Oscar Best Supporting Actor movies

Can you name the movies that won these men the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting role?
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Year
Actor
Movie
1936
Walter Brennan
Come and Get It
1937
Joseph Schildkraut
The Life of Emile Zola
1938
Walter Brennan
Kentucky
1939
Thomas Mitchell
Stagecoach
1940
Walter Brennan
The Westerner
1941
Donald Crisp
How Green Was My Valley
1942
Van Heflin
Johnny Eager
1943
Charles Coburn
The More the Merrier
1944
Barry Fitzgerald
Going My Way
1945
James Dunn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1946
Harold Russell
The Best Years of Our Lives
1947
Edmund Gwenn
Miracle on 34th Street
1948
Walter Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949
Dean Jagger
Twelve O'Clock High
1950
George Sanders
All About Eve
1951
Karl Malden
A Streetcar Named Desire
1952
Anthony Quinn
Viva Zapata!
1953
Frank Sinatra
From Here to Eternity
1954
Edmond O'Brien
The Barefoot Contessa
1955
Jack Lemmon
Mister Roberts
1956
Anthony Quinn
Lust for Life
1957
Red Buttons
Sayonara
1958
Burl Ives
The Big Country
1959
Hugh Griffith
Ben-Hur
1960
Peter Ustinov
Spartacus
1961
George Chakiris
West Side Story
1962
Ed Begley
Sweet Bird of Youth
1963
Melvyn Douglas
Hud
1964
Peter Ustinov
Topkapi
1965
Martin Balsam
A Thousand Clowns
1966
Walter Matthau
The Fortune Cookie
1967
George Kennedy
Cool Hand Luke
1968
Jack Albertson
The Subject was Roses
1969
Gig Young
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1970
John Mills
Ryan's Daughter
1971
Ben Johnson
The Last Picture Show
1972
Joel Grey
Cabaret
1973
John Houseman
The Paper Chase
1974
Robert De Niro
The Godfather Part II
1975
George Burns
The Sunshine Boys
1976
Jason Robards
All the President's Men
1977
Jason Robards
Julia
1978
Christopher Walken
The Deer Hunter
1979
Melvyn Douglas
Being There
1980
Timothy Hutton
Ordinary People
1981
John Gielgud
Arthur
1982
Louis Gossett Jr.
An Officer and a Gentleman
1983
Jack Nicholson
Terms of Endearment
1984
Haing S. Ngor
The Killing Fields
1985
Don Ameche
Cocoon
1986
Michael Caine
Hannah and Her Sisters
1987
Sean Connery
The Untouchables
1988
Kevin Kline
A Fish Called Wanda
1989
Denzel Washington
Glory
1990
Joe Pesci
GoodFellas
1991
Jack Palance
City Slickers
1992
Gene Hackman
Unforgiven
1993
Tommy Lee Jones
The Fugitive
1994
Martin Landau
Ed Wood
1995
Kevin Spacey
The Usual Suspects
1996
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Jerry Maguire
1997
Robin Williams
Good Will Hunting
1998
James Coburn
Affliction
1999
Michael Caine
The Cider House Rules
2000
Benicio del Toro
Traffic
2001
Jim Broadbent
Iris
2002
Chris Cooper
Adaptation
2003
Tim Robbins
Mystic River
2004
Morgan Freeman
Million Dollar Baby
2005
George Clooney
Syriana
2006
Alan Arkin
Little Miss Sunshine
2007
Javier Bardem
No Country for Old Men
2008
Heath Ledger
The Dark Knight
2009
Christoph Waltz
Inglourious Basterds
2010
Christian Bale
The Fighter
2011
Christopher Plummer
Beginners
2012
Christoph Waltz
Django Unchained
2013
Jared Leto
Dallas Buyers Club
2014
J.K. Simmons
Whiplash
2015
Mark Rylance
Bridge of Spies
2016
Mahershala Ali
Moonlight
2017
Sam Rockwell
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018
Mahershala Ali
Green Book
2019
Brad Pitt
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2020
Daniel Kaluuya
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
Troy Kotsur
CODA
2022
Ke Huy Quan
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023
Robert Downey Jr.
Oppenheimer
2024
Kieran Culkin
A Real Pain
2025
Sean Penn
One Battle After Another
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