Academy Award for best supporting actor: Quick Facts

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Also Known As

Best Supporting Actor

Notable Honorees

Frank Sinatra • Brad Pitt • Robert De Niro • Denzel Washington • George Clooney • Jack Nicholson • Kevin Spacey • Sam Rockwell • Sean Penn • Mark Rylance • Mahershala Ali • Michael Caine • Tommy Lee Jones • Javier Bardem • Christoph Waltz • Alan Arkin • Morgan Freeman • Jim Broadbent • Robin Williams • Christopher Plummer • Christian Bale • Robert Downey, Jr. • Walter Brennan • Kieran Culkin • J.K. Simmons • Jared Leto • Tim Robbins • Joel Grey • Benicio Del Toro • Cuba Gooding, Jr. • Kevin Kline • Sean Connery • Jason Robards • Chris Cooper • Jack Lemmon • George Sanders • Christopher Walken • Martin Landau • Peter Ustinov • Haing S. Ngor • Walter Matthau • Timothy Hutton • George Burns • Daniel Kaluuya • Gene Hackman • John Gielgud • Joe Pesci • Louis Gossett, Jr. • Anthony Quinn • Heath Ledger • Jack Albertson • John Mills • John Houseman • Walter Huston • Karl Malden • Hugh Emrys Griffith • Joseph Schildkraut • George Kennedy • Red Buttons • Ben Johnson • Martin Balsam

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Daniel Kaluuya poses in a black suit, holding his Oscar statuette for Actor in a Supporting Role for Judas and the Black Messiah at the 93rd Academy Awards.

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