My Best Supporting Actor Winners

1. Gustav Fröhlich

Gustav Fröhlich was born on March 21, 1902 in Hanover, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Metropolis (1927), Leb' wohl, Christina (1945) and Seine Tochter ist der Peter (1955). He was married to Maria Hajek and Gitta Alpar. He died on December 22, 1987 in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland.

Year: 1927/28 Film: Metropolis Role: Freder Fredersen Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: category did not exist Nominees: Charles Farrell (Seventh Heaven); Buddy Rogers (My Best Girl); Victor Varconi (Chicago); Edmond van Daele (Napoléon)

2. Clive Brook

Actor | Cavalcade

Born in London, England to Charlotte Mary (opera singer) and George Alfred Brook. He was educated privately. Stage experience included: "Oliver Twist", "Voysey Inheritence", "If I were King", "Importance of Being Ernest", Fair and Warmer", "Over Sunday", "Clothes and the WOman", and many others. ...

Year: 1928/29 Film: The Four Feathers Role: Lieutenant Jack Durrance Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: category did not exist Nominees: Lars Hanson (The Wind); Montagu Love (The Wind); Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail); Carl Brisson (The Manxman)

3. Louis Wolheim

Actor | All Quiet on the Western Front

It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim (Cornell '07) his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as ...

Year: 1929/30 Film: All Quiet on the Western Front Role: Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: category did not exist Nominees: Tyrone Power, Sr. (The Big Trail); Neil Hamilton (The Dawn Patrol); Robert Greig (Animal Crackers); Robert Montgomery (The Big House)

4. Lionel Barrymore

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon...

Year: 1930/31 Film: A Free Soul Role: Stephen Ashe Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: category did not exist Nominees: Clark Gable (A Free Soul); Reginald Denny (Private Lives); Harry Myers (City Lights); Zeppo Marx (Monkey Business)

5. John Barrymore

Actor | Twentieth Century

John Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth on February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. A member of the most famous generation of the most famous theatrical ...

Year: 1931/32 Film: Grand Hotel Role: Baron Felix von Gaigern Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: category did not exist Nominees: Lionel Barrymore (Grand Hotel); Lowell Sherman (What Price Hollywood?); Clive Brook (Shanghai Express); Wallace Beery (Grand Hotel)

6. Robert Donat

Actor | The 39 Steps

Robert Donat's pleasant voice and somewhat neutral English accent were carefully honed as a boy because he had a stammer and took elocution lessons starting at age 11 to overcome the impediment. It was not too surprising that freedom from such a vocal embarrassment was encouragement to act. His ...

Year: 1932/33 Film: The Private Life of Henry VIII Role: Thomas Culpeper Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: category did not exist Nominees: Fred Astaire (Flying Down to Rio); Chico Marx (Duck Soup); Guy Kibbee (42nd Street); Cary Grant (She Done Him Wrong)

7. Charles Laughton

Actor | Witness for the Prosecution

Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, to Eliza (Conlon) and Robert Laughton, hotel keepers of Irish and English descent, respectively. He was educated at Stonyhurst (a highly esteemed Jesuit college in England) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (received gold medal). ...

Year: 1934 Film: The Barretts of Wimpole Street Role: Edward Moulton-Barrett Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: category did not exist Nominees: Boris Karloff (The Lost Patrol); Henry Brandon (Babes in Toyland); Sam Jaffe (The Scarlet Empress); Raymond Massey (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

8. Peter Lorre

Actor | M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

Peter Lorre was born László Löwenstein in Rózsahegy in the Slovak area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of Hungarian Jewish parents. He learned both Hungarian and German languages from birth, and was educated in elementary and secondary schools in the Austria-Hungary capitol Vienna, but did ...

Year: 1935 Film: The Man Who Knew Too Much Role: Abbott Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: category did not exist Nominees: James Cagney (A Midsummer Night's Dream); Ernest Thesiger (Bride of Frankenstein); Ralph Bellamy (Hands Across the Table); Fredric March (Anna Karenina)

9. Spencer Tracy

Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg

Spencer Tracy was the second son born on April 5, 1900, to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While attending Marquette Academy, he and classmate Pat O'Brien quit school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard...

Year: 1936 Film: San Francisco Role: Father Tim Mullen Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No (nominated for Best Actor) Nominees: Humphrey Bogart (The Petrified Forest); **Walter Brennan (Come and Get It); Peter Lorre (Secret Agent); Robert Young (Secret Agent)

10. Clinton Rosemond

Actor | Safari

Born Crescent Clinton Rosemond, although becoming an actor, he started as a singer. He was in some a capella groups in the Los Angeles area at the turn of the century. In 1919 he became part of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. During the 1920s the ensemble traveled to London where they performed ...

Year: 1937 Film: They Won't Forget Role: Tump Redwine Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *Ralph Bellamy (The Awful Truth); *Thomas Mitchell (The Hurricane); Jean Hersholt (Heidi); **Joseph Schildkraut (The Life of Emile Zola)

11. Basil Rathbone

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, ...

Year: 1938 Film: The Adventures of Robin Hood Role: Sir Guy of Gisbourne Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: Erich von Stroheim (Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion)); Pat O'Brien (Angels with Dirty Faces); *Robert Morley (Marie Antoinette); Edward Arnold (You Can't Take It with You)

12. Thomas Mitchell

Actor | Stagecoach

Thomas Mitchell was one of the great American character actors, whose credits read like a list of the greatest American films of the 20th century: Lost Horizon (1937); Stagecoach (1939); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939); It's a ...

Year: 1939 Film: Stagecoach Role: Dr. Josiah Boone Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Claude Rains (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington); Ray Bolger (The Wizard of Oz); *Brian Aherne (Juarez); Nigel Bruce (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

13. Walter Brennan

Actor | The Westerner

In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and ...

Year: 1940 Film: The Westerner Role: Judge Roy Bean Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: George Sanders (Rebecca); Frank Morgan (The Shop Around the Corner); Herbert Marshall (Foreign Correspondent); *Jack Oakie (The Great Dictator)

14. Sydney Greenstreet

Actor | The Maltese Falcon

Sydney Greenstreet's father was a leather merchant with eight children. Sydney left home at age 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business and back to England. He managed a brewery and, to escape boredom, took acting lessons. His stage debut was as a ...

Year: 1941 Film: The Maltese Falcon Role: Kasper Gutman Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes, No Nominees: Peter Lorre (The Maltese Falcon); Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane); **Donald Crisp (How Green Was My Valley); *Charles Coburn (The Devil and Miss Jones)

15. Joseph Cotten

Actor | The Third Man

Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr. was born in Petersburg, Virginia, into a well-to-do Southern family. He was the eldest of three sons born to Sally Whitworth (Willson) and Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Sr., an assistant postmaster.

Jo (as he was known) and his brothers Whit and Sam spent their summers at their...

Year: 1942 Film: The Magnificent Ambersons Role: Eugene Morgan Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: **Van Heflin (Johnny Eager); *Henry Travers (Mrs. Miniver); *Frank Morgan (Tortilla Flat); Rudy Vallee (The Palm Beach Story)

16. Claude Rains

Actor | Casablanca

William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth...

Year: 1943 Film: Casablanca Role: Captain Louis Renault Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: **Charles Coburn (The More the Merrier); Erich von Stroheim (Five Graves to Cairo); Dana Andrews (The Ox-Bow Incident); *J. Carrol Naish (Sahara)

17. Barry Fitzgerald

Actor | The Quiet Man

One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and ...

Year: 1944 Film: Going My Way Role: Father Fitzgibbon Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: William Demarest (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek); Edward G. Robinson (Double Indemnity); *Clifton Webb (Laura); William Bendix (Lifeboat)

18. James Dunn

Actor | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

James Dunn worked on the stage, in vaudeville and as an extra in silent movies before he was signed by Fox in 1931. His first movie with Fox was 1931's Sob Sister (1931). While at Fox, he appeared with Shirley Temple in her first three features: Baby, Take a Bow (1934), Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) ...

