Academy Awards; Nominees and Winners-Supporting Actor 1950-1959

Academy Awards: Nominees and Winners-Actor in a Supporting Role 1950-1959

· 1950 George Sanders - All About Eve as Addison De Witt (winner)
o Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow as Cochise
o Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880 as 'Skipper' Miller
o Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
o Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard as Max von Meyerling

· 1951 Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell (winner)
o Leo Genn - Quo Vadis as Petronius
o Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
o Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis as Nero
o Gig Young - Come Fill the Cup as Boyd Copeland

· 1952 Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata! as Eufemio Zapata (winner)
o Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel as Philip Ashley
o Arthur Hunnicutt - The Big Sky as Zeb Calloway/Narrator
o Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man as 'Red' Will Danaher
o Jack Palance - Sudden Fear as Lester Blaine

· 1953 Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Angelo Maggio (winner)
o Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
o Brandon de Wilde - Shane as Joey Starrett
o Jack Palance - Shane as Jack Wilson
o Robert Strauss - Stalag 17 as Stanislas 'Animal' Kasava

· 1954 Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa as Oscar Muldoon (winner)
o Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront as Johnny Friendly
o Karl Malden - On the Waterfront as Father Barry
o Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront as Charley 'the Gent' Malloy
o Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny as Commander DeVriess

· 1955 Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts as Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver (winner)
o Arthur Kennedy - Trial as Barney Castle
o Joe Mantell - Marty as Angie
o Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause as John 'Plato' Crawford
o Arthur O'Connell - Picnic as Howard Bevans

· 1956 Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life as Paul Gauguin (winner)
o Don Murray - Bus Stop as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
o Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion as Josh Birdwell
o Mickey Rooney - The Bold and the Brave as Dooley
o Robert Stack - Written on the Wind as Kyle Hadley

· 1957 Red Buttons - Sayonara as Airman Joe Kelly (winner)
o Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms as Major Alessandro Rinaldi
o Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Saito
o Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place as Lucas Cross
o Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place as Norman Page

· 1958 Burl Ives - The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey (winner)
o Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller
o Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov as Fyodor Karamazov
o Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh
o Gig Young - Teacher's Pet as Dr. Hugo Pine

· 1959 Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur as Sheik Ilderim (winner)
o Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder as Parnell Emmett McCarthy
o George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder as Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer
o Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians as Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn
o Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank as Albert Dussell

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[ytcarol]

Thanks for another reminder of the greatest of the great actors of the last century (can't believe I'm saying that). This is so beautifully put together, and the excellent choice of music serves to ennoble these fine men.

[dobazajr]

thanks