As we approach the 95th Academy Awards, Deadline takes a photo-heavy look back at every Best Supporting Actor winner since 1937.
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2023 — Ke Huy Quan
Image Credit: Allyson Riggs/A24 Everything Everywhere All at Once’ (2022)
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2022 – Troy Kotsur
Image Credit: Apple TV+ / Courtesy Everett Collection ‘CODA’ (2021)
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2021 – Daniel Kaluuya
Image Credit: Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ (2020)
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2020 – Brad Pitt
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ (2019)
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2019 – Mahershala Ali
Image Credit: Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Green Book’ (2018)
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2018 – Sam Rockwell
Image Credit: M Morton/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ (2017)
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2017 – Mahershala Ali
Image Credit: Shutterstock ‘Moonlight’ (2016)
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2016 – Mark Rylance
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Bridge of Spies’ (2015)
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2015 – J.K. Simmons
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Whiplash’ (2014)
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2014 – Jared Leto
Image Credit: Anne Marie Fox/Voltage/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ (2013)
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2013 – Christoph Waltz
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Django Unchained’ (2012)
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2012 – Christopher Plummer
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Beginners’ (2011)
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2011 – Christian Bale
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘The Fighter’ (2010)
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2010 – Christoph Waltz
Image Credit: Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Inglourious Basterds’ (2009)
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2009 – Heath Ledger
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
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2008 – Javier Bardem
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007)
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2007 – Alan Arkin
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox/Fox Searchlight/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ (2006)
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2006 – George Clooney
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Syriana’ (2005)
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2005 – Morgan Freeman
Image Credit: Merie W Wallace/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Million Dollar Baby’ (2004)
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2004 Tim Robbins
Image Credit: Snap Stills/Shutterstock ‘Mystic River’ (2003)
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2003 – Chris Cooper
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Adaptation’ (2002)
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2003 – Jim Broadbent
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Iris’ (2002)
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2001 – Benicio Del Toro
Image Credit: Bedford Falls/Initial Ent/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Traffic’ (2000)
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2000 – Michael Caine
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘The Cider House Rules’ (1999)
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1999 – James Coburn
Image Credit: Largo/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Affliction’ (1998)
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1998 – Robin Williams
Image Credit: George Kraychyk/Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Good Will Hunting’ (1997)
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1997 – Cuba Gooding Jr.
Image Credit: Columbia Tri Star/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Jerry Maguire’ (1996)
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1996 – Kevin Spacey
Image Credit: Linda R Chen/Polygram/Spelling/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘The Usual Suspects’ (1995)
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1995 – Martin Landau
Image Credit: Touchstone/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Ed Wood’ (1994)
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1994 – Tommy Lee Jones
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘The Fugitive’ (1993)
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1993 – Gene Hackman
Image Credit: Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Unforgiven’ (1992)
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1992 – Jack Palance
Image Credit: Tri Star/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘City Slickers’ (1991)
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1991 – Joe Pesci
Image Credit: Tri Star/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Goodfellas’ (1990)
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1990 – Denzel Washington
Image Credit: Tri Star/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Glory’ (1989)
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1989 – Kevin Kline – 1988
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ (1988)
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1988 – Sean Connery
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘The Untouchables’ (1987)
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1987 – Michael Caine
Image Credit: Snap/Shutterstock ‘Hannah and her Sisters’ (1986)
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1986 – Don Ameche
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Cocoon’ (1985)
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1985 – Haing S. Ngor
Image Credit: Snap Stills/Shutterstock ‘The Killing Fields’ (1984)
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1984 -Jack Nicholson
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Terms of Endearment’ (1983)
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1983 -Louis Gossett Jr.
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ (1982)
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1982 -John Gielgud
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Arthur’ (1981)
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1981 – Timothy Hutton
Image Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ‘Ordinary People’ (1980)
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1980 – Melvyn Douglas
Image Credit: United Artists/courtesy Everett Collection ‘Being There’ (1979)
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1979 – Christopher Walken
Image Credit: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection ‘The Deer Hunter’ (1978)
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1978 – Jason Robards, Jr.
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film ‘Julia’ (1977)
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1977 – Jason Robards, Jr.
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘All the President’s Men’ (1976)
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1976 – George Burns
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Sunshine Boys’ (1975)
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1795 – Robert De Niro
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Godfather Part II’ (1974)
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1974 – John Houseman
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film ‘The Paper Chase’ (1973)
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1973 – Joel Grey
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Cabaret’ (1972)
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1972 – Ben Johnson
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Last Picture Show’ (1971)
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1971 – John Mills
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ (1970)
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1970 – Gig Young
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ (1969)
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1969 – Jack Albertson
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Subject Was Roses’ (1968)
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1968 – George Kennedy
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967)
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1967 – Walter Matthau
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Fortune Cookie’ (1966)
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1966 – Martin Balsam
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘A Thousand Clowns’ (1965)
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1965 – Peter Ustinov
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Topkapi’ (1964)
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1964 – Melvyn Douglas
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Everett Collection ‘Hud’ (1963)
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1963 – Ed Begley
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ (1962)
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1962 – George Chakiris
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘West Side Story’ (1961)
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1961 – Peter Ustinov
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Spartacus’ (1960)
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1960 – Hugh Griffith
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Ben-Hur’ (1959)
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1959 – Burl Ives
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Big Country’ (1958)
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1958 – Red Buttons
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Sayonara’ (1957)
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1957 – Anthony Quinn
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Lust for Life’ (1956)
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1956 – Jack Lemmon
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Mister Roberts’ (1955)
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1955 – Edmond O’Brien
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Barefoot Contessa’ (1954)
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1954 – Frank Sinatra
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘From Here to Eternity’ (1953)
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1953 – Anthony Quinn
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film ‘Viva Zapata!’ (1952)
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1952 – Karl Malden
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1951)
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1951 – George Sanders
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox ‘All About Eve’ (1950)
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1950 – Dean Jagger
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox ‘Twelve O’Clock High’ (1949)
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1949 – Walter Huston
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ (1948)
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1948 – Edmund Gwenn
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ (1947)
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1947 – Harold Russell
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ (1946)
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1946 – James Dunn
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ (1945)
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1945 – Barry Fitzgerald
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Going My Way’ (1944)
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1944- Charles Coburn
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The More the Merrier’ (1943)
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1943 – Van Heflin
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Johnny Eager’ (1941)
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1942 – Donald Crisp
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox ‘How Green Was My Valley’ (1941)
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1941 – Walter Brennan
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Westerner’ (1940)
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1940 – Thomas Mitchell
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Stagecoach’ (1939)
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1939 – Walter Brennan
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox ‘Kentucky’ (1938)
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1938 – Joseph Schildkraut
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Life of Emile Zola’ (1937)
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1937 – Walter Brennan
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Come and Get It’ (1936)
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