List of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (by actress)

This is a list of all actresses nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (which presents a list sorted by year), sorted by actress. Winners are indicated in bold. Also see List of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (by film title), which presents the same information sorted by film name.

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A

Year Nominee Film
2005 Amy Adams Junebug
2008 Amy Adams (2) Doubt
2010 Amy Adams (3) The Fighter
2012 Amy Adams (4) The Master
2003 Shohreh Aghdashloo House of Sand and Fog
1987 Norma Aleandro Gaby: A True Story
1976 Jane Alexander All the President's Men
1979 Jane Alexander (2) Kramer vs. Kramer
1995 Joan Allen Nixon
1996 Joan Allen (2) The Crucible
1941 Sara Allgood How Green Was My Valley
1940 Judith Anderson Rebecca
1971 Ann-Margret Carnal Knowledge
1987 Anne Archer Fatal Attraction
1945 Eve Arden Mildred Pierce
2014 Patricia Arquette Boyhood
1984 Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India
1941 Mary Astor The Great Lie
1985 Margaret Avery The Color Purple

B

Year Nominee Film
1996 Lauren Bacall The Mirror Has Two Faces
1959 Hermione Baddeley Room at the Top
1962 Mary Badham To Kill a Mockingbird
1938 Fay Bainter Jezebel
1961 Fay Bainter The Children's Hour
2006 Adriana Barraza Babel
1979 Barbara Barrie Breaking Away
1944 Ethel Barrymore None But the Lonely Heart
1946 Ethel Barrymore (2) The Spiral Staircase
1947 Ethel Barrymore (3) The Paradine Case
1949 Ethel Barrymore (4) Pinky
1997 Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential
1998 Kathy Bates Primary Colors
2002 Kathy Bates (2) About Schmidt
1946 Anne Baxter The Razor's Edge
2011 Bérénice Bejo The Artist
1948 Barbara Bel Geddes I Remember Mama
1990 Annette Bening The Grifters
1979 Candice Bergen Starting Over
1974 Ingrid Bergman Murder on the Orient Express
1972 Jeannie Berlin The Heartbreak Kid
1996 Juliette Binoche The English Patient
1970 Karen Black Five Easy Pieces
1955 Betsy Blair Marty
1973 Linda Blair The Exorcist
1975 Ronee Blakley Nashville
2004 Cate Blanchett The Aviator
2006 Cate Blanchett (2) Notes on a Scandal
2007 Cate Blanchett (3) I'm Not There
1998 Brenda Blethyn Little Voice
1951 Joan Blondell The Blue Veil
1945 Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce
1936 Beulah Bondi The Gorgeous Hussy
1938 Beulah Bondi (2) Of Human Hearts
2010 Helena Bonham Carter The King's Speech
1990 Lorraine Bracco Goodfellas
1936 Alice Brady My Man Godfrey
1937 Alice Brady In Old Chicago
1980 Eileen Brennan Private Benjamin
2006 Abigail Breslin Little Miss Sunshine
1977 Leslie Browne The Turning Point
1938 Billie Burke Merrily We Live
1969 Catherine Burns Last Summer
1971 Ellen Burstyn The Last Picture Show
1938 Spring Byington You Can't Take It With You

C

Year Nominee Film
1969 Dyan Cannon Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1978 Dyan Cannon Heaven Can Wait
1968 Lynn Carlin Faces
1958 Peggy Cass Auntie Mame
1967 Carol Channing Thoroughly Modern Millie
2011 Jessica Chastain The Help
1983 Cher Silkwood
1963 Diane Cilento Tom Jones
1973 Candy Clark American Graffiti
2003 Patricia Clarkson Pieces of April
1982 Glenn Close The World According to Garp
1983 Glenn Close (2) The Big Chill
1984 Glenn Close (3) The Natural
1999 Toni Collette The Sixth Sense
1941 Patricia Collinge The Little Foxes
2001 Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind
1942 Gladys Cooper Now, Voyager
1943 Gladys Cooper (2) The Song of Bernadette
1964 Gladys Cooper (3) My Fair Lady
1948 Ellen Corby I Remember Mama
1974 Valentina Cortese La Nuit américaine
1984 Lindsay Crouse Places in the Heart
2008 Penélope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009 Penélope Cruz (2) Nine
1977 Quinn Cummings The Goodbye Girl
1988 Joan Cusack Working Girl
1997 Joan Cusack (2) In & Out

D

Year Nominee Film
1940 Jane Darwell The Grapes of Wrath
1988 Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist
1992 Judy Davis Husbands and Wives
2008 Viola Davis Doubt
1939 Olivia de Havilland Gone with the Wind
2007 Ruby Dee American Gangster
1998 Judi Dench Shakespeare in Love
2000 Judi Dench (2) Chocolat
1966 Sandy Dennis Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2014 Laura Dern Wild
1977 Melinda Dillon Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1981 Melinda Dillon (2) Absence of Malice
1997 Minnie Driver Good Will Hunting
1987 Olympia Dukakis Moonstruck
1962 Patty Duke The Miracle Worker
1951 Mildred Dunnock Death of a Salesman
1956 Mildred Dunnock (2) Baby Doll