Year: 1945 Film: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Role: Johnny Nolan Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp); Marcello Pagliero (Rome, Open City (Roma, citta aperta); Jean-Louis Barrault (Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis)); Pierre Brasseur (Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis))

19. Claude Rains

Actor | Casablanca

William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth...

Year: 1946 Film: Notorious Role: Alexander Sebastian Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Charles Coburn (The Green Years); **Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives); Dana Andrews (The Best Years of Our Lives); Lionel Barrymore (It's a Wonderful Life)

20. Richard Widmark

Actor | Kiss of Death

Richard Widmark established himself as an icon of American cinema with his debut in the 1947 film noir Kiss of Death (1947), in which he won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination as the killer Tommy Udo. Kiss of Death (1947) and other noir thrillers established Widmark as part of a new ...

Year: 1947 Film: Kiss of Death Role: Tommy Udo Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: Kirk Douglas (Out of the Past); **Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street); *Robert Ryan (Crossfire); *Thomas Gomez (Ride the Pink Horse)

21. Walter Huston

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

For many years Walter Huston had two passions: his career as an engineer and his vocation for the stage. In 1909 he dedicated himself to the theatre, and made his debut on Broadway in 1924. In 1929 he journeyed to Hollywood, where his talent and ability made him one of the most respected actors in ...

Year: 1948 Film: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Role: Howard Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Cecil Kellaway (The Luck of the Irish); Marius Goring (The Red Shoes); James Stewart (Rope); Edward G. Robinson (Key Largo)

22. Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...

Year: 1949 Film: The Third Man Role: Harry Lime Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts and Coronets); *Ralph Richardson (The Heiress); *James Whitmore (Battleground); Enzo Staoila (The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette))

23. George Sanders

Actor | All About Eve

George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy. His film debut, in ...

Year: 1950 Film: All About Eve Role: Addison DeWitt Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Erich von Stroheim (Sunset Boulevard); Alastair Sim (Stage Fright); *Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle); Richard Widmark (No Way Out)

24. Karl Malden

Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire

Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when...

Year: 1951 Film: A Streetcar Named Desire Role: Harold "Mitch" Mitchell Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Peter Ustinov (Quo Vadis); Masayuki Mori (Rashomon); Hugh Marlowe (The Day the Earth Stood Still); *Kevin McCarthy (Death of a Salesman)

25. Anthony Quinn

Actor | Alexis Zorbas

Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...

Year: 1952 Film: Viva Zapata! Role: Eufemio Zapata Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Victor McLaglen (The Quiet Man); Donald O'Connor (Singin' in the Rain); *Jack Palance (Sudden Fear); Stanley Holloway (The Lavender Hill Mob)

26. Ernest Borgnine

Actor | Marty

Ernest Borgnine was born Ermes Effron Borgnino on January 24, 1917 in Hamden, Connecticut. His parents were Anna (Boselli), who had emigrated from Carpi (MO), Italy, and Camillo Borgnino, who had emigrated from Ottiglio (AL), Italy. As an only child, Ernest enjoyed most sports, especially boxing, ...

Year: 1953 Film: From Here to Eternity Role: Staff Sergeant James R. "Fatso" Judson Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: ^Marlon Brando (Julius Caesar); Otto Preminger (Stalag 17); **Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity); *Jack Palance (Shane)

27. Lee J. Cobb

Actor | 12 Angry Men

Lee J. Cobb, one of the premier character actors in American film for three decades in the post-World War II period, was born Leo Jacoby in New York City's Lower East Side on December 8, 1911. The son of a Jewish newspaper editor, young Leo was a child prodigy in music, mastering the violin and the...

Year: 1954 Film: On the Waterfront Role: Johnny Friendly Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Karl Malden (On the Waterfront); *Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront); Fred MacMurray (The Caine Mutiny); Raymond Burr (Rear Window)

28. Jack Lemmon

Actor | The Apartment

Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...

Year: 1955 Film: Mister Roberts Role: Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause); Sidney Poitier (Blackboard Jungle); Peter Sellers (The Ladykillers); Raymond Massey (East of Eden)

29. James Dean

Actor | East of Eden

James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to ...

