Best Supporting Actor
The following is the average ranking of Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees by the Twitter followers of And the Runner-Up Is.
Results are tallied using a positional voting system, where the nominees receive points based on their rank position on each submission and the nominee with the most points overall wins.
Bold = the actual Academy Award winner
1930s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 1. Walter Brennan | Come and Get It |
| 2. Basil Rathbone | Romeo and Juliet | |
| 3. Mischa Auer | My Man Godfrey | |
| 4. Stuart Erwin | Pigskin Parade | |
| 5. Akim Tamiroff | The General Died at Dawn | |
| 1937 | 1. Joseph Schildkraut | The Life of Emile Zola |
| 2. Ralph Bellamy | The Awful Truth | |
| 3. Roland Young | Topper | |
| 4. Thomas Mitchell | The Hurricane | |
| 5. H.B. Warner | Lost Horizon | |
| 1938 | 1. John Garfield | Four Daughters |
| 2. Robert Morley | Marie Antoinette | |
| 3. Basil Rathbone | If I Were King | |
| 4. Walter Brennan | Kentucky | |
| 5. Gene Lockhart | Algiers | |
| 1939 | 1. Claude Rains | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| 2. Thomas Mitchell | Stagecoach | |
| 3. Harry Carey | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | |
| 4. Brian Donlevy | Beau Geste | |
| 5. Brian Aherne | Juarez |
1940s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 1. Walter Brennan | The Westerner |
| 2. Jack Oakie | The Great Dictator | |
| 3. James Stephenson | The Letter | |
| 4. Albert Bassermann | Foreign Correspondent | |
| 5. William Gargan | They Knew What They Wanted | |
| 1941 | 1. Sydney Greenstreet | The Maltese Falcon |
| 2. Donald Crisp | How Green Was My Valley | |
| 3. Charles Coburn | The Devil and Miss Jones | |
| 4. James Gleason | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | |
| 5. Walter Brennan | Sergeant York | |
| 1942 | 1. Van Heflin | Johnny Eager |
| 2. Henry Travers | Mrs. Miniver | |
| 3. Walter Huston | Yankee Doodle Dandy | |
| 4. Frank Morgan | Tortilla Flat | |
| 5. William Bendix | Wake Island | |
| 1943 | 1. Claude Rains | Casablanca |
| 2. Charles Coburn | The More the Merrier | |
| 3. Charles Bickford | The Song of Bernadette | |
| 4. Akim Tamiroff | For Whom the Bell Tolls | |
| 5. J. Carrol Naish | Sahara | |
| 1944 | 1. Clifton Webb | Laura |
| 2. Claude Rains | Mr. Skeffington | |
| 3. Hume Cronyn | The Seventh Cross | |
| 4. Barry Fitzgerald | Going My Way | |
| 5. Monty Woolley | Since You Went Away | |
| 1945 | 1. James Dunn | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| 2. Michael Chekhov | Spellbound | |
| 3. Robert Mitchum | The Story of G. I. Joe | |
| 4. John Dall | The Corn Is Green | |
| 5. J. Carrol Naish | A Medal for Benny | |
| 1946 | 1. Claude Rains | Notorious |
| 2. Harold Russell | The Best Years of Our Lives | |
| 3. Clifton Webb | The Razor's Edge | |
| 4. Charles Coburn | The Green Years | |
| 5. William Demarest | The Jolson Story | |
| 1947 | 1. Edmund Gwenn | Miracle on 34th Street |
| 2. Robert Ryan | Crossfire | |
| 3. Richard Widmark | Kiss of Death | |
| 4. Charles Bickford | The Farmer's Daughter | |
| 5. Thomas Gomez | Ride the Pink Horse | |
| 1948 | 1. Walter Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 2. Charles Bickford | Johnny Belinda | |
| 3. José Ferrer | Joan of Arc | |
| 4. Cecil Kellaway | The Luck of the Irish | |
| 5. Oscar Homolka | I Remember Mama | |
| 1949 | 1. Ralph Richardson | The Heiress |
| 2. Arthur Kennedy | Champion | |
| 3. Dean Jagger | Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 4. James Whitmore | Battleground | |
| 5. John Ireland | All the King's Men |
1950s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1. George Sanders | All About Eve |
| 2. Erich von Stroheim | Sunset Boulevard | |
| 3. Sam Jaffe | The Asphalt Jungle | |
| 4. Edmund Gwenn | Mister 880 | |
| 5. Jeff Chandler | Broken Arrow | |
| 1951 | 1. Karl Malden | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 2. Peter Ustinov | Quo Vadis | |
| 3. Kevin McCarthy | Death of a Salesman | |
| 4. Gig Young | Come Fill the Cup | |
| 5. Leo Genn | Quo Vadis | |
| 1952 | 1. Jack Palance | Sudden Fear |
| 2. Victor McLaglen | The Quiet Man | |
| 3. Anthony Quinn | Viva Zapata! | |
| 4. Richard Burton | My Cousin Rachel | |
| 5. Arthur Hunnicutt | The Big Sky | |
| 1953 | 1. Frank Sinatra | From Here to Eternity |
| 2. Jack Palance | Shane | |
| 3. Eddie Albert | Roman Holiday | |
| 4. Brandon deWilde | Shane | |
| 5. Robert Strauss | Stalag 17 | |
| 1954 | 1. Lee J. Cobb | On the Waterfront |
| 2. Karl Malden | On the Waterfront | |
| 3. Rod Steiger | On the Waterfront | |
| 4. Edmond O'Brien | The Barefoot Contessa | |
| 5. Tom Tully | The Caine Mutiny | |
| 1955 | 1. Sal Mineo | Rebel Without a Cause |
| 2. Jack Lemmon | Mister Roberts | |
| 3. Arthur O'Connell | Picnic | |
| 4. Arthur Kennedy | Trial | |
| 5. Joe Mantell | Marty | |
| 1956 | 1. Robert Stack | Written on the Wind |
| 2. Anthony Perkins | Friendly Persuasion | |
| 3. Anthony Quinn | Lust for Life | |
| 4. Don Murray | Bus Stop | |
| 5. Mickey Rooney | The Bold and the Brave | |
| 1957 | 1. Sessue Hayakawa | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 2. Red Buttons | Sayonara | |
| 3. Arthur Kennedy | Peyton Place | |
| 4. Russ Tamblyn | Peyton Place | |
| 5. Vittorio De Sica | A Farewell to Arms | |
| 1958 | 1. Burl Ives | The Big Country |
| 2. Arthur Kennedy | Some Came Running | |
| 3. Lee J. Cobb | The Brothers Karamazov | |
| 4. Gig Young | Teacher's Pet | |
| 5. Theodore Bikel | The Defiant Ones | |
| 1959 | 1. George C. Scott | Anatomy of a Murder |
| 2. Arthur O'Connell | Anatomy of a Murder | |
| 3. Hugh Griffith | Ben-Hur | |
| 4. Ed Wynn | The Diary of Anne Frank | |
| 5. Robert Vaughn | The Young Philadelphians |
1960s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 1. Peter Ustinov | Spartacus |
| 2. Jack Kruschen | The Apartment | |
| 3. Peter Falk | Murder, Inc. | |
| 4. Sal Mineo | Exodus | |
| 5. Chill Wills | The Alamo | |
| 1961 | 1. George Chakiris | West Side Story |
| 2. Montgomery Clift | Judgment at Nuremberg | |
| 3. Jackie Gleason | The Hustler | |
| 4. George C. Scott | The Hustler | |
| 5. Peter Falk | Pocketful of Miracles | |
| 1962 | 1. Omar Sharif | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 2. Ed Begley | Sweet Bird of Youth | |
| 3. Victor Buono | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | |
