1930s
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

1936 Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse
Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy
Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey
Bonita Granville - These Three
Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth

1937 Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
Andrea Leeds - Stage Door
Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas
Claire Trevor - Dead End
May Whitty - Night Must Fall

1938 Fay Bainter - Jezebel
Beulah Bondi - Of Human Hearts
Billie Burke - Merrily We Live
Spring Byington - You Can't Take It with You
Miliza Korjus - The Great Waltz

1939 Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind
Olivia de Havilland - Gone with the Wind
Geraldine Fitzgerald - Wuthering Heights
Edna May Oliver - Drums Along the Mohawk
Maria Ouspenskaya - Love Affair

1940s

1940 Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
Judith Anderson - Rebecca
Ruth Hussey - The Philadelphia Story
Barbara O'Neil - All This and Heaven Too
Marjorie Rambeau - Primrose Path

1941 Mary Astor - The Great Lie
Sara Allgood - How Green Was My Valley
Patricia Collinge - The Little Foxes
Teresa Wright - The Little Foxes
Margaret Wycherly - Sergeant York

1942 Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver
Gladys Cooper - Now, Voyager
Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons
Susan Peters - Random Harvest
May Whitty - Mrs. Miniver
From 1943 onward, winners received the familiar gold "Oscar" statuettes like everybody else.

1943 Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Gladys Cooper - The Song of Bernadette
Paulette Goddard - So Proudly We Hail!
Anne Revere - The Song of Bernadette
Lucile Watson - Watch on the Rhine

1944 Ethel Barrymore - None But the Lonely Heart
Jennifer Jones - Since You Went Away
Angela Lansbury - Gaslight
Aline MacMahon - Dragon Seed
Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Parkington

1945 Anne Revere - National Velvet
Eve Arden - Mildred Pierce
Ann Blyth - Mildred Pierce
Angela Lansbury - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Joan Lorring - The Corn Is Green

1946 Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge
Ethel Barrymore - The Spiral Staircase
Lillian Gish - Duel in the Sun
Flora Robson - Saratoga Trunk
Gale Sondergaard - Anna and the King of Siam

1947 Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
Ethel Barrymore - The Paradine Case
Gloria Grahame - Crossfire
Marjorie Main - The Egg and I
Anne Revere - Gentleman's Agreement

1948 Claire Trevor - Key Largo
Barbara Bel Geddes - I Remember Mama
Ellen Corby - I Remember Mama
Agnes Moorehead - Johnny Belinda
Jean Simmons - Hamlet

1949 Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
Ethel Barrymore - Pinky
Celeste Holm - Come to the Stable
Elsa Lanchester - Come to the Stable
Ethel Waters - Pinky

1950s

1950 Josephine Hull - Harvey
Hope Emerson - Caged
Celeste Holm - All About Eve
Nancy Olson - Sunset Boulevard
Thelma Ritter - All About Eve

1951 Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire
Joan Blondell - The Blue Veil
Mildred Dunnock - Death of a Salesman
Lee Grant - Detective Story
Thelma Ritter - The Mating Season

1952 Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful
Jean Hagen - Singin' in the Rain
Colette Marchand - Moulin Rouge
Terry Moore - Come Back, Little Sheba
Thelma Ritter - With a Song in My Heart

1953 Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity
Grace Kelly - Mogambo
Geraldine Page - Hondo
Marjorie Rambeau - Torch Song
Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street

1954 Eva Marie Saint - On the Waterfront
Nina Foch - Executive Suite
Katy Jurado - Broken Lance
Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty
Claire Trevor - The High and the Mighty

1955 Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
Betsy Blair - Marty
Peggy Lee - Pete Kelly's Blues
Marisa Pavan - The Rose Tattoo
Natalie Wood - Rebel Without a Cause

1956 Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
Mildred Dunnock - Baby Doll
Eileen Heckart - The Bad Seed
Mercedes McCambridge - Giant
Patty McCormack - The Bad Seed

1957 Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
Carolyn Jones - The Bachelor Party
Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution
Hope Lange - Peyton Place
Diane Varsi - Peyton Place

1958 Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
Peggy Cass - Auntie Mame
Martha Hyer - Some Came Running
Maureen Stapleton - Lonelyhearts
Cara Williams - The Defiant Ones

1959 Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
Hermione Baddeley - Room at the Top
Susan Kohner - Imitation of Life
Juanita Moore - Imitation of Life
Thelma Ritter - Pillow Talk

1960s

1960 Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
Glynis Johns - The Sundowners
Shirley Knight - Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Janet Leigh - Psycho
Mary Ure - Sons and Lovers

1961 Rita Moreno - West Side Story
Fay Bainter - The Children's Hour
Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg
Lotte Lenya - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Una Merkel - Summer and Smoke

1962 Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
Mary Badham - To Kill a Mockingbird
Shirley Knight - Sweet Bird of Youth
Angela Lansbury - The Manchurian Candidate
Thelma Ritter - Birdman of Alcatraz

1963 Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s
Diane Cilento - Tom Jones
Edith Evans - Tom Jones
Joyce Redman - Tom Jones
Lilia Skala - Lilies of the Field

1964 Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek
Gladys Cooper - My Fair Lady
Dame Edith Evans - The Chalk Garden
Grayson Hall - The Night of the Iguana
Agnes Moorehead - Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1965 Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover
Joyce Redman - Othello
Maggie Smith - Othello
Peggy Wood - The Sound of Music

1966 Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wendy Hiller - A Man for All Seasons
Jocelyne LaGarde - Hawaii
Vivien Merchant - Alfie
Geraldine Page - You're a Big Boy Now

1967 Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
Carol Channing - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mildred Natwick - Barefoot in the Park
Beah Richards - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Katharine Ross - The Graduate

1968 Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
Lynn Carlin - Faces
Sondra Locke - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Kay Medford - Funny Girl
Estelle Parsons - Rachel, Rachel

1969 Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
Catherine Burns - Last Summer
Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy
Susannah York - They Shoot Horses, Don't They

1970s

1970 Helen Hayes - Airport
Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces
Lee Grant - The Landlord
Sally Kellerman - M*A*S*H
Maureen Stapleton - Airport

1971 Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show
Barbara Harris - Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Margaret Leighton - The Go-Between
Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge

1972 Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free
Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid
Geraldine Page - Pete 'N' Tillie
Susan Tyrrell - Fat City
Shelley Winters - The Poseidon Adventure

1973 Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
Linda Blair - The Exorcist
Candy Clark - American Graffiti
Madeline Kahn - Paper Moon
Sylvia Sidney - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1974 Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
Valentina Cortese - La Nuit américaine
Madeline Kahn - Blazing Saddles
Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Talia Shire - The Godfather Part II

1975 Lee Grant - Shampoo
Ronee Blakley - Nashville
Sylvia Miles - Farewell, My Lovely
Lily Tomlin - Nashville
Brenda Vaccaro - Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough

1976 Beatrice Straight - Network
Jane Alexander - All the President's Men
Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver
Lee Grant - Voyage of the Damned
Piper Laurie - Carrie

1977 Vanessa Redgrave - Julia (Also see her controversial acceptance speech)
Leslie Browne - The Turning Point
Quinn Cummings - The Goodbye Girl
Melinda Dillon - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Tuesday Weld - Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1978 Maggie Smith - California Suite
Dyan Cannon - Heaven Can Wait
Penelope Milford - Coming Home
Maureen Stapleton - Interiors
Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter

1979 Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer
Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away
Candice Bergen - Starting Over
Mariel Hemingway - Manhattan

    1980s

1980 Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin
Eva Le Gallienne - Resurrection
Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull
Diana Scarwid - Inside Moves

1981 Maureen Stapleton - Reds
Melinda Dillon - Absence of Malice
Jane Fonda - On Golden Pond
Joan Hackett - Only When I Laugh
Elizabeth McGovern - Ragtime

1982 Jessica Lange - Tootsie
Glenn Close - The World According to Garp
Teri Garr - Tootsie
Kim Stanley - Frances
Lesley Ann Warren - Victor/Victoria

1983 Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
Cher - Silkwood
Glenn Close - The Big Chill
Amy Irving - Yentl
Alfre Woodard - Cross Creek

1984 Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
Glenn Close - The Natural
Lindsay Crouse - Places in the Heart
Christine Lahti - Swing Shift
Geraldine Page - The Pope of Greenwich Village

1985 Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
Margaret Avery - The Color Purple
Amy Madigan - Twice in a Lifetime
Meg Tilly - Agnes of God
Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple

1986 Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
Tess Harper - Crimes of the Heart
Piper Laurie - Children of a Lesser God
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - The Color of Money
Maggie Smith - A Room with a View

1987 Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
Norma Aleandro - Gaby-A True Story
Anne Archer - Fatal Attraction
Anne Ramsey - Throw Momma from the Train
Ann Sothern - The Whales of August

1988 Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
Frances McDormand - Mississippi Burning
Michelle Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons
Joan Cusack - Working Girl
Sigourney Weaver - Working Girl

1989 Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
Anjelica Huston - Enemies: A Love Story
Lena Olin - Enemies: A Love Story
Dianne Wiest - Parenthood
Julia Roberts - Steel Magnolias

1990s

1990 Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
Mary McDonnell - Dances with Wolves
Lorraine Bracco - Goodfellas
Annette Bening - Grifters
Diane Ladd - Wild at Heart

1991 Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
Juliette Lewis - Cape Fear
Jessica Tandy - Fried Green Tomatoes
Kate Nelligan - The Prince of Tides
Diane Ladd - Rambling Rose

1992 Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
Joan Plowright - Enchanted April
Miranda Richardson - Damage
Vanessa Redgrave - Howards End
Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives

1993 Anna Paquin - The Piano
Winona Ryder - The Age of Innocence
Rosie Perez - Fearless
Holly Hunter - The Firm
Emma Thompson - In the Name of the Father

1994 Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
Jennifer Tilly - Bullets Over Broadway
Helen Mirren - The Madness of King George
Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
Rosemary Harris - Tom and Viv

1995 Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
Kathleen Quinlan - Apollo 13
Mare Winningham - Georgia
Joan Allen - Nixon
Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility

1996 Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
Joan Allen - The Crucible
Lauren Bacall - The Mirror Has Two Faces
Barbara Hershey - The Portrait of a Lady
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Secrets & Lies

1997 Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting
Joan Cusack - In and Out
Gloria Stuart - Titanic

1998 Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters
Rachel Griffiths - Hilary and Jackie
Brenda Blethyn - Little Voice
Kathy Bates - Primary Colors

1999 Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted
Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich
Chloë Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry
Toni Collette - The Sixth Sense
Samantha Morton - Sweet and Lowdown

2000s

2000 Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
Kate Hudson - Almost Famous
Frances McDormand - Almost Famous
Julie Walters - Billy Elliot
Judi Dench - Chocolat

2001 Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
Helen Mirren - Gosford Park
Maggie Smith - Gosford Park
Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom
Kate Winslet - Iris

2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
Kathy Bates - About Schmidt
Meryl Streep - Adaptation.
Queen Latifah - Chicago
Julianne Moore - The Hours

2003 Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain
Shohreh Aghdashloo - House of Sand and Fog
Patricia Clarkson - Pieces of April
Marcia Gay Harden - Mystic River
Holly Hunter - Thirteen

2004 Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
Laura Linney - Kinsey
Virginia Madsen - Sideways
Sophie Okonedo - Hotel Rwanda
Natalie Portman - Closer

2005 Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Amy Adams - Junebug
Catherine Keener - Capote
Frances McDormand - North Country
Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain