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2024 Best Supporting Actor

Kieran Culkin 

A Real Pain 

2023 Best Supporting Actor

Mark Ruffalo 

Poor Things 

2022 Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson 

The Banshees of Inisherin 

2021 Best Supporting Actor

Ciarán Hinds 

Belfast 

2020 Best Supporting Actor

Paul Raci 

Sound of Metal 

2019 Best Supporting Actor

Brad Pitt 

Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood 

2018 Best Supporting Actor

Sam Elliott 

A Star Is Born 

2017 Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe 

The Florida Project 

2016 Best Supporting Actor

Jeff Bridges 

Hell or High Water 

2015 Best Supporting Actor

Sylvester Stallone 

Creed 

2014 Best Supporting Actor

Edward Norton 

Birdman 

2013 Best Supporting Actor

Will Forte 

Nebraska 

2012 Best Supporting Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio 

Django Unchained 

2011 Best Supporting Actor

Christopher Plummer 

Beginners 

2010 Best Supporting Actor

Christian Bale 

The Fighter 

2009 Best Supporting Actor

Woody Harrelson 

The Messenger  

2008 Best Supporting Actor

Josh Brolin 

Milk 

2007 Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck 

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 

2006 Best Supporting Actor

Djimon Hounsou 

Blood Diamond 

2005 Best Supporting Actor

Jake Gyllenhaal 

Brokeback Mountain  

2004 Best Supporting Actor

Thomas Haden Church 

Sideways 

2003 Best Supporting Actor

Alec Baldwin 

The Cooler  

2002 Best Supporting Actor

Chris Cooper 

Adaptation 

2001 Best Supporting Actor

Jim Broadbent 

Iris  Moulin Rouge 

2000 Best Supporting Actor

Joaquin Phoenix 

Gladiator  Quills  The Yards 

1999 Best Supporting Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman 

Magnolia  The Talented Mr. Ripley 

1998 Best Supporting Actor

Ed Harris 

The Truman Show 

1997 Best Supporting Actor

Greg Kinnear 

As Good As It Gets 

1996 Best Supporting Actor

Ed Norton 

Everyone Says I Love You 

1995 Best Supporting Actor

Kevin Spacey 

The Usual Suspects 

1994 Best Supporting Actor

Gary Sinese 

Forrest Gump 

1993 Best Supporting Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio 

What's Eating Gilbert Grape? 

1992 Best Supporting Actor

Jack Nicholson 

A Few Good Men 

1991 Best Supporting Actor

Anthony Hopkins 

The Silence of the Lambs 

1990 Best Supporting Actor

Joe Pesci 

Goodfellas 

1989 Best Supporting Actor

Alan Alda 

Crimes and Misdemeanors  

1988 Best Supporting Actor

River Phoenix 

Running on Empty  

1987 Best Supporting Actor

Sean Connery 

The Untouchables 

1986 Best Supporting Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis 

My Beautiful Laundrette  A Room with a View 

1985 Best Supporting Actor

Klaus Maria Brandauer 

Out of Africa 

1984 Best Supporting Actor

John Malkovich 

Places in the Heart  

1983 Best Supporting Actor

Jack Nicholson 

Terms of Endearment  

1982 Best Supporting Actor

Robert Preston 

Victor/Victoria  

1981 Best Supporting Actor

Jack Nicholson  

Reds 

1980 Best Supporting Actor

Joe Pesci 

Raging Bull  

1979 Best Supporting Actor

Paul Dooley 

Breaking Away  

1978 Best Supporting Actor

Richard Farnsworth 

Comes a Horseman 

1977 Best Supporting Actor

Tom Skerritt 

The Turning Point  

1976 Best Supporting Actor

Jason Robards 

All the President´s Men 

1975 Best Supporting Actor

Charles Durning 

Dog Day Afternoon 

1974 Best Supporting Actor

Holger Lowenadler  

Lacombe, Lucien 

1973 Best Supporting Actress

Sylvia Sidney 

Summer Wishes  Winter Dreams 

1973 Best Supporting Actor

John Houseman 

The Paper Chase  

1972 Best Supporting Actor

Al Pacino 

The Godfather 

1971 Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson 

The Last Picture Show 

1970 Best Supporting Actor

Frank Langella 

Diary of a Mad Housewife  The Twelve Chairs  

1969 Best Supporting Actor

Philippe Noiret 

Topaz 

1968 Best Supporting Actor

Leo McKern 

The Shoes of the Fisherman  

1967 Best Supporting Actor

Paul Ford 

The Comedians  

1966 Best Supporting Actor

Robert Shaw 

A Man For All Seasons  

1965 Best Supporting Actor

Harry Andrews 

The Agony and the Ecstasty  The Hill 

1964 Best Supporting Actor

Martin Balsam 

The Carpetbaggers  

1963 Best Supporting Actor

Melvyn Douglas 

Hud  

1962 Best Supporting Actor

Burgess Meredith 

Advise and Consent  

1961 Best Supporting Actor

Jackie Gleason 

The Hustler 

1960 Best Supporting Actor

George Peppard 

Home from the Hill 

1959 Best Supporting Actor

Hugh Griffith 

Ben-Hur 

1958 Best Supporting Actor

Albert Salmi 

The Bravados   The Brothers Karamazov  

1957 Best Supporting Actor

Sessue Hayakawa 

The Bridge on the River Kwai 

1956 Best Supporting Actor

Richard Basehart 

Moby Dick 

1955 Best Supporting Actor

Charles Bickford 

Not as a Stranger 

1954 Best Supporting Actor

John Williams 

Dial M for Murder  Sabrina 

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