| 4. Terence Stamp | Billy Budd | |
| 5. Telly Savalas | Birdman of Alcatraz | |
| 1963 | 1. Melvyn Douglas | Hud |
| 2. John Huston | The Cardinal | |
| 3. Hugh Griffith | Tom Jones | |
| 4. Nick Adams | Twilight of Honor | |
| 5. Bobby Darin | Captain Newman, M.D. | |
| 1964 | 1. Peter Ustinov | Topkapi |
| 2. John Gielgud | Becket | |
| 3. Stanley Holloway | My Fair Lady | |
| 4. Lee Tracy | The Best Man | |
| 5. Edmond O'Brien | Seven Days in May | |
| 1965 | 1. Martin Balsam | A Thousand Clowns |
| 2. Tom Courtenay | Doctor Zhivago | |
| 3. Frank Finlay | Othello | |
| 4. Michael Dunn | Ship of Fools | |
| 5. Ian Bannen | The Flight of the Phoenix | |
| 1966 | 1. Walter Matthau | The Fortune Cookie |
| 2. Robert Shaw | A Man for All Seasons | |
| 3. George Segal | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| 4. James Mason | Georgy Girl | |
| 5. Mako | The Sand Pebbles | |
| 1967 | 1. George Kennedy | Cool Hand Luke |
| 2. Gene Hackman | Bonnie and Clyde | |
| 3. Michael J. Pollard | Bonnie and Clyde | |
| 4. John Cassavetes | The Dirty Dozen | |
| 5. Cecil Kellaway | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | |
| 1968 | 1. Gene Wilder | The Producers |
| 2. Jack Albertson | The Subject Was Roses | |
| 3. Seymour Cassel | Faces | |
| 4. Jack Wild | Oliver! | |
| 5. Daniel Massey | Star! | |
| 1969 | 1. Gig Young | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| 2. Jack Nicholson | Easy Rider | |
| 3. Elliott Gould | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | |
| 4. Anthony Quayle | Anne of the Thousand Days | |
| 5. Rupert Crosse | The Reivers |
1970s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1. John Mills | Ryan's Daughter |
| 2. Chief Dan George | Little Big Man | |
| 3. Gene Hackman | I Never Sang for My Father | |
| 4. John Marley | Love Story | |
| 5. Richard Castellano | Lovers and Other Strangers | |
| 1971 | 1. Ben Johnson | The Last Picture Show |
| 2. Roy Scheider | The French Connection | |
| 3. Jeff Bridges | The Last Picture Show | |
| 4. Leonard Frey | Fiddler on the Roof | |
| 5. Richard Jaeckel | Sometimes a Great Notion | |
| 1972 | 1. Al Pacino | The Godfather |
| 2. Joel Grey | Cabaret | |
| 3. James Caan | The Godfather | |
| 4. Robert Duvall | The Godfather | |
| 5. Eddie Albert | The Heartbreak Kid | |
| 1973 | 1. Jason Miller | The Exorcist |
| 2. John Houseman | The Paper Chase | |
| 3. Randy Quaid | The Last Detail | |
| 4. Vincent Gardenia | Bang the Drum Slowly | |
| 5. Jack Gilford | Save the Tiger | |
| 1974 | 1. Robert De Niro | The Godfather Part II |
| 2. Michael V. Gazzo | The Godfather Part II | |
| 3. Lee Strasberg | The Godfather Part II | |
| 4. Fred Astaire | The Towering Inferno | |
| 5. Jeff Bridges | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | |
| 1975 | 1. Brad Dourif | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 2. Chris Sarandon | Dog Day Afternoon | |
| 3. Jack Warden | Shampoo | |
| 4. George Burns | The Sunshine Boys | |
| 5. Burgess Meredith | The Day of the Locust | |
| 1976 | 1. Jason Robards | All the President's Men |
| 2. Burgess Meredith | Rocky | |
| 3. Laurence Olivier | Marathon Man | |
