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Rarest Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — All 81 Answers Ranked by Rarity

81 answers are accepted for “Name a winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor”. James Dunn is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in this ranking, with 33,516 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Joseph Schildkraut is the second-rarest with 51,442 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.53× the figure for James Dunn. Brad Pitt is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in this ranking, with 4,208,305 monthly Wikipedia views, 125.6× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 81 answers: 93,569,581. James Dunn is under 0.1% of that total. 17 answers are Epic or Legendary: James Dunn (Legendary), Joseph Schildkraut (Legendary), Donald Crisp (Legendary), and 14 more.

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Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

81 answers to “Name a winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views
1 James Dunn on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 33,516
2 Joseph Schildkraut on Wikipedia Legendary 0.988 51,442
3 Donald Crisp on Wikipedia Legendary 0.975 82,997
4 Barry Fitzgerald on Wikipedia Legendary 0.963 91,404
5 Hugh Griffith on Wikipedia Legendary 0.950 98,526
6 Charles Coburn on Wikipedia Legendary 0.938 105,684
7 Edmund Gwenn on Wikipedia Epic 0.925 127,702
8 Harold Russell on Wikipedia Epic 0.912 132,297
9 John Houseman on Wikipedia Epic 0.900 168,459
10 Edmond O'Brien on Wikipedia Epic 0.887 170,709
11 Van Heflin on Wikipedia Epic 0.875 176,529
12 Melvyn Douglas on Wikipedia Epic 0.863 180,739
13 Thomas Mitchell on Wikipedia Epic 0.850 190,619
14 Walter Huston on Wikipedia Epic 0.838 194,716
15 Dean Jagger on Wikipedia Epic 0.825 205,476
16 Red Buttons on Wikipedia Epic 0.813 213,150
17 Haing S. Ngor on Wikipedia Epic 0.800 222,802
18 Ed Begley on Wikipedia Rare 0.787 223,276
19 George Chakiris on Wikipedia Rare 0.775 232,506
20 Karl Malden on Wikipedia Rare 0.762 306,615
21 Ben Johnson on Wikipedia Rare 0.750 306,978
22 Jack Albertson on Wikipedia Rare 0.738 323,357
23 Don Ameche on Wikipedia Rare 0.725 338,661
24 John Gielgud on Wikipedia Rare 0.713 342,027
25 Martin Balsam on Wikipedia Rare 0.700 347,026
26 Burl Ives on Wikipedia Rare 0.688 353,342
27 John Mills on Wikipedia Rare 0.675 355,202
28 Walter Brennan on Wikipedia Rare 0.662 368,626
29 Gig Young on Wikipedia Rare 0.650 369,595
30 Troy Kotsur on Wikipedia Rare 0.637 398,839
31 Joel Grey on Wikipedia Rare 0.625 404,510
32 George Sanders on Wikipedia Rare 0.613 416,122
33 Jack Palance on Wikipedia Rare 0.600 463,853
34 Louis Gossett Jr. on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.588 468,943
35 Peter Ustinov on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.575 471,929
36 Martin Landau on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.563 497,363
37 George Kennedy on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.550 509,943
38 Jason Robards on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.537 551,972
39 George Burns on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.525 594,417
40 Mark Rylance on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.512 655,767
41 James Coburn on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.500 662,730
42 Walter Matthau on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.488 663,617
43 Chris Cooper on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.475 688,317
44 Anthony Quinn on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.463 690,910
45 Timothy Hutton on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.450 696,835
46 Jim Broadbent on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.438 698,281
47 Alan Arkin on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.425 778,721
48 Jack Lemmon on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.412 817,580
49 Daniel Kaluuya on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.400 836,183
50 Kevin Kline on Wikipedia Familiar 0.387 1,049,279
51 Cuba Gooding Jr. on Wikipedia Familiar 0.375 1,052,001
52 Mahershala Ali on Wikipedia Familiar 0.363 1,379,858
53 Ke Huy Quan on Wikipedia Familiar 0.350 1,402,008
54 Tim Robbins on Wikipedia Familiar 0.338 1,484,652
55 Christopher Plummer on Wikipedia Familiar 0.325 1,510,820
56 Joe Pesci on Wikipedia Familiar 0.313 1,617,992
57 Christopher Walken on Wikipedia Familiar 0.300 1,652,418
58 J. K. Simmons on Wikipedia Familiar 0.287 1,751,959
59 Sam Rockwell on Wikipedia Familiar 0.275 1,760,288
60 Christoph Waltz on Wikipedia Familiar 0.262 1,775,118
61 Gene Hackman on Wikipedia Familiar 0.250 1,789,305
62 Benicio del Toro on Wikipedia Familiar 0.238 1,828,668
63 Kevin Spacey on Wikipedia Familiar 0.225 2,069,004
64 Tommy Lee Jones on Wikipedia Familiar 0.213 2,117,961
65 Kieran Culkin on Wikipedia Common 0.200 2,161,466
66 Sean Connery on Wikipedia Common 0.188 2,439,534
67 Morgan Freeman on Wikipedia Common 0.175 2,547,348
68 Jared Leto on Wikipedia Common 0.162 2,559,901
69 Denzel Washington on Wikipedia Common 0.150 2,564,227
70 Michael Caine on Wikipedia Common 0.137 2,599,079
71 Robert Downey Jr. on Wikipedia Common 0.125 2,614,335
72 Christian Bale on Wikipedia Common 0.113 2,713,854
73 Frank Sinatra on Wikipedia Common 0.100 2,738,699
74 Jack Nicholson on Wikipedia Common 0.088 2,802,784
75 Javier Bardem on Wikipedia Common 0.075 2,961,912
76 George Clooney on Wikipedia Common 0.063 3,142,509
77 Robert De Niro on Wikipedia Common 0.050 3,339,203
78 Sean Penn on Wikipedia Common 0.037 3,625,335
79 Heath Ledger on Wikipedia Common 0.025 3,828,886
80 Robin Williams on Wikipedia Common 0.012 4,200,063
81 Brad Pitt on Wikipedia Common 0.000 4,208,305

FAQ

What is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

James Dunn is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in this ranking, with 33,516 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actors are there?

There are 81 winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actors in this ranking, from James Dunn (rarest) to Brad Pitt (most common).

What is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

Brad Pitt is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in this ranking, with 4,208,305 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.