Timothy Hutton is the youngest winner of the Academy Award for best supporting actor. He won the award in 1981, when he was 20 years old. Hutton’s award-winning performance was for Ordinary People (1980), his first feature film. He portrayed the guilt-ridden son who survived a boating accident that killed his elder brother. The drama was directed by Robert Redford and starred Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland as the grieving parents.
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