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| 2009 | Winner | Dark Knight, The (2008) | Heath Ledger | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
| Nominated | Doubt (2008/I) | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| Milk (2008/I) | Josh Brolin |
| Revolutionary Road (2008) | Michael Shannon (V) |
| Tropic Thunder (2008) | Robert Downey Jr. |
| 2008 | Winner | No Country for Old Men (2007) | Javier Bardem |
| Nominated | Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007) | Casey Affleck |
| Charlie Wilson's War (2007) | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| Into the Wild (2007) | Hal Holbrook |
| Michael Clayton (2007) | Tom Wilkinson (I) |
| 2007 | Winner | Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | Alan Arkin |
| Nominated | Blood Diamond (2006) | Djimon Hounsou |
| Departed, The (2006) | Mark Wahlberg (I) |
| Dreamgirls (2006) | Eddie Murphy (I) |
| Little Children (2006) | Jackie Earle Haley |
| 2006 | Winner | Syriana (2005) | George Clooney |
| Nominated | Brokeback Mountain (2005) | Jake Gyllenhaal |
| Cinderella Man (2005) | Paul Giamatti |
| Crash (2004/I) | Matt Dillon (I) |
| History of Violence, A (2005) | William Hurt (I) |
| 2005 | Winner | Million Dollar Baby (2004) | Morgan Freeman (I) |
| Nominated | Aviator, The (2004) | Alan Alda |
| Closer (2004/I) | Clive Owen |
| Collateral (2004) | Jamie Foxx |
| Sideways (2004) | Thomas Haden Church |
| 2004 | Winner | Mystic River (2003) | Tim Robbins (I) | Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| Nominated | 21 Grams (2003) | Benicio Del Toro |
| Cooler, The (2003) | Alec Baldwin |
| In America (2002) | Djimon Hounsou |
| Last Samurai, The (2003) | Ken Watanabe (I) |
| 2003 | Winner | Adaptation. (2002) | Chris Cooper (I) |
| Nominated | Catch Me If You Can (2002) | Christopher Walken |
| Chicago (2002) | John C. Reilly (I) |
| Hours, The (2002) | Ed Harris (I) |
| Road to Perdition (2002) | Paul Newman (I) |
| 2002 | Winner | Iris (2001/I) | Jim Broadbent |
| Nominated | Ali (2001) | Jon Voight |
| Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) | Ian McKellen |
| Sexy Beast (2000) | Ben Kingsley |
| Training Day (2001) | Ethan Hawke |
| 2001 | Winner | Traffic (2000) | Benicio Del Toro |
| Nominated | Contender, The (2000) | Jeff Bridges (I) |
| Erin Brockovich (2000) | Albert Finney |
| Gladiator (2000) | Joaquin Phoenix |
| Shadow of the Vampire (2000) | Willem Dafoe |
| 2000 | Winner | Cider House Rules, The (1999) | Michael Caine (I) |
| Nominated | Green Mile, The (1999) | Michael Clarke Duncan |
| Magnolia (1999) | Tom Cruise |
| Sixth Sense, The (1999) | Haley Joel Osment |
| Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) | Jude Law |
| 1999 | Winner | Affliction (1997) | James Coburn (I) |
| Nominated | Civil Action, A (1998) | Robert Duvall |
| Shakespeare in Love (1998) | Geoffrey Rush |
| Simple Plan, A (1998) | Billy Bob Thornton |
| Truman Show, The (1998) | Ed Harris (I) |
| 1998 | Winner | Good Will Hunting (1997) | Robin Williams (I) |
| Nominated | Amistad (1997) | Anthony Hopkins |
| As Good as It Gets (1997) | Greg Kinnear |
| Boogie Nights (1997) | Burt Reynolds (I) |
| Jackie Brown (1997) | Robert Forster (I) |
| 1997 | Winner | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Cuba Gooding Jr. |
| Nominated | Fargo (1996) | William H. Macy |
| Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) | James Woods (I) |
| Primal Fear (1996) | Edward Norton (I) |
| Shine (1996) | Armin Mueller-Stahl |
| 1996 | Winner | Usual Suspects, The (1995) | Kevin Spacey |
| Nominated | Apollo 13 (1995) | Ed Harris (I) |
| Babe (1995) | James Cromwell (I) |
| Rob Roy (1995) | Tim Roth (I) |
| Twelve Monkeys (1995) | Brad Pitt |
| 1995 | Winner | Ed Wood (1994) | Martin Landau |
