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Youngest Best Supporting Actor Winners
This list features the youngest actors to win Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards.
RANK | ACTOR | AGE | FILM | YEAR |
1 | Timothy Hutton | 20 years, 227 days | Ordinary People | 1980 |
2 | Cuba Gooding Jr. | 29 years, 81 days | Jerry Maguire | 1996 |
3 | George Chakiris | 29 years, 205 days | West Side Story | 1961 |
4 | Heath Ledger | 29 years, 324 days | The Dark Knight | 2008 |
5 | Jack Lemmon | 31 years, 42 days | Mister Roberts | 1955 |
6 | Robert De Niro | 31 years, 234 days | The Godfather Part II | 1974 |
7 | Daniel Kaluuya | 32 years, 60 days | Judas and the Black Messiah | 2020 |
8 | Harold Russell | 33 years, 58 days | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 |
9 | Benicio del Toro | 34 years, 34 days | Traffic | 2000 |
10 | Van Heflin | 34 years, 81 days | Johnny Eager | 1942 |
References
Wikipedia (n.d.) List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees – Youngest winners, Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_and_youngest_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees#Youngest_winners_4 (Accessed: 1 December 2025).
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