International Presence
As the Academy Awards are based in the United States and are centered on the Hollywood film industry, the majority of Academy Award winners have been Americans. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
- Australia: Heath Ledger
- Austria: Joseph Schildkraut, Christoph Waltz
- Cambodia: Haing S. Ngor
- Canada: Christopher Plummer
- Ireland (republic): Barry Fitzgerald
- Mexico: Anthony Quinn
- Puerto Rico: Benicio del Toro
- Spain: Javier Bardem
- United Kingdom: Christian Bale, Jim Broadbent, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Donald Crisp, John Gielgud, Hugh Griffith, Edmund Gwenn, John Mills, George Sanders, Peter Ustinov
There have been two years in which all four of the top acting Academy Awards were presented to non-Americans.
- At the 37th Academy Awards (1964), the winners were Rex Harrison (British), Julie Andrews (British), Peter Ustinov (British), and Lila Kedrova (Russian).
- At the 80th Academy Awards (2007), the winners were Daniel Day-Lewis (British and Irish), Marion Cotillard (French), Javier Bardem (Spanish), and Tilda Swinton (British).
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