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| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
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| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 1937 (for performances in films released in 1936) |
| Currently held by | Octavia Spencer, The Help (2011) |
| Official website | http://www.oscars.org |
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit. It is presented each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is to recognize an actress with an outstanding performance in a movie. Since the beginning, the award has commonly been called the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Actresses are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves. Winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.
Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
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| 1936 (9th) |
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| Gale Sondergaard | Anthony Adverse | Faith Paleologus | |
| Beulah Bondi | The Gorgeous Hussy | Rachel Jackson | |
| Alice Brady | My Man Godfrey | Angelica Bullock | |
| Bonita Granville | These Three | Mary Tilford | |
| Maria Ouspenskaya | Dodsworth | Baroness Von Obersdorf | |
| 1937 (10th) |
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| Alice Brady | In Old Chicago | Molly O'Leary | |
| Andrea Leeds | Stage Door | Kay Hamilton | |
| Anne Shirley | Stella Dallas | Laurel "Lollie" Dallas | |
| Claire Trevor | Dead End | Francey | |
| May Whitty | Night Must Fall | Mrs. Bramson | |
| 1938 (11th) |
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| Fay Bainter | Jezebel | Aunt Belle Massey | |
| Beulah Bondi | Of Human Hearts | Mary Wilkins | |
| Billie Burke | Merrily We Live | Emily Kilbourne | |
| Spring Byington | You Can't Take It with You | Penny Sycamore | |
| Miliza Korjus | The Great Waltz | Carla Donner | |
| 1939 (12th) |
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| Hattie McDaniel | Gone with the Wind | Mammy | |
| Olivia de Havilland | Gone with the Wind | Melanie Hamilton | |
| Geraldine Fitzgerald | Wuthering Heights | Isabella Linton | |
| Edna May Oliver | Drums Along the Mohawk | Sarah McKlennar | |
| Maria Ouspenskaya | Love Affair | Grandmother Janou |
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
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| 1940 (13th) |
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| Jane Darwell | The Grapes of Wrath | Ma Joad | |
| Judith Anderson | Rebecca | Mrs. Danvers | |
| Ruth Hussey | The Philadelphia Story | Elizabeth Imbrie | |
| Barbara O'Neil | All This and Heaven Too | Duchesse de Praslin | |
| Marjorie Rambeau | Primrose Path | Mamie Adams | |
| 1941 (14th) |
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| Mary Astor | The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak | |
| Sara Allgood | How Green Was My Valley | Beth Morgan | |
| Patricia Collinge | The Little Foxes | Birdie Hubbard | |
| Teresa Wright | The Little Foxes | Alexandra Giddens | |
| Margaret Wycherly | Sergeant York | Mother York | |
| 1942 (15th) |
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| Teresa Wright | Mrs. Miniver | Carol Beldon | |
| Gladys Cooper | Now, Voyager | Mrs. Vale | |
| Agnes Moorehead | The Magnificent Ambersons | Fanny Minafer | |
| Susan Peters | Random Harvest | Kitty Chilcet | |
| May Whitty | Mrs. Miniver | Lady Beldon | |
| 1943 (16th) |
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| Katina Paxinou | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Pilar | |
| Gladys Cooper | The Song of Bernadette | Sister Marie Therese Vauzous | |
| Paulette Goddard | So Proudly We Hail! | Lt. Joan O'Doul | |
| Anne Revere | The Song of Bernadette | Louise Soubirous | |
| Lucile Watson | Watch on the Rhine | Fanny Farrelly | |
| 1944 (17th) |
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| Ethel Barrymore | None but the Lonely Heart | Ma Mott | |
| Jennifer Jones | Since You Went Away | Jane Deborah Hilton | |
| Angela Lansbury | Gaslight | Nancy Oliver | |
| Aline MacMahon | Dragon Seed | Ling Tan's Wife | |
| Agnes Moorehead | Mrs. Parkington | Baroness Aspasia Conti | |
| 1945 (18th) |
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| Anne Revere | National Velvet | Araminty Brown | |
| Eve Arden | Mildred Pierce | Ida Corwin | |
| Ann Blyth | Mildred Pierce | Veda Pierce Forrester | |
| Angela Lansbury | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Sibyl Vane | |
| Joan Lorring | The Corn is Green | Bessie Watty | |
| 1946 (19th) |
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| Anne Baxter | The Razor's Edge | Sophie MacDonald | |
| Ethel Barrymore | The Spiral Staircase | Mrs. Warren | |
| Lillian Gish | Duel in the Sun | Laura Belle McCanles | |
| Flora Robson | Saratoga Trunk | Angelique Buiton | |
| Gale Sondergaard | Anna and the King of Siam | Lady Thiang | |
| 1947 (20th) |
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| Celeste Holm | Gentleman's Agreement | Anne Dettrey | |
| Ethel Barrymore | The Paradine Case | Lady Sophie Horfield | |
| Gloria Grahame | Crossfire | Ginny Tremaine | |
| Marjorie Main | The Egg and I | Ma Kettle | |
| Anne Revere | Gentleman's Agreement | Mrs. Green | |
| 1948 (21st) |
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| Claire Trevor | Key Largo | Gaye Dawn | |
| Barbara Bel Geddes | I Remember Mama | Katrin Hanson | |
| Ellen Corby | I Remember Mama | Aunt Trina | |
| Agnes Moorehead | Johnny Belinda | Aggie McDonald | |
| Jean Simmons | Hamlet | Ophelia | |
| 1949 (22nd) |
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| Mercedes McCambridge | All the King's Men | Sadie Burke | |
| Ethel Barrymore | Pinky | Miss Em | |
| Celeste Holm | Come to the Stable | Sister Scholastica | |
| Elsa Lanchester | Come to the Stable | Amelia Potts | |
| Ethel Waters | Pinky | Dicey Johnson |
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
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| 1950 (23rd) |
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| Josephine Hull | Harvey | Veta Louise Simmons | |
| Hope Emerson | Caged | Evelyn Harper | |
| Celeste Holm | All About Eve | Karen Richards | |
| Nancy Olson | Sunset Boulevard | Betty Schaefer | |
| Thelma Ritter | All About Eve | Birdie Kumen | |
| 1951 (24th) |
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| Kim Hunter | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella Kowalski | |
| Joan Blondell | The Blue Veil | Annie Rawlins | |
| Mildred Dunnock | Death of a Salesman | Linda Loman | |
| Lee Grant | Detective Story | Shoplifter | |
| Thelma Ritter | The Mating Season | Ellen McNulty | |
| 1952 (25th) |
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| Gloria Grahame | The Bad and the Beautiful | Rosemary Bartlow | |
| Jean Hagen | Singin' in the Rain | Lina Lamont | |
| Colette Marchand | Moulin Rouge | Marie Charlet | |
| Terry Moore | Come Back, Little Sheba | Marie Buckholder | |
| Thelma Ritter | With a Song in My Heart | Clancy | |
| 1953 (26th) |
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| Donna Reed | From Here to Eternity | Alma 'Lorene' Burke | |
| Grace Kelly | Mogambo | Linda Nordley | |
| Geraldine Page | Hondo | Angie Lowe | |
| Marjorie Rambeau | Torch Song | Mrs. Stewart | |
| Thelma Ritter | Pickup on South Street | Moe | |
| 1954 (27th) |
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| Eva Marie Saint | On the Waterfront | Edie Doyle | |
| Nina Foch | Executive Suite | Erica Martin | |
| Katy Jurado | Broken Lance | Señora Devereaux | |
| Jan Sterling | The High and the Mighty | Sally McKee | |
| Claire Trevor | The High and the Mighty | May Holst | |
| 1955 (28th) |
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| Jo Van Fleet | East of Eden | Kate | |
| Betsy Blair | Marty | Clara Snyder | |
