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Oscar Best Supporting Actors

Try to guess the winners of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Year = year of the ceremony honoring the previous year's films
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Last updated: March 10, 2024
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First submittedFebruary 26, 2012
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Year
Movie
Actor
2024
Oppenheimer
Robert Downey Jr.
2023
Everything Everywhere
All at Once
Ke Huy Quan
2022
CODA
Troy Kotsur
2021
Judas and
the Black Messiah
Daniel Kaluuya
2020
Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood
Brad Pitt
2019
Green Book
Mahershala Ali
2018
Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri
Sam Rockwell
2017
Moonlight
Mahershala Ali
2016
Bridge of Spies
Mark Rylance
2015
Whiplash
J. K. Simmons
2014
Dallas Buyers Club
Jared Leto
2013
Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz
2012
Beginners
Christopher Plummer
2011
The Fighter
Christian Bale
2010
Inglourious Basterds
Christoph Waltz
2009
The Dark Knight
Heath Ledger
2008
No Country for Old Men
Javier Bardem
2007
Little Miss Sunshine
Alan Arkin
2006
Syriana
George Clooney
2005
Million Dollar Baby
Morgan Freeman
2004
Mystic River
Tim Robbins
2003
Adaptation
Chris Cooper
2002
Iris
Jim Broadbent
2001
Traffic
Benicio del Toro
2000
The Cider House Rules
Michael Caine
1999
Affliction
James Coburn
1998
Good Will Hunting
Robin Williams
1997
Jerry Maguire
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
1996
The Usual Suspects
Kevin Spacey
1995
Ed Wood
Martin Landau
1994
The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones
1993
Unforgiven
Gene Hackman
1992
City Slickers
Jack Palance
1991
Goodfellas
Joe Pesci
1990
Glory
Denzel Washington
1989
A Fish Called Wanda
Kevin Kline
1988
The Untouchables
Sean Connery
1987
Hannah and Her Sisters
Michael Caine
1986
Cocoon
Don Ameche
1985
The Killing Fields
Haing S. Ngor
1984
Terms of Endearment
Jack Nicholson
1983
An Officer and a
Gentleman
Louis Gossett, Jr.
1982
Arthur
John Gielgud
1981
Ordinary People
Timothy Hutton
Year
Movie
Actor
1980
Being There
Melvyn Douglas
1979
The Deer Hunter
Christopher Walken
1978
Julia
Jason Robards
1977
All the President's Men
Jason Robards
1976
The Sunshine Boys
George Burns
1975
The Godfather Part II
Robert De Niro
1974
The Paper Chase
John Houseman
1973
Cabaret
Joel Grey
1972
The Last Picture Show
Ben Johnson
1971
Ryan's Daughter
John Mills
1970
They Shoot Horses,
Don't They?
Gig Young
1969
The Subject Was Roses
Jack Albertson
1968
Cool Hand Luke
George Kennedy
1967
The Fortune Cookie
Walter Matthau
1966
A Thousand Clowns
Martin Balsam
1965
Topkapi
Peter Ustinov
1964
Hud
Melvyn Douglas
1963
Sweet Bird of Youth
Ed Begley
1962
West Side Story
George Chakiris
1961
Spartacus
Peter Ustinov
1960
Ben-Hur
Hugh Griffith
1959
The Big Country
Burl Ives
1958
Sayonara
Red Buttons
1957
Lust for Life
Anthony Quinn
1956
Mister Roberts
Jack Lemmon
1955
The Barefoot Contessa
Edmond O'Brien
1954
From Here to Eternity
Frank Sinatra
1953
Viva Zapata!
Anthony Quinn
1952
A Streetcar Named Desire
Karl Malden
1951
All About Eve
George Sanders
1950
Twelve O'Clock High
Dean Jagger
1949
The Treasure of the
Sierra Madre
Walter Huston
1948
Miracle on 34th Street
Edmund Gwenn
1947
The Best Years of
Our Lives
Harold Russell
1946
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
James Dunn
1945
Going My Way
Barry Fitzgerald
1944
The More the Merrier
Charles Coburn
1943
Johnny Eager
Van Heflin
1942
How Green Was
My Valley
Donald Crisp
1941
The Westerner
Walter Brennan
1940
Stagecoach
Thomas Mitchell
1939
Kentucky
Walter Brennan
1938
The Life of Emile Zola
Joseph Schildkraut
1937
Come and Get It
Walter Brennan
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Level 37
Mar 29, 2012
Yay! Hapy this quiz is up, thanks Quizmaster.
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Level 58
Apr 1, 2012
49 right on my first try. Great quiz. Thanks.
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Level 77
Sep 18, 2014
I never knew that City Slickers won any kind of Oscar. I'm glad too. It's such a great movie. I know comedies almost exclusively get snubbed, but that movie is way more than a comedy, and Palance's portrayal of a grizzly old rancher was wonderful.
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Level 82
Feb 28, 2015
I think that was the year that Palance got up on stage and started doing one-armed push-ups. Hard to forget.
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Level 75
Feb 28, 2015
Only thing more memorable to me was in 1974 when David Niven was hosting the Oscars and a nude streaker ran across the stage. Niven's reply was classic, "...isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"
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Level 55
Apr 18, 2015
As I imagine a lot of people my age (just rising 50) got most from 1950 to 2000, not so hot for recent films or for the really old days.
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Level ∞
Feb 25, 2019
The Oscars are becoming less and less culturally relevant every year.
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Level 71
Dec 10, 2022
They're also becoming more and more of a joke every year. See: Will Smith.
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Level 44
Jun 15, 2016
Pesci isn't exactly an easy name to spell...might consider accepting variations?
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Level 89
Jun 6, 2018
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Level 69
Apr 3, 2019
How is James coburn higher than Charles coburn in the percentages?
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Level 78
Apr 3, 2019
More people type the full name James Coburn than Charles Coburn.
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Level 95
Apr 26, 2021
After confusing me for so long, the ceremony year over film year finally makes sense with Judas and the Black Messiah and The Father being 2021 films honored in 2021
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Level 93
Mar 15, 2023
Can you please update this with the incomparable Ke Huy Quan please?
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Level 31
Mar 22, 2023
Hey can you please update for 2023?
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Level 85
Mar 11, 2024
Weird that Hutton was only a supporting actor in Ordinary People. I guess I need to rewatch it.
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Level 93
Mar 11, 2024
It’s simply category fraud. He’s in almost every single scene, but the filmmakers knew that he stood no chance at winning against Robert De Niro in Raging Bull for lead actor, so they campaigned him in supporting so he would be a guaranteed winner.
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Level 90
Mar 11, 2024
It's a longstanding tradition that young actors and actresses are run in supporting categories, even when they're almost inarguably the leads. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, Quvenshane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild, Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit, Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon. There's always a good deal of wiggle room when deciding between lead and supporting, but with young actors, they almost always wiggle their way over to Supporting.
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Level 93
Mar 15, 2024
The one big exception to that rule is Quvenzhané Wallis, who was nominated in lead actress. She currently holds the record for the youngest actress nominated in the Lead Actress category (a record she will likely hold for a VERY long time).
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Level 67
Mar 16, 2024
Brad Pitt thumbnails two days in a row? Let's go!
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Level 89
Mar 17, 2024
Don Ameche winning for Cocoon has always been a huge headscratcher for me. I know it's been a while since I last watched that movie but his performance was probably the most forgettable part of it.
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Level 51
Mar 18, 2024
The years are wrong. No official account of the Oscars uses the year of the ceremony when referring to the nominees or winners.