| 4. Ned Beatty | Network | |
| 5. Burt Young | Rocky | |
| 1977 | 1. Alec Guinness | Star Wars |
| 2. Peter Firth | Equus | |
| 3. Jason Robards | Julia | |
| 4. Maximilian Schell | Julia | |
| 5. Mikhail Baryshnikov | The Turning Point | |
| 1978 | 1. Christopher Walken | The Deer Hunter |
| 2. Bruce Dern | Coming Home | |
| 3. John Hurt | Midnight Express | |
| 4. Jack Warden | Heaven Can Wait | |
| 5. Richard Farnsworth | Comes a Horseman | |
| 1979 | 1. Robert Duvall | Apocalypse Now |
| 2. Melvyn Douglas | Being There | |
| 3. Justin Henry | Kramer vs. Kramer | |
| 4. Frederic Forrest | The Rose | |
| 5. Mickey Rooney | The Black Stallion |
1980s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1. Timothy Hutton | Ordinary People |
| 2. Joe Pesci | Raging Bull | |
| 3. Judd Hirsch | Ordinary People | |
| 4. Michael O'Keefe | The Great Santini | |
| 5. Jason Robards | Melvin and Howard | |
| 1981 | 1. John Gielgud | Arthur |
| 2. Jack Nicholson | Reds | |
| 3. Howard E. Rollins, Jr. | Ragtime | |
| 4. Ian Holm | Chariots of Fire | |
| 5. James Coco | Only When I Laugh | |
| 1982 | 1. Louis Gossett Jr. | An Officer and a Gentleman |
| 2. Robert Preston | Victor/Victoria | |
| 3. John Lithgow | The World According to Garp | |
| 4. James Mason | The Verdict | |
| 5. Charles Durning | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | |
| 1983 | 1. Jack Nicholson | Terms of Endearment |
| 2. John Lithgow | Terms of Endearment | |
| 3. Sam Shepard | The Right Stuff | |
| 4. Charles Durning | To Be or Not to Be | |
| 5. Rip Torn | Cross Creek | |
| 1984 | 1. Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields |
| 2. Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita | The Karate Kid | |
| 3. John Malkovich | Places in the Heart | |
| 4. Adolph Caesar | A Soldier's Story | |
| 5. Ralph Richardson | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | |
| 1985 | 1. William Hickey | Prizzi's Honor |
| 2. Klaus Maria Brandauer | Out of Africa | |
| 3. Don Ameche | Cocoon | |
| 4. Eric Roberts | Runaway Train | |
| 5. Robert Loggia | Jagged Edge | |
| 1986 | 1. Michael Caine | Hannah and Her Sisters |
| 2. Willem Dafoe | Platoon | |
| 3. Tom Berenger | Platoon | |
| 4. Dennis Hopper | Hoosiers | |
| 5. Denholm Elliott | A Room with a View | |
| 1987 | 1. Albert Brooks | Broadcast News |
| 2. Sean Connery | The Untouchables | |
| 3. Morgan Freeman | Street Smart | |
| 4. Vincent Gardenia | Moonstruck | |
| 5. Denzel Washington | Cry Freedom | |
| 1988 | 1. Kevin Kline | A Fish Called Wanda |
| 2. River Phoenix | Running on Empty | |
| 3. Martin Landau | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | |
| 4. Dean Stockwell | Married to the Mob | |
| 5. Alec Guinness | Little Dorrit | |
| 1989 | 1. Denzel Washington | Glory |
| 2. Martin Landau | Crimes and Misdemeanors | |
| 3. Danny Aiello | Do the Right Thing | |
| 4. Dan Aykroyd | Driving Miss Daisy | |
| 5. Marlon Brando | A Dry White Season |
1990s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1. Joe Pesci | GoodFellas |
| 2. Bruce Davison | Longtime Companion | |
| 3. Graham Greene | Dances With Wolves | |
| 4. Andy Garcia | The Godfather Part III | |
