ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

'The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role' is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Of the four acting categories, this one is known for being the most varied, and many surprise wins have occurred in the past. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees. For a list sorted by actress, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees. For a list sorted by movie title, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films).
The supporting categories were added for the 1936 awards following complaints that the single Best Actor and Best Actress awards necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nonetheless, Best Actor had gone to at least one performer in a clear supporting role (Lionel Barrymore in ''A Free Soul'') and others, such as Franchot Tone in ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' and May Robson in ''Lady for a Day'', had been nominated.
The only actresses to have won the award twice are: Shelley Winters, in 1959 and 1965 (she was also nominated in 1972); and Dianne Wiest, in 1986 and 1994 (she was also nominated in 1989).
Thelma Ritter had six nominations, more than any other actress. As she never won the award, she also holds the record for the number of unsuccessful nominations. Thelma Ritter is also the only actress with nominations in four successive years (1950-1953). Glenn Close was nominated three years consecutively (1982-1984).
Those with four nominations are: Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead, Lee Grant, Maureen Stapleton, Geraldine Page, and Dame Maggie Smith. All of Agnes Moorehead's and Geraldine Page's nominations were unsuccessful (but Page did win a Best Actress award); each of the others won once.
Those with three nominations are: Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Angela Lansbury, Shelley Winters, Glenn Close, Diane Ladd, Dianne Wiest, Meryl Streep, and Frances McDormand. Lansbury, Close, Ladd, and McDormand have never won a Best Supporting Actress award (but McDormand did win a Best Actress award).
From the category's inception in 1936 until 1942, recipients of this award received a plaque instead of the familiar Oscar statuette currently presented.

Contents

Superlatives

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

See also

Superlatives

'Category'	'Name'	'Superlative'	'Year'	'Notes'
Most Awards	Shelley Winters	2 awards (tie)	1965	Awards resulted from 3 nominations.
Most Awards	Dianne Wiest	2 awards (tie)	1994	Awards resulted from 3 nominations.
Most Nominations	Thelma Ritter	6 nominations	1962	Nominations resulted in 0 awards.
Oldest Winner	Peggy Ashcroft	77 years old	1984	''A Passage to India''
Oldest Nominee	Gloria Stuart	87 years old	1997	''Titanic''
Youngest Winner	Tatum O'Neal	10 years old	1973	''Paper Moon''
Youngest Nominee	Tatum O'Neal	10 years old	1973	''Paper Moon''

1930s

★ '1936 Gale Sondergaard - ''Anthony Adverse''' as "'Faith Paleologus'"

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★ Beulah Bondi - ''The Gorgeous Hussy'' as Rachel Jackson

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★ Alice Brady - ''My Man Godfrey'' as "Angelica Bullock"

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★ Bonita Granville - ''These Three'' as "Mary Tilford"

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★ Maria Ouspenskaya - ''Dodsworth'' as "Baroness Von Obersdorf"

★ '1937 Alice Brady - ''In Old Chicago''' as "'Mrs. Molly O'Leary'"

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★ Andrea Leeds - ''Stage Door'' as "Kaye Hamilton"

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★ Anne Shirley - ''Stella Dallas'' as "Laurel 'Lollie' Dallas"

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★ Claire Trevor - ''Dead End'' as "Francie"

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★ May Whitty - ''Night Must Fall'' as "Mrs. Bramson"

★ '1938 Fay Bainter - ''Jezebel''' as "'Aunt Belle Massey'"

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★ Beulah Bondi - ''Of Human Hearts'' as "Mary Wilkins"

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★ Billie Burke - ''Merrily We Live'' as "Mrs. Emily Kilbourne"

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★ Spring Byington - ''You Can't Take It with You'' as "Penny Sycamore"

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★ Miliza Korjus - ''The Great Waltz'' as "Carla Donner"

★ '1939 Hattie McDaniel - ''Gone with the Wind''' as "'Mammy'"

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★ Olivia de Havilland - ''Gone with the Wind'' as "Melanie Hamilton Wilkes"

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★ Geraldine Fitzgerald - ''Wuthering Heights'' as "Isabella Linton"

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★ Edna May Oliver - ''Drums Along the Mohawk'' as "Mrs. McKlennar"

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★ Maria Ouspenskaya - ''Love Affair'' as "Grandmother Janou"

1940s

★ '1940 Jane Darwell - ''The Grapes of Wrath''' as "'Ma Joad'"

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★ Judith Anderson - ''Rebecca'' as "Mrs. Danvers"

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★ Ruth Hussey - ''The Philadelphia Story'' as "Elizabeth Imbrie"

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★ Barbara O'Neil - ''All This and Heaven Too'' as "Duchesse de Praslin"

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★ Marjorie Rambeau - ''Primrose Path'' as "Mamie Adams"

★ '1941 Mary Astor - ''The Great Lie''' as "'Sandra Kovak'"

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★ Sara Allgood - ''How Green Was My Valley'' as "Beth Morgan"

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★ Patricia Collinge - ''The Little Foxes'' as "Birdie Hubbard"

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★ Teresa Wright - ''The Little Foxes'' as "Alexandra Giddens"

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★ Margaret Wycherly - ''Sergeant York'' as "Mother York"

★ '1942 Teresa Wright - ''Mrs. Miniver''' as "'Carol Beldon Miniver'"

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★ Gladys Cooper - ''Now, Voyager'' as "Mrs. Henry Windle Vale"

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★ Agnes Moorehead - ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' as "Fanny Minafer"

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★ Susan Peters - ''Random Harvest'' as "Kitty Chilcet"

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★ May Whitty - ''Mrs. Miniver'' as "Lady Beldon"
From 1943 onward, winners received the familiar gold "Oscar" statuettes like everybody else.

★ '1943 Katina Paxinou - ''For Whom the Bell Tolls''' as "'Pilar'"

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★ Gladys Cooper - ''The Song of Bernadette'' as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous

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★ Paulette Goddard - ''So Proudly We Hail!'' as "Lt. Joan O'Doul"

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★ Anne Revere - ''The Song of Bernadette'' as Louise Soubirous

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★ Lucile Watson - ''Watch on the Rhine'' as "Fanny Farrelly"

★ '1944 Ethel Barrymore - ''None but the Lonely Heart''' as "'Ma Mott'"

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★ Jennifer Jones - ''Since You Went Away'' as "Jane Deborah Hilton"

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★ Angela Lansbury - ''Gaslight'' as "Nancy Oliver"

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★ Aline MacMahon - ''Dragon Seed'' as "Ling Tan's Wife"

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★ Agnes Moorehead - ''Mrs. Parkington'' as "Aspasia Conti"

★ '1945 Anne Revere - ''National Velvet''' as "'Mrs. Araminty Brown'"

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★ Eve Arden - ''Mildred Pierce'' as "Ida Corwin"

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★ Ann Blyth - ''Mildred Pierce'' as "Veda Pierce Forrester"

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★ Angela Lansbury - ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' as "Sibyl Vane"

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★ Joan Lorring - ''The Corn is Green'' as "Bessie Watty"

★ '1946 Anne Baxter - ''The Razor's Edge''' as "'Sopie Nelson Macdonald'"

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★ Ethel Barrymore - ''The Spiral Staircase'' as "Mrs. Warren"

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★ Lillian Gish - ''Duel in the Sun'' as "Laura Belle McCanles"

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★ Flora Robson - ''Saratoga Trunk'' as "Angelique Buiton"

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★ Gale Sondergaard - ''Anna and the King of Siam'' as "Lady Thiang"

★ '1947 Celeste Holm - ''Gentleman's Agreement''' as "'Anne Dettrey'"

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★ Ethel Barrymore - ''The Paradine Case'' as "Lady Sophie Horfield"

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★ Gloria Grahame - ''Crossfire'' as "Ginny Tremaine"

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★ Marjorie Main - ''The Egg and I'' as "Ma Kettle"

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★ Anne Revere - ''Gentleman's Agreement'' as "Mrs. Revere"

★ '1948 Claire Trevor - ''Key Largo''' as "'Gaye Dawn'"

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★ Barbara Bel Geddes - ''I Remember Mama'' as "Katrin Hanson"

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★ Ellen Corby - ''I Remember Mama'' as "Aunt Trina"

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★ Agnes Moorehead - ''Johnny Belinda'' as "Aggie McDonald"

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★ Jean Simmons - ''Hamlet'' as "Ophelia"

★ '1949 Mercedes McCambridge - ''All the King's Men''' as "'Sadie Burke'"

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★ Ethel Barrymore - ''Pinky'' as "Miss Em"

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★ Celeste Holm - ''Come to the Stable'' as "Sister Scholastica"

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★ Elsa Lanchester - ''Come to the Stable'' as "Amelia Potts"

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★ Ethel Waters - ''Pinky'' as "Pinky's Granny"

1950s

★ '1950 Josephine Hull - ''Harvey''' as "'Veta Louise Simmons'"

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★ Hope Emerson - ''Caged'' as "Evelyn Harper"

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★ Celeste Holm - ''All About Eve'' as "Karen Richards"

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★ Nancy Olson - ''Sunset Boulevard'' as "Betty Schaeffer"

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★ Thelma Ritter - ''All About Eve'' as "Birdie Coonan"

★ '1951 Kim Hunter - ''A Streetcar Named Desire''' as "'Stella Kowalski'"

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★ Joan Blondell - ''The Blue Veil'' as "Annie Rawlins"

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★ Mildred Dunnock - ''Death of a Salesman'' as "Linda Loman"

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★ Lee Grant - ''Detective Story'' as "Shoplifter"

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★ Thelma Ritter - ''The Mating Season'' as "Ellen McNulty"

★ '1952 Gloria Grahame - ''The Bad and the Beautiful''' as "'Rosemary Bartlow'"

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★ Jean Hagen - ''Singin' in the Rain'' as "Lina Lamont"

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★ Colette Marchand - ''Moulin Rouge'' as Marie Charlet

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★ Terry Moore - ''Come Back, Little Sheba'' as "Marie Buckholder"

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★ Thelma Ritter - ''With a Song in My Heart'' as "Clancy"

★ '1953 Donna Reed - ''From Here to Eternity''' as "'Alma Burke'"

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★ Grace Kelly - ''Mogambo'' as "Linda Nordley"

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★ Geraldine Page - ''Hondo'' as "Angie Lowe"

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★ Marjorie Rambeau - ''Torch Song'' as "Mrs. Stewart"

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★ Thelma Ritter - ''Pickup on South Street'' as "'Moe' Williams"

★ '1954 Eva Marie Saint - ''On the Waterfront''' as "'Edie Doyle'"

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★ Nina Foch - ''Executive Suite'' as "Erica Martin"

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★ Katy Jurado - ''Broken Lance'' as "Señora Devereaux"

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★ Jan Sterling - ''The High and the Mighty'' as "Sally McKee"

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★ Claire Trevor - ''The High and the Mighty'' as "May Holst"

★ '1955 Jo Van Fleet - ''East of Eden''' as "'Kate'"

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★ Betsy Blair - ''Marty'' as "Clara Snyder"

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★ Peggy Lee - ''Pete Kelly's Blues'' as "Rose Hopkins"

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★ Marisa Pavan - ''The Rose Tattoo'' as "Rosa Delle Rose"

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★ Natalie Wood - ''Rebel Without a Cause'' as "Judy"

★ '1956 Dorothy Malone - ''Written on the Wind''' as "'Marylee Hadley'"

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★ Mildred Dunnock - ''Baby Doll'' as "Aunt Rose Comfort"

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★ Eileen Heckart - ''The Bad Seed'' as "Hortense Daigle"

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★ Mercedes McCambridge - ''Giant'' as "Luz Benedict"

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★ Patty McCormack - ''The Bad Seed'' as "Rhoda Penmark"

★ '1957 Miyoshi Umeki - ''Sayonara''' as "'Katsumi Kelly'"

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★ Carolyn Jones - ''The Bachelor Party'' as "The Existentialist"

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★ Elsa Lanchester - ''Witness for the Prosecution'' as "Miss Plimsoll"

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★ Hope Lange - ''Peyton Place'' as "Selena Cross"

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★ Diane Varsi - ''Peyton Place'' as "Allison MacKenzie"

★ '1958 Wendy Hiller - ''Separate Tables''' as "'Pat Cooper'"

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★ Peggy Cass - ''Auntie Mame'' as "Agnes Gooch"

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★ Martha Hyer - ''Some Came Running'' as "Gwen French (schoolteacher)"

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★ Maureen Stapleton - ''Lonelyhearts'' as "Fay Doyle"

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★ Cara Williams - ''The Defiant Ones'' as "Billy's mother"

★ '1959 Shelley Winters - ''The Diary of Anne Frank''' as 'Petronella Van Daan'

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★ Hermione Baddeley - ''Room at the Top'' as "Elspeth"

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★ Susan Kohner - ''Imitation of Life'' as "Sarah Jane Johnson"

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★ Juanita Moore - ''Imitation of Life'' as "Annie Johnson"

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★ Thelma Ritter - ''Pillow Talk'' as "Alma"

1960s

★ '1960 Shirley Jones - ''Elmer Gantry''' as '"Lula Baines"'

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★ Glynis Johns - ''The Sundowners'' as "Mrs. Firth"

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★ Shirley Knight - ''The Dark at the Top of the Stairs'' as "Reenie Flood"

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★ Janet Leigh - ''Psycho'' as "Marion Crane"

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★ Mary Ure - ''Sons and Lovers'' as "Clara Dawes"

★ '1961 Rita Moreno - ''West Side Story''' as '"Anita"'

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★ Fay Bainter - ''The Children's Hour'' as "Mrs. Amelia Tilford"

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★ Judy Garland - ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' as "Mrs. Irene Hoffman Wallner"

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★ Lotte Lenya - ''The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone'' as "Contessa"

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★ Una Merkel - ''Summer and Smoke'' as "Mrs. Winemiller"

★ '1962 Patty Duke - ''The Miracle Worker''' as 'Helen Keller'

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★ Mary Badham - ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' as "Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch"

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★ Shirley Knight - ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' as "Heavenly Finley"

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★ Angela Lansbury - ''The Manchurian Candidate'' as "Mrs. John Iselin"

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★ Thelma Ritter - ''Birdman of Alcatraz'' as Elizabeth Stroud

★ '1963 Margaret Rutherford - ''The V.I.P.s''' as '"The Duchess of Brighton"'

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★ Diane Cilento - ''Tom Jones'' as "Molly Seagrim"

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★ Edith Evans - ''Tom Jones'' as "Miss Western"

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★ Joyce Redman - ''Tom Jones'' as "Mrs. Waters"

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★ Lilia Skala - ''Lilies of the Field'' as "Mother Superior Maria"

★ '1964 Lila Kedrova - ''Zorba the Greek''' as '"Madame Hortense"'

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★ Gladys Cooper - ''My Fair Lady'' as "Mrs. Higgins"

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★ Edith Evans - ''The Chalk Garden'' as "Mrs. St. Maugham"

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★ Grayson Hall - ''The Night of the Iguana'' as "Judith Fellowes"

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★ Agnes Moorehead - ''Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte'' as "Velma Cruther"

★ '1965 Shelley Winters - ''A Patch of Blue''' as '"Rose-Ann D'Arcy"'

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★ Ruth Gordon - ''Inside Daisy Clover'' as "The Dealer (Mrs. Clover)"

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★ Joyce Redman - ''Othello'' as "Emilia"

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★ Maggie Smith - ''Othello'' as "Desdemona"

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★ Peggy Wood - ''The Sound of Music'' as "Mother Abbess"

★ '1966 Sandy Dennis - ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''' as '"Honey"'

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★ Wendy Hiller - ''A Man for All Seasons'' as Alice More

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★ Jocelyne LaGarde - ''Hawaii'' as "Queen Malama"

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★ Vivien Merchant - ''Alfie'' as "Lily"

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★ Geraldine Page - ''You're a Big Boy Now'' as "Margery Chanticleer"

★ '1967 Estelle Parsons - ''Bonnie and Clyde''' as 'Blanche Barrow'

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★ Carol Channing - ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' as "Muzzy"

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★ Mildred Natwick - ''Barefoot in the Park'' as "Ethel Banks"

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★ Beah Richards - ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'' as "Mrs. Prentice"

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★ Katharine Ross - ''The Graduate'' as "Elaine Robinson"

★ '1968 Ruth Gordon - ''Rosemary's Baby''' as '"Minnie Castevet"'

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★ Lynn Carlin - ''Faces'' as "Maria Frost"

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★ Sondra Locke - ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' as "Mick Kelly"

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★ Kay Medford - ''Funny Girl'' as Rose Brice

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★ Estelle Parsons - ''Rachel, Rachel'' as "Calla Mackie"

★ '1969 Goldie Hawn - ''Cactus Flower''' as '"Toni Simmons"'

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★ Catherine Burns - ''Last Summer'' as "Rhoda"

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★ Dyan Cannon - ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'' as "Alice Henderson"

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★ Sylvia Miles - ''Midnight Cowboy'' as "Cass"

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★ Susannah York - ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' as "Alice"

1970s

★ '1970 Helen Hayes - ''Airport''' as '"Ada Quonsett"'

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★ Karen Black - ''Five Easy Pieces'' as "Rayette Dipesto"

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★ Lee Grant - ''The Landlord'' as "Joyce Enders"

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★ Sally Kellerman - ''M
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★ Maureen Stapleton - ''Airport'' as "Mrs. Inez Guerrero"

★ '1971 Cloris Leachman - ''The Last Picture Show''' as '"Ruth Popper"'

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★ Ellen Burstyn - ''The Last Picture Show'' as "Lois Farrow"

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★ Barbara Harris - ''Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?'' as "Allison Densmore"

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★ Margaret Leighton - ''The Go-Between'' as "Mrs. Maudsley"

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★ Ann-Margret - ''Carnal Knowledge'' as "Bobbie"

★ '1972 Eileen Heckart - ''Butterflies Are Free''' as '"Mrs. Baker"'

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★ Jeannie Berlin - ''The Heartbreak Kid'' as "Lila Kolodny"

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★ Geraldine Page - ''Pete 'n' Tillie'' as "Gertrude"

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★ Susan Tyrrell - ''Fat City'' as "Oma"

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★ Shelley Winters - ''The Poseidon Adventure'' as "Bella Rosen"

★ '1973 Tatum O'Neal - ''Paper Moon''' as '"Addie Loggins"'

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★ Linda Blair - ''The Exorcist'' as "Regan MacNeil"

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★ Candy Clark - ''American Graffiti'' as "Debbie Dunham"

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★ Madeline Kahn - ''Paper Moon'' as "Trixie Delight"

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★ Sylvia Sidney - ''Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams'' as "Mrs. Pritchett"

★ '1974 Ingrid Bergman - ''Murder on the Orient Express''' as '"Greta Ohlsson"'

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★ Valentina Cortese - ''Day for Night'' as "Severine"

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★ Madeline Kahn - ''Blazing Saddles'' as "Lili Von Shtupp"

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★ Diane Ladd - ''Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' as "Flo"

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★ Talia Shire - ''The Godfather Part II'' as "Connie Corleone"

★ '1975 Lee Grant - ''Shampoo''' as '"Felicia"'

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★ Ronee Blakley - ''Nashville'' as "Barbara Jean"

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★ Sylvia Miles - ''Farewell, My Lovely'' as "Jessie Halstead Florian"

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★ Lily Tomlin - ''Nashville'' as "Linnea Reese"

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★ Brenda Vaccaro - ''Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough'' as "Linda Riggs"

★ '1976 Beatrice Straight - ''Network''' as '"Louise Schumacher"'

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★ Jane Alexander - ''All the President's Men'' as Judy Hoback

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★ Jodie Foster - ''Taxi Driver'' as "Iris"

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★ Lee Grant - ''Voyage of the Damned'' as "Lillian Rosen"

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★ Piper Laurie - ''Carrie'' as "Margaret White"

★ '1977 Vanessa Redgrave - ''Julia''' as '"Julia"' (Also see her controversial acceptance speech)

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★ Leslie Browne - ''The Turning Point'' as "Emilia Rodgers"

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★ Quinn Cummings - ''The Goodbye Girl'' as "Lucy McFadden"

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★ Melinda Dillon - ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' as "Jillian Guiler"

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★ Tuesday Weld - ''Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' as "Katherine"

★ '1978 Maggie Smith - ''California Suite''' as '"Diana Barrie"'

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★ Dyan Cannon - ''Heaven Can Wait'' as "Julia Farnsworth"

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★ Penelope Milford - ''Coming Home'' as "Vi Munson"

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★ Maureen Stapleton - ''Interiors'' as "Pearl"

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★ Meryl Streep - ''The Deer Hunter'' as "Linda"

★ '1979 Meryl Streep - ''Kramer vs. Kramer''' as '"Joanna Kramer"'

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★ Jane Alexander - ''Kramer vs. Kramer'' as "Margaret Phelps"

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★ Barbara Barrie - ''Breaking Away'' as "Evelyn Stoller"

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★ Candice Bergen - ''Starting Over'' as "Jessica Potter"

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★ Mariel Hemingway - ''Manhattan'' as "Tracy"

1980s

★ '1980 Mary Steenburgen - ''Melvin and Howard''' as '"Lynda Dunmar"'

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★ Eileen Brennan - ''Private Benjamin'' as "Captain Doreen Lewis"

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★ Eva Le Gallienne - ''Resurrection'' as "Grandma Pearl"

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★ Cathy Moriarty - ''Raging Bull'' as Vicky LaMotta

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★ Diana Scarwid - ''Inside Moves'' as "Louise"

★ '1981 Maureen Stapleton - ''Reds''' as 'Emma Goldman'

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★ Melinda Dillon - ''Absence of Malice'' as "Teresa Perrone"

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★ Jane Fonda - ''On Golden Pond'' as "Chelsea Thayer Wayne"

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★ Joan Hackett - ''Only When I Laugh'' as "Toby"

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★ Elizabeth McGovern - ''Ragtime'' as Evelyn Nesbit

★ '1982 Jessica Lange - ''Tootsie''' as '"Julie Nichols"'

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★ Glenn Close - ''The World According to Garp'' as "Jenny Fields"

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★ Teri Garr - ''Tootsie'' as "Sandy Lester"

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★ Kim Stanley - ''Frances'' as Lillian Farmer

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★ Lesley Ann Warren - ''Victor/Victoria'' as "Norma Cassady"

★ '1983 Linda Hunt - ''The Year of Living Dangerously''' as '"Billy Kwan"'

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★ Cher - ''Silkwood'' as Dolly Pelliker

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★ Glenn Close - ''The Big Chill'' as "Sarah Cooper"

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★ Amy Irving - ''Yentl'' as "Hadass"

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★ Alfre Woodard - ''Cross Creek'' as "Geechee"

★ '1984 Peggy Ashcroft - ''A Passage to India''' as '"Mrs. Moore"'

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★ Glenn Close - ''The Natural'' as "Iris Gaines"

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★ Lindsay Crouse - ''Places in the Heart'' as "Margaret Lomax"

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★ Christine Lahti - ''Swing Shift'' as "Hazel"

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★ Geraldine Page - ''The Pope of Greenwich Village'' as "Mrs. Ritter"

★ '1985 Anjelica Huston - ''Prizzi's Honor''' as '"Maerose Prizzi"'

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★ Margaret Avery - ''The Color Purple'' as "Shug Avery"

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★ Amy Madigan - ''Twice in a Lifetime'' as "Sunny"

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★ Meg Tilly - ''Agnes of God'' as "Sister Agnes"

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★ Oprah Winfrey - ''The Color Purple'' as "Sofia"

★ '1986 Dianne Wiest - ''Hannah and Her Sisters''' as '"Holly"'

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★ Tess Harper - ''Crimes of the Heart'' as "Chick Boyle"

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★ Piper Laurie - ''Children of a Lesser God'' as "Mrs. Norman"

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★ Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - ''The Color of Money'' as "Carmen"

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★ Maggie Smith - ''A Room with a View'' as "Charlotte Bartlett"

★ '1987 Olympia Dukakis - ''Moonstruck''' as '"Rose Castorini"'

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★ Norma Aleandro - ''Gaby-A True Story'' as "Florencia"

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★ Anne Archer - ''Fatal Attraction'' as "Beth Gallagher"

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★ Anne Ramsey - ''Throw Momma from the Train'' as "Mrs. Lift"

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★ Ann Sothern - ''The Whales of August'' as "Tisha Doughty"

★ '1988 Geena Davis - ''The Accidental Tourist''' as '"Muriel Pritchett"'

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★ Joan Cusack - ''Working Girl'' as "Cyn"

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★ Frances McDormand - ''Mississippi Burning'' as "Mrs. Pell"

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★ Michelle Pfeiffer - ''Dangerous Liaisons'' as "Madame de Tourvel"

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★ Sigourney Weaver - ''Working Girl'' as "Katharine Parker"

★ '1989 Brenda Fricker - ''My Left Foot''' as '"Mrs. Brown"'

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★ Anjelica Huston - ''Enemies, a Love Story'' as "Tamara Broder"

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★ Lena Olin - ''Enemies, a Love Story'' as "Masha"

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★ Julia Roberts - ''Steel Magnolias'' as "Shelby Eatenton Latcherie"

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★ Dianne Wiest - ''Parenthood'' as "Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman"

1990s

★ '1990 Whoopi Goldberg - ''Ghost''' as '"Oda Mae Brown"'

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★ Annette Bening - ''The Grifters'' as "Myra Langtry"

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★ Lorraine Bracco - ''Goodfellas'' as "Karen Hill (née Friedman)"

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★ Diane Ladd - ''Wild at Heart'' as "Marietta Fortune"

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★ Mary McDonnell - ''Dances with Wolves'' as "Stands With A Fist"

★ '1991 Mercedes Ruehl - ''The Fisher King''' as '"Anne Napolitano"'

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★ Diane Ladd - ''Rambling Rose'' as "Mother"

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★ Juliette Lewis - ''Cape Fear'' as "Danielle Bowden"

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★ Kate Nelligan - ''The Prince of Tides'' as "Lila Wingo Newbury"

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★ Jessica Tandy - ''Fried Green Tomatoes'' as "Ninny Threadgoode"

★ '1992 Marisa Tomei - ''My Cousin Vinny''' as '"Mona Lisa Vito"'

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★ Judy Davis - ''Husbands and Wives'' as "Sally"

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★ Joan Plowright - ''Enchanted April'' as "Mrs. Fisher"

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★ Vanessa Redgrave - ''Howards End'' as "Ruth Wilcox"

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★ Miranda Richardson - ''Damage'' as "Ingrid Fleming"

★ '1993 Anna Paquin - ''The Piano''' as '"Flora McGrath"'

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★ Holly Hunter - ''The Firm'' as "Tammy Hemphill"

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★ Rosie Perez - ''Fearless'' as "Carla Rodrigo"

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★ Winona Ryder - ''The Age of Innocence'' as "May Welland"

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★ Emma Thompson - ''In the Name of the Father'' as Gareth Pierce

★ '1994 Dianne Wiest - ''Bullets Over Broadway''' as '"Helen Sinclair"'

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★ Rosemary Harris - ''Tom & Viv'' as "Rose Haigh-Wood"

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★ Helen Mirren - ''The Madness of King George'' as Queen Charlotte

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★ Uma Thurman - ''Pulp Fiction'' as "Mia Wallace"

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★ Jennifer Tilly - ''Bullets Over Broadway'' as "Olive Neal"

★ '1995 Mira Sorvino - ''Mighty Aphrodite''' as '"Linda Ash"'

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★ Joan Allen - ''Nixon'' as Patricia Nixon

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★ Kathleen Quinlan - ''Apollo 13'' as Marilyn Lovell

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★ Mare Winningham - ''Georgia'' as "Georgia"

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★ Kate Winslet - ''Sense and Sensibility'' as "Marianne Dashwood"

★ '1996 Juliette Binoche - ''The English Patient''' as '"Hana"'

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★ Joan Allen - ''The Crucible'' as Elizabeth Proctor

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★ Lauren Bacall - ''The Mirror Has Two Faces'' as "Hannah Morgan"

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★ Barbara Hershey - ''The Portrait of a Lady'' as "Madame Serena Merle"

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★ Marianne Jean-Baptiste - ''Secrets & Lies'' as "Hortense Cumberbatch"

★ '1997 Kim Basinger - ''L.A. Confidential''' as '"Lynn Bracken"'

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★ Joan Cusack - ''In & Out'' as "Emily Montgomery"

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★ Minnie Driver - ''Good Will Hunting'' as "Skylar"

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★ Julianne Moore - ''Boogie Nights'' as "Amber Waves"

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★ Gloria Stuart - ''Titanic'' as "Rose Dawson Calvert"

★ '1998 Judi Dench - ''Shakespeare in Love''' as 'Queen Elizabeth I'

★
★ Kathy Bates - ''Primary Colors'' as "Libby Holden"

★
★ Brenda Blethyn - ''Little Voice'' as "Mari Hoff"

★
★ Rachel Griffiths - ''Hilary and Jackie'' as Hilary du Pré

★
★ Lynn Redgrave - ''Gods and Monsters'' as "Hanna"

★ '1999 Angelina Jolie - ''Girl, Interrupted''' as '"Lisa Rowe"'

★
★ Toni Collette - ''The Sixth Sense'' as "Lynn Sear"

★
★ Catherine Keener - ''Being John Malkovich'' as "Maxine"

★
★ Chloë Sevigny - ''Boys Don't Cry'' as Lana Tisdel

★
★ Samantha Morton - ''Sweet and Lowdown'' as "Hattie"

2000s

★ '2000 Marcia Gay Harden - ''Pollock''' as 'Lee Krasner'

★
★ Judi Dench - ''Chocolat'' as "Armande Voizin"

★
★ Kate Hudson - ''Almost Famous'' as "Penny Lane"

★
★ Frances McDormand - ''Almost Famous'' as "Elaine Miller"

★
★ Julie Walters - ''Billy Elliot'' as "Mrs. Wilkinson"

★ '2001 Jennifer Connelly - ''A Beautiful Mind''' as 'Alicia Nash'

★
★ Helen Mirren - ''Gosford Park'' as "Mrs. Wilson"

★
★ Maggie Smith - ''Gosford Park'' as "Constance, Countess of Trentham"

★
★ Marisa Tomei - ''In the Bedroom'' as "Natalie Strout"

★
★ Kate Winslet - ''Iris'' as Iris Murdoch

★ '2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones - ''Chicago''' as '"Velma Kelly"'

★
★ Kathy Bates - ''About Schmidt'' as "Roberta Hertzel"

★
★ Julianne Moore - ''The Hours'' as "Laura Brown"

★
★ Queen Latifah - ''Chicago'' as "Matron 'Mama' Morton"

★
★ Meryl Streep - ''Adaptation.'' as Susan Orlean

★ '2003 Renée Zellweger - ''Cold Mountain''' as '"Ruby Thewes"'

★
★ Shohreh Aghdashloo - ''House of Sand and Fog'' as "Nadireh Behrani"

★
★ Patricia Clarkson - ''Pieces of April'' as "Joy Burns"

★
★ Marcia Gay Harden - ''Mystic River'' as "Celeste Boyle"

★
★ Holly Hunter - ''thirteen'' as "Melanie 'Mel' Freeland"

★ '2004 Cate Blanchett - ''The Aviator''' as 'Katharine Hepburn'

★
★ Laura Linney - ''Kinsey'' as "Clara McMillen"

★
★ Virginia Madsen - ''Sideways'' as "Maya Randall"

★
★ Sophie Okonedo - ''Hotel Rwanda'' as Tatiana Rusesabagina

★
★ Natalie Portman - ''Closer'' as "Alice Ayres"

★ '2005 Rachel Weisz - ''The Constant Gardener''' as '"Tessa Quayle"'

★
★ Amy Adams - ''Junebug'' as "Ashley Johnsten"

★
★ Catherine Keener - ''Capote'' as Harper Lee

★
★ Frances McDormand - ''North Country'' as "Glory Dodge"

★
★ Michelle Williams - ''Brokeback Mountain'' as "Alma Beers del Mar"

★ '2006 Jennifer Hudson - ''Dreamgirls''' as '"Effie Melody White"'

★
★ Adriana Barraza - ''Babel'' as "Amelia"

★
★ Cate Blanchett - ''Notes on a Scandal'' as "Sheba Hart"

★
★ Abigail Breslin - ''Little Miss Sunshine'' as "Olive Hoover"

★
★ Rinko Kikuchi - ''Babel'' as "Chieko Wataya"

★ '2007

See also

List of movies - List of actors - List of directors - List of documentaries - List of Hollywood movie studios