List of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (by film title)

The main article for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor presents the nominees and winners by year. This is a list of films with a cast member nominated for the award sorted by film title (with the year the film was released in parens following the film title). Winners of the award are indicated in bold. Also see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees for the same information sorted by actor.

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Year	Film	Nominee
2003	21 Grams	Benicio del Toro

A

Year	Film	Nominee
2002	Adaptation.	Chris Cooper
1998	Affliction	James Coburn
1960	The Alamo	Chill Wills
1938	Algiers	Gene Lockhart
2001	Ali	Jon Voight
1950	All About Eve	George Sanders
1949	All the King's Men	John Ireland
1976	All the President's Men	Jason Robards
1997	Amistad	Anthony Hopkins
1982	An Officer and a Gentleman	Louis Gossett, Jr.
1959	Anatomy of a Murder	Arthur O'Connell
1959	Anatomy of a Murder (2)	George C. Scott
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Anthony Quayle
1960	The Apartment	Jack Kruschen
1979	Apocalypse Now	Robert Duvall
1995	Apollo 13	Ed Harris
2012	"Argo"	Alan Arkin
1981	Arthur	John Gielgud
1997	As Good as It Gets	Greg Kinnear
1950	The Asphalt Jungle	Sam Jaffe
2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Casey Affleck
2004	The Aviator	Alan Alda
1937	The Awful Truth	Ralph Bellamy

B

• Babe (1995) - James Cromwell
• Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) - Vincent Gardenia
• The Barefoot Contessa (1954) - Edmond O'Brien
• Barton Fink (1991) - Michael Lerner
• Battleground (1949) - James Whitmore
• Beau Geste (1939) - Brian Donlevy
• Becket (1964) - John Gielgud
• Beginners (2011) - Christopher Plummer
• Being There (1979) - Melvyn Douglas
• Ben-Hur (1959) - Hugh Griffith
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) - Charles Durning
• The Best Man (1964) - Lee Tracy
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Harold Russell
• The Big Country (1958) - Burl Ives
• The Big Sky (1952) - Arthur Hunnicutt
• Billy Budd (1962) - Terence Stamp
• Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) - Telly Savalas
• The Black Stallion (1979) - Mickey Rooney
• Blood Diamond (2006) - Djimon Hounsou
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) - Elliott Gould
• The Bold and the Brave (1956) - Mickey Rooney
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Gene Hackman
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Michael J. Pollard
• Boogie Nights (1997) - Burt Reynolds
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Sessue Hayakawa
• Broadcast News (1987) - Albert Brooks
• Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Jake Gyllenhaal
• Broken Arrow (1950) - Jeff Chandler
• The Brothers Karamazov (1958) - Lee J. Cobb
• Bugsy (1991) - Harvey Keitel
• Bugsy (1991) - Ben Kingsley
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994) - Chazz Palminteri
• Bus Stop (1956) - Don Murray

C

• Cabaret (1972) - Joel Grey
• The Caine Mutiny (1954) - Tom Tully
• Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) - Bobby Darin
• The Cardinal (1963) - John Huston
• Casablanca (1943) - Claude Rains
• Catch Me If You Can (2002) - Christopher Walken
• Champion (1949) - Arthur Kennedy
• Chariots of Fire (1981) - Ian Holm
• Charlie Wilson's War (2007) - Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Chicago (2002) - John C. Reilly
• The Cider House Rules (1999) - Michael Caine
• Cinderella Man (2005) - Paul Giamatti
• City Slickers (1991) - Jack Palance
• A Civil Action (1998) - Robert Duvall
• Closer (2004) - Clive Owen
• Cocoon (1985) - Don Ameche
• Collateral (2004) - Jamie Foxx
• Come Fill the Cup (1951) - Gig Young
• Come and Get It (1936) - Walter Brennan
• Comes a Horseman (1978) - Richard Farnsworth
• Coming Home (1978) - Bruce Dern
• The Contender (2000) - Jeff Bridges
• Cool Hand Luke (1967) - George Kennedy
• The Cooler (2003) - Alec Baldwin
• The Corn Is Green (1945) - John Dall
• Crash (2005) - Matt Dillon
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Martin Landau
• Cross Creek (1983) - Rip Torn
• Crossfire (1947) - Robert Ryan
• Cry Freedom (1987) - Denzel Washington
• The Crying Game (1992) - Jaye Davidson

