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).

1970s

• 1970 John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
• Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers
• Dan George - Little Big Man
• Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father
• John Marley - Love Story
• 1971 Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
• Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show
• Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof
• Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes a Great Notion
• Roy Scheider - The French Connection
• 1972 Joel Grey - Cabaret
• Eddie Albert - The Heartbreak Kid
• James Caan - The Godfather
• Robert Duvall - The Godfather
• Al Pacino - The Godfather
• 1973 John Houseman - The Paper Chase
• Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly
• Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger
• Jason Miller - The Exorcist
• Randy Quaid - The Last Detail
• 1974 Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II
• Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno
• Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• Michael Gazzo - The Godfather Part II
• Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II
• 1975 George Burns - The Sunshine Boys
• Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust
• Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon
• Jack Warden - Shampoo
• 1976 Jason Robards - All the President's Men
• Ned Beatty - Network
• Burgess Meredith - Rocky
• Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
• Burt Young - Rocky
• 1977 Jason Robards - Julia
• Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point
• Peter Firth - Equus
• Alec Guinness - '
• Maximilian Schell - Julia
• 1978 Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
• Bruce Dern - Coming Home
• Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman
• John Hurt - Midnight Express
• Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait
• 1979 Melvyn Douglas - Being There
• Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
• Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer
• Frederic Forrest - The Rose
• Mickey Rooney - The Black Stallion