E

Year Nominee Film
1950 Hope Emerson Caged
1963 Edith Evans Tom Jones
1964 Edith Evans (2) The Chalk Garden

F

Year Nominee Film
2009 Vera Farmiga Up in the Air
2012 Sally Field Lincoln
1939 Geraldine Fitzgerald Wuthering Heights
1954 Nina Foch Executive Suite
1981 Jane Fonda On Golden Pond
1976 Jodie Foster Taxi Driver
1989 Brenda Fricker My Left Foot

G

Year Nominee Film
1961 Judy Garland Judgment at Nuremberg
1982 Teri Garr Tootsie
1946 Lillian Gish Duel in the Sun
1943 Paulette Goddard So Proudly We Hail!
1990 Whoopi Goldberg Ghost
1965 Ruth Gordon Inside Daisy Clover
1968 Ruth Gordon (2) Rosemary's Baby
1947 Gloria Grahame Crossfire
1952 Gloria Grahame (2) The Bad and the Beautiful
1951 Lee Grant Detective Story
1970 Lee Grant (2) The Landlord
1975 Lee Grant (3) Shampoo
1976 Lee Grant (4) Voyage of the Damned
1936 Bonita Granville These Three
1998 Rachel Griffiths Hilary and Jackie
2009 Maggie Gyllenhaal Crazy Heart

H

Year Nominee Film
1981 Joan Hackett Only When I Laugh
1952 Jean Hagen Singin' in the Rain
1964 Grayson Hall The Night of the Iguana
2000 Marcia Gay Harden Pollock
2003 Marcia Gay Harden (2) Mystic River
1986 Tess Harper Crimes of the Heart
1971 Barbara Harris Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
1994 Rosemary Harris Tom & Viv
2012 Anne Hathaway Les Misérables
2013 Sally Hawkins Blue Jasmine
1969 Goldie Hawn Cactus Flower
1970 Helen Hayes Airport
1956 Eileen Heckart The Bad Seed
1972 Eileen Heckart (2) Butterflies Are Free
1979 Mariel Hemingway Manhattan
2008 Taraji P. Henson The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1996 Barbara Hershey The Portrait of a Lady
1958 Wendy Hiller Separate Tables
1966 Wendy Hiller (2) A Man for All Seasons
1947 Celeste Holm Gentleman's Agreement
1949 Celeste Holm (2) Come to the Stable
1950 Celeste Holm (3) All About Eve
2006 Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls
2000 Kate Hudson Almost Famous
1950 Josephine Hull Harvey
2012 Helen Hunt The Sessions
1983 Linda Hunt The Year of Living Dangerously
1993 Holly Hunter The Firm
2003 Holly Hunter (2) Thirteen
1951 Kim Hunter A Streetcar Named Desire
1940 Ruth Hussey The Philadelphia Story
1985 Anjelica Huston Prizzi's Honor
1989 Anjelica Huston (2) Enemies, a Love Story
1958 Martha Hyer Some Came Running

I

Year Nominee Film
1983 Amy Irving Yentl

J

Year Nominee Film
1996 Marianne Jean-Baptiste Secrets & Lies
1960 Glynis Johns The Sundowners
1999 Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted
1957 Carolyn Jones The Bachelor Party
1944 Jennifer Jones Since You Went Away
1960 Shirley Jones Elmer Gantry
1954 Katy Jurado Broken Lance

K

Year Nominee Film
1973 Madeline Kahn Paper Moon
1974 Madeline Kahn (2) Blazing Saddles
1964 Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek
1999 Catherine Keener Being John Malkovich
2005 Catherine Keener (2) Capote
1970 Sally Kellerman MASH
1953 Grace Kelly Mogambo
2009 Anna Kendrick Up in the Air
2006 Rinko Kikuchi Babel
1960 Shirley Knight The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1962 Shirley Knight (2) Sweet Bird of Youth
2014 Keira Knightley The Imitation Game
1959 Susan Kohner Imitation of Life
1938 Miliza Korjus The Great Waltz

