Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The 2024 recipient: Zoe Saldaña
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Country	United States
First awarded	1937
Currently held by	Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez (2025)

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actor winner. However, in recent years, it has shifted towards being presented by previous years’ Best Supporting Actress winners instead. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette, supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards, when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.

The Best Supporting Actress award has been presented a total of 89 times, to 87 actresses. The first winner was Gale Sondergaard for her role in Anthony Adverse. The most recent winner is Zoe Saldaña for her role in Emilia Pérez. The record for most wins is two, held jointly by Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters. Each other recipient has only won once, in this category. Thelma Ritter has received the most nominations in the category, with six—although she never won. Hattie McDaniel made history in 1940, when she became the first person of color to win an Oscar in any category.

Nominations process

Nominees are currently determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.

In the first three years of the awards, actors and actresses were nominated as the best individuals in their categories, along with all qualifying cumulative work. The current system, in which an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film, was introduced for the 4th Academy Awards, in the lead acting categories. Simultaneously, along with the introduction of the supporting acting categories, all four acting categories were limited to a maximum five nominations per year.

Gale Sondergaard was the inaugural winner, for Anthony Adverse (1936).

Alice Brady won for In Old Chicago (1938).

Fay Bainter won for Jezebel (1938); also the first person nominated in both supporting and lead in the same year.

Hattie McDaniel won for Gone with the Wind (1939); first black person to ever win an Oscar.

Jane Darwell won for The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

Mary Astor won for The Great Lie (1941).

Teresa Wright won for Mrs. Miniver (1942).

Katina Paxinou won for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943).

Ethel Barrymore won for None but the Lonely Heart (1944).

Anne Revere won for National Velvet (1945).

Anne Baxter won for The Razor's Edge (1946).

Celeste Holm won for Gentleman's Agreement (1947).

Claire Trevor won for Key Largo (1948).

Mercedes McCambridge won for All the King's Men (1949).

Josephine Hull won for Harvey (1950).

Kim Hunter won for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Gloria Grahame won for The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).

Donna Reed won for From Here to Eternity (1953).

Eva Marie Saint won for On the Waterfront (1954).

Jo Van Fleet won for East of Eden (1955).

Dorothy Malone won for Written on the Wind (1956).

Miyoshi Umeki won for Sayonara (1957); first East Asian acting winner.

Wendy Hiller won for Separate Tables (1958).

Shelley Winters won twice, for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) & A Patch of Blue (1965).

Shirley Jones won for Elmer Gantry (1960).

Rita Moreno won for West Side Story (1961); first latina winner.

Patty Duke won for The Miracle Worker (1962).

Margaret Rutherford won for The V.I.P.s (1963).

Lila Kedrova won for Zorba the Greek (1964).

Sandy Dennis won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

Estelle Parsons won for Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

Ruth Gordon won for Rosemary's Baby (1968).

Goldie Hawn won for Cactus Flower (1969).

Helen Hayes won for Airport (1970); first to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting".

Cloris Leachman won for The Last Picture Show (1971).

Eileen Heckart won for Butterflies Are Free (1972).

Tatum O'Neal won for Paper Moon (1973); at age 10, youngest winner of a competitive Oscar.

Ingrid Bergman won for Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

Lee Grant won for Shampoo (1975).

Beatrice Straight won for Network (1976); shortest performance ever to win, clocking 5m2s of screentime.

Vanessa Redgrave won for Julia (1977).

Maggie Smith won, playing an Oscar loser, for California Suite (1978).

Meryl Streep won for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).

Mary Steenburgen won for Melvin (and Howard) (1980).

Maureen Stapleton won for Reds (1981).

Jessica Lange won for Tootsie (1982).

Linda Hunt won for portraying a cisgender male in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983).

Peggy Ashcroft won for A Passage to India (1984); this category's oldest winner, at age 77.

Anjelica Huston won for Prizzi's Honor (1985).

Dianne Wiest won twice, for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) & Bullets Over Broadway (1994).

Olympia Dukakis won for Moonstruck (1987).

Geena Davis won for The Accidental Tourist (1988).

Brenda Fricker won for My Left Foot (1989).

Whoopi Goldberg won for Ghost (1990).

Mercedes Ruehl won for The Fisher King (1991).

Marisa Tomei won for My Cousin Vinny (1992).

Anna Paquin won for The Piano (1993).

Mira Sorvino won for Mighty Aphrodite (1995).

Juliette Binoche won for The English Patient (1996).

Kim Basinger won for L.A. Confidential (1997).

Judi Dench won for Shakespeare in Love (1998); first to complete the "British Triple Crown".

Angelina Jolie won for Girl, Interrupted (1999).

Marcia Gay Harden won for Pollock (2000).

Jennifer Connelly won for A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Catherine Zeta-Jones won for Chicago (2002).

Renée Zellweger won for Cold Mountain (2003).

Cate Blanchett won for The Aviator (2004).

Rachel Weisz won for The Constant Gardener (2005).

