Robin Williams

American actor and comedian (1951–2014)

Not to be confused with Robbie Williams.

For other people with the same name, see Robin Williams (disambiguation).

Robin Williams

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Williams in 2011

Born|

Robin McLaurin Williams

(1951-07-21)July 21, 1951

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Died| August 11, 2014(2014-08-11) (aged 63)

Paradise Cay, California, U.S.

Education|

* Claremont McKenna College
* College of Marin
* Juilliard School

Occupations|

* Actor
* comedian

Years active| 1976–2014
Works| List of performances
Spouses|

Valerie Velardi

(m. 1978; div. 1988)​

Marsha Garces

(m. 1989; div. 2010)​

Susan Schneider

(m. 2011)​

Children| 3, including Zelda
Comedy career
Medium|

* Stand-up
* film
* television

Genres|

* Observational comedy
* improvisational comedy
* physical comedy
* political satire
* self-deprecation
* surreal humour

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills[1][2] and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and comedies alike,[3][4] he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time.[5][6][7]

Williams began performing stand-up comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the mid-1970s,[8] and rose to fame playing the alien Mork in the ABC sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978–1982).[9] After his first leading film role in Popeye (1980), he starred in several critically and commercially successful films, including The World According to Garp (1982), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), Awakenings (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Patch Adams (1998), One Hour Photo (2002), and World's Greatest Dad (2009). He also starred in box office successes such as Hook (1991), Aladdin (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Jumanji (1995), The Birdcage (1996), Good Will Hunting (1997), and the Night at the Museum trilogy (2006–2014). He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting. He also received two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Grammy Awards.

On August 11, 2014, at age 63, Williams died by suicide at his home in Paradise Cay, California. His autopsy revealed undiagnosed Lewy body disease.[10][11]

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 2.1 Stand-up comedy
* 2.2 Television
* 2.2.1 Mork & Mindy
* 2.2.2 Later appearances
* 2.3 Film
* 2.3.1 Dramatic roles
* 2.3.2 Voice roles
* 2.3.3 Later films
* 2.4 Stage work
* 2.5 Internet
* 3 Additional works
* 3.1 Theatre
* 3.2 Discography
* 4 Personal life
* 4.1 Marriages and children
* 4.2 Other interests
* 4.3 Religion
* 4.4 Philanthropy
* 4.5 Health
* 4.5.1 Addiction
* 4.5.2 Later health problems
* 5 Death
* 5.1 Aftermath and tributes
* 6 Influences
* 7 Legacy
* 8 Performances and awards
* 9 References
* 10 Further reading
* 11 External links

## Early life[edit | edit source]

Robin McLaurin Williams was born at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois,[12] on July 21, 1951.[13] His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a senior executive in Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division.[14][15] His mother, Laurie McLaurin, was a former model from Jackson, Mississippi, whose great-grandfather was Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin.[16] Williams had two older half-brothers: a paternal half-brother, Robert (also known as Todd),[17] and a maternal half-brother, McLaurin.[18] While his mother was a practitioner of Christian Science, Williams was raised in his father's Episcopal faith.[19][20] During a television interview on Inside the Actors Studio in 2001, Williams credited his mother as an important early influence on his humor, and he tried to make her laugh to gain attention.[21]

Williams attended public elementary school in Lake Forest at Gorton Elementary School and middle school at Deer Path Junior High School.[22] He described himself as a quiet child who did not overcome his shyness until he became involved with his high school drama department.[23] His friends recall him as very funny.[22] In late 1963, when Williams was 12, his father was transferred to Detroit. The family lived in a 40-room farmhouse on 20 acres[14] in suburban Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the private Detroit Country Day School.[22][24] He excelled in school, where he was on the school's wrestling team and was elected class president.[25]

As both his parents worked, Williams was partially raised by the family's maid, who was his main companion. When he was 16, his father took early retirement and the family moved to Tiburon, California.[14][26][27] Following their move, Williams attended Redwood High School in nearby Larkspur. At the time of his graduation in 1969, he was voted "Most Likely Not to Succeed" and "Funniest" by his classmates.[28] After high school graduation, Williams enrolled at Claremont Men's College in Claremont, California, to study political science; he dropped out to pursue acting.[14][29] Williams studied theatre for three years at the College of Marin, a community college in Kentfield, California. According to the College of Marin's drama professor, James Dunn, the depth of the young actor's talent became evident when he was cast in the musical Oliver! as Fagin. Williams often improvised during his time in the drama program, leaving cast members in hysterics.[30] Dunn called his wife after one late rehearsal to tell her Williams "was going to be something special".[30]

In 1973, Williams attained a full scholarship to the Juilliard School (Group 6, 1973–1976) in New York City. He was one of 20 students accepted into the freshman class, and he and Christopher Reeve were the only two accepted by John Houseman into the Advanced Program at the school that year. William Hurt and Mandy Patinkin were also classmates.[31][32] According to biographer Jean Dorsinville, Franklyn Seales and Williams were roommates at Juilliard.[33] Reeve remembered his first impression of Williams when they were new students at Juilliard: "He wore tie-dyed shirts with tracksuit bottoms and talked a mile a minute. I'd never seen so much energy contained in one person. He was like an untied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released. I watched in awe as he virtually caromed off the walls of the classrooms and hallways. To say that he was 'on' would be a major understatement."[32]

Williams and Reeve had a class in dialects taught by Edith Skinner, who Reeve said was one of the world's leading voice and speech teachers; according to Reeve, Skinner was bewildered by Williams and his ability to instantly perform in many different accents. Their primary acting teacher was Michael Kahn, who was "equally baffled by this human dynamo".[32] Williams already had a reputation for being funny, but Kahn criticized his antics as simple stand-up comedy. In a later production, Williams silenced his critics with his well-received performance as an old man in Tennessee Williams's Night of the Iguana. Reeve wrote, "He simply was the old man. I was astonished by his work and very grateful that fate had thrown us together."[32] The two remained close friends until Reeve's death in 2004. Their friendship was like "brothers from another mother", according to Williams's son Zak.[34]

During the summers of 1974, 1975, and 1976, Williams worked as a busboy at The Trident in Sausalito, California.[35] He left Juilliard[36][37] during his junior year in 1976 at the suggestion of Houseman, who said there was nothing more Juilliard could teach him.[31][38] Gerald Freedman, another of his teachers at Juilliard, said Williams was a "genius" and that the school's conservative and classical style of training did not suit him; no one was surprised that he left.[39]

## Career[edit | edit source]

### Stand-up comedy[edit | edit source]

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Williams at a United Service Organization (USO) show on December 20, 2007

Williams began performing stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976.[40] He gave his first performance at the Holy City Zoo, a comedy club in San Francisco, where he worked his way up from tending bar.[41] In the 1960s, San Francisco was a center for a rock music renaissance, hippies, drugs, and a sexual revolution, and in the late 1970s, Williams helped lead its "comedy renaissance", writes critic Gerald Nachman.[8]: 6 Williams says he found out about "drugs and happiness" during that period, adding that he saw "the best brains of my time turned to mud".[31]

Williams moved to Los Angeles and continued performing stand-up at clubs, including The Comedy Store. There, in 1977, he was seen by TV producer George Schlatter, who asked him to appear on a revival of his show Laugh-In. The show aired in late 1977 and was his debut TV appearance.[31] That year, Williams also performed a show at the L.A. Improv for Home Box Office.[42] While the Laugh-In revival failed, it led Williams into his television career; he continued performing stand-up at comedy clubs such as the Roxy to help keep his improvisational skills sharp.[31][43] In England, Williams performed at The Fighting Cocks.[citation needed]

With his success on Mork & Mindy, Williams began to reach a wider audience with his stand-up comedy, starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, including three HBO comedy specials: Off The Wall (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams (1983), and A Night at the Met (1986).[44] Williams won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of his 1979 live show at the Copacabana in New York City, Reality ... What a Concept.[45]

David Letterman, who knew Williams for nearly 40 years, recalls seeing him first perform as a new comedian at The Comedy Store in Hollywood, where Letterman and other comedians had already been doing stand-up. "He came in like a hurricane", said Letterman, who said he then thought to himself, "Holy crap, there goes my chance in show business."[46]

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Williams at Aviano Air Base (Italy) on December 22, 2007

Williams said that, partly due to the stress of performing stand-up, he started using drugs and alcohol early in his career. He further said that he neither drank nor took drugs while on stage, but occasionally performed when hung over from the previous day. During the period he was using cocaine, he said it made him paranoid when performing on stage.[47]

