Oscar Best Supporting Actor. Who Should've Won...
by La_Notte61 | created - 29 Aug 2014 | updated - 29 Aug 2014 | PublicThe list shows my pick of who should've won the Oscar in the best supporting actor category.
The rest of the nominees for each year are ranked in order of preference. * denotes the actual winner
I'm currently watching every single nominated/winning performance, the list will be upload every now and then.
I'm only listing years from what I've seen at least 3 performances
1. Jude Law
Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes:...
1999.
For The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tom Cruise, Magnolia
Michael Clarke Duncan, The Green Mile
Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense
Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules *
The first four are some of the best performances of all time, last one is one of the worst
2. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
2002.
For Road to Perdition
Chris Cooper, Adaptation *
Christopher Walken, Catch Me If You Can
John C. Reilly, Chicago
Ed Harris, The Hours
3. 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 ...
2004.
For Sideways
Jamie Foxx, Collateral
Clive Owen, Closer
Alan Alda, The Aviator
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby *
4. William Hurt
Actor | A History of Violence
William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...
2005.
For A History of Violence
Matt Dillon, Crash
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney / Paul Giamatti N/S
5. 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...
2006.
For Little Children
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine *
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
6. Casey Affleck
Actor | Manchester by the Sea
An accomplished and striking performer, Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a powerful leading man with performances in multiple projects.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), is a school teacher, and ...
2007.
For The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men *
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Philip Seymour Hoffman N/S
7. 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 ...
2008.
For The Dark Knight * (right choice!)
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Josh Brolin, Milk
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
8. 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...
2009.
For Inglorious Basterds * (right choice!)
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson N/S
9. John Hawkes
Actor | The Sessions
John Hawkes is an award-winning actor known for crafting memorable performances across a wide range of styles and genres. He will next be seen in the upcoming fourth season of HBO's "True Detective" with Jodie Foster. Previous projects include the indie film "Roving Woman," "The Peanut Butter ...
2010.
For Winter's Bone
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Christian Bale, The Fighter *
10. Max von Sydow
Actor | Flash Gordon
Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.
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2011.
For Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Christopher Plummer, Beginners *
Jonah Hill, Moneyball *
Nick Nolte N/S
11. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor | The Master
Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport to Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in ...
2012.
For The Master
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained *
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
12. Jonah Hill
Actor | 21 Jump Street
Jonah Hill was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Feldstein (née Chalkin), a fashion designer and costume stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He is the brother of music manager Jordan Feldstein and actress Beanie Feldstein. He graduated from ...
2013.
For The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club *
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle (one of the worst performances of all time)
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