Jennifer Hudson won for Dreamgirls (2006).

Tilda Swinton won for Michael Clayton (2007).

Penélope Cruz won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).

Mo'Nique won for Precious (2009).

Melissa Leo won for The Fighter (2010).

Octavia Spencer won for The Help (2011).

Anne Hathaway won for Les Misérables (2012).

Lupita Nyong'o won for 12 Years a Slave (2013).

Patricia Arquette won for Boyhood (2014).

Alicia Vikander won for The Danish Girl (2015).

Viola Davis won for Fences (2016).

Allison Janney won for I, Tonya (2017).

Regina King won for If Beale Street Could Talk (2018).

Laura Dern won for Marriage Story (2019).

Youn Yuh-Jung won for Minari (2020); first Korean-dialogue win.

Ariana DeBose won for West Side Story (2021); first openly queer POC to win.

Jamie Lee Curtis won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

1930s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1936 (9th)	Gale Sondergaard	Faith Paleologus	Anthony Adverse
	Beulah Bondi	Rachel Jackson	The Gorgeous ...
	Alice Brady	Angelica Bullock	My Man Godfrey
	Bonita Granville	Mary Tilford	These Three
	Maria Ouspenskaya	Baroness Von Obersdorf	Dodsworth
1937 (10th)	Alice Brady	Molly O'Leary	In Old Chicago
	Andrea Leeds	Kay Hamilton	Stage Door
	Anne Shirley	Laurel 'Lollie' Dallas	Stella Dallas
	Claire Trevor	Francey	Dead End
	May Whitty	Mrs. Bramson	Night Must Fall
1938 (11th)	Fay Bainter	Aunt Belle Massey	Jezebel
	Beulah Bondi	Mary Wilkins	Of Human Hearts
	Billie Burke	Emily Kilbourne	Merrily We Live
	Spring Byington	Penelope 'Penny' Sycamore	You Can't Take It with You
	Miliza Korjus	Carla Donner	The Great Waltz
1939 (12th)	Hattie McDaniel	'Mammy'	Gone with the Wind
	Olivia de Havilland	Melanie Hamilton	Gone with the Wind
	Geraldine Fitzgerald	Isabella Linton	Wuthering Heights
	Edna May Oliver	Mrs. Sarah McKlennar	Drums Along the Mohawk
	Maria Ouspenskaya	Grandmother Janou	Love Affair

1940s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1940 (13th)	Jane Darwell	'Ma' Joad	The Grapes of Wrath
	Judith Anderson	Mrs. Danvers	Rebecca
	Ruth Hussey	Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie	The Philadelphia Story
	Barbara O'Neil	Duchess Françoise de Choiseul-Praslin	All This, and Heaven Too
	Marjorie Rambeau	Mamie Adams	Primrose Path
1941 (14th)	Mary Astor	Sandra Kovak	The Great Lie
	Sara Allgood	Beth Morgan	How Green Was My Valley
	Patricia Collinge	Birdie Hubbard	The Little Foxes
	Teresa Wright	Alexandra 'Zannie' Giddens
	Margaret Wycherly	Mama Mary York	Sergeant York
1942 (15th)	Teresa Wright	Carol Beldon	Mrs. Miniver
	Gladys Cooper	Mrs. Vale	Now, Voyager
	Agnes Moorehead	Fanny Minafer	The Magnificent Ambersons
	Susan Peters	Kitty Chilcet	Random Harvest
	May Whitty	Lady Beldon	Mrs. Miniver
1943 (16th)	Katina Paxinou	Pilar	For Whom the Bell Tolls
	Gladys Cooper	Sister Marie-Thérèse Vauzou	The Song of Bernadette
	Paulette Goddard	Joan O'Doul	So Proudly We Hail!
	Anne Revere	Louise (Casteròt) Soubirous	The Song of Bernadette
	Lucile Watson	Fanny Farrelly	Watch on the Rhine
1944 (17th)	Ethel Barrymore	'Ma' Mott	None but the Lonely Heart
	Jennifer Jones	Jane Deborah Hilton	Since You Went Away
	Angela Lansbury	Nancy Oliver	Gaslight
	Aline MacMahon	Mrs. Tan	Dragon Seed
	Agnes Moorehead	Baroness Aspasia Conti	Mrs. Parkington
1945 (18th)	Anne Revere	Mrs. Araminty Brown	National Velvet
	Eve Arden	Ida Corwin	Mildred Pierce
	Ann Blyth	Veda Pierce-Forrester
	Angela Lansbury	Sibyl Vane	The Picture of Dorian Gray
	Joan Lorring	Bessie Watty	The Corn Is Green
1946 (19th)	Anne Baxter	Sophie MacDonald	The Razor's Edge
	Ethel Barrymore	Mrs. Warren	The Spiral Staircase
	Lillian Gish	Laura Belle McCanles	Duel in the Sun
	Flora Robson	Angelique Buiton	Saratoga Trunk
	Gale Sondergaard	Lady Thiang	Anna and the King of Siam
1947 (20th)	Celeste Holm	Anne Dettrey	Gentleman's Agreement
	Ethel Barrymore	Lady Sophie Horfield	The Paradine Case
	Gloria Grahame	Ginny Tremaine	Crossfire
	Marjorie Main	Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle	The Egg and I
	Anne Revere	Mrs. Green	Gentleman's Agreement
1948 (21st)	Claire Trevor	Gaye Dawn	Key Largo
	Barbara Bel Geddes	Katrin Hanson	I Remember Mama
	Ellen Corby	Aunt Trina Thorkelson
	Agnes Moorehead	Aggie MacDonald	Johnny Belinda
	Jean Simmons	Ophelia	Hamlet
1949 (22nd)	Mercedes McCambridge	Sadie Burke	All the King's Men
	Ethel Barrymore	Miss Em	Pinky
	Celeste Holm	Sister Scholastica	Come to the Stable
	Elsa Lanchester	Amelia Potts
	Ethel Waters	Dicey Johnson	Pinky

1950s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1950 (23rd)	Josephine Hull	Veta Louise Simmons	Harvey
	Hope Emerson	Evelyn Harper	Caged
	Celeste Holm	Karen Richards	All About Eve
	Nancy Olson	Betty Schaefer	Sunset Boulevard
	Thelma Ritter	Birdie Coonan	All About Eve
1951 (24th)	Kim Hunter	Stella Kowalski	A Streetcar Named Desire
	Joan Blondell	Annie Rawlins	The Blue Veil
	Mildred Dunnock	Linda Loman	Death of a Salesman
	Lee Grant	'Shoplifter'	Detective Story
	Thelma Ritter	Ellen McNulty	The Mating Season
1952 (25th)	Gloria Grahame	Rosemary Bartlow	The Bad and the Beautiful
	Jean Hagen	Lina Lamont	Singin' in the Rain
	Colette Marchand	Marie Charlet	Moulin Rouge
	Terry Moore	Marie Buckholder	Come Back, Little Sheba
	Thelma Ritter	Clancy	With a Song in My Heart
1953 (26th)	Donna Reed	Alma Burke / Lorene	From Here to Eternity
	Grace Kelly	Linda Nordley	Mogambo
	Geraldine Page	Angie Lowe	Hondo
	Marjorie Rambeau	Mrs. Stewart	Torch Song
	Thelma Ritter	Moe Williams	Pickup on South Street
1954 (27th)	Eva Marie Saint	Edie Doyle	On the Waterfront
	Nina Foch	Erica Martin	Executive Suite
	Katy Jurado	Señora Devereaux	Broken Lance
	Jan Sterling	Sally McKee	The High and the Mighty
	Claire Trevor	May Holst
1955 (28th)	Jo Van Fleet	Cathy Ames / Kate Trask (Albey)	East of Eden
	Betsy Blair	Clara Snyder	Marty
	Peggy Lee	Rose Hopkins	Pete Kelly's Blues
	Marisa Pavan	Rosa Delle Rose	The Rose Tattoo
	Natalie Wood	Judy	Rebel Without a Cause
1956 (29th)	Dorothy Malone	Marylee Hadley	Written on the Wind
	Mildred Dunnock	Aunt Rose Comfort	Baby Doll
	Eileen Heckart	Hortense Daigle	The Bad Seed
	Mercedes McCambridge	Luz Benedict	Giant
	Patty McCormack	Rhoda Penmark	The Bad Seed
1957 (30th)	Miyoshi Umeki	Katsumi Kelly	Sayonara
	Carolyn Jones	'The Existentialist'	The Bachelor Party
	Elsa Lanchester	Miss Plimsoll	Witness for the Prosecution
	Hope Lange	Selena Cross	Peyton Place
	Diane Varsi	Allison MacKenzie
1958 (31st)	Wendy Hiller	Miss Pat Cooper	Separate Tables
	Peggy Cass	Agnes Gooch	Auntie Mame
	Martha Hyer	Gwen French	Some Came Running
	Maureen Stapleton	Fay Doyle	Lonelyhearts
	Cara Williams	Billy's Mother	The Defiant Ones
1959 (32nd)	Shelley Winters	Petronella van Daan	The Diary of Anne Frank
	Hermione Baddeley	Elspeth	Room at the Top
	Susan Kohner	Sarah Jane Johnson	Imitation of Life
	Juanita Moore	Annie Johnson
	Thelma Ritter	Alma	Pillow Talk

1960s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1960 (33rd)	Shirley Jones	Lulu Bains	Elmer Gantry
	Glynis Johns	Mrs. Firth	The Sundowners
	Shirley Knight	Reenie Flood	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
	Janet Leigh	Marion Crane	Psycho
	Mary Ure	Clara Dawes	Sons and Lovers
1961 (34th)	Rita Moreno	Anita	West Side Story
	Fay Bainter	Mrs. Amelia Tilford	The Children's Hour
	Judy Garland	Irene Hoffmann-Wallner	Judgment at Nuremberg
	Lotte Lenya	Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
	Una Merkel	Mrs. Winemiller	Summer and Smoke
1962 (35th)	Patty Duke	Helen Keller	The Miracle Worker
	Mary Badham	Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch	To Kill a Mockingbird
	Shirley Knight	Heavenly Finley	Sweet Bird of Youth
	Angela Lansbury	Eleanor Iselin	The Manchurian Candidate
	Thelma Ritter	Elizabeth (McCartney) Stroud	Birdman of Alcatraz
1963 (36th)	Margaret Rutherford	The Duchess of Brighton	The V.I.P.s
	Diane Cilento	Molly Seagrim	Tom Jones
	Edith Evans	Miss Western
	Joyce Redman	Mrs. Waters / Jenny Jones
	Lilia Skala	Mother Maria Marthe	Lilies of the Field
1964 (37th)	Lila Kedrova	Madame Hortense	Zorba the Greek
	Gladys Cooper	Mrs. Higgins	My Fair Lady
	Edith Evans	Mrs. St. Maugham	The Chalk Garden
	Grayson Hall	Judith Fellowes	The Night of the Iguana
	Agnes Moorehead	Velma Cruther	Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1965 (38th)	Shelley Winters	Rose-Ann D'Arcey	A Patch of Blue
	Ruth Gordon	Lucile Clover – 'The Dealer'	Inside Daisy Clover
	Joyce Redman	Emilia	Othello
	Maggie Smith	Desdemona
	Peggy Wood	The Mother Abbess	The Sound of Music
1966 (39th)	Sandy Dennis	Honey	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
	Wendy Hiller	Dame Alice More	A Man for All Seasons
	Jocelyne LaGarde	Ali'i Nui, Malama Kanakoa	Hawaii
	Vivien Merchant	Lily Clamacraft	Alfie
	Geraldine Page	Margery Chanticleer	You're a Big Boy Now
1967 (40th)	Estelle Parsons	Blanche Barrow	Bonnie and Clyde
	Carol Channing	Muzzy Van Hossmere	Thoroughly Modern Millie
	Mildred Natwick	Ethel Banks	Barefoot in the Park
	Beah Richards	Mary Prentice	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
	Katharine Ross	Elaine Robinson	The Graduate
1968 (41st)	Ruth Gordon	Minnie Castevet	Rosemary's Baby
	Lynn Carlin	Maria Forst	Faces
	Sondra Locke	Margaret 'Mick' Kelly	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
	Kay Medford	Rose Brice	Funny Girl
	Estelle Parsons	Calla Mackie	Rachel, Rachel
1969 (42nd)	Goldie Hawn	Toni Simmons	Cactus Flower
	Catherine Burns	Rhoda	Last Summer
	Dyan Cannon	Alice Henderson	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
	Sylvia Miles	Cass	Midnight Cowboy
	Susannah York	Alice LeBlanc	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1970s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1970 (43rd)	Helen Hayes	Ada Quonsett	Airport
	Karen Black	Rayette Dipesto	Five Easy Pieces
	Lee Grant	Joyce Enders	The Landlord
	Sally Kellerman	Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan	M*A*S*H
	Maureen Stapleton	Inez Guerrero	Airport
1971 (44th)	Cloris Leachman	Ruth Popper	The Last Picture Show
	Ann-Margret	Bobbie	Carnal Knowledge
	Ellen Burstyn	Lois Farrow	The Last Picture Show
	Barbara Harris	Allison Densmore	Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
	Margaret Leighton	Mrs. Madeleine Maudsley	The Go-Between
1972 (45th)	Eileen Heckart	Mrs. Baker	Butterflies Are Free
	Jeannie Berlin	Lila Kolodny	The Heartbreak Kid
	Geraldine Page	Gertrude Wilson	Pete 'n' Tillie
	Susan Tyrrell	Oma Lee Greer	Fat City
	Shelley Winters	Belle Rosen	The Poseidon Adventure
1973 (46th)	Tatum O'Neal	Addie Loggins	Paper Moon
	Linda Blair	Regan MacNeil	The Exorcist
	Candy Clark	Debbie Dunham	American Graffiti
	Madeline Kahn	Trixie Delight	Paper Moon
	Sylvia Sidney	Mrs. Pritchett	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1974 (47th)	Ingrid Bergman	Greta Ohlsson	Murder on the Orient Express
	Valentina Cortese	Séverine	Day for Night
	Madeline Kahn	Lili von Shtüpp	Blazing Saddles
	Diane Ladd	Florence Jean 'Flo' Castleberry	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
	Talia Shire	Connie Corleone	The Godfather Part II
1975 (48th)	Lee Grant	Felicia Karpf	Shampoo
	Ronee Blakley	Barbara Jean	Nashville
	Sylvia Miles	Jessie Halstead Florian	Farewell, My Lovely
	Lily Tomlin	Linnea Reese	Nashville
	Brenda Vaccaro	Linda Riggs	Once Is Not Enough
1976 (49th)	Beatrice Straight	Louise Schumacher	Network
	Jane Alexander	Judy Hoback – 'The Bookkeeper'	All the President's Men
	Jodie Foster	Iris 'Easy' Steensma	Taxi Driver
	Lee Grant	Lili Rosen	Voyage of the Damned
	Piper Laurie	Margaret White	Carrie
1977 (50th)	Vanessa Redgrave	Julia	Julia
	Leslie Browne	Emilia Rodgers	The Turning Point
	Quinn Cummings	Lucy McFadden	The Goodbye Girl
	Melinda Dillon	Jillian Guiler	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
	Tuesday Weld	Katherine Dunn	Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1978 (51st)	Maggie Smith	Diana Barrie	California Suite
	Dyan Cannon	Julia Farnsworth	Heaven Can Wait
	Penelope Milford	Vi Munson	Coming Home
	Maureen Stapleton	Pearl	Interiors
	Meryl Streep	Linda	The Deer Hunter
1979 (52nd)	Meryl Streep	Joanna (Stern) Kramer	Kramer vs. Kramer
	Jane Alexander	Margaret Phelps	Kramer vs. Kramer
	Barbara Barrie	Evelyn Stohler	Breaking Away
	Candice Bergen	Jessica Potter	Starting Over
	Mariel Hemingway	Tracy	Manhattan

