Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominees are currently determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. ==Winners and nominees==

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Multiple wins and nominations==

The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actor awards: The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actor nominations: ==Age superlatives==

==Films with multiple Supporting Actor nominations==

There have been 23 instances in which films have produced more than one nominee within this category. All resulted in two nominations, with the exceptions of On the Waterfront (1954), The Godfather (1972), and The Godfather Part II (1974), which each obtained three. Winners are in bold. • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) – Harry Carey Sr. and Claude Rains • Quo Vadis (1951) – Leo Genn and Peter Ustinov • Shane (1953) – Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance • On the Waterfront (1954) – Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger • Peyton Place (1957) – Arthur Kennedy and Russ Tamblyn • Anatomy of a Murder (1959) – Arthur O'Connell and George C. Scott • The Hustler (1961) – Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) – Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard • The Last Picture Show (1971) – Jeff Bridges and Ben Johnson • The Godfather (1972) – James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino • The Godfather Part II (1974) – Robert De Niro, Michael V. Gazzo, and Lee Strasberg • Rocky (1976) – Burgess Meredith and Burt Young • Julia (1977) – Jason Robards and Maximilian Schell • Ordinary People (1980) – Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton • Terms of Endearment (1983) – John Lithgow and Jack Nicholson • Platoon (1986) – Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe • Bugsy (1991) – Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) – Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell • The Irishman (2019) – Al Pacino and Joe Pesci • Judas and the Black Messiah (2020) – Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield • The Power of the Dog (2021) – Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee • The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) – Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan • One Battle After Another (2025) – Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn ==Multiple character nominations==

• Max "Pop" Corkle from Here Comes Mr. Jordan (James Gleason, 1941) and Heaven Can Wait (Jack Warden, 1978) Thus far, this is the only instance of the same character producing two nominated performances within this particular same category. == See also ==