Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees. For a list sorted by actor, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees. For a list sorted by movie title, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films).

1930s

• 1936 Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
• Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey
• Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade
• Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet
• Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn
• 1937 Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola
• Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth
• Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane
• H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon
• Roland Young - Topper
• 1938 Walter Brennan - Kentucky
• Basil Rathbone - If I Were King
• John Garfield - Four Daughters
• Gene Lockhart - Algiers
• Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette
• 1939 Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach
• Brian Aherne - Juarez
• Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste
• Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington