Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners

The latest Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winner is Robert Downey, Jr. for his role in Oppenheimer.
The latest Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winner is Robert Downey, Jr. for his role in Oppenheimer.

Want to know the best Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners?  How about the worst Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners?  Curious about Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners box office grosses or which Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which one got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place because we have all of that information.

Drivel Part: (That is what my wife calls this part of the page).  A few years ago, we wrote three movie pages on Oscar winners: Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress.  Originally we had intended on doing more Oscar winners pages….we sadly dropped the ball on that thought process.  Well with the calendar turning to November, and our favorite time of the year officially starting….”Movie Award Season” we figured we would finally revisit these movie subjects.  Our favorite Best Supporting Actor trivia?  Michael Caine is one of 7 different actors to win more than one Best Supporting Actor Oscar.  Those 7 actors are Walter Brennan (3 wins), Anthony Quinn, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Jason Robards, Christoph Waltz and Caine

Since 1936, there have been over 80 Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners. This page will rank Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winning movies from Best to Worst in five different sortable columns of information.  If you use the sort and search buttons the massive table becomes very interactive.

Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940). His 3rd Best Supporting Oscar win.
Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940). His 3rd Best Supporting Oscar win. He won the 3 of the first 5 Best Supporting Actor Oscars.

Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners Can Be Ranked 5 Ways In The Table Below

The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners by the winners
  • Sort Best Supporting Actor Winners by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners by critic reviews and audiences voting.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar nominations and how many Oscar® wins each movie received
  • Sort Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.  The ceiling to earn points for box office is $200 million…once a movie passes that mark it stops earning points in that category.
 
Michael Caine in his 2nd Best Supporting Actor Oscar rp;e ....1999's The Cider House Rules
Michael Caine in his 2nd Best Supporting Actor Oscar role ….1999’s The Cider House Rules

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29 thoughts on “Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners

  1. HI BOB

    I am glad to hear that your dad is responding to chemo [though I’m sorry about his fall] and that your mum is experience a “new lease of life”.

    I wish you and your family the best of continuing luck in these matters. Meanwhile it is heartening to learn that your father is joining you in prayer.

  2. Cogerson, congratulations. i am surviving. my father is responding to chemotherapy but fell and spent a week in hospital and has now moved to assisted living after much contention. my mother is experiencing a new lease on life after stabilizing her broken back she is walking again after 18 months of resigning to motorized wheelchair only. blessing , my dad(an atheist of 74 years) prayed with me for first time in 55 years. miracles happen, it must have been a very cold day in hades.

  3. Wow….finally finished writing a page on every single Best Supporting Actor Oscar winners. On the acting side….still have a few more Best Actors and a ton of Best Supporting Actress Oscar winners to go.

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