Tues Top 10: Oscar's All Time Favorite Supporting Actors
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 10:00AM by Nathaniel R
Tommy Lee Jones in JFKLet's discuss Oscar hiearchies, again. This one is ultra specific but we're doing it for balance since we did the supporting actresses last week. Who are Oscar's 10 favorite supporting actors of all time? We'll work the ranking like so: Supporting nominations count most, with wins acting like half a nomination to help determine rank. The tiebreaker is the spread of time of nominations which can denote either long term fandom on the Academy's part or shortlived enthusiasms.
In contrast to supporting actress where the leaders were clear and the nomination counts higher but among fewer people, very narrow statistics separated all of the runners up from the top ten. Though if you must know, the unlucky #11 was Tommy Lee Jones, who would have ranked 5th on the top ten had he won the Oscar for Lincoln AS HE SHOULD HAVE. But we'll discuss Tommy and the 7 other working actors who almost made the list after the top ten under "who's next?". But for now a shout out to the departed. They left behind great performances and almost made this list:
- Gig Young (1951, 1958, 1969*)
- Martin Landau (1988, 1989, 1994*)
- Charles Coburn (1941, 1943*, 1946)
- Melvyn Douglas (1963*, 1979*)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (2007, 2008, 2012)
- Charles Bickford (1943, 1947, 1948)
- Anthony Quinn (1952*, 1956*)
okay on to the top ten list...