List of best supporting actress
Oscar winners and other
Academy Award nominees
Updated: March 15, 2026
Current nominees and who beat who for best supporting actress Oscar: Year indicates year/period for which films were judged, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia
2025: Amy Madigan (Weapons) — beat Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another), Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners), Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)
2024: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez) — beat Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown), Felicity Jones (The Brutalist), Ariana Grande (Wicked)
2023: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) — beat Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple), America Ferrera (Barbie), Jodie Foster (Nyad)
2022: Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once) — beat Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Hong Chau (The Whale), Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
2021: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) — beat Judi Dench (Belfast), Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog), Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard), Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
2020: Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari) — beat Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy), Olivia Colman (The Father), Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
2019: Laura Dern (Marriage Story) — beat Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit), Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell), Margot Robbie (Bombshell), Florence Pugh (Little Women)
2018: Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) — beat Rachel Weisz (The Favourite), Emma Stone (The Favourite), Amy Adams (Vice), Marina de Tavira (Roma)
2017: Allison Janney (I, Tonya) — beat Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water), Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird), Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread)
2016: Viola Davis (Fences) — beat Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea), Nicole Kidman (Lion), Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures), Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
2015: Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) — beat Rooney Mara (Carol), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight), Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)
2014: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) — beat Emma Stone (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)), Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), Meryl Streep (Into the Woods), Laura Dern (Wild)
2013: Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) — beat Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle), Julia Roberts (August: Osage County), Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), June Squibb (Nebraska)
2012: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables) — beat Sally Field (Lincoln), Amy Adams (The Master), Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook), Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
2011: Octavia Spencer (The Help) — beat Jessica Chastain (The Help), Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids), Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
2010: Melissa Leo (The Fighter) — beat Amy Adams (The Fighter), Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
2009: Mo’Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire) — beat Penélope Cruz (Nine), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart), Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
2008: Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) — beat Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler), Amy Adams (Doubt), Viola Davis (Doubt), Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
2007: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) — beat Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There), Ruby Dee (American Gangster), Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
2006: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) — beat Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine),
Adriana Barraza (Babel), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)
2005: Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) — beat Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain), Catherine Keener (Capote), Frances McDormand (North Country), Amy Adams (Junebug)
2004: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator) — beat Natalie Portman (Closer), Laura Linney (Kinsey), Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda)
2003: Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain) — beat Holly Hunter (Thirteen), Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River), Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April), Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog)
2002: Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago) — beat Julianne Moore (The Hours), Meryl Streep (Adaptation.), Kathy Bates (About Schmidt), Queen Latifah (Chicago)
2001: Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) — beat Helen Mirren (Gosford Park), Maggie Smith (Gosford Park), Kate Winslet (Iris), Marisa Tomei (In the Bedroom)
2000: Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock) — beat Judi Dench (Chocolat), Frances McDormand (Almost Famous), Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Julie Walters (Billy Elliot)
1999: Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted) — beat Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry), Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown), Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense)
1998: Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love) — beat Kathy Bates (Primary Colors), Lynn Redgrave (Gods and Monsters), Rachel Griffiths (Hilary and Jackie), Brenda Blethyn (Little Voice)
1997: Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential) — beat Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights), Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting), Gloria Stuart (Titanic), Joan Cusack (In & Out)
