Best Supporting Actor Lineups of the 70s

1970
Leonard Frey, The Boys in the Band
Martin Balsam, Catch-22
Chief Dan George, Little Big Man
Karl Malden, Patton
Gian Maria Volontè, Many Wars Ago
Colin Welland, Kes

1971
Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show
Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show
Art Garfunkel, Carnal Knowledge
John Hurt, 10 Rillington Place
Patrick Magee, A Clockwork Orange
Patrick McGoohan, Mary, Queen of Scots

1972
Joel Grey, Cabaret
Eddie Albert, The Heartbreak Kid
James Caan, The Godfather
Robert Duvall, The Godfather
Anthony Perkins, Play It As It Lays
Paul Winfield, Sounder

1973
Edward G. Robinson, Soylent Green
Ian Bannen, The Offence
Trevor Howard, The Offence
Paul Le Mat, American Graffiti
Michael Lonsdale, The Day of the Jackal
Jason Miller, The Exorcist

1974
Helmut Berger, Conversation Piece
Michael V. Gazzo, The Godfather Part II
William Holden, The Towering Inferno
Holger Löwenadler, Lacombe, Lucien
Anthony Perkins, Murder of the Orient Express
Lee Strasberg, The Godfather Part II

1975
Robert Shaw, Jaws
George Burns, The Sunshine Boys
John Cazale, Dog Day Afternoon
Brad Dourif, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Henry Gibson, Nashville
Max von Sydow, Three Days of the Condor

1976
Jason Robards, All the President's Men
Hal Holbrook, All the President's Men
Zero Mostel, The Front
Laurence Olivier, Marathon Man
John Vernon, The Outlaw Josey Wales
Oskar Werner, Voyage of the Damned

1977
Martin Sheen, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Colin Blakely, Equus
Bruno Cremer, Sorcerer
Yoshio Harada, Ballad of Orin
Tommy Lee Jones, Rolling Thunder
Maximilian Schell, Cross of Iron

1978
Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter
Richard Farnsworth, Comes a Horseman
Burgess Meredith, Magic
John Savage, The Deer Hunter
Harry Dean Stanton, Straight Time
M. Emmett Walsh, Straight Time

1979
Ian Holm, Alien
Bernard Blier, Buffet Froid
Bernard Blier, Série Noire
Melvyn Douglas, Being There
Sam Neill, My Brilliant Career
Oliver Reed, The Brood