Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominees

Can you name every single actor that has ever received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor?
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Year
Actor
2016
Mahershala Ali
2016
Dev Patel
2016
Lucas Hedges
2015
Tom Hardy
2015
Silvester Stallone
2015
Mark Rylance
2014
J. K. Simmons
2013
Bradley Cooper
2013
Michael Fassbender
2013
Jared Leto
2013
Barkhad Abdi
2011
Jonah Hill
2011
Kenneth Branagh
2011
Max Von Sydow
2011
Nick Nolte
2010
Christian Bale
2010
John Hawkes
2010
Jeremy Renner
2010
Mark Ruffalo
2009
Matt Damon
2009
Christopher Plummer
2009
Stanley Tucci
2009
Woody Harrelson
2009
Christoph Waltz
2008
Josh Brolin
2008
Robert Downey Jr.
2008
Michael Shannon
2008
Heath Ledger
2007
Philip Seymour Hoffman
2007
Tom Wilkinson
2007
Javier Bardem
2007
Hal Holbrook
2007
Casey Affleck
2006
Eddie Murphy
2006
Alan Arkin
2006
Jackie Earle Haley
2006
Mark Wahlberg
2005
George Clooney
2005
Jake Gyllenhaal
2005
Paul Giamatti
2005
Matt Dillon
2005
William Hurt
2004
Alan Alda
2004
Thomas Haden Church
2004
Clive Owen
2004
Jamie Foxx
2003
Alec Baldwin
2003
Tim Robbins
2003
Ken Watanabe
2003
Djimon Hounsou
2002
Chris Cooper
2002
Paul Newman
2002
John C. Reilly
2001
Jon Voight
2001
Ian McKellen
2001
Jim Broadbent
2001
Ethan Hawke
2000
Albert Finney
2000
Benicio del Toro
2000
Joaquin Phoenix
1999
Tom Cruise
1999
Michael Clarke Duncan
1999
Haley Joel Osment
1999
Jude Law
1998
James Coburn
1998
Geoffrey Rush
1998
Billy Bob Thornton
1997
Robert Forster
1997
Anthony Hopkins
1997
Burt Reynolds
1997
Robin Williams
1997
Greg Kinnear
1996
Cuba Gooding Jr.
1996
William H, Macy
1996
Armin Mueller-Stahl
1996
James Woods
1996
Edward Norton
1995
Ed Harris
Year
Actor
1995
Tim Roth
1995
Kevin Spacey
1995
James Cromwell
1995
Brad Pitt
1994
Paul Scofield
1994
Chazz Palminteri
1994
Samuel L. Jackson
1994
Gary Sinise
1993
Leonardo DiCaprio
1993
Pete Postlethwaite
1993
Ralph Fiennes
1992
Jaye Davidson
1992
David Paymer
1991
Tommy Lee Jones
1991
Harvey Keitel
1991
Ben Kingsley
1991
Michael Lerner
1990
Bruce Davison
1990
Andy Garcia
1990
Graham Greene
1989
Marlon Brando
1989
Danny Aiello
1989
Dan Aykroyd
1988
Martin Landau
1988
Kevin Kline
1988
Dean Stockwell
1988
River Phoenix
1987
Albert Brooks
1987
Sean Connery
1987
Denzel Washington
1987
Morgan Freeman
1986
Denholm Elliott
1986
Dennis Hopper
1986
Willem Dafoe
1986
Tom Berenger
1986
Michael Caine
1985
William Hickey
1985
Don Ameche
1985
Klaus Maria Brandauer
1985
Eric Roberts
1985
Robert Loggia
1984
Adolph Caesar
1984
John Malkovich
1984
Pat Morita
1984
Haing s. Ngor
1983
Sam Shepard
1983
Rip Torn
1982
John Lithgow
1982
Louis Gossett Jr.
