

Smith Goes to Washington Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste Claude Rains - Mr. Warner - Lost Horizon Roland Young - Topperġ1th Academy Awards (1938) Winner Walter Brennan - Kentucky Nominees John Garfield - Four Daughters Gene Lockhart - Algiers Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette Basil Rathbone - If I Were Kingġ2th Academy Awards (1939) Winner Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach Nominees Brian Aherne - Juarez Harry Carey - Mr.

Under the system currently in place, an actor is nominated for a specific performance in a single film, and such nominations are limited to five per year.ĩth Academy Awards (1936) Winner Walter Brennan - Come and Get It Nominees Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawnġ0th Academy Awards (1937) Winner Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola Nominees Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane H. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), however, the Best Supporting Actor category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actor category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nominations for the Best Actor award were intended to include all actors, whether the performance was in a leading or supporting role. The first recipient was Walter Brennan, who was honored at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936) for his performance in Come and Get It. Prior to the 16th Academy Awards ceremony (1943), however, they received a plaque. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. While actors are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The Academy Award for a Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.
