Oscar Winners for Best Supporting Actress

The Oscars have been awarded annually since 1927 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

• Anjelica Huston (born 1951)

  American actress.

  • 1985 Academy Award winner for her performance in Prizzi''s Honor
• Donna Reed (born 1921, died 1986)

  American actress.

  • 1953 Academy Award winner for her performance in From Here to Eternity
• Gale Sondergaard (born 1899, died 1985)

  American actress.

  • 1936 Academy Award winner for her performance in Anthony Adverse
• Whoopi Goldberg (born 1950)

  American comedian and actress. Original name: Caryn E. Johnson.

  • 1990 Academy Award winner for her performance in Ghost
• Cloris Leachman (born 1926)

  American actress.

  • 1971 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Last Picture Show
• Eva Marie Saint (born 1924)

  American actress.

  • 1954 Academy Award winner for her performance in On the Waterfront
• Teresa Wright (born 1918)

  American actress.

  • 1942 Academy Award winner for her performance in Mrs. Miniver
• Mary Astor (born 1906, died 1987)

  American actress.

  • 1941 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Great Lie
• Anne Baxter (born 1923, died 1985)

  American actress.

  • 1946 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Razor''s Edge
• Alice Brady (born 1892, died 1939)

  American actress.

  • 1937 Academy Award winner for her performance in In Old Chicago
• Jane Darwell (born 1879, died 1967)

  American actress.

  • 1940 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Grapes of Wrath
• Gloria Grahame (born 1925, died 1981)

  American actress.

  • 1952 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Bad and the Beautiful
• (Anna) Eileen Heckart (born 1919)

  American actress.

  • 1972 Academy Award winner for her performance in Butterflies Are Free
• Celeste Holm (born 1919)

  American actress.

  • 1947 Academy Award winner for her performance in Gentleman''s Agreement
• Josephine Hull (born 1886, died 1957)

  American actress.

  • 1950 Academy Award winner for her performance in Harvey
• Shirley Jones (born 1934)

  American actress.

  • 1960 Academy Award winner for her performance in Elmer Gantry
• Dorothy Malone (born 1925)

  American actress.

  • 1956 Academy Award winner for her performance in Written on the Wind
• Mercedes McCambridge (born 1918)

  American actress.

  • 1949 Academy Award winner for her performance in All the King''s Men
• Hattie MacDaniel (born 1895, died 1952)

  American actress.

  • 1939 Academy Award winner for her performance in Gone With the Wind
• Claire Trevor (born 1909)

  American actress.

  • 1948 Academy Award winner for her performance in Key Largo
• Jo Van Fleet (born 1919, died 1996)

  American actress.

  • 1955 Academy Award winner for her performance in East of Eden
• Shelley Winters (born 1922)

  American actress. Original name: Shirley Schrift.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress: 1959, for Diary of Anne Frank; 1965, for A Patch of Blue
• Fay Bainter (born 1892, died 1968)

  American actress.

  • 1938 Academy Award winner for her performance in Jezebel
• Kim Hunter (born 1922)

  American actress. Original name: Janet Cole.

  • 1951 Academy Award winner for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire
• Helen Hayes (born 1900, died 1993)

  American actress.

  • 1970 Academy Award winner for her performance in Airport
• Lee Grant (born 1927)

  American actress and director. Original name: Lyova Haskell Rosenthal.

  • 1975 Academy Award winner for her performance in Shampoo
• Vanessa Redgrave (born 1937)

  English actress.

  • 1977 Academy Award winner for her performance in Julia
• Meryl Streep (born 1949)

  American actress.

  • 1979 Academy Award winner for her performance in Kramer vs. Kramer
• Maureen Stapleton (born 1925)

  American actress.

  • 1981 Academy Award winner for her performance in Reds
• Geena Davis (born 1957)

  American actress and producer.

  • 1988 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Accidental Tourist
• Ethel Barrymore (born 1879, died 1959)

  American actress.

  • 1944 Academy Award winner for her performance in None But the Lonely Heart
• Estelle Parsons (born 1927)

  American actress.

  • 1967 Academy Award winner for her performance in Bonnie and Clyde
• Goldie Hawn (born 1945)

  American actress and producer.

  • 1969 Academy Award winner for her performance in Cactus Flower
• Marisa Tomei (born 1964)

  American actress.

  • 1992 Academy Award winner for her performance in My Cousin Vinny
• Kim Basinger (born 1953)

  American actress and model.

  • 1997 Academy Award winner for her performance in L.A. Confidential
• Rita Moreno (born 1931)

  Puerto Rican actress and singer. Original name: Rosiata Alverio.

  • 1961 Academy Award winner for her performance in West Side Story
• Patty Duke (born 1946)

  American actress and writer.

  • 1962 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Miracle Worker
• Katina Paxinou (born 1900, died 1973)

  Greek actress.

  • 1943 Academy Award winner for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Anne Revere (born 1903, died 1990)

  American actress.

  • 1945 Academy Award winner for her performance in National Velvet
• Miyoshi Umeki (born 1929)

  Japanese actress.

  • 1957 Academy Award winner for her performance in Sayonara
• Wendy Hiller (born 1912)

  English actress.

  • 1958 Academy Award winner for her performance in Separate Tables
• Margaret Rutherford (born 1892, died 1972)

  English actress.

  • 1963 Academy Award winner for her performance in The V.I.P.s
• Lila Kedrova (born 1918)

  Russian actress.

  • 1964 Academy Award winner for her performance in Zorba the Greek
• Sandy Dennis (born 1937, died 1992)

  American actress.

  • 1966 Academy Award winner for her performance in Who''s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Ruth Gordon (born 1896, died 1985)

  American actress and writer.

  • 1968 Academy Award winner for her performance in Rosemary''s Baby
• Maggie Smith (born 1934)

  English actress.

  • 1978 Academy Award winner for her performance in California Suite
• Tatum O'Neal (born 1963)

  American actress.

  • 1973 Academy Award winner for her performance in Paper Moon
• Beatrice Straight (born 1918)

  American actress.

  • 1976 Academy Award winner for her performance in Network
• Mary Steenburgen (born 1953)

  American actress and producer.

  • 1980 Academy Award winner for her performance in Melvin & Howard
• Jessica Lange (born 1949)

  American actress and producer.

  • 1982 Academy Award winner for her performance in Tootsie
• Linda Hunt (born 1945)

  American actress.

  • 1983 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Year of Living Dangerously
• Peggy Ashcroft (born 1907)

  English actress.

  • 1984 Academy Award winner for her performance in A Passage to India
• Dianne Wiest (born 1948)

  American actress.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress: 1986, for Hannah and Her Sisters; 1994, for Bullets over Broadway
• Olympia Dukakis (born 1931)

  American actress.

  • 1987 Academy Award winner for her performance in Moonstruck
• Brenda Fricker (born 1945)

  Irish actress.

  • 1989 Academy Award winner for her performance in My Left Foot
• Mercedes Ruehl (born 1948)

  American actress.

  • 1991 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Fisher King
• Anna Paquin (born 1982)

  Actress.

  • 1993 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Piano
• Mira Sorvino (born 1970)

  American actress and producer.

  • 1995 Academy Award winner for her performance in Mighty Aphrodite
• Juliette Binoche (born 1965)

  French actress.

  • 1996 Academy Award winner for her performance in The English Patient
• Angelina Jolie (born 1975)

  American actress

  • 1999 Academy Award winner for her performance in Girl, Interrupted
• Dame Judi Dench (born 1934)

  British actress and director

  • 1998 Academy Award winner for playing Queen Elizabeth 1 in Shakespeare in LOve