Scene Stealers: Best Supporting Actors

Scene Stealers: Best Supporting Actors

16 Episodes

This awards season, we pay homage to the virtuoso secondary players who ran away with their movies, nabbing Oscar gold when the lead actors they so memorably supported did not. From stars like Kevin Kline (A FISH CALLED WANDA) and Whoopi Goldberg (GHOST) who received some of their greatest acclaim in smaller roles; to veteran character actors like Jane Darwell (THE GRAPES OF WRATH) and Martin Landau (ED WOOD) who could more than hold their own opposite the biggest of names; to costars like Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY) and Dianne Wiest and Michael Caine (HANNAH AND HER SISTERS) who swept the Supporting Actor and Actress prizes for the same film, these captivating scene-stealers may not have had the most screen time, but they made every second count.

Coming May 1:
PAPER MOON (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)

Scene Stealers: Best Supporting Actors
  • Scene Stealers Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Glory

    Episode 2

    Directed by Edward Zwick • 1989 • United States
    Starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes

    The heart-stopping story of the first Black regiment to fight for the Union army in the Civil War, GLORY is an epic drama that brings a stirring true chapter of American history to the scree...

  • Ghost

    Episode 3

    Directed by Jerry Zucker • 1990 • United States
    Starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg

    In one of the most unique and memorable cinematic love stories of all time, Sam (Patrick Swayze), a former banker now existing as a ghost, discovers his death wasn’t just a random robbery gone ba...

  • A Fish Called Wanda

    Episode 4

    Directed by Charles Crichton • 1988 • United Kingdom, United States
    Starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline

    Screenwriter, costar, and “Monty Python” legend John Cleese revived the eccentric spirit of the classic British Ealing comedy (even enlisting a veteran of the studio, Charles C...

  • Ed Wood

    Episode 5

    Directed by Tim Burton • 1994 • United States
    Starring Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker

    From director Tim Burton comes the hilarious and surprisingly touching true-life story of perhaps the most unique filmmaker in Hollywood history. With no budget, little technical skill, and an...

  • The Killing Fields

    Episode 6

    Directed by Roland Joffé • 1984 • United Kingdom
    Starring Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

    When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, many thought the killing would end. Instead it started a long nightmare in which millions of Cambodians would die in the “killing fields.” This...

  • Key Largo

    Episode 7

    Directed by John Huston • 1948 • United States
    Starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall

    The final film pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is a torrid noir chamber piece adapted from Maxwell Anderson’s play of the same name and directed with sweltering, claustrophobic...

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    Episode 8

    Directed by John Ford • 1940 • United States
    Starring Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell

    One of the rare prestige literary adaptations to capture the power and majesty of its source material, John Ford’s renowned film version of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is one of the ...

  • The Bad and the Beautiful

    Episode 9

    Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1952 • United States
    Starring Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon

    Appearances are everything in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas gives a magnetic, Oscar-nominated performance as conniving producer Jonathan Shields, who turns talent, charisma and ruthlessness into fil...

  • L.A. Confidential

    Episode 10

    Directed by Curtis Hanson • 1997 • United States
    Starring Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey

    Perhaps the finest neonoir since CHINATOWN, Curtis Hanson’s masterful adaptation of the novel by James Ellroy brings the sleazy underbelly of 1950s Los Angeles to the screen with sizzle and punch. F...

  • From Here to Eternity

    Episode 11

    Directed by Fred Zinnemann • 1953 • United States
    Starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr

    Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr make waves in this landmark blockbuster about raging passions and stormy personal dramas on a Hawaiian military base in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Har...

  • Shampoo

    Episode 12

    Directed by Hal Ashby • 1975 • United States
    Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn

    SHAMPOO gives us a day in the life of George (Warren Beatty), a Beverly Hills hairdresser and lothario who runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails ...

  • The Last Picture Show

    Episode 13

    Directed by Peter Bogdanovich • 1971 • United States
    Starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd

    THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a mov...

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    Episode 14

    Directed by Woody Allen • 1986 • United States
    Starring Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Michael Caine

    One of Woody Allen’s best-loved films charts the messy, intersecting relationships between a coterie of Manhattanites over a two year period. Between Thanksgivings at her apartment, Hannah (Mia Farrow)...

  • Boyhood

    Episode 15

    Directed by Richard Linklater • 2014 • United States
    Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke

    There has never been another movie like BOYHOOD, from director Richard Linklater. An event film of the utmost modesty, it was shot over the course of twelve years in the director’s native...

  • Stagecoach

    Episode 16

    Directed by John Ford • 1939 • United States
    Starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine

    This is where it all started. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece STAGECOACH revolutionized the western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list and establishing the genre as we know it today....