| 5. Al Pacino | Dick Tracy | |
| 1991 | 1. Harvey Keitel | Bugsy |
| 2. Michael Lerner | Barton Fink | |
| 3. Tommy Lee Jones | JFK | |
| 4. Jack Palance | City Slickers | |
| 5. Ben Kingsley | Bugsy | |
| 1992 | 1. Gene Hackman | Unforgiven |
| 2. Jaye Davidson | The Crying Game | |
| 3. Jack Nicholson | A Few Good Men | |
| 4. Al Pacino | Glengarry Glen Ross | |
| 5. David Paymer | Mr. Saturday Night | |
| 1993 | 1. Ralph Fiennes | Schindler's List |
| 2. Leonardo DiCaprio | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | |
| 3. Tommy Lee Jones | The Fugitive | |
| 4. Pete Postlethwaite | In the Name of the Father | |
| 5. John Malkovich | In the Line of Fire | |
| 1994 | 1. Martin Landau | Ed Wood |
| 2. Samuel L. Jackson | Pulp Fiction | |
| 3. Gary Sinise | Forrest Gump | |
| 4. Chazz Palminteri | Bullets over Broadway | |
| 5. Paul Scofield | Quiz Show | |
| 1995 | 1. Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects |
| 2. Ed Harris | Apollo 13 | |
| 3. Brad Pitt | 12 Monkeys | |
| 4. James Cromwell | Babe | |
| 5. Tim Roth | Rob Roy | |
| 1996 | 1. William H. Macy | Fargo |
| 2. Edward Norton | Primal Fear | |
| 3. Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jerry Maguire | |
| 4. Armin Mueller-Stahl | Shine | |
| 5. James Woods | Ghosts of Mississippi | |
| 1997 | 1. Robin Williams | Good Will Hunting |
| 2. Burt Reynolds | Boogie Nights | |
| 3. Robert Forster | Jackie Brown | |
| 4. Greg Kinnear | As Good as It Gets | |
| 5. Anthony Hopkins | Amistad | |
| 1998 | 1. Ed Harris | The Truman Show |
| 2. James Coburn | Affliction | |
| 3. Geoffrey Rush | Shakespeare in Love | |
| 4. Billy Bob Thornton | A Simple Plan | |
| 5. Robert Duvall | A Civil Action | |
| 1999 | 1. Tom Cruise | Magnolia |
| 2. Haley Joel Osment | The Sixth Sense | |
| 3. Jude Law | The Talented Mr. Ripley | |
| 4. Michael Clarke Duncan | The Green Mile | |
| 5. Michael Caine | The Cider House Rules |
2000s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1. Albert Finney | Erin Brockovich |
| 2. Benicio del Toro | Traffic | |
| 3. Willem Dafoe | Shadow of the Vampire | |
| 4. Joaquin Phoenix | Gladiator | |
| 5. Jeff Bridges | The Contender | |
| 2001 | 1. Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2. Jim Broadbent | Iris | |
| 3. Ben Kingsley | Sexy Beast | |
| 4. Ethan Hawke | Training Day | |
| 5. Jon Voight | Ali | |
| 2002 | 1. Chris Cooper | Adaptation |
| 2. Christopher Walken | Catch Me If You Can | |
| 3. Paul Newman | Road to Perdition | |
| 4. Ed Harris | The Hours | |
| 5. John C. Reilly | Chicago | |
| 2003 | 1. Tim Robbins | Mystic River |
| 2. Benicio del Toro | 21 Grams | |
| 3. Ken Watanabe | The Last Samurai | |
| 4. Djimon Hounsou | In America | |
| 5. Alec Baldwin | The Cooler | |
| 2004 | 1. Clive Owen | Closer |
| 2. Thomas Haden Church | Sideways | |
| 3. Morgan Freeman | Million Dollar Baby | |
| 4. Jamie Foxx | Collateral | |
| 5. Alan Alda | The Aviator | |
| 2005 | 1. Jake Gyllenhaal | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2. Paul Giamatti | Cinderella Man | |
| 3. William Hurt | A History of Violence | |
| 4. George Clooney | Syriana | |
| 5. Matt Dillon | Crash | |
| 2006 | 1. Alan Arkin | Little Miss Sunshine |
