Which film won Robin Williams the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

Good Will Hunting won Robin Williams the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Williams played Sean Maguire, a therapist who works with Will Hunting, a mathematically gifted but emotionally guarded young man. The 1997 film was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also starred as Will and his friend Chuckie Sullivan. Gus Van Sant directed it.

At the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, Williams won the supporting-actor Oscar. It was his first Academy Award after earlier nominations for Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, and The Fisher King. His performance balanced humor with grief and restraint, giving the character a personal connection to Will’s difficult past.

The award is often confused with Williams’s other celebrated film roles. He received nominations for several of them, but Good Will Hunting was the film that produced his Oscar victory.