| Nominated | Bullets Over Broadway (1994) | Chazz Palminteri |
| Forrest Gump (1994) | Gary Sinise |
| Pulp Fiction (1994) | Samuel L. Jackson |
| Quiz Show (1994) | Paul Scofield (I) |
| 1994 | Winner | Fugitive, The (1993) | Tommy Lee Jones |
| Nominated | In the Line of Fire (1993) | John Malkovich |
| In the Name of the Father (1993) | Pete Postlethwaite |
| Schindler's List (1993) | Ralph Fiennes |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| 1993 | Winner | Unforgiven (1992) | Gene Hackman |
| Nominated | Crying Game, The (1992) | Jaye Davidson |
| Few Good Men, A (1992) | Jack Nicholson |
| Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) | Al Pacino |
| Mr. Saturday Night (1992) | David Paymer |
| 1992 | Winner | City Slickers (1991) | Jack Palance |
| Nominated | Barton Fink (1991) | Michael Lerner (I) |
| Bugsy (1991) | Harvey Keitel |
| Ben Kingsley |
| JFK (1991) | Tommy Lee Jones |
| 1991 | Winner | Goodfellas (1990) | Joe Pesci |
| Nominated | Dances with Wolves (1990) | Graham Greene (II) |
| Dick Tracy (1990) | Al Pacino |
| Godfather: Part III, The (1990) | Andy Garcia (I) |
| Longtime Companion (1990) | Bruce Davison |
| 1990 | Winner | Glory (1989) | Denzel Washington |
| Nominated | Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) | Martin Landau |
| Do the Right Thing (1989) | Danny Aiello |
| Driving Miss Daisy (1989) | Dan Aykroyd |
| Dry White Season, A (1989) | Marlon Brando |
| 1989 | Winner | Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) | Kevin Kline |
| Nominated | Little Dorrit (1988) | Alec Guinness |
| Married to the Mob (1988) | Dean Stockwell |
| Running on Empty (1988) | River Phoenix |
| Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) | Martin Landau |
| 1988 | Winner | Untouchables, The (1987) | Sean Connery |
| Nominated | Broadcast News (1987) | Albert Brooks (I) |
| Cry Freedom (1987) | Denzel Washington |
| Moonstruck (1987) | Vincent Gardenia |
| Street Smart (1987) | Morgan Freeman (I) |
| 1987 | Winner | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) | Michael Caine (I) |
| Nominated | Hoosiers (1986) | Dennis Hopper |
| Platoon (1986) | Tom Berenger |
| Willem Dafoe |
| Room with a View, A (1985) | Denholm Elliott |
| 1986 | Winner | Cocoon (1985) | Don Ameche |
| Nominated | Jagged Edge (1985) | Robert Loggia |
| Out of Africa (1985) | Klaus Maria Brandauer |
| Prizzi's Honor (1985) | William Hickey (I) |
| Runaway Train (1985) | Eric Roberts (I) |
| 1985 | Winner | Killing Fields, The (1984) | Haing S. Ngor |
| Nominated | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) | Ralph Richardson (I) |
| Karate Kid, The (1984) | Pat Morita (I) |
| Places in the Heart (1984) | John Malkovich |
| Soldier's Story, A (1984) | Adolph Caesar |
| 1984 | Winner | Terms of Endearment (1983) | Jack Nicholson |
| Nominated | Cross Creek (1983) | Rip Torn |
| Right Stuff, The (1983) | Sam Shepard |
| Terms of Endearment (1983) | John Lithgow (I) |
| To Be or Not to Be (1983) | Charles Durning |
| 1983 | Winner | Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982) | Louis Gossett Jr. |
| Nominated | Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The (1982) | Charles Durning |
| Verdict, The (1982) | James Mason (I) |
| Victor Victoria (1982) | Robert Preston (I) |
| World According to Garp, The (1982) | John Lithgow (I) |
| 1982 | Winner | Arthur (1981) | John Gielgud |
| Nominated | Chariots of Fire (1981) | Ian Holm |
| Only When I Laugh (1981) | James Coco |
| Ragtime (1981) | Howard E. Rollins Jr. |
| Reds (1981) | Jack Nicholson |
| 1981 | Winner | Ordinary People (1980) | Timothy Hutton |
| Nominated | Great Santini, The (1979) | Michael O'Keefe (I) |
| Melvin and Howard (1980) | Jason Robards |
| Ordinary People (1980) | Judd Hirsch |
| Raging Bull (1980) | Joe Pesci |
| 1980 | Winner | Being There (1979) | Melvyn Douglas |
| Nominated | Apocalypse Now (1979) | Robert Duvall |
| Black Stallion, The (1979) | Mickey Rooney (I) |
| Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | Justin Henry |
| Rose, The (1979) | Frederic Forrest |
| 1979 | Winner | Deer Hunter, The (1978) | Christopher Walken |
| Nominated | Comes a Horseman (1978) | Richard Farnsworth |
| Coming Home (1978) | Bruce Dern |
| Heaven Can Wait (1978) | Jack Warden |
| Midnight Express (1978) | John Hurt |
| 1978 | Winner | Julia (1977) | Jason Robards |
| Nominated | Equus (1977) | Peter Firth |
| Julia (1977) | Maximilian Schell |
| Star Wars (1977) | Alec Guinness |
| Turning Point, The (1977) | Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| 1977 | Winner | All the President's Men (1976) | Jason Robards |
| Nominated | Marathon Man (1976) | Laurence Olivier |
| Network (1976) | Ned Beatty |
| Rocky (1976) | Burgess Meredith |
| Burt Young |
| 1976 | Winner | Sunshine Boys, The (1975) | George Burns |
| Nominated | Day of the Locust, The (1975) | Burgess Meredith |
| Dog Day Afternoon (1975) | Chris Sarandon (I) |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | Brad Dourif |
| Shampoo (1975) | Jack Warden |
| 1975 | Winner | Godfather: Part II, The (1974) | Robert De Niro |
| Nominated | Michael V. Gazzo |
| Lee Strasberg |
| Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) | Jeff Bridges (I) |
| Towering Inferno, The (1974) | Fred Astaire |
| 1974 | Winner | Paper Chase, The (1973) | John Houseman (I) |
| Nominated | Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) | Vincent Gardenia |
| Exorcist, The (1973) | Jason Miller (I) |
| Last Detail, The (1973) | Randy Quaid |
| Save the Tiger (1973) | Jack Gilford (I) |
| 1973 | Winner | Cabaret (1972) | Joel Grey |
| Nominated | Godfather, The (1972) | James Caan (I) |
| Robert Duvall |
| Al Pacino |
| Heartbreak Kid, The (1972) | Eddie Albert |
| 1972 | Winner | Last Picture Show, The (1971) | Ben Johnson (I) |
| Nominated | Fiddler on the Roof (1971) | Leonard Frey |
| French Connection, The (1971) | Roy Scheider |
| Last Picture Show, The (1971) | Jeff Bridges (I) |
| Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) | Richard Jaeckel |
| 1971 | Winner | Ryan's Daughter (1970) | John Mills (I) |
| Nominated | I Never Sang for My Father (1970) | Gene Hackman |
| Little Big Man (1970) | Chief Dan George |
| Love Story (1970) | John Marley |
| Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) | Richard S. Castellano |
| 1970 | Winner | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) | Gig Young |
| Nominated | Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) | Anthony Quayle |
| Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) | Elliott Gould |
| Easy Rider (1969) | Jack Nicholson |
| Reivers, The (1969) | Rupert Crosse |
| 1969 | Winner | Subject Was Roses, The (1968) | Jack Albertson |
| Nominated | Faces (1968/I) | Seymour Cassel |
| Oliver! (1968) | Jack Wild (I) |
| Producers, The (1968) | Gene Wilder |
| Star! (1968) | Daniel Massey (I) |
| 1968 | Winner | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | George Kennedy (I) |
| Nominated | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | Gene Hackman |
| Michael J. Pollard |
| Dirty Dozen, The (1967) | John Cassavetes (I) |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Cecil Kellaway |
| 1967 | Winner | Fortune Cookie, The (1966) | Walter Matthau |
| Nominated | Georgy Girl (1966) | James Mason (I) |
| Man for All Seasons, A (1966) | Robert Shaw (I) |
| Sand Pebbles, The (1966) | Mako (I) |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | George Segal (I) |
| 1966 | Winner | Thousand Clowns, A (1965) | Martin Balsam |
| Nominated | Doctor Zhivago (1965) | Tom Courtenay |
| Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965) | Ian Bannen |
| Othello (1965) | Frank Finlay (I) |
| Ship of Fools (1965) | Michael Dunn (I) |
| 1965 | Winner | Topkapi (1964) | Peter Ustinov |
| Nominated | Becket (1964) | John Gielgud |
| Best Man, The (1964) | Lee Tracy (I) |
| My Fair Lady (1964) | Stanley Holloway |
| Seven Days in May (1964) | Edmond O'Brien |
| 1964 | Winner | Hud (1963) | Melvyn Douglas |
| Nominated | Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) | Bobby Darin |
| Cardinal, The (1963) | John Huston (I) |
| Tom Jones (1963) | Hugh Griffith (I) |
| Twilight of Honor (1963) | Nick Adams (I) |
| 1963 | Winner | Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) | Ed Begley (I) |
| Nominated | Billy Budd (1962) | Terence Stamp |
| Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) | Telly Savalas |
| Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | Omar Sharif |
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) | Victor Buono |
| 1962 | Winner | West Side Story (1961) | George Chakiris |
| Nominated | Hustler, The (1961) | Jackie Gleason (I) |
| George C. Scott |
| Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) | Montgomery Clift |
| Pocketful of Miracles (1961) | Peter Falk (I) |
| 1961 | Winner | Spartacus (1960) | Peter Ustinov |
| Nominated | Alamo, The (1960) | Chill Wills |
| Apartment, The (1960) | Jack Kruschen |
| Exodus (1960) | Sal Mineo |
| Murder, Inc. (1960) | Peter Falk (I) |
| 1960 | Winner | Ben-Hur (1959) | Hugh Griffith (I) |
| Nominated | Anatomy of a Murder (1959) | Arthur O'Connell |
| George C. Scott |
| Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) | Ed Wynn |
| Young Philadelphians, The (1959) | Robert Vaughn (I) |
| 1959 | Winner | Big Country, The (1958) | Burl Ives |
| Nominated | Brothers Karamazov, The (1958) | Lee J. Cobb |
| Defiant Ones, The (1958) | Theodore Bikel |
| Some Came Running (1958) | Arthur Kennedy (I) |
| Teacher's Pet (1958) | Gig Young |
| 1958 | Winner | Sayonara (1957) | Red Buttons |
| Nominated | Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) | Sessue Hayakawa |
| Farewell to Arms, A (1957) | Vittorio De Sica |
| Peyton Place (1957) | Arthur Kennedy (I) |
| Russ Tamblyn |
| 1957 | Winner | Lust for Life (1956) | Anthony Quinn (I) |
| Nominated | Bold and the Brave, The (1956) | Mickey Rooney (I) |
| Bus Stop (1956) | Don Murray (I) |
| Friendly Persuasion (1956) | Anthony Perkins (I) |
| Written on the Wind (1956) | Robert Stack |
| 1956 | Winner | Mister Roberts (1955) | Jack Lemmon (I) |
| Nominated | Marty (1955) | Joe Mantell |
| Picnic (1955) | Arthur O'Connell |
| Rebel Without a Cause (1955) | Sal Mineo |
| Trial (1955) | Arthur Kennedy (I) |
| 1955 | Winner | Barefoot Contessa, The (1954) | Edmond O'Brien |
| Nominated | Caine Mutiny, The (1954) | Tom Tully (I) |
| On the Waterfront (1954) | Lee J. Cobb |
| Karl Malden |
| Rod Steiger |
| 1954 | Winner | From Here to Eternity (1953) | Frank Sinatra |
| Nominated | Roman Holiday (1953) | Eddie Albert |
| Shane (1953) | Brandon De Wilde |
| Jack Palance |
| Stalag 17 (1953) | Robert Strauss (I) |
| 1953 | Winner | Viva Zapata! (1952) | Anthony Quinn (I) |
| Nominated | Big Sky, The (1952) | Arthur Hunnicutt |
| My Cousin Rachel (1952) | Richard Burton (I) |
| Quiet Man, The (1952) | Victor McLaglen |
| Sudden Fear (1952) | Jack Palance |
| 1952 | Winner | Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) | Karl Malden |
| Nominated | Come Fill the Cup (1951) | Gig Young |
| Death of a Salesman (1951) | Kevin McCarthy (I) |
| Quo Vadis (1951) | Leo Genn |
| Peter Ustinov |
| 1951 | Winner | All About Eve (1950) | George Sanders (I) |
| Nominated | Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) | Sam Jaffe (I) |
| Broken Arrow (1950) | Jeff Chandler (I) |