D

• Dances with Wolves (1990) - Graham Greene
• The Dark Knight (2008) - Heath Ledger
• The Day of the Locust (1975) - Burgess Meredith
• Death of a Salesman (1951) - Kevin McCarthy
• The Deer Hunter (1978) - Christopher Walken
• The Defiant Ones (1958) - Theodore Bikel
• The Departed (2006) - Mark Wahlberg
• The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) - Charles Coburn
• The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) - Ed Wynn
• Dick Tracy (1990) - Al Pacino
• The Dirty Dozen (1967) - John Cassavetes
• Django Unchained (2012) - Christoph Waltz
• Do the Right Thing (1989) - Danny Aiello
• Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Tom Courtenay
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Chris Sarandon
• Doubt (2008) - Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Dreamgirls (2006) - Eddie Murphy
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Dan Aykroyd
• A Dry White Season (1989) - Marlon Brando

E

• Easy Rider (1969) - Jack Nicholson
• Ed Wood (1994) - Martin Landau
• Equus (1977) - Peter Firth
• Erin Brockovich (2000) - Albert Finney
• Exodus (1960) - Sal Mineo
• The Exorcist (1973) - Jason Miller
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) - Max von Sydow

F

• Faces (1968) - Seymour Cassel
• A Farewell to Arms (1957) - Vittorio De Sica
• Fargo (1996) - William H. Macy
• The Farmer's Daughter (1947) - Charles Bickford
• A Few Good Men (1992) - Jack Nicholson
• Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Leonard Frey
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988) - Kevin Kline
• The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) - Ian Bannen
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) - Akim Tamiroff
• Foreign Correspondent (1940) - Albert Basserman
• Forrest Gump (1994) - Gary Sinise
• The Fortune Cookie (1966) - Walter Matthau
• Four Daughters (1938) - John Garfield
• The French Connection (1971) - Roy Scheider
• Friendly Persuasion (1956) - Anthony Perkins
• From Here to Eternity (1953) - Frank Sinatra
• The Fugitive (1993) - Tommy Lee Jones

G

• The General Died at Dawn (1936) - Akim Tamiroff
• Georgy Girl (1966) - James Mason
• Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) - James Woods
• Gladiator (2000) - Joaquin Phoenix
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - Al Pacino
• Glory (1989) - Denzel Washington
• The Godfather (1972) - James Caan
• The Godfather (1972) - Robert Duvall
• The Godfather (1972) - Al Pacino
• The Godfather Part II (1974) - Robert De Niro
• The Godfather Part II (1974) - Michael V. Gazzo
• The Godfather Part II (1974) - Lee Strasberg
• The Godfather Part III (1990) - Andy García
• Going My Way (1944) - Barry Fitzgerald
• Good Will Hunting (1997) - Robin Williams
• Goodfellas (1990) - Joe Pesci
• The Great Dictator (1940) - Jack Oakie
• The Great Santini (1980) - Michael O'Keefe
• The Green Mile (1999) - Michael Clarke Duncan
• The Green Years (1946) - Charles Coburn
• Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) - Ralph Richardson
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Cecil Kellaway

H

• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Michael Caine
• The Heartbreak Kid (1972) - Eddie Albert
• Heaven Can Wait (1978) - Jack Warden
• The Heiress (1949) - Ralph Richardson
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) - James Gleason
• A History of Violence (2005) - William Hurt
• Hoosiers ( 1986) - Dennis Hopper
• The Hours (2002) - Ed Harris
• How Green Was My Valley (1941) - Donald Crisp
• Hud (1963) - Melvyn Douglas
• The Hurricane (1937) - Thomas Mitchell
• The Hustler (1961) - Jackie Gleason
• The Hustler (1961) - George C. Scott

I

• I Never Sang for My Father (1970) – Gene Hackman
• I Remember Mama (1948) – Oscar Homolka
• If I Were King (1938) – Basil Rathbone
• In America (2003) – Djimon Hounsou
• In the Line of Fire (1993) – John Malkovich
• In the Name of the Father (1993) – Pete Postlethwaite
• Into the Wild (2007) – Hal Holbrook
• Iris (2001) – Jim Broadbent
• Invictus (2009) – Matt Damon

J

• JFK (1991) - Tommy Lee Jones
• Jackie Brown (1997) - Robert Forster
• Jagged Edge (1985) - Robert Loggia
• Jerry Maguire (1996) - Cuba Gooding, Jr.
• Joan of Arc (1948) - José Ferrer
• Johnny Belinda (1948) - Charles Bickford
• Johnny Eager (1942) - Van Heflin
• The Jolson Story (1946) - William Demarest
• Juarez (1939) - Brian Aherne
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Montgomery Clift
• Julia (1977) - Jason Robards
• Julia (1977) - Maximilian Schell

K

• The Karate Kid (1984) - Noriyuki Morita
• Kentucky (1938) - Walter Brennan
• The Killing Fields (1984) - Haing S. Ngor
• Kiss of Death (1947) - Richard Widmark
• Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - Justin Henry

L

• The Last Detail (1973) - Randy Quaid
• The Last Picture Show (1971) - Jeff Bridges
• The Last Picture Show (1971) - Ben Johnson
• The Last Samurai (2003) - Ken Watanabe
• The Last Station (2009) - Christopher Plummer
• Laura (1944) - Clifton Webb
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Omar Sharif
• The Letter (1940) - James Stephenson
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937) - Joseph Schildkraut
• "Lincoln" (2012) - Tommy Lee Jones
• Little Big Man (1970) - Chief Dan George
• Little Children (2006) - Jackie Earle Haley
• Little Dorrit (1988) - Alec Guinness
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Alan Arkin
• Longtime Companion (1990) - Bruce Davison
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Ian McKellen
• Lost Horizon (1937) - H. B. Warner
• Love Story (1970) - John Marley
• Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) - Richard S. Castellano
• The Luck of the Irish (1948) - Cecil Kellaway
• Lust for Life (1956) - Anthony Quinn

M

• Magnolia (1999) - Tom Cruise
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Sydney Greenstreet
• A Man for All Seasons (1966) - Robert Shaw
• Marathon Man (1976) - Laurence Olivier
• Marie Antoinette (1938) - Robert Morley
• Married to the Mob (1988) - Dean Stockwell
• Marty (1955) - Joe Mantell
• "The Master" (2012) - Philip Seymour Hoffman
• A Medal for Benny (1945) - J. Naish
• Melvin and Howard (1980) - Jason Robards
• The Messenger (2009) - Woody Harrelson
• Michael Clayton (2007) - Tom Wilkinson
• Midnight Express (1978) - John Hurt
• Milk (2008) - Josh Brolin
• Million Dollar Baby (2004) - Morgan Freeman
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - Edmund Gwenn
• Mister 880 (1950) - Edmund Gwenn
• Mister Roberts (1955) - Jack Lemmon
• Moneyball (2011) - Jonah Hill
• Moonstruck (1987) - Vincent Gardenia
• The More the Merrier (1943) - Charles Coburn
• Mr. Skeffington (1944) - Claude Rains
• Mr. Saturday Night (1992) - David Paymer
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Harry Carey
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Claude Rains
• Mrs. Miniver (1942) - Henry Travers
• Murder, Inc. (1960) - Peter Falk
• My Cousin Rachel (1952) - Richard Burton
• My Fair Lady (1964) - Stanley Holloway
• My Man Godfrey (1936) - Mischa Auer
• My Week with Marilyn (2011) - Kenneth Branagh
• Mystic River (2003) - Tim Robbins

N

Year	Film	Nominee
1976	Network	Ned Beatty
2007	No Country for Old Men	Javier Bardem
1946	Notorious	Claude Rains

O

• Oliver! (1968) - Jack Wild
• On the Waterfront (1954) - Lee J. Cobb
• On the Waterfront (1954) - Karl Malden
• On the Waterfront (1954) - Rod Steiger
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Brad Dourif
• Only When I Laugh (1981) - James Coco
• Ordinary People (1980) - Judd Hirsch
• Ordinary People (1980) - Timothy Hutton
• Othello (1965) - Frank Finlay
• Out of Africa (1985) - Klaus Brandauer

P

• The Paper Chase (1973) - John Houseman
• Peyton Place (1957) - Arthur Kennedy
• Peyton Place (1957) - Russ Tamblyn
• Picnic (1955) - Arthur O'Connell
• Pigskin Parade (1936) - Stuart Erwin
• Places in the Heart (1984) - John Malkovich
• Platoon (1986) - Tom Berenger
• Platoon (1986) - Willem Dafoe
• Pocketful of Miracles (1961) - Peter Falk
• Primal Fear (1996) - Edward Norton
• Prizzi's Honor (1985) - William Hickey
• The Producers (1968) - Gene Wilder
• Pulp Fiction (1994) - Samuel L. Jackson

Q

Year	Film	Nominee
1952	The Quiet Man	Victor McLaglen
1994	Quiz Show	Paul Scofield
1951	Quo Vadis	Leo Genn
1951	Quo Vadis (2)	Peter Ustinov

