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).

1950s

• 1950 George Sanders - All About Eve
• Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow
• Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880
• Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle
• Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard
• 1951 Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire
• Leo Genn - Quo Vadis
• Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Salesman
• Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis
• Gig Young - Come Fill the Cup
• 1952 Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!
• Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel
• Arthur Hunnicutt - The Big Sky
• Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man
• Jack Palance - Sudden Fear
• 1953 Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity
• Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday
• Brandon de Wilde - Shane
• Jack Palance - Shane
• Robert Strauss - Stalag 17
• 1954 Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa
• Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront
• Karl Malden - On the Waterfront
• Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront
• Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny
• 1955 Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
• Arthur Kennedy - Trial
• Joe Mantell - Marty
• Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause
• Arthur O'Connell - Picnic (movie)
• 1956 Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life
• Don Murray - Bus Stop
• Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion
• Mickey Rooney - The Bold and the Brave
• Robert Stack - Written on the Wind
• 1957 Red Buttons - Sayonara
• Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms
• Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place
• Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place
• 1958 Burl Ives - The Big Country
• Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones
• Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov
• Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running
• Gig Young - Teacher's Pet
• 1959 Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur
• Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder
• George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder
• Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians
• Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank