The Golden Globe award statuette was first introduced in 1946, when the association president Marina Cisternas gave the idea of using a statuette of a "golden globe" with a filmstrip circling it; Scrolls were distributed to the winners before the introduction of the statuette. The first award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture given out at the Golden Globes was in 1944 to Akim Tamiroff for his role in a 1943 movie’ For Whom the Bell Tolls’. The 1979 awards saw a tie in this category with Melvyn Douglas and Robert Duvall both winning for their roles. The official title for the award was changed in 2005 and it is now called Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.
List of Winners - Golden Globes Best Supporting Actor
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Year
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Winner
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1943
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Akim Tamiroff
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1944
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Barry Fitzgerald
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1945
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J. Carrol Naish
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1946
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Clifton Webb
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn
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1948
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Walter Huston
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1949
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James Whitmore
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1950
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Edmund Gwenn
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1951
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Peter Ustinov
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1952
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Millard Mitchell
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1953
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Frank Sinatra
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1954
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Edmond O'Brien
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1955
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Arthur Kennedy
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1956
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Earl Holliman
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1957
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Red Buttons
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1958
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Burl Ives
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1959
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Stephen Boyd
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1960
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Sal Mineo
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1961
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George Chakiris
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1964
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Edmond O'Brien
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1966
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Richard Attenborough
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1967
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Richard Attenborough
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1968
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Daniel Massey
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1969
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Gig Young
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1970
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John Mills
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1971
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Ben Johnson
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1972
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Joel Grey
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1973
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John Houseman
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1974
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Fred Astaire
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1975
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Richard Benjamin
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1976
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Laurence Olivier
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1977
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Peter Firth
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1978
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John Hurt
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1979
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Melvyn Douglas/Robert Duvall
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1980
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Timothy Hutton
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1981
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John Gielgud
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1982
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Louis Gossett, Jr.
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1983
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Jack Nicholson
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1984
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Haing S. Ngor
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1985
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Klaus Maria Brandauer
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1986
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Tom Berenger
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1987
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Sean Connery
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1988
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Martin Landau
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1989
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Denzel Washington
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1990
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Bruce Davison
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1991
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Jack Palance
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1992
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Gene Hackman
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1993
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Tommy Lee Jones
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1994
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Martin Landau
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1995
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Brad Pitt
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1996
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Edward Norton
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1997
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Burt Reynolds
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1998
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Ed Harris
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1999
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Tom Cruise
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2000
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Benicio del Toro
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2001
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Jim Broadbent
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2002
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Chris Cooper
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2003
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Tim Robbins
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2004
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Clive Owen
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2005
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George Clooney
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2006
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Eddie Murphy
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2007
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Javier Bardem
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2008
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Heath Ledger
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2009
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Christoph Waltz
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