"I can't believe it! Good Lord. I leave you with that."
— Rita Moreno winning for West Side Story
A list of people who have won and been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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1930s
- 1936: Gale Sondergaard for Anthony Adverse as Faith Paleologus
- Beulah Bondi for The Gorgeous Hussy as Rachel Jackson
- Alice Brady for My Man Godfrey as Angelica Bullock
- Bonita Granville for These Three as Mary Tilford
- Maria Ouspenskaya for Dodsworth as Baroness von Obersdorf
- 1937: Alice Brady for In Old Chicago as Molly O'Leary
- Andrea Leeds for Stage Door as Kay Hamilton
- Anne Shirley for Stella Dallas as Laurel "Lollie" Dallas
- Claire Trevor for Dead End as Francey
- May Whitty for Night Must Fall as Mrs. Bramson
- 1938: Fay Bainter for Jezebel as Belle Massey
- Beulah Bondi for Of Human Hearts as Mary Wilkins
- Billie Burke for Merrily We Live as Emily Kilbourne
- Spring Byington for You Can't Take It With You as Penelope "Penny" Sycamore
- Miliza Korjus for The Great Waltz as Carla Donner
- 1939: Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind as Mammy
- Olivia de Havilland for Gone with the Wind as Melanie Hamilton
- Geraldine Fitzgerald for Wuthering Heights as Isabella Linton
- Edna May Oliver for Drums Along the Mohawk as Sarah McKlennar
- Maria Ouspenskaya for Love Affair as Grandmother Janou
1940s
- 1940: Jane Darwell for The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
- Judith Anderson for Rebecca as Mrs. Danvers
- Ruth Hussey for The Philadelphia Story as Elizabeth "Liz" Imbrie
- Barbara O'Neil for All This, and Heaven Too as Francoise "Fanny" Sebastiani de-Praslin
- Marjorie Rambeau for Primrose Path as Mamie Adams
- 1941: Mary Astor for The Great Lie as Sandra Kovak
- Sara Allgood for How Green Was My Valley as Beth Morgan
- Patricia Collinge for The Little Foxes as Birdy Bagtry-Hubbard
- Teresa Wright for The Little Foxes as Alexandra Giddens
- Margaret Wycherly for Sergeant York as Mary Brooks-York
- 1942: Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon
- Gladys Cooper for Now, Voyager as Windle Vale
- Agnes Moorehead for The Magnificent Ambersons as Fanny Minafer
- Susan Peters for Random Harvest as Kitty Chilcet
- May Whitty for Mrs. Miniver as Lacy Beldon
- 1943: Katina Paxinou for For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pilar
- Gladys Cooper for The Song of Bernadette as Marie-Therese Vauzou
- Paulette Goddard for So Proudly We Hail! as Joan O'Doul
- Anne Revere for The Song of Bernadette as Louise Casterot-Soubirous
- Lucille Watson for Watch on the Rhine as Fanny Farrelly
- 1944: Ethel Barrymore for None but the Lonely Heart as Ma Mott
- Jennifer Jones for Since You Went Away as Jane Deborah Hilton
- Angela Lansbury for Gaslight as Nancy Oliver
- Aline MacMahon for Dragon Seed as Ling Tan's wife
- Agnes Moorehead for Mrs. Parkington as Baroness Aspasia Conti
- 1945: Anne Revere for National Velvet as Araminty Brown
- Ann Blyth for Mildred Pierce as Veda Pierce Forrester
- Eve Arden for Mildred Pierce as Ida Corwin
- Angela Lansbury for The Picture of Dorian Gray as Sibyl Vane
- Joan Lorring for The Corn Is Green as Bessie Watty
- 1946: Anne Baxter for The Razor's Edge as Sophie Nelson-MacDonald
- Ethel Barrymore for The Spiral Staircase as Mrs. Warren
- Lillian Gish for Duel in the Sun as Laura Belle McCanles
- Flora Robson for Saratoga Trunk as Angelique Buiton
- Gale Sondergaard for Anna and the King of Siam as Lady Thiang
- 1947: Celeste Holm for Gentleman's Agreement as Anne Dettrey
- Ethel Barrymore for The Paradine Case as Lady Sophie Horfield
- Gloria Grahame for Crossfire as Ginny Tremaine
- Marjorie Main for The Egg And I as Ma Kettle
- Anne Revere for Gentleman's Agreement as Mrs. Green
- 1948: Claire Trevor for Key Largo as Gaye Dawn
- Barbara Bel Geddes for I Remember Mama as Katrin Hanson
- Ellen Corby for I Remember Mama as Trina
- Agnes Moorehead for Johnny Belinda as Aggie McDonald
- Jean Simmons for Hamlet as Ophelia
- 1949: Mercedes McCambridge for All the King's Men as Sadie Burke
- Ethel Barrymore for Pinky as Miss Em
- Celeste Holm for Come to the Stable as Sister Scholastica
- Elsa Lanchester for Come to the Stable as Amelia Potts
- Ethel Waters for Pinky as Dicey Johnson
1950s
- 1950: Josephine Hull for Harvey as Veta Louise Simmons
- Hope Emerson for Caged as Evelyn Harper
- Celeste Holm for All About Eve as Karen Richards
- Nancy Olson for Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaefer
- Thelma Ritter for All About Eve as Birdie Coonan
- 1951: Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire as Stella Kowalski
- Joan Blondell for The Blue Veil as Annie Rawlins
- Mildred Dunnock for Death of a Salesman as Linda Loman
- Lee Grant for Detective Story as the Shoplifter
- Thelma Ritter for The Mating Season as Ellen McNulty
- 1952: Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful as Rosemary Bartlow
- Jean Hagen for Singin' in the Rain as Lina Lamont
- Colette Marchand for Moulin Rouge as Marie Chalet
- Terry Moore for Come Back Little Sheba as Marie Buckholder
- Thelma Ritter for With a Song in My Heart as Clancy
- 1953: Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity as Alma Burke / Lorene
- Grace Kelly for Mogambo as Linda Nordley
- Geraldine Page for Hondo as Angie Lowe
- Marjorie Rambeau for Torch Song as Mrs. Stewart
- Thelma Ritter for Pickