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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, introduced in 1937 at the 9th Academy Awards, is presented annually for the best achievement in acting by a supporting actress in a film from the previous year.

The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actor winner. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette, supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards, when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.

Sorted chronologically by awards year. Winners in BOLD. Acceptance speech linked in Notes (where available).

UPDATED: May 2026

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AWARD RECORDS:
Most Awards: Dianne Wiest & Shelley Winters (2)
Most Nominations: Thelma Ritter (6)
Most Nominations Without a Win: Thelma Ritter (6)

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  • Anthony Adverse

    1

  • In Old Chicago

    2

  • Jezebel

    3

  • Gone with the Wind

    4

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    5

  • The Great Lie

    6

  • Mrs. Miniver

    7

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls

    8

  • None But the Lonely Heart

    9

  • National Velvet

    10

  • The Razor's Edge

    11

  • Gentleman's Agreement

    12

  • Key Largo

    13

  • All the King's Men

    14

  • Harvey

    15

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    16

  • The Bad and the Beautiful

    17

  • From Here to Eternity

    18

  • On the Waterfront

    19

  • East of Eden

    20

  • Written on the Wind

    21

  • Sayonara

    22

  • Separate Tables

    23

  • The Diary of Anne Frank

    24

  • Elmer Gantry

    25

  • West Side Story

    26

  • The Miracle Worker

    27

  • The V.I.P.s

    28

  • Zorba the Greek

    29

  • A Patch of Blue

    30

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    31

  • Bonnie and Clyde

    32

  • Rosemary's Baby

    33

  • Cactus Flower

    34

  • Airport

    35

  • The Last Picture Show

    36

  • Butterflies Are Free

    37

  • Paper Moon

    38

  • Murder on the Orient Express

    39

  • Shampoo

    40

  • Network

    41

  • Julia

    42

  • California Suite

    43

  • Kramer vs. Kramer

    44

  • Melvin and Howard

    45

  • Reds

    46

  • Tootsie

    47

  • The Year of Living Dangerously

    48

  • A Passage to India

    49

  • Prizzi's Honor

    50

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    51

  • Moonstruck

    52

  • The Accidental Tourist

    53

  • My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    54

  • Ghost

    55

  • The Fisher King

    56

  • My Cousin Vinny

    57

  • The Piano

    58

  • Bullets Over Broadway

    59

  • Mighty Aphrodite

    60

  • The English Patient

    61

  • L.A. Confidential

    62

  • Shakespeare in Love

    63

  • Girl, Interrupted

    64

  • Pollock

    65

  • A Beautiful Mind

    66

  • Chicago

    67

  • Cold Mountain

    68

  • The Aviator

    69

  • The Constant Gardener

    70

  • Dreamgirls

    71

  • Michael Clayton

    72

  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    73

  • Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

    74

  • The Fighter

    75

  • The Help

    76

  • Les Misérables

    77

  • 12 Years a Slave

    78

  • Boyhood

    79

  • The Danish Girl

    80

  • Fences

    81

  • I, Tonya

    82

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    83

  • Marriage Story

    84

  • Minari

    85

  • West Side Story

    86

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    87

  • The Holdovers

    88

  • Emilia Pérez

    89

  • Weapons

    90