List of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (by actress)

This is a list of all actresses nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (which presents a list sorted by year), sorted by actress. Winners are indicated in bold. Also see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films), which presents the same information sorted by movie name.

A

2005 Amy Adams - "Junebug"
2003 Shohreh Aghdashloo - "House of Sand and Fog"
1987 Norma Aleandro - ""
1976 Jane Alexander - "All the President's Men"
1979 Jane Alexander - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1995 Joan Allen - "Nixon"
1996 Joan Allen - "The Crucible"
1941 Sara Allgood - "How Green Was My Valley"
1940 Judith Anderson - "Rebecca"
1971 Ann-Margret - "Carnal Knowledge"
1987 Anne Archer - "Fatal Attraction"
1945 Eve Arden - "Mildred Pierce"
1984 Peggy Ashcroft - "A Passage to India"
1941 Mary Astor - "The Great Lie"
1985 Margaret Avery - "The Color Purple"

B

1996 Lauren Bacall - "The Mirror Has Two Faces"
1959 Hermione Baddeley - "Room at the Top"
1962 Mary Badham - "To Kill a Mockingbird"
1938 Fay Bainter - "Jezebel"
1961 Fay Bainter - "The Children's Hour"
2006 Adriana Barraza - "Babel"
1979 Barbara Barrie - "Breaking Away"
1944 Ethel Barrymore - "None But the Lonely Heart"
1946 Ethel Barrymore - "The Spiral Staircase"
1947 Ethel Barrymore - "The Paradine Case"
1949 Ethel Barrymore - "Pinky"
1997 Kim Basinger - "L.A. Confidential"
1998 Kathy Bates - "Primary Colors"
2002 Kathy Bates - "About Schmidt"
1946 Anne Baxter - "The Razor's Edge"
1948 Barbara Bel Geddes - "I Remember Mama"
1990 Annette Bening - "Grifters"
1979 Candice Bergen - "Starting Over"
1974 Ingrid Bergman - "Murder on the Orient Express"
1972 Jeannie Berlin - "The Heartbreak Kid"
1996 Juliette Binoche - "The English Patient"
1970 Karen Black - "Five Easy Pieces"
1955 Betsy Blair - "Marty"
1973 Linda Blair - "The Exorcist"
1975 Ronee Blakley - "Nashville"
2004 Cate Blanchett - "The Aviator"
2006 Cate Blanchett - "Notes on a Scandal"
2007 Cate Blanchett - "I'm Not There"
1998 Brenda Blethyn - "Little Voice"
1951 Joan Blondell - "The Blue Veil"
1945 Ann Blyth - "Mildred Pierce"
1936 Beulah Bondi - "The Gorgeous Hussy"
1938 Beulah Bondi - "Of Human Hearts"
1990 Lorraine Bracco - "Goodfellas"
1936 Alice Brady - "My Man Godfrey"
1937 Alice Brady - "In Old Chicago"
1980 Eileen Brennan - "Private Benjamin"
2006 Abigail Breslin- "Little Miss Sunshine"
1977 Leslie Browne - "The Turning Point"
1938 Billie Burke - "Merrily We Live"
1969 Catherine Burns - "Last Summer"
1971 Ellen Burstyn - "The Last Picture Show"
1938 Spring Byington - "You Can't Take It with You"

C

1969 Dyan Cannon - "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
1978 Dyan Cannon - "Heaven Can Wait"
1968 Lynn Carlin - "Faces"
1958 Peggy Cass - "Auntie Mame"
1967 Carol Channing - "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
1983 Cher - "Silkwood"
1963 Diane Cilento - "Tom Jones"
1973 Candy Clark - "American Graffiti"
2003 Patricia Clarkson - "Pieces of April"
1982 Glenn Close - "The World According to Garp"
1983 Glenn Close - "The Big Chill"
1984 Glenn Close - "The Natural"
1999 Toni Collette - "The Sixth Sense"
1941 Patricia Collinge - "The Little Foxes"
2001 Jennifer Connelly - "A Beautiful Mind"
1942 Gladys Cooper - "Now, Voyager"
1943 Gladys Cooper - "The Song of Bernadette"
1964 Gladys Cooper - "My Fair Lady"
1948 Ellen Corby - "I Remember Mama"
1974 Valentina Cortese - "La Nuit américaine"
1984 Lindsay Crouse - "Places in the Heart"
1977 Quinn Cummings - "The Goodbye Girl"
1988 Joan Cusack - "Working Girl"
1997 Joan Cusack - "In and Out"

D

1940 Jane Darwell - "The Grapes of Wrath"
1988 Geena Davis - "The Accidental Tourist"
1992 Judy Davis - "Husbands and Wives"
1939 Olivia de Havilland - "Gone with the Wind"
2007 Ruby Dee - "American Gangster"
1998 Judi Dench - "Shakespeare in Love"
2000 Judi Dench - "Chocolat"
1966 Sandy Dennis - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1977 Melinda Dillon - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
1981 Melinda Dillon - "Absence of Malice"
1997 Minnie Driver - "Good Will Hunting"
1987 Olympia Dukakis - "Moonstruck"
1962 Patty Duke - "The Miracle Worker"
1951 Mildred Dunnock - "Death of a Salesman"
1956 Mildred Dunnock - "Baby Doll"

E

1950 Hope Emerson - "Caged"
1963 Edith Evans - "Tom Jones"
1964 Dame Edith Evans - "The Chalk Garden"

F

1939 Geraldine Fitzgerald - "Wuthering Heights"
1954 Nina Foch - "Executive Suite"
1981 Jane Fonda - "On Golden Pond"
1976 Jodie Foster - "Taxi Driver"
1989 Brenda Fricker - "My Left Foot"

G

1961 Judy Garland - "Judgment at Nuremberg"
1982 Teri Garr - "Tootsie"
1946 Lillian Gish - "Duel in the Sun"
1943 Paulette Goddard - "So Proudly We Hail!"
1990 Whoopi Goldberg - "Ghost"
1965 Ruth Gordon - "Inside Daisy Clover"
1968 Ruth Gordon - "Rosemary's Baby"
1947 Gloria Grahame - "Crossfire"
1952 Gloria Grahame - "The Bad and the Beautiful"
1951 Lee Grant - "Detective Story"
1970 Lee Grant - "The Landlord"
1975 Lee Grant - "Shampoo"
1976 Lee Grant - "Voyage of the Damned"
1936 Bonita Granville - "These Three"
1998 Rachel Griffiths - "Hilary and Jackie"

H

1981 Joan Hackett - "Only When I Laugh"
1952 Jean Hagen - "Singin' in the Rain"
1964 Grayson Hall - "The Night of the Iguana"
2000 Marcia Gay Harden - "Pollock"
2003 Marcia Gay Harden - "Mystic River"
1986 Tess Harper - "Crimes of the Heart"
1971 Barbara Harris - "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?"
1994 Rosemary Harris - "Tom & Viv"
1969 Goldie Hawn - "Cactus Flower"
1970 Helen Hayes - "Airport"
1956 Eileen Heckart - "The Bad Seed"
1972 Eileen Heckart - "Butterflies Are Free"
1979 Mariel Hemingway - "Manhattan"
1996 Barbara Hershey - "The Portrait of a Lady"
1958 Wendy Hiller - "Separate Tables"
1966 Wendy Hiller - "A Man for All Seasons"
1947 Celeste Holm - "Gentleman's Agreement"
1949 Celeste Holm - "Come to the Stable"
1950 Celeste Holm - "All About Eve"
2006 Jennifer Hudson - "Dreamgirls"
2000 Kate Hudson - "Almost Famous"
1950 Josephine Hull - "Harvey"
1983 Linda Hunt - "The Year of Living Dangerously"
1993 Holly Hunter - "The Firm"
2003 Holly Hunter - "Thirteen"
1951 Kim Hunter - "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1940 Ruth Hussey - "The Philadelphia Story"
1985 Anjelica Huston - "Prizzi's Honor"
1989 Anjelica Huston - "Enemies, a Love Story"
1958 Martha Hyer - "Some Came Running"

I

1983 Amy Irving - "Yentl"

J

1996 Marianne Jean-Baptiste - "Secrets and Lies"
1960 Glynis Johns - "The Sundowners"
1999 Angelina Jolie - "Girl, Interrupted"
1957 Carolyn Jones - "The Bachelor Party"
1944 Jennifer Jones - "Since You Went Away"
1960 Shirley Jones - "Elmer Gantry"
1954 Katy Jurado - "Broken Lance"

K

1973 Madeline Kahn - "Paper Moon"
1974 Madeline Kahn - "Blazing Saddles"
1964 Lila Kedrova - "Zorba the Greek"
1999 Catherine Keener - "Being John Malkovich"
2005 Catherine Keener - "Capote"
1970 Sally Kellerman - "MASH"
1953 Grace Kelly - "Mogambo"
2006 Rinko Kikuchi - "Babel"
1960 Shirley Knight - "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs"
1962 Shirley Knight - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
1959 Susan Kohner - "Imitation of Life"
1938 Miliza Korjus - "The Great Waltz"

L

1966 Jocelyne LaGarde - "Hawaii"
1974 Diane Ladd - "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
1990 Diane Ladd - "Wild at Heart"
1991 Diane Ladd - "Rambling Rose"
1984 Christine Lahti - "Swing Shift"
1949 Elsa Lanchester - "Come to the Stable"
1957 Elsa Lanchester - "Witness for the Prosecution"
1957 Hope Lange - "Peyton Place"
1982 Jessica Lange - "Tootsie"
1944 Angela Lansbury - "Gaslight"
1945 Angela Lansbury - "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
1962 Angela Lansbury - "The Manchurian Candidate"
2002 Queen Latifah - "Chicago"
1976 Piper Laurie - "Carrie"
1986 Piper Laurie - "Children of a Lesser God"
1980 Eva Le Gallienne - "Resurrection"
1971 Cloris Leachman - "The Last Picture Show"
1955 Peggy Lee - "Pete Kelly's Blues"
1937 Andrea Leeds - "Stage Door"
1960 Janet Leigh - "Psycho"
1971 Margaret Leighton - "The Go-Between"
1961 Lotte Lenya - "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"
1991 Juliette Lewis - "Cape Fear"
2004 Laura Linney - "Kinsey"
1968 Sondra Locke - "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"
1945 Joan Lorring - "The Corn Is Green"

M

1944 Aline MacMahon - "Dragon Seed"
1985 Amy Madigan - "Twice in a Lifetime"
2004 Virginia Madsen - "Sideways"
1947 Marjorie Main - "The Egg and I"
1956 Dorothy Malone - "Written on the Wind"
1952 Colette Marchand - "Moulin Rouge"
1986 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - "The Color of Money"
1949 Mercedes McCambridge - "All the King's Men"
1956 Mercedes McCambridge - "Giant"
1956 Patty McCormack - "The Bad Seed"
1939 Hattie McDaniel - "Gone with the Wind"
1990 Mary McDonnell - "Dances with Wolves"
1988 Frances McDormand - "Mississippi Burning"
2000 Frances McDormand - "Almost Famous"
2005 Frances McDormand - "North Country"
1981 Elizabeth McGovern - "Ragtime"
1968 Kay Medford - "Funny Girl"
1966 Vivien Merchant - "Alfie"
1961 Una Merkel - "Summer and Smoke"
1969 Sylvia Miles - "Midnight Cowboy"
1975 Sylvia Miles - "Farewell, My Lovely"
1978 Penelope Milford - "Coming Home"
1994 Helen Mirren - "The Madness of King George"
2001 Helen Mirren - "Gosford Park"
1959 Juanita Moore - "Imitation of Life"
1997 Julianne Moore - "Boogie Nights"
2002 Julianne Moore - "The Hours"
1952 Terry Moore - "Come Back, Little Sheba"
1942 Agnes Moorehead - "The Magnificent Ambersons"
1944 Agnes Moorehead - "Mrs. Parkington"
1948 Agnes Moorehead - "Johnny Belinda"
1964 Agnes Moorehead - "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte"
1961 Rita Moreno - "West Side Story"
1980 Cathy Moriarty - "Raging Bull"
1999 Samantha Morton - "Sweet and Lowdown"

