Statistics for Academy Award Nominees for Best Supporting Actor

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Year	Film	Actor	% Correct
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Brad Pitt	86%
2018	Green Book	Mahershala Ali	77%
1997	Good Will Hunting	Robin Williams	77%
		Daniel Kaluuya	73%
2014	Whiplash	J.K. Simmons	73%
1990	Goodfellas	Joe Pesci	73%
2016	Moonlight	Mahershala Ali	73%
2018	BlacKkKlansman	Adam Driver	68%
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Christoph Waltz	68%
2012	Django Unchained	Christoph Waltz	68%
2008	The Dark Knight	Heath Ledger	68%
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Ian McKellen	68%
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Jake Gyllenhaal	68%
2007	No Country for Old Men	Javier Bardem	68%
2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jonah Hill	68%
1995	The Usual Suspects	Kevin Spacey	68%
2008	Tropic Thunder	Robert Downey Jr.	68%
2015	Creed	Sylvester Stallone	68%
2019	The Irishman	Al Pacino	64%
2019	The Two Popes	Anthony Hopkins	64%
2016	Lion	Dev Patel	64%
2005	Syriana	George Clooney	64%
1992	A Few Good Men	Jack Nicholson	64%
2013	Dallas Buyers Club	Jared Leto	64%
2011	Moneyball	Jonah Hill	64%
2016	Manchester by the Sea	Lucas Hedges	64%
2015	Spotlight	Mark Ruffalo	64%
1999	The Cider House Rules	Michael Caine	64%
		Sacha Baron Cohen	64%
		Troy Kotsur	64%
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Woody Harrelson	64%
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Alan Arkin	59%
1972	The Godfather	Al Pacino	59%
2010	The Fighter	Christian Bale	59%
2006	Dreamgirls	Eddie Murphy	59%
1994	Forrest Gump	Gary Sinise	59%
2010	The King's Speech	Geoffrey Rush	59%
1999	The Sixth Sense	Haley Joel Osment	59%
1991	City Slickers	Jack Palance	59%
2001	Iris	Jim Broadbent	59%
2000	Gladiator	Joaquin Phoenix	59%
2019	The Irishman	Joe Pesci	59%
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Jude Law	59%
		LaKeith Stanfield	59%
1993	What's Eating Gilbert Grape	Leonardo DiCaprio	59%
2015	Bridge of Spies	Mark Rylance	59%
2009	Invictus	Matt Damon	59%
2013	12 Years a Slave	Michael Fassbender	59%
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Morgan Freeman	59%
1993	Schindler's List	Ralph Fiennes	59%
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	Robert De Niro	59%
1974	The Godfather Part II	Robert De Niro	59%
2018	A Star Is Born	Sam Elliott	59%
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Sam Rockwell	59%
1994	Pulp Fiction	Samuel L. Jackson	59%
2019	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Tom Hanks	59%
1993	The Fugitive	Tommy Lee Jones	59%
1977	Star Wars	Alec Guinness	55%
1997	Boogie Nights	Burt Reynolds	55%
1996	Jerry Maguire	Cuba Gooding Jr.	55%
1989	Glory	Denzel Washington	55%
1983	Terms of Endearment	Jack Nicholson	55%
1988	A Fish Called Wanda	Kevin Kline	55%
2006	The Departed	Mark Wahlberg	55%
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	Michael Caine	55%
1999	The Green Mile	Michael Clarke Duncan	55%
2018	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Richard E. Grant	55%
1972	The Godfather	Robert Duvall	55%
2003	Mystic River	Tim Robbins	55%
1999	Magnolia	Tom Cruise	55%
2015	The Revenant	Tom Hardy	55%
1996	Fargo	William H. Macy	55%
1995	12 Monkeys	Brad Pitt	50%
2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Casey Affleck	50%
2015	The Big Short	Christian Bale	50%
1998	The Truman Show	Ed Harris	50%
1992	Unforgiven	Gene Hackman	50%
		Jesse Plemons	50%
		J.K. Simmons	50%
2010	The Kids Are All Right	Mark Ruffalo	50%
2008	Doubt	Philip Seymour Hoffman	50%
2009	The Lovely Bones	Stanley Tucci	50%
2017	The Florida Project	Willem Dafoe	50%
2000	Erin Brockovich	Albert Finney	45%
2013	American Hustle	Bradley Cooper	45%
2011	Beginners	Christopher Plummer	45%
2017	All the Money in the World	Christopher Plummer	45%
2002	Catch Me If You Can	Christopher Walken	45%
1978	The Deer Hunter	Christopher Walken	45%
2014	Boyhood	Ethan Hawke	45%
1972	The Godfather	James Caan	45%
2002	Chicago	John C. Reilly	45%
2003	The Last Samurai	Ken Watanabe	45%
1984	The Karate Kid	Pat Morita	45%
2018	Vice	Sam Rockwell	45%
1987	The Untouchables	Sean Connery	45%
1992	Glengarry Glen Ross	Al Pacino	41%
1990	Dick Tracy	Al Pacino	41%
1990	The Godfather Part III	Andy García	41%
2000	Traffic	Benicio del Toro	41%
2001	Sexy Beast	Ben Kingsley	41%
2002	Adaptation	Chris Cooper	41%
		Ciarán Hinds	41%
2004	Closer	Clive Owen	41%
2006	Blood Diamond	Djimon Hounsou	41%
1995	Apollo 13	Ed Harris	41%
1996	Primal Fear	Edward Norton	41%
2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Edward Norton	41%
2001	Training Day	Ethan Hawke	41%
1953	From Here to Eternity	Frank Sinatra	41%
1969	Easy Rider	Jack Nicholson	41%
2004	Collateral	Jamie Foxx	41%
1972	Cabaret	Joel Grey	41%
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Justin Henry	41%
		Kodi Smit-McPhee	41%
2014	Foxcatcher	Mark Ruffalo	41%
1994	Ed Wood	Martin Landau	41%
2005	Crash	Matt Dillon	41%
2002	Road to Perdition	Paul Newman	41%
2012	The Master	Philip Seymour Hoffman	41%
2017	The Shape of Water	Richard Jenkins	41%
2014	The Judge	Robert Duvall	41%
2004	Sideways	Thomas Haden Church	41%
1980	Ordinary People	Timothy Hutton	41%
1986	Platoon	Willem Dafoe	41%
1976	Rocky	Burgess Meredith	36%
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Geoffrey Rush	36%
1997	As Good as It Gets	Greg Kinnear	36%
1998	Affliction	James Coburn	36%
1977	Julia	Jason Robards	36%
1976	All the President's Men	Jason Robards	36%
1992	The Crying Game	Jaye Davidson	36%
		Paul Raci	36%
2007	Charlie Wilson's War	Philip Seymour Hoffman	36%
2012	Lincoln	Tommy Lee Jones	36%
2004	The Aviator	Alan Alda	32%
2012	Argo	Alan Arkin	32%
1987	Broadcast News	Albert Brooks	32%
1998	A Simple Plan	Billy Bob Thornton	32%
1994	Bullets over Broadway	Chazz Palminteri	32%
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Dan Aykroyd	32%
1989	Do the Right Thing	Danny Aiello	32%
1985	Cocoon	Don Ameche	32%
1961	West Side Story	George Chakiris	32%
1984	The Killing Fields	Haing S. Ngor	32%
1981	Chariots of Fire	Ian Holm	32%
1981	Reds	Jack Nicholson	32%
1995	Babe	James Cromwell	32%
1971	The Last Picture Show	Jeff Bridges	32%
2016	Hell or High Water	Jeff Bridges	32%
1980	Raging Bull	Joe Pesci	32%
2010	Winter's Bone	John Hawkes	32%
2008	Milk	Josh Brolin	32%
1980	Ordinary People	Judd Hirsch	32%
1982	An Officer and a Gentleman	Louis Gossett Jr.	32%
2008	Revolutionary Road	Michael Shannon	32%
2005	Cinderella Man	Paul Giamatti	32%
1993	In the Name of the Father	Pete Postlethwaite	32%
1979	Apocalypse Now	Robert Duvall	32%
1995	Rob Roy	Tim Roth	32%
1986	Platoon	Tom Berenger	32%
1991	JFK	Tommy Lee Jones	32%
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Chris Sarandon	27%
1987	Cry Freedom	Denzel Washington	27%
2003	In America	Djimon Hounsou	27%
1968	The Producers	Gene Wilder	27%
1975	The Sunshine Boys	George Burns	27%
1990	Dances with Wolves	Graham Greene	27%
1991	Bugsy	Harvey Keitel	27%
1955	Mister Roberts	Jack Lemmon	27%
1968	Oliver!	Jack Wild	27%
1974	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot	Jeff Bridges	27%
2010	The Town	Jeremy Renner	27%
1951	A Streetcar Named Desire	Karl Malden	27%
2011	My Week with Marilyn	Kenneth Branagh	27%
1976	Marathon Man	Laurence Olivier	27%
		Leslie Odom Jr.	27%
1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Martin Landau	27%
2016	Nocturnal Animals	Michael Shannon	27%
1977	Equus	Peter Firth	27%
1964	Topkapi	Peter Ustinov	27%
1954	On the Waterfront	Rod Steiger	27%
1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Walter Huston	27%
2003	The Cooler	Alec Baldwin	23%
1997	Amistad	Anthony Hopkins	23%
1956	Lust for Life	Anthony Quinn	23%
1952	Viva Zapata!	Anthony Quinn	23%
2013	Captain Phillips	Barkhad Abdi	23%
2003	21 Grams	Benicio del Toro	23%
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Brad Dourif	23%
1990	Longtime Companion	Bruce Davison	23%
1958	The Big Country	Burl Ives	23%
1982	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas	Charles Durning	23%
1970	Little Big Man	Chief Dan George	23%
2009	The Last Station	Christopher Plummer	23%
1986	A Room with a View	Denholm Elliott	23%
1965	Othello	Frank Finlay	23%
1974	The Towering Inferno	Fred Astaire	23%
1967	Bonnie and Clyde	Gene Hackman	23%
1967	Cool Hand Luke	George Kennedy	23%
1966	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	George Segal	23%
2006	Little Children	Jackie Earle Haley	23%
1978	Heaven Can Wait	Jack Warden	23%
1975	Shampoo	Jack Warden	23%
1966	Georgy Girl	James Mason	23%
1981	Arthur	John Gielgud	23%
1978	Midnight Express	John Hurt	23%
1984	Places in the Heart	John Malkovich	23%
1970	Ryan's Daughter	John Mills	23%
1974	The Godfather Part II	Lee Strasberg	23%
1989	A Dry White Season	Marlon Brando	23%
1967	Bonnie and Clyde	Michael J. Pollard	23%
2011	Warrior	Nick Nolte	23%
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	Omar Sharif	23%
1994	Quiz Show	Paul Scofield	23%
1960	Spartacus	Peter Ustinov	23%
1957	Sayonara	Red Buttons	23%
1988	Running on Empty	River Phoenix	23%
1997	Jackie Brown	Robert Forster	23%
1982	Victor/Victoria	Robert Preston	23%
1966	A Man for All Seasons	Robert Shaw	23%
1955	Rebel Without a Cause	Sal Mineo	23%
1964	My Fair Lady	Stanley Holloway	23%
1962	Billy Budd	Terence Stamp	23%
2007	Michael Clayton	Tom Wilkinson	23%
1966	The Fortune Cookie	Walter Matthau	23%
1988	Little Dorrit	Alec Guinness	18%
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Anthony Quayle	18%
1943	Casablanca	Claude Rains	18%
1968	Star!	Daniel Massey	18%
1956	Bus Stop	Don Murray	18%
1969	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Elliott Gould	18%
1969	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Gig Young	18%
2007	Into the Wild	Hal Holbrook	18%
2000	The Contender	Jeff Bridges	18%
1967	The Dirty Dozen	John Cassavetes	18%
1983	Terms of Endearment	John Lithgow	18%
1970	Love Story	John Marley	18%
2001	Ali	Jon Voight	18%
1954	On the Waterfront	Karl Malden	18%
1985	Out of Africa	Klaus Maria Brandauer	18%
2011	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Max von Sydow	18%
1979	The Black Stallion	Mickey Rooney	18%
1977	The Turning Point	Mikhail Baryshnikov	18%
1987	Street Smart	Morgan Freeman	18%
1984	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Ralph Richardson	18%
1973	The Last Detail	Randy Quaid	18%
1952	My Cousin Rachel	Richard Burton	18%
1985	Jagged Edge	Robert Loggia	18%
1959	The Young Philadelphians	Robert Vaughn	18%
1965	Doctor Zhivago	Tom Courtenay	18%
1987	Moonstruck	Vincent Gardenia	18%
1936	Come and Get It	Walter Brennan	18%
1938	Kentucky	Walter Brennan	18%
1940	The Westerner	Walter Brennan	18%
