Latest in Oscar Best Supporting Actress

As we approach the 96th Academy Awards, Deadline takes a photo-heavy look back at every Best Supporting Actress winner. Scroll through the images below to see them all. And if you’re interested in seeing the Best Supporting Actor winners, click…

I’ve said it before and I will say it again. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences lately has had a serious problem when it comes to at least one of the acting races. Too many contenders for best actor and only five slots. I know, I know. Readers are going to come after me for saying this again, but, just as…

Apparently she wasn’t content to let the Paramount and Relativity marketing machine do all the campaign work. So Best Supporting Actress frontrunner Melissa Leo personally paid for Hollywood trade ads (including on Deadline.com) Thursday showing  her super glammed-up wearing "Faux (not real) Fur" and a glittery…

Matt Damon, True Grit – He was the leading man starring in his Invictus director Clint Eastwood's Hereafter. But his best chance at an Oscar is thought to be Joel and Ethan Coen's True Grit in the supporting role of that gabby Texas Ranger, LaBoeuf, based on the Charles Portis novel. Deadline’s Mike Fleming…

Category placement is always a delicate dance come Oscar time. In 1966, Walter Matthau won the Supporting Actor Oscar for The Fortune Cookie even though he was on equal footing with co-star Jack Lemmon. In 1981, Susan Sarandon admitted to voting for herself in Supporting for Atlantic City only to surprisingly land in…