Williams once described the life of stand-up comedians as follows:

> It's a brutal field, man. They burn out. It takes its toll. Plus, the lifestyle—partying, drinking, drugs. If you're on the road, it's even more brutal. You gotta come back down to mellow your ass out, and then performing takes you back up. They flame out because it comes and goes. Suddenly they're hot, and then somebody else is hot. Sometimes they get very bitter. Sometimes they just give up. Sometimes they have a revival thing and they come back again. Sometimes they snap. The pressure kicks in. You become obsessed and then you lose that focus that you need.[8]: 34–35

Some, such as the critic Vincent Canby, were concerned that his monologues were so intense that it seemed as though at any minute his "creative process could reverse into a complete meltdown".[48] His biographer, Emily Herbert, described his "intense, utterly manic style of stand-up [which sometimes] defies analysis ... [going] beyond energetic, beyond frenetic ... [and sometimes] dangerous ... because of what it said about the creator's own mental state".[48]

Williams felt secure that he would not run out of ideas, as the constant change in world events would keep him supplied.[47] He also explained that he often used free association of ideas while improvising in order to keep the audience interested.[49] The competitive nature of the show made things difficult. For example, some comedians said that Williams had stolen their jokes, which Williams strongly denied.[47][50][51] David Brenner claims that he confronted Williams's agent and threatened bodily harm if he heard Williams utter another one of his jokes.[52][53] Whoopi Goldberg defended him, asserting that it is difficult for comedians not to reuse another comedian's material, and that it is done "all the time".[54] He later avoided going to performances of other comedians to deter similar accusations.[54]

During a Playboy interview in 1992, Williams was asked whether he ever feared losing his balance between his work and his life. He replied, "There's that fear—if I felt like I was becoming not just dull but a rock, that I still couldn't speak, fire off or talk about things, if I'd start to worry or got too afraid to say something. ... If I stop trying, I get afraid." While he attributed the recent suicide of novelist Jerzy Kosiński to his fear of losing his creativity and sharpness, Williams felt he could overcome those risks. For that, he credited his father for strengthening his self-confidence, telling him to never be afraid of talking about subjects which were important to him.[47]

Williams's stand-up work was a consistent thread throughout his career, as seen by the success of his one-man show (and subsequent DVD) Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002). In 2004, he was voted 13th on Comedy Central's list of "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time".[55] After a six-year hiatus, in August 2008, Williams announced a new 26-city tour, Weapons of Self-Destruction. The tour began at the end of September 2009 and concluded in New York on December 3, and was the subject of an HBO Special on December 8, 2009.[56]

### Television[edit | edit source]

#### Mork & Mindy[edit | edit source]

Main article: Mork & Mindy

After the Laugh-In revival and appearing in the cast of The Richard Pryor Show on NBC, Williams was cast by Garry Marshall as the alien Mork in a 1978 episode of the TV series Happy Days, "My Favorite Orkan".[31][57] Sought after as a last-minute cast replacement for a departing actor, Williams impressed the producer with his quirky sense of humor when he sat on his head when asked to take a seat for the audition.[58] As Mork, Williams improvised much of his dialogue and physical comedy, speaking in a high, nasal voice, and he made the most of the script. The cast and crew, as well as TV network executives, were deeply impressed with his performance. As such, the executives moved quickly to get the performer on contract just four days later before competitors could make their own offers.[59]

Mork's appearance proved so popular with viewers that it led to the spin-off television sitcom Mork & Mindy, which co-starred Pam Dawber, and ran from 1978 to 1982; the show was written to accommodate his extreme improvisations in dialogue and behavior. Although he portrayed the same character as in Happy Days, the series was set in the present in Boulder, Colorado, instead of the late 1950s in Milwaukee. Mork & Mindy at its peak had a weekly audience of sixty million and was credited with turning Williams into a "superstar".[31] Among young people, the show was very popular because Williams became "a man and a child, buoyant, rubber-faced, an endless gusher of ideas," according to critic James Poniewozik.[60]

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Robin Williams (1979)

Mork became popular, featured on posters, coloring books, lunch-boxes, and other merchandise.[61] Mork & Mindy was such a success in its first season that Williams appeared on the March 12, 1979, cover of Time magazine.[62][63] The cover photo, taken by Michael Dressler in 1979, is said to have "[captured] his different sides: the funnyman mugging for the camera, and a sweet, more thoughtful pose that appears on a small TV he holds in his hands" according to Mary Forgione of the Los Angeles Times.[64] This photo was installed in the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution shortly after his death to allow visitors to pay their respects.[64] Williams also appeared on the cover of the August 23, 1979, issue of Rolling Stone, photographed by Richard Avedon.[65][66]

#### Later appearances[edit | edit source]

Starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Williams began to reach a wider audience with his stand-up comedy, including three HBO comedy specials, Off the Wall (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams (1983), and A Night at the Met (1986). In 1986, Williams co-hosted the 58th Academy Awards.[67] Williams was also a regular guest on various talk shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson[68] and Late Night with David Letterman, on which he appeared 50 times.[46]

Williams appeared with fellow comedian Billy Crystal in an unscripted cameo at the beginning of an episode of the third season of Friends.[69] His many television appearances included an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?,[70] and he starred in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2006, Williams was the Surprise Guest at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards,[71] and appeared on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that aired on January 30.[72] In 2010, he appeared in a sketch with Robert De Niro on Saturday Night Live, and in 2012, he guest-starred as himself in two FX series, Louie and Wilfred.[73] In May 2013, CBS started a new series, The Crazy Ones, starring Williams,[74] but the show was canceled after one season.[75]

### Film[edit | edit source]

See also: List of Robin Williams performances

The first film role credited to Robin Williams is a small part in the 1977 low-budget comedy Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?. His first starring performance, however, is as the title character in Popeye (1980), in which Williams showcased the acting skills previously demonstrated in his television work; accordingly, the film's commercial disappointment was not blamed on his performance.[76][77] He went on to star as the leading character in The World According to Garp (1982), which Williams considered "may have lacked a certain madness onscreen, but it had a great core".[41] He continued with other smaller roles in less successful films, such as The Survivors (1983) and Club Paradise (1986), though he said these roles did not help advance his film career.[41]

His first major break came from his starring role in director Barry Levinson's Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), which earned Williams a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.[57] The film is set in 1965 during the Vietnam War, with Williams playing the role of Adrian Cronauer, a radio shock jock who keeps the troops entertained with comedy and sarcasm. Williams was allowed to play the role without a script, improvising most of his lines. Over the microphone, he created voice impressions of people, including Walter Cronkite, Gomer Pyle, Elvis Presley, Mr. Ed, and Richard Nixon.[41] "We just let the cameras roll", said producer Mark Johnson, and Williams "managed to create something new for every single take".[78]

#### Dramatic roles[edit | edit source]

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Williams and Yola Czaderska-Hayek at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990

Many of his subsequent roles were in comedies tinged with pathos.[79] Looking over most of his filmography, one writer was "struck by the breadth" and radical diversity of most of the roles Williams portrayed.[80] In 1989, Williams played a private-school English teacher in Dead Poets Society, which included a final, emotional scene that some critics said "inspired a generation" and became a part of pop culture.[81] Similarly, his performance as a therapist in Good Will Hunting (1997) deeply affected even some real therapists.[82] In Awakenings (1990), Williams plays a doctor modeled after Oliver Sacks, who wrote the book on which the film is based. Sacks later said the way the actor's mind worked was a "form of genius". In 1991, he played an adult Peter Pan in the film Hook, although he had said he would have to lose 25 pounds for the role.[83] Terry Gilliam, who directed Williams in two of his films, The Fisher King (1991) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), said in 1992 that Williams had the ability to "go from manic to mad to tender and vulnerable ... [Williams had] the most unique mind on the planet. There's nobody like him out there."[47]

Other dramatic performances by Williams include Moscow on the Hudson (1984), What Dreams May Come (1998), and Bicentennial Man (1999).[84] In Insomnia (2002), Williams portrayed a murderer on the run from a sleep-deprived Los Angeles police detective (played by Al Pacino) in rural Alaska.[85] Also in 2002, in the psychological thriller One Hour Photo, Williams portrayed an emotionally disturbed photo development technician who becomes obsessed with a family for whom he has developed pictures for a long time.[86] The Angriest Man in Brooklyn was Williams' last movie to be released while he was alive. In the movie, Williams played Henry Altmann, an angry, bitter man who tries to change his life after being told he has a terminal illness.[87]

Williams' performances garnered him various accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Good Will Hunting;[57] as well as two previous Academy Award nominations, for Dead Poets Society, and as a troubled homeless man in The Fisher King, respectively.[57] Among the actors who helped him during his acting career, he credited Robert De Niro, from whom he learned the power of silence and economy of dialogue when acting. From Dustin Hoffman, with whom he co-starred in Hook, he learned to take on totally different character types, and to transform his characters by extreme preparation. Mike Medavoy, producer of Hook, told its director, Steven Spielberg, that he intentionally teamed up Hoffman and Williams for the film because he knew they wanted to work together, and that Williams welcomed the opportunity of working with Spielberg.[88] Having Woody Allen, who directed him and Billy Crystal in Deconstructing Harry (1997), helped Williams. Allen knew that Crystal and Williams had often worked together on stage.[89]

#### Voice roles[edit | edit source]

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Williams in Washington, D.C., 1996

While Williams voiced characters in several animated films, his voice role as the Genie in the animated musical Aladdin (1992) was written for him. The film's directors said they had taken a risk by writing the role.[90] At first, Williams refused the role since it was a Disney movie, and he did not want the studio profiting by selling merchandise based on the movie. He accepted the role with certain conditions: "I'm doing it basically because I want to be part of this animation tradition. I want something for my children. One deal is, I just don't want to sell anything—as in Burger King, as in toys, as in stuff."[91] Williams improvised much of his dialogue, recording approximately 30 hours of tape,[14] and impersonated dozens of celebrities, including Ed Sullivan, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Groucho Marx, Rodney Dangerfield, William F. Buckley Jr., Peter Lorre, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arsenio Hall.[92] His role in Aladdin became one of his most recognized and best-loved, and the film was the highest-grossing of 1992; it won numerous awards, including a Special Golden Globe Award for Vocal Work in a Motion Picture for Williams.[93] His performance paved the way for other animated films to incorporate actors with more star power.[94] He was named a Disney Legend in 2009.[95]

Due to Disney breaking an agreement with Williams regarding the use of the Genie in the advertising for Aladdin, Williams refused to sign on for the direct-to-video sequel The Return of Jafar (1994), where the Genie was instead voiced by Dan Castellaneta. When Jeffrey Katzenberg was replaced by Joe Roth as Walt Disney Studios chairman, Roth organized a public apology to Williams.[96] Williams would, in turn, reprise the role in the second sequel, Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996).[97]

Williams continued to provide voices in other animated films, including FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Robots (2005), the Happy Feet film franchise (2006-2011), and an uncredited vocal performance in Everyone's Hero (2006). He also voiced the holographic character Dr. Know in the live-action film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). He was the voice of The Timekeeper, a former attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort about a time-traveling robot who encounters Jules Verne and brings him to the future.[98]

#### Later films[edit | edit source]

Years after the films, Janet Hirshenson revealed in an interview that Williams had expressed interest in portraying Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series, but was rejected by director Chris Columbus due to the "British-only edict".[99] In 2006, he starred in five movies, including Man of the Year, a political satire, and The Night Listener, a thriller about a radio show host who realizes that a child with whom he has developed a friendship may not exist.[84] Four films starring Williams were released after his death in 2014: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, A Merry Friggin' Christmas, Boulevard, and Absolutely Anything.[100]

### Stage work[edit | edit source]

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Williams at the USO World Gala in Washington, D.C., on October 1, 2008

Williams appeared opposite Steve Martin at Lincoln Center in an off-Broadway production of Waiting for Godot in 1988.[101][102] He headlined his own one-man show, Robin Williams: Live on Broadway, which played at the Broadway theatre in July 2002.[103] He made his Broadway acting debut in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on March 31, 2011.[104]

### Internet[edit | edit source]

Williams was the host of a talk show for Audible that aired in April 2000 and was only available on Audible's website.[105][106]

## Additional works[edit | edit source]

### Theatre[edit | edit source]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1988 | Waiting for Godot | Estragon | Lincoln Center Theatre, New York
2011 | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Tiger | Richard Rodgers Theatre, Broadway

### Discography[edit | edit source]

* Reality ... What a Concept (Casablanca, 1979)
* Throbbing Python of Love (Casablanca, 1983)
* A Night at the Met (Columbia, 1986)
* Live 2002 (Columbia, 2002)
* Weapons of Self Destruction (Sony Music, 2009)

## Personal life[edit | edit source]

### Marriages and children[edit | edit source]

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Williams with Marsha Garces at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989

Williams married his first wife, Valerie Velardi, in June 1978, following a live-in relationship with comedian Elayne Boosler.[107] Velardi and Williams met in 1976 while he was working as a bartender at a tavern in San Francisco. Their son, Zachary Pym "Zak" Williams, was born in 1983.[108] Velardi and Williams were divorced in 1988.[109]

While it was reported that Williams began an affair with Zachary's nanny, Marsha Garces in 1986,[110] Velardi stated in the 2018 documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind that the relationship with Garces began after the two had separated.[111] On April 30, 1989, Williams married Garces, who was six months pregnant with his child. They had two children, Zelda Rae Williams (born 1989) and Cody Alan Williams (born 1991). In March 2008, Garces filed for divorce from Williams, citing irreconcilable differences.[112][113] Their divorce was finalized in 2010.

Williams married his third wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider, on October 22, 2011, in St. Helena, California.[114][115] The two lived at their house in Sea Cliff, San Francisco, California.[112]

Williams said, "My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings."[116]

### Other interests[edit | edit source]

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Williams at the BBC World Debate on February 27, 2008

In New York City, Williams was part of the West Side YMCA runners' running team and showed promising results with 34:21 minutes at a 10K run in Central Park in 1975.[117]

His favorite books were the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov,[118] and his favorite book as a child was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which he later shared with his children.[119]

Williams was an enthusiast of both pen-and-paper role-playing games and video games.[120][121][122] His daughter Zelda was named after the title character from The Legend of Zelda, a family favorite video game series, and he sometimes performed at consumer entertainment trade shows.[123][124][125]

Williams was a big fan of anime and collecting figures. His daughter described him as a "figurine hoarder"; one of his figures was the character Deunan Knute from the anime film Appleseed, which he was a fan of. He also liked the film Innocence Ghost in the Shell, and received a DVD copy of Paranoia Agent signed by its director, Satoshi Kon.[126][127][128]

He also became a devoted cycling enthusiast, having taken up the sport partly as a substitute for drugs. Eventually, he accumulated a large bicycle collection and became a fan of professional road cycling, often traveling to racing events such as the Tour de France.[129][130] In 2016, his children donated 87 of his bicycles in support of the Challenged Athletes Foundation and Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.[131]

### Religion[edit | edit source]

Williams was raised and sometimes identified himself as an Episcopalian. In a comedy routine, he described his denomination as "I have that idea of Chicago protestant, Episcopal—Catholic light: half the religion, half the guilt."[132] He also described himself as an "honorary Jew",[133] and on Israel's 60th Independence Day in 2008, he appeared in Times Square, along with several other celebrities, to wish Israel a happy birthday.[134]

### Philanthropy[edit | edit source]

In 1986, Williams teamed up with Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal to found Comic Relief USA. This annual HBO television benefit devoted to the homeless raised $80 million as of  2014[update].[135] Bob Zmuda, creator of Comic Relief, explains that Williams felt blessed because he came from a wealthy home, but wanted to do something to help those less fortunate.[136] Williams made benefit appearances to support literacy and women's rights, along with appearing at benefits for veterans. He was a regular on the USO circuit, where he traveled to 13 countries and performed to approximately 90,000 troops.[137] After his death, the USO thanked him "for all he did for the men and women of our armed forces".[138]

Williams and his second wife, Marsha, founded a philanthropic organization called the Windfall Foundation to raise money for many charities. In December 1999, he sang in French on the BBC-inspired music video of international celebrities doing a cover of The Rolling Stones single "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" for the charity Children's Promise.[139]

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Williams at Naval Support Activity Bahrain on December 19, 2003

In response to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, he donated all proceeds of his Weapons of Self Destruction Christchurch performance to help rebuild the New Zealand city. Half the proceeds were donated to the Red Cross and half to the mayoral building fund.[140] Williams performed with the USO for U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.[141]

For several years, Williams supported St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.[142]