1980s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1980 (53rd)	Mary Steenburgen	Lynda West-Dummar	Melvin and Howard
	Eileen Brennan	Capt. Doreen Lewis	Private Benjamin
	Eva Le Gallienne	Pearl Harper	Resurrection
	Cathy Moriarty	Vikki LaMotta	Raging Bull
	Diana Scarwid	Louise	Inside Moves
1981 (54th)	Maureen Stapleton	Emma Goldman	Reds
	Melinda Dillon	Teresa Perrone	Absence of Malice
	Jane Fonda	Chelsea Thayer-Wayne	On Golden Pond
	Joan Hackett	Toby Landau	Only When I Laugh
	Elizabeth McGovern	Evelyn Nesbit	Ragtime
1982 (55th)	Jessica Lange	Julie Nichols	Tootsie
	Glenn Close	Jenny Fields	The World According to Garp
	Teri Garr	Sandy Lester	Tootsie
	Kim Stanley	Lillian Farmer	Frances
	Lesley Ann Warren	Norma Cassidy	Victor/Victoria
1983 (56th)	Linda Hunt	Billy Kwan	The Year of Living Dangerously
	Cher	Dolly Pelliker	Silkwood
	Glenn Close	Dr. Sarah Cooper	The Big Chill
	Amy Irving	Hadass Vishkower	Yentl
	Alfre Woodard	Beatrice 'GeeChee'	Cross Creek
1984 (57th)	Peggy Ashcroft	Mrs. Moore	A Passage to India
	Glenn Close	Iris Gaines	The Natural
	Lindsay Crouse	Margaret Lomax	Places in the Heart
	Christine Lahti	Hazel Zanussi	Swing Shift
	Geraldine Page	Mrs. Ritter	The Pope of Greenwich Village
1985 (58th)	Anjelica Huston	MaeRose Prizzi	Prizzi's Honor
	Margaret Avery	'Shug' Avery	The Color Purple
	Amy Madigan	Sunny Mackenzie-Sobel	Twice in a Lifetime
	Meg Tilly	Sister Agnes Devereaux	Agnes of God
	Oprah Winfrey	Sofia Johnson	The Color Purple
1986 (59th)	Dianne Wiest	Holly	Hannah and Her Sisters
	Tess Harper	Chick Boyle	Crimes of the Heart
	Piper Laurie	Mrs. Norman	Children of a Lesser God
	Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio	Carmen	The Color of Money
	Maggie Smith	Charlotte Bartlett	A Room with a View
1987 (60th)	Olympia Dukakis	Rose Castorini	Moonstruck
	Norma Aleandro	Florencia Sánchez Morales	Gaby: A True Story
	Anne Archer	Beth Gallagher	Fatal Attraction
	Anne Ramsey	'Momma' Lift	Throw Momma from the Train
	Ann Sothern	Letitia 'Tisha' Benson-Doughty	The Whales of August
1988 (61st)	Geena Davis	Muriel Pritchett	The Accidental Tourist
	Joan Cusack	'Cyn'	Working Girl
	Frances McDormand	Mrs. Pell	Mississippi Burning
	Michelle Pfeiffer	Madame Marie de Tourvel	Dangerous Liaisons
	Sigourney Weaver	Katharine Parker	Working Girl
1989 (62nd)	Brenda Fricker	Bridget Fagan Brown	My Left Foot
	Anjelica Huston	Tamara Luria-Broder	Enemies, A Love Story
	Lena Olin	Masha Bloch-Tortshiner
	Julia Roberts	Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie	Steel Magnolias
	Dianne Wiest	Helen Buckman	Parenthood

1990s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1990 (63rd)	Whoopi Goldberg	Oda Mae Brown	Ghost
	Annette Bening	Myra Langtry	The Grifters
	Lorraine Bracco	Karen Hill	GoodFellas
	Diane Ladd	Marietta Fortune	Wild at Heart
	Mary McDonnell	Stands With A Fist	Dances with Wolves
1991 (64th)	Mercedes Ruehl	Anne Napolitano	The Fisher King
	Diane Ladd	Mrs. Hillyer	Rambling Rose
	Juliette Lewis	Danielle Bowden	Cape Fear
	Kate Nelligan	Lila Wingo-Newbury	The Prince of Tides
	Jessica Tandy	Virginia 'Ninny' Threadgoode	Fried Green Tomatoes
1992 (65th)	Marisa Tomei	Mona Lisa Vito	My Cousin Vinny
	Judy Davis	Sally Simmons	Husbands and Wives
	Joan Plowright	Mrs. Fisher	Enchanted April
	Vanessa Redgrave	Mrs. Ruth Wilcox	Howards End
	Miranda Richardson	Ingrid Thompson-Fleming	Damage
1993 (66th)	Anna Paquin	Flora McGrath	The Piano
	Holly Hunter	Tammy Hemphill	The Firm
	Rosie Perez	Carla Rodrigo	Fearless
	Winona Ryder	May Welland-Archer	The Age of Innocence
	Emma Thompson	Gareth Peirce	In the Name of the Father
1994 (67th)	Dianne Wiest	Helen Sinclair	Bullets Over Broadway
	Rosemary Harris	Rose Esther Haigh-Wood	Tom & Viv
	Helen Mirren	Queen Charlotte of Hanover	The Madness of King George
	Uma Thurman	Mia Wallace	Pulp Fiction
	Jennifer Tilly	Olive Neal	Bullets Over Broadway
1995 (68th)	Mira Sorvino	Leslie Ash / Linda	Mighty Aphrodite
	Joan Allen	First Lady Thelma 'Pat' Nixon	Nixon
	Kathleen Quinlan	Marilyn Lovell	Apollo 13
	Mare Winningham	Georgia Flood	Georgia
	Kate Winslet	Marianne Dashwood	Sense and Sensibility
1996 (69th)	Juliette Binoche	Hana	The English Patient
	Joan Allen	Elizabeth Proctor	The Crucible
	Lauren Bacall	Hannah Morgan	The Mirror Has Two Faces
	Barbara Hershey	Madame Serena Merle	The Portrait of a Lady
	Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Hortense Cumberbatch	Secrets & Lies
1997 (70th)	Kim Basinger	Lynn Bracken	L.A. Confidential
	Joan Cusack	Emily Montgomery	In & Out
	Minnie Driver	Skylar	Good Will Hunting
	Julianne Moore	Maggie / Amber Waves	Boogie Nights
	Gloria Stuart	Rose Dawson-Calvert	Titanic
1998 (71st)	Judi Dench	Queen Elizabeth I	Shakespeare in Love
	Kathy Bates	Libby Holden	Primary Colors
	Brenda Blethyn	Mari Hoff	Little Voice
	Rachel Griffiths	Hilary du Pré	Hilary and Jackie
	Lynn Redgrave	Hanna	Gods and Monsters
1999 (72nd)	Angelina Jolie	Lisa Rowe	Girl, Interrupted
	Toni Collette	Lynn Sear	The Sixth Sense
	Catherine Keener	Maxine Lund	Being John Malkovich
	Samantha Morton	Hattie	Sweet and Lowdown
	Chloë Sevigny	Lana Tisdel	Boys Don't Cry

