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Playing a menacing colonel in One Battle After Another (2025) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
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This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2016 playing a drug dealer named Juan in Moonlight.
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Playing slain activist Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah (2020/21) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
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Playing washed-up astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment (1983) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
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Melvyn Douglas's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, for 1979's Being There, came for playing tycoon Benjamin '_ _ _ _.'
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This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1985 playing entrepreneur Arthur Selwyn in Cocoon.
AMECHEAt age 82, this actor became the oldest Oscar winner ever, taking Best Supporting Actor in 2011 for Beginners.
PLUMMERThis actor's turn as meddling Uncle Benjamin Dingle in The More the Merrier (1943) won Best Supporting Actor.
COBURNThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1974 for playing a young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
DENIROThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for playing orchid poacher John Laroche in Adaptation.
COOPERPlaying marathon-dance emcee Rocky Gravo in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
YOUNGA real WWII veteran who lost both hands in combat won Best Supporting Actor in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.
RUSSELLPlaying U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard in The Fugitive (1993) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
JONESThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1945 playing doomed dreamer Johnny Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
DUNNPlaying hitman Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men (2007) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
BARDEMPlaying therapist Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting (1997) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
WILLIAMSThis actor's 1947 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing department-store Santa Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street.
GWENNThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2000 playing a conflicted Mexican cop in Traffic.
DELTOROA genocide survivor with no prior acting experience, this actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1984 for The Killing Fields.
NGORPlaying troubled boxer Dicky Eklund in The Fighter (2010) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
BALEPlaying Captain Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola (1937) won Best Supporting Actor for actor '_ _ _ _ _ _ Schildkraut.'
JOSEPHPlaying washed-up movie cowboy Curly Washburn in City Slickers (1991) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
PALANCEThis actor's 1954 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing PR man Oscar Muldoon in The Barefoot Contessa.
OBRIENPlaying the mysterious storyteller Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects (1995) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
SPACEYJason Robards' second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in 1977's Julia, came for playing writer Dashiell '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'
HAMMETTThis actor's 1951 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire.
MALDENPlaying the sadistic prison captain in Cool Hand Luke (1967) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
KENNEDYPlaying AEC chairman Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer (2023) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
DOWNEYPlaying philosopher John Bayley in Iris (2001) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
BROADBENTThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1992 as ruthless sheriff 'Little' Bill Daggett in Unforgiven.
HACKMANMahershala Ali's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, for Green Book (2018), came for playing pianist Don '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'
SHIRLEYThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1966 as scheming lawyer 'Whiplash Willie' in The Fortune Cookie.
MATTHAUThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2009 as sadistic 'Jew Hunter' Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds.
WALTZThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1960 as slave trader Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus.
USTINOVThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1970 for Ryan's Daughter, playing the mute villager Michael.
MILLSThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1968 playing John Cleary in The Subject Was Roses.
ALBERTSONThis actor, whose stage name was a household appliance, won Best Supporting Actor in 1957 for playing Airman Joe Kelly in Sayonara.
BUTTONSThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1961 for playing gang leader Bernardo in West Side Story.
CHAKIRISThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2019 playing laid-back stuntman Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
PITTPlaying the sardonic butler Hobson in Arthur (1981) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
GIELGUDPlaying court-martialed Private Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity (1953) won this crooner-turned-actor Best Supporting Actor.
SINATRAPlaying troubled Dave Boyle in Mystic River (2003) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
ROBBINSPlaying bigoted deputy Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
ROCKWELL'_ _ _ _ _' Coburn won Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for playing an abusive father in Affliction.
JAMESThis actor's 1963 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing aging rancher Homer Bannon in Hud.
DOUGLASThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1980 playing grieving teenager Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People.
HUTTONWalter Brennan won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1938 playing Peter Goodwin in a film simply titled '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.'
KENTUCKYThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for playing horror star Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood.
LANDAUPlaying world-weary CIA operative Bob Barnes in Syriana (2005) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
CLOONEYPlaying crusty law professor Kingsfield in The Paper Chase (1973) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
HOUSEMANPlaying neurotic Elliot in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
CAINEChristoph Waltz's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in Django Unchained (2012), came for playing Dr. King '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'
SCHULTZThis actor's posthumous 2008 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing the Joker in The Dark Knight.
LEDGERPlaying disturbed soldier Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (1978) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
WALKENPlaying aging cowboy Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show (1971) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
JOHNSONThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1958 playing vengeful rancher Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country.
IVESPlaying venomous theater critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
SANDERSThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2022 for playing gentle laundromat husband Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
QUANThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1982 as tough drill instructor Sgt. Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman.
GOSSETTThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1952 playing Eufemio Zapata, brother of the revolutionary, in Viva Zapata!
QUINNPeter Ustinov's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in 1964, came for playing a con man in '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'
TOPKAPIThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1941 as stern patriarch Gwilym Morgan in How Green Was My Valley.
CRISPThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1987 as incorruptible cop Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables.
CONNERYThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2013 for playing Rayon, a trans woman with HIV, in Dallas Buyers Club.
LETOPlaying prospector Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
HUSTONThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2006 playing foul-mouthed Grandpa Edwin in Little Miss Sunshine.
ARKINPlaying dim-witted crook Otto West in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
KLINEPlaying tyrannical music instructor Terence Fletcher in Whiplash (2014) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
SIMMONSThis actor's catchphrase-spawning role as Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire (1996) won him Best Supporting Actor.
GOODINGThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2024 for playing troubled cousin Benji in A Real Pain.
CULKINPlaying wisecracking press agent Jeff Hartnett in 1942's Johnny Eager won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
HEFLINAnthony Quinn's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in 1956, came for playing painter Paul '_ _ _ _ _ _ _' in Lust for Life.
GAUGUINPlaying aging vaudevillian Al Lewis in The Sunshine Boys (1975) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
BURNSPlaying Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur (1959) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
GRIFFITH_ _ _ _ _ Fitzgerald won Best Supporting Actor in 1944 for playing Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way.
BARRYWalter Brennan's third Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in 1940, came for playing Judge Roy Bean in '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.'
WESTERNER'_ _ _ _ _ _' Washington won Best Supporting Actor in 1989 for playing Private Trip in Glory.
DENZELThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1972 as the sinister Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret.
GREYThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2015 as Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies.
RYLANCEPlaying accountant Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
BALSAMThis actor's turn as whiskey-loving Doc Boone in 1939's Stagecoach won him Best Supporting Actor.
MITCHELLThis actor won the first-ever Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1936, playing farmhand Swan Bostrom in Come and Get It.
BRENNANPlaying Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts (1955) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
LEMMONMichael Caine's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, for The Cider House Rules (1999), came for playing Dr. Wilbur '_ _ _ _ _.'
LARCHPlaying corrupt political boss Tom 'Boss' Finley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.
BEGLEYThe first deaf man to win an acting Oscar, this actor took Best Supporting Actor in 2021 for CODA.
KOTSURThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1949 as Major Harvey Stovall in Twelve O'Clock High.
JAGGERThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1976 playing Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men.
ROBARDSThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1990 playing mobster Tommy DeVito in GoodFellas.
PESCIThis actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2004 as gym trainer Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris in Million Dollar Baby.
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