Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Awards are awards given to people working in the film industry; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry and usually awarded to a film released the previous year. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best supporting actress in 1999.

• 1936 Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse
  • Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy
  • Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey
  • Bonita Granville - These Three
  • Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth
• 1937 Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
  • Andrea Leeds - Stage Door
  • Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas
  • Claire Trevor - Dead End
  • May Whitty - Night Must Fall
• 1938 Fay Bainter - Jezebel
  • Beulah Bondi - Of Human Hearts
  • Billie Burke - Merrily We Live
  • Spring Byington - You Can't Take It with You
  • Miliza Korjus - The Great Waltz
• 1939 Hattie McDaniel - Gone With the Wind
  • Olivia de Havilland - Gone With the Wind
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald - Wuthering Heights
  • Edna Oliver - Drums Along the Mohawk
  • Maria Ouspenskaya - Love Affair
• 1940 Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
  • Judith Anderson - Rebecca
  • Ruth Hussey - The Philadelphia Story
  • Barbara O'Neil - All This and Heaven Too
  • Marjorie Rambeau - The Primrose Path
• 1941 Mary Astor - The Great Lie
  • Sara Allgood - How Green Was My Valley
  • Patricia Collinge - The Little Foxes
  • Teresa Wright - The Little Foxes
  • Margaret Wycherly - Sergeant York
• 1942 Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver
  • Gladys Cooper - Now, Voyager
  • Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Susan Peters - Random Harvest
  • May Whitty - Mrs. Miniver
• 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
  • Anne 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 - 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
• 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 Mighty
  • Claire Trevor - The High and 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 - Bachelor Party
  • Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution
  • Hope Lange - Peyton Place
  • Diane Varsi - Peyton Place
• 1958 Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
  • Peggy Cass - Aunt 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
• 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 Chidlren?s Hour
  • Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremburg
  • 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 - Bird Man 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
  • Jocelyn 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 Richrds - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • Katharine Ross - The Graduate
• 1968 Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
  • Lynn Carlin - Faces
  • Sandra 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 and Carol and Ted and Alice
  • Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy
  • Susannah York - They Shoot Horses, Don't They
• 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 - Carnel 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
• 1975 Lee Grant - Shampoo
• 1976 Beatrice Straight - Network
• 1977 Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
• 1978 Maggie Smith - California Suite
• 1979 Meryl Streep - Kramer Vs. Kramer
• 1980 Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
• 1981 Maureen Stapleton - Reds
• 1982 Jessica Lange - Tootsie
• 1983 Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
• 1984 Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
• 1985 Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
• 1986 Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
• 1987 Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
• 1988 Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
• 1989 Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
• 1990 Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
• 1991 Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
• 1992 Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
• 1993 Anna Paquin - The Piano
• 1994 Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
• 1995 Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
• 1996 Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
• 1997 Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
• 1998 Judi Dench - Shakespeare In Love
• 1999 Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted
• 2000 Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
• 2001 Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind

See also : Academy Awards