Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Template:Short description Template:Main other Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox award The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actor winner. However, in recent years, it has shifted towards being presented by previous years' Best Supporting Actress winners instead. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette, supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards,[1] when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.[2]
The Best Supporting Actress award has been presented a total of 89 times, to 87 actresses. The first winner was Gale Sondergaard for her role in Anthony Adverse (1936). The most recent winner is Zoe Saldaña for her role as Rita Mora Castro in Emilia Pérez (2024).[3] The record for most wins is two, held jointly by Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters. Each other recipient has only won once, in this category. Thelma Ritter has received the most nominations in the category, with six, followed closely by Amy Adams with five, although neither has ever won—yet, in the latter's instance. Hattie McDaniel, whom the Academy sat in the back of the room, made history in 1940 when she became the first person of color to win an Oscar in any category, for her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). [4] Tatum O'Neal remains the youngest person to win a competitive acting Oscar at 10 years old, for her role in Paper Moon (1973). With five minutes and two seconds of screentime (the majority in one scene), Beatrice Straight's performance in Network (1976) holds the record for the shortest to win an Oscar.[5]
Nominations process
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.[6]
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.[7] For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31.[8] For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the extended eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.[8] Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.[8]
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Multiple wins and nominations
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| 2 | Dianne Wiest | 3 |
| Shelley Winters |
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Age superlatives
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| Record | Actress | Film | Age (in years) | Ref. |
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| Oldest Winner | Peggy Ashcroft | A Passage to India | 77 | [99] |
| Oldest Nominee | Gloria Stuart | Titanic | 87 | [99] |
| Youngest Winner | Tatum O'Neal | Paper Moon | 10 | [99] |
| Youngest Nominee |
Films with multiple Supporting Actress nominations
There have been 36 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
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
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- All Academy Award acting nominees
- List of actors with more than one Academy Award nomination in the acting categories
- List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance
- 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
- List of Academy Award–nominated films
References
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External links
- Oscars.org Template:Webarchive (official Academy site)
- Oscar.com Template:Webarchive (official ceremony promotional site)
- The Academy Awards DatabaseTemplate:Cbignore (official site)
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