His co-stars Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn were also honoured for best supporting actor and supporting actress in a drama series.
See the guides for actor, supporting actor and supporting actress.
Here are the Academy Award nominations for best movie, actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress.
The Focus Features movie is one of those left-field triumph-of-the-spirit stories that now boasts the best actor and supporting actor.
There seemed no way, back in September, that it seemed 12 Years a Slave wouldn't dominate the Oscars, taking at least best picture and director, probably script, actor, supporting actor and supporting actress and everything else with it.
British veterans Rupert Everett (for his directorial debut The Happy Prince) and Richard E Grant featured among the winners, for British/Irish actor and supporting actor of the year respectively.
As expected, however, The Artist was nominated in all major categories: best picture and original screenplay, best director, leading actor and supporting actress.
"We hope that Mark will consider returning to the Globe stage as an actor and supporting us as we plan our future development".
Similarly, Ms. Swank, who won for "Boys Don't Cry" in 2000, dealt Annette Bening the only major loss endured by "American Beauty," which won best picture, director, screenplay, actor and supporting actor.
There is a suspicion of the sort of deliberate ticket-splitting that is common in the Oscars, where studios divide co-stars between the actor and supporting actor categories.
