Mako - The Sand Pebbles as Po-han
James Mason - Georgy Girl as James Leamington
George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Nick
Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons as Henry VIII of England

1967 ~ George Kennedy as Dragline

NOMINEES:
John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen as Victor P. Franko
Gene Hackman - Bonnie and Clyde as Buck Barrow
Cecil Kellaway - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Monsignor Mike Ryan
Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss

1968 ~ Jack Albertson as John Cleary

NOMINEES:
Seymour Cassel - Faces as Chet
Daniel Massey - Star! as Noel Coward
Jack Wild - Oliver! as The Artful Dodger
Gene Wilder - The Producers as Leo Bloom

1969 ~ Gig Young as Rocky

NOMINEES:
Rupert Crosse - The Reivers as Ned
Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Henderson
Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider as George Hanson
Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days as Cardinal Wolsey

1970 ~ John Mills as Michael

NOMINEES:
Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers as Frank Vecchio
Chief Dan George - Little Big Man as Old Lodge Skins
Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father as Gene Garrison
John Marley - Love Story as Phil Cavalleri

1971 ~ Ben Johnson as Sam the Lion

NOMINEES:
Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show as Duane Jackson
Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil
Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper
Roy Scheider - The French Connection as Detective Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo

1972 ~ Joel Grey as Master of Ceremonies

NOMINEES:
Eddie Albert - The Heartbreak Kid as Mr. Corcoran
James Caan - The Godfather as Sonny Corleone
Robert Duvall - The Godfather as Tom Hagen
Al Pacino - The Godfather as Michael Corleone

1973 ~ John Houseman as Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.

NOMINEES:
Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly as Dutch Schnell
Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger as Phil Greene
Jason Miller - The Exorcist as Father Damien Karras
Randy Quaid - The Last Detail as Larry Meadows

1974 ~ Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone

NOMINEES:
Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno as Harlee Claiborne
Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot as Lightfoot
Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II as Frankie Pentangeli
Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II as Hyman Roth

1975 ~ George Burns as Al Lewis

NOMINEES:
Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit
Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener
Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon as Leon Shermer
Jack Warden - Shampoo as Lester

1976 ~ Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee

NOMINEES:
Ned Beatty - Network as Arthur Jensen
Burgess Meredith - Rocky as Mickey Goldmill
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man as Dr. Christian Szell
Burt Young - Rocky as Paulie Pennino

1977 ~ Jason Robards as Dashiell Hammett

NOMINEES:
Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point as Yuri Kopeikine
Peter Firth - Equus as Alan Strang
Alec Guinness - Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Maximilian Schell - Julia as Johann

1978 ~ Christopher Walken as Nikonar 'Nick' Chevotarevich

NOMINEES:
Bruce Dern - Coming Home as Captain Bob Hyde
Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman as Dodger
John Hurt - Midnight Express as Max
Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait as Max Corkle

1979 ~ Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Turnbull Rand

NOMINEES:
Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now as Lt. Col Bill Kilgore
Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer as Billy Kramer
Frederic Forrest - The Rose as Huston Dyer
Mickey Rooney - The Black Stallion as Henry Dailey

1980 ~ Timothy Hutton as Conrad Jarrett

NOMINEES:
Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger
Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini as Ben Meechum
Joe Pesci - Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta
Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes

1981 ~ John Gielgud as Hobson

NOMINEES:
James Coco - Only When I Laugh as Jimmy
Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire as Sam Mussabini
Jack Nicholson - Reds as Eugene O'Neill
Howard Rollins - Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker, Jr.

1982 ~ Louis Gossett, Jr. as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley

NOMINEES:
Charles Durning - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Governor
John Lithgow - The World According to Garp as Roberta Muldoon
James Mason - The Verdict as Ed Concannon
Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria as Carroll 'Toddy' Todd

1983 ~ Jack Nicholson as Garrett Breedlove

NOMINEES:
Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be as Colonel Erhardt
John Lithgow - Terms of Endearment as Sam Burns
Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager
Rip Torn - Cross Creek as Marsh Turner

1984 ~ Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran

NOMINEES:
Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story as Sergeant Waters
John Malkovich - Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
Noriyuki Pat Morita - The Karate Kid as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi
Ralph Richardson - Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as The Sixth Earl of Greystoke (posthumous nomination)

1985 ~ Don Ameche as Arthur Selwyn

NOMINEES:
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of Africa as Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke
William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor as Don Corrado Prizzi
Robert Loggia - Jagged Edge as Sam Ransom
Eric Roberts - Runaway Train as Buck