From Gale Sondergaard in 1937 to Melissa Leo in 2011, the Academy Awards have recognized great performances by actresses in supporting roles throughout the years.
Multiple winners of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar have included Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters.
Who Won Best Supporting Actress Oscars?
| 2012 | |
| Nominees: Berenice Bejo (The Artist); Jessica Chastain (The Help); Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids); Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs); Octavia Spencer (The Help) | |
| 2011 Melissa Leo ("The Fighter") | |
| Other Nominees: Amy Adams (The Fighter); Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech); Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit); Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) | |
| 2010 Monique ("Precious") |    |
| Other Nominees: Penelope Cruz (Nine); Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air); Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart); Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air) | |
| 2009 Penelope Cruz ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona") | |
| Other Nominees: Amy Adams (Doubt); Viola Davis (Doubt); Taraji P Henson (Curious Case Of Benjamin Button); Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler) | |
| 2008 Tilda Swinton ("Michael Clayton") |  |
| Other Nominees: Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There); Ruby Dee (American Gangster); Saoirse Ronan (Atonement); Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) | |
| 2007 Jennifer Hudson ("Dreamgirls") |  |
| Other Nominees: Adriana Barraza (Babel); Cate Blanchett (Notes On A Scandal); Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine); Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) | |
| 2006 Rachel Weisz ("The Constant Gardener") | |
| Other Nominees: Amy Adams (Junebug); Catherine Keener (Capote); Frances McDormand (North Country); Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) | |
| 2005 Cate Blanchett ("The Aviator") |  |
| Other Nominees: Laura Linney (Kinsey); Virginia Madsen (Sideways); Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda); Natalie Portman (Closer) | |
| 2004 Renee Zellweger ("Cold Mountain") | |
| Other Nominees: Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog); Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April); Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River); Holly Hunter (Thirteen) | |
| 2003 Catherine Zeta-Jones ("Chicago") |  |
| Other Nominees: Kathy Bates (About Schmidt); Julianne Moore (The Hours); Queen Latifah (Chicago); Meryl Streep (Adaptation) | |
| 2002 Jennifer Connelly ("A Beautiful Mind") |  |
| Other Nominees: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park); Maggie Smith (Gosford Park); Marisa Tomei (In the Bedroom); Kate Winslet (Iris) | |
| 2001 Marcia Gay Harden ("Pollock") | |
| Other Nominees: Judi Dench (Chocolat); Kate Hudson (Almost Famous); Frances McDormand (Almost Famous); Julie Waters (Billy Elliot) | |
| 2000 Angelina Jolie ("Girl Interrupted") | |
| Other Nominees: Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense); Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich); Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown); Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry) | |
| 1999 Judi Dench ("Shakespeare In Love") |  |
| Other Nominees: Kathy Bates (Primary Colors); Brenda Blethyn (Little Voice); Rachel Griffiths (Hilary and Jackie); Lynn Redgrave (Gods and Monsters) | |
| 1998 Kim Basinger ("LA Confidential") | |
| Other Nominees: Joan Cusack (In & Out); Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting); Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights); Gloria Stuart (Titanic) | |
| 1997 Juliette Binoche ("The English Patient") |  |
| Other Nominees: Joan Allen (The Crucible); Lauren Bacall (The Mirror Has Two Faces); Barbara Hershey (The Portrait of a Lady); Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies) | |
| 1996 Mira Sorvino ("Mighty Aphrodite") | |
| Other Nominees: Joan Allen (Nixon); Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13); Mare Winningham (Georgia); Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility) | |
| 1995 Dianne Wiest ("Bullets Over Broadway") | |