R

• Raging Bull (1980) - Joe Pesci
• Ragtime (1981) - Howard Rollins
• The Razor's Edge (1946) - Clifton Webb
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Sal Mineo
• Reds (1981) - Jack Nicholson
• The Reivers (1969) - Rupert Crosse
• Revolutionary Road (2008) - Michael Shannon
• Ride the Pink Horse (1947) - Thomas Gomez
• The Right Stuff (1983) - Sam Shepard
• Road to Perdition (2002) - Paul Newman
• Rob Roy (1995) - Tim Roth
• Rocky (1976) - Burgess Meredith
• Rocky (1976) - Burt Young
• Roman Holiday (1953) - Eddie Albert
• Romeo and Juliet (1936) - Basil Rathbone
• A Room with a View (1986) - Denholm Elliott
• The Rose (1979) - Frederic Forrest
• Runaway Train (1985) - Eric Roberts
• Running on Empty (1988) - River Phoenix
• Ryan's Daughter (1970) - John Mills

S

• Sahara (1943) - J. Naish
• Save the Tiger (1973) - Jack Gilford
• The Sand Pebbles (1966) - Makoto Iwamatsu
• Sayonara (1957) - Red Buttons
• Schindler's List (1993) - Ralph Fiennes
• Sergeant York (1941) - Walter Brennan
• Seven Days in May (1964) - Edmond O'Brien
• The Seventh Cross (1944) - Hume Cronyn
• Sexy Beast (2001) - Ben Kingsley
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - Willem Dafoe
• Shakespeare in Love (1998) - Geoffrey Rush
• Shampoo (1975) - Jack Warden
• Shane (1953) - Brandon deWilde
• Shane (1953) - Jack Palance
• Shine (1996) - Armin Mueller-Stahl
• Ship of Fools (1965) - Michael Dunn
• Sideways (2004) - Thomas Haden Church
• "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012) - Robert de Niro
• A Simple Plan (1998) - Billy Bob Thornton
• Since You Went Away (1944) - Monty Woolley
• The Sixth Sense (1999) - Haley Joel Osment
• A Soldier's Story (1984) - Adolph Caesar
• Some Came Running (1958) - Arthur Kennedy
• Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) - Richard Jaeckel
• The Song of Bernadette (1943) - Charles Bickford
• Spartacus (1960) - Peter Ustinov
• Spellbound (1945) - Michael Chekhov
• Stagecoach (1939) - Thomas Mitchell
• Stalag 17 (1953) - Robert Strauss
• Star! (1968) - Daniel Massey
• Star Wars (1977) - Alec Guinness
• The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) - Robert Mitchum
• Street Smart (1987) - Morgan Freeman
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Karl Malden
• Sudden Fear (1952) - Jack Palance
• The Subject Was Roses (1968) - Jack Albertson
• Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Erich von Stroheim
• The Sunshine Boys (1975) - George Burns
• Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) - Ed Begley
• Syriana (2005) - George Clooney

T

• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) - Jude Law
• Teacher's Pet (1958) - Gig Young
• Terms of Endearment (1983) - John Lithgow
• Terms of Endearment (1983) - Jack Nicholson
• They Knew What They Wanted (1940) - William Gargan
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) - Gig Young
• A Thousand Clowns (1965) - Martin Balsam
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) - Jeff Bridges
• To Be or Not to Be (1983) - Charles Durning
• Tom Jones (1963) - Hugh Griffith
• Topkapi (1964) - Peter Ustinov
• Topper (1937) - Roland Young
• Tortilla Flat (1942) - Frank Morgan
• The Towering Inferno (1974) - Fred Astaire
• Traffic (2000) - Benicio del Toro
• Training Day (2001) - Ethan Hawke
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - Walter Huston
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945) - James Dunn
• Trial (1955) - Arthur Kennedy
• Tropic Thunder (2008) - Robert Downey, Jr.
• The Truman Show (1998) - Ed Harris
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) - Martin Landau
• The Turning Point (1977) - Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Twelve Monkeys (1995) - Brad Pitt
• Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Dean Jagger
• Twilight of Honor (1963) - Nick Adams

U

• Unforgiven (1992) - Gene Hackman
• The Untouchables (1987) - Sean Connery
• The Usual Suspects (1995) - Kevin Spacey

V

• The Verdict (1982) - James Mason
• Victor Victoria (1982) - Robert Preston
• Viva Zapata! (1952) - Anthony Quinn

W

• Wake Island (1942) - William Bendix
• Warrior (2011) - Nick Nolte
• West Side Story (1961) - George Chakiris
• The Westerner (1940) - Walter Brennan
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - Victor Buono
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) - Leonardo DiCaprio
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - George Segal
• The World According to Garp (1982) - John Lithgow
• Written on the Wind (1956) - Robert Stack

Y

• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - Walter Huston
• The Young Philadelphians (1959) - Robert Vaughn