Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor were received by Burgess Meredith for which two films?

Burgess Meredith (Oliver Burgess Meredith, November 1907 – September 1997) was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed theater, movies, and TV. For more than six decades, he worked an actor and was called "a virtuosic actor" ("one of the most accomplished actors of the 20th century").

Meredith won several Emmys for strong performances on TV, was the first male actor to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in "The Day of the Locust" (1975) and "Rocky" (1976).

Meredith established himself as an actor with critically acclaimed performances in "Winterset" (1936), "Of Mice and Men" (1939), and "The Story of G.I. Joe" (1945). Besides a stellar acting career, he also worked as a narrator of numerous films and documentaries from 1929–1997.

The film "The Day of the Locust" is a satirical historical drama directed by John Schlesinger, starring Meredith, Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, William Atherton, Richard Dysart, John Hillerman and Geraldine Page. It depicts the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of people whose dreams of success fail to come true.

"Rocky" is a sports drama directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Meredith. In the film, Rocky is a poor small-time club fighter who gets an unlikely shot at the world heavyweight championship.