| Peggy Lee | Pete Kelly's Blues | Rose Hopkins | |
| Marisa Pavan | The Rose Tattoo | Rosa Delle Rose | |
| Natalie Wood | Rebel Without a Cause | Judy | |
| 1956 (29th) |
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| Dorothy Malone | Written on the Wind | Marylee Hadley | |
| Mildred Dunnock | Baby Doll | Rose Comfort | |
| Eileen Heckart | The Bad Seed | Hortense Daigle | |
| Mercedes McCambridge | Giant | Luz Benedict | |
| Patty McCormack | The Bad Seed | Rhoda Penmark | |
| 1957 (30th) |
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| Miyoshi Umeki | Sayonara | Katsumi | |
| Carolyn Jones | The Bachelor Party | The Existentialist | |
| Elsa Lanchester | Witness for the Prosecution | Miss Plimsoll | |
| Hope Lange | Peyton Place | Selena Cross | |
| Diane Varsi | Peyton Place | Allison MacKenzie | |
| 1958 (31st) |
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| Wendy Hiller | Separate Tables | Pat Cooper | |
| Peggy Cass | Auntie Mame | Agnes Gooch | |
| Martha Hyer | Some Came Running | Gwen French | |
| Maureen Stapleton | Lonelyhearts | Fay Doyle | |
| Cara Williams | The Defiant Ones | Billy's mother | |
| 1959 (32nd) |
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| Shelley Winters | The Diary of Anne Frank | Petronella Van Daan | |
| Hermione Baddeley | Room at the Top | Elspeth | |
| Susan Kohner | Imitation of Life | Sarah Jane Johnson (age 18) | |
| Juanita Moore | Imitation of Life | Annie Johnson | |
| Thelma Ritter | Pillow Talk | Alma |
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
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| 1960 (33rd) |
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| Shirley Jones | Elmer Gantry | Lulu Baines | |
| Glynis Johns | The Sundowners | Mrs. Firth | |
| Shirley Knight | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | Reenie Flood | |
| Janet Leigh | Psycho | Marion Crane | |
| Mary Ure | Sons and Lovers | Clara Dawes | |
| 1961 (34th) |
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| Rita Moreno | West Side Story | Anita | |
| Fay Bainter | The Children's Hour | Amelia Tilford | |
| Judy Garland | Judgment at Nuremberg | Irene Hoffman Wallner | |
| Lotte Lenya | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales | |
| Una Merkel | Summer and Smoke | Mrs. Winemiller | |
| 1962 (35th) |
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| Patty Duke | The Miracle Worker | Helen Keller | |
| Mary Badham | To Kill a Mockingbird | Scout Finch | |
| Shirley Knight | Sweet Bird of Youth | Heavenly Finley | |
| Angela Lansbury | The Manchurian Candidate | Eleanor Iselin | |
| Thelma Ritter | Birdman of Alcatraz | Elizabeth Stroud | |
| 1963 (36th) |
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| Margaret Rutherford | The V.I.P.s | The Duchess of Brighton | |
| Diane Cilento | Tom Jones | Molly Seagrim | |
| Edith Evans | Tom Jones | Miss Western | |
| Joyce Redman | Tom Jones | Mrs. Waters (Jenny Jones) | |
| Lilia Skala | Lilies of the Field | Mother Maria Marthe | |
| 1964 (37th) |
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| Lila Kedrova | Zorba the Greek | Madame Hortense | |
| Gladys Cooper | My Fair Lady | Mrs. Higgins | |
| Edith Evans | The Chalk Garden | Mrs. St. Maugham | |
| Grayson Hall | The Night of the Iguana | Judith Fellowes | |
| Agnes Moorehead | Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Velma Cruther | |
| 1965 (38th) |
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| Shelley Winters | A Patch of Blue | Rose-Ann D'Arcy | |
| Ruth Gordon | Inside Daisy Clover | The Dealer – Mrs. Clover | |
| Joyce Redman | Othello | Emilia | |
| Maggie Smith | Othello | Desdemona | |
| Peggy Wood | The Sound of Music | Mother Abbess | |
| 1966 (39th) |
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| Sandy Dennis | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Honey | |
| Wendy Hiller | A Man for All Seasons | Alice More | |
| Jocelyne LaGarde | Hawaii | Queen Malama | |
| Vivien Merchant | Alfie | Lily | |
| Geraldine Page | You're a Big Boy Now | Margery Chanticleer | |
| 1967 (40th) |
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| Estelle Parsons | Bonnie and Clyde | Blanche Barrow | |
| Carol Channing | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Muzzy Van Hossmere | |
| Mildred Natwick | Barefoot in the Park | Ethel Banks | |
| Beah Richards | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Mrs. Prentice | |
| Katharine Ross | The Graduate | Elaine Robinson | |
| 1968 (41st) |
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| Ruth Gordon | Rosemary's Baby | Minnie Castevet | |
| Lynn Carlin | Faces | Maria Forst | |
| Sondra Locke | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Mick Kelly | |
| Kay Medford | Funny Girl | Rose Brice | |
| Estelle Parsons | Rachel, Rachel | Calla Mackie | |
| 1969 (42nd) |
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| Goldie Hawn | Cactus Flower | Toni Simmons | |
| Catherine Burns | Last Summer | Rhoda | |
| Dyan Cannon | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Alice Henderson | |
| Sylvia Miles | Midnight Cowboy | Cass | |
| Susannah York | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Alice LeBlanc |
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 (43rd) |
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| Helen Hayes | Airport | Ada Quonsett | |
| Karen Black | Five Easy Pieces | Rayette Dipesto | |
| Lee Grant | The Landlord | Joyce Enders | |
| Sally Kellerman | MASH | Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan | |
| Maureen Stapleton | Airport | Inez Guerrero | |
| 1971 (44th) |
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| Cloris Leachman | The Last Picture Show | Ruth Popper | |
| Ann-Margret | Carnal Knowledge | Bobbie | |
| Ellen Burstyn | The Last Picture Show | Lois Farrow | |
| Barbara Harris | Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? | Allison Densmore | |
| Margaret Leighton | The Go-Between | Mrs. Maudsley | |
| 1972 (45th) |
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| Eileen Heckart | Butterflies Are Free | Mrs. Baker | |
| Jeannie Berlin | The Heartbreak Kid | Lila Kolodny | |
| Geraldine Page | Pete 'n' Tillie | Gertrude | |
| Susan Tyrrell | Fat City | Oma | |
| Shelley Winters | The Poseidon Adventure | Belle Rosen | |
| 1973 (46th) |
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| Tatum O'Neal | Paper Moon | Addie Loggins | |
| Linda Blair | The Exorcist | Regan MacNeil | |
| Candy Clark | American Graffiti | Debbie Dunham | |
| Madeline Kahn | Paper Moon | Trixie Delight | |
| Sylvia Sidney | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Mrs. Pritchett | |
| 1974 (47th) |
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| Ingrid Bergman | Murder on the Orient Express | Greta Ohlsson | |
| Valentina Cortese | Day for Night | Severine | |
| Madeline Kahn | Blazing Saddles | Lili Von Shtupp | |
| Diane Ladd | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Flo Castleberry | |
| Talia Shire | The Godfather Part II | Connie Corleone | |
| 1975 (48th) |
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| Lee Grant | Shampoo | Felicia Karpf | |
| Ronee Blakley | Nashville | Barbara Jean | |
| Sylvia Miles | Farewell, My Lovely | Jessie Halstead Florian | |
| Lily Tomlin | Nashville | Linnea Reese | |
| Brenda Vaccaro | Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough | Linda Riggs | |
| 1976 (49th) |
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| Beatrice Straight | Network | Louise Schumacher | |
| Jane Alexander | All the President's Men | Judy Hoback | |
| Jodie Foster | Taxi Driver | Iris Steensma | |
| Lee Grant | Voyage of the Damned | Lillian Rosen | |
| Piper Laurie | Carrie | Margaret White | |
| 1977 (50th) |
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| Vanessa Redgrave | Julia | Julia | |
| Leslie Browne | The Turning Point | Emilia Rodgers | |
| Quinn Cummings | The Goodbye Girl | Lucy McFadden | |
| Melinda Dillon | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Gillian Guiler | |
| Tuesday Weld | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Katherine Dunn | |
| 1978 (51st) |
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| Maggie Smith | California Suite | Diana Barrie | |
| Dyan Cannon | Heaven Can Wait | Julia Farnsworth | |
| Penelope Milford | Coming Home | Vi Munson | |
| Maureen Stapleton | Interiors | Pearl | |
| Meryl Streep | The Deer Hunter | Linda | |
| 1979 (52nd) |
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| Meryl Streep | Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer | |
| Jane Alexander | Kramer vs. Kramer | Margaret Phelps | |
| Barbara Barrie | Breaking Away | Evelyn Stoller | |
| Candice Bergen | Starting Over | Jessica Potter | |
| Mariel Hemingway | Manhattan | Tracy |
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
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| 1980 (53rd) |
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| Mary Steenburgen | Melvin and Howard | Lynda Dummar | |
| Eileen Brennan | Private Benjamin | Captain Doreen Lewis | |
| Eva Le Gallienne | Resurrection | Grandma Pearl | |
| Cathy Moriarty | Raging Bull | Vickie Thailer LaMotta | |
| Diana Scarwid | Inside Moves | Louise | |
| 1981 (54th) |
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| Maureen Stapleton | Reds | Emma Goldman | |
| Melinda Dillon | Absence of Malice | Teresa Perrone | |
| Jane Fonda | On Golden Pond | Chelsea Thayer Wayne | |
| Joan Hackett | Only When I Laugh | Toby Landau | |
| Elizabeth McGovern | Ragtime | Evelyn Nesbit | |
| 1982 (55th) |
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| Jessica Lange | Tootsie | Julie Nichols | |
| Glenn Close | The World According to Garp | Jenny Fields | |
| Teri Garr | Tootsie | Sandy Lester | |
| Kim Stanley | Frances | Lillian Farmer | |
| Lesley Ann Warren | Victor Victoria | Norma Cassady | |
| 1983 (56th) |
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| Linda Hunt | The Year of Living Dangerously | Billy Kwan | |
| Cher | Silkwood | Dolly Pelliker | |
| Glenn Close | The Big Chill | Sarah Cooper | |
| Amy Irving | Yentl | Hadass | |
| Alfre Woodard | Cross Creek | Geechee | |
| 1984 (57th) |
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| Peggy Ashcroft | A Passage to India | Mrs. Moore | |
| Glenn Close | The Natural | Iris Gaines | |
| Lindsay Crouse | Places in the Heart | Margaret Lomax | |
| Christine Lahti | Swing Shift | Hazel Zanussi | |
| Geraldine Page | The Pope of Greenwich Village | Mrs. Ritter | |
| 1985 (58th) |
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| Anjelica Huston | Prizzi's Honor | Maerose Prizzi | |
| Margaret Avery | The Color Purple | Shug Avery | |
| Amy Madigan | Twice in a Lifetime | Sunny Sobel | |
| Meg Tilly | Agnes of God | Sister Agnes | |
| Oprah Winfrey | The Color Purple | Sofia Johnson | |
| 1986 (59th) |
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| Dianne Wiest | Hannah and Her Sisters | Holly | |
| Tess Harper | Crimes of the Heart | Chick Boyle | |
| Piper Laurie | Children of a Lesser God | Mrs. Norman | |
| Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | The Color of Money | Carmen | |
| Maggie Smith | A Room with a View | Charlotte Bartlett | |
| 1987 (60th) |
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| Olympia Dukakis | Moonstruck | Rose Castorini | |
| Norma Aleandro | Gaby: A True Story | Florencia | |
| Anne Archer | Fatal Attraction | Beth Gallagher | |
| Anne Ramsey | Throw Momma from the Train | Mrs. Lift | |
| Ann Sothern | The Whales of August | Tisha Doughty | |
| 1988 (61st) |
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| Geena Davis | The Accidental Tourist | Muriel Pritchett | |
| Joan Cusack | Working Girl | Cyn | |
| Frances McDormand | Mississippi Burning | Mrs. Pell | |