1996: Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) — beat Lauren Bacall (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Joan Allen (The Crucible), Barbara Hershey (Portrait of a Lady), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies)
1995: Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) — beat Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility), Joan Allen (Nixon), Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13), Mare Winningham (Georgia)
1994: Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway) — beat Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Helen Mirren (The Madness of King George), Jennifer Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway), Rosemary Harris (Tom & Viv)
1993: Anna Paquin (The Piano) — beat Holly Hunter (The Firm), Emma Thompson (In the Name of the Father), Winona Ryder (The Age of Innocence), Rosie Perez (Fearless)
1992: Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny) — beat Vanessa Redgrave (Howards End), Natasha Richardson (Damage), Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives), Joan Plowright (Enchanted April)
1991: Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King) — beat Jessica Tandy (Fried Green Tomatoes), Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides), Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), Diane Ladd (Rambling Rose)
1990: Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost) — beat Annette Bening (The Grifters), Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas), Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves), Diane Ladd (Wild at Heart)
1989: Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot) — beat Julia Roberts (Steel Magnolias), Anjelica Huston (Enemies, A Love Story), Lena Olin (Enemies, A Love Story), Dianne Wiest (Parenthood)
1988: Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist) — beat Frances McDormand (Mississippi Burning), Sigourney Weaver (Working Girl), Joan Cusack (Working Girl), Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Liaisons)
1987: Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck) — beat Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction), Ann Sothern (The Whales of August), Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train), Norma Aleandro (Gaby: A True Story)
1986: Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters) — beat Maggie Smith (A Room with a View), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money), Piper Laurie (Children of a Lesser God), Tess Harper (Crimes of the Heart)
1985: Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor) — beat Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple), Margaret Avery (The Color Purple), Amy Madigan (Twice in a Lifetime), Meg Tilly (Agnes of God)
1984: Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India) — beat Glenn Close (The Natural), Geraldine Page (The Pope of Greenwich Village), Lindsay Crouse (Places in the Heart), Christine Lahti (Swing Shift)
1983: Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously) — beat Cher (Silkwood), Glenn Close (The Big Chill), Amy Irving (Yentl), Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek)
1982: Jessica Lange (Tootsie) — beat Teri Garr (Tootsie), Glenn Close (The World According to Garp), Lesley Ann Warren (Victor Victoria), Kim Stanley (Frances)
1981: Maureen Stapleton (Reds) — beat Jane Fonda (On Golden Pond), Melinda Dillon (Absence of Malice), Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime), Joan Hackett (Only When I Laugh)
1980: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard) — beat Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull), Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin), Diana Scarwid (Inside Moves), Eva Le Gallienne (Resurrection)
1979: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer) — beat Jane Alexander (Kramer vs. Kramer), Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan), Candice Bergen (Starting Over), Barbara Barrie (Breaking Away)
1978: Maggie Smith (California Suite) — beat Meryl Streep (The Deer Hunter), Dyan Cannon (Heaven Can Wait), Maureen Stapleton (Interiors), Penelope Milford (Coming Home)
1977: Vanessa Redgrave (Julia) — beat Tuesday Weld (Looking for Mr. Goodbar), Quinn Cummings (The Goodbye Girl), Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters of the Third Kind), Leslie Browne (The Turning Point)
1976: Beatrice Straight (Network) — beat Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver), Jane Alexander (All the President’s Men), Lee Grant (Voyage of the Damned), Piper Laurie (Carrie)
1975: Lee Grant (Shampoo) — beat Lily Tomlin (Nashville), Ronee Blakley (Nashville), Brenda Vaccaro (Once Is Not Enough), Sylvia Miles (Farewell, my Lovely)
1974: Ingrid Bergman (Murder on the Orient Express) — beat Talia Shire (The Godfather: Part II), Valentina Cortese (Day for Night), Madeline Kahn (Blazing Saddles), Diane Ladd (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
1973: Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon) — beat Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Madeline Kahn (Paper Moon), Candy Clark (American Graffiti), Sylvia Sidney (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams)
1972: Eileen Heckart (Butterflies are Free) — beat Shelley Winters (The Poseidon Adventure), Geraldine Page (Pete ’n’ Tilly), Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak Kid), Susan Tyrrell (Fat City)
1971: Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show) — beat Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show), Ann-Margret (Carnal Knowledge), Barbara Harris (Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?), Margaret Leighton (The Go-Between)
1970: Helen Hayes (Airport) — beat Maureen Stapleton (Airport), Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces), Lee Grant (The Landlord), Sally Kellerman (MASH)
1969: Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower) — beat Dyan Cannon (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), Sylvia Miles (Midnight Cowboy), Susannah York (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?), Catherine Burns (Last Summer)
1968: Ruth Gordon (Rosemary’s Baby) — beat Sondra Locke (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), Estelle Parsons (Rachel, Rachel), Kay Medford (Funny Girl), Lynn Carlin (Faces)
1967: Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde) — beat Katharine Ross (The Graduate), Beah Richards (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Mildred Natwick (Barefoot in the Park)
1966: Sandy Dennis (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) — beat Geraldine Page (You’re a Big Boy Now), Wendy Hiller (A Man for All Seasons), Vivien Merchant (Alfie), Jocelyne LaGarde (Hawaii)
1965: Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue) — beat Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music), Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover), Maggie Smith (Othello), Joyce Redman (Othello)
1964: Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek) — beat Agnes Moorehead (Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte), Gladys Cooper (My Fair Lady), Edith Evans (The Chalk Garden), Grayson Hall (The Night of the Iguana)
1963: Margaret Rutherford (The V.I.P.s) — beat Diane Cilento (Tom Jones), Joyce Redman (Tom Jones), Edith Evans (Tom Jones), Lilia Skala (Lilies of the Field)
1962: Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker) — beat Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate), Mary Badham (To Kill a Mockingbird), Shirley Knight (Sweet Bird of Youth), Thelma Ritter (Birdman of Alcatraz)
1961: Rita Moreno (West Side Story) — beat Judy Garland (Judgment at Nuremberg), Una Merkel (Summer and Smoke), Fay Bainter (The Children’s Hour), Lotte Lenya (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)
1960: Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry) — beat Janet Leigh (Psycho), Glynis Johns (The Sundowners), Shirley Knight (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) Mary Ure (Sons and Lovers)
1959: Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank) — beat Thelma Ritter (Pillow Talk), Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life), Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life), Hermione Baddeley (Room at the Top)
1958: Wendy Hiller (Separate Tables) — beat Maureen Stapleton (Lonelyhearts), Martha Hyer (Some Came Running), Peggy Cass (Auntie Mame), Cara Williams (The Defiant Ones)
1957: Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara) — beat Carolyn Jones (The Bachelor Party), Elsa Lanchester (Witness for the Prosecution), Hope Lange (Peyton Place), Diane Varsi (Peyton Place)
1956: Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind) — beat Mercedes McCambridge (Giant), Eileen Heckart (The Bad Seed), Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed), Mildred Dunnock (Baby Doll)
1955: Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden) — beat Natalie Wood (Rebel Without a Cause), Betsy Blair (Marty), Peggy Lee (Pete Kelly’s Blues), Marisa Pavan (The Rose Tattoo)
1954: Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront) — beat Claire Trevor (The High and the Mighty), Jan Sterling (The High and the Mighty), Katy Jurado (Broken Lance), Nina Foch (Executive Suite)
1953: Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity) — beat Grace Kelly (Mogambo), Geraldine Page (Hondo), Thelma Ritter (Pickup on South Street), Marjorie Rambeau (Torch Song)
1952: Gloria Grahame (The Bad and the Beautiful) — beat Thelma Ritter (With a Song in My Heart), Jean Hagen (Singin’ in the Rain), Colette Marchand (Moulin Rouge), Terry Moore (Come Back, Little Sheba)
1951: Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire) — beat Thelma Ritter (The Mating Season), Lee Grant (Detective Story), Joan Blondell (The Blue Veil), Mildred Dunnock (Death of a Salesman)
1950: Josephine Hull (Harvey) — beat Celeste Holm (All About Eve), Thelma Ritter (All About Eve), Nancy Olson (Sunset Boulevard), Hope Emerson (Caged)
1949: Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men) — beat Ethel Barrymore (Pinky), Ethel Waters (Pinky), Celeste Holm (Come to the Stable), Elsa Lanchester (Come to the Stable)
1948: Claire Trevor (Key Largo) — beat Agnes Moorehead (Johnny Belinda), Barbara Bel Geddes (I Remember Mama), Ellen Corby (I Remember Mama), Jean Simmons (Hamlet)
1947: Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement) — beat Anne Revere (Gentleman’s Agreement), Gloria Grahame (Crossfire), Ethel Barrymore (The Paradine Case), Marjorie Main (The Egg and I)
1946: Anne Baxter (The Razor’s Edge) — beat Lillian Gish (Duel in the Sun), Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase), Flora Robson (Saratoga Trunk), Gale Sondergaard (Anna and the King of Siam)
1945: Anne Revere (National Velvet) — beat Angela Lansbury (The Picture of Dorian Gray), Eve Arden (Mildred Pierce), Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce), Joan Lorring (The Corn is Green)
1944: Ethel Barrymore (None But the Lonely Heart) — beat Angela Lansbury (Gaslight), Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Parkington), Jennifer Jones (Since You Went Away), Aline MacMahon (Dragon Seed)
1943: Katina Paxinou — beat Anne Revere (The Song of Bernadette), Gladys Cooper (The Song of Bernadette), Lucile Watson (Watch on the Rhine), Paulette Goddard (So Proudly We Hail!)
1942: Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver) — beat May Whitty (Mrs. Miniver), Agnes Moorehead (The Magnificent Ambersons), Susan Peters (Random Harvest), Gladys Cooper (Now, Voyager)
1941: Mary Astor (The Great Lie) — beat Teresa Wright (The Little Foxes), Patricia Collinge (The Little Foxes), Sara Allgood (How Green Was My Valley), Margaret Wycherly (Sergeant York)
1940: Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath) — beat Judith Anderson (Rebecca), Barbara O’Neil (All This, and Heaven Too), Marjorie Rambeau (Primrose Path), Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story)
1939: Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind) — beat Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind), Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights),
Maria Ouspenskaya (Love Affair), Edna May Oliver (Drums Along the Mohawk)
1938: Fay Bainter (Jezebel) — beat Billie Burke (Merrily We Live), Miliza Korjus (The Great Waltz), Beulah Bondi (Of Human Hearts), Spring Byington (You Can’t Take it with You)
1937: Alice Brady (In Old Chicago) — beat Claire Trevor (Dead End), Anne Shirley (Stella Dallas), May Whitty (Night Must Fall), Andrea Leeds (Stage Door)
1936: Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse) — beat Alice Brady (My Man Godfrey), Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth), Beulah Bondi (The Gorgeous Hussy), Bonita Granville (These Three)