### Health[edit | edit source]

#### Addiction[edit | edit source]

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Williams had an addiction to cocaine.[57][143] He was a casual friend of John Belushi,[47] and the Saturday Night Live comic's death in 1982 from a drug overdose, which happened the morning after the two had partied together, along with the birth of his own son Zak, prompted him to quit drugs and alcohol: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The grand jury helped, too."[57] Williams later said of Belushi's death, "It sobered the shit out of me."[144] Williams turned to exercise and cycling to help alleviate his depression shortly after Belushi's death; according to bicycle shop owner Tony Tom, Williams said, "cycling saved my life."[145][146][147]

In 2003, Williams started drinking again while working on the film The Big White in Alaska.[143] In 2006, he checked himself in to a substance-abuse rehabilitation center in Newberg, Oregon, saying he was an alcoholic.[148][149] Years afterward, Williams acknowledged his failure to maintain sobriety, but said he never returned to using cocaine, declaring in a 2010 interview:

> No. Cocaine—paranoid and impotent, what fun. There was no bit of me thinking, ooh, let's go back to that. Useless conversations until midnight, waking up at dawn feeling like a vampire on a day pass. No.[143]

In mid-2014, Williams admitted himself into the Hazelden Foundation Addiction Treatment Center in Center City, Minnesota, for treatment for alcoholism.[150]

#### Later health problems[edit | edit source]

In March 2009, he was hospitalized due to heart problems. He postponed his one-man tour for surgery to replace his aortic valve,[151] repair his mitral valve, and correct his irregular heartbeat.[152] The surgery was completed on March 13, 2009, at the Cleveland Clinic.[153]

His publicist, Mara Buxbaum, commented that he had severe depression before his death.[154] His wife, Susan Schneider, said that in the period before his death, Williams had been sober, but was diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson's disease, which was information he was "not yet ready to share publicly".[155][156] An autopsy revealed that Williams had diffuse Lewy bodies (which had been misdiagnosed as Parkinson's) and this may have contributed to his depression.[157][158][159]

In an essay published in the journal Neurology two years after his death, Schneider revealed that the pathology of Lewy body disease in Williams was described by several doctors as among the worst pathologies they had seen. She described the early symptoms of his disease as beginning in October 2013. Williams's initial condition included a sudden and prolonged spike in fear and anxiety, stress and insomnia, which worsened in severity to include memory loss, paranoia, and delusions. According to Schneider, "Robin was losing his mind and he was aware of it ... He kept saying, 'I just want to reboot my brain.'"[160]

## Death[edit | edit source]

Williams was found dead in his home in Paradise Cay, California, on August 11, 2014.[161] The final autopsy report, released in November 2014, concluded that Williams' death was a suicide resulting from "asphyxia due to hanging".[162] Neither alcohol nor illegal drugs were involved, and prescription drugs present in his body were at therapeutic levels. The report also noted that Williams had depression and anxiety.[163][164] An examination of his brain tissue suggested Williams had "diffuse Lewy body dementia".[158] Describing the disease as "the terrorist inside my husband's brain", his widow Susan Schneider Williams said that "however you look at it—the presence of Lewy bodies took his life", referring to his previous diagnosis of Parkinson's.[160] She also revealed that in the year before his death, Williams had experienced a sudden and prolonged spike in fear and anxiety, depression, and insomnia, which worsened in severity to include memory loss, paranoia, and delusions. She noted "how we as a culture don't have the vocabulary to discuss brain disease in the way we do about depression. Depression is a symptom of LBD and it's not about psychology – it's rooted in neurology. His brain was falling apart."[165] Medical experts struggled to determine a cause, and eventually diagnosed him with Parkinson's disease.[160]

The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) clarified the distinction between the term used in the autopsy report, "diffuse Lewy body dementia"—which is more commonly called "diffuse Lewy body disease" and refers to the underlying disease process—and the umbrella term "Lewy body dementia"—which encompasses both Parkinson's disease dementia (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).[166] According to LBDA spokesperson Dennis Dickson, "The report confirms he experienced depression, anxiety, and paranoia, which may occur in either Parkinson's disease or dementia with Lewy bodies. ... In early PD, Lewy bodies are generally limited in distribution, but in DLB, the Lewy bodies are spread widely throughout the brain, as was the case with Robin Williams."[166] Ian G. McKeith, professor and researcher of Lewy body dementias, commented that Williams's symptoms and autopsy findings were explained by DLB.[167]

Williams' body was cremated at Monte's Chapel of the Hills in San Anselmo, and his ashes were scattered over San Francisco Bay on August 21, 2014.[168][169]

### Aftermath and tributes[edit | edit source]

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A fan-made tribute to Williams at the San Francisco Pacific Heights home used for Mrs. Doubtfire (August 2014)

Williams' death instantly became global news. The entertainment world, friends, and fans responded to his death through social and other media outlets.[170] Schneider said: "I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken."[171] His daughter Zelda Williams responded to his death by saying the "world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence".[172]

President Barack Obama released a statement upon Williams's death:

> Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between ... He arrived in our lives as an alien—but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most—from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets.[173]

Williams was scheduled to be the "Blackmail" special guest for the final night of Monty Python's ten-date stage shows in London one month before his death—with one of his friends, Monty Python's Eric Idle—but cancelled, stating he was "suffering from severe depression" at the time.[174] When the show was released on video, it was dedicated to Williams.[174]

At the United Nations headquarters on August 12, 2014, Robin Williams was celebrated during the opening of the International Youth Day. In the presence of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Assistant Secretary General Thomas Gass paid tribute to Williams by standing on the pulpit of the ECOSOC Chamber and quoting Keating's lines from the 1989 film Dead Poets Society: "Dare to look at things in a different way!"[175] Several fans similarly paid tribute to Williams on social media with photo and video reenactments of Dead Poets Society's "O Captain! My Captain!" scene.[176]

Shortly after his death, Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior all aired the original Aladdin commercial-free over the course of a week, with a dedicated drawing of the genie at the end of each airing before the credits.[177] In honor of his theater work, the lights of Broadway were darkened for the evening of August 14, 2014.[178] That night, the cast of the Aladdin musical honored Williams by having the audience join them in a sing-along of "Friend Like Me", an Oscar-nominated song originally sung by Williams in the 1992 film Aladdin.[179]

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The Los Angeles Theatre honors Williams on their marquee

Fans of Williams created makeshift memorials at his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[180] and at locations from his television and film career, such as the bench in Boston's Public Garden featured in Good Will Hunting;[181] the Pacific Heights, San Francisco, home used in Mrs. Doubtfire;[182] the sign for Parrish Shoes in Keene, New Hampshire, where parts of Jumanji were filmed;[183] and the Boulder, Colorado, home used for Mork & Mindy.[184]

During the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards on August 25, 2014, close friend and fellow comedian Billy Crystal presented a tribute to Williams, referring to him as "the brightest star in our comedy galaxy". Afterwards, some of Williams's best comedy moments were shown, including his first ever The Tonight Show appearance, indicating his great life in making people laugh.[185][186] Talk show hosts including David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to Williams on their respective shows.[187]

On September 9, 2014, PBS aired a one-hour special devoted to his career,[188] and on September 27, 2014, dozens of leading stars and celebrities held a tribute in San Francisco to celebrate his life and career.[189]

British heavy metal band Iron Maiden dedicated a song to Williams, titled "Tears of a Clown", on their 2015 album The Book of Souls. The song looks into his depression and suicide and how he attempted to hide his condition from the public.[190]

A tunnel, painted with a rainbow, on Highway 101 north of the Golden Gate Bridge was officially named the "Robin Williams Tunnel" on February 29, 2016.[191]

In 2017, Sharon Meadow in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the home of the annual Comedy Day, was renamed Robin Williams Meadow.[192]

In 2018, HBO produced a documentary about his life and career. Directed by Marina Zenovich, the film, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, was also screened at the Sundance Film Festival.[193] That same year, a mural of Robin Williams was created on Market Street, in San Francisco.[194][195] Work on a book biography was begun by New York Times writer David Itzkoff in 2014,[196] and was published in 2018, entitled simply Robin.[197]

In August 2020, Vertical Entertainment released a trailer for a new documentary, Robin's Wish, exploring Williams's battle with Lewy body dementia. The film, directed by Tylor Norwood, was digitally released on September 1, 2020.[198]

In a Netflix special released in May 2022, The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up inducted Williams into the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York.[199]

## Influences[edit | edit source]

Williams credited comedians including Jonathan Winters, Peter Sellers, Nichols and May, and Lenny Bruce as influences, admiring their ability to attract a more intellectual audience with a higher level of wit.[8]: 43 He also liked Jay Leno for his quickness in ad-libbing comedy routines, and Sid Caesar, whose acts he felt were "precious".[47]

Jonathan Winters was his "idol" early in life; Williams, aged eight, first saw him on television and paid him homage in interviews throughout his career.[8]: 259 [200] Williams was inspired by Winters' ingenuity, realizing, he said, "that anything is possible, that anything is funny ... He gave me the idea that it can be free-form, that you can go in and out of things pretty easily."[8]: 260

During an interview in London in 2002, Williams told Michael Parkinson that Peter Sellers was an important influence, especially his multi-character roles in Dr. Strangelove, stating, "It doesn't get better than that." British comedy actors Dudley Moore and Peter Cook were also among his influences, he told Parkinson.[201]

Williams was also influenced by Richard Pryor's fearless ability to talk about his personal life on stage, with subjects including his use of drugs and alcohol, and Williams added those kinds of topics during his own performances. By bringing up such personal matters as a form of comedy, he told Parkinson, it was "cheaper than therapy" and gave him a way to release his pent-up energy and emotions.[8]: 121

## Legacy[edit | edit source]

> You can't look at any modern comic and say, "That's the descendant of Robin Williams", because it's not possible to be a Robin Williams rip-off. ... He raised the bar for what it's possible to do, and made an enormous amount of us want to be comedians.