Year: 1956 Film: Giant Role: Jett Rink Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No (nominated for Best Actor) Nominees: Takashi Shimura (Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)); *Robert Stack (Written on the Wind); **Anthony Quinn (Lust for Life); Yul Brynner (The Ten Commandments)

30. Sessue Hayakawa

Actor | The Bridge on the River Kwai

Sessue Hayakawa was born in Chiba, Japan. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class. The young Hayakawa wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a career officer in the Japanese navy, but he was turned down due to ...

Year: 1957 Film: The Bridge on the River Kwai Role: Colonel Saito Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: Lee J. Cobb (12 Angry Men); Ralph Meeker (Paths of Glory); Jack Hawkins (The Bridge on the River Kwai); George Macready (Paths of Glory)

31. Burl Ives

Actor | The Big Country

Burl Ives was one of six children born to a farming family in Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, the son of Cordellia "Dellie" (White) and Levi Franklin Ives. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4. In high school, he learned the banjo and played fullback, intending to become a...

Year: 1958 Film: The Big Country Role: Rufus Hannassey Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Orson Welles (Touch of Evil); Bengt Ekerot (The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet)); Gunnar Bjornstrand (The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet)); *Theodore Bikel (The Defiant Ones)

32. Stephen Boyd

Actor | Ben-Hur

Stephen Boyd was born William Millar on July 4, 1931, at Glengormley, Northern Ireland, one of nine children of Martha Boyd and Canadian truck driver James Alexander Millar, who worked for Fleming's on Tomb Street in Belfast. He attended Glengormley & Ballyrobert primary school and then moved on to...

Year: 1959 Film: Ben-Hur Role: Messala Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *George C. Scott (Anatomy of a Murder); Ben Gazzara (Anatomy of a Murder); *Arthur O'Connell (Anatomy of a Murder); Joseph Schildkraut (The Diary of Anne Frank)

33. Peter Ustinov

Actor | Spartacus

Peter Ustinov was a two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions.

He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinow on April 16, 1921 in Swiss Cottage, ...

Year: 1960 Film: Spartacus Role: Lentulus Batiatus Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Peter Falk (Murder, Inc.); Fred MacMurray (The Apartment); Laurence Olivier (Spartacus); *Sal Mineo (Exodus)

34. Jackie Gleason

Actor | The Hustler

Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. He was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver and a disc jockey, and later a comedian in night clubs. By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series ...

Year: 1961 Film: The Hustler Role: Minnesota Fats Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Montgomery Clift (Judgment at Nuremberg); *George C. Scott (The Hustler); Burt Lancaster (Judgment at Nuremberg); Tatsuya Nakadai (Yojimbo (Yojinbo))

35. Omar Sharif

Actor | Lawrence of Arabia

Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and ...

Year: 1962 Film: Lawrence of Arabia Role: Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Terence Stamp (Billy Budd); Claude Rains (Lawrence of Arabia); Lee Marvin (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance); Fernando Rey (Viridiana)

36. Melvyn Douglas

Actor | Being There

Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas was one of America's finest actors, and would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy Ninotchka (1939), but he was much, much more.

Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Edouard...

Year: 1963 Film: Hud Role: Homer Bannon Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Brandon De Wilde (Hud); Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape); *Bobby Darin (Captain Newman, M.D.); *John Huston (The Cardinal)

37. George C. Scott

Actor | Patton

George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...

Year: 1964 Film: Dr. Strangelove Role: General Buck Turgidson Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: **Peter Ustinov (Topkapi); Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove); Wilfred Brambell (A Hard Day's Night); Fredric March (Seven Days in May)

38. Rod Steiger

Actor | In the Heat of the Night

Rodney Stephen Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, to Augusta Amelia (Driver) and Frederick Jacob Steiger, both vaudevillians. He was of German and Austrian ancestry. After his parents' divorce, Steiger was raised by his mother in Newark, New Jersey. He dropped out of Westside High school at...