| Other Nominees: Rosemary Harris (Tom & Viv); Helen Mirren (Madness of King George); Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction); Jennifer Tilly (Bullets over Broadway) | |
| 1994 Anna Paquin ("The Piano") | |
| Other Nominees: Holly Hunter (The Firm); Rosie Perez (Fearless); Winona Ryder (The Age of Innocence); Emma Thompson (In the Name of the Father) | |
| 1993 Marisa Tomei ("My Cousin Vinny") | |
| Other Nominees: Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives); Joan Plowright (Enchanted April); Vanessa Redgrave (Howards End); Miranda Richardson (Damage) | |
| 1992 Mercedes Ruehl ("The Fisher King") | |
| Other Nominees: Diane Ladd (Rambling Rose); Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear); Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides); Jessica Tandy (Fried Green Tomatoes) | |
| 1991 Whoopi Goldberg ("Ghost") | |
| Other Nominees: Annette Bening (The Grifters); Lorraine Bracco (Good Fellas); Diane Ladd (Wild at Heart); Mary McDonnell (Dances With Wolves) | |
| 1990 Brenda Fricker ("My Left Foot") | |
| Other Nominees: Anjelica Huston (Enemies A Love Story); Lena Olin (Enemies A Love Story); Julia Roberts (Steel Magnolias); Dianne Wiest (Parenthood) | |
| 1989 Geena Davis ("The Accidental Tourist") | |
| Other Nominees: Joan Cusack (Working Girl); Frances McDormand (Mississippi Burning); Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Liaisons); Sigourney Weaver (Working Girl) | |
| 1988 Olympia Dukakis ("Moonstruck") | |
| Other Nominees: Norma Aleandro (Gaby-A True Story); Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction); Anne Ramsey (Throw Mama From the Train); Ann Sothern (The Whales of August) | |
| 1987 Dianne Wiest ("Hannah and Her Sisters") | |
| Other Nominees: Tess Harper (Crimes of the Heart); Piper Laurie (Children of a Lesser God); Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money); Maggie Smith (A Room With A View) | |
| 1986 Anjelica Huston ("Prizzi's Honor") |  |
| Other Nominees: Margaret Avery (The Color Purple); Amy Madigan (Twice In A Lifetime); Meg Tilly (Agnes of God); Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple) | |
| 1985 Peggy Ashcroft ("A Passage To India") |  |
| Other Nominees: Glenn Close (The Natural); Lindsay Crouse (Places In the Heart); Christine Lahti (Swing Shift); Geraldine Page (The Pope of Greenwich Village) | |
| 1984 Linda Hunt ("The Year of Living Dangerously") | |
| Other Nominees: Cher (Silkwood); Glenn Close (The Big Chill); Amy Irving (Yentl); Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek) | |
| 1983 Jessica Lange ("Tootsie") | |
| Other Nominees: Glenn Close (The World According To Garp); Teri Garr (Tootsie); Kim Stanley (Frances); Lesley Ann Warren (Victor/Victoria) | |
| 1982 Maureen Stapleton ("Reds") | |
| Other Nominees: Melinda Dillon (Absence of Malice); Jane Fonda (On Golden Pond); Joan Hackett (Only When I Laugh); Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime) | |
| 1981 Mary Steenburgen ("Melvin and Howard") | |
| Other Nominees: Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin); Eva Le Gallienne (Resurrection); Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull); Diana Scarwid (Inside Moves) | |
| 1980 Meryl Streep ("Kramer vs Kramer") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (Kramer vs Kramer); Barbara Barrie (Breaking Away); Candice Bergen (Starting Over); Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan) | |
| 1979 Maggie Smith ("California Suite") | |
| Other Nominees: Dyan Cannon (Heaven Can Wait); Penelope Milford (Coming Home); Maureen Stapleton (Interiors); Meryl Streep (The Deer Hunter) | |
| 1978 Vanessa Redgrave ("Julia") | |
| Other Nominees: Leslie Browne (The Turning Point); Quinn Cummings (The Goodbye Girl); Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters of the Third Kind); Tuesday Weld (Looking For Mr Goodbar) | |
| 1977 Beatrice Straight ("Network") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (All the President's Men); Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver); Lee Grant (Voyage Of the Damned); Piper Laurie (Carrie) | |
| 1976 Lee Grant ("Shampoo") | |
| Other Nominees: Ronee Blakley (Nashville); Sylvia Miles (Farewell My Lovely); Lily Tomlin (Nashville); Brenda Vaccaro (Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough) | |
| 1975 Ingrid Bergman ("Murder on the Orient Express") | |
| Other Nominees: Valentina Cortese (Day For Night); Madeline Kahn (Blazing Saddles); Diane Ladd (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore); Talia Shire (The Godfather Part II) | |
| 1974 Tatum O'Neal ("Paper Moon") | |
| Other Nominees: Linda Blair (The Exorcist); Candy Clark (American Graffiti); Madeline Kahn (Paper Moon); Sylvia Sidney (Summer Wishes Winter Dreams) | |
| 1973 Eileen Heckart ("Butterflies Are Free") | |
| Other Nominees: Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak Kid); Geraldine Page (Pete 'n' Tillie); Susan Tyrrell (Fat City); Shelley Winters (The Poseiden Adventure) | |
| 1972 Cloris Leachman ("The Last Picture Show") | |
| Other Nominees: Ann-Margret (Carnal Knowledge); Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show); Barbara Harris (Who Is Harry Kellerman); Margaret Leighton (The Go-Between) | |
| 1971 Helen Hayes ("Airport") |  |
| Other Nominees: Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces); Lee Grant (The Landlord); Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H); Maureen Stapleton (Airport) | |
| 1970 Goldie Hawn ("Cactus Flower") | |
| Other Nominees: Catherine Burns (Last Summer); Dyan Cannon (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice); Sylvia Miles (Midnight Cowboy); Susannah York (They Shoot Horses Don't They?) | |
| 1969 Ruth Gordon ("Rosemary's Baby") | |
| Other Nominees: Lynn Carlin (Faces); Sondra Locke (The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter); Kay Medford (Funny Girl); Estelle Parsons (Rachel Rachel) | |
| 1968 Estelle Parsons ("Bonnie and Clyde") | |
| Other Nominees: Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern Millie); Mildred Natwick (Barefoot In the Park); Beah Richards (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner); Katharine Ross (The Graduate) | |
| 1967 Sandy Dennis ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") | |
| Other Nominees: Wendy Hiller (A Man For All Seasons); Jocelyne Lagarde (Hawaii); Vivien Merchant (Alfie); Geraldine Page (You're A Big Boy Now) | |
| 1966 Shelley Winters ("A Patch Of Blue") |  |
| Other Nominees: Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover); Joyce Redman (Othello); Maggie Smith (Othello); Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music) | |
| 1965 Lila Kedrova ("Zorba the Greek") | |
| Other Nominees: Gladys Cooper (My Fair Lady); Dame Edith Evans (The Chalk Garden); Grayson Hall (The Night of the Iguana); Agnes Moorehead (Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte) | |
| 1964 Margaret Rutherford ("The V.I.P.s") | |
| Other Nominees: Diane Cilento (Tom Jones); Dame Edith Evans (Tom Jones); Joyce Redman (Tom Jones); Lilia Skala (Lilies of the Field) | |
| 1963 Patty Duke ("The Miracle Worker") | |
| Other Nominees: Mary Badham (To Kill A Mockingbird); Shirley Knight (Sweet Bird of Youth); Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate); Thelma Ritter (Birdman of Alcatraz) | |
| 1962 Rita Moreno ("West Side Story") | |
| Other Nominees: Fay Bainter (The Children's Hour); Judy Garland (Judgment at Nuremberg); Lotta Lenya (The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone); Una Merkel (Summer and Smoke) | |
| 1961 Shirley Jones ("Elmer Gantry") | |
| Other Nominees: Glynis Johns (The Sundowners); Shirley Knight (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs); Janet Leigh (Psycho); Mary Ure (Sons and Lovers0 | |
| 1960 Shelley Winters ("The Diary of Anne Frank") | |
| Other Nominees: Hermione Baddeley (Room at the Top); Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life); Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life); Thelma Ritter (Pillow Talk) | |
| 1959 Wendy Hiller ("Separate Tables") | |
| Other Nominees: Peggy Cass (Auntie Mame); Martha Hyer (Some Came Running); Maureen Stapleton (Lonelyhearts); Cara Williams (The Defiant Ones) | |
| 1958 Miyoshi Umeki ("Sayonara") | |
| Other Nominees: Carolyn Jones (The Bachelor Party); Elsa Lanchester (Witness For the Prosecution); Hope Lange (Peyton Place); Diane Varsi (Peyton Place) | |
| 1957 Dorothy Malone ("Written on the Wind") | |
| Other Nominees: Mildred Dunnock (Baby Doll); Eileen Heckart (The Bad Seed); Mercedes McCambridge (Giant); Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) | |