1982
Robert Preston
1982
Charles Durning
1981
James Coco
1981
Howard Rollins
1981
Ian Holm
1980
Timothy Hutton
1980
Judd Hirsch
1980
Michael O'Keefe
1980
Joe Pesci
1979
Frederic Forrest
1979
Justin Henry
1978
John Hurt
1978
Richard Farnsworth
1978
Bruce Dern
1978
Christopher Walken
1977
Mikhail Baryshnikov
1977
Alec Guinness
1977
Maximilian Schell
1977
Peter Firth
1976
Laurence Olivier
1976
Ned Beatty
1976
Burt Young
1976
Jason Robards
1975
Burgess Meredith
1975
Chris Sarandon
1975
Jack Warden
1975
Brad Dourif
1975
George Burns
1974
Fred Astaire
Year
Actor
1974
Lee Strasberg
1974
Michael V. Gazzo
1974
Robert De Niro
1973
John Houseman
1973
Jason Miller
1973
Randy Quaid
1973
Jack Gilford
1973
Vincent Gardenia
1972
Robert Duvall
1972
Joel Grey
1972
Al Pacino
1972
James Caan
1971
Jeff Bridges
1971
Ben Johnson
1971
Roy Scheider
1971
Richard Jaeckel
1971
Leonard Frey
1970
John Mills
1970
Chief Dan George
1970
Richard S. Castellano
1970
John Marley
1969
Rupert Crosse
1969
Elliott Gould
1969
Anthony Quayle
1969
Jack Nicholson
1968
Jack Albertson
1968
Seymour Cassel
1968
Daniel Massey
1968
Jack Wild
1968
Gene Wilder
1967
John Cassavetes
1967
Gene Hackman
1967
George Kennedy
1967
Michael J. Pollard
1966
James Mason
1966
Walter Matthau
1966
George Segal
1966
Robert Shaw
1966
Mako
1965
Martin Balsam
1965
Frank Finlay
1965
Ian Bannen
1965
Michael Dunn
1965
Tom Courtenay
1964
Stanley Holloway
1964
John Gielgud
1964
Lee Tracy
1963
Melvyn Douglas
1963
Bobby Darin
1963
John Huston
1963
Nick Adams
1962
Telly Savalas
1962
Victor Buono
1962
Terence Stamp
1962
Ed Begley
1962
Omar Sharif
1961
George Chakiris
1961
Jackie Gleason
1961
Montgomery Clift
1960
Peter Falk
1960
Jack Kruschen
1960
Chill Wills
1959
Hugh Griffith
1959
Robert Vaughn
1959
George C. Scott
1959
Ed Wynn
1958
Theodore Bikel
1958
Burt Ives
1957
Red Buttons
1957
Vittorio De Sica
1957
Russ Tamblyn
1957
Sessue Hayakawa
1956
Mickey Rooney
1956
Don Murray
1956
Robert Stack
1956
Anthony Perkins
1955
Jack Lemmon
1955
Joe Mantell
Year
Actor
1955
Arthur O'Connell
1955
Sal Mineo
1954
Lee J. Cobb
1954
Rod Steiger
1954
Edmond O'Brien
1954
Tom Tully
1953
Brandon deWilde
1953
Eddie Albert
1953
Robert Strauss
1953
Frank Sinatra
1952
Richard Burton
1952
Victor McLaglen
1952
Anthony Quinn
1952
Arthur Hunnicutt
1952
Jack Palance
1951
Karl Malden
1951
Kevin McCarthy
1951
Leo Genn
1951
Peter Ustinov
1951
Gig Young
1950
Jeff Chandler
1950
Sam Jaffe
1950
Erich von Stroheim
1950
George Sanders
1949
John Ireland
1949
Dean Jagger
1949
Arthur Kennedy
1949
James Whitmore
1949
Ralph Richardson
1948
Jose Ferrer
1948
Cecil Kellaway
1948
Oskar Homolka
1947
Robert Ryan
1947
Thomas Gomez
1947
Richard Widmark
1947
Edmund Gwenn
1946
William Demarest
1946
Harold Russell
1945
Michael Chekhov
1945
James Dunn
1945
John Dall
1945
Robert Mitchum
1944
Barry Fitzgerald
1944
Hume Cronyn
1944
Monty Woolley
1944
Clifton Webb
1943
Charles Bickford
1943
J, Carroll Naish
1942
Walter Huston
1942
Van Heflin
1942
William Bendix
1942
Frank Morgan
1942
Henry Travers
1941
James Gleason
1941
Donald Crisp
1941
Charles Coburn
1941
Sydney Greenstreet
1940
Albert Bassermann
1940
William Gargan
1940
James Stephenson
1940
Jack Oakie
1939
Brian Ahern
1939
Harry Carey
1939
Brian Donlevy
1939
Claude Rains
1938
Robert Morley
1938
Gene Lockhart
1938
John Garfield
1937
Roland Young
1937
H. B. Warner
1937
Thomas Mitchell
1937
Ralph Bellamy
1937
Joseph Schildkraut
1936
Akim Tamiroff
1936
Basil Rathbone
1936
Stuart Erwin
1936
Mischa Auer
1936
Walter Brennan
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Level 72
Jul 10, 2016
After months of working on it, I finally named them all! Can you do the Best Supporting Actress Quiz next? Great job! Thank you!
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Level 57
Jul 10, 2016
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've just submitted the Best Supporting Actress one. It should be good to go in a few hours I guess. Good luck!
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Level 69
Nov 9, 2016
I hate to keep doing this to you, but it's Robert Forster, not Foster.
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Level 57
Nov 9, 2016
Thank you for the feedback. It's clearly hard no to have some typos after 300 names. Changes should be submitted shortly. Do let me know if you find any other mistake. It's highly appreciated
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Level 65
Aug 15, 2022
english actor nominated in 1939 is Brian Aherne, i.e. with an 'e' and NOT Ahern. hope that helps