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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing a football star in Jerry Maguire (1996).
Though his role in 2006's "Dreamgirls" did get him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, it was 2019's "Dolemite Is My Name," in which Murphy starred as real-life blaxploitation ...
Joaquin Phoenix earned an Academy Award nomination for best actor for his portrayal of beloved country musician Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line." Johnny Cash, left, and Joaquin Phoenix, right, as ...
Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, there have been actors and actresses who have received multiple Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, or Best Supporting Actress. [1] The only restriction is that actors cannot receive multiple nominations for the same performance. [2]
Timothy Hutton was born in Malibu, California.His father was actor Jim Hutton; his mother, Maryline Adams (née Poole), was a teacher.His parents divorced when Hutton was three years old, and his mother took him and his older sister, Heidi, with her to Boston, and then to her hometown Harwinton, Connecticut. [2]
Christoph Waltz (Austrian German: [ˈkrɪstɔf ˈvalts]; born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian and German actor.Primarily active in the United States, [1] [2] [3] he gained international recognition for his portrayal of villainous and supporting roles in English-language films.
Barkhad Abdi (Somali: Barkhad Cabdi, [barxad ʕabdi]; [1] born April 10, 1985) is a Somali–American actor. He made his acting debut as the pirate Abduwali Muse in the biographical drama film Captain Phillips (2013), which earned him a British Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, along with Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.