The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presents the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress yearly. Since the 9th Academy Awards, it has been given to an actress who has given a remarkable performance in a supporting part in a movie that came out that year.
86 actresses have received the Best Supporting Actress award a total of 88 times. Gale Sondergaard won the award for her performance in Anthony Adverse. Da'Vine Joy Randolph, who starred in The Holdovers, was the most recent winner.
Best Supporting Actress Oscar Winners
The following list mentions all the actresses who have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards throughout the years:
| Year | Actress | Film | Role |
| 1936 | Gale Sondergaard | Anthony Adverse | Faith Paleologue |
| 1937 | Alice Brady | In Old Chicago | Molly O'Leary |
| 1938 | Fay Bainter | Jezebel | Aunt Belle Massey |
| 1939 | Hattie McDaniel | Gone with the Wind | Mammy |
| 1940 | Jane Darwell | The Grapes of Wrath | Ma Joad |
| 1941 | Mary Astor | The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak |
| 1942 | Teresa Wright | Mrs. Miniver | Carol Beldon |
| 1943 | Katina Paxinou | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Pilar |
| 1944 | Ethel Barrymore | None but the Lonely Heart | Ma Mott |
| 1945 | Anne Revere | National Velvet | Mrs. Brown |
| 1946 | Anne Baxter | The Razor's Edge | Sophie MacDonald |
| 1947 | Celeste Holm | Gentleman's Agreement | Anne |
| 1948 | Claire Trevor | Key Largo | Gaye |
| 1949 | Mercedes McCambridge | All the King's Men | Sadie Burke |
| 1950 | Josephine Hull | Harvey | Veta Louise Simmons |
| 1951 | Kim Hunter | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella Kowalski |
| 1952 | Gloria Grahame | The Bad and the Beautiful | Rosemary Bartlow |
| 1953 | Donna Reed | From Here to Eternity | Lorene/Alma |
| 1954 | Eva Marie Saint | On the Waterfront | Edie Doyle |
| 1955 | Jo Van Fleet | East of Eden | Kate |
| 1956 | Dorothy Malone | Written on the Wind | Marylee Hadley |
| 1957 | Miyoshi Umeki | Sayonara | Katsumi |
| 1958 | Wendy Hiller | Separate Tables | Pat Cooper |
| 1959 | Shelley Winters | The Diary of Anne Frank | Mrs. Van Daan |
| 1960 | Shirley Jones | Elmer Gantry | Lulu Bains |
| 1961 | Rita Moreno | West Side Story | Anita |
| 1962 | Patty Duke | The Miracle Worker | Helen Keller |
| 1963 | Margaret Rutherford | The V.I.P.s | Duchess of Brighton |
| 1964 | Lila Kedrova | Zorba the Greek | Madame Hortense |
| 1965 | Shelley Winters | A Patch of Blue | Rose-Ann D'Arcey |
| 1966 | Sandy Dennis | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Honey |
| 1967 | Estelle Parsons | Bonnie and Clyde | Blanche Barrow |
| 1968 | Ruth Gordon | Rosemary's Baby | Minnie Castevet |
| 1969 | Goldie Hawn | Cactus Flower | Toni Simmons |
| 1970 | Helen Hayes | Airport | Ada Quonsett |
| 1971 | Cloris Leachman | The Last Picture Show | Ruth Popper |
| 1972 | Eileen Heckart | Butterflies Are Free | Mrs. Baker |
| 1973 | Tatum O'Neal | Paper Moon | Addie Loggins |
| 1974 | Ingrid Bergman | Murder on the Orient Express | Greta Ohlsson |
| 1975 | Lee Grant | Shampoo | Felicia Karpf |
| 1976 | Beatrice Straight | Network | Louise Schumacher |
| 1977 | Vanessa Redgrave | Julia | Julia |
| 1978 | Maggie Smith | California Suite | Diana Barrie |
| 1979 | Meryl Streep | Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer |
| 1980 | Mary Steenburgen | Melvin and Howard | Lynda Dummar |
| 1981 | Maureen Stapleton | Reds | Emma Goldman |
| 1982 | Jessica Lange | Tootsie | Julie Nichols |
| 1983 | Linda Hunt | The Year of Living Dangerously | Billy Kwan |
| 1984 | Peggy Ashcroft | A Passage to India | Mrs. Moore |
| 1985 | Anjelica Huston | Prizzi's Honor | Maerose Prizzi |
| 1986 | Dianne Wiest | Hannah and Her Sisters | Holly |
| 1987 | Olympia Dukakis | Moonstruck | Rose Castorini |
| 1988 | Geena Davis | The Accidental Tourist | Muriel |
| 1989 | Brenda Fricker | My Left Foot | Mrs. Brown |
| 1990 | Whoopi Goldberg | Ghost | Oda Mae Brown |
| 1991 | Mercedes Ruehl | The Fisher King | Anne |
| 1992 | Marisa Tomei | My Cousin Vinny | Mona Lisa Vito |
| 1993 | Anna Paquin | The Piano | Flora |
| 1994 | Dianne Wiest | Bullets over Broadway | Helen Sinclair |
| 1995 | Mira Sorvino | Mighty Aphrodite | Linda |
| 1996 | Juliette Binoche | The English Patient | Hana |
| 1997 | Kim Basinger | L.A. Confidential | Lynn Bracken |
| 1998 | Judi Dench | Shakespeare in Love | Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1999 | Angelina Jolie | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe |
| 2000 | Marcia Gay Harden | Pollock | Lee Krasner |
| 2001 | Jennifer Connelly | A Beautiful Mind | Alicia Nash |
| 2002 | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Chicago | Velma Kelly |
| 2003 | Renée Zellweger | Cold Mountain | Ruby Thewes |
| 2004 | Cate Blanchett | The Aviator | Katharine Hepburn |
| 2005 | Rachel Weisz | The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle |
| 2006 | Jennifer Hudson | Dreamgirls | Effie White |
| 2007 | Tilda Swinton | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder |
| 2008 | Penélope Cruz | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Maria Elena |
| 2009 | Mo'Nique | Precious | Mary |
| 2010 | Melissa Leo | The Fighter | Alice Ward |
| 2011 | Octavia Spencer | The Help | Minny Jackson |
| 2012 | Anne Hathaway | Les Misérables | Fantine |
| 2013 | Lupita Nyong'o | 12 Years a Slave | Patsey |
| 2014 | Patricia Arquette | Boyhood | Mom |
| 2015 | Alicia Vikander | The Danish Girl | Gerda |
| 2016 | Viola Davis | Fences | Rose Maxson |
| 2017 | Allison Janney | I, Tonya | LaVona |
| 2018 | Regina King | If Beale Street Could Talk | Sharon Rivers |
| 2019 | Laura Dern | Marriage Story | Nora Fanshaw |
| 2020 | Yuh-Jung Youn | Minari | Soonja |
| 2021 | Ariana DeBose | West Side Story | Anita |
| 2022 | Jamie Lee Curtis | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Deirdre Beaubeirdra |
| 2023 | Da'Vine Joy Randolph | The Holdovers | Mary Lamb |
Also Read: Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners
FAQs about Oscars
Tatum O'Neal is the youngest recipient of the Best Supporting Actress at the Oscar since the award’s debut. The actress was only 10 years old at the time she earned the award.
Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have won the most Best Supporting Actress Oscars. Each actress has won the award twice in this category.
Meryl Steep has 21 Oscar nominations throughout her career. She also won three Oscars for different categories.