| 1956 Jo Van Fleet ("East of Eden") | |
| Other Nominees: Betsy Blair (Marty); Peggy Lee (Pete Kelly's Blues); Marisa Pavan (The Rose Tattoo); Natalie Wood (Rebel Without A Cause) | |
| 1955 Eva Marie Saint ("On The Waterfront") | |
| Other Nominees: Nina Foch (Executive Suite); Katy Jurado (Broken Lance); Jan Sterling (The High and the Mighty); Claire Trevor (The High and the Mighty) | |
| 1954 Donna Reed ("From Here To Eternity") |  |
| Other Nominees: Grace Kelly (Mogambo); Geraldine Page (Hondo); Marjorie Rambeau (Torch Song); Thelma Ritter (Pickup on South Street) | |
| 1953 Gloria Grahame ("The Bad and the Beautiful") | |
| Other Nominees: Jean Hagen (Singin' In the Rain); Colette Marchand (Moulin Rouge); Terry Moore (Come Back Little Sheba); Thelma Ritter (With a Song In My Heart) | |
| 1952 Kim Hunter ("A Streetcar Named Desire") |  |
| Other Nominees: Joan Blondell (The Blue Veil); Mildred Dunnock (Death of a Salesman); Lee Grant (Detective Story); Thelma Ritter (The Mating Season) | |
| 1951 Josephine Hull ("Harvey") | |
| Other Nominees: Hope Emerson (Caged); Celeste Holm (All About Eve); Nancy Olson (Sunset Blvd); Thelma Ritter (All About Eve) | |
| 1950 Mercedes McCambridge ("All The King's Men") |  |
| Other Nominees: Ethel Barrymore (Pinky); Celeste Holm (Come to the Stable); Elsa Lanchester (Come To the Stable); Ethel Waters (Pinky) | |
| 1949 Claire Trevor ("Key Largo") | |
| Other Nominees: Barbara Bel Geddes (I Remember Mama); Ellen Corby (I Remember Mama); Agnes Moorehead (Johnny Belinda); Jean Simmons (Hamlet) | |
| 1948 Celeste Holm ("Gentleman's Agreement") | |
| Other Nominees: Ethel Barrymore (The Paradine Case); Gloria Grahame (Crossfire); Marjorie Main (The Egg and I); Anne Revere (Gentleman's Agreement) | |
| 1947 Anne Baxter ("The Razor's Edge") | |
| Other Nominees: Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase); Lillian Gish (Duel In the Sun); Flora Robson (Saratoga Trunk); Gale Sondergaard (Anna and the King of Siam) | |
| 1946 Anne Revere ("National Velvet") | |
| Other Nominees: Eve Arden (Mildred Pierce); Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce); Angela Lansbury (The Picture of Dorian Gray); Joan Lorring (The Corn Is Green) | |
| 1945 Ethel Barrymore ("None But the Lonely Heart") | |
| Other Nominees: Jennifer Jones (Since You Went Away); Angela Lansbury (Gaslight); Aline MacMahon (Dragon Seed); Agnes Moorehead (Mrs Parkington) | |
| 1944 Katina Paxinou ("For Whom the Bell Tolls") | |
| Other Nominees: Gladys Cooper (The Song of Bernadette); Paulette Goddard (So Proudly We Hail!); Anne Revere (The Song of Bernadette); Lucile Watson (Watch On the Rhine) | |
| 1943 Teresa Wright ("Mrs Miniver") | |
| Other Nominees: Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager); Agnes Moorehead (The Magnificent Ambersons); Susan Peters (Random Harvest); Dame May Whitty (Mrs Miniver) | |
| 1942 Mary Astor ("The Great Lie") | |
| Other Nominees: Sara Allgood (How Green Was My Valley); Patricia Collinge (The Little Foxes); Teresa Wright (The Little Foxes); Margaret Wycherly (Sergeant York) | |
| 1941 Jane Darwell ("The Grapes of Wrath") | |
| Other Nominees: Judith Anderson (Rebecca); Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story); Barbara O'Neil (All This and Heaven Too); Marjorie Rambeau (Primrose Path) | |
| 1940 Hattie McDaniel ("Gone With the Wind") | |
| Other Nominees: Olivia De Havilland (Gone With the Wind); Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights); Edna May Oliver (Drums Along the Mohawk); Maria Ouspenskaya (Love Affair) | |
| 1939 Fay Bainter ("Jezebel") | |
| Other Nominees: Beulah Bondi (Of Human Hearts); Billie Burke (Merrily We Live); Spring Byington (You Can't Take It With You); Miliza Korjus (The Great Waltz) | |
| 1938 Alice Brady ("In Old Chicago") | |
| Other Nominees: Andrea Leeds (Stage Door); Anne Shirley (Stella Dallas); Claire Trevor (Dead End); Dame May Whitty (Night Must Fall) | |
| 1937 Gale Sondergaard ("Anthony Adverse") | |
| Other Nominees: Beulah Bondi (The Gorgeous Hussy); Alice Brady (My Man Godfrey); Bonita Granville (These Three); Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth) | |
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