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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.

AMECHE

At age 82, this actor became the oldest Oscar winner ever, taking Best Supporting Actor in 2011 for Beginners.

PLUMMER

This actor's turn as meddling Uncle Benjamin Dingle in The More the Merrier (1943) won Best Supporting Actor.

COBURN

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1974 for playing a young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.

DENIRO

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for playing orchid poacher John Laroche in Adaptation.

COOPER

Playing marathon-dance emcee Rocky Gravo in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

YOUNG

A real WWII veteran who lost both hands in combat won Best Supporting Actor in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.

RUSSELL

Playing U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard in The Fugitive (1993) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

JONES

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1945 playing doomed dreamer Johnny Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

DUNN

Playing hitman Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men (2007) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

BARDEM

Playing therapist Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting (1997) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

WILLIAMS

This actor's 1947 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing department-store Santa Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street.

GWENN

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2000 playing a conflicted Mexican cop in Traffic.

DELTORO

A genocide survivor with no prior acting experience, this actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1984 for The Killing Fields.

NGOR

Playing troubled boxer Dicky Eklund in The Fighter (2010) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

BALE

Playing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola (1937) won Best Supporting Actor for actor '_ _ _ _ _ _ Schildkraut.'

JOSEPH

Playing washed-up movie cowboy Curly Washburn in City Slickers (1991) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

PALANCE

This actor's 1954 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing PR man Oscar Muldoon in The Barefoot Contessa.

OBRIEN

Playing the mysterious storyteller Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects (1995) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

SPACEY

Jason Robards' second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in 1977's Julia, came for playing writer Dashiell '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

HAMMETT

This actor's 1951 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire.

MALDEN

Playing the sadistic prison captain in Cool Hand Luke (1967) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

KENNEDY

Playing AEC chairman Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer (2023) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

DOWNEY

Playing philosopher John Bayley in Iris (2001) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

BROADBENT

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1992 as ruthless sheriff 'Little' Bill Daggett in Unforgiven.

HACKMAN

Mahershala Ali's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, for Green Book (2018), came for playing pianist Don '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

SHIRLEY

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1966 as scheming lawyer 'Whiplash Willie' in The Fortune Cookie.

MATTHAU

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2009 as sadistic 'Jew Hunter' Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds.

WALTZ

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1960 as slave trader Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus.

USTINOV

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1970 for Ryan's Daughter, playing the mute villager Michael.

MILLS

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1968 playing John Cleary in The Subject Was Roses.

ALBERTSON

This actor, whose stage name was a household appliance, won Best Supporting Actor in 1957 for playing Airman Joe Kelly in Sayonara.

BUTTONS

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1961 for playing gang leader Bernardo in West Side Story.

CHAKIRIS

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2019 playing laid-back stuntman Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

PITT

Playing the sardonic butler Hobson in Arthur (1981) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

GIELGUD

Playing court-martialed Private Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity (1953) won this crooner-turned-actor Best Supporting Actor.

SINATRA

Playing troubled Dave Boyle in Mystic River (2003) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

ROBBINS

Playing 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.

JAMES

This actor's 1963 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing aging rancher Homer Bannon in Hud.

DOUGLAS

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1980 playing grieving teenager Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People.

HUTTON

Walter Brennan won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1938 playing Peter Goodwin in a film simply titled '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

KENTUCKY

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for playing horror star Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood.

LANDAU

Playing world-weary CIA operative Bob Barnes in Syriana (2005) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

CLOONEY

Playing crusty law professor Kingsfield in The Paper Chase (1973) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

HOUSEMAN

Playing neurotic Elliot in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

CAINE

Christoph Waltz's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in Django Unchained (2012), came for playing Dr. King '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

SCHULTZ

This actor's posthumous 2008 Best Supporting Actor win came for playing the Joker in The Dark Knight.

LEDGER

Playing disturbed soldier Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (1978) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

WALKEN

Playing aging cowboy Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show (1971) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

JOHNSON

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1958 playing vengeful rancher Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country.

IVES

Playing venomous theater critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

SANDERS

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2022 for playing gentle laundromat husband Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

QUAN

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1982 as tough drill instructor Sgt. Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman.

GOSSETT

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1952 playing Eufemio Zapata, brother of the revolutionary, in Viva Zapata!

QUINN

Peter Ustinov's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in 1964, came for playing a con man in '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

TOPKAPI

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1941 as stern patriarch Gwilym Morgan in How Green Was My Valley.

CRISP

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1987 as incorruptible cop Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables.

CONNERY

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2013 for playing Rayon, a trans woman with HIV, in Dallas Buyers Club.

LETO

Playing prospector Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

HUSTON

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2006 playing foul-mouthed Grandpa Edwin in Little Miss Sunshine.

ARKIN

Playing dim-witted crook Otto West in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

KLINE

Playing tyrannical music instructor Terence Fletcher in Whiplash (2014) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

SIMMONS

This actor's catchphrase-spawning role as Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire (1996) won him Best Supporting Actor.

GOODING

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2024 for playing troubled cousin Benji in A Real Pain.

CULKIN

Playing wisecracking press agent Jeff Hartnett in 1942's Johnny Eager won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

HEFLIN

Anthony Quinn's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in 1956, came for playing painter Paul '_ _ _ _ _ _ _' in Lust for Life.

GAUGUIN

Playing aging vaudevillian Al Lewis in The Sunshine Boys (1975) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

BURNS

Playing 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.

BARRY

Walter 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.

DENZEL

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1972 as the sinister Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret.

GREY

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2015 as Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies.

RYLANCE

Playing accountant Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

BALSAM

This actor's turn as whiskey-loving Doc Boone in 1939's Stagecoach won him Best Supporting Actor.

MITCHELL

This actor won the first-ever Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1936, playing farmhand Swan Bostrom in Come and Get It.

BRENNAN

Playing Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts (1955) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

LEMMON

Michael Caine's second Best Supporting Actor Oscar, for The Cider House Rules (1999), came for playing Dr. Wilbur '_ _ _ _ _.'

LARCH

Playing corrupt political boss Tom 'Boss' Finley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) won this actor Best Supporting Actor.

BEGLEY

The first deaf man to win an acting Oscar, this actor took Best Supporting Actor in 2021 for CODA.

KOTSUR

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1949 as Major Harvey Stovall in Twelve O'Clock High.

JAGGER

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1976 playing Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men.

ROBARDS

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 1990 playing mobster Tommy DeVito in GoodFellas.

PESCI

This actor won Best Supporting Actor in 2004 as gym trainer Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris in Million Dollar Baby.

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