1970s Supporting Actors Who Didn't Win the Oscar But Should Have

1 Frederic Forrest - The Rose

2 Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point

3 Burt Young - Rocky

4 Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

5 Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno

6 Al Pacino - The Godfather

7 Randy Quaid - The Last Detail

8 Robert Duvall - The Godfather

9 Roy Scheider - The French Connection

10 Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers

The Contenders

11 Jason Miller - The Exorcist

12 Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer

13 Bruce Dern - Coming Home

14 Jack Warden - Shampoo

15 Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly

16 Chief Dan George - Little Big Man

17 Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger

18 James Caan - The Godfather

19 Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon

20 Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man

21 Peter Firth - Equus

22 Alec Guinness - Star Wars Sir Alec Guinness was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters.

23 Maximilian Schell - Julia

24 Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust

25 John Marley - Love Story