Ian McKellen has received widespread acclaim for his performance as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, particularly in The Fellowship of the Ring, for which he received both a Screen Actors Guild Award and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination under the same category ( making him the only individual cast member of the films to be nominated for an Oscar ).

In 1963 Rutherford was awarded an Academy Award and Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the absent-minded, impoverished, pill-popping Duchess of Brighton, the only light relief, in Terence Rattigan's The V. I. P. s, a film featuring a star-studded cast led by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Supporting cast members were added throughout the run of the show.

Kaufman cast Chief Dan George, who had been nominated for an Academy Award for Supporting Actor in Little Big Man as the old Cherokee Lone Watie.

Supporting the latter stance, Van Hulle finds that the " characters " in Finnegans Wake are rather " archetypes or character amalgams, taking different shapes ", and Riquelme similarly refers to the book's cast of mutable characters as " protean ".

Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as stalker and kidnapper Masha in the film The King of Comedy for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Lily Tomlin and Goldie Hawn later became noted film stars ( Hawn won an Academy Award while still a member of the cast ; Tomlin was later nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1975 for Nashville ).

In an 1995 American drama film, starring an ensemble cast, Laurence Fishburne won an Image Award for " Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture " for his performance in Higher Learning as West Indian Professor Maurice Phipps.

In 2001, Hawke was cast as a rookie police officer in Training Day, for which he received a Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Of the ensemble cast, Tom Cruise was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 72nd Academy Awards, and won the award in the same category at the Golden Globes of 2000.

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Ngor, despite having no previous acting experience, was cast as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, a role for which he later won three awards, including a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He is the co-writer and frequent cast member of Christopher Guest ’ s mockumentary features, particularly A Mighty Wind, where his sympathetic performance as brain-damaged folksinger Mitch Cohen won kudos ; his accolades included a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor-Musical or Comedy and the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Supporting cast included Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine and Mary Boland.

Among the cast members, Kajol and Jaya Bachchan won several awards in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress category, respectively.

In 1976, McNichol was cast as Buddy in the television drama series Family ( 1976 – 80 ), for which she earned two Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series ( 1977 and 1979 ).

Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire ( 1947 ), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful ( 1952 ).

Supporting cast members included Robin Duke, Bob Martin, Paul O ' Sullivan and Patrick McKenna.

He was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was initially cast in supporting roles in films such as Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ), and Johnny Eager ( 1942 ), winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the latter performance.

Supporting cast members ( some appearing in more than 50 episodes over ten years ) included Don DeFore, Parley Baer, Lyle Talbot, Mary Jane Croft, Skip Young, Gordon Jones, James Stacy, Joe Flynn and Jack Wagner.

Supporting cast members included Audra Lindley, David Doyle, Harold J.

Supporting roles in China Cry and New Jack City were to follow, and Wong found himself working with Wayne Wang again when he was cast in a role in the film adaptation of Amy Tan's best-selling novel The Joy Luck Club.

As part of an ensemble cast that included Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball, Leeds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as an aspiring actress in Stage Door ( 1937 ).

It is managed by a 16-member Board of Directors, which is composed of eight members selected by a Nominating Committee on which all the constituencies of ICANN are represented ; six representatives of its Supporting Organizations, sub-groups that deal with specific sections of the policies under ICANN's purview ; an At-Large seat filled by an At-Large Organization ; and the President / CEO, appointed by the Board.

NCSF also has over 100 Supporting Members: groups and businesses who actively support NCSF-these groups total tens of thousands of members.

An influential association, called " The Society for Supporting the Bill of Rights ," was founded, mainly through the exertions of Horne, in 1769, but the members were soon divided into two opposite camps, and in 1771 Horne and Wilkes, their respective leaders, broke out into open dispute.

Currently their membership consists of over 240 organizations across the United States, along with a number of Members-at-Large, Patrons, and Supporting members.

* Supporting cast members: Louise Beavers, John Brown, Lois Corbet, Dorothy Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge, Roy Glenn, Jess Kirkpatrick, Butterfly McQueen, Nicodemus Stewart

In 2005, members of the Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now ( WITASWAN ) initiative held a Silver Anniversary Celebration in Chicago with Heckel as the special guest.

Supporting members include Shawn " Shawn Sparks " Stewart, " Stove Marino ", " Dre Eazy ", " Big Williams ", Omar " Khilly Mo ( pronounced CHilly MoH )" Daniels, and John Haynes.

Supporting bands on the tour included Hoobastank, P. O. D., Story of the Year and Pia.

Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and the first sequel to win for Best Picture, its six Oscars included Best Director for Coppola, Best Supporting Actor for De Niro and Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola and Puzo.

The remaining five nominations included: Best Actor ( Morgan Freeman ), Best Supporting Actor ( Dan Aykroyd ), Best Art Direction ( Bruno Rubeo, Crispian Sallis ), Best Costume Design, and Best Film Editing.

* The film Bugsy ( 1991 ), a biography of Bugsy Siegel, included Lansky as a major character, played by Ben Kingsley, who was nominated Best Supporting Actor for the role.

Other film appearances included Cleopatra ( 1963 ), in which he played Octavian ( the young Emperor Augustus ) and was believed to be set to get nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but was disqualified when accidentally submitted for Best Actor instead ; It!

Supporting spacecraft included the Soyuz T, Progress, and TKS spacecraft.

Supporting players in Wayne & Shuster's television sketches included Don Cullen, Jack Duffy, Tom Harvey, Bill Kemp, Paul Kligman, Ben Lennick, Sylvia Lennick, Peggi Loder, Les Rubie, Eric Christmas, Joe Austin, Larry D. Mann, Paul Soles, Marilyn Stuart, Roy Wordsworth, John Davies, Carol Robinson, Lou Pitoscia, Peggy Mahon, Don Ewer, and Keith Hampshire.

Film roles included The Green Mile, Far From Heaven, Shutter Island, The Station Agent and Easy A, and she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Pieces of April ( 2003 ).

Prominent roles included a superb performance as tough, effective, but " allegedly corrupt " NYPD officer Gus Levy in Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City ; he was the 1981 runner-up for the NSFC Best Supporting Actor award.

Supporting actors included Joan Banks, Parley Baer, William Conrad, Jeff Corey, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Frees, Jack Kruschen, Peter Leeds, Howard McNear, Lurene Tuttle, Martha Wentworth and Ben Wright.

Supporting characters included Baby ( or Sally ), Mother, Father, Spot ( originally a cat in the 1930s, but a dog in later editions ), Puff the cat, and Tim the teddy bear.

Supporting characters included obsessive majorette Holly ( who never removed her Majorette uniform ), " Crazy " Harry ( who lived in his locker ), " Bull " Bushka ( the school's star athlete and Les ' Tormentor ), and popular girl Cindy.

* New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Kevin Spacey-Best Supporting Actor ( Won )-This nomination also included the films Swimming with Sharks, Se7en, and The Usual Suspects

* Society of Texas Film Critics Awards: Kevin Spacey-Best Supporting Actor ( Won )-This nomination also included the films Se7en and The Usual Suspects

Supporting characters included Johnny's girlfriend, Doris Evans, usually seen only in consternation as Johnny cheerfully flew off to battle bad guys.

Other Globe nominations included Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ( Goldie Hawn ), Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ( Chevy Chase ), Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture ( Dudley Moore ), Best Screenplay, and Best Original Song ( Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel ).

Supporting elements included a PNG engineer troop, New Zealand engineer & medical elements, an Australian Combat Service Support Team, with some personnel from Army level troops from Sydney plus logistics personnel from New Zealand, and four Australian Project Nervana Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for surveillance.