Academy Awards For Best Supporting Actor Deservers

1934!

Winner: Charles Laughton!

Nominees:
Henry Brandon - Babes in Toyland as Silas Barnaby
Wallace Ford - The Lost Patrol as Morelli
Sam Jaffe - The Scarlet Express as Grand Duke Peter
Boris Karloff - The Lost Patrol as Sanders

1935!

Winner: Peter Lorre!

Nominees:
Ralph Bellamy - Hands Across the Table as Allen Macklyn
Raymond Massey - The Scarlet Pimpernel as Citizen Chauvelin
Ernest Thesiger - Bride of Frankenstein as Dr. Septimus Pretorius
Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty as Roger Byam

1936!

Winner: Humphrey Bogart!

Nominees:
Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey as Carlo
Walter Brennan - Come and Get It as Swan Bostrom
Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt
Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn as General Yang

1937!

Winner: Ralph Bellamy!

Nominees:
Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane as Dr. Kersaint
Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola as Alfred Dreyfus
H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon as Chang
Roland Young - Topper as Cosmo Topper

1938!

Winner: Walter Brennan!

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

1939!

Winner: Thomas Mitchell!

Nominees:
Brian Aherne - Juarez as Maximilian I of Mexico
Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as President of the Senate
Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste as Sergeant Markoff
Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Senator Joseph Harrison Paine

1940!

Winner: Walter Brennan!

Nominees:
Albert Bassermann - Foreign Correspondent as Van Meer
William Gargan - They Knew What They Wanted as Joe
Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator as Napaloni
James Stephenson - The Letter as Howard Joyce

1941!

Winner: Sydney Greenstreet!

Nominees:
Walter Brennan - Sergeant York as Paster Rosier Pile
Charles Coburn - The Devil and Miss Jones as John P. Merrick
Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley as Mr. Gwillym Morgan
James Gleason - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Max Corkle

1942!

Winner: Claude Rains!

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

1943!

Winner: Charles Coburn!

Nominees:
Dana Andrews - The Ox-Bow Incident as Donald Martin
Charles Bickford - The Song of Bernadette as Father Peyramale
J. Carrol Naish - Sahara as Giuseppe
Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo

1944!

Winner: Barry Fitzgerald!

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!

Winner: James Dunn!

Nominees:
Michael Chekhov - Spellbound as Dr. Alexander Brulov
John Dall - The Corn Is Green as Morgan Evans
Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe as Lieutenant Walker
J. Carrol Naish - A Medal for Benny as Charley Martin

1946!

Winner: Charles Coburn!

Nominees:
William Demarest - The Jolson Story as Steve Martin
Claude Rains - Notorious as Alexander Sebastian
Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives as Homer Parrish
Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge as Elliott Templeton

1947!

Winner: Edmund Gwenn!

Nominees:
Charles Bickford - The Farmer's Daughter as Joseph Clancy
Thomas Gomez - Ride the Big Horse as Pancho
Robert Ryan - Crossfire as Montgomery
Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo

1948!

Winner: Walter Huston!

Nominees:
Charles Bickford - Johnny Belinda as Black MacDonald
Jose Ferrer - Joan of Arc as Charles VII
Oskar Homolka - I Remember Mama as Uncle Chris
Cecil Kellaway - The Luck of the Irish as Horace

1949!

Winner: Orson Welles!

Nominees:
John Ireland - All the King's Men as Jack Burden
Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High as Harvey Stovall
Ralph Richardson - The Heiress as Dr. Austin Sloper
James Whitmore - Battleground as Kinnie

1950!

Winner: George Sanders!

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 Mayerling

1951!

Winner: Karl Malden!

Nominees:
Leo Genn - Quo Vadis as Petronius
Mervyn Johns - Scrooge as Bob Cratchit
Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Saleman as Biff Loman
Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis as Nero

1952!

Winner: Donald O'Connor!

Nominees:
Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel as Philip Ashley
Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man as Will "Red" Danaher
Jack Palance - Sudden Fear as Lester Blaine
Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata! as Eufemio Zapata

1953!

Winner: Frank Sinatra!

Nominees:
Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
Brandon deWilde - Shane as Joey Starrett
Jack Palance - Shane as Jack Wilson
Robert Strauss - Stalag 17 as Sgt. Stanislas "Animal" Kasava

1954!

Winner: Lee J. Cobb!

Nominees:
Karl Malden - On the Waterfront as Father Barry
Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa as Oscar Muldoon
Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront as Charley "The Gent" Malloy
Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny as Comdr. DeVriess

1955!

Winner: Jack Lemmon!

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

1956!

Winner: James Dean!

Nominees:
Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion as Josh Birdwell
Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life as Paul Gauguin
Mickey Rooney - The Bold and the Brave as Dooley
Robert Stack - Written on the Wind as Kyle Hadley

1957!

Winner: Sessue Hayakawa!

Nominees:
Red Buttons - Sayonara as Airman Joe Kelly
Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms as Major Alessandro Rinaldi
Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place as Lucas Cross
Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place as Norman Page

1958!

Winner: Burl Ives!

