Oscar Winners: best supporting actress

1936-2004

(note: the ceremony has often take place in the next year but in this classament was counted by the year the movie has made)

• 2004: Cate Blanchett - The Aviator


• 2003: Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain


• 2002: Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago


• 2001: Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind


• 2000: Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock


• 1999: Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted


• 1998: Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love


• 1997: Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential


• 1996: Juliette Binoche - The English Patient

• 1995: Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite


• 1994: Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway


• 1993: Anna Paquin - The Piano


• 1992: Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny


• 1991: Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King


• 1990: Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost


• 1989: Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot


• 1988: Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist


• 1987: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck


• 1986: Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters


• 1985: Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor


• 1984: Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India


• 1983: Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously


• 1982: Jessica Lange - Tootsie


• 1981: Maureen Stapleton - Reds


• 1980: Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard


• 1979: Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer


• 1978: Maggie Smith - California Suite


• 1977: Vanessa Redgrave - Julia


• 1976: Beatrice Straight - Network


• 1975: Lee Grant - Shampoo


• 1974: Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express


• 1973: Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon


• 1972: Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free


• 1971: Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show


• 1970: Helen Hayes - Airport


• 1969: Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower


• 1968: Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby


• 1967: Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde


• 1966: Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf


• 1965: Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue


• 1964: Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek


• 1963: Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.


• 1962: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker


• 1961: Ritta Moreno - West Side Story


• 1960: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry


• 1959: Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank


• 1958: Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables


• 1957: Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara


• 1956: Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind


• 1955: Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden


• 1954: Eva Maria Saint - On the Waterfront


• 1953: Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity


• 1952: Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful


• 1951: Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire


• 1950: Josephine Hull - Harvey


• 1949: Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men


• 1948: Claair Trevor - Key Largo


• 1947: Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement


• 1946: Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge


• 1945: Anne Revere - National Velvet


• 1944: Ethel Barrymore - None but the Lonely Heart


• 1943: Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls


• 1942: Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver


• 1941: Mary Astor - The Great Lie


• 1940: Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath


• 1939: Hattie McDaniel - Gone With the Wind


• 1938: Fay Bainter - Jezebel


• 1937: Alice Brady - In Old Chicago


• 1936: Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse