Can you name the movies for which these actors won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

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Credit for the original idea of this game goes to AndyXing, who created the same game for Best Actor winners. I also included the characters played by the Oscar winners, and I hope this helps.
Also try: Best Sup. Actor Oscar Nominees (90s)
Source: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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Year	Movie	Actor and Character
1936		Walter Brennan as Swan Bostrom
1937		Joseph Schildkraut as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
1938		Walter Brennan as Peter Goodwin
1939		Thomas Mitchell as Doc Boone
1940		Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean
1941		Donald Crisp as Mr. Morgan
1942		Van Heflin as Jeff Hartnett
1943		Charles Coburn as Benjamin Dingle
1944		Barry Fitzgerald as Father Fitzgibbon
1945		James Dunn as Johnny Nolan (The Brooklyn Thrush)
1946		Harold Russell as Homer Parrish
1947		Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle
1948		Walter Huston as Howard
1949		Dean Jagger as Major Harvey Stovall
1950		George Sanders as Addison De Witt
1951		Karl Malden as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
1952		Anthony Quinn as Eufemio Zapata
1953		Frank Sinatra as Pvt. Angelo Maggio
1954		Edmond O'Brien as Oscar Muldoon
1955		Jack Lemmon as Ens. Frank Pulver
1956		Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin
1957		Red Buttons as Airman Joe Kelly
1958		Burl Ives as Rufus Hannassey
1959		Hugh Griffith as Sheik Ilderim
1960		Peter Ustinov as Lentulus Batiatus
1961		George Chakiris as Bernardo

Year	Movie	Actor and Character
1962		Ed Begley as Tom 'Boss' Finley
1963		Melvyn Douglas as Homer Bannon
1964		Peter Ustinov as Arthur Simon Simpson
1965		Martin Balsam as Arnold Burns
1966		Walter Matthau as Willie Gingrich
1967		George Kennedy as Dragline
1968		Jack Albertson as John Cleary
1969		Gig Young as Rocky
1970		John Mills as Michael
1971		Ben Johnson as Sam the Lion
1972		Joel Grey as Master of Ceremonies
1973		John Houseman as Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
1974		Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone
1975		George Burns as Al Lewis
1976		Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee
1977		Jason Robards as Dashiell Hammett
1978		Christopher Walken as Nikonar 'Nick' Chevotarevich
1979		Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Turnbull Rand
1980		Timothy Hutton as Conrad Jarrett
1981		John Gielgud as Hobson
1982		Louis Gossett Jr. as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
1983		Jack Nicholson as Garrett Breedlove
1984		Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran
1985		Don Ameche as Arthur Selwyn
1986		Michael Caine as Elliot
1987		Sean Connery as Jim Malone

Year	Movie	Actor and Character
1988		Kevin Kline as Otto West
1989		Denzel Washington as Pvt. Silas Trip
1990		Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito
1991		Jack Palance as Curly Washburn
1992		Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett
1993		Tommy Lee Jones as Marshall Samuel Gerard
1994		Martin Landau as Béla Lugosi
1995		Kevin Spacey as Roger 'Verbal' Kint
1996		Cuba Gooding Jr. as Rod Tidwell
1997		Robin Williams as Sean Maguire
1998		James Coburn as Glen Whitehouse
1999		Michael Caine as Dr. Wilbur Larch
2000		Benicio del Toro as Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez
2001		Jim Broadbent as John Bayley
2002		Chris Cooper as John Laroche
2003		Tim Robbins as Dave Boyle
2004		Morgan Freeman as Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris
2005		George Clooney as Bob Barnes
2006		Alan Arkin as Edwin Hoover
2007		Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh
2008		Heath Ledger as The Joker
2009		Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa
2010		Christian Bale as Dicky Eklund
2011		Christopher Plummer as Hal Fields
2012		Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz

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Best Supporting Actor Oscar Movies Quiz

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	RandallPinkston:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 04:23 GMT		1 point
	The 1937 character's name should be spelled "Dreyfus".

	TheLuggage:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 05:59 GMT		3 points
	Is it possible to accept Mr. Roberts?

	NPHandler:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 06:36 GMT		4 points
	How was Timothy Hutton not the lead? Or was it just studio strategy to increase chance of winning?

	ArrogantDuck:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 08:56 GMT		2 points
	Accept "12 O'Clock High", this really threw me off!

	OzzyCanary:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 11:17 GMT		7 points
	Inglorious bastErds not bastArds

	Fidelio:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 11:38 GMT		3 points
	@NPHandler - Yeah, they put Timothy Hutton in supporting because they knew he couldn't possibly compete with De Niro in Raging Bull. The studio campaigned for Donald Sutherland as the lead, and he inexplicably wasn't nominated.

	lisawc:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 13:00 GMT		-1 points
	Walter Brennan won three times in five years? Who'd a thunk?

	Zachary:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 13:36 GMT		-4 points
	How the hell do you not accept 'Inglorious Basterds'?

	JohnJF:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 13:37 GMT		16 points
	"Funny how often the people on this list go from supporting to lead." Funny how? Like a clown? It makes you laugh? It's here to amuse you? What do you mean funny--how is it funny?

	Jamessir:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 15:47 GMT		1 point
	@NPH They are trying to the same thing right now with "The Kids Are All Right" There's Oscar buzz for Annette Bening and Julianne Moore and they both have great performances and great bodies of work but they're afraid if they are in the same category they will cancel each other out. They're pimping Annette for Lead because the story ultimately ends from her perspective but Julianne just has too much screen time for her to fall into Supporting.

	JakeA:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 16:38 GMT		1 point
	I think Hutton was billed third, but that's only because he was new. He had the most screen time. Well, I got two out of the three Walter Brennan movies... hard to remember all three.

	monstro:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 16:57 GMT		4 points
	@Zachary: It's "IngloUrious." The title is misspelled, with an extra U in it. I think the quiz ought to accept "Inglorious," though.

	monstro:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 16:59 GMT		1 point
	By the way, I know I'm being super-nitpicky, but the movie Chris Cooper won for is technically titled "Adaptation." including the period at the end.

	chikka2:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 17:10 GMT		1 point
	sometimes one performnace shines in an otherwise mediocre picture and I'm glad there is an Oscar process to recognize that. Good quiz

	jaymc:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 17:27 GMT		5 points
	Interesting bit about Brennan, from Wikipedia: "He remains the only person to have won three Best Supporting Actor awards. However, even he remained somewhat embarrassed as to how he won the awards. In the early years of the Academy Awards, extras were given the right to vote. Brennan was extremely popular with the Union of Film Extras and since their numbers were overwhelming, each time he was nominated, he won. Though never described as undeserving of the awards he won, his third win was one of the catalysts leading to the disenfranchisement of the Extras Union from Oscar voting."

	idledandy:	Sep 25th, 2010 at 20:53 GMT		0 points
	Argh. Tried "Zola" and "Emile Zola" but not "Life of Emile Zola"! I'm surprised how many of these I knew. I've always said Supporting Acting was more interesting than Lead Acting!

	llewelynofwales:	Sep 27th, 2010 at 03:10 GMT		3 points
	The proper title of the film is "Inglourious Basterds," which is most definitely accepted. I tried to include as many spelling possibilities as I could think of, but I inevitably left some out. If your answer with "basterds" is not being accepted, you are probably spelling "inglourious" differently. Unfortunately, I can't go back and add more options once the quiz is published!

	LJ55:	Nov 27th, 2010 at 14:18 GMT		1 point
	SHOW ME THE MONEY! SHOW ME THE MONEY JERRY!

	BettyBoop87:	Mar 16th, 2011 at 21:07 GMT		1 point
	Hi I really like this Quiz could you do one for best supporting actress

	xyanthus:	May 13th, 2013 at 08:39 GMT		1 point
	All those years of memorizing Oscar winners paid off. 77/77 These quizzes are great. Keep them coming!