2000s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2000 (73rd)	Marcia Gay Harden	Lee Krasner	Pollock
	Judi Dench	Armande Voizin	Chocolat
	Kate Hudson	Penny Lane	Almost Famous
	Frances McDormand	Elaine Miller
	Julie Walters	Sandra Wilkinson	Billy Elliot
2001 (74th)	Jennifer Connelly	Alicia (Lardé) Nash	A Beautiful Mind
	Helen Mirren	Mrs. Wilson	Gosford Park
	Maggie Smith	Dowager Countess Constance Trentham
	Marisa Tomei	Natalie Strout	In the Bedroom
	Kate Winslet	Iris Murdoch	Iris
2002 (75th)	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Velma Kelly	Chicago
	Kathy Bates	Roberta Hertzel	About Schmidt
	Julianne Moore	Laura Brown	The Hours
	Queen Latifah	Matron 'Mama' Morton	Chicago
	Meryl Streep	Susan Orlean	Adaptation.
2003 (76th)	Renée Zellweger	Ruby Thewes	Cold Mountain
	Shohreh Aghdashloo	Nadereh Behrani	House of Sand and Fog
	Patricia Clarkson	Joy Burns	Pieces of April
	Marcia Gay Harden	Celeste Boyle	Mystic River
	Holly Hunter	Melanie Freeland	Thirteen
2004 (77th)	Cate Blanchett	Katharine Hepburn	The Aviator
	Laura Linney	Clara McMillen	Kinsey
	Virginia Madsen	Maya Randall	Sideways
	Sophie Okonedo	Tatiana Rusesabagina	Hotel Rwanda
	Natalie Portman	Jane Jones / 'Alice Ayres'	Closer
2005 (78th)	Rachel Weisz	Tessa Quayle	The Constant Gardener
	Amy Adams	Ashley Johnsten	Junebug
	Catherine Keener	Harper Lee	Capote
	Frances McDormand	Glory Dodge	North Country
	Michelle Williams	Alma Beers	Brokeback Mountain
2006 (79th)	Jennifer Hudson	Effie White	Dreamgirls
	Adriana Barraza	Amelia Hernández	Babel
	Cate Blanchett	Bathsheba 'Sheba' Hart	Notes on a Scandal
	Abigail Breslin	Olive Hoover	Little Miss Sunshine
	Rinko Kikuchi	Chieko Wataya	Babel
2007 (80th)	Tilda Swinton	Karen Crowder	Michael Clayton
	Cate Blanchett	Jude Quinn	I'm Not There
	Ruby Dee	Mahalee Lucas	American Gangster
	Saoirse Ronan	Briony Tallis	Atonement
	Amy Ryan	Helene McCready	Gone Baby Gone
2008 (81st)	Penélope Cruz	María Elena	Vicky Cristina Barcelona
	Amy Adams	Sister Marita James	Doubt
	Viola Davis	Mrs. Miller
	Taraji P. Henson	'Queenie'	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Marisa Tomei	Pam / 'Cassidy'	The Wrestler
2009 (82nd)	Mo'Nique	Mary Lee Johnston	Precious
	Penélope Cruz	Carla Albanese	Nine
	Vera Farmiga	Alex Goran	Up in the Air
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	Jean Craddock	Crazy Heart
	Anna Kendrick	Natalie Keener	Up in the Air

2010s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2010 (83rd)	Melissa Leo	Alice Eklund-Ward	The Fighter
	Amy Adams	Charlene Fleming	The Fighter
	Helena Bonham Carter	Queen Elizabeth – The Queen Mother	The King's Speech
	Hailee Steinfeld	Mattie Ross	True Grit
	Jacki Weaver	Janine 'Smurf' Cody	Animal Kingdom
2011 (84th)	Octavia Spencer	Minerva 'Minny' Jackson	The Help
	Bérénice Bejo	Peppy Miller	The Artist
	Jessica Chastain	Celia Rae Foote	The Help
	Melissa McCarthy	Megan Price	Bridesmaids
	Janet McTeer	Hubert Page	Albert Nobbs
2012 (85th)	Anne Hathaway	Fantine	Les Misérables
	Amy Adams	Peggy Dodd	The Master
	Sally Field	First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln	Lincoln
	Helen Hunt	Cheryl Cohen-Greene	The Sessions
	Jacki Weaver	Dolores Solitano	Silver Linings Playbook
2013 (86th)	Lupita Nyong'o	Patsey	12 Years a Slave
	Sally Hawkins	Ginger	Blue Jasmine
	Jennifer Lawrence	Rosalyn Rosenfeld	American Hustle
	Julia Roberts	Barbara Weston-Fordham	August: Osage County
	June Squibb	Kate Grant	Nebraska
2014 (87th)	Patricia Arquette	Olivia Evans	Boyhood
	Laura Dern	Barbara 'Bobbi' Grey	Wild
	Keira Knightley	Joan Clarke	The Imitation Game
	Emma Stone	Sam Thomson	Birdman
	Meryl Streep	'The Witch'	Into the Woods
2015 (88th)	Alicia Vikander	Gerda Wegener	The Danish Girl
	Jennifer Jason Leigh	'Crazy' Daisy Domergue	The Hateful Eight
	Rooney Mara	Therese Belivet	Carol
	Rachel McAdams	Sacha Pfeiffer	Spotlight
	Kate Winslet	Joanna Hoffman	Steve Jobs
2016 (89th)	Viola Davis	Rose Lee Maxson	Fences
	Naomie Harris	Paula	Moonlight
	Nicole Kidman	Sue Brierley	Lion
	Octavia Spencer	Dorothy Vaughan	Hidden Figures
	Michelle Williams	Randi Chandler	Manchester by the Sea
2017 (90th)	Allison Janney	LaVona Fay Golden	I, Tonya
	Mary J. Blige	Florence Jackson	Mudbound
	Lesley Manville	Cyril Woodcock	Phantom Thread
	Laurie Metcalf	Marion McPherson	Lady Bird
	Octavia Spencer	Zelda Delilah Fuller	The Shape of Water
2018 (91st)	Regina King	Sharon Rivers	If Beale Street Could Talk
	Amy Adams	Lynne Cheney	Vice
	Marina de Tavira	Sofía	Roma
	Emma Stone	Abigail Masham	The Favourite
	Rachel Weisz	Sarah Churchill
2019 (92nd)	Laura Dern	Nora Fanshaw	Marriage Story
	Kathy Bates	Barbara 'Bobi' Jewell	Richard Jewell
	Scarlett Johansson	Rosie Betzler	Jojo Rabbit
	Florence Pugh	Amy Curtis March	Little Women
	Margot Robbie	Kayla Pospisil	Bombshell

