Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to honor an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. The award was traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actor winner.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
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The 2020 recipient: Laura Dern | |
Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
First awarded | 1937 (for performance in films released during the 1936 film season) |
Most recent winner | Laura Dern Marriage Story (2019) |
Website | oscars |
At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of this award for her role in Anthony Adverse.[1] Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded plaques instead of statuettes.[2] Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, winners received full-sized statuettes.[3] Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.[4]
Since its inception, the award has been given to 82 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each. Despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2020 ceremony, Laura Dern is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Nora Fanshaw in Marriage Story.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year.[5]
Indicates the winner |
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Multiple wins and nominations
The following individuals received two Best Supporting Actress awards:
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The following individuals received three or more Best Supporting Actress nominations:
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Multiple nominations from the same film
- Hattie McDaniel (winner) and Olivia de Havilland in Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Patricia Collinge and Teresa Wright in The Little Foxes (1941)
- May Whitty and Teresa Wright (winner) in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Gladys Cooper and Anne Revere in The Song of Bernadette (1943)
- Eve Arden and Ann Blyth in Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Celeste Holm (winner) and Anne Revere in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
- Barbara Bel Geddes and Ellen Corby in I Remember Mama (1948)
- Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters in Pinky (1949)
- Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester in Come to the Stable (1949)
- Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter in All About Eve (1950)
- Jan Sterling and Claire Trevor in The High and the Mighty (1954)
- Eileen Heckart and Patty McCormack in The Bad Seed (1956)
- Hope Lange and Diane Varsi in Peyton Place (1957)
- Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore in Imitation of Life (1959)
- Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, and Joyce Redman in Tom Jones (1963)
- Joyce Redman and Maggie Smith in Othello (1965)
- Helen Hayes (winner) and Maureen Stapleton in Airport (1970)
- Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman (winner) in The Last Picture Show (1971)
- Madeline Kahn and Tatum O'Neal (winner) in Paper Moon (1973)
- Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin in Nashville (1975)
- Jane Alexander and Meryl Streep (winner) in Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
- Teri Garr and Jessica Lange (winner) in Tootsie (1982)
- Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple (1985)
- Joan Cusack and Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl (1988)
- Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
- Jennifer Tilly and Dianne Wiest (winner) in Bullets over Broadway (1994)
- Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand in Almost Famous (2000)
- Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith in Gosford Park (2001)
- Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones (winner) in Chicago (2002)
- Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi in Babel (2006)
- Amy Adams and Viola Davis in Doubt (2008)
- Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air (2009)
- Amy Adams and Melissa Leo (winner) in The Fighter (2010)
- Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer (winner) in The Help (2011)
- Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz in The Favourite (2018)
Age superlatives
Record | Actress | Film | Age (in years) | Ref. |
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Oldest winner | Peggy Ashcroft | A Passage to India | 77 | [91] |
Oldest nominee | Gloria Stuart | Titanic | 87 | [91] |
Youngest winner | Tatum O'Neal | Paper Moon | 10 | [91] |
Youngest nominee |
See also
- All Academy Award acting nominees
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
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External links
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
- Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
- The Academy Awards Database (official site)