| 2. Jackie Earle Haley | Little Children | |
| 3. Eddie Murphy | Dreamgirls | |
| 4. Djimon Hounsou | Blood Diamond | |
| 5. Mark Wahlberg | The Departed | |
| 2007 | 1. Javier Bardem | No Country for Old Men |
| 2. Casey Affleck | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | |
| 3. Tom Wilkinson | Michael Clayton | |
| 4. Hal Holbrook | Into the Wild | |
| 5. Philip Seymour Hoffman | Charlie Wilson's War | |
| 2008 | 1. Heath Ledger | The Dark Knight |
| 2. Philip Seymour Hoffman | Doubt | |
| 3. Michael Shannon | Revolutionary Road | |
| 4. Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder | |
| 5. Josh Brolin | Milk | |
| 2009 | 1. Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds |
| 2. Woody Harrelson | The Messenger | |
| 3. Christopher Plummer | The Last Station | |
| 4. Stanley Tucci | The Lovely Bones | |
| 5. Matt Damon | Invictus |
2010s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1. Christian Bale | The Fighter |
| 2. Mark Ruffalo | The Kids Are All Right | |
| 3. John Hawkes | Winter's Bone | |
| 4. Geoffrey Rush | The King's Speech | |
| 5. Jeremy Renner | The Town | |
| 2011 | 1. Christopher Plummer | Beginners |
| 2. Nick Nolte | Warrior | |
| 3. Jonah Hill | Moneyball | |
| 4. Kenneth Branagh | My Week with Marilyn | |
| 5. Max von Sydow | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | |
| 2012 | 1. Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Master |
| 2. Christoph Waltz | Django Unchained | |
| 3. Tommy Lee Jones | Lincoln | |
| 4. Robert De Niro | Silver Linings Playbook | |
| 5. Alan Arkin | Argo | |
| 2013 | 1. Michael Fassbender | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2. Jared Leto | Dallas Buyers Club | |
| 3. Barkhad Abdi | Captain Phillips | |
| 4. Bradley Cooper | American Hustle | |
| 5. Jonah Hill | The Wolf of Wall Street | |
| 2014 | 1. J.K. Simmons | Whiplash |
| 2. Edward Norton | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | |
| 3. Ethan Hawke | Boyhood | |
| 4. Mark Ruffalo | Foxcatcher | |
| 5. Robert Duvall | The Judge | |
| 2015 | 1. Sylvester Stallone | Creed |
| 2. Mark Rylance | Bridge of Spies | |
| 3. Tom Hardy | The Revenant | |
| 4. Mark Ruffalo | Spotlight | |
| 5. Christian Bale | The Big Short | |
| 2016 | 1. Mahershala Ali | Moonlight |
| 2. Lucas Hedges | Manchester by the Sea | |
| 3. Jeff Bridges | Hell or High Water | |
| 4. Dev Patel | Lion | |
| 5. Michael Shannon | Nocturnal Animals | |
| 2017 | 1. Willem Dafoe | The Florida Project |
| 2. Sam Rockwell | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |
| 3. Richard Jenkins | The Shape of Water | |
| 4. Woody Harrelson | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |
| 5. Christopher Plummer | All the Money in the World | |
| 2018 | 1. Richard E. Grant | Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| 2. Mahershala Ali | Green Book | |
| 3. Sam Elliott | A Star Is Born | |
| 4. Adam Driver | BlacKkKlansman | |
| 5. Sam Rockwell | Vice | |
| 2019 | 1. Joe Pesci | The Irishman |
| 2. Brad Pitt | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | |
| 3. Al Pacino | The Irishman | |
| 4. Tom Hanks | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | |
| 5. Anthony Hopkins | The Two Popes |
2020s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1. Daniel Kaluuya | Judas and the Black Messiah |
| 2. Paul Raci | Sound of Metal | |
| 3. Lakeith Stanfield | Judas and the Black Messiah | |
| 4. Leslie Odom Jr. | One Night in Miami | |
| 5. Sacha Baron Cohen | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | |
| 2021 | 1. Troy Kotsur | CODA |
| 2. Kodi Smit-McPhee | The Power of the Dog | |
| 3. Jesse Plemons | The Power of the Dog | |
| 4. Ciarán Hinds | Belfast | |
| 5. J.K. Simmons | Being the Ricardos | |
| 2022 | 1. Ke Huy Quan | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2. Barry Keoghan | The Banshees of Inisherin | |
| 3. Brian Tyree Henry | Causeway | |
| 4. Brendan Gleeson | The Banshees of Inisherin | |
| 5. Judd Hirsch | The Fabelmans | |
| 2023 | 1. Ryan Gosling | Barbie |
| 2. Robert Downey Jr. | Oppenheimer | |
| 3. Robert De Niro | Killers of the Flower Moon | |
| 4. Mark Ruffalo | Poor Things | |
| 5. Sterling K. Brown | American Fiction |
Multiple winners (Combined Lead and Supporting Actor)
* = Lead win
- Robert De Niro – 4 (The Godfather Part II; Taxi Driver*; The Deer Hunter*; Raging Bull*)
- Al Pacino – 4 (The Godfather; Serpico*; The Godfather Part II*; Dog Day Afternoon*)
- Daniel Day-Lewis – 4 (My Left Foot*; Gangs of New York*; There Will Be Blood*; Lincoln*)
- Claude Rains – 3 (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Casablanca; Notorious)
- Marlon Brando – 3 (A Streetcar Named Desire*; On the Waterfront*; The Godfather*)
- Tom Hanks – 3 (Big*; Philadelphia*; Cast Away*)
- Dustin Hoffman – 3 (The Graduate*; Midnight Cowboy*; Tootsie*)
- Paul Newman – 3 (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*; The Hustler*; Hud*)
- Walter Brennan – 2 (Come and Get It; The Westerner)
- Joe Pesci – 2 (GoodFellas; The Irishman)
- Peter Ustinov – 2 (Spartacus; Topkapi)
- Tom Cruise – 2 (Jerry Maguire*; Magnolia)
- Robert Duvall – 2 (Apocalypse Now; Tender Mercies*)
- Michael Fassbender – 2 (12 Years a Slave; Steve Jobs*)
- Ryan Gosling – 2 (Half Nelson; Barbie*)
- Alec Guinness – 2 (The Bridge on the River Kwai*; Star Wars)
- Gene Hackman – 2 (The French Connection*; Unforgiven)
- Walter Huston – 2 (Dodsworth*; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
- Heath Ledger – 2 (Brokeback Mountain*; The Dark Knight)
- Ian McKellen – 2 (Gods and Monsters*; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
- Jack Nicholson – 2 (Terms of Endearment; As Good as It Gets*)
- George C. Scott – 2 (Anatomy of a Murder; Patton*)
- Denzel Washington – 2 (Glory; Malcolm X*)
- James Cagney – 2 (Angels with Dirty Faces*; Yankee Doodle Dandy*)
- Montgomery Clift – 2 (The Search*; From Here to Eternity*)
- Ronald Colman – 2 (Bulldog Drummond*; A Double Life*)
- Russell Crowe – 2 (The Insider*; A Beautiful Mind*)
- Leonardo DiCaprio – 2 (The Aviator*; The Wolf of Wall Street*)
- Henry Fonda – 2 (The Grapes of Wrath*; On Golden Pond*)
- Anthony Hopkins – 2 (The Silence of the Lambs*; The Father*)
- Jack Lemmon – 2 (Some Like It Hot*; The Apartment*)
- James Stewart – 2 (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington*; It’s a Wonderful Life*)