Nominees:
Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller
Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh
Orson Welles - Touch of Evil as Police Captain Hank Quinlan
Gig Young - Teacher's Pet as Dr. Hugo Pine

1959!

Winner: Stephen Boyd!

Nominees:
Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur as Sheik Ilderim
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
Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank as Albert Dussell

1960!

Winner: Peter Ustinov!

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

1961!

Winner: Jackie Gleason!

Nominees:
George Chakiris - West Side Story as Bernando
Montgomery Clift - Judgment as Nuremberg as Rudolph Peterson
Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles as Joy Boy
George C. Scott - The Hustler as Bert Gordon

1962!

Winner: Omar Sharif!

Nominees:
Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth as Tom "Boss" Finley
Alec Guinness - Lawrence of Arabia as Prince Faisal
Claude Rains - Lawrence of Arabia as Mr. Dryden
Terence Stamp - Billy Budd as Billy Budd

1963!

Winner: Melvyn Douglas!

Nominees:
Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor as Ben Brown
Bobby Darin - Captain America, M.D. as Cpl. Jim Tompkins, USAAF
Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones as Squire Western
John Huston - The Cardinal as Cardinal Glenn

1964!

Winner: Peter Ustinov!

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

1965!

Winner: Rod Steiger!

Nominees:
Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns as Arnold Burns
Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix as "Ratbags" Crow
Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago as Pasha Antipov
Frank Finlay - Othello as Iago

1966!

Winner: Walter Matthau!

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

1967!

Winner: George Kennedy!

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

1968!

Winner: Gene Wilder!

Nominees:
Timothy Dalton - The Lion In Winter as King Philip II of France
Anthony Hopkins - The Lion In Winter as Richard the Lionheart
Jason Robards - Once Upon a Time in the West as Manuel "Cheyenne" Gutierrez
Jack Wild - Oliver! as Jack Dawkins ("The Artful Dodger")

1969!

Winner: Gig Young!

Nominees:
Ernest Borgnine - The Wild Bunch as Dutch Engstrom
Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Henderson
Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider as George Hanson
Robert Ryan - The Wild Bunch as Deke Thornton

1970!

Winner: Chief Dan George!

Nominees:
Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father as Gene Garrison
Karl Malden - Patton as General Omar Bradley
John Marley - Love Story as Phil Cavalleri
John Mills - Ryan's Daughter as Michael

1971!

Winner: Ben Johnson!

Nominees:
Jack Albertson - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as Grandpa Joe
Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show as Duane Jackson
Andy Robinson - Dirty Harry as Scorpio
Roy Scheider - The French Connection as Det. Buddy "Cloudy" Russo

1972!

Winner: Al Pacino!

Nominees:
Ned Beatty - Deliverance as Bobby Trippe
James Caan - The Godfather as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
Robert Duvall - The Godfather as Tom Hagen
Joel Grey - Cabaret as Master of Ceremonies

1973!

Winner: Robert Shaw!

Nominees:
Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly as Dutch
Jason Miller - The Exorcist as Father Damien Karras
Randy Quaid - The Last Detail as Larry Meadows
Max von Sydow - The Exorcist as Father Lankester Merrin

1974!

Winner: Robert De Niro!

Nominees:
Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno as Claiborne
John Cazale - The Godfather: Part II as Fredo Corleone
Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather: Part II as Frankie "Five Angels" Pentangeli
John Huston - Chinatown as Noah Cross

1975!

Winner: George Burns!

Nominees:
Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit
Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon as Leon
Robert Shaw - Jaws as Quint
Jack Warden - Shampoo as Lester Karpf

1976!

Winner: Laurence Olivier!

Nominees:
Ned Beatty - Network as Arthur Jensen
Burgess Meredith - Rocky as Mickey Goldmill
Jason Robards - All the President's Men as Ben Bradlee
Burt Young - Rocky as Paulie Pennino

1977!

Winner: Alec Guinness!

Nominees:
Harrison Ford - Star Wars as Han Solo
Jason Robards - Julia as Dashiell Hammett
Maximilian Schell - Julia as Johann
Francois Truffaut - Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Claude Lacombe

1978!

Winner: Christopher Walken!

Nominees:
Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman as Dodger
Gene Hackman - Superman as Lex Luthor
John Hurt - Midnight Express as Max
John Savage - The Deer Hunter as Steven Pushkov

1979!

Winner: Robert Duvall!

Nominees:
Marlon Brando - Apocalypse Now as Col. Walter E. Kurtz
Melvyn Douglas - Being There as Benjamin Turnbull Rand
Frederic Forrest - The Rose as Houston Dyer
Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer as Billy Kramer

1980!

Winner: Timothy Hutton!

Nominees:
Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger
Anthony Hopkins - The Elephant Man as Frederick Treves
Joe Pesci - Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta
Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes

1981!

Winner: John Gielgud

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

1982!

Winner: James Mason!

Nominees:
Charles Durning - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Governor
Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman as Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley
John Lithgow - The World According to Garp as Roberta Muldoon
Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria as Carroll "Toddy" Todd

1983!

Winner: Jack Nicholson!

Nominees:
Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be as S.S. 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