| Mister 880 (1950) | Edmund Gwenn |
| Sunset Blvd. (1950) | Erich von Stroheim |
| 1950 | Winner | Twelve O'Clock High (1949) | Dean Jagger |
| Nominated | All the King's Men (1949) | John Ireland (I) |
| Battleground (1949) | James Whitmore |
| Champion (1949) | Arthur Kennedy (I) |
| Heiress, The (1949) | Ralph Richardson (I) |
| 1949 | Winner | Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) | Walter Huston |
| Nominated | I Remember Mama (1948) | Oskar Homolka |
| Joan of Arc (1948) | José Ferrer (I) |
| Johnny Belinda (1948) | Charles Bickford |
| Luck of the Irish, The (1948) | Cecil Kellaway |
| 1948 | Winner | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Edmund Gwenn |
| Nominated | Crossfire (1947) | Robert Ryan (I) |
| Farmer's Daughter, The (1947) | Charles Bickford |
| Kiss of Death (1947) | Richard Widmark |
| Ride the Pink Horse (1947) | Thomas Gomez (I) |
| 1947 | Winner | Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) | Harold Russell |
| Nominated | Green Years, The (1946) | Charles Coburn |
| Jolson Story, The (1946) | William Demarest |
| Notorious (1946) | Claude Rains |
| Razor's Edge, The (1946) | Clifton Webb |
| 1946 | Winner | Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945) | James Dunn (I) |
| Nominated | Corn Is Green, The (1945) | John Dall (I) |
| Medal for Benny, A (1945) | J. Carrol Naish |
| Spellbound (1945) | Michael Chekhov |
| Story of G.I. Joe (1945) | Robert Mitchum |
| 1945 | Winner | Going My Way (1944) | Barry Fitzgerald (I) |
| Nominated | Laura (1944) | Clifton Webb |
| Mr. Skeffington (1944) | Claude Rains |
| Seventh Cross, The (1944) | Hume Cronyn |
| Since You Went Away (1944) | Monty Woolley |
| 1944 | Winner | More the Merrier, The (1943) | Charles Coburn |
| Nominated | Casablanca (1942) | Claude Rains |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) | Akim Tamiroff |
| Sahara (1943/I) | J. Carrol Naish |
| Song of Bernadette, The (1943) | Charles Bickford |
| 1943 | Winner | Johnny Eager (1942) | Van Heflin |
| Nominated | Mrs. Miniver (1942) | Henry Travers (I) |
| Tortilla Flat (1942) | Frank Morgan (I) |
| Wake Island (1942) | William Bendix (I) |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | Walter Huston |
| 1942 | Winner | How Green Was My Valley (1941) | Donald Crisp (I) |
| Nominated | Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941) | Charles Coburn |
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) | James Gleason (I) |
| Maltese Falcon, The (1941) | Sydney Greenstreet |
| Sergeant York (1941) | Walter Brennan |
| 1941 | Winner | Westerner, The (1940) |
| Nominated | Foreign Correspondent (1940) | Albert Bassermann |
| Great Dictator, The (1940) | Jack Oakie (I) |
| Letter, The (1940) | James Stephenson (I) |
| They Knew What They Wanted (1940) | William Gargan |
| 1940 | Winner | Stagecoach (1939) | Thomas Mitchell (I) |
| Nominated | Beau Geste (1939) | Brian Donlevy |
| Juarez (1939) | Brian Aherne (I) |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Harry Carey |
| Claude Rains |
| 1939 | Winner | Kentucky (1938) | Walter Brennan |
| Nominated | Algiers (1938) | Gene Lockhart |
| Four Daughters (1938) | John Garfield (I) |
| If I Were King (1938) | Basil Rathbone |
| Marie Antoinette (1938) | Robert Morley (I) |
| 1938 | Winner | Life of Emile Zola, The (1937) | Joseph Schildkraut |
| Nominated | Awful Truth, The (1937) | Ralph Bellamy |
| Hurricane, The (1937) | Thomas Mitchell (I) |
| Lost Horizon (1937) | H.B. Warner |
| Topper (1937) | Roland Young (I) |
| 1937 | Winner | Come and Get It (1936) | Walter Brennan |
| Nominated | General Died at Dawn, The (1936) | Akim Tamiroff |
| My Man Godfrey (1936) | Mischa Auer |
| Pigskin Parade (1936) | Stuart Erwin |
| Romeo and Juliet (1936) | Basil Rathbone |
