Do you think that the men who won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award end up living longer than average lives? To answer that question I've gone through all the men who won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award and calculated out their average lifespan.
Only the men who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor who have passed away were used in the study. Also men like Walter Brennan who won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award multiple times were only counted once.
In total, there are 41 men who won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award and have passed away. Do you think the 41 men lived longer than average lifespans for a male due to their winning the Academy Award?
In theory, winning such a prestigious award should give a man a huge boost in life and help him to live a longer lifespan than average. Certainly winning an Academy Award virtually guarantees a man that he will be much richer than the average man and studies have shown that wealthier men live longer than average lives but is that true for Academy Award winners?
Does all that add up to a longer life for the Academy Award winner? The answer is surprisingly no.
Do Best Supporting Actor Academy Award Winners Live Longer than Average Lives?
- Average lifespan of a man in the United States is 76.9 years
- Average lifespan of a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner is 75.83 years
The 41 men in the study who won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award and have passed away lived to an average age of 75.83 years vs 76.9 years average life expectancy of a man in the United States today. That's a little over one year less than the average man for the Academy Award winners.
A few notes. Life expectancy for a man in the United States has risen over the years and many of the Best Supporting Actors in the study died when life spans for men were less. But survivor-ship bias is in full effect here as all the men who won the Best Supporting Actor award survived well into adulthood while some males in the overall life expectancy of 76.9 years did not. Some male babies and boys do not reach adulthood while all the Academy Award winners did.
For the men in the study I rounded off their ages. If a man was 80 years old and 180 days I counted him as 80 years old. If a man was 80 years old and 190 days I counted him as 81 years old.
The oldest man who won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award and passed away is 100 years for George Burns. The youngest age a man who won the award passed away at is 29 years for Heath Ledger.
Technically, Heath Ledger did pass away before he won the Academy Award. If we take him out of the study the average age rises to 77, which is basically equal to the average age for a man in the United States today.
Men who won the Best Supporting Actor award do live longer than the men who win the Best Actor award. You can see by how much at Do Men Who Win Best Actor Academy Award Live Longer than Average Lives?
The results of the study are pretty clear. Winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor does not increase the average lifespan of the man who wins the Oscar.
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