1971	The Last Picture Show	Ben Johnson	14%
1978	Coming Home	Bruce Dern	14%
1976	Rocky	Burt Young	14%
2002	The Hours	Ed Harris	14%
1947	Miracle on 34th Street	Edmund Gwenn	14%
1950	Sunset Boulevard	Erich von Stroheim	14%
1985	Runaway Train	Eric Roberts	14%
1950	All About Eve	George Sanders	14%
1959	Ben-Hur	Hugh Griffith	14%
1953	Shane	Jack Palance	14%
1996	Ghosts of Mississippi	James Woods	14%
1993	In the Line of Fire	John Malkovich	14%
1954	On the Waterfront	Lee J. Cobb	14%
1979	Being There	Melvyn Douglas	14%
1991	Barton Fink	Michael Lerner	14%
1980	The Great Santini	Michael O'Keefe	14%
1976	Network	Ned Beatty	14%
1983	The Right Stuff	Sam Shepard	14%
1962	Birdman of Alcatraz	Telly Savalas	14%
2000	Shadow of the Vampire	Willem Dafoe	14%
2005	A History of Violence	William Hurt	14%
2009	The Messenger	Woody Harrelson	14%
1956	Friendly Persuasion	Anthony Perkins	9%
1959	Anatomy of a Murder	Arthur O'Connell	9%
1944	Going My Way	Barry Fitzgerald	9%
1991	Bugsy	Ben Kingsley	9%
1953	Shane	Brandon deWilde	9%
1967	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Cecil Kellaway	9%
1943	The More the Merrier	Charles Coburn	9%
1983	To Be or Not to Be	Charles Durning	9%
1992	Mr. Saturday Night	David Paymer	9%
1949	Twelve O'Clock High	Dean Jagger	9%
1988	Married to the Mob	Dean Stockwell	9%
1941	How Green Was My Valley	Donald Crisp	9%
1962	Sweet Bird of Youth	Ed Begley	9%
1972	The Heartbreak Kid	Eddie Albert	9%
1954	The Barefoot Contessa	Edmond O'Brien	9%
1970	I Never Sang for My Father	Gene Hackman	9%
1959	Anatomy of a Murder	George C. Scott	9%
1961	The Hustler	George C. Scott	9%
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives	Harold Russell	9%
1965	The Flight of the Phoenix	Ian Bannen	9%
1968	The Subject Was Roses	Jack Albertson	9%
1973	Save the Tiger	Jack Gilford	9%
1960	The Apartment	Jack Kruschen	9%
1940	The Great Dictator	Jack Oakie	9%
1945	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	James Dunn	9%
1982	The Verdict	James Mason	9%
1980	Melvin and Howard	Jason Robards	9%
1945	The Corn Is Green	John Dall	9%
1973	The Paper Chase	John Houseman	9%
1937	The Life of Emile Zola	Joseph Schildkraut	9%
1971	Fiddler on the Roof	Leonard Frey	9%
1966	The Sand Pebbles	Mako	9%
1965	A Thousand Clowns	Martin Balsam	9%
1988	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Martin Landau	9%
1977	Julia	Maximilian Schell	9%
1963	Hud	Melvyn Douglas	9%
1945	Spellbound	Michael Chekhov	9%
1974	The Godfather Part II	Michael V. Gazzo	9%
1936	My Man Godfrey	Mischa Auer	9%
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg	Montgomery Clift	9%
1949	The Heiress	Ralph Richardson	9%
1978	Comes a Horseman	Richard Farnsworth	9%
1971	Sometimes a Great Notion	Richard Jaeckel	9%
1947	Kiss of Death	Richard Widmark	9%
1998	A Civil Action	Robert Duvall	9%
1945	The Story of G.I. Joe	Robert Mitchum	9%
1947	Crossfire	Robert Ryan	9%
1956	Written on the Wind	Robert Stack	9%
1971	The French Connection	Roy Scheider	9%
1957	Peyton Place	Russ Tamblyn	9%
1941	The Maltese Falcon	Sydney Greenstreet	9%
1939	Stagecoach	Thomas Mitchell	9%
1942	Johnny Eager	Van Heflin	9%
1962	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Victor Buono	9%
1973	Bang the Drum Slowly	Vincent Gardenia	9%
1984	A Soldier's Story	Adolph Caesar	5%
1943	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Akim Tamiroff	5%
1940	Foreign Correspondent	Albert Bassermann	5%
1996	Shine	Armin Mueller-Stahl	5%
1952	The Big Sky	Arthur Hunnicutt	5%
1957	Peyton Place	Arthur Kennedy	5%
1949	Champion	Arthur Kennedy	5%
