Nominees and winners of the Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (bold face indicates winner):

• 2007
  • Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
  • Ruby Dee - American Gangster
  • Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
  • Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
  • Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
• 2006
  • Adriana Barraza - Babel
  • Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
  • Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
  • Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
  • Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
• 2005
  • Amy Adams - Junebug
  • Catherine Keener - Capote
  • Frances McDormand - North Country
  • Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
  • Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
• 2004
  • Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
  • Laura Linney - Kinsey
  • Virginia Madsen - Sideways
  • Sophie Okonedo - Hotel Rwanda
  • Natalie Portman - Closer
• 2003
  • Shohreh Aghdashloo - House of Sand and Fog
  • Patricia Clarkson - Pieces of April
  • Marcia Gay Harden - Mystic River
  • Holly Hunter - Thirteen
  • Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain
• 2002
  • Kathy Bates - About Schmidt
  • Julianne Moore - The Hours
  • Queen Latifah - Chicago
  • Meryl Streep - Adaptation
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
• 2001
  • Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
  • Helen Mirren - Gosford Park
  • Maggie Smith - Gosford Park
  • Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom
  • Kate Winslet - Iris
• 2000
  • Judi Dench - Chocolat
  • Marcia Gay Harden -Pollock
  • Kate Hudson -Almost Famous
  • Frances McDormand- Almost Famous
  • Julie Walters- Billy Elliot
• 1999
  • Toni Collette - The Sixth Sense
  • Angelina Jolie - "Girl, Interrupted"
  • Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich
  • Samantha Morton - Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
  • Chloe Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry
• 1998
  • Kathy Bates - Primary Colors
  • Brenda Blethyn - Little Voice
  • Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
  • Rachel Griffiths - Hilary and Jackie
  • Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters
• 1997
  • Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
  • Joan Cusack - In & Out
  • Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting
  • Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
  • Gloria Stuart - Titanic (1997)
• 1996
  • Joan Allen - The Crucible
  • Lauren Bacall - The Mirror Has Two Faces
  • Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
  • Barbara Hershey - The Portrait of a Lady
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Secrets & Lies
• 1995
  • Joan Allen - Nixon
  • Kathleen Quinlan - Apollo 13
  • Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
  • Mare Winningham - Georgia
  • Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility
• 1994
  • Jennifer Tilly - Bullets over Broadway
  • Dianne Wiest - Bullets over Broadway
  • Rosemary Harris - Tom & Viv
  • Helen Mirren - The Madness of King George
  • Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
• 1993
  • Holly Hunter - The Firm
  • Anna Paquin - The Piano
  • Rosie Perez - Fearless
  • Winona Ryder - The Age of Innocence
  • Emma Thompson - In the Name of the Father
• 1992
  • Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives
  • Joan Plowright - Enchanted April
  • Vanessa Redgrave - Howards End
  • Miranda Richardson - Damage
  • Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
• 1991
  • Diane Ladd - Rambling Rose
  • Juliette Lewis - Cape Fear
  • Kate Nelligan - The Prince of Tides
  • Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
  • Jessica Tandy - Fried Green Tomatoes
• 1990
  • Annette Bening - The Grifters
  • Lorraine Bracco - Good Fellas
  • Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
  • Diane Ladd - Wild at Heart
  • Mary McDonnell - Dances With Wolves
• 1989
  • Anjelica Huston - Enemies, A Love Story
  • Lena Olin - Enemies, A Love Story
  • Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
  • Julia Roberts - Steel Magnolias
  • Dianne Wiest - Parenthood
• 1988
  • Joan Cusack - Working Girl
  • Sigourney Weaver - Working Girl
  • Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
  • Frances McDormand - Mississippi Burning
  • Michelle Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons
• 1987
  • Norma Aleandro - Gaby - A True Story
  • Anne Archer - Fatal Attraction
  • Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
  • Anne Ramsey - Throw Momma from the Train
  • Ann Sothern - The Whales of August
• 1986
  • 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
  • Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
• 1985
  • Margaret Avery - The Color Purple
  • Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple
  • Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
  • Amy Madigan - Twice in a Lifetime
  • Meg Tilly - Agnes of God
• 1984
  • Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
  • Glenn Close - The Natural
  • Lindsay Crouse - Places in the Heart
  • Christine Lahti - Swing Shift
  • Geraldine Page - The Pope of Greenwich Village
• 1983
  • Cher - Silkwood
  • Glenn Close - The Big Chill
  • Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
  • Amy Irving - Yentl
  • Alfre Woodard - Cross Creek
• 1982
  • Teri Garr - Tootsie
  • Jessica Lange - Tootsie
  • Glenn Close - The World According to Garp
  • Kim Stanley - Frances
  • Lesley Ann Warren - Victor/Victoria
• 1981
  • Melinda Dillon - Absence of Malice
  • Jane Fonda - On Golden Pond
  • Joan Hackett - Only When I Laugh
  • Elizabeth McGovern - Ragtime
  • Maureen Stapleton - Reds
• 1980
  • Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin
  • Eva Le Gallienne - Resurrection
  • Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull
  • Diana Scarwid - Inside Moves
  • Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
• 1979
  • Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away
  • Candice Bergen - Starting Over
  • Mariel Hemingway - Manhattan
• 1978
  • Dyan Cannon - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  • Penelope Milford - Coming Home
  • Maggie Smith - California Suite
  • Maureen Stapleton - Interiors
  • Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter
• 1977
  • Leslie Browne - The Turning Point
  • Quinn Cummings - The Goodbye Girl
  • Melinda Dillon - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
  • Tuesday Weld - Looking for Mr. Goodbar
• 1976
  • Jane Alexander - All the President's Men
  • Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver
  • Lee Grant - Voyage of the Damned
  • Piper Laurie - Carrie (1976)
  • Beatrice Straight - Network
• 1975
  • Ronee Blakley - Nashville
  • Lily Tomlin - Nashville
  • Lee Grant - Shampoo
  • Sylvia Miles - Farewell, My Lovely
  • Brenda Vaccaro - Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
• 1974
  • Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
  • Valentina Cortese - Day for Night
  • Madeline Kahn - Blazing Saddles
  • Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • Talia Shire - The Godfather Part II
• 1973
  • Madeline Kahn - Paper Moon
  • Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
  • Linda Blair - The Exorcist
  • Candy Clark - American Graffiti
  • Sylvia Sidney - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
• 1972
  • Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid
  • Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free
  • Geraldine Page - Pete 'n' Tillie
  • Susan Tyrrell - Fat City
  • Shelley Winters - The Poseidon Adventure
• 1971
  • Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show
  • Cloris Leachman - 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
  • Maureen Stapleton - Airport
  • Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces
  • Lee Grant - The Landlord
  • Sally Kellerman - M*A*S*H
• 1969
  • Catherine Burns - Last Summer
  • Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  • Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
  • Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy
  • Susannah York - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• 1968
  • Lynn Carlin - Faces
  • Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
  • Sondra Locke - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • Kay Medford - Funny Girl
  • Estelle Parsons - Rachel, Rachel
• 1967
  • Carol Channing - Thoroughly Modern Millie
  • Mildred Natwick - Barefoot in the Park
  • Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
  • Beah Richards - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • Katharine Ross - The Graduate
• 1966
  • Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Wendy Hiller - A Man for All Seasons
  • Jocelyne Lagarde - Hawaii
  • Vivien Merchant - Alfie
  • Geraldine Page - You're a Big Boy Now
• 1965
  • Joyce Redman - Othello
  • Maggie Smith - Othello
  • Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover
  • Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
  • Peggy Wood - The Sound of Music
• 1964
  • Gladys Cooper - My Fair Lady
  • Dame Edith Evans - The Chalk Garden
  • Grayson Hall - The Night of the Iguana
  • Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek
  • Agnes Moorehead - Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• 1963
  • Diane Cilento - Tom Jones
  • Dame Edith Evans - Tom Jones
  • Joyce Redman - Tom Jones
  • Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s
  • Lilia Skala - Lilies of the Field
• 1962
  • Mary Badham - To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
  • Shirley Knight - Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Angela Lansbury - The Manchurian Candidate
  • Thelma Ritter - Birdman of Alcatraz
• 1961
  • Fay Bainter - The Children's Hour
  • Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Lotte Lenya - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
  • Una Merkel - Summer and Smoke
  • Rita Moreno - West Side Story
• 1960
  • Glynis Johns - The Sundowners
  • Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
  • Shirley Knight - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • Janet Leigh - Psycho
  • Mary Ure - Sons and Lovers
• 1959
  • Susan Kohner - Imitation of Life (1959)
  • Juanita Moore - Imitation of Life (1959)
  • Hermione Baddeley - Room at the Top
  • Thelma Ritter - Pillow Talk
  • Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
• 1958
  • Peggy Cass - Auntie Mame
  • Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
  • Martha Hyer - Some Came Running
  • Maureen Stapleton - Lonelyhearts
  • Cara Williams - The Defiant Ones
• 1957
  • Hope Lange - Peyton Place
  • Diane Varsi - Peyton Place
  • Carolyn Jones - The Bachelor Party
  • Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution
  • Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
• 1956
  • Mildred Dunnock - Baby Doll
  • Eileen Heckart - The Bad Seed
  • Mercedes McCambridge - Giant
  • Patty McCormack - The Bad Seed
  • Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
• 1955
  • Betsy Blair - Marty
  • Peggy Lee - Pete Kelly's Blues
  • Marisa Pavan - The Rose Tattoo
  • Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
  • Natalie Wood - Rebel without a Cause
• 1954
  • Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty
  • Claire Trevor - The High and the Mighty
  • Nina Foch - Executive Suite
  • Katy Jurado - Broken Lance
  • Eva Marie Saint - On the Waterfront
• 1953
  • Grace Kelly - Mogambo
  • Geraldine Page - Hondo
  • Marjorie Rambeau - Torch Song
  • Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity
  • Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street
• 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
• 1951
  • Joan Blondell - The Blue Veil
  • Mildred Dunnock - Death of a Salesman
  • Lee Grant - Detective Story
  • Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Thelma Ritter - The Mating Season
• 1950
  • Celeste Holm - All about Eve
  • Thelma Ritter - All about Eve
  • Hope Emerson - Caged
  • Josephine Hull - Harvey
  • Nancy Olson - Sunset Blvd.
• 1949
  • Ethel Barrymore - Pinky
  • Celeste Holm - Come to the Stable
  • Elsa Lanchester - Come to the Stable
  • Ethel Waters - Pinky
  • Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
• 1948
  • Barbara Bel Geddes - I Remember Mama
  • Ellen Corby - I Remember Mama
  • Agnes Moorehead - Johnny Belinda
  • Jean Simmons - Hamlet (1948)
  • Claire Trevor - Key Largo
• 1947
  • Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
  • Anne Revere - Gentleman's Agreement
  • Ethel Barrymore - The Paradine Case
  • Gloria Grahame - Crossfire
  • Marjorie Main - The Egg and I
• 1946
  • Ethel Barrymore - The Spiral Staircase
  • Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge
  • Lillian Gish - Duel in the Sun
  • Flora Robson - Saratoga Trunk
  • Gale Sondergaard - Anna and the King of Siam
• 1945
  • Eve Arden - Mildred Pierce
  • Ann Blyth - Mildred Pierce
  • Angela Lansbury - The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Joan Loring - The Corn Is Green
  • Anne Revere - National Velvet
• 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
• 1943
  • Gladys Cooper - The Song of Bernadette
  • Anne Revere - The Song of Bernadette
  • Paulette Goddard - So Proudly We Hail!
  • Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Lucile Watson - Watch on the Rhine
• 1942
  • Dame May Whitty - Mrs. Miniver
  • Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver
  • Gladys Cooper - Now, Voyager
  • Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Susan Peters - Random Harvest
• 1941
  • Patricia Collinge - The Little Foxes
  • Teresa Wright - The Little Foxes
  • Sara Allgood - How Green Was My Valley
  • Mary Astor - The Great Lie
  • Margaret Wycherly - Sergeant York
• 1940
  • Judith Anderson - Rebecca
  • Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
  • Ruth Hussey - The Philadelphia Story
  • Barbara O'Neil - All This, and Heaven Too
  • Marjorie Rambeau - Primrose Path
• 1939
  • Olivia de Havilland - Gone with the Wind
  • Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald - Wuthering Heights
  • Edna May Oliver - Drums along the Mohawk
  • Maria Ouspenskaya - Love Affair
• 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
• 1937
  • Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
  • Andrea Leeds - Stage Door
  • Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas
  • Claire Trevor - Dead End
  • Dame May Whitty - Night Must Fall
• 1936
  • Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy
  • Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey
  • Bonita Granville - These Three
  • Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth
  • Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse