Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1990-2008)

1990s

• 1990 Joe Pesci - Goodfellas as Tommy DeVito
  • Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion as David
  • Andy García - The Godfather Part III as Vincent Mancini-Corleone
  • Graham Greene - Dances with Wolves as Kicking Bird
  • Al Pacino - Dick Tracy as Alphonse 'Big Boy' Caprice

• 1991 Jack Palance - City Slickers as Curly Washburn
  • Tommy Lee Jones - JFK as Clay Shaw
  • Harvey Keitel - Bugsy as Mickey Cohen
  • Ben Kingsley - Bugsy as Meyer Lansky
  • Michael Lerner - Barton Fink as Jack Lipnick

1992 Gene Hackman - Unforgiven as Little Bill Daggett

• Jaye Davidson - The Crying Game as Dil
• Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men as Col. Nathan R. Jessep
• Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross as Ricky Roma
• David Paymer - Mr. Saturday Night as Stan

1993 Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive as Marshall Samuel Gerard

• Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Arnie Grape
• Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List as Amon Göth
• John Malkovich - In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary
• Pete Postlethwaite - In the Name of the Father as Giuseppe Conlon

1994 Martin Landau - Ed Wood as Béla Lugosi

• Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction as Jules Winnfield
• Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway as Cheech
• Paul Scofield - Quiz Show as Mark Van Doren
• Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump as Lieutenant Dan Taylor

1995 Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects as Roger 'Verbal' Kint

• James Cromwell - Babe as Farmer Arthur Hoggett
• Ed Harris - Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
• Brad Pitt - 12 Monkeys as Jeffrey Goines
• Tim Roth - Rob Roy as Archibald Cunningham

1996 Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell

• William H. Macy - Fargo as Jerry Lundegaard
• Armin Mueller-Stahl - Shine as Peter Helfgott
• Edward Norton - Primal Fear as Aaron Stampler
• James Woods - Ghosts of Mississippi as Byron De La Beckwith

1997 Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting as Sean Maguire

• Robert Forster - Jackie Brown as Max Cherry
• Anthony Hopkins - Amistad as John Quincy Adams
• Greg Kinnear - As Good as It Gets as Simon Bishop
• Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights as Jack Horner

1998 James Coburn - Affliction as Glen Whitehouse

• Robert Duvall - A Civil Action as Jerome Facher
• Ed Harris - The Truman Show as Christof
• Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare in Love as Philip Henslowe
• Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan as Jacob Mitchell

1999 Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules as Dr. Wilbur Larch

• Tom Cruise - Magnolia as Frank 'T.J.' Mackey
• Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile as John Coffey
• Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley as Dickie Greenleaf
• Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense as Cole Sear

[edit] 2000s

• 2000 Benicio del Toro - Traffic as Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez
  • Jeff Bridges - The Contender as President Jackson Evans
  • Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire as Max Schreck
  • Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich as Edward L. Masry
  • Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator as Commodus

• 2001 Jim Broadbent - Iris as John Bayley
  • Ethan Hawke - Training Day as Jake Hoyt
  • Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast as Don Logan
  • Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gandalf
  • Jon Voight - Ali as Howard Cosell

2002 Chris Cooper - Adaptation. as John Laroche

• Ed Harris - The Hours as Richard Brown
• Paul Newman - Road to Perdition as John Rooney
• John C. Reilly - Chicago as Amos Hart
• Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can as Frank Abagnale, Sr.

2003 Tim Robbins - Mystic River as Dave Boyle

• Alec Baldwin - The Cooler as Shelly Kaplow
• Benicio del Toro - 21 Grams as Jack Jordan
• Djimon Hounsou - In America as Mateo
• Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai as Katsumoto

2004 Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris

• Alan Alda - The Aviator as Senator Owen Brewster
• Thomas Haden Church - Sideways as Jack
• Jamie Foxx - Collateral as Max Durocher
• Clive Owen - Closer as Larry Gray

2005 George Clooney - Syriana as Bob Barnes

• Matt Dillon - Crash as Sergeant John Ryan
• Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man as Joe Gould
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist
• William Hurt - A History of Violence as Richie Cusack

2006 Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine as Edwin Hoover

• Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children as Ronald James McGorvey
• Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond as Solomon Vandy
• Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls as James "Thunder" Early
• Mark Wahlberg - The Departed as Sgt. Sean Dignam

2007 Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh

• Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Robert Ford
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War as Gust Avrakotos
• Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild as Ron Franz
• Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton as Arthur Edens

• 2008 Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight as The Joker (posthumous win)
  • Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan White
  • Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Father Brendan Flynn
  • Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road as John Givings