| Michelle Pfeiffer | Dangerous Liaisons | Madame Marie de Tourvel | |
| Sigourney Weaver | Working Girl | Katharine Parker | |
| 1989 (62nd) |
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| Brenda Fricker | My Left Foot | Mrs. Brown | |
| Anjelica Huston | Enemies, a Love Story | Tamara Broder | |
| Lena Olin | Enemies, a Love Story | Masha | |
| Julia Roberts | Steel Magnolias | Shelby Eatenton Latcherie | |
| Dianne Wiest | Parenthood | Helen Buckman |
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
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| 1990 (63rd) |
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| Whoopi Goldberg | Ghost | Oda Mae Brown | |
| Annette Bening | The Grifters | Myra Langtry | |
| Lorraine Bracco | Goodfellas | Karen Hill | |
| Diane Ladd | Wild at Heart | Marietta Fortune | |
| Mary McDonnell | Dances with Wolves | Stands With A Fist | |
| 1991 (64th) |
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| Mercedes Ruehl | The Fisher King | Anne Napolitano | |
| Diane Ladd | Rambling Rose | Mother | |
| Juliette Lewis | Cape Fear | Danielle Bowden | |
| Kate Nelligan | The Prince of Tides | Lila Wingo Newbury | |
| Jessica Tandy | Fried Green Tomatoes | Ninny Threadgoode | |
| 1992 (65th) |
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| Marisa Tomei | My Cousin Vinny | Mona Lisa Vito | |
| Judy Davis | Husbands and Wives | Sally | |
| Joan Plowright | Enchanted April | Mrs. Fisher | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | Howards End | Ruth Wilcox | |
| Miranda Richardson | Damage | Ingrid Fleming | |
| 1993 (66th) |
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| Anna Paquin | The Piano | Flora McGrath | |
| Holly Hunter | The Firm | Tammy Hemphill | |
| Rosie Perez | Fearless | Carla Rodrigo | |
| Winona Ryder | The Age of Innocence | May Welland | |
| Emma Thompson | In the Name of the Father | Gareth Peirce | |
| 1994 (67th) |
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| Dianne Wiest | Bullets Over Broadway | Helen Sinclair | |
| Rosemary Harris | Tom & Viv | Rose Haigh-Wood | |
| Helen Mirren | The Madness of King George | Queen Charlotte | |
| Uma Thurman | Pulp Fiction | Mia Wallace | |
| Jennifer Tilly | Bullets Over Broadway | Olive Neal | |
| 1995 (68th) |
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| Mira Sorvino | Mighty Aphrodite | Linda Ash | |
| Joan Allen | Nixon | Pat Nixon | |
| Kathleen Quinlan | Apollo 13 | Marilyn Lovell | |
| Mare Winningham | Georgia | Georgia Flood | |
| Kate Winslet | Sense and Sensibility | Marianne Dashwood | |
| 1996 (69th) |
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| Juliette Binoche | The English Patient | Hana | |
| Joan Allen | The Crucible | Elizabeth Proctor | |
| Lauren Bacall | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Hannah Morgan | |
| Barbara Hershey | The Portrait of a Lady | Madame Serena Merle | |
| Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Secrets & Lies | Hortense Cumberbatch | |
| 1997 (70th) |
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| Kim Basinger | L.A. Confidential | Lynn Bracken | |
| Joan Cusack | In & Out | Emily Montgomery | |
| Minnie Driver | Good Will Hunting | Skylar | |
| Julianne Moore | Boogie Nights | Amber Waves | |
| Gloria Stuart | Titanic | Rose Calvert | |
| 1998 (71st) |
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| Judi Dench | Shakespeare in Love | Queen Elizabeth I | |
| Kathy Bates | Primary Colors | Libby Holden | |
| Brenda Blethyn | Little Voice | Mari Hoff | |
| Rachel Griffiths | Hilary and Jackie | Hilary du Pré | |
| Lynn Redgrave | Gods and Monsters | Hanna | |
| 1999 (72nd) |
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| Angelina Jolie | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe | |
| Toni Collette | The Sixth Sense | Lynn Sear | |
| Catherine Keener | Being John Malkovich | Maxine Lund | |
| Samantha Morton | Sweet and Lowdown | Hattie | |