L

Year Nominee Film
1966 Jocelyne LaGarde Hawaii
1974 Diane Ladd Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1990 Diane Ladd (2) Wild at Heart
1991 Diane Ladd (3) Rambling Rose
1984 Christine Lahti Swing Shift
1949 Elsa Lanchester Come to the Stable
1957 Elsa Lanchester (2) Witness for the Prosecution
1957 Hope Lange Peyton Place
1982 Jessica Lange Tootsie
1944 Angela Lansbury Gaslight
1945 Angela Lansbury (2) The Picture of Dorian Gray
1962 Angela Lansbury (3) The Manchurian Candidate
2002 Queen Latifah Chicago
1976 Piper Laurie Carrie
1986 Piper Laurie (2) Children of a Lesser God
2013 Jennifer Lawrence American Hustle
1980 Eva Le Gallienne Resurrection
1971 Cloris Leachman The Last Picture Show
1955 Peggy Lee Pete Kelly's Blues
1937 Andrea Leeds Stage Door
1960 Janet Leigh Psycho
1971 Margaret Leighton The Go-Between
1961 Lotte Lenya The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2010 Melissa Leo The Fighter
1991 Juliette Lewis Cape Fear
2004 Laura Linney Kinsey
1968 Sondra Locke The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1945 Joan Lorring The Corn Is Green

M

Year Nominee Film
1944 Aline MacMahon Dragon Seed
1985 Amy Madigan Twice in a Lifetime
2004 Virginia Madsen Sideways
1947 Marjorie Main The Egg and I
1956 Dorothy Malone Written on the Wind
1952 Colette Marchand Moulin Rouge
1986 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio The Color of Money
1949 Mercedes McCambridge All the King's Men
1956 Mercedes McCambridge (2) Giant
2011 Melissa McCarthy Bridesmaids
1956 Patty McCormack The Bad Seed
1939 Hattie McDaniel Gone with the Wind
1990 Mary McDonnell Dances with Wolves
1988 Frances McDormand Mississippi Burning
2000 Frances McDormand (2) Almost Famous
2005 Frances McDormand (3) North Country
1981 Elizabeth McGovern Ragtime
2011 Janet McTeer Albert Nobbs
1968 Kay Medford Funny Girl
1966 Vivien Merchant Alfie
1961 Una Merkel Summer and Smoke
1969 Sylvia Miles Midnight Cowboy
1975 Sylvia Miles (2) Farewell, My Lovely
1978 Penelope Milford Coming Home
1994 Helen Mirren The Madness of King George
2001 Helen Mirren (2) Gosford Park
2009 Mo'Nique Precious
1959 Juanita Moore Imitation of Life
1997 Julianne Moore Boogie Nights
2002 Julianne Moore (2) The Hours
1952 Terry Moore Come Back, Little Sheba
1942 Agnes Moorehead The Magnificent Ambersons
1944 Agnes Moorehead (2) Mrs. Parkington
1948 Agnes Moorehead (3) Johnny Belinda
1964 Agnes Moorehead (4) Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1961 Rita Moreno West Side Story
1980 Cathy Moriarty-Gentile Raging Bull
1999 Samantha Morton Sweet and Lowdown

N

Year Nominee Film
1967 Mildred Natwick Barefoot in the Park
1991 Kate Nelligan The Prince of Tides
2013 Lupita Nyong'o 12 Years a Slave

O

Year Nominee Film
1973 Tatum O'Neal Paper Moon
1940 Barbara O'Neil All This, and Heaven Too
2004 Sophie Okonedo Hotel Rwanda
1989 Lena Olin Enemies, a Love Story
1939 Edna May Oliver Drums Along the Mohawk
1950 Nancy Olson Sunset Boulevard
1936 Maria Ouspenskaya Dodsworth
1939 Maria Ouspenskaya (2) Love Affair

P

Year Nominee Film
1953 Geraldine Page Hondo
1966 Geraldine Page (2) You're a Big Boy Now
1972 Geraldine Page (3) Pete 'n' Tillie
1984 Geraldine Page (4) The Pope of Greenwich Village
1993 Anna Paquin The Piano
1967 Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde
1968 Estelle Parsons (2) Rachel, Rachel
1955 Marisa Pavan The Rose Tattoo
1943 Katina Paxinou For Whom the Bell Tolls
1993 Rosie Perez Fearless
1942 Susan Peters Random Harvest
1988 Michelle Pfeiffer Dangerous Liaisons
1992 Joan Plowright Enchanted April
2004 Natalie Portman Closer

Q

Year Nominee Film
1995 Kathleen Quinlan Apollo 13

R

Year Nominee Film
1940 Marjorie Rambeau Primrose Path
1953 Marjorie Rambeau (2) Torch Song
1987 Anne Ramsey Throw Momma from the Train
1998 Lynn Redgrave Gods and Monsters
1977 Vanessa Redgrave Julia
1992 Vanessa Redgrave (2) Howards End
1963 Joyce Redman Tom Jones
1965 Joyce Redman (2) Othello
1953 Donna Reed From Here to Eternity
1943 Anne Revere The Song of Bernadette
1945 Anne Revere (2) National Velvet
1947 Anne Revere (3) Gentleman's Agreement
1967 Beah Richards Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1992 Miranda Richardson Damage
1950 Thelma Ritter All About Eve
1951 Thelma Ritter (2) The Mating Season
1952 Thelma Ritter (3) With a Song in My Heart
1953 Thelma Ritter (4) Pickup on South Street
1959 Thelma Ritter (5) Pillow Talk
1962 Thelma Ritter (6) Birdman of Alcatraz
1989 Julia Roberts Steel Magnolias
2013 Julia Roberts (2) August: Osage County
1946 Flora Robson Saratoga Trunk
2007 Saoirse Ronan Atonement
1967 Katharine Ross The Graduate
1991 Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King
1963 Margaret Rutherford The V.I.P.s
2007 Amy Ryan Gone Baby Gone
1993 Winona Ryder The Age of Innocence

S

Year Nominee Film
1954 Eva Marie Saint On the Waterfront
1980 Diana Scarwid Inside Moves
1999 Chloë Sevigny Boys Don't Cry
1974 Talia Shire The Godfather Part II
1937 Anne Shirley Stella Dallas
1973 Sylvia Sidney Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1948 Jean Simmons Hamlet
1963 Lilia Skala Lilies of the Field
1965 Maggie Smith Othello
1978 Maggie Smith (2) California Suite
1986 Maggie Smith (3) A Room with a View
2001 Maggie Smith (4) Gosford Park
1936 Gale Sondergaard Anthony Adverse
1946 Gale Sondergaard (2) Anna and the King of Siam
1995 Mira Sorvino Mighty Aphrodite
1987 Ann Sothern The Whales of August
2011 Octavia Spencer The Help
2013 June Squibb Nebraska
1982 Kim Stanley Frances
1958 Maureen Stapleton Lonelyhearts
1970 Maureen Stapleton (2) Airport
1978 Maureen Stapleton (3) Interiors
1981 Maureen Stapleton (4) Reds
1980 Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard
2010 Hailee Steinfeld True Grit
1954 Jan Sterling The High and the Mighty
2014 Emma Stone Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
1976 Beatrice Straight Network
1978 Meryl Streep The Deer Hunter
1979 Meryl Streep (2) Kramer vs. Kramer
2002 Meryl Streep (3) Adaptation.
2014 Meryl Streep (4) Into the Woods
1997 Gloria Stuart Titanic
2007 Tilda Swinton Michael Clayton

T

Year Nominee Film
1991 Jessica Tandy Fried Green Tomatoes
1993 Emma Thompson In the Name of the Father
1994 Uma Thurman Pulp Fiction
1994 Jennifer Tilly Bullets Over Broadway
1985 Meg Tilly Agnes of God
1992 Marisa Tomei My Cousin Vinny
2001 Marisa Tomei (2) In the Bedroom
2008 Marisa Tomei (3) The Wrestler
1975 Lily Tomlin Nashville
1937 Claire Trevor Dead End
1948 Claire Trevor (2) Key Largo
1954 Claire Trevor (3) The High and the Mighty
1972 Susan Tyrrell Fat City

U

Year Nominee Film
1957 Miyoshi Umeki Sayonara
1960 Mary Ure Sons and Lovers

V

Year Nominee Film
1975 Brenda Vaccaro Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
1955 Jo Van Fleet East of Eden
1957 Diane Varsi Peyton Place

W

Year Nominee Film
2000 Julie Walters Billy Elliot
1982 Lesley Ann Warren Victor Victoria
1949 Ethel Waters Pinky
1943 Lucile Watson Watch on the Rhine
2010 Jacki Weaver Animal Kingdom
2012 Jacki Weaver (2) Silver Linings Playbook
1988 Sigourney Weaver Working Girl
2005 Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener
1977 Tuesday Weld Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1937 May Whitty Night Must Fall
1942 May Whitty (2) Mrs. Miniver
1986 Dianne Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters
1989 Dianne Wiest (2) Parenthood
1994 Dianne Wiest (3) Bullets Over Broadway
1958 Cara Williams The Defiant Ones
2005 Michelle Williams Brokeback Mountain
1985 Oprah Winfrey The Color Purple
1995 Mare Winningham Georgia
1995 Kate Winslet Sense and Sensibility
2001 Kate Winslet (2) Iris
1959 Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank
1965 Shelley Winters (2) A Patch of Blue
1972 Shelley Winters (3) The Poseidon Adventure
1955 Natalie Wood Rebel Without a Cause
1965 Peggy Wood The Sound of Music
1983 Alfre Woodard Cross Creek
1941 Teresa Wright The Little Foxes
1942 Teresa Wright (2) Mrs. Miniver
1941 Margaret Wycherly Sergeant York

Y

Year Nominee Film
1969 Susannah York They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Z

Year Nominee Film
2003 Renée Zellweger Cold Mountain
2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago