Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in best supporting actor - motion picture category

Actors : Edward Norton, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Richard Gere,
Directors : Gregory Hoblit,

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Actors : Mark Lester, Shani Wallis, Ron Moody, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Carol Reed,

Young Oliver Twist runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In 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.

Actors : Joan Crawford, Wesley Addy, Victor Buono, Bette Davis,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Actors : Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg,

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, William Devane,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.

Actors : Julian Sands, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Sam Waterston,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Actors : Harvey Keitel, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.

Actors : Leonard Frey, Topol, Molly Picon, Norma Crane,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

Actors : Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli,
Directors : Alan Parker,

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Actors : Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott, Estelle Getty,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Actors : Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Susannah York, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.

Actors : Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Christian Bale,
Directors : Adam McKay,

VICE explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.