Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for Mister Roberts ( 1955 ) and the Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger ( 1973 ), becoming the first actor to achieve this double.

He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects ( Best Supporting Actor ), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty ( 1999 ).

Rupert Crosse, the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor is of Nevisian descent.

Cruz received a Goya Award and her first Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

He earned his first award nominations for his role as Snape at the 2011 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards, 2011 Saturn Awards, 2011 Scream Awards and 2011 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Hoffman gained his first Academy Award, and the film also received the Best Picture honor, plus the awards for Best Supporting Actress ( Streep ) and Director.

Kelly's role as Linda Nordley in MGM's production of Mogambo garnered her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

After two years in the role, he played the same part in the 1951 film version, this time playing opposite Vivien Leigh, where he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

She has been nominated for six Academy Awards, for Best Actress in Dangerous Liaisons, Fatal Attraction, and Albert Nobbs and for Best Supporting Actress in The Natural, The Big Chill and The World According to Garp ( her first film ).

Hawn had made her feature film debut in a bit role as a giggling dancer in the 1968 film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, in which she was billed as " Goldie Jeanne ", but in her first major film role, in Cactus Flower ( 1969 ), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Walter Matthau's suicidal fiancée.

He was the first Saturn Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Young Frankenstein.

For the first film, McKellen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

His first major role came in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show, for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

She was the first person to win the Supporting Oscar after being nominated in the prior year.

She was the only French cinema actress to receive an Oscar until Juliette Binoche in 1997 ( Supporting Actress ) and Marion Cotillard in 2008 ( Best Actress ), and the first woman to win the award appearing in a foreign film.

He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called " Whiplash Willie " Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

She became the first Latin American actress nominated for an Academy Award, as Best Supporting Actress for her work in 1954's Broken Lance, and was the first to win a Golden Globe.

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.

She won her second Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first being for The Goonies.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

Washington at the 62nd Academy Awards, at which he won his first Oscar for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actor.

Supporting Ithaca's claim to be " the birthplace of the ice cream sundae ," researchers at The History Center in Tompkins County, New York, provide an account of how the sundae came to be: On Sunday, April 3, 1892 in Ithaca, John M. Scott, a Unitarian Church minister, and Chester Platt, co-owner of Platt & Colt Pharmacy, created the first historically documented sundae.

In 1945 his performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, playing an alcoholic, but good-natured Irish father, a dreamer whose presence brought joy to those around him even though he was never a success in the traditional sense.

The film also won Linda Hunt ( who played a man in the film ) an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

The film, which tells the story of a badly burned, mysterious man found in the wreckage of a plane during World War II, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1934's The Affairs of Cellini, where he played the cuckolded Duke of Florence and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942's Tortilla Flat, where he played a simple Hispanic man.

In only her third film, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1980 film Melvin and Howard, playing the wife of a man who claims to have befriended reclusive eccentric Howard Hughes.

He could arguably be considered the first man of known Russian descent to have won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

It won a Best Screenplay Oscar for Damon and Affleck, and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Robin Williams, who, in his acceptance speech, referred to Van Sant as " the mellowest man in Hollywood.

Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in Mystic River ( 2003 ), as a man traumatized from having been molested as a child.

" Meredith won several Emmys, was the first man to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for Academy Awards.

At the 61st Academy Awards ceremony, she receives her second ( and currently last ) nomination for Best Actress and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The Sundowners ( 1960 ), starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as an Australian outback husband and wife, led to more Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress ( Kerr ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Glynis Johns ), but won none.

Supporting actors from A Fish Called Wanda returning for Fierce Creatures include Maria Aitken ( wife of Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda, his assistant in Fierce Creatures ) and Cynthia Cleese ( daughter of Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda and Pip Small Mammals in Fierce Creatures ).

Supporting historical characters include the old Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his conniving favorite wife Tiy, the wife of Akhenaten Nefertiti, the listless young Tutankhamun ( King Tut ) who succeeded as Pharaoh after Akhenaten's downfall, and the two common-born successors who were, according to this author, integral parts of the rise and fall of the Amarna heresy of Akhenaten, the priest and later Pharaoh Ay, and the warrior-general and then finally Pharaoh Horemheb.

Supporting characters include his overbearing, nagging and occasionally jealous wife Helga ; their brilliant and sensitive son Hamlet ; their pretty but domestically hopeless daughter Honi ; Helga's pet duck Kvack ; Hägar's loyal and clever dog Snert and other secondary, recurring characters.

She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the King's principal wife in Anna and the King of Siam in 1946.

Supporting them were author James Baldwin and his brother David, and comedian Dick Gregory and his wife Lillian ( who was arrested for picketing with SNCC activists and local supporters ).

She had a major part in the MGM 1959 film, The Mating Game as Paul Douglas's wife and Debbie Reynolds's mother, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Summer and Smoke ( 1961 ).

A career highlight was Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ), a movie about a male-male relationship in the 1960s, which earned Williams a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Academy Awards for her role as the wife of one of the men.

She played Maimiti opposite Marlon Brando in the film Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and became Brando's third wife in 1962.

She is perhaps best known for her role as Rachel Scali, the wife of Police Commissioner Tony Scali, in the 1990s television series The Commish, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, in 1994.

In 1978, Spriggs won the Society of West End Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress for Arnold Wesker's Love Letters on Blue Paper, playing the wife of a dying trade union leader who recalls their early life together ( a part she first played on BBC television in 1976 ).