Here is a list of 1960-2008 best supporting actor nominees. I have indicated which ones are leads full blown, co lead they are the lead but there also is another one, leadish means you can argue that they are a lead. Not indicators either means they are actually supporting or I ahve not seen the films.
1960 Peter Ustinov - Spartacus as Lentulus Batiatus
Peter Falk - Murder, Inc. as Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles
Jack Kruschen - The Apartment as Dr. Dreyfuss
Sal Mineo - Exodus as Dov Landau
Chill Wills - The Alamo as Beekeeper
1961 George Chakiris - West Side Story as Bernardo
Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg as Rudolph Petersen
Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles as Joy Boy
Jackie Gleason - The Hustler as Minnesota Fats
George C. Scott - The Hustler as Bert Gordon
1962 Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth as Tom 'Boss' Finley
Victor Buono - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Edwin Flagg
Telly Savalas - Birdman of Alcatraz as Feto Gomez
Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish
Terence Stamp - Billy Budd as Billy Budd
1963 Melvyn Douglas - Hud as Homer Bannon
Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor as Ben Brown
Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D. as Corporal Jim Tompkins
Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones as Squire Western
John Huston - The Cardinal as Cardinal Glennon
1964 Peter Ustinov - Topkapi as Arthur Simon Simpson
John Gielgud - Becket as Louis VII of France
Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady as Alfred Doolittle
Edmond O'Brien - Seven Days in May as Senator Raymond Clark
Lee Tracy - The Best Man as President Art Hockstader
1965 Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns as Arnold Burns
Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix as 'Ratbags' Crow
Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago as Pasha Antipov
Michael Dunn - Ship of Fools as Carl Glocken
Frank Finlay - Othello as Iago
1966 Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie as Willie Gingrich
Mako - The Sand Pebbles as Po-han
James Mason - Georgy Girl as James Leamington
George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Nick
Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons as Henry VIII of England
1967 George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke as Dragline
John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen as Victor P. Franko
Gene Hackman - Bonnie and Clyde as Buck Barrow
Cecil Kellaway - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Monsignor Mike Ryan
Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss
1968 Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses as John Cleary
Seymour Cassel - Faces as Chet
Daniel Massey - Star! as Noel Coward
Jack Wild - Oliver! as The Artful Dodger
Gene Wilder - The Producers as Leo Bloom- co lead
1969 Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Rocky
Rupert Crosse - The Reivers as Ned
Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Henderson
Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider as George Hanson
Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days as Cardinal Wolsey
1970s
1970 John Mills - Ryan's Daughter as Michael
Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers as Frank Vecchio
Chief Dan George - Little Big Man as Old Lodge Skins
Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father as Gene Garrison
John Marley - Love Story as Phil Cavalleri
1971 Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show as Sam the Lion
Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show as Duane Jackson
Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil
Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper
Roy Scheider - The French Connection as Detective Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo
1972 Joel Grey - Cabaret as Master of Ceremonies
Eddie Albert - The Heartbreak Kid as Mr. Corcoran
James Caan - The Godfather as Sonny Corleone
Robert Duvall - The Godfather as Tom Hagen
Al Pacino - The Godfather as Michael Corleone- lead
1973 John Houseman - The Paper Chase as Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly as Dutch Schnell
Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger as Phil Greene
Jason Miller - The Exorcist as Father Damien Karras
Randy Quaid - The Last Detail as Larry Meadows
1974 Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II as Vito Corleone- semi leadish
Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno as Harlee Claiborne
Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot as Lightfoot- co lead
Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II as Frank Pentangeli
Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II as Hyman Roth
1975 George Burns - The Sunshine Boys as Al Lewis
Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit
Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener
Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon as Leon Shermer
Jack Warden - Shampoo as Lester
1976 Jason Robards - All the President's Men as Ben Bradlee
Ned Beatty - Network as Arthur Jensen
Burgess Meredith - Rocky as Mickey Goldmill
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man as Dr. Christian Szell
Burt Young - Rocky as Paulie Pennino
1977 Jason Robards - Julia as Dashiell Hammett
Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point as Yuri Kopeikine
Peter Firth - Equus as Alan Strang
Alec Guinness - Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Maximilian Schell - Julia as Johann
1978 Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter as Nikonar 'Nick' Chevotarevich
Bruce Dern - Coming Home as Captain Bob Hyde
Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman as Dodger
John Hurt - Midnight Express as Max
Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait as Max Corkle
1979 Melvyn Douglas - Being There as Benjamin Turnbull Rand
Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now as Lt. Col Bill Kilgore
Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer as Billy Kramer
Frederic Forrest - The Rose as Huston Dyer
Mickey Rooney - The Black Stallion as Henry Dailey
1980s
1980 Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett- lead
Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger
Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini as Ben Meechum
Joe Pesci - Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta
Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes
1981 John Gielgud - Arthur as Hobson
James Coco - Only When I Laugh as Jimmy
Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire as Sam Mussabini
Jack Nicholson - Reds as Eugene O'Neill
Howard Rollins - Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
1982 Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer and A Gentleman as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
Charles Durning - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Governor
John Lithgow - The World According to Garp as Roberta Muldoon
James Mason - The Verdict as Ed Concannon
Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria as Carroll 'Toddy' Todd
1983 Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment as Garrett Breedlove
Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be as Colonel Erhardt
John Lithgow - Terms of Endearment as Sam Burns
Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager
Rip Torn - Cross Creek as Marsh Turner
1984 Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields as Dith Pran- co-lead
Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story as Sergeant Waters
John Malkovich - Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
Noriyuki Pat Morita - The Karate Kid as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi
Ralph Richardson - Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as The Sixth Earl of Greystoke (posthumous nomination)
1985 Don Ameche - Cocoon as Arthur Selwyn
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of Africa as Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke
William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor as Don Corrado Prizzi
Robert Loggia - Jagged Edge as Sam Ransom
Eric Roberts - Runaway Train as Buck
1986 Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot
Tom Berenger - Platoon as Sgt. Barnes
Willem Dafoe - Platoon as Sgt. Elias
Denholm Elliott - A Room with a View as Mr. Emerson
Dennis Hopper - Hoosiers as Shooter
1987 Sean Connery - The Untouchables as Jim Malone
Albert Brooks - Broadcast News as Aaron Altman
Morgan Freeman - Street Smart as Fast Black
Vincent Gardenia - Moonstruck as Cosmo Castorini
Denzel Washington - Cry Freedom as Steve Biko
1988 Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda as Otto West- leadish
Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit as William Dorrit
Martin Landau - Tucker: The Man and His Dream as Abe Karatz
River Phoenix - Running on Empty as Danny Pope
Dean Stockwell - Married to the Mob as Tony 'The Tiger' Russo
1989 Denzel Washington - Glory as Pvt. Trip
Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing as Sal- leadish
Dan Aykroyd - Driving Miss Daisy as Boolie Werthan
Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season as Ian Mackenzie
Martin Landau - Crimes and Misdemeanors as Judah Rosenthal
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 Bela 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- leadish
James Cromwell - Babe as Farmer Arthur Hoggett -leadish
Ed Harris - Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
Brad Pitt - Twelve 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-lead
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- co lead
2000 Benicio del Toro - Traffic as Javier Rodriguez
Jeff Bridges - The Contender as President Jackson Evans
Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire as Max Schreck-leadish
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- lead
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- lead
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- semi leadish
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- co-lead
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Robert Ford- lead
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- leadish
Michael Shannon Revolutionary Road as John Givings
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