Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress

1936 ~ Gale Sondergaard as Faith Paleologus

NOMINEES:
Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy as Rachel Jackson
Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey as Angelica Bullock
Bonita Granville - These Three as Mary Tilford
Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth as Baroness Von Obersdorf

1937 ~ Alice Brady as Molly O'Leary

NOMINEES:
Andrea Leeds - Stage Door as Kay Hamilton
Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas as Laurel "Lollie" Dallas
Claire Trevor - Dead End as Francey
Dame May Whitty - Night Must Fall as Mrs. Bramson

1938 ~ Fay Bainter as Aunt Belle

NOMINEES:
Beulah Bondi - Of Human Hearts as Mary Wilkins
Billie Burke - Merrily We Live as Mrs. Emily Kilbourne
Spring Byington - You Can't Take It with You as Penny Sycamore
Miliza Korjus - The Great Waltz as Carla Donner

1939 ~ Hattie McDaniel as Mammy - O'Hara House Servant

NOMINEES:
Olivia de Havilland - Gone with the Wind as Melanie Hamilton
Geraldine Fitzgerald - Wuthering Heights as Isabella Linton
Edna May Oliver - Drums Along the Mohawk as Sarah McKlennar
Maria Ouspenskaya - Love Affair as Grandmother Janou

1940 ~ Jane Darwell as Ma Joad

NOMINEES:
Judith Anderson - Rebecca as Mrs. Danvers
Ruth Hussey - The Philadelphia Story as Elizabeth Imbrie
Barbara O'Neil - All This and Heaven Too as Duchesse de Praslin
Marjorie Rambeau - Primrose Path as Mamie Adams

1941 ~ Mary Astor as Sandra Kovak

NOMINEES:
Sara Allgood - How Green Was My Valley as Mrs. Morgan
Patricia Collinge - The Little Foxes as Birdie Hubbard
Teresa Wright - The Little Foxes as Alexandra Giddens
Margaret Wycherly - Sergeant York as Mother York

1942 ~ Teresa Wright as Carol Beldon

NOMINEES:
Gladys Cooper - Now, Voyager as Mrs. Henry Windle Vale
Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons as Fanny Minafer
Susan Peters - Random Harvest as Kitty
May Whitty - Mrs. Miniver as Lady Beldon

1943 ~ Katina Paxinou as Pilar

NOMINEES:
Gladys Cooper - The Song of Bernadette as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
Paulette Goddard - So Proudly We Hail! as Lt. Joan O'Doul
Anne Revere - The Song of Bernadette as Louise Soubirous
Lucile Watson - Watch on the Rhine as Fanny Farrelly

1944 ~ Ethel Barrymore as Ma Mott

NOMINEES:
Jennifer Jones - Since You Went Away as Jane Deborah Hilton
Angela Lansbury - Gaslight as Nancy Oliver
Aline MacMahon - Dragon Seed as Ling Tan's Wife
Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Parkington as Baroness Aspasia Conti

1945 ~ Anne Revere as Mrs. Brown

NOMINEES:
Eve Arden - Mildred Pierce as Ida Corwin
Ann Blyth - Mildred Pierce as Veda Pierce Forrester
Angela Lansbury - The Picture of Dorian Gray as Sibyl Vane
Joan Lorring - The Corn is Green as Bessie Watty

1946 ~ Anne Baxter as Sophie MacDonald

NOMINEES:
Ethel Barrymore - The Spiral Staircase as Mrs. Warren
Lillian Gish - Duel in the Sun as Laura Belle McCanles
Flora Robson - Saratoga Trunk as Angelique Buiton
Gale Sondergaard - Anna and the King of Siam as Lady Thiang

1947 ~ Celeste Holm as Anne Dettrey

NOMINEES:
Ethel Barrymore - The Paradine Case as Lady Sophie Horfield
Gloria Grahame - Crossfire as Ginny Tremaine
Marjorie Main - The Egg and I as Ma Kettle
Anne Revere - Gentleman's Agreement as Mrs. Green

1948 ~ Claire Trevor as Gaye Dawn

NOMINEES:
Barbara Bel Geddes - I Remember Mama as Katrin Hanson
Ellen Corby - I Remember Mama as Aunt Trina
Agnes Moorehead - Johnny Belinda as Aggie McDonald
Jean Simmons - Hamlet as Ophelia, daughter of Polonius

1949 ~ Mercedes McCambridge as Sadie Burke

NOMINEES:
Ethel Barrymore - Pinky as Miss Em
Celeste Holm - Come to the Stable as Sister Scholastica
Elsa Lanchester - Come to the Stable as Amelia Potts
Ethel Waters - Pinky as Pinky's Granny

1950 ~ Josephine Hull as Veta Louise Simmons

NOMINEES:
Hope Emerson - Caged as Evelyn Harper
Celeste Holm - All About Eve as Karen Richards
Nancy Olson - Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaefer
Thelma Ritter - All About Eve as Birdie

1951 ~ Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski

NOMINEES:
Joan Blondell - The Blue Veil as Annie Rawlins
Mildred Dunnock - Death of a Salesman as Linda Loman
Lee Grant - Detective Story as Shoplifter
Thelma Ritter - The Mating Season as Ellen McNulty

1952 ~ Gloria Grahame as Rosemary

NOMINEES:
Jean Hagen - Singin' in the Rain as Lina Lamont
Colette Marchand - Moulin Rouge as Marie Charlet
Terry Moore - Come Back, Little Sheba as Marie Buckholder
Thelma Ritter - With a Song in My Heart as Clancy

1953 ~ Donna Reed as Alma 'Lorene' Burke

NOMINEES:
Grace Kelly - Mogambo as Linda Nordley
Geraldine Page - Hondo as Angie Lowe
Marjorie Rambeau - Torch Song as Mrs. Stewart
Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street as Moe

1954 ~ Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle

NOMINEES:
Nina Foch - Executive Suite as Erica Martin
Katy Jurado - Broken Lance as Señora Devereaux
Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty as Sally McKee
Claire Trevor - The High and the Mighty as May Holst

1955 ~ Jo Van Fleet as Kate

NOMINEES:
Betsy Blair - Marty as Clara Snyder
Peggy Lee - Pete Kelly's Blues as Rose Hopkins
Marisa Pavan - The Rose Tattoo as Rosa Delle Rose
Natalie Wood - Rebel Without a Cause as Judy

1956 ~ Dorothy Malone as Marylee Hadley

NOMINEES:
Mildred Dunnock - Baby Doll as Rose Comfort
Eileen Heckart - The Bad Seed as Hortense Daigle
Mercedes McCambridge - Giant as Luz Benedict
Patty McCormack - The Bad Seed as Rhoda Penmark

1957 ~ Miyoshi Umeki as Katsumi

NOMINEES:
Carolyn Jones - The Bachelor Party as The Existentialist
Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution as Miss Plimsoll
Hope Lange - Peyton Place as Selena Cross
Diane Varsi - Peyton Place as Allison MacKenzie

1958 ~ Wendy Hiller as Pat Cooper

NOMINEES:
Peggy Cass - Auntie Mame as Agnes Gooch
Martha Hyer - Some Came Running as Gwen French
Maureen Stapleton - Lonelyhearts as Fay Doyle
Cara Williams - The Defiant Ones as Billy's mother

1959 ~ Shelley Winters as Mrs. Petronella Van Daan

NOMINEES:
Hermione Baddeley - Room at the Top as Elspeth
Susan Kohner - Imitation of Life as Sarah Jane, age 18
Juanita Moore - Imitation of Life as Annie Johnson
Thelma Ritter - Pillow Talk as Alma

1960 ~ Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains

NOMINEES:
Glynis Johns - The Sundowners as Mrs. Firth
Shirley Knight - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Reenie Flood
Janet Leigh - Psycho as Marion Crane
Mary Ure - Sons and Lovers as Clara Dawes

1961 ~ Rita Moreno as Anita

NOMINEES:
Fay Bainter - The Children's Hour as Amelia Tilford
Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg as Irene Hoffman Wallner
Lotte Lenya - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Contessa
Una Merkel - Summer and Smoke as Mrs. Winemiller

1962 ~ Patty Duke as Helen Keller

NOMINEES:
Mary Badham - To Kill a Mockingbird as Scout Finch
Shirley Knight - Sweet Bird of Youth as Heavenly Finley
Angela Lansbury - The Manchurian Candidate as Mrs. Iselin
Thelma Ritter - Birdman of Alcatraz as Elizabeth Stroud

1963 ~ Margaret Rutherford as The Duchess of Brighton

NOMINEES:
Diane Cilento - Tom Jones as Molly Seagrim
Edith Evans - Tom Jones as Miss Western
Joyce Redman - Tom Jones as Mrs. Waters
Lilia Skala - Lilies of the Field as Mother Maria

1964 ~ Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense

NOMINEES:
Gladys Cooper - My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins
Edith Evans - The Chalk Garden as Mrs. St. Maugham
Grayson Hall - The Night of the Iguana as Judith Fellowes
Agnes Moorehead - Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Velma Cruther

1965 ~ Shelley Winters as Rose-Ann D'Arcy

NOMINEES:
Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover as The Dealer - Mrs. Clover
Joyce Redman - Othello as Emilia
Maggie Smith - Othello as Desdemona
Peggy Wood - The Sound of Music as Mother Abbess

1966 ~ Sandy Dennis as Honey

NOMINEES:
Wendy Hiller - A Man for All Seasons as Alice More
Jocelyne LaGarde - Hawaii as Queen Malama
Vivien Merchant - Alfie as Lily
Geraldine Page - You're a Big Boy Now as Margery Chanticleer

1967 ~ Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow

NOMINEES:
Carol Channing - Thoroughly Modern Millie as Muzzy
Mildred Natwick - Barefoot in the Park as Ethel Banks
Beah Richards - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Mrs. Prentice
Katharine Ross - The Graduate as Elaine Robinson

1968 ~ Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet

NOMINEES:
Lynn Carlin - Faces as Maria Forst
Sondra Locke - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as Mick
Kay Medford - Funny Girl as Rose Brice
Estelle Parsons - Rachel, Rachel as Calla Mackie

1969 ~ Goldie Hawn as Toni Simmons

NOMINEES:
Catherine Burns - Last Summer as Rhoda
Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Alice Henderson
Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy as Cass
Susannah York - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Alice LeBlanc

1970 ~ Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett

NOMINEES:
Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces as Rayette Dipesto
Lee Grant - The Landlord as Joyce Enders
Sally Kellerman - MASH as Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan
Maureen Stapleton - Airport as Inez Guerrero

1971 ~ Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper

NOMINEES:
Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow
Barbara Harris - Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? as Allison Densmore
Margaret Leighton - The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley
Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge as Bobbie

1972 ~ Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Baker

NOMINEES:
Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid as Lila Kolodny
Geraldine Page - Pete 'n' Tillie as Gertrude
Susan Tyrrell - Fat City as Oma
Shelley Winters - The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen

1973 ~ Tatum O'Neal as Addie Loggins

NOMINEES:
Linda Blair - The Exorcist as Regan MacNeil
Candy Clark - American Graffiti as Debbie Dunham
Madeline Kahn - Paper Moon as Trixie Delight
Sylvia Sidney - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Mrs. Pritchett

1974 ~ Ingrid Bergman as Greta Ohlsson

NOMINEES:
Valentina Cortese - Day for Night as Severine
Madeline Kahn - Blazing Saddles as Lili Von Shtupp
Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Flo Castleberry
Talia Shire - The Godfather Part II as Connie Corleone

1975 ~ Lee Grant as Felicia Carp

NOMINEES:
Ronee Blakley - Nashville as Barbara Jean
Sylvia Miles - Farewell, My Lovely as Jessie Halstead Florian
Lily Tomlin - Nashville as Linnea Reese
Brenda Vaccaro - Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough as Linda Riggs

1976 ~ Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher

NOMINEES:
Jane Alexander - All the President's Men as Judy Hoback
Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver as Iris Steensma
Lee Grant - Voyage of the Damned as Lillian Rosen
Piper Laurie - Carrie as Margaret White

1977 ~ Vanessa Redgrave as Julia

NOMINEES:
Leslie Browne - The Turning Point as Emilia Rodgers
Quinn Cummings - The Goodbye Girl as Lucy McFadden
Melinda Dillon - Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Gillian Guiler
Tuesday Weld - Looking for Mr. Goodbar as Katherine

1978 ~ Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie

NOMINEES:
Dyan Cannon - Heaven Can Wait as Julia Farnsworth
Penelope Milford - Coming Home as Vi Munson
Maureen Stapleton - Interiors as Pearl
Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter as Linda

1979 ~ Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer

NOMINEES:
Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer as Margaret Phelps
Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away as Mom
Candice Bergen - Starting Over as Jessica Potter
Mariel Hemingway - Manhattan as Tracy

1980 ~ Mary Steenburgen as Lynda Dummar

NOMINEES:
Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin as Capt. Doreen Lewis
Eva Le Gallienne - Resurrection as Grandma Pearl
Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull as Vickie Thailer LaMotta
Diana Scarwid - Inside Moves as Louise

1981 ~ Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman

NOMINEES:
Melinda Dillon - Absence of Malice as Teresa Perrone
Jane Fonda - On Golden Pond as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
Joan Hackett - Only When I Laugh as Toby
Elizabeth McGovern - Ragtime as Evelyn Nesbit

1982 ~ Jessica Lange as Julie Nichols

NOMINEES:
Glenn Close - The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields
Teri Garr - Tootsie as Sandy Lester
Kim Stanley - Frances as Lillian Farmer
Lesley Ann Warren - Victor/Victoria as Norma Cassady

1983 ~ Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan

NOMINEES:
Cher - Silkwood as Dolly Pelliker
Glenn Close - The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper
Amy Irving - Yentl as Hadass
Alfre Woodard - Cross Creek as Geechee

1984 ~ Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore

NOMINEES:
Glenn Close - The Natural as Iris Gaines
Lindsay Crouse - Places in the Heart as Margaret Lomax
Christine Lahti - Swing Shift as Hazel
Geraldine Page - The Pope of Greenwich Village as Mrs. Ritter

1985 ~ Anjelica Huston as Maerose Prizzi

NOMINEES:
Margaret Avery - The Color Purple as Shug Avery
Amy Madigan - Twice in a Lifetime as Sunny
Meg Tilly - Agnes of God as Sister Agnes
Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple as Sofia