| Chloë Sevigny | Boys Don't Cry | Lana Tisdel |
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
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| 2000 (73rd) |
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| Marcia Gay Harden | Pollock | Lee Krasner | |
| Judi Dench | Chocolat | Armande Voizin | |
| Kate Hudson | Almost Famous | Penny Lane | |
| Frances McDormand | Almost Famous | Elaine Miller | |
| Julie Walters | Billy Elliot | Georgia Wilkinson | |
| 2001 (74th) |
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| Jennifer Connelly | A Beautiful Mind | Alicia Nash | |
| Helen Mirren | Gosford Park | Jane Wilson | |
| Maggie Smith | Gosford Park | Constance Trentham | |
| Marisa Tomei | In the Bedroom | Natalie Strout | |
| Kate Winslet | Iris | Young Iris Murdoch | |
| 2002 (75th) |
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| Catherine Zeta-Jones | Chicago | Velma Kelly | |
| Kathy Bates | About Schmidt | Roberta Hertzel | |
| Julianne Moore | The Hours | Laura Brown | |
| Queen Latifah | Chicago | Matron Mama Morton | |
| Meryl Streep | Adaptation. | Susan Orlean | |
| 2003 (76th) |
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| Renée Zellweger | Cold Mountain | Ruby Thewes | |
| Shohreh Aghdashloo | House of Sand and Fog | Nadereh Behrani | |
| Patricia Clarkson | Pieces of April | Joy Burns | |
| Marcia Gay Harden | Mystic River | Celeste Boyle | |
| Holly Hunter | Thirteen | Melanie Freeland | |
| 2004 (77th) |
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| Cate Blanchett | The Aviator | Katharine Hepburn | |
| Laura Linney | Kinsey | Clara McMillen | |
| Virginia Madsen | Sideways | Maya Randall | |
| Sophie Okonedo | Hotel Rwanda | Tatiana Rusesabagina | |
| Natalie Portman | Closer | Alice Ayres | |
| 2005 (78th) |
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| Rachel Weisz | The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle | |
| Amy Adams | Junebug | Ashley Johnsten | |
| Catherine Keener | Capote | Nelle Harper Lee | |
| Frances McDormand | North Country | Glory Dodge | |
| Michelle Williams | Brokeback Mountain | Alma Beers Del Mar | |
| 2006 (79th) |
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| Jennifer Hudson | Dreamgirls | Effie White | |
| Adriana Barraza | Babel | Amelia | |
| Cate Blanchett | Notes on a Scandal | Sheba Hart | |
| Abigail Breslin | Little Miss Sunshine | Olive Hoover | |
| Rinko Kikuchi | Babel | Chieko Wataya | |
| 2007 (80th) |
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| Tilda Swinton | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | |
| Cate Blanchett | I'm Not There | Jude Quinn | |
| Ruby Dee | American Gangster | Mama Lucas | |
| Saoirse Ronan | Atonement | Briony Tallis | |
| Amy Ryan | Gone Baby Gone | Helene McCready | |
| 2008 (81st) |
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| Penélope Cruz | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | María Elena | |
| Amy Adams | Doubt | Sister James | |
| Viola Davis | Doubt | Mrs. Miller | |
| Taraji P. Henson | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Queenie | |
| Marisa Tomei | The Wrestler | Cassidy/Pam | |
| 2009 (82nd) |
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| Mo'Nique | Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire | Mary Lee Johnston | |
| Penélope Cruz | Nine | Carla Albanese | |
| Vera Farmiga | Up in the Air | Alex Goran | |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal | Crazy Heart | Jean Craddock | |
| Anna Kendrick | Up in the Air | Natalie Keener |
| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
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| 2010 (83rd) |
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| Melissa Leo | The Fighter | Alice Ward | |
| Amy Adams | The Fighter | Charlene Fleming | |
| Helena Bonham Carter | The King's Speech | Queen Elizabeth | |
| Hailee Steinfeld | True Grit | Mattie Ross | |
| Jacki Weaver | Animal Kingdom | Janine "Smurf" Cody | |
| 2011 (84th) |
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| Octavia Spencer | The Help | Minny Jackson | |
| Bérénice Bejo | The Artist | Peppy Miller | |
| Jessica Chastain | The Help | Celia Foote | |
| Melissa McCarthy | Bridesmaids | Megan | |
| Janet McTeer | Albert Nobbs | Hubert Page | |
| 2012 (84th) |
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| Anne Hathaway | Les Misérables | Fantine | |
| Amy Adams | The Master | Peggy | |
| Sally Field | Lincoln | Mary | |
| Jacki Weaver | Silver Linings Playbook | Dolores | |
| Helen Hunt | The Sessions | Cheryl |
Alice Brady won for her performance in 1937's In Old Chicago.
Hattie McDaniel won in 1939 for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, thus becoming the first black performer to win an Oscar.
Jane Darwell won for her performance as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
Teresa Wright won for her role in 1942's Mrs Miniver.
Ethel Barrymore won in 1944 for her performance in None but the Lonely Heart
Celeste Holm won for her performance in Gentleman's Agreement (1947).
Donna Reed won for her role in From Here to Eternity (1953).
Eva Marie Saint won in 1954 for her performance in On the Waterfront.
Wendy Hiller won in 1958 for her performance in Separate Tables.
Shelley Winters won two awards in this category for her roles in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965).
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Rita Moreno won for her role in 1961's West Side Story.
Patty Duke won in 1962 for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.
Goldie Hawn won in 1969 for her role in Cactus Flower.
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At age 10, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest winner and nominee in this category for her role in Paper Moon.
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Vanessa Redgrave won in 1977 for her portrayal of the titular character in Julia.
Mary Steenburgen won for her role in 1980's Melvin and Howard.
At age 77, Peggy Ashcroft became the oldest winner in this category for her role in A Passage to India (1984).
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Anjelica Huston won in 1985 for her performance in Prizzi's Honor.
Dianne Wiest won for her performances in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets over Broadway (1994); films which were both directed by Woody Allen.
Olympia Dukakis won in 1987 for her performance in Moonstruck.
Geena Davis won in 1988 for her role in The Accidental Tourist.
Whoopi Goldberg won for her role as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990).
Marisa Tomei won for her performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Judi Dench won in 1998 for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love.
Angelina Jolie won for her performance in 1999's Girl, Interrupted.
Cate Blanchett won for her performance as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004), becoming the first performer to win an Oscar for portraying a real-life Oscar winner.
Rachel Weisz won for her performance in The Constant Gardener (2005).
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Jennifer Hudson won for her performance as Effie White in Dreamgirls (2006).
Tilda Swinton won for her performance in Michael Clayton (2007).
Penélope Cruz received two consecutive nominations and won for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), becoming the first Spanish actress to win an Oscar.
Mo'Nique won for her role in Precious (2009).
Melissa Leo won for her role as Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010).
Octavia Spencer won for her role as Minny Jackson in The Help (2011).
Anne Hathaway won for portraying Fantine in Les Misérables (2012).
Patricia Arquette won for her role in Boyhood (2014).
Alicia Vikander won for her performance in The Danish Girl (2015).
Viola Davis won for her performance in Fences (2016).