Judd Apatow[202]

Although Williams was first recognized as a stand-up comedian and television star, he later became known for acting in film roles of substance and serious drama. He was considered a "national treasure" by many in the entertainment industry and by the public.[47][203]

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Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

His on-stage energy and improvisational skill became a model for a new generation of stand-up comedians. Many comedians valued the way he worked highly personal issues into his comedy routines, especially his honesty about drug and alcohol addiction, along with depression.[204] According to media scholar Derek A. Burrill, because of the openness with which Williams spoke about his own life, "probably the most important contribution he made to pop culture, across so many different media, was as Robin Williams the person."[204]

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Williams's prints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Williams created a signature free-form comedy persona so widely and uniquely identified that new comedians like Jim Carrey impersonated him,[205] paving the way for the growing comedy scene which developed in San Francisco. Young comedians felt more liberated on stage by seeing his spontaneously diverse range: "one moment acting as a bright, mischievous child, then as a wise philosopher or alien from outer space".[206] According to Judd Apatow, the eclectic performer's rapid-fire improvisational style was an inspiration as well as an influence for other comedians, but his talent was so extremely unusual no one else could possibly attempt to copy it.[202]

His film performances often influenced other actors, both in and out of the film industry. Director Chris Columbus, who directed Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, says watching him work "was a magical and special privilege. His performances were unlike anything any of us had ever seen, they came from some spiritual and otherworldly place."[207] Looking over most of his filmography, Alyssa Rosenberg at The Washington Post was "struck by the breadth" and radical diversity of most of his roles, writing that "Williams helped us grow up."[80]

## Performances and awards[edit | edit source]

Main articles: List of Robin Williams performances and List of awards and nominations received by Robin Williams

Throughout the course of his career Williams won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Good Will Hunting (1997).[208] He also won six Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his roles in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), The Fisher King (1991) and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), along with the Special Golden Globe Award for Vocal Work in a Motion Picture[93] for his role Genie in Aladdin (1992), and the Cecil B. DeMille award in 2005.[209] He also received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Grammy Awards.[210][211]

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## Further reading[edit | edit source]

* "The Life and Death of Robin Williams". ABC News. 2020. August 12, 2014. Archived from the original on August 13, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
* Travers, Peter. "Peter Travers on 9 of His Favorite Robin Williams Performances – Rolling Stone's film critic weighs in on the late actor and comedian's best work". Rolling Stone.
* Weisman, Aly (August 13, 2014). "Robin Williams set up a 3-part trust fund for his kids amid money troubles before death". Business Insider.

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Awards for Robin Williams

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

1936–1950|

* Walter Brennan (1936)
* Joseph Schildkraut (1937)
* Walter Brennan (1938)
* Thomas Mitchell (1939)
* Walter Brennan (1940)
* Donald Crisp (1941)
* Van Heflin (1942)
* Charles Coburn (1943)
* Barry Fitzgerald (1944)
* James Dunn (1945)
* Harold Russell (1946)
* Edmund Gwenn (1947)
* Walter Huston (1948)
* Dean Jagger (1949)
* George Sanders (1950)

1951–1975|

* Karl Malden (1951)
* Anthony Quinn (1952)
* Frank Sinatra (1953)
* Edmond O'Brien (1954)
* Jack Lemmon (1955)
* Anthony Quinn (1956)
* Red Buttons (1957)
* Burl Ives (1958)
* Hugh Griffith (1959)
* Peter Ustinov (1960)
* George Chakiris (1961)
* Ed Begley (1962)
* Melvyn Douglas (1963)
* Peter Ustinov (1964)
* Martin Balsam (1965)
* Walter Matthau (1966)
* George Kennedy (1967)
* Jack Albertson (1968)
* Gig Young (1969)
* John Mills (1970)
* Ben Johnson (1971)
* Joel Grey (1972)
* John Houseman (1973)
* Robert De Niro (1974)
* George Burns (1975)

1976–2000|

* Jason Robards (1976)
* Jason Robards (1977)
* Christopher Walken (1978)
* Melvyn Douglas (1979)
* Timothy Hutton (1980)
* John Gielgud (1981)
* Louis Gossett Jr. (1982)
* Jack Nicholson (1983)
* Haing S. Ngor (1984)
* Don Ameche (1985)
* Michael Caine (1986)
* Sean Connery (1987)
* Kevin Kline (1988)
* Denzel Washington (1989)
* Joe Pesci (1990)
* Jack Palance (1991)
* Gene Hackman (1992)
* Tommy Lee Jones (1993)
* Martin Landau (1994)
* Kevin Spacey (1995)
* Cuba Gooding Jr. (1996)
* Robin Williams (1997)
* James Coburn (1998)
* Michael Caine (1999)
* Benicio del Toro (2000)

2001–present|

* Jim Broadbent (2001)
* Chris Cooper (2002)
* Tim Robbins (2003)
* Morgan Freeman (2004)
* George Clooney (2005)
* Alan Arkin (2006)
* Javier Bardem (2007)
* Heath Ledger (2008)
* Christoph Waltz (2009)
* Christian Bale (2010)
* Christopher Plummer (2011)
* Christoph Waltz (2012)
* Jared Leto (2013)
* J. K. Simmons (2014)
* Mark Rylance (2015)
* Mahershala Ali (2016)
* Sam Rockwell (2017)
* Mahershala Ali (2018)
* Brad Pitt (2019)
* Daniel Kaluuya (2020)
* Troy Kotsur (2021)

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Cecil B. DeMille Award

1950s|

* Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
* Walt Disney (1953)
* Darryl F. Zanuck (1954)
* Jean Hersholt (1955)
* Jack L. Warner (1956)
* Mervyn LeRoy (1957)
* Buddy Adler (1958)
* Maurice Chevalier (1959)

1960s|

* Bing Crosby (1960)
* Fred Astaire (1961)
* Judy Garland (1962)
* Bob Hope (1963)
* Joseph E. Levine (1964)
* James Stewart (1965)
* John Wayne (1966)
* Charlton Heston (1967)
* Kirk Douglas (1968)
* Gregory Peck (1969)

1970s|

* Joan Crawford (1970)
* Frank Sinatra (1971)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1972)
* Samuel Goldwyn (1973)
* Bette Davis (1974)
* Hal B. Wallis (1975)
* Walter Mirisch (1977)
* Red Skelton (1978)
* Lucille Ball (1979)

1980s|

* Henry Fonda (1980)
* Gene Kelly (1981)
* Sidney Poitier (1982)
* Laurence Olivier (1983)
* Paul Newman (1984)
* Elizabeth Taylor (1985)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1986)
* Anthony Quinn (1987)
* Clint Eastwood (1988)
* Doris Day (1989)

1990s|

* Audrey Hepburn (1990)
* Jack Lemmon (1991)
* Robert Mitchum (1992)
* Lauren Bacall (1993)
* Robert Redford (1994)
* Sophia Loren (1995)
* Sean Connery (1996)
* Dustin Hoffman (1997)
* Shirley MacLaine (1998)
* Jack Nicholson (1999)

2000s|

* Barbra Streisand (2000)
* Al Pacino (2001)
* Harrison Ford (2002)
* Gene Hackman (2003)
* Michael Douglas (2004)
* Robin Williams (2005)
* Anthony Hopkins (2006)
* Warren Beatty (2007)
* Steven Spielberg (2009)

