Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Nominees are currently 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. ==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. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the extended eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Multiple wins and nominations==

The following individuals received two Best Supporting Actress awards: The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actress nominations: ==Age superlatives==

==Films with multiple Supporting Actress nominations==

There have been 37 instances in which films have produced more than one nominee within this category. Tom Jones (1963) was the only film which garnered three nominations, while all others obtained two. Winners are in bold. • Gone with the Wind (1939) – Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel • The Little Foxes (1941) – Patricia Collinge and Teresa Wright • Mrs. Miniver (1942) – May Whitty and Teresa Wright • The Song of Bernadette (1943) – Gladys Cooper and Anne Revere • Mildred Pierce (1945) – Eve Arden and Ann Blyth • ''Gentleman's Agreement'' (1947) – Celeste Holm and Anne Revere • I Remember Mama (1948) – Barbara Bel Geddes and Ellen Corby • Come to the Stable (1949) – Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester • Pinky (1949) – Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters • All About Eve (1950) – Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter • The High and the Mighty (1954) – Jan Sterling and Claire Trevor • The Bad Seed (1956) – Eileen Heckart and Patty McCormack • Peyton Place (1957) – Hope Lange and Diane Varsi • Imitation of Life (1959) – Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore • Tom Jones (1963) – Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, and Joyce Redman • Othello (1965) – Joyce Redman and Maggie Smith • Airport (1970) – Helen Hayes and Maureen Stapleton • The Last Picture Show (1971) – Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman • Paper Moon (1973) – Madeline Kahn and '''Tatum O'Neal''' • Nashville (1975) – Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin • Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) – Jane Alexander and Meryl Streep • Tootsie (1982) – Teri Garr and Jessica Lange • The Color Purple (1985) – Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey • Working Girl (1988) – Joan Cusack and Sigourney Weaver • Enemies, A Love Story (1989) – Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin • Bullets Over Broadway (1994) – Jennifer Tilly and Dianne Wiest • Almost Famous (2000) – Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand • Gosford Park (2001) – Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith • Chicago (2002) – Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones • Babel (2006) – Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi • Doubt (2008) – Amy Adams and Viola Davis • Up in the Air (2009) – Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick • The Fighter (2010) – Amy Adams and Melissa Leo • The Help (2011) – Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer • The Favourite (2018) – Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz • Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) – Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu • Sentimental Value (2025) – Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas ==Multiple character nominations==

Winners are in bold. • Anita from West Side Story (Rita Moreno, 1961) and West Side Story (Ariana DeBose, 2021) • Sofia from The Color Purple (Oprah Winfrey, 1985) and The Color Purple (Danielle Brooks, 2023) ==See also==