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
• 1949 Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
• 1950 Josephine Hull - Harvey
• 1951 Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire

• 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
• 1965 Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
• 1966 Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 1967 Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
• 1968 Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
• 1969 Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
• 1970 Helen Hayes - Airport
• 1971 Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
• 1972 Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free
• 1973 Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
• 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