Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 1937 (for performances in films released in 1936) |
Currently held by |
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood (2014) |
Official website |
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Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. While actresses are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.
History
Throughout the past 77 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 77 Best Supporting Actress awards to 75 different actresses. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit currently receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. Prior to the 16th Academy Awards ceremony (1943), however, they received a plaque. The first recipient was Gale Sondergaard, who was honored at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936) for her performance in Anthony Adverse. The most recent recipient was Patricia Arquette, who was honored at the 87th Academy Awards ceremony (2015) for her performance in Boyhood.
Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1935), nominations for the Best Actress award were intended to include all actresses, whether the performance was in either a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), however, the Best Supporting Actress category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actress category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nonetheless, May Robson had received a Best Actress nomination (Lady for a Day, 1933) for her performance in a clear supporting role. Under the system currently in place, an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film, and such nominations are limited to five per year. Currently, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, and Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.
Winners and nominees
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the film's year of release. For example, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first in the colored rows, followed by the other nominees. For a list sorted by actress names, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees. For a list sorted by film titles, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films).
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
International presence
As the Academy Awards are based in the United States and are centered on the Hollywood film industry, the majority of Academy Award winners have been Americans. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
- Australia: Cate Blanchett (Blanchett is half American, being the daughter of a Texan father and Australian mother)
- Canada / New Zealand: Anna Paquin (Paquin was born in Canada but moved to New Zealand at four years old)
- France: Juliette Binoche
- Greece: Katina Paxinou
- Republic of Ireland: Brenda Fricker
- Japan: Miyoshi Umeki
- Kenya / Mexico: Lupita Nyong'o
- Puerto Rico: Rita Moreno (Puerto Rico is part of the USA, and was at the time of Moreno's birth.)
- Russia: Lila Kedrova
- Spain: Penélope Cruz
- Sweden: Ingrid Bergman
- United Kingdom: Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, Wendy Hiller, Vanessa Redgrave, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Tilda Swinton, Rachel Weisz, Catherine Zeta-Jones
There have been two years in which all four of the acting Academy Awards were presented to non-Americans (Europeans).
- At the 37th Academy Awards (1964), the winners were Rex Harrison (British), Julie Andrews (British), Peter Ustinov (British), and Lila Kedrova (Russian).
- At the 80th Academy Awards (2007), the winners were Daniel Day-Lewis (British and Irish), Marion Cotillard (French), Javier Bardem (Spanish), and Tilda Swinton (British).
Multiple awards for Best Supporting Actress
- Two awards
Age superlatives
Record | Actress | Film | Age (in years) | Ref. |
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Oldest winner | Peggy Ashcroft | A Passage to India | 77 | [2] |
Oldest nominee | Gloria Stuart | Titanic | 87 | [2] |
Youngest nominee/youngest winner | Tatum O'Neal | Paper Moon | 10 | [2] |
Multiple nominations for Best Supporting Actress
- Six nominations
- Four nominations
- Three nominations
- Two nominations
- Jane Alexander
- Joan Allen
- Fay Bainter
- Kathy Bates
- Beulah Bondi
- Alice Brady
- Dyan Cannon
- Penélope Cruz
- Joan Cusack
- Judi Dench
- Melinda Dillon
- Mildred Dunnock
- Edith Evans
- Marcia Gay Harden
- Ruth Gordon
- Gloria Grahame
- Eileen Heckart
- Wendy Hiller
- Holly Hunter
- Anjelica Huston
- Madeline Kahn
- Catherine Keener
- Shirley Knight
- Elsa Lanchester
- Piper Laurie
- Mercedes McCambridge
- Sylvia Miles
- Helen Mirren
- Julianne Moore
- Maria Ouspenskaya
- Estelle Parsons
- Marjorie Rambeau
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Joyce Redman
- Julia Roberts
- Gale Sondergaard
- Jacki Weaver
- May Whitty
- Kate Winslet
- Teresa Wright
See also
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- List of Best Supporting Actress winners by age
- List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year
- List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
- List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for foreign language performances
- List of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (by actress)
- List of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (by film title)
- List of actors who won the Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critic's Choice Award for a single performance
References
- ↑ Beginning with the 1943 awards, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded Oscar statuettes similar to those awarded to winners in all other categories, including the leading acting categories. Prior to this, however, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded plaques.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Oldest/Youngest Acting Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Retrieved September 16, 2014.
External links
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
- Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
- The Academy Awards Database (official site)
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