2010s|

* Martin Scorsese (2010)
* Robert De Niro (2011)
* Morgan Freeman (2012)
* Jodie Foster (2013)
* Woody Allen (2014)
* George Clooney (2015)
* Denzel Washington (2016)
* Meryl Streep (2017)
* Oprah Winfrey (2018)
* Jeff Bridges (2019)

2020s|

* Tom Hanks (2020)
* Jane Fonda (2021)
* No Award (2022)

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Disney Legends Awards (2000s)

2000|

* Grace Bailey*
* Harriet Burns
* Joyce Carlson
* Ron Dominguez
* Cliff Edwards*
* Becky Fallberg
* Dick Jones
* Dodie Roberts
* Retta Scott*
* Ruthie Tompson

2001|

* Howard Ashman*
* Bob Broughton
* George Bruns*
* Frank Churchill*
* Leigh Harline*
* Fred Joerger
* Alan Menken
* Martin Sklar
* Ned Washington*
* Tyrus Wong

2002|

* Ken Annakin
* Hugh Attwooll
* Maurice Chevalier*
* Phil Collins
* Sir John Mills
* Robert Newton*
* Sir Tim Rice
* Robert Stevenson*
* Richard Todd
* David Tomlinson*

2003|

* Neil Beckett*
* Salvador Camarata
* Edna Francis Disney*
* Lillian Disney*
* Orlando Ferrante
* Richard Fleischer
* Floyd Gottfredson*
* Buddy Hackett*
* Harrison "Buzz" Price
* Al Taliaferro*
* Ilene Woods

2004|

* Bill Anderson*
* Tim Conway
* Rolly Crump
* Alice Davis
* Karen Dotrice
* Matthew Garber*
* Leonard H. Goldenson*
* Bob Gurr
* Ralph Kent
* Irwin Kostal*
* Mel Shaw

2005|

* Chuck Abbott*
* Milt Albright
* Hideo Amemiya*
* Hideo Aramaki
* Chuck Boyajian*
* Charles Boyer
* Randy Bright*
* James Cora
* Robert Jani*
* Mary Jones
* Art Linkletter
* Mary Anne Mang
* Steve Martin
* Tom Nabbe
* Jack Olsen*
* Cicely Rigdon
* William Sullivan
* Jack Wagner*
* Vesey Walker*

2006|

* Tim Considine
* Kevin Corcoran
* Al Dempster*
* Don Edgren
* Paul Frees*
* Peter Jennings*
* Sir Elton John
* Jimmy Johnson*
* Tommy Kirk
* Joe Ranft*
* David Stollery
* Ginny Tyler

2007|

* Roone Arledge*
* Art Babbitt*
* Carl Bongirno
* Marge Champion
* Dick Huemer*
* Ron Logan
* Lucille Martin
* Tom Murphy
* Randy Newman
* Floyd Norman
* Bob Schiffer*
* Dave Smith

2008|

* Wayne Allwine
* Bob Booth
* Neil Gallagher*
* Frank Gifford
* Burny Mattinson
* Walter Peregoy
* Dorothea Redmond
* Russi Taylor
* Toshio Kagami
* Ian McGuinness
* Barbara Walters
* Oliver Wallace*

2009|

* Tony Anselmo
* Harry Archinal
* Beatrice Arthur*
* Bill Farmer
* Estelle Getty*
* Don Iwerks
* Rue McClanahan
* Leota Toombs Thomas*
* Betty White
* Robin Williams

* Awarded posthumously

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program

1959–1975|

* Perry Como / Dinah Shore (1959)
* Harry Belafonte (1960)
* Fred Astaire (1961)
* Carol Burnett (1962)
* Carol Burnett (1963)
* Danny Kaye (1964)
* No Award (1965)
* No Award (1966)
* Art Carney (1967)
* Art Carney / Pat Paulsen (1968)
* Arte Johnson / Harvey Korman (1969)
* No Award (1970)
* Harvey Korman (1971)
* Harvey Korman (1972)
* Tim Conway (1973)
* Harvey Korman / Brenda Vaccaro (1974)
* Jack Albertson / Cloris Leachman (1975)

1976–1990|

* Chevy Chase / Vicki Lawrence (1976)
* Tim Conway / Rita Moreno (1977)
* Tim Conway / Gilda Radner (1978)
* No Award (1979)
* No Award (1980)
* Sarah Vaughan (1981)
* Nell Carter / André De Shields (1982)
* Leontyne Price (1983)
* Cloris Leachman (1984)
* George Hearn (1985)
* Whitney Houston (1986)
* Robin Williams (1987)
* Robin Williams (1988)
* Linda Ronstadt (1989)
* Tracey Ullman (1990)

1991–2008|

* Billy Crystal (1991)
* Bette Midler (1992)
* Dana Carvey (1993)
* Tracey Ullman (1994)
* Barbra Streisand (1995)
* Tony Bennett (1996)
* Bette Midler (1997)
* Billy Crystal (1998)
* John Leguizamo (1999)
* Eddie Izzard (2000)
* Barbra Streisand (2001)
* Sting (2002)
* Wayne Brady (2003)
* Elaine Stritch (2004)
* Hugh Jackman (2005)
* Barry Manilow (2006)
* Tony Bennett (2007)
* Don Rickles (2008)

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

1950–1975|

* Fred Astaire (1950)
* Danny Kaye (1951)
* Donald O'Connor (1952)
* David Niven (1953)
* James Mason (1954)
* Tom Ewell (1955)
* Mario Moreno (1956)
* Frank Sinatra (1957)
* Danny Kaye (1958)
* Jack Lemmon (1959)
* Jack Lemmon (1960)
* Glenn Ford (1961)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1962)
* Alberto Sordi (1963)
* Rex Harrison (1964)
* Lee Marvin (1965)
* Alan Arkin (1966)
* Richard Harris (1967)
* Ron Moody (1968)
* Peter O'Toole (1969)
* Albert Finney (1970)
* Chaim Topol (1971)
* Jack Lemmon (1972)
* George Segal (1973)
* Art Carney (1974)
* George Burns / Walter Matthau (1975)

1976–2000|

* Kris Kristofferson (1976)
* Richard Dreyfuss (1977)
* Warren Beatty (1978)
* Peter Sellers (1979)
* Ray Sharkey (1980)
* Dudley Moore (1981)
* Dustin Hoffman (1982)
* Michael Caine (1983)
* Dudley Moore (1984)
* Jack Nicholson (1985)
* Paul Hogan (1986)
* Robin Williams (1987)
* Tom Hanks (1988)
* Morgan Freeman (1989)
* Gérard Depardieu (1990)
* Robin Williams (1991)
* Tim Robbins (1992)
* Robin Williams (1993)
* Hugh Grant (1994)
* John Travolta (1995)
* Tom Cruise (1996)
* Jack Nicholson (1997)
* Michael Caine (1998)
* Jim Carrey (1999)
* George Clooney (2000)

2001–present|

* Gene Hackman (2001)
* Richard Gere (2002)
* Bill Murray (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Joaquin Phoenix (2005)
* Sacha Baron Cohen (2006)
* Johnny Depp (2007)
* Colin Farrell (2008)
* Robert Downey Jr. (2009)
* Paul Giamatti (2010)
* Jean Dujardin (2011)
* Hugh Jackman (2012)
* Leonardo DiCaprio (2013)
* Michael Keaton (2014)
* Matt Damon (2015)
* Ryan Gosling (2016)
* James Franco (2017)
* Christian Bale (2018)
* Taron Egerton (2019)
* Sacha Baron Cohen (2020)
* Andrew Garfield (2021)

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy

1961–1980|

* Bob Newhart (1961)
* Mickey Rooney (1963)
* Dean Martin (1966)
* Dan Dailey (1969)
* Flip Wilson (1970)
* Carroll O'Connor (1971)
* Redd Foxx (1972)
* Jack Klugman (1973)
* Alan Alda (1974)
* Alan Alda (1975)
* Henry Winkler (1976)
* Ron Howard / Henry Winkler (1977)
* Robin Williams (1978)
* Alan Alda (1979)
* Alan Alda (1980)

1981–2000|

* Alan Alda (1981)
* Alan Alda (1982)
* John Ritter (1983)
* Bill Cosby (1984)
* Bill Cosby (1985)
* Bruce Willis (1986)
* Dabney Coleman (1987)
* Michael J. Fox / Judd Hirsch / Richard Mulligan (1988)
* Ted Danson (1989)
* Ted Danson (1990)
* Burt Reynolds (1991)
* John Goodman (1992)
* Jerry Seinfeld (1993)
* Tim Allen (1994)
* Kelsey Grammer (1995)
* John Lithgow (1996)
* Michael J. Fox (1997)
* Michael J. Fox (1998)
* Michael J. Fox (1999)
* Kelsey Grammer (2000)

2001–2020|

* Charlie Sheen (2001)
* Tony Shalhoub (2002)
* Ricky Gervais (2003)
* Jason Bateman (2004)
* Steve Carell (2005)
* Alec Baldwin (2006)
* David Duchovny (2007)
* Alec Baldwin (2008)
* Alec Baldwin (2009)
* Jim Parsons (2010)
* Matt LeBlanc (2011)
* Don Cheadle (2012)
* Andy Samberg (2013)
* Jeffrey Tambor (2014)
* Gael García Bernal (2015)
* Donald Glover (2016)
* Aziz Ansari (2017)
* Michael Douglas (2018)
* Ramy Youssef (2019)
* Jason Sudeikis (2020)

2021–present|

* Jason Sudeikis (2021)

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Grammy Award for Best Children's Album

1959−1975|

* "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1959)
* Peter and the Wolf – Peter Ustinov (1960)
* Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1961)
* Prokofiev: Peter and The Wolf – Leonard Bernstein (1962)
* Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals/Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra – Leonard Bernstein (1963)
* Bernstein Conducts for Young People – Leonard Bernstein (1964)
* Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack – Dick Van Dyke & Julie Andrews (1965)
* Dr. Seuss Presents: "Fox in Sox" and "Green Eggs and Ham" – Marvin Miller (1966)
* Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran the Zoo" and "Sleep Book" – Marvin Miller (1967)
* Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas – Boris Karloff (1968)
* No Award (1969)
* Peter, Paul and Mommy – Peter, Paul and Mary (1970)
* Sesame Street – Joan Cooney & Thomas Z. Shepard (producers) (1971)
* Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs – Bill Cosby (1972)
* The Electric Company – Bill Cosby & Rita Moreno (1973)
* Sesame Street Live! – Joe Raposo (producer) (1974)
* Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too – Paul Winchell, Sebastian Cabot & Sterling Holloway (1975)

1976−1993|

* The Little Prince – Richard Burton (1976)
* Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals" – Hermione Gingold & Karl Böhm (1977)
* Aren't You Glad You're You – Christopher Cerf & Jim Timmens (producers) (1978)
* The Muppet Show – Jim Henson (producer) (1979)
* The Muppet Movie – Jim Henson & Paul Williams (producers) (1980)
* In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record – David Levine & Lucy Simon (producers) (1981)
* Sesame Country – Jim Henson & Dennis Scott (producers) (1982)
* In Harmony 2 – David Levine & Lucy Simon (producers) (1983)
* E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones (producer) (1984)
* Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein and Ron Haffkine (producer) (1985)
* Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – Jim Henson & Steve Buckingham (producers) (1986)
* The Alphabet – Jim Henson, Geri Van Rees & Kathryn King (producers) (1987)
* The Elephant's Child – Bobby McFerrin & Jack Nicholson (1988)
* Pecos Bill – Robin Williams and Ry Cooder (1989)
* The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Volume 1 – Tanya Goodman (1990)
* The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1991)
* A Cappella Kids – Clifford "Barney" Robertson (producer) (1992)
* Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1993)

2012−present|

* All About Bullies... Big and Small – Gloria Domina, James Cravero, Kevin Mackie, Patrick Robinson & Steve Pullara (producers) (2012)
* Can You Canoe? – The Okee Dokee Brothers (2013)
* Throw a Penny in the Wishing Well – Jennifer Gasoi (2014)
* I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World – Neela Vaswani (2015)
* Home – Tim Kubart (2016)
* Infinity Plus One – Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (2017)
* Feel What U Feel – Lisa Loeb (2018)
* All the Sounds – Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats (2019)
* Ageless Songs for the Child Archetype – Jon Samson (2020)
* All the Ladies – Joanie Leeds (2021)
* A Colorful World − Falu (2022)

From 1994–2011, the category was split into Best Musical Album for Children and Best Spoken Word Album for Children.

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Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

1959−1980|

* "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1959)
* The Battle of Kookamonga – Homer and Jethro / Inside Shelley Berman – Shelley Berman (1960)
* Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris – Jo Stafford & Paul Weston / The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! – Bob Newhart (1961)
* An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May – Elaine May & Mike Nichols (1962)
* The First Family – Vaughn Meader (1963)
* "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" – Allan Sherman (1964)
* I Started Out as a Child – Bill Cosby (1965)
* Why Is There Air? – Bill Cosby (1966)
* Wonderfulness – Bill Cosby (1967)
* Revenge – Bill Cosby (1968)
* To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With – Bill Cosby (1969)
* Sports – Bill Cosby (1970)
* The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress – Flip Wilson (1971)
* This Is A Recording – Lily Tomlin (1972)
* FM & AM – George Carlin (1973)
* Los Cochinos – Cheech & Chong (1974)
* That Nigger's Crazy – Richard Pryor (1975)
* ...Is It Something I Said? – Richard Pryor (1976)
* Bicentennial Nigger – Richard Pryor (1977)
* Let's Get Small – Steve Martin (1978)
* A Wild and Crazy Guy – Steve Martin (1979)
* Reality...What a Concept – Robin Williams (1980)

1981−2000|

* No Respect – Rodney Dangerfield (1981)
* Rev. Du Rite – Richard Pryor (1982)
* Live on the Sunset Strip – Richard Pryor (1983)
* Eddie Murphy: Comedian – Eddie Murphy (1984)
* "Eat It" – "Weird Al" Yankovic (1985)
* Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording) – Whoopi Goldberg (1986)
* Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand – Bill Cosby (1987)
* A Night at the Met – Robin Williams (1988)
* Good Morning, Vietnam – Robin Williams (1989)
* P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults – Peter Schickele (1990)
* P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities – Peter Schickele (1991)
* P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio – Peter Schickele (1992)
* P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion – Peter Schickele (1993)
* Jammin' in New York – George Carlin (1994)
* Live from Hell – Sam Kinison (1995)
* Crank(y) Calls – Jonathan Winters (1996)
* Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations – Al Franken (1997)
* Roll with the New – Chris Rock (1998)
* The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 – Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner (1999)
* Bigger & Blacker – Chris Rock (2000)

2001−2020|

* Brain Droppings – George Carlin (2001)
* Napalm & Silly Putty – George Carlin (2002)
* Robin Williams: Live on Broadway – Robin Williams (2003)
* Poodle Hat – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2004)
* The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction – Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show (2005)
* Never Scared – Chris Rock (2006)
* The Carnegie Hall Performance – Lewis Black (2007)
* The Distant Future – Flight of the Conchords (2008)
* It's Bad for Ya – George Carlin (2009)
* A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! – Stephen Colbert (2010)
* Stark Raving Black – Lewis Black (2011)
* Hilarious – Louis C.K. (2012)
* Blow Your Pants Off – Jimmy Fallon (2013)
* Calm Down Gurrl – Kathy Griffin (2014)
* Mandatory Fun – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2015)
* Live at Madison Square Garden – Louis C.K. (2016)
* Talking for Clapping – Patton Oswalt (2017)
* The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas – Dave Chappelle (2018)
* Equanimity & The Bird Revelation – Dave Chappelle (2019)
* Sticks and Stones – Dave Chappelle (2020)

2021−present|

* Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish (2021)
* Sincerely Louis CK – Louis C.K. (2022)

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Hasty Pudding Men of the Year

* Bob Hope (1967)
* Paul Newman (1968)
* Bill Cosby (1969)
* Robert Redford (1970)
* James Stewart (1971)
* Dustin Hoffman (1972)
* Jack Lemmon (1973)
* Peter Falk (1974)
* Warren Beatty (1975)
* Robert Blake (1976)
* Johnny Carson (1977)
* Richard Dreyfuss (1978)
* Robert De Niro (1979)
* Alan Alda (1980)
* John Travolta (1981)
* James Cagney (1982)
* Steven Spielberg (1983)
* Sean Connery (1984)
* Bill Murray (1985)
* Sylvester Stallone (1986)
* Mikhail Baryshnikov (1987)
* Steve Martin (1988)
* Robin Williams (1989)
* Kevin Costner (1990)
* Clint Eastwood (1991)
* Michael Douglas (1992)
* Chevy Chase (1993)
* Tom Cruise (1994)
* Tom Hanks (1995)
* Harrison Ford (1996)
* Mel Gibson (1997)
* Kevin Kline (1998)
* Samuel L. Jackson (1999)
* Billy Crystal (2000)
* Anthony Hopkins (2001)
* Bruce Willis (2002)
* Martin Scorsese (2003)
* Robert Downey Jr. (2004)
* Tim Robbins (2005)
* Richard Gere (2006)
* Ben Stiller (2007)
* Christopher Walken (2008)
* James Franco (2009)
* Justin Timberlake (2010)
* Jay Leno (2011)
* Jason Segel (2012)
* Kiefer Sutherland (2013)
* Neil Patrick Harris (2014)
* Chris Pratt (2015)
* Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2016)
* Ryan Reynolds (2017)
* Paul Rudd (2018)
* Milo Ventimiglia (2019)
* Ben Platt (2020)
* Jason Bateman (2022)

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MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Comedic Performance

* Billy Crystal (1992)
* Robin Williams (1993)
* Robin Williams (1994)
* Jim Carrey (1995)
* Jim Carrey (1996)
* Jim Carrey (1997)
* Jim Carrey (1998)
* Adam Sandler (1999)
* Adam Sandler (2000)
* Ben Stiller (2001)
* Reese Witherspoon (2002)
* Mike Myers (2003)
* Jack Black (2004)
* Dustin Hoffman (2005)
* Steve Carell (2006)
* Sacha Baron Cohen (2007)
* Johnny Depp (2008)
* Jim Carrey (2009)
* Zach Galifianakis (2010)
* Emma Stone (2011)
* Melissa McCarthy (2012)
* Jonah Hill (2014)
* Channing Tatum (2015)
* Ryan Reynolds (2016)
* Lil Rel Howery (2017)
* Tiffany Haddish (2018)
* Dan Levy (2019)
* No Award (2020)
* Leslie Jones (2021)
* Ryan Reynolds (2022)

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National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

1945–1975|

* Ray Milland (1945)
* Laurence Olivier (1946)
* Michael Redgrave (1947)
* Walter Huston (1948)
* Ralph Richardson (1949)
* Alec Guinness (1950)
* Richard Basehart (1951)
* Ralph Richardson (1952)
* James Mason (1953)
* Bing Crosby (1954)
* Ernest Borgnine (1955)
* Yul Brynner (1956)
* Alec Guinness (1957)
* Spencer Tracy (1958)
* Victor Sjöström (1959)
* Robert Mitchum (1960)
* Albert Finney (1961)
* Jason Robards (1962)
* Rex Harrison (1963)
* Anthony Quinn (1964)
* Lee Marvin (1965)
* Paul Scofield (1966)
* Peter Finch (1967)
* Cliff Robertson (1968)
* Peter O'Toole (1969)
* George C. Scott (1970)
* Gene Hackman (1971)
* Peter O'Toole (1972)
* Al Pacino / Robert Ryan (1973)
* Gene Hackman (1974)
* Jack Nicholson (1975)

1976–2000|

* David Carradine (1976)
* John Travolta (1977)
* Jon Voight / Laurence Olivier (1978)
* Peter Sellers (1979)
* Robert De Niro (1980)
* Henry Fonda (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Tom Conti (1983)
* Victor Banerjee (1984)
* William Hurt / Raul Julia (1985)
* Paul Newman (1986)
* Michael Douglas (1987)
* Gene Hackman (1988)
* Morgan Freeman (1989)
* Robert De Niro / Robin Williams (1990)
* Warren Beatty (1991)
* Jack Lemmon (1992)
* Anthony Hopkins (1993)
* Tom Hanks (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Tom Cruise (1996)
* Jack Nicholson (1997)
* Ian McKellen (1998)
* Russell Crowe (1999)
* Javier Bardem (2000)

2001–present|

* Billy Bob Thornton (2001)
* Campbell Scott (2002)
* Sean Penn (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* George Clooney (2007)
* Clint Eastwood (2008)
* George Clooney / Morgan Freeman (2009)
* Jesse Eisenberg (2010)
* George Clooney (2011)
* Bradley Cooper (2012)
* Bruce Dern (2013)
* Michael Keaton / Oscar Isaac (2014)
* Matt Damon (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Tom Hanks (2017)
* Viggo Mortensen (2018)
* Adam Sandler (2019)
* Riz Ahmed (2020)
* Will Smith (2021)

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Saturn Award for Best Actor

1970s|

* James Caan/Don Johnson (1974/75)
* David Bowie/Gregory Peck (1976)
* George Burns (1977)
* Warren Beatty (1978)
* George Hamilton (1979)

1980s|

* Mark Hamill (1980)
* Harrison Ford (1981)
* William Shatner (1982)
* Mark Hamill (1983)
* Jeff Bridges (1984)
* Michael J. Fox (1985)
* Jeff Goldblum (1986)
* Jack Nicholson (1987)
* Tom Hanks (1988)
* Jeff Daniels (1989/90)

1990s|

* Anthony Hopkins (1991)
* Gary Oldman (1992)
* Robert Downey Jr. (1993)
* Martin Landau (1994)
* George Clooney (1995)
* Eddie Murphy (1996)
* Pierce Brosnan (1997)
* James Woods (1998)
* Tim Allen (1999)

2000s|

* Hugh Jackman (2000)
* Tom Cruise (2001)
* Robin Williams (2002)
* Elijah Wood (2003)
* Tobey Maguire (2004)
* Christian Bale (2005)
* Brandon Routh (2006)
* Will Smith (2007)
* Robert Downey Jr. (2008)
* Sam Worthington (2009)

2010s|

* Jeff Bridges (2010)
* Michael Shannon (2011)
* Matthew McConaughey (2012)
* Robert Downey Jr. (2013)
* Chris Pratt (2014)
* Harrison Ford (2015)
* Ryan Reynolds (2016)
* Mark Hamill (2017)
* Robert Downey Jr. (2018/2019)
* John David Washington (2019/2020)
* Tom Cruise (2021/2022)

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Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor

1970s|

* Marty Feldman (1974/75)
* Jay Robinson (1976)
* Alec Guinness (1977)
* Burgess Meredith (1978)
* Arte Johnson (1979)

1980s|

* Scatman Crothers (1980)
* Burgess Meredith (1981)
* Richard Lynch (1982)
* John Lithgow (1983)
* Tracey Walter (1984)
* Roddy McDowall (1985)
* Bill Paxton (1986)
* Richard Dawson (1987)
* Robert Loggia (1988)
* Thomas F. Wilson (1989/90)

1990s|

* William Sadler (1991)
* Robin Williams (1992)
* Lance Henriksen (1993)
* Gary Sinise (1994)
* Brad Pitt (1995)
* Brent Spiner (1996)
* Vincent D'Onofrio (1997)
* Ian McKellen (1998)
* Michael Clarke Duncan (1999)

2000s|

* Willem Dafoe (2000)
* Ian McKellen (2001)
* Andy Serkis (2002)
* Sean Astin (2003)
* David Carradine (2004)
* Mickey Rourke (2005)
* Ben Affleck (2006)
* Javier Bardem (2007)
* Heath Ledger (2008)
* Stephen Lang (2009)

2010s|

* Andrew Garfield (2010)
* Andy Serkis (2011)
* Clark Gregg (2012)
* Ben Kingsley (2013)
* Richard Armitage (2014)
* Adam Driver (2015)
* John Goodman (2016)
* Patrick Stewart (2017)
* Josh Brolin (2018/2019)
* Bill Hader (2019/2020)
* Ke Huy Quan (2021/2022)

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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

* Martin Landau (1994)
* Ed Harris (1995)
* Cuba Gooding Jr. (1996)
* Robin Williams (1997)
* Robert Duvall (1998)
* Michael Caine (1999)
* Albert Finney (2000)
* Ian McKellen (2001)
* Christopher Walken (2002)
* Tim Robbins (2003)
* Morgan Freeman (2004)
* Paul Giamatti (2005)
* Eddie Murphy (2006)
* Javier Bardem (2007)
* Heath Ledger (2008)
* Christoph Waltz (2009)
* Christian Bale (2010)
* Christopher Plummer (2011)
* Tommy Lee Jones (2012)
* Jared Leto (2013)
* J. K. Simmons (2014)
* Idris Elba (2015)
* Mahershala Ali (2016)
* Sam Rockwell (2017)
* Mahershala Ali (2018)
* Brad Pitt (2019)
* Daniel Kaluuya (2020)
* Troy Kotsur (2021)

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