Most nominations without a win (Combined Lead and Supporting Actor)
* = Lead nomination
- Laurence Olivier – 10 (Wuthering Heights*; Rebecca*; Hamlet*; Richard III*; The Entertainer*; Othello*; Sleuth*; Marathon Man*; The Boys from Brazil)
- Spencer Tracy – 9 (San Francisco*; Captains Courageous*; Boys Town*; Father of the Bride*; Bad Day at Black Rock*; The Old Man and the Sea*; Inherit the Wind*; Judgment at Nuremberg*; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner*)
- Jeff Bridges – 7 (The Last Picture Show; Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; Starman*; The Contender*, Crazy Heart*; True Grit*, Hell or High Water*)
- Arthur Kennedy – 5 (Champion; Bright Victory*; Trial; Peyton Place; Some Came Running)
- Sean Penn – 5 (Dead Man Walking*; Sweet and Lowdown*; I Am Sam*; Mystic River*; Milk*)
- Mark Ruffalo – 4 (The Kids Are All Right; Foxcatcher; Spotlight; Poor Things)
- Tommy Lee Jones – 4 (JFK; The Fugitive; In the Valley of Elah*; Lincoln)
- George Clooney – 4 (Syriana; Michael Clayton*; Up in the Air*; The Descendants*)
- Ben Kingsley – 4 (Gandhi*; Bugsy; Sexy Beast; House of Sand and Fog*)
- Brad Pitt – 4 (12 Monkeys; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*; Moneyball*; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
- Anthony Quinn – 4 (Viva Zapata!; Lust for Life; Wild Is the Wind*; Zorba the Greek*)
- Mickey Rooney – 4 (Babes in Arms*; The Human Comedy*; The Bold and the Brave; The Black Stallion)
- Geoffrey Rush – 4 (Shine*; Shakespeare in Love; Quills*; The King’s Speech)
- Joaquin Phoenix – 4 (Gladiator; Walk the Line*; The Master*; Joker*)
- Jon Voight – 4 (Midnight Cowboy*; Coming Home*; Runaway Train*; Ali)
- Warren Beatty – 4 (Bonnie and Clyde*; Heaven Can Wait*; Reds*; Bugsy*)
- Burt Lancaster – 4 (From Here to Eternity*; Elmer Gantry*; Birdman of Alcatraz*; Atlantic City*)
- Charles Coburn – 3 (The Devil and Miss Jones; The More the Merrier; The Green Years)
- Charles Bickford – 3 (The Song of Bernadette; The Farmer’s Daughter; Johnny Belinda)
- Robert Downey Jr. – 3 (Chaplin*; Tropic Thunder; Oppenheimer)
- Woody Harrelson – 3 (The People vs. Larry Flynt*; The Messenger; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
- James Mason – 3 (A Star Is Born*; Georgy Girl; The Verdict)
- Edward Norton – 3 (Primal Fear; American History X*; Birdman)
- Matt Damon – 3 (Good Will Hunting*; Invictus; The Martian*)
- José Ferrer – 3 (Joan of Arc; Cyrano de Bergerac*; Moulin Rouge*)
- Nick Nolte – 3 (The Prince of Tides*; Affliction*; Warrior)
- Maximilian Schell – 3 (Judgment at Nuremberg*; The Man in the Glass Booth*; Julia)
- Bing Crosby – 3 (Going My Way*; The Bells of St. Mary’s*; The Country Girl*)
- Johnny Depp – 3 (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl*; Finding Neverland*; Sweeney Todd*)
- Kirk Douglas – 3 (Champion*; The Bad and the Beautiful*; Lust for Life*)
- Marcello Mastroianni – 3 (Divorce Italian Style*; A Special Day*; Dark Eyes*)
- Viggo Mortensen – 3 (Eastern Promises*; Captain Fantastic*; Green Book*)
- William Powell – 3 (The Thin Man*; My Man Godfrey*; Life with Father*)
- Will Smith – 3 (Ali*; The Pursuit of Happyness*; King Richard*)
