Latest in Oscar Best Supporting Actor Category

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…

I’ve said it before and I will say it again. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences lately has had a serious problem when it comes to at least one of the acting races. Too many contenders for best actor and only five slots. I know, I know. Readers are going to come after me for saying this again, but, just as…

In a year that the leading actor race is full of major heavyweight contenders — many going for their second or third Oscars— the Supporting Actor category is no less competitive and also chockful of major names in the hunt for another Oscar. With certified leading men like Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Philip…

Matt Damon, True Grit – He was the leading man starring in his Invictus director Clint Eastwood's Hereafter. But his best chance at an Oscar is thought to be Joel and Ethan Coen's True Grit in the supporting role of that gabby Texas Ranger, LaBoeuf, based on the Charles Portis novel. Deadline’s Mike Fleming…

Category placement is always a delicate dance come Oscar time. In 1966, Walter Matthau won the Supporting Actor Oscar for The Fortune Cookie even though he was on equal footing with co-star Jack Lemmon. In 1981, Susan Sarandon admitted to voting for herself in Supporting for Atlantic City only to surprisingly land in…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has yet to officially decide. But, according to my sources, the studio is "heavily leaning" toward pushing Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps‘s Michael Douglas for Best Supporting Actor. That’s a very different Oscar race than Best Actor where Douglas won the Academy Award for playing the same…