2020s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2020/21 (93rd)	Yuh-jung Youn	Soon-ja	Minari
	Maria Bakalova	Tutar Sagdiyev	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
	Glenn Close	Bonnie 'Mamaw' Vance	Hillbilly Elegy
	Olivia Colman	Anne	The Father
	Amanda Seyfried	Marion Davies	Mank
2021 (94th)	Ariana DeBose	Anita	West Side Story
	Jessie Buckley	Young Leda Caruso	The Lost Daughter
	Judi Dench	Granny	Belfast
	Kirsten Dunst	Rose Gordon	The Power of the Dog
	Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor	Oracene 'Brandy' Price	King Richard
2022 (95th)	Jamie Lee Curtis	Deirdre Beaubeirdre	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Angela Bassett	Queen Ramonda	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
	Hong Chau	Liz	The Whale
	Kerry Condon	Siobhán Súilleabháin	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Stephanie Hsu	Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki	Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023 (96th)	Da'Vine Joy Randolph	Mary Lamb	The Holdovers
	Emily Blunt	Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer	Oppenheimer
	Danielle Brooks	Sofia	The Color Purple
	America Ferrera	Gloria	Barbie
	Jodie Foster	Bonnie Stoll	Nyad
2024 (97th)	Zoe Saldaña	Rita Mora Castro	Emilia Pérez
	Monica Barbaro	Joan Baez	A Complete Unknown
	Ariana Grande	Galinda "Glinda" Upland	Wicked
	Felicity Jones	Erzsébet Tóth	The Brutalist
	Isabella Rossellini	Sister Agnes	Conclave

Multiple wins and nominations

Individuals who received two Best Supporting Actress awards:

Individuals receiving three or more Best Supporting Actress nominations:

Age superlatives

Films with multiple Supporting Actress nominations

There have been 36 instances in which films have produced more than one nominee within this category. Tom Jones (1963) was the only film which garnered three nominations, while all others obtained two.

Winners are in bold.

• Gone with the Wind (1939) -- Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel
• The Little Foxes (1941) -- Patricia Collinge and Teresa Wright
• Mrs. Miniver (1942) -- May Whitty and Teresa Wright
• The Song of Bernadette (1943) -- Gladys Cooper and Anne Revere
• Mildred Pierce (1945) -- Eve Arden and Ann Blyth
• Gentleman's Agreement (1947) -- Celeste Holm and Anne Revere
• I Remember Mama (1948) -- Barbara Bel Geddes and Ellen Corby
• Come to the Stable (1949) -- Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester
• Pinky (1949) -- Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters
• All About Eve (1950) -- Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter
• The High and the Mighty (1954) -- Jan Sterling and Claire Trevor
• The Bad Seed (1956) -- Eileen Heckart and Patty McCormack
• Peyton Place (1957) -- Hope Lange and Diane Varsi
• Imitation of Life (1959) -- Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore
• Tom Jones (1963) -- Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, and Joyce Redman
• Othello (1965) -- Joyce Redman and Maggie Smith
• Airport (1970) -- Helen Hayes and Maureen Stapleton
• The Last Picture Show (1971) -- Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman
• Paper Moon (1973) -- Madeline Kahn and Tatum O'Neal
• Nashville (1975) -- Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin
• Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) -- Jane Alexander and Meryl Streep
• Tootsie (1982) -- Teri Garr and Jessica Lange
• The Color Purple (1985) -- Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey
• Working Girl (1988) -- Joan Cusack and Sigourney Weaver
• Enemies, A Love Story (1989) -- Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin
• Bullets over Broadway (1994) -- Jennifer Tilly and Dianne Wiest
• Almost Famous (2000) -- Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand
• Gosford Park (2001) -- Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith
• Chicago (2002) -- Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones
• Babel (2006) -- Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi
• Doubt (2008) -- Amy Adams and Viola Davis
• Up in the Air (2009) -- Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick
• The Fighter (2010) -- Amy Adams and Melissa Leo
• The Help (2011) -- Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer
• The Favourite (2018) -- Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) -- Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu

Multiple character nominations

Winners are in bold.

• Anita from West Side Story (Rita Moreno, 1961) & West Side Story (Ariana DeBose, 2021)
• Sofia from The Color Purple (Oprah Winfrey, 1985) & The Color Purple (Danielle Brooks, 2023)

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Óscar a la mejor actriz de reparto para niños

• All Academy Award acting nominees
• BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor