Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress Deservers

1934!

Winner: Louise Beavers!

Nominees:
Louise Dresser - The Scarlet Empress as Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
Rochelle Hudson - Imitation of Life as Jessie Pullman
Maureen O'Sullivan - The Thin Man as Dorothy Wynant
Fay Wray - The Richest Girl in the World as Sylvia Lockwood

1935!

Winner: Elsa Lanchester!

Nominees:
Alice Brady - Gold Diggers of 1935 as Matilda Prentiss
Olivia de Havilland - Captain Blood as Arabella Bishop
Margot Grahame - The Informer as Katie Madden
Merle Oberon - The Scarlet Pimpernel as Marguerite St. Just/Lady Blakeney

1936!

Winner: Alice Brady!

Nominees:
Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy as Rachel Jackson
Bonita Granville - These Three as Mary Tilford
Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth as Baroness Von Obersdorf
Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse as Faith Paleologus

1937!

Winner: Andrea Leeds!

Nominees:
Alice Brady - In Old Chicago as Mrs. Molly O'Leary
Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas as Laurel Dallas
Claire Trevor - Dead End as Francey
Dame May Whitty - Night Must Fall as Mrs. Bramson

1938!

Winner: Fay Bainter!

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

1939!

Winner: Hattie McDaniel!

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 Mrs. McKlennar
Maria Ouspenskaya - Love Affair as Grandmother Janou

1940!

Winner: Jane Darwell!

Nominees:
Judith Anderson - Rebecca as Mrs. Danvers
Ruth Hussey - The Philadelphia Story as Elizabeth Imbrie
Barbara O'Neil - All This, and Heaven Too as Frances Altarice Rosalba Sebastiani
Marjorie Rambeau - Primrose Path as Mamie Adams

1941!

Winner: Mary Astor!

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

1942!

Winner: Agnes Moorehead!

Nominees:
Gladys Cooper - Now, Voyager as Mrs. Henry Vale
Susan Peters - Random Harvest as Kitty Chilcet
Dame Mary Whitty - Mrs. Miniver as Lady Beldon
Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon

1943!

Winner: Paulette Goddard!

Nominees:
Gladys Cooper - The Song of Bernadette as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pilar
Anne Reverse - The Song of Bernadette as Louise Soubirous
Lucile Watson - Watch on the Rhine as Fanny Farrelly

1944!

Winner: Agnes Moorehead!

Nominees:
Ethel Barrymore - None But the Lonely Heart as Ma Mott
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

1945!

Winner: Anne Revere!

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

1946!

Winner: Anne Baxter!

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 Sondegaard - Anna and the King of Siam as Lady Thiang

1947!

Winner: Kathleen Byron!

Nominees:
Gloria Grahame - Crossfire as Ginny
Jane Greer - Out of the Past as Kathie Moffat
Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement as Anne Dettrey
Anne Revere - Gentleman's Agreement as Mrs. Green

1948!

Winner: Claire Trevor!

Nominees:
Barbara Bel Geddes - I Remember Mama as Katrin
Ellen Corby - I Remember Mama as Aunt Trina
Agnes Moorehead - Johnny Belinda as Aggie McDonald
Jean Simmons - Hamlet as Ophelia

1949!

Winner: Mercedes McCambridge!

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 Dicey Johnson

1950!

Winner: Josephine Hull!

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!

Winner: Kim Hunter!

Nominees:
Leslie Caron - An American in Paris as Lise Bouvier
Lee Grant - Detective Story as Shoplifter
Thelma Ritter - The Mating Season as Ellen McNulty
Ruth Roman - Strangers on a Train as Anne Morton

1952!

Winner: Jean Hagen!

Nominees:
Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful as Rosemary
Colette Marchland - 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!

Winner: Grace Kelly!

Nominees:
Geraldine Page - Hondo as Angie Lowe
Marjorie Rambeau - Torch Song as Mrs. Stewart
Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity as Alma Burke/Lorene
Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street as Moe Williams

1954!

Winner: Eva Marie Saint!

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

1955!

Winner: Jo Van Fleet!

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!

Winner: Dorothy Malone!

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!

Winner: Hope Lange!

Nominees:
Carolyn Jones - The Bachelor Party as The Existentialist
Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution as Miss Plimsoll
Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara as Katsumi
Diane Varsi - Peyton Place as Allison MacKenzie

1958!

Winner: Kim Novak!

Nominees:
Peggy Cass - Auntie Mame as Agnes Gooch
Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables as Pat Cooper
Janet Leigh - Touch of Evil as Susan "Susie" Vargas
Cara Williams - The Defiant Ones as Billy's Mother

1959!

Winner: Shelley Winters!

Nominees:
Hermione Baddeley - Room at the Top as Elspetu
Susan Kohner - Imitation of Life as Sarah Jane Johnson
Juanita Moore - Imitation of Life as Annie Johnson
Thelma Ritter - Pillow Talks as Alma

1960!

Winner: Janet Leigh!

Nominees:
Glynis Johns - The Sundowners as Mrs. Firth
Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry as Lulu Bains
Shirley Knight - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Reenie Flood
Mary Ure - Sons and Lovers as Clara Dawes

1961!

Winner: Judy Garland!

Nominees:
Fay Bainter - The Children's Hour as Mrs. Amelia Tilford
Lotte Lenya - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Contessa
Una Merkel - Summer and Smoke as Mrs. Winemiller
Rita Moreno - West Side Story as Anita

1962!

Winner: Patty Duke!

Nominees:
Mary Badham - To Kill a Mockingbird as Jean Louise "Scout" Finch
Shirley Knight - Sweet Bird of Youth as Heavenly Finley
Angela Lansbury - The Manchurian Candidate as Eleanor Iselin
Thelma Ritter - Birdman of Alcatraz as Elizabeth Stroud

1963!

Winner: Margaret Rutherford!

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

1964!

Winner: Agnes Moorehead!

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
Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek as Madame Hortense

1965!

Winner: Joyce Redman!

Nominees:
Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover as The Dealer (Daisy's Mother)
Maggie Smith - Othello as Desdemona
Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue as Rose-ann D'Arcey
Peggy Wood - The Sound of Music as Mother Abbess

1966!

Winner: Sandy Dennis!

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

1967!

Winner: Estelle Parsons!

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. Mary Prentice
Katharine Ross - The Graduate as Elaine Robinson

1968!

Winner: Ruth Gordon!

Nominees:
Lynn Carlin - Faces as Maria Frost
Sondra Locke - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as Mick Kelly
Estelle Parsons - Rachel, Rachel as Calla Mackie
Shani Wallis - Oliver! as Nancy

1969!

Winner: Goldie Hawn!

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!

Winner: Helen Hayes!

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

1971!

Winner: Cloris Leachman!

Nominees:
Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge as Bobbie
Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow
Glenda Jackson - Mary, Queen of Scots as Queen Elizabeth I of England
Cybill Shepherd - The Last Picture Show as Jacy Farrow

1972!

Winner: Eileen Heckart!

Nominees:
Marisa Berenson - Cabaret as Natalia Landauer
Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid as Lila Kolodny
Geraldine Page - Pete 'n' Tillie as Gertrude Wilson
Ida Lupino - Junior Bonner as Elvira Bonner

1973!

Winner: Tatum O'Neal!

Nominees:
Linda Blair - The Exorcist as Regan MacNeil
Candy Clark - American Graffiti as Debbie Dunham
Madeline Kahn - Paper Moon as Trixie Delight
Cindy Williams - American Graffiti as Laurie Henderson

1974!

Winner: Talia Shire!

Nominees:
Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express as Greta Ohlsson
Valentine Cortese - Day for Night as Severine
Madeline Kahn - Blazing Saddles as Lili von Shtupp
Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Florence "Flo" Castleberry

1975!

Winner: Lee Grant!

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

1976!

Winner: Beatrice Straight!

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

1977!

Winner: Vanessa Redgrave!

Nominees:
Jenny Agutter - Equus as Jill Mason
Leslie Brown - The Turning Point as Emilia Rodgers
Melinda Dillon - Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Jillian Guiler
Joan Plowright - Equus as Dora Strang

1978!

Winner: Angela Lansbury!

Nominees:
Dyan Cannon - Heaven Can Wait as Julia Farnsworth
Maggie Smith - California Suite as Diane Barrie
Maureen Stapleton - Interiors as Pearl
Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter as Linda

1979!

Winner: Meryl Streep!

Nominees:
Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer as Margaret Phelps
Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away as Evelyn Stoller
Candice Bergen - Starting Over as Jessica Potter
Veronica Cartwright - Alien as Lambert

1980!

Winner: Mary Steenburgen!

Nominees:
Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin as Doreen Lewis
Eva Le Gallienne - Resurrection as Pearl
Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull as Vikki Thailer LaMotta
Diana Scarwid - Inside Moves as Louise

1981!

Winner: Jane Fonda!

Nominees:
Melinda Dillon - Absence of Malice as Teresa Perrone
Joan Hackett - Only When I Laugh as Toby Landau
Elizabeth McGovern - Ragtime as Evelyn Nesbit
Maureen Stapleton - Reds as Emma Goldman

1982!

Winner: Glenn Close!

Nominees:
Teri Garr - Tootsie as Sandy Lester
Jessica Lange - Tootsie as Julie Nichols
Kim Stanley - Frances as Lillian van Ornum-Farmer
Lesley Ann Warren - Victor/Victoria as Norma Cassidy

1983!

Winner: Linda Hunt!

Nominees:
Cher - Silkwood as Dolly Pelliker
Glenn Close - The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper
Amy Irving - Yentl as Hadass
Alfre Woodward - Cross Creek as Beatrice "Geechee"