Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees. Originally, the trophy for this award was a plaque.
1930s1936 Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse* Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy* Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey* Bonita Granville - These Three* Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth From 1943 onward, winners received the familiar gold "Oscar" statuettes like everybody else. - 1943 Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- * Gladys Cooper - The Song of Bernadette
- * Paulette Goddard - So Proudly We Hail
- * Anne Revere - The Song of Bernadette
- * Lucile Watson - Watch on the Rhine
- 1944 Ethel Barrymore - None But the Lonely Heart
- * Jennifer Jones - Since You Went Away
- * Angela Lansbury - Gaslight
- * Aline MacMahon - Dragon Seed
- * Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Parkington
- 1945 Anne Revere - National Velvet
- * Eve Arden - Mildred Pierce
- * Ann Blyth - Mildred Pierce
- * Angela Lansbury - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- * Joan Lorring - The Corn Is Green
- 1946 Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge
- * Ethel Barrymore - The Spiral Staircase
- * Lillian Gish - Duel in the Sun
- * Flora Robson - Saratoga Trunk
- * Gale Sondergaard - Anna and the King of Siam
- 1947 Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
- * Ethel Barrymore - The Paradine Case
- * Gloria Grahame - Crossfire
- * Marjorie Main - The Egg and I
- * Anne Revere - Gentleman's Agreement
- 1948 Claire Trevor - Key Largo
- * Barbara Bel Geddes - I Remember Mama
- * Ellen Corby - I Remember Mama
- * Agnes Moorehead - Johnny Belinda
- * Jean Simmons - Hamlet
- 1949 Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
- * Ethel Barrymore - Pinky
- * Celeste Holm - Come to the Stable
- * Elsa Lanchester - Come to the Stable
- * Ethel Waters - Pinky
1950s - 1950 Josephine Hull - Harvey
- * Hope Emerson - Caged
- * Celeste Holm - All About Eve
- * Nancy Olson - Sunset Boulevard
- * Thelma Ritter - All About Eve
- 1951 Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire
- * Joan Blondell - The Blue Veil
- * Mildred Dunnock - Death of a Salesman
- * Lee Grant - Detective Story
- * Thelma Ritter - The Mating Season
- 1952 Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful
- * Jean Hagen - Singin' in the Rain
- * Colette Marchand - Moulin Rouge
- * Terry Moore - Come Back, Little Sheba
- * Thelma Ritter - With a Song in My Heart
- 1953 Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity
- * Grace Kelly - Mogambo
- * Geraldine Page - Hondo
- * Marjorie Rambeau - Torch Strong
- * Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street
- 1954 Eva Marie Saint - On the Waterfront
- * Nina Foch - Executive Suite
- * Katy Jurado - Broken Lance
- * Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty
- * Claire Trevor - The High and the Mighty
- 1955 Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
- * Betsy Blair - Marty
- * Peggy Lee - Pete Kelly's Blues
- * Marisa Pavan - The Rose Tattoo
- * Natalie Wood - Rebel Without a Cause
- 1956 Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
- * Mildred Dunnock - Baby Doll
- * Eileen Heckart - The Bad Seed
- * Mercedes McCambridge - Giant
- * Patty McCormack - The Bad Seed
- 1957 Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
- * Carolyn Jones - The Bachelor Party
- * Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution
- * Hope Lange - Peyton Place
- * Diane Varsi - Peyton Place
- 1958 Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
- * Peggy Cass - Auntie Mame
- * Martha Hyer - Some Came Running
- * Maureen Stapleton - Lonelyhearts
- * Cara Williams - The Defiant Ones
- 1959 Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
- * Hermione Baddeley - Room at the Top
- * Susan Kohner - Imitation of Life
- * Juanita Moore - Imitation of Life
- * Thelma Ritter - Pillow Talk
1960s - 1960 Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
- * Glynis Johns - The Sundowners
- * Shirley Knight - Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- * Janet Leigh - Psycho
- * Mary Ure - Sons and Lovers
- 1961 Rita Moreno - West Side Story
- * Fay Bainter - The Children's Hour
- * Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg
- * Lotte Lenya - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- * Una Merkel - Summer and Smoke
- 1962 Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
- * May Badham - To Kill a Mockingbird
- * Shirley Knight - Sweet Bird of Youth
- * Angela Lansbury - The Manchurian Candidate
- * Thelma Ritter - Birdman of Alcatraz
- 1963 Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s
- * Diane Cilento - Tom Jones
- * Edith Evans - Tom Jones
- * Joyce Redman - Tom Jones
- * Lilia Skala - Lilies of the Field
- 1964 Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek
- * Gladys Cooper - My Fair Lady
- * Dame Edith Evans - The Chalk Garden
- * Grayson Hall - The Night of the Iguana
- * Agnes Moorehead - Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte
- 1965 Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
- * Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover
- * Joyce Redman - Othello
- * Maggie Smith - Othello
- * Peggy Wood - The Sound of Music
- 1966 Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- * Wendy Hiller - A Man for All Seasons
- * Jocelyne LaGarde - Hawaii
- * Vivien Merchant - Alfie
- * Geraldine Page - You're a Big Boy Now
- 1967 Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
- * Carol Channing - Thoroughly Modern Millie
- * Mildred Natwick - Barefoot in the Park
- * Beah Richards - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- * Katharine Ross - The Graduate
- 1968 Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
- * Lynn Carlin - Faces
- * Sondra Locke - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- * Kay Medford - Funny Girl
- * Estelle Parsons - Rachel, Rachel
- 1969 Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
- * Catherine Burns - Last Summer
- * Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- * Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy
- * Susannah York - They Shoot Horses, Don't They
1970s - 1970 Helen Hayes - Airport
- * Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces
- * Lee Grant - The Landlord
- * Sally Kellerman - M*A*S*H
- * Maureen Stapleton - Airport
- 1971 Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
- * Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show
- * Barbara Harris - Who Is Harry Kellerman, and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me
- * Margaret Leighton - The Go-Between
- * Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge
- 1972 Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free
- * Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid
- * Geraldine Page - Pete 'N' Tillie
- * Susan Tyrrell - Fat City
- * Shelley Winters - The Poseidon Adventure
- 1973 Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
- * Linda Blair - The Exorcist
- * Candy Clark - American Graffiti
- * Madeline Kahn - Paper Moon
- * Sylvia Sidney - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
- 1974 Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
- * Valentina Cortese - La Nuit américaine
- * Madeline Kahn - Blazing Saddles
- * Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- * Talia Shire - The Godfather Part II
- 1975 Lee Grant - Shampoo
- * Ronee Blakley - Nashville
- * Sylvia Miles - Farewell, My Lovely
- * Lily Tomlin - Nashville
- * Brenda Vaccaro - Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
- 1976 Beatrice Straight - Network
- * Jane Alexander - All the President's Men
- * Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver
- * Lee Grant - Voyage of the Damned
- * Piper Laurie - Carrie
- 1977 Vanessa Redgrave - Julia (Also see her controversial acceptance speech)
- * Leslie Browne - The Turning Point
- * Quinn Cummings - The Goodbye Girl
- * Melinda Dillon - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- * Tuesday Weld - Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- 1978 Maggie Smith - California Suite
- * Dyan Cannon - Heaven Can Wait
- * Penelope Milford - Coming Home
- * Maureen Stapleton - Interiors
- * Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter
- 1979 Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
- * Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer
- * Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away
- * Candice Bergen - Starting Over
- * Mariel Hemingway - Manhattan
1980s - 1980 Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
- * Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin
- * Eva Le Gallienne - Resurrection
- * Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull
- * Diana Scarwid - Inside Moves
- 1981 Maureen Stapleton - Reds
- * Melinda Dillon - Absence of Malice
- * Jane Fonda - On Golden Pond
- * Joan Hackett - Only When I Laugh
- * Elizabeth McGovern - Ragtime
- 1982 Jessica Lange - Tootsie
- * Glenn Close - The World According to Garp
- * Teri Garr - Tootsie
- * Kim Stanley - Frances
- * Lesley Ann Warren - Victor/Victoria
- 1983 Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
- * Cher - Silkwood
- * Glenn Close - The Big Chill
- * Amy Irving - Yentl
- * Alfre Woodard - Cross Creek
- 1984 Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
- * Glenn Close - The Natural
- * Lindsay Crouse - Places in the Heart
- * Christine Lahti - Swing Shift
- * Geraldine Page - The Pope of Greenwich Village
- 1985 Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
- * Margaret Avery - The Color Purple
- * Amy Madigan - Twice in a Lifetime
- * Meg Tilly - Agnes of God
- * Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple
- 1986 Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
- * Tess Harper - Crimes of the Heart
- * Piper Laurie - Children of a Lesser God
- * Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - The Color of Money
- * Maggie Smith - A Room with a View
- 1987 Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
- * Norma Aleandro - Gaby-A True Story
- * Anne Archer - Fatal Attraction
- * Anne Ramsey - Throw Momma from the Train
- * Ann Sothern - The Whales of August
- 1988 Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
- * Frances McDormand - Mississippi Burning
- * Michelle Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons
- * Joan Cusack - Working Girl
- * Sigourney Weaver - Working Girl
- 1989 Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
- * Anjelica Huston - Enemies: A Love Story
- * Lena Olin - Enemies: A Love Story
- * Dianne Wiest - Parenthood
- * Julia Roberts - Steel Magnolias
1990s - 1990 Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
- * Mary McDonnell - Dances with Wolves
- * Lorraine Bracco - Goodfellas
- * Annette Bening - Grifters
- * Diane Ladd - Wild at Heart
- 1991 Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
- * Juliette Lewis - Cape Fear
- * Jessica Tandy - Fried Green Tomatoes
- * Kate Nelligan - The Prince of Tides
- * Diane Ladd - Rambling Rose
- 1992 Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
- * Joan Plowright - Enchanted April
- * Miranda Richardson - Fatale
- * Vanessa Redgrave - Howards End
- * Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives
- 1993 Anna Paquin - The Piano
- * Winona Ryder - The Age of Innocence
- * Rosie Perez - Fearless
- * Holly Hunter - The Firm
- * Emma Thompson - In the Name of the Father
- 1994 Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
- * Jennifer Tilly - Bullets Over Broadway
- * Helen Mirren - The Madness of King George
- * Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
- * Rosemary Harris - Tom and Viv
- 1995 Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
- * Kathleen Quinlan - Apollo 13
- * Mare Winningham - Georgia
- * Joan Allen - Nixon
- * Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility
- 1996 Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
- * Joan Allen - The Crucible
- * Lauren Bacall - The Mirror Has Two Faces
- * Barbara Hershey - The Portrait of a Lady
- * Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Secrets and Lies
- 1997 Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
- * Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
- * Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting
- * Joan Cusack - In and Out
- * Gloria Stuart - Titanic
- 1998 Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
- * Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters
- * Rachel Griffiths - Hilary and Jackie
- * Brenda Blethyn - Little Voice
- * Kathy Bates - Primary Colors
- 1999 Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted
- * Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich
- * Chloë Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry
- * Toni Collette - The Sixth Sense
- * Samantha Morton - Sweet and Lowdown
2000s - 2000 Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
- * Kate Hudson - Almost Famous
- * Frances McDormand - Almost Famous
- * Julie Walters - Billy Elliot
- * Judi Dench - Chocolat
- 2001 Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
- * Helen Mirren - Gosford Park
- * Maggie Smith - Gosford Park
- * Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom
- * Kate Winslet - Iris
- 2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
- * Kathy Bates - About Schmidt
- * Meryl Streep - Adaptation
- * Queen Latifah - Chicago
- * Julianne Moore - The Hours
- 2003 Renée Zellweger, Cold Mountain
- *Shohreh Aghdashloo, House of Sand and Fog
- *Patricia Clarkson, Pieces of April
- *Marcia Gay Harden, Mystic River
- *Holly Hunter, Thirteen
- 2004 Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
- *Laura Linney, Kinsey
- *Virginia Madsen, Sideways
- *Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
- *Natalie Portman, Closer
See also: Best Picture - Best Actor - Best Actress - Best Supporting Actor - Best Supporting Actress - Best Director List of movies - List of actors - List of directors - List of documentaries - List of Hollywood movie studios
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