Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

This gallery contains a complete collection of all Academy Award winners in the category of Best Supporting Actress. All winning film roles are included as Wikipedia article links in the captions for each actress, along with a brief account of any additional nominations in the category they may have received, or other relevant information.

1930s

1936: Gale Sondergaard was the inaugural winner for her work in Anthony Adverse. Sondergaard received another nomination in 1946.
1937ː Alice Brady won for her performance in In Old Chicago.
1938: Fay Bainter won for Jezebel, and received another nomination in 1961.
1939ː Hattie McDaniel's win for Gone with the Wind made her the the first person of color to win an Oscar in any category.^[1]

1940s

1940: Jane Darwell won for The Grapes of Wrath.
1941: Mary Astor won the award for The Great Lie.
1942: Theresa Wright won for her performance in Mrs. Miniver. She had been nominated in the category the previous year.
1943: Katina Paxinou won for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls.
1944: Ethel Barrymore won for her role in None but the Lonely Heart, and would receive additional nominations in 1946, 1947 and 1949.
1945: Anne Revere won for National Velvet. Revere had previously been nominated two years prior, and would earn one last nomination in 1947.
1946ː Anne Baxter won for her performance in The Razor's Edge.
1947: Celeste Holm won the award for her performance in Gentleman's Agreement, and was nominated again in 1949 and 1950.
1948ː Claire Trevor won for Key Largo, having been previously nominated in 1937. Trevor would earn one final nomination in 1954.
1949: Mercedes McCambridge won for her role in All the King's Men. She received another nomination in 1956.

1950s

1950: Josephine Hull won for her work in the film adaptation of Harvey.
1951: Kim Hunter won for her portratal of Stella Kowalski in the film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire.
1952: Gloria Grahame won for her role in The Bad and the Beautiful, having been previously nominated in 1947.
1953: Donna Reed won for her role in From Here to Eternity, her sole nomination and win.
1954: Eva Marie Saint won for On the Waterfront.
1955: Jo Van Fleet won for her performance in East of Eden.
1956: Dorothy Malone won for Written on the Wind.
1957ː Miyoshi Umeki won for Sayonara. She's the first East Asian to win an acting Oscar.
1958ː Wendy Hiller won for her performance in Separate Tables, and would be nominated again in 1966.
1959ː Shelley Winters won for The Diary of Anne Frank. She'd go on to win her second award in 1965, and would obtain one final nomination in 1972.

1960s

1960ː Shirley Jones won for her role in Elmer Gantry.
1961ː Rita Moreno was the first Latina to win an acting Oscar. She won Best Supporting Actress for her role in West Side Story. Ariana DeBose would win the award for playing the same character in the film's remake 60 years later.
1962ː Patty Duke won for her portayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.
1963: Margaret Rutherford won for The V.I.P.s.
1964: Lila Kedrova won for her work in Zorba the Greek.
1965ː Shelley Winters won her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar for A Patch of Blue, having previously won in 1959. She would obtain one final nomination in 1972.
1966: Sandy Dennis won the award for her work in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967ː Estelle Parsons won for her portrayal of Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde.
1968: Ruth Gordon won for Rosemary's Baby. She was previously nominated in 1965.
1969: Goldie Hawn won for her work in Cactus Flower.

1970s

1970: Helen Hayes won for her role in Airport.
1971: Cloris Leachman won for The Last Picture Show.
1972ː Eileen Heckart won for Butterflies Are Free, having been previously nominated in 1957.
1973ː Tatum O'Neal won for Paper Moon at age 10, making her the youngest competitive winner in Oscar history.
1974ː Ingrid Bergman won for Murder on the Orient Express, her only nomination and win.
1975: Lee Grant won for Shampoo. She was previously nominated in 1951 and 1970, and would obtain one final nomination in 1976.
1976: Beatrice Straight won for Network. With five minutes and two seconds of screentime, hers holds the record for the shortest performance to win an Oscar.^[2]
1977: Vanessa Redrgave won for playing the titular character in Julia. She would again be nominated in 1992.
1978ː Maggie Smith won for her performance in California Suite, having been previously nominated in 1965. She would score two more nominations: in 1986 and 2001.
1979ː Meryl Strep won for Kramer vs. Kramer. She was nominated the year prior, and would receive two more nominations in the categoryː in 2002 and 2014.

1980s

1980ː Mary Steenburgen won for Melvin and Howard.ˈ
1981ː Maureen Stapleton won for her portrayal of Emma Goldman in Reds. She was previously nominated in 1958, 1970 and 1978.
1982ː Jessica Lange won for Tootsie.
1983ː Linda Hunt won for her portrayal of a cisgender male in The Year of Living Dangerously.
1984ː Peggy Ashcroft won for A Passage to India, her only nomination and win.
1985: Anjelica Huston won for Prizzi's Honor, and was nominated again in 1989.
1986: Dianne Wiest won for Hannah and her Sisters. She would again be nominated in the category in 1989, and win in 1994.
1987: Olympia Dukakis won for Moonstruck.
1988: Geena Davis won for The Accidental Tourist.
1989: Brenda Fricker won for My Left Foot, first Irish actress to win the award.

1990s

1990ː Whoopi Goldberg won for Ghost. She was the first black woman to win the award in nearly 50 years.
1991ː Mercedes Ruehl won for The Fisher King.
1992ː Marisa Tomei won for My Cousin Vinny, and was nominated again in 2001 and 2008.
1993ː Anna Paquin won for The Piano at age 11. She's the second youngest Oscar winner after Tatum O'Neal.
1994: Dianne Wiest won her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Bullets Over Broadway. She was previously nominated in 1989, and won in 1986.
1995: Mira Sorvino won for Mighty Aphrodite.
1996: Juliette Binoche won for her role in The English Patient.
1997ː Kim Basinger won for L.A. Confidential.
1998ː Judi Dench won for portraying Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, and was nominated in the category again in 2000 and 2021.
1999ː Angelina Jolie won for her role in Girl, Interrupted.

2000s

2000ː Marcia Gay Harden won for portraying Lee Krasner in Pollock, and was nominated in the category again in 2003.
2001ː Jennifer Connelly won for her portrayal of Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind, her only nomination and win.
2002ː Catherine Zeta-Jones won for Chicago.
2003ː Renée Zellweger won for her role in Cold Mountain.
2004ː Cate Blanchett won for her portrayal of Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator. She received additonal nominations in 2006 and 2007.
2005ː Rachel Weisz won for The Constant Gardener, and was nominated again in 2018.
2006ː Jennifer Hudson won for her debut performance in Dreamgirls. At 27, she became the youngest African-American recipient of the award.
2007ː Tilda Swinton won for her performance in Michael Clayton, her only nomination and win
2008ː Pen̪élope Cruz won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and was also nominated the following year.
2009ː Mo'Nique won for Precious.

2010s

2010ː Melissa Leo won for The Fighter.
2011ː Octavia Spencer won for The Help, and was nominated again in 2016 and 2017.
2012ː Anne Hathaway won for her portrayal of Fantine in that year's film adaptaion of Les Misérables.
2013ː Lupita Nyong'o won for 12 Years a Slave.
2014ː Patricia Arquette won for Boyhood, her only nomination and win.
2015ː Alicia Vikander won for playing Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl.
2016ː Viola Davis won for Fences, having been previously nominated in 2008.
2017ː Allison Janney won for portraying Tonya Harding's mother in I, Tonya.
2018ː Regina King won for If Beale Street Could Talk.
2019ː Laura Dern won for Marriage Story, having been previously nominated in 2014.