Each year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honours the actress in a supporting role who delivered the most outstanding performance in a movie of a given year. The winning actress is given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar at the annual ceremony. The first Academy Awards presentation and banquet took place in 1929, but prizes for performances in supporting roles were not introduced until 1937, honouring films released in 1936. Below is a list of the winning actresses and the movies for which they won. The year is when the Oscar was presented.

1930s

• 1937: Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)
• 1938: Alice Brady (In Old Chicago)
• 1939: Fay Bainter (Jezebel)

1940s and 1950s

• 1940: Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)
• 1941: Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath)
• 1942: Mary Astor (The Great Lie)
• 1943: Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver)
• 1944: Katinia Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• 1945: Ethel Barrymore (None but the Lonely Heart)
• 1946: Anne Revere (National Velvet)
• 1947: Anne Baxter (The Razor’s Edge)
• 1948: Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement)
• 1949: Claire Trevor (Key Largo)
• 1950: Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men)
• 1951: Josephine Hull (Harvey)
• 1952: Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• 1953: Gloria Grahame (The Bad and the Beautiful)
• 1954: Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity)
• 1955: Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)
• 1956: Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden)
• 1957: Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind)
• 1958: Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara)
• 1959: Wendy Hiller (Separate Tables)

1960s and 1970s

• 1960: Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)
• 1961: Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry)
• 1962: Rita Moreno (West Side Story)
• 1963: Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker)
• 1964: Margaret Rutherford (The V.I.P.s)
• 1965: Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek)
• 1966: Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue)
• 1967: Sandy Dennis (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
• 1968: Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde)
• 1969: Ruth Gordon (Rosemary’s Baby)
• 1970: Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower)
• 1971: Helen Hayes (Airport)
• 1972: Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show)
• 1973: Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)
• 1974: Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon)
• 1975: Ingrid Bergman (Murder on the Orient Express)
• 1976: Lee Grant (Shampoo)
• 1977: Beatrice Straight (Network)
• 1978: Vanessa Redgrave (Julia)
• 1979: Maggie Smith (California Suite)

1980s and 1990s

• 1980: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
• 1981: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)
• 1982: Maureen Stapleton (Reds)
• 1983: Jessica Lange (Tootsie)
• 1984: Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
• 1985: Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India)
• 1986: Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor)
• 1987: Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters)
• 1988: Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck)
• 1989: Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist)
• 1990: Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot)
• 1991: Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost)
• 1992: Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)
• 1993: Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny)
• 1994: Anna Paquin (The Piano)
• 1995: Dianne Wiest (Bullets over Broadway)
• 1996: Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite)
• 1997: Juliette Binoche (The English Patient)
• 1998: Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential)
• 1999: Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love)

2000s and 2010s

• 2000: Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted)
• 2001: Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock)
• 2002: Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)
• 2003: Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)
• 2004: Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain)
• 2005: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)
• 2006: Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
• 2007: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
• 2008: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
• 2009: Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
• 2010: Mo’Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire)
• 2011: Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
• 2012: Octavia Spencer (The Help)
• 2013: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
• 2014: Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
• 2015: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
• 2016: Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)
• 2017: Viola Davis (Fences)
• 2018: Allison Janney (I, Tonya)
• 2019: Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)

2020s

• 2020: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
• 2021: Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari)
• 2022: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
• 2023: Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• 2024: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
• 2025: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)