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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Summary

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an Academy Awards[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of academy awards entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,458 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Winner: Walter Brennan[3], Joseph Schildkraut[4], Thomas Mitchell[5], Donald Crisp[6], Van Heflin[7], Charles Coburn[8], Barry Fitzgerald[9], James Dunn[10], Harold Russell[11], Edmund Gwenn[12], Walter Huston[13], Dean Jagger[14], George Sanders[15], Karl Malden[16]
  • Country: United States[17]
  • Instance of: award for best supporting actor[18]
  • Commons category: Winners of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor[19]
  • Inception: 1936[20]
  • Official website: http://www.oscars.org/[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners[22]
  • Conferred by: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences[23]

Why It Matters

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

FAQs

What awards did Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor receive?

Honors received include Walter Brennan[3], Joseph Schildkraut[4], and Thomas Mitchell[5].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · CommonsDelinker · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
    Official website → http://www.oscars.org/
    Category for recipients of this award → Category:Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners
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