Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in actor in a supporting role category

Ryan's Daughter(1970)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.



Equus(1977)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.



The Day of the Locust(1975)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.



Hud(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.



The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.



The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas(1982)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.



Save the Tiger(1973)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.



Sweet Bird of Youth(1962)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...



Mr. Saturday Night(1992)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.



Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.



Melvin and Howard(1980)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.



Ship of Fools(1965)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.



The Alamo(1960)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.



Pocketful of Miracles(1961)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.



To Be or Not to Be(1983)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while ...



A Thousand Clowns(1965)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.



Exodus(1960)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.



Georgy Girl(1966)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.



Street Smart(1987)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.



Bang the Drum Slowly(1973)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.




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