Year: 1965 Film: Doctor Zhivago Role: Victor Komarovsky Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: Harry Andrews (The Hill); *Tom Courtenay (Doctor Zhivago); Ian Hendry (The Hill); Oskar Werner (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)

39. George Segal

Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

George Segal was born on February 13, 1934 in New York City, New York, to Fannie Blanche (Bodkin) and George Segal Sr., a malt and hop agent. All of his grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. After a stint in the military, he made his bones as a stage actor before being cast in his first ...

Year: 1966 Film: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Role: Nick Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: **Walter Matthau (The Fortune Cookie); Lee Van Cleef (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly); *Robert Shaw (A Man for All Seasons); Richard Attenborough (The Sand Pebbles)

40. George Kennedy

Actor | Cool Hand Luke

George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City, to Helen (Kieselbach), a ballet dancer, and George Harris Kennedy, an orchestra leader and musician. Following high school graduation, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 with the hope to become a fighter ...

Year: 1967 Film: Cool Hand Luke Role: Dragline Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Gene Hackman (Bonnie and Clyde); Jean Martin (The Battle of Algiers (La bataille d'Alger/La battaglia di algeri); *Michael J. Pollard (Bonnie and Clyde); *John Cassavetes (The Dirty Dozen)

41. Gene Wilder

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...

Year: 1968 Film: The Producers Role: Leo Bloom Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: **Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses); Jason Robards (Once Upon a Time in the West); Sergei Bondarchuk (War and Peace (Voyna i mir)); William Sylvester (2001: A Space Odyssey)

42. Gig Young

Actor | They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Gig Young was born Byron Barr to parents John and Emma Barr in Minnesota, and raised in Washington, DC, where he developed a passion for theatre while appearing in high school plays. After gaining some amateur experience, he applied for and received a scholarship to the acclaimed Southern ...

Year: 1969 Film: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Role: Rocky Graver Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Jack Nicholson (Easy Rider); *Elliott Gould (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice); Ernest Borgnine (The Wild Bunch); Robert Ryan (The Wild Bunch)

43. Karl Malden

Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire

Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when...

Year: 1970 Film: Patton Role: General Omar Bradley Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *Gene Hackman (I Never Sang for My Father); *Chief Dan George (Little Big Man): *John Marley (Love Story); **John Mills (Ryan's Daughter)

44. Ben Johnson

Actor | The Last Picture Show

Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California. He decided to stick around (the pay was good), and for some years was a stunt man, horse wrangler, and double for such stars as John Wayne, Gary Cooper ...

Year: 1971 Film: The Last Picture Show Role: Sam the Lion Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Jeff Bridges (The Last Picture Show); *Roy Scheider (The French Connection); Andy Robinson (Dirty Harry); Jack Albertson (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)

45. James Caan

Actor | Thief

A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him from achieving true superstar status, James Caan is New York-born and bred.

He was born in the Bronx, to Sophie (Falkenstein) ...

Year: 1972 Film: The Godfather Role: Sonny Corleone Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: John Cazale (The Godfather); **Joel Grey (Cabaret); *Robert Duvall (The Godfather); Ned Beatty (Deliverance)

46. Robert Shaw

Actor | Jaws

Robert Archibald Shaw was born on August 9, 1927, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Doreen Nora (Avery), a nurse, and Thomas Archibald Shaw, a doctor. His paternal grandfather was Scottish, from Argyll. Shaw's mother, who was born in Piggs Peak, Swaziland, met his father while...

Year: 1973 Film: The Sting Role: Doyle Lonnegan Nominated for Best Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *Jason Miller (The Exorcist); Paul Newman (The Sting); Max von Sydow (The Exorcist); *Vincent Gardenia (Bang the Drum Slowly)

47. Robert De Niro

Actor | Cape Fear

One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...

Year: 1974 Film: The Godfather Part II Role: Vito Corleone Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: John Cazale (The Godfather Part II); Harvey Korman (Blazing Saddles); John Huston (Chinatown); Marty Feldman (Young Frankenstein)

48. George Burns

Actor | Oh, God!

George Burns was an American actor, comedian, singer, and published author. He formed a comedy duo with his wife Gracie Allen (1895-1964), and typically played the straight man to her zany roles. Following her death, Burns started appearing as a solo performer. He once won an Academy Award for Best...

