Best Supporting Actor

1979 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerBreaking AwayPaul DooleyA small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.Amazon

1971 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerDiary of a Mad HousewifeFrank LangellaA housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.Amazon

1972 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerCabaretJoel GreyA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.AmazonThe GodfatherAl PacinoThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.AmazonThe Last Picture ShowBen JohnsonIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.Amazon

1973 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerThe Paper ChaseJohn HousemanA first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.Amazon

1974 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerLacombe, LucienHolger LöwenadlerIn 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.Amazon

1975 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerDog Day AfternoonCharles DurningA man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation, which turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.Amazon

1976 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerAll the President's MenJason Robards"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.Amazon

1977 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerThe Turning PointTom SkerrittWhen her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.Amazon

1978 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerComes a HorsemanRichard FarnsworthElla Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...Amazon

1970 National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actor WinnerTopazPhilippe NoiretA French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.Amazon