2024 Oscars Best Supporting Actor nominees: 1 past champ, 2 veterans and 2 rookies

The 2024 Oscar nominees for Best Supporting Actor are Sterling K. Brown (“American Fiction”), Robert De Niro (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”), Ryan Gosling (“Barbie”), and Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”). Our odds currently show Downey (3/1) triumphing, followed in order of likelihood by Gosling (39/10), Ruffalo (9/2), De Niro (9/2), and Brown (9/2).

At 80, De Niro ranks as the ninth oldest nominee in the history of this category, which was established just six years before he was born. Less than eight years separate him from record holder Christopher Plummer (“All the Money in the World,” 2018), whose victory at 82 for “Beginners” (2012) would put him solely ahead of De Niro on the winners list. As it happens, De Niro already sits in sixth place among the youngest supporting male champs, having triumphed at 31 on his very first bid for “The Godfather Part II” (1975).

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Having also achieved a Best Actor victory for “Raging Bull” (1981), De Niro is indeed the only member of his current lineup with any past Oscar wins to his name. Since his resume includes another supporting notice for “Silver Linings Playbook” (2013) as well as four more lead ones, he now belongs to a group of 10 men with at least eight acting Oscar nominations apiece. This puts him four bids away from the general male record, which has belonged to Jack Nicholson since 2003.

As a past contender for “The Kids Are All Right” (2011), “Foxcatcher” (2015), and “Spotlight” (2016), Ruffalo is now one of eight joint record holders for most supporting actor nominations. After Robert Duvall (“The Judge,” 2015), Jeff Bridges (“Hell or High Water,” 2017), and Al Pacino (“The Irishman,” 2020), he is the fourth man to join the club within the last decade. Also included in his present lineup’s veteran nominee subset is Downey, who was recognized here in 2009 for “Tropic Thunder” after vying for the 1993 Best Actor trophy as the star of “Chaplin.”

While he is new to this category, Gosling fits in with most of his current competitors as a former lead nominee for “Half Nelson” (2007) and “La La Land” (2017). His latest bid puts him in the company of De Niro, Downey, and many other men who have achieved academy recognition across both possible acting categories, with his direct predecessor in landing a supporting bid after contending multiple times as a lead being Tom Hanks (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” 2020).

Total Oscars newcomer Brown is this category’s 20th unique Black nominee and could become its seventh such winner, directly following Daniel Kaluuya (“Judas and the Black Messiah,” 2021). Since his “American Fiction” costar, Jeffrey Wright, is in the running for Best Actor, their film is the first for which Black male cast mates are nominated in separate categories.

The most recent victors in this category are Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” 2023), Troy Kotsur (“CODA,” 2022), Kaluuya, and Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” 2020). This year’s winner will be revealed during the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, airing March 10 on ABC.

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