Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor information
Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2023 recipient: Robert Downey Jr.
Awarded for
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Country
United States
Presented by
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded
1937
Most recent winner
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (2024)
Most awards
Walter Brennan (3)
Most nominations
Walter Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, and Mark Ruffalo (4)
Website
oscars.org
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actress winner. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette, supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards,[1] when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.[2]
The Best Supporting Actor award has been presented a total of 88 times, to 79 actors. The first winner was Walter Brennan for his role in Come and Get It. The most recent winner is Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer.[3] The record for most wins is three, held by Brennan–who won every other year within a succession of the first five years. Seven other actors have won twice. Brennan is also tied for receiving the most nominations in the category (with four altogether) along with Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, and Mark Ruffalo.
^Kinn & Piazza 2014, p. 39-67
^Dirks, Tim. "1943 Academy Awards Winners and History". Filmsite. Rainbow Media. Archived from the original on July 16, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
^"Rule One: Award Definitions" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
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