1938	If I Were King	Basil Rathbone	5%
1963	Captain Newman, M.D.	Bobby Darin	5%
1939	Juarez	Brian Aherne	5%
1975	The Day of the Locust	Burgess Meredith	5%
1943	The Song of Bernadette	Charles Bickford	5%
1941	The Devil and Miss Jones	Charles Coburn	5%
1960	The Alamo	Chill Wills	5%
1944	Mr. Skeffington	Claude Rains	5%
1946	Notorious	Claude Rains	5%
1986	Hoosiers	Dennis Hopper	5%
1964	Seven Days in May	Edmond O'Brien	5%
1950	Mister 880	Edmund Gwenn	5%
1979	The Rose	Frederic Forrest	5%
1942	Mrs. Miniver	Henry Travers	5%
1981	Ragtime	Howard Rollins	5%
1963	Tom Jones	Hugh Griffith	5%
1961	The Hustler	Jackie Gleason	5%
1981	Only When I Laugh	James Coco	5%
1940	The Letter	James Stephenson	5%
1949	Battleground	James Whitmore	5%
1973	The Exorcist	Jason Miller	5%
1950	Broken Arrow	Jeff Chandler	5%
1955	Marty	Joe Mantell	5%
1938	Four Daughters	John Garfield	5%
1964	Becket	John Gielgud	5%
1963	The Cardinal	John Huston	5%
1949	All the King's Men	John Ireland	5%
1982	The World According to Garp	John Lithgow	5%
1948	Joan of Arc	José Ferrer	5%
1951	Death of a Salesman	Kevin McCarthy	5%
1951	Quo Vadis	Leo Genn	5%
1965	Ship of Fools	Michael Dunn	5%
1944	Since You Went Away	Monty Woolley	5%
1963	Twilight of Honor	Nick Adams	5%
1961	Pocketful of Miracles	Peter Falk	5%
1951	Quo Vadis	Peter Ustinov	5%
1983	Cross Creek	Rip Torn	5%
1938	Marie Antoinette	Robert Morley	5%
1969	The Reivers	Rupert Crosse	5%
1960	Exodus	Sal Mineo	5%
1950	The Asphalt Jungle	Sam Jaffe	5%
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Sessue Hayakawa	5%
1968	Faces	Seymour Cassel	5%
1958	The Defiant Ones	Theodore Bikel	5%
1954	The Caine Mutiny	Tom Tully	5%
1952	The Quiet Man	Victor McLaglen	5%
1941	Sergeant York	Walter Brennan	5%
1985	Prizzi's Honor	William Hickey	5%
1936	The General Died at Dawn	Akim Tamiroff	0%
1958	Some Came Running	Arthur Kennedy	0%
1955	Trial	Arthur Kennedy	0%
1955	Picnic	Arthur O'Connell	0%
1936	Romeo and Juliet	Basil Rathbone	0%
1939	Beau Geste	Brian Donlevy	0%
1948	The Luck of the Irish	Cecil Kellaway	0%
1947	The Farmer's Daughter	Charles Bickford	0%
1948	Johnny Belinda	Charles Bickford	0%
1946	The Green Years	Charles Coburn	0%
1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Claude Rains	0%
1944	Laura	Clifton Webb	0%
1946	The Razor's Edge	Clifton Webb	0%
1953	Roman Holiday	Eddie Albert	0%
1959	The Diary of Anne Frank	Ed Wynn	0%
1942	Tortilla Flat	Frank Morgan	0%
1938	Algiers	Gene Lockhart	0%
1958	Teacher's Pet	Gig Young	0%
1951	Come Fill the Cup	Gig Young	0%
1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Harry Carey	0%
1937	Lost Horizon	H.B. Warner	0%
1944	The Seventh Cross	Hume Cronyn	0%
1952	Sudden Fear	Jack Palance	0%
1941	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	James Gleason	0%
1943	Sahara	J. Carrol Naish	0%
1945	A Medal for Benny	J. Carrol Naish	0%
1958	The Brothers Karamazov	Lee J. Cobb	0%
1964	The Best Man	Lee Tracy	0%
1956	The Bold and the Brave	Mickey Rooney	0%
1948	I Remember Mama	Oskar Homolka	0%
1960	Murder, Inc.	Peter Falk	0%
1937	The Awful Truth	Ralph Bellamy	0%
1970	Lovers and Other Strangers	Richard S. Castellano	0%
1953	Stalag 17	Robert Strauss	0%
1937	Topper	Roland Young	0%
1936	Pigskin Parade	Stuart Erwin	0%
1947	Ride the Pink Horse	Thomas Gomez	0%
1937	The Hurricane	Thomas Mitchell	0%
1957	A Farewell to Arms	Vittorio De Sica	0%
1942	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Walter Huston	0%
1942	Wake Island	William Bendix	0%
1946	The Jolson Story	William Demarest	0%
1940	They Knew What They Wanted	William Gargan	0%