Name an actor who has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor: rare answers

There are 81 correct answers to “Name an actor who has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor” on our list. The obvious ones, like Brad Pitt, Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, are worth 10 points each; the rare ones, like Barry Fitzgerald, Haing S. Ngor and Donald Crisp, are worth far more.

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Accepted answers: 81
Category: Movies
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 28 (35%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 3 answers
First letters: 18 different; J is the most common (17)

🐙 Abyssal: 9 answers (11%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 19 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 25 answers (31%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 22 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 6 answers (7%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

9 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Barry Fitzgerald, Haing S. Ngor, Donald Crisp and Edmund Gwenn. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Barry Fitzgerald, Haing S. Ngor, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Hugh Griffith, Harold Russell, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, James Dunn

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Burl Ives, Don Ameche, John Mills, Martin Balsam, Walter Huston, Ben Johnson, Joel Grey, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Albertson, Thomas Mitchell, Red Buttons, George Chakiris, Gig Young, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger, Edmond O'Brien, Ed Begley, John Houseman, Troy Kotsur

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Kline, Kieran Culkin, Anthony Quinn, Martin Landau, Walter Matthau, Daniel Kaluuya, Peter Ustinov, James Coburn, Timothy Hutton, Jim Broadbent, Jack Palance, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Robards, George Kennedy, Chris Cooper, Mark Rylance, George Burns, John Gielgud, Walter Brennan, Louis Gossett Jr., Karl Malden, George Sanders

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Frank Sinatra, George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Sean Penn, Jared Leto, Gene Hackman, Javier Bardem, Christopher Plummer, Joe Pesci, Christopher Walken, Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio del Toro, Christoph Waltz, Mahershala Ali, Sam Rockwell, Tim Robbins, J. K. Simmons

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, Heath Ledger, Robert Downey Jr.

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Cuba Gooding Jr.: Gooding
Louis Gossett Jr.: Gossett
Robert Downey Jr.: Downey

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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Name an actor who has won the Oscar for Best Actor (7 shared, such as Jack Lemmon, Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson)