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Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award–winning performance

  • The Dark KnightThe Dark Knight, a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, begins with a bank robbery that turns on its own crew. The bank belongs to the mafia in Gotham City. The masked robbers betray and kill one another until a single man…
  • Once Upon a Time in HollywoodOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood is a 2019 film by Quentin Tarantino, and its ending was guarded like a state secret. Tarantino kept the only copy of the third act locked in a safe. Besides Tarantino himself, only Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot…
  • Ben-Hur (1959 film)MGM bet its future on Ben-Hur, a 1959 epic whose budget more than doubled to $15.175 million.
  • Oppenheimer (film)The teaser for the film Oppenheimer, released on the 28th of July 2022, carried a live countdown to 5:29 a.m. Mountain time on the 16th of July 2023. That hour marked the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of an atomic weapon.…
  • Inglourious BasterdsInglourious Basterds begins with a conversation in English that ends in a massacre. In 1941, an Austrian SS colonel named Hans Landa questions a French farmer about a fugitive Jewish family. The family's youngest member, Shosanna, escapes.…
  • One Battle After AnotherOne Battle After Another, written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, sent about 1.5 million feet of film through its cameras. Those were VistaVision cameras, and cinematographer Michael Bauman said the system had not seen that…
  • Everything Everywhere All at OnceEverything Everywhere All at Once began as a script for a male lead, written with Jackie Chan in mind.
  • Good Will HuntingGood Will Hunting began life as a homework assignment that came back far too long. Matt Damon, in his fifth year at Harvard, was asked for a one-act play for a playwriting class. He turned in a script of around 40 pages instead. That…
  • Glory (1989 film)The film Glory shows a soldier being flogged, but no such flogging of Black troops ever happened.
  • Ordinary PeopleMichael J. Fox auditioned for Ordinary People and lost the role to Timothy Hutton. Hutton won an Oscar for it at age 20.

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