N

1967 Mildred Natwick - "Barefoot in the Park"
1991 Kate Nelligan - "The Prince of Tides"

O

1973 Tatum O'Neal - "Paper Moon"
1940 Barbara O'Neil - "All This and Heaven Too"
2004 Sophie Okonedo - "Hotel Rwanda"
1989 Lena Olin - "Enemies, a Love Story"
1939 Edna May Oliver - "Drums Along the Mohawk"
1950 Nancy Olson - "Sunset Boulevard"
1936 Maria Ouspenskaya - "Dodsworth"
1939 Maria Ouspenskaya - "Love Affair"

P

1953 Geraldine Page - "Hondo"
1966 Geraldine Page - "You're a Big Boy Now"
1972 Geraldine Page - "Pete 'n' Tillie"
1984 Geraldine Page - "The Pope of Greenwich Village"
1993 Anna Paquin - "The Piano"
1967 Estelle Parsons - "Bonnie and Clyde"
1968 Estelle Parsons - "Rachel, Rachel"
1955 Marisa Pavan - "The Rose Tattoo"
1943 Katina Paxinou - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
1993 Rosie Perez - "Fearless"
1942 Susan Peters - "Random Harvest"
1988 Michelle Pfeiffer - "Dangerous Liaisons"
1992 Joan Plowright - "Enchanted April"
2004 Natalie Portman - "Closer"

Q

1995 Kathleen Quinlan - "Apollo 13"

R

1940 Marjorie Rambeau - "Primrose Path"
1953 Marjorie Rambeau - "Torch Song"
1987 Anne Ramsey - "Throw Momma from the Train"
1998 Lynn Redgrave - "Gods and Monsters"
1977 Vanessa Redgrave - "Julia""' (Also see her controversial acceptance speech)
1992 Vanessa Redgrave - "Howards End"
1963 Joyce Redman - "Tom Jones"
1965 Joyce Redman - "Othello"
1953 Donna Reed - "From Here to Eternity"
1943 Anne Revere - "The Song of Bernadette"
1945 Anne Revere - "National Velvet"
1947 Anne Revere - "Gentleman's Agreement"
1967 Beah Richards - "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
1992 Miranda Richardson - "Damage"
1950 Thelma Ritter - "All About Eve"
1951 Thelma Ritter - "The Mating Season"
1952 Thelma Ritter - "With a Song in My Heart"
1953 Thelma Ritter - "Pickup on South Street"
1959 Thelma Ritter - "Pillow Talk"
1962 Thelma Ritter - "Birdman of Alcatraz"
1989 Julia Roberts - "Steel Magnolias"
1946 Flora Robson - "Saratoga Trunk"
2007 Saoirse Ronan - "Atonement"
1967 Katharine Ross - "The Graduate"
1991 Mercedes Ruehl - "The Fisher King"
1963 Margaret Rutherford - "The V.I.P.s"
2007 Amy Ryan - "Gone Baby Gone"
1993 Winona Ryder - "The Age of Innocence"

1954 Eva Marie Saint - "On the Waterfront"
1980 Diana Scarwid - "Inside Moves"
1999 Chloë Sevigny - "Boys Don't Cry"
1974 Talia Shire - "The Godfather Part II"
1937 Anne Shirley - "Stella Dallas"
1973 Sylvia Sidney - "Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams"
1948 Jean Simmons - "Hamlet"
1963 Lilia Skala - "Lilies of the Field"
1965 Maggie Smith - "Othello"
1978 Maggie Smith - "California Suite"
1986 Maggie Smith - "A Room with a View"
2001 Maggie Smith - "Gosford Park"
1936 Gale Sondergaard - "Anthony Adverse"
1946 Gale Sondergaard - "Anna and the King of Siam"
1995 Mira Sorvino - "Mighty Aphrodite"
1987 Ann Sothern - "The Whales of August"
1982 Kim Stanley - "Frances"
1958 Maureen Stapleton - "Lonelyhearts"
1970 Maureen Stapleton - "Airport"
1978 Maureen Stapleton - "Interiors"
1981 Maureen Stapleton - "Reds"
1980 Mary Steenburgen - "Melvin and Howard"
1954 Jan Sterling - "The High and the Mighty"
1976 Beatrice Straight - "Network"
1978 Meryl Streep - "The Deer Hunter"
1979 Meryl Streep - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
2002 Meryl Streep - "Adaptation."
1997 Gloria Stuart - "Titanic"
2007 Tilda Swinton - "Michael Clayton"

T

1991 Jessica Tandy - "Fried Green Tomatoes"
1993 Emma Thompson - "In the Name of the Father"
1994 Uma Thurman - "Pulp Fiction"
1994 Jennifer Tilly - "Bullets Over Broadway"
1985 Meg Tilly - "Agnes of God"
1992 Marisa Tomei - "My Cousin Vinny"
2001 Marisa Tomei - "In the Bedroom"
1975 Lily Tomlin - "Nashville"
1937 Claire Trevor - "Dead End"
1948 Claire Trevor - "Key Largo"
1954 Claire Trevor - "The High and the Mighty"
1972 Susan Tyrrell - "Fat City"

U

1957 Miyoshi Umeki - "Sayonara"
1960 Mary Ure - "Sons and Lovers"

V

1975 Brenda Vaccaro - "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough"
1955 Jo Van Fleet - "East of Eden"
1957 Diane Varsi - "Peyton Place"

W

2000 Julie Walters - "Billy Elliot"
1982 Lesley Ann Warren - "Victor/Victoria"
1949 Ethel Waters - "Pinky"
1943 Lucile Watson - "Watch on the Rhine"
1988 Sigourney Weaver - "Working Girl"
2005 Rachel Weisz - "The Constant Gardener"
1977 Tuesday Weld - "Looking for Mr. Goodbar"
1937 May Whitty - "Night Must Fall"
1942 May Whitty - "Mrs. Miniver"
1986 Dianne Wiest - "Hannah and Her Sisters"
1989 Dianne Wiest - "Parenthood"
1994 Dianne Wiest - "Bullets Over Broadway"
1958 Cara Williams - "The Defiant Ones"
2005 Michelle Williams - "Brokeback Mountain"
1985 Oprah Winfrey - "The Color Purple"
1995 Mare Winningham - "Georgia"
1995 Kate Winslet - "Sense and Sensibility"
2001 Kate Winslet - "Iris"
1959 Shelley Winters - "The Diary of Anne Frank"
1965 Shelley Winters - "A Patch of Blue"
1972 Shelley Winters - "The Poseidon Adventure"
1955 Natalie Wood - "Rebel Without a Cause"
1965 Peggy Wood - "The Sound of Music"
1983 Alfre Woodard - "Cross Creek"
1941 Teresa Wright - "The Little Foxes"
1942 Teresa Wright - "Mrs. Miniver"
1941 Margaret Wycherly - "Sergeant York"

X

Y

1969 Susannah York - "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

Z

2003 Renée Zellweger - "Cold Mountain"
2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones - "Chicago"