List of Best Supporting Actor winners by age at win

This is a list of winners of the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to an actor who has Delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. More popularly known as the Academy Award (or the Oscar) for Best Supporting Actor, this award was initially presented at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony for 1936 and was most recently presented at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony for 2006. Throughout the past 71 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 71 Best Supporting Actor awards to 64 different actors. This is a list of winners arranged in descending order by age of the actor on the date of the award ceremony in which he was named Best Supporting Actor.

List of winners

Rank	Name	Film	Annual	Year	Date of Birth	Date of Award	Notes
1	George Burns	The Sunshine Boys	48th	1975	January 20, 1896	March 29, 1976
2	Melvyn Douglas	Being There	52nd	1979	April 5, 1901	April 14, 1980
3	John Gielgud	Arthur	54th	1981	April 14, 1904	March 29, 1982
4	Don Ameche	Cocoon	58th	1985	May 31, 1908	March 24, 1986
5	Jack Palance	City Slickers	64th	1991	February 18, 1919	March 30, 1992
6	Alan Arkin	Little Miss Sunshine	79th	2006	March 26, 1934	February 25, 2007
7	John Houseman	The Paper Chase	46th	1973	September 22, 1902	April 2, 1974
8	James Coburn	Affliction	71st	1998	August 31, 1928	March 21, 1999
9	Edmund Gwenn	Miracle on 34th Street	20th	1947	September 26, 1877	March 20, 1948
10	Morgan Freeman	Million Dollar Baby	77th	2004	June 1, 1937	February 27, 2005
11	Michael Caine	The Cider House Rules	72nd	1999	March 14, 1933	March 26, 2000
12	Charles Coburn	The More the Merrier	16th	1943	June 19, 1877	March 2, 1944
13	Walter Huston	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	21st	1948	April 6, 1884	March 24, 1949
14	Martin Landau	Ed Wood	67th	1994	June 20, 1931	March 27, 1995
15	Gene Hackman	Unforgiven	65th	1992	January 30, 1930	March 29, 1993
16	John Mills	Ryan's Daughter	43rd	1970	February 22, 1908	April 15, 1971
17	Melvyn Douglas	Hud	36th	1963	April 5, 1901	April 13, 1964
18	Ed Begley	Sweet Bird of Youth	35th	1962	March 25, 1901	April 8, 1963
19	Jack Albertson	The Subject Was Roses	41st	1968	June 16, 1907	April 14, 1969
20	Donald Crisp	How Green Was My Valley	14th	1941	July 27, 1882	February 26, 1942
21	Sean Connery	The Untouchables	60th	1987	August 25, 1930	April 11, 1988
22	Barry Fitzgerald	Going My Way	17th	1944	March 10, 1888	March 15, 1945
23	Gig Young	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	42nd	1969	November 4, 1913	April 7, 1970
24	Jason Robards	Julia	50th	1977	July 26, 1922	April 3, 1978
25	Jason Robards	All the President's Men	49th	1976	July 26, 1922	March 28, 1977
26	Michael Caine	Hannah and Her Sisters	59th	1986	March 14, 1933	March 30, 1987
27	Ben Johnson	The Last Picture Show	44th	1971	June 13, 1918	April 10, 1972
28	Jim Broadbent	Iris	74th	2001	May 24, 1949	March 24, 2002
29	Chris Cooper	Adaptation.	75th	2002	July 9, 1951	March 23, 2003
30	Burl Ives	The Big Country	31st	1958	June 14, 1909	April 6, 1959
31	Joe Pesci	Goodfellas	63rd	1990	February 9, 1943	March 25, 1991
32	Hugh Griffith	Ben-Hur	32nd	1959	May 30, 1912	April 4, 1960
33	Thomas Mitchell	Stagecoach	12th	1939	July 11, 1892	February 29, 1940
34	Tommy Lee Jones	The Fugitive	66th	1993	September 15, 1946	March 21, 1994
35	Jack Nicholson	Terms of Endearment	56th	1983	April 22, 1937	April 9, 1984
36	Louis Gossett, Jr.	An Officer and a Gentleman	55th	1982	May 27, 1936	April 11, 1983
37	Robin Williams	Good Will Hunting	70th	1997	July 21, 1951	March 23, 1998
38	Walter Brennan	The Westerner	13th	1940	July 25, 1894	February 27, 1941
39	Walter Matthau	The Fortune Cookie	39th	1966	October 1, 1920	April 10, 1967
40	Martin Balsam	A Thousand Clowns	38th	1965	November 4, 1919	April 18, 1966
41	Dean Jagger	Twelve O'Clock High	22nd	1949	November 7, 1903	March 23, 1950
42	Tim Robbins	Mystic River	76th	2003	October 16, 1958	February 29, 2004
43	Haing S. Ngor	The [...] Fields	57th	1984	March 22, 1940	March 25, 1985	Debut
44	George Clooney	Syriana	78th	2005	May 6, 1961	March 5, 2006
45	George Sanders	All About Eve	23rd	1950	July 3, 1906	March 29, 1951
46	Walter Brennan	Kentucky	11th	1938	July 25, 1894	February 23, 1939
47	James Dunn	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	18th	1945	November 2, 1901	March 7, 1946
48	Peter Ustinov	Topkapi	37th	1964	April 16, 1921	April 5, 1965
49	George Kennedy	Cool Hand Luke	40th	1967	February 18, 1925	April 10, 1968
50	Walter Brennan	Come and Get It	9th	1936	July 25, 1894	March 4, 1937
51	Joseph Schildkraut	The Life of Emile Zola	10th	1937	March 22, 1896	March 10, 1938
52	Anthony Quinn	Lust for Life	29th	1956	April 21, 1915	March 27, 1957
53	Kevin Kline	A Fish Called Wanda	61st	1988	October 24, 1947	March 29, 1989
54	Joel Grey	Cabaret	45th	1972	April 11, 1932	March 27, 1973
55	Peter Ustinov	Spartacus	33rd	1960	April 16, 1921	April 17, 1961
56	Karl Malden	A Streetcar Named Desire	24th	1951	March 22, 1912	March 20, 1952
57	Edmond O'Brien	The Barefoot Contessa	27th	1954	September 10, 1915	March 30, 1955
58	Red Buttons	Sayonara	30th	1957	February 5, 1919	March 26, 1958
59	Frank Sinatra	From Here to Eternity	26th	1953	December 12, 1915	March 25, 1954
60	Anthony Quinn	Viva Zapata!	25th	1952	April 21, 1915	March 19, 1953
61	Kevin Spacey	The Usual Suspects	68th	1995	July 26, 1959	March 25, 1996
62	Christopher Walken	The Deer Hunter	51st	1978	March 31, 1943	April 9, 1979
63	Denzel Washington	Glory	62nd	1989	December 28, 1954	March 26, 1990
64	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	73rd	2000	February 19, 1967	March 25, 2001
65	Harold Russell	The Best Years of Our Lives	19th	1946	January 14, 1914	March 13, 1947
66	Van Heflin	Johnny Eager	15th	1942	December 13, 1910	March 4, 1943
67	Robert De Niro	The Godfather Part II	47th	1974	August 17, 1943	April 8, 1975
68	Jack Lemmon	Mister Roberts	28th	1955	February 8, 1925	March 21, 1956
69	Cuba Gooding, Jr.	Jerry Maguire	69th	1996	January 2, 1968	March 24, 1997
70	George Chakiris	West Side Story	34th	1961	September 16, 1934	April 9, 1962
71	Timothy Hutton	Ordinary People	53rd	1980	August 16, 1960	March 31, 1981

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