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 film name.

A

2005 Amy Adams - Junebug
2008 Amy Adams - Doubt
2010 Amy Adams - The Fighter
2003 Shohreh Aghdashloo - House of Sand and Fog
1987 Norma Aleandro - Gaby: A True Story
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
2011 Bérénice Bejo - The Artist
1948 Barbara Bel Geddes - I Remember Mama
1990 Annette Bening - The 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
2010 Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
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
2011 Jessica Chastain - The Help
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
2008 Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009 Penelope Cruz - Nine
1977 Quinn Cummings - The Goodbye Girl
1988 Joan Cusack - Working Girl
1997 Joan Cusack - In & Out

D

1940 Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
1988 Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
1992 Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives
2008 Viola Davis - Doubt
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 Edith Evans - The Chalk Garden

F

2009 Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
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
2009 Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart

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
2008 Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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 & 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
2009 Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
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
2010 Melissa Leo - The Fighter
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
2011 Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
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
2011 Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
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
2009 Mo'Nique - Precious
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-Gentile - 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

S

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
2011 Octavia Spencer - The Help
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
2010 Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
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
2008 Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
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
2010 Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom
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

Y

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

Z

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