Year: 1975 Film: The Sunshine Boys Role: Al Lewis Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Robert Shaw (Jaws); *Burgess Meredith (The Day of the Locust); Charles Durning (Dog Day Afternoon); John Cazale (Dog Day Afternoon)

49. Hal Holbrook

Actor | Into the Wild

Hal Holbrook was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor who was one of the great craftsmen of stage and screen. He was best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on...

Year: 1976 Film: All the President's Men Role: "Deep Throat" Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *Burgess Meredith (Rocky); *Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man); Robert Duvall (Network); **Jason Robards (All the President's Men)

50. Alec Guinness

Actor | Star Wars

Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...

Year: 1977 Film: Star Wars Role: Obi-Wan Kenobi Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: Bill Macy (The Late Show); Harrison Ford (Star Wars); **Jason Robards (Julia); Tony Roberts (Annie Hall)

51. Christopher Walken

Actor | The Deer Hunter

Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...

Year: 1978 Film: The Deer Hunter Role: Corporal Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Richard Farnsworth (Comes a Horseman); *John Hurt (Midnight Express); John Savage (The Deer Hunter); Gene Hackman (Superman)

52. Robert Duvall

Actor | The Apostle

Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...

Year: 1979 Film: Apocalypse Now Role: Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Justin Henry (Kramer vs. Kramer); Paul Dooley (Breaking Away); *Frederic Forrest (The Rose); Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now)

53. Donald Sutherland

Actor | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The towering presence of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is often noticed, as are his legendary contributions to cinema. He has appeared in almost 200 different shows and films. He is also the father of renowned actor Kiefer Sutherland, among others.

Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint ...

Year: 1980 Film: Ordinary People Role: Calvin Jarrett Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *Joe Pesci (Raging Bull); Lewis Fitz-Gerald (Breaker Morant); Anthony Hopkins (The Elephant Man); Bryan Brown (Breaker Morant)

54. John Gielgud

Actor | Arthur

Born in London, England, John Gielgud trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. Best known for his Shakespearean roles in the theater, he first played Hamlet at the age of 26. He worked under the tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other ...

Year: 1981 Film: Arthur Role: Hobson Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Jack Nicholson (Reds); *Ian Holm (Chariots of Fire); Bill Hunter (Gallipoli); Nigel Havers (Chariots of Fire)

55. James Mason

Actor | Lolita

James Mason was born in Huddersfield and had a film career spanning over 50 years during which he appeared in over 100 films in England and America but never won an Oscar. Whatever role he played, from the wounded Belfast gunman in Odd Man Out to Rommel in The Desert Fox, his creamy velvet voice ...

Year: 1982 Film: The Verdict Role: Ed Concannon Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *John Lithgow (The World According to Garp); Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High); Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner); Charles Durning (Tootsie)

56. Sam Shepard

Actor | August: Osage County

Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base ...

Year: 1983 Film: The Right Stuff Role: Chuck Yeager Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: Ed Harris (The Right Stuff); Darren McGavin (A Christmas Story); Dennis Quaid (The Right Stuff); **Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)

57. Haing S. Ngor

Actor | The Killing Fields

Haing S. Ngor was a native of Cambodia. Before the war, he was a physician & medical officer in the Cambodian army. He became a captive of the Khmer Rouge. He was imprisoned & tortured. In order to escape execution, he denied being a doctor or having an education. He moved to the U.S. as a refugee ...

Year: 1984 Film: The Killing Fields Role: Dith Pran Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Adolph Caesar (A Soldier's Story); James Woods (Once Upon a Time in America); Jeffrey Jones (Amadeus); *Pat Morita (The Karate Kid)

58. Christopher Lloyd

Actor | Back to the Future

Christopher Lloyd is an American actor with a relatively long career. His better known roles include drug-using taxicab driver Jim Ignatowski in the sitcom Taxi (1978), Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), inventor Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future ...

Year: 1985 Film: Back to the Future Role: Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa); Danny Glover (The Color Purple); M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple.); **Don Ameche (Cocoon)

59. Michael Caine

Actor | The Dark Knight

Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...

Year: 1986 Film: Hannah and Her Sisters Role: Elliot Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Tom Berenger (Platoon); Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet); Willem Dafoe (Platoon); Daniel Day-Lewis (A Room with a View)

60. Albert Brooks

Actor | Drive

Albert Brooks was born on July 22, 1947 in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Drive (2011), Broadcast News (1987) and Defending Your Life (1991). He has been married to Kimberly Shlain since March 15, 1997. They have two children.

Year: 1987 Film: Broadcast News Role: Aaron Altman Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Morgan Freeman (Street Smart); R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket); Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket); **Sean Connery (The Untouchables)

61. Kevin Kline

Actor | Wild Wild West

Kevin Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Margaret and Robert Joseph Kline, who owned several stores. His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. After attending Indiana University in Bloomington, Kline studied at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1972, ...

Year: 1988 Film: A Fish Called Wanda Role: Otto West Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Michael Palin (A Fish Called Wanda); ^Max von Sydow (Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle Erobreren)); *Alec Guinness (Little Dorrit); Tim Robbins (Bull Durham)

62. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

Year: 1989 Film: Glory Role: Private Silas Trip Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Danny Aiello (Do the Right Thing); *Martin Landau (Crimes and Misdemeanors); Sean Connery (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade); Hugh O'Conor (My Left Foot)

63. Joe Pesci

Actor | Goodfellas

Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....

Year: 1990 Film: Goodfellas Role: Tommy DeVito Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Albert Finney (Miller's Crossing); John Turturro (Miller's Crossing); Robert De Niro (Goodfellas); *Andy Garcia (The Godfather Part III)

64. Tommy Lee Jones

Actor | The Fugitive

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...

Year: 1991 Film: JFK Role: Clay Shaw Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: John Goodman (Barton Fink); *Michael Lerner (Barton Fink); Samuel L. Jackson (Jungle Fever); Alan Rickman (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)

65. Gene Hackman

Actor | The French Connection

Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...

Year: 1992 Film: Unforgiven Role: Little Bill Daggett Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Alec Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross); *Jack Nicholson (A Few Good Men); *Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game); Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs)

66. Ralph Fiennes

Actor | The Constant Gardener

Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus ...

Year: 1993 Film: Schindler's List Role: Amon Goth Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape); *Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father); Ben Kingsley (Schindler's List); **Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive)

67. Martin Landau

Actor | Ed Wood

Oscar-winning character actor Martin Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. At age 17, he was hired by the New York Daily News to work in the promotions department before he became a staff cartoonist and illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the illustrator for ...

Year: 1994: Film: Ed Wood Role: Bela Lugosi Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction); James Whitmore (The Shawshank Redemption); *Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump); John Turturro (Quiz Show)

68. Kevin Spacey

Actor | The Usual Suspects

Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...

Year: 1995 Film: The Usual Suspects Role: Roger "Verbal" Kint Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys); *James Cromwell (Babe); Patrick McGoohan (Braveheart); Kevin Bacon (Apollo 13)

69. William H. Macy

Actor | Fargo

William Hall Macy Jr. is an American actor. His film career has been built on appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in mainstream films. Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, while his performance in Fargo earned a nomination for the ...

Year: 1996 Film: Fargo Role: Jerry Lundegaard Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Edward Norton (Primal Fear); Steve Buscemi (Fargo); Noah Taylor (Shine); Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting)

70. James Cromwell

Actor | L.A. Confidential

Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie-Mellon University, James Cromwell is the son of film director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson. He studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon, and went into the theatre (like his parents) doing everything from ...

Year: 1997 Film: L.A. Confidential Role: Captain Dudley Liam Smith Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights); Kevin Spacey (L.A. Confidential); **Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting); *Robert Forster (Jackie Brown)

71. Billy Bob Thornton

Actor | Sling Blade

Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Virginia Roberta (Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond (Billy Ray) Thornton, an educator, high school history teacher, and basketball coach (now deceased). He is the older brother of James Donald (Jimmy Don) (born in ...

Year: 1998 Film: A Simple Plan Role: Jacob Mitchell Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Robert Duvall (A Civil Action); **James Coburn (Affliction); Bill Murray (Rushmore); Elias Koteas (The Thin Red Line)

72. Christopher Plummer

Actor | Beginners

Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...

Year: 1999 Film: The Insider Role: Mike Wallace Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *Tom Cruise (Magnolia); *Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense); *Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley); *Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile)

73. Benicio Del Toro

Actor | Sicario

Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).

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Year: 2000 Film: Traffic Role: Javier Rodriguez Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire); Billy Crudup (Almost Famous); Gary Oldman (The Contender); Takeshi Kitano (Battle Royale (Batoru Rowaiaru)

74. Ian McKellen

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ...

Year: 2001 Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Role: Gandalf Nominees: Ed Harris (A Beautiful Mind-William Parcher); Steve Buscemi (Ghost World-Seymour); *Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast-Don Logan); **Jim Broadbent (Iris-John Bayley)

75. Christopher Walken

Actor | The Deer Hunter

Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...

Year: 2002 Film: Catch Me If You Can Role: Frank W. Abagnale, Sr. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers); *Paul Newman (Road to Perdition); **Chris Cooper (Adaptation.); Tom Hanks (Catch Me If You Can)

76. Tim Robbins

Actor | Mystic River

Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, ...

Year: 2003 Film: Mystic River Role: Dave Boyle Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King); *Alec Baldwin (The Cooler); Kevin Bacon (Mystic River); Paul Bettany (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)

77. Thomas Haden Church

Actor | Sideways

Thomas Haden Church was born Thomas Richard McMillen in Yolo, California, to Maxine (Sanders) and Carlos Richard McMillen, who was a U.S. marine and surveyor. He was raised in Texas. His mother remarried George Quesada, a widowed WWII veteran who served in Guam, in 1969. He adopted this surname ...

Year: 2004 Film: Sideways Role: Jack Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: *Clive Owen (Closer); **Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby); Willem Dafoe (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou); David Carradine (Kill Bill, Vol. 2)

78. Ed Harris

Actor | Appaloosa

By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.

Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...

Year: 2005 Film: A History of Violence Role: Carl Fogarty Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: *William Hurt (A History of Violence); *Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain); Mickey Rourke (Sin City); Clifton Collins, Jr. (Capote)

79. Jackie Earle Haley

Actor | Little Children

Jackie Earle Haley is an American actor who started his career with The Bad News Bears. He had more adult roles in Little Children, the cult classic Zack Snyder film Watchmen, Alita: Battle Angel, and Freddy Krueger from a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. He has been married three times and has...

Year: 2006 Film: Little Children Role: Ronald James McGorvey Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; No Nominees: Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale); Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland); Michael Caine (Children of Men); *Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)

80. Javier Bardem

Actor | Skyfall

Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...

Year: 2007 Film: No Country for Old Men Role: Anton Chigurh Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford); *Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson's War); *Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton); Tommy Lee Jones (No County for Old Men)

81. Heath Ledger

Actor | Brokeback Mountain

When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...

Year: 2008 Film: The Dark Knight Role: The Joker Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight); Ralph Fiennes (In Bruges); *Robert Downey, Jr. (Tropic Thunder); Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight)

82. Christoph Waltz

Actor | Django Unchained

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...

Year: 2009 Film: Inglourious Basterds Role: Colonel Hans Landa Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: *Woody Harrelson (The Messenger); Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker); Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds); Leonard Proxauf (The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band))

83. Christian Bale

Actor | The Dark Knight

Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...

Year: 2010 Film: The Fighter Role: Dicky Eklund Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: Yes; Yes Nominees: Andrew Garfield (The Social Network); *John Hawkes (Winter's Bone); *Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech); *Jeremy Renner (The Town)

84. Albert Brooks

Actor | Drive

Albert Brooks was born on July 22, 1947 in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Drive (2011), Broadcast News (1987) and Defending Your Life (1991). He has been married to Kimberly Shlain since March 15, 1997. They have two children.

Year: 2011 Film: Drive Role: Bernie Rose Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and if so, did he win?: No Nominees: Brad Pitt (The Tree of Life); Tom Hardy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy); Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy); Alan Rickman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2)