As we approach the 96th Academy Awards, Deadline takes a photo-heavy look back at every Best Supporting Actor winner since 1937.
Scroll through the images below top see them all.
And if you’re interested in seeing all the women who’ve won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress, click here.
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Robert Downey Jr. — 2024
Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss in ‘Oppenheimer.’
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2023 — Ke Huy Quan
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ (2022)
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2022 – Troy Kotsur
‘CODA’ (2021)
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2021 – Daniel Kaluuya
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ (2020)
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2020 – Brad Pitt
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ (2019)
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2019 – Mahershala Ali
‘Green Book’ (2018)
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2018 – Sam Rockwell
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ (2017)
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2017 – Mahershala Ali
‘Moonlight’ (2016)
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2016 – Mark Rylance
‘Bridge of Spies’ (2015)
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2015 – J.K. Simmons
‘Whiplash’ (2014)
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2014 – Jared Leto
‘Dallas Buyers Club’ (2013)
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2013 – Christoph Waltz
‘Django Unchained’ (2012)
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2012 – Christopher Plummer
‘Beginners’ (2011)
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2011 – Christian Bale
‘The Fighter’ (2010)
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2010 – Christoph Waltz
‘Inglourious Basterds’ (2009)
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2009 – Heath Ledger
‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
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2008 – Javier Bardem
‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007)
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2007 – Alan Arkin
‘Little Miss Sunshine’ (2006)
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2006 – George Clooney
‘Syriana’ (2005)
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2005 – Morgan Freeman
‘Million Dollar Baby’ (2004)
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2004 Tim Robbins
‘Mystic River’ (2003)
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2003 – Chris Cooper
‘Adaptation’ (2002)
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2003 – Jim Broadbent
‘Iris’ (2002)
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2001 – Benicio Del Toro
‘Traffic’ (2000)
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2000 – Michael Caine
‘The Cider House Rules’ (1999)
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1999 – James Coburn
‘Affliction’ (1998)
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1998 – Robin Williams
‘Good Will Hunting’ (1997)
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1997 – Cuba Gooding Jr.
‘Jerry Maguire’ (1996)
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1996 – Kevin Spacey
‘The Usual Suspects’ (1995)
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1995 – Martin Landau
‘Ed Wood’ (1994)
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1994 – Tommy Lee Jones
‘The Fugitive’ (1993)
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1993 – Gene Hackman
‘Unforgiven’ (1992)
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1992 – Jack Palance
‘City Slickers’ (1991)
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1991 – Joe Pesci
‘Goodfellas’ (1990)
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1990 – Denzel Washington
‘Glory’ (1989)
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1989 – Kevin Kline – 1988
‘A Fish Called Wanda’ (1988)
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1988 – Sean Connery
‘The Untouchables’ (1987)
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1987 – Michael Caine
‘Hannah and her Sisters’ (1986)
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1986 – Don Ameche
‘Cocoon’ (1985)
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1985 – Haing S. Ngor
‘The Killing Fields’ (1984)
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1984 -Jack Nicholson
‘Terms of Endearment’ (1983)
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1983 -Louis Gossett Jr.
‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ (1982)
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1982 -John Gielgud
‘Arthur’ (1981)
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1981 – Timothy Hutton
‘Ordinary People’ (1980)
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1980 – Melvyn Douglas
‘Being There’ (1979)
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1979 – Christopher Walken
‘The Deer Hunter’ (1978)
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1978 – Jason Robards, Jr.
‘Julia’ (1977)
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1977 – Jason Robards, Jr.
‘All the President’s Men’ (1976)
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1976 – George Burns
‘The Sunshine Boys’ (1975)
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1795 – Robert De Niro
‘The Godfather Part II’ (1974)
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1974 – John Houseman
‘The Paper Chase’ (1973)
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1973 – Joel Grey
‘Cabaret’ (1972)
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1972 – Ben Johnson
‘The Last Picture Show’ (1971)
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1971 – John Mills
‘Ryan’s Daughter’ (1970)
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1970 – Gig Young
‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ (1969)
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1969 – Jack Albertson
‘The Subject Was Roses’ (1968)
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1968 – George Kennedy
‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967)
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1967 – Walter Matthau
‘The Fortune Cookie’ (1966)
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1966 – Martin Balsam
‘A Thousand Clowns’ (1965)
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1965 – Peter Ustinov
‘Topkapi’ (1964)
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1964 – Melvyn Douglas
‘Hud’ (1963)
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1963 – Ed Begley
‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ (1962)
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1962 – George Chakiris
‘West Side Story’ (1961)
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1961 – Peter Ustinov
‘Spartacus’ (1960)
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1960 – Hugh Griffith
‘Ben-Hur’ (1959)
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1959 – Burl Ives
‘The Big Country’ (1958)
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1958 – Red Buttons
‘Sayonara’ (1957)
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1957 – Anthony Quinn
‘Lust for Life’ (1956)
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1956 – Jack Lemmon
‘Mister Roberts’ (1955)
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1955 – Edmond O’Brien
‘The Barefoot Contessa’ (1954)
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1954 – Frank Sinatra
‘From Here to Eternity’ (1953)
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1953 – Anthony Quinn
‘Viva Zapata!’ (1952)
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1952 – Karl Malden
‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1951)
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1951 – George Sanders
‘All About Eve’ (1950)
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1950 – Dean Jagger
‘Twelve O’Clock High’ (1949)
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1949 – Walter Huston
‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ (1948)
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1948 – Edmund Gwenn
‘Miracle on 34th Street’ (1947)
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1947 – Harold Russell
‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ (1946)
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1946 – James Dunn
‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ (1945)
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1945 – Barry Fitzgerald
‘Going My Way’ (1944)
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1944- Charles Coburn
‘The More the Merrier’ (1943)
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1943 – Van Heflin
‘Johnny Eager’ (1941)
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1942 – Donald Crisp
‘How Green Was My Valley’ (1941)
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1941 – Walter Brennan
‘The Westerner’ (1940)
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1940 – Thomas Mitchell
‘Stagecoach’ (1939)
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1939 – Walter Brennan
‘Kentucky’ (1938)
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1938 – Joseph Schildkraut
‘The Life of Emile Zola’ (1937)
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1937 – Walter Brennan
‘Come and Get It’ (1936)
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