Updated: Feb 4, 2020
The Academy established the two supporting categories (Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress) in 1936.
Below please find the winners, in chronological order, film for which they won, and age of winning
1930s
1936: Walter Brennan, Come and Get It, 42
1937: Joseph Schildkraut, The Life of Emile Zola, 42
1938: Walter Brennan, Kentucky, 44
1939: Thomas Mitchell, Stagecoach, 45
1940s
1940: Walter Brennan, The Westerner, 46
1941: Donald Crisp, How Green Was My Valley, 59
1942: Van Hefflin, Johnny Eager, 32
1943: Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier, 64
1944: Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way, 56
1945: James Dunn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 44
1946: Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives, 32
1947: Edmund Gwenn, The Miracle on 34th Street, 70
1948: Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 58
1949: Dean Jagger, Twelve O’Clock High, 46
1950s
1950: George Sanders, All About Eve, 44
1951: Karl Malden, A Streetcar Named Desire, 39
1952: Anthony Quinn, Viva Zapata, 37
1953: Frank Sinatra, From Here to Eternity, 38
1954: Edmond O’Brien, The Barefoot Contessa, 39
1955: Jack Lemmon, Mister Roberts, 30
1956: Anthony Quinn, Lust for Life, 41
1957: Red Buttons, Sayonara, 39
1958: Burl Ives, The Big Country, 49
1959: Hugh Griffith, Ben-Hur, 47
1960s
1960: Peter Ustinov, Spartacus, 39
1961: George Chakiris, West Side Story, 27
1962: Ed Begley, Sweet Bird of Youth, 61
1963: Melvyn Douglas, Hud, 62
1964: Peter Ustinov, Topkapi, 43
1965: Martin Balsam, A Thousand Clowns,
1966: Walter Matthau, The Fortune Cookie, 46
1967: George Kennedy, Cool Hand Luke, 42
1968: Jack Albertson, The Subject Was Roses, 61
1969: Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They, 38
1970s
1970: John Mills, Ryan’s Daughter, 62
1971: Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show, 53
1972: Joel Grey, Cabaret, 40
1973: John Houseman, The Paper Chase, 61
1974: Robert De Niro, The Godfather, Part II, 31
1975: George Burns, The Sunshine Boys, 79
1976: Jason Robards, All the President’s Men, 54
1977: Jason Robards, Julia, 55
1978: Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter, 35
1979: Mlevyn Douglas, Being There, 78
1980s
1980: Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People, 20
1981: John Gielgud, Arthur, 77
1982: Louis Gossett Jr., An Officer and a Gentleman, 46
1983: Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment, 46
1984: Hang S. Ngor, The Killing Fields, 44
1985: Don Ameche, Cocoon, 77
1986: Michael Caine, Hannah and Her Sisters, 53
1987: Sean Connery, The Untouchables, 57
1988: Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda, 41
1989: Denzel Washington, Glory, 35
1990s
1990: Joe Pesci, GoodFellas, 47
1991: Jack Palance, City Slickers, 72
1992: Gene Hackman, Unforgiven, 62
1993: Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive, 47
1994: Martin Landau, Ed Wood, 66
1995: Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects, 36
1996: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire, 28
1997: Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting, 46
1998: James Coburn, Affliction, 70
1999: Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules,
2000
2000: Benicio Del Toro, Traffic, 33
2001: Jim Broadbent, Iris, 52
2002: Chris Cooper, Adaptation, 51
2003: Tim Robbins, Mystic River, 45
2004: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby, 67
2005: George Clooney, Syriana, 44
2006: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine, 72
2007: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men, 38
2008: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (posthumous), 29
2009: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds, 56
2010-2019
2010: Christian Bale, The Fighter, 41
2011: Christopher Plummer, Beginners, 82
2012: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, 59
2013: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club, 42
2014: J.K. Simmons, 60
2015: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies, 55
2016: Ali Maharshala, Moonlight, 42
2017: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards, 49
2018: Ali Maharshala, Green Book, 44
2019: Brad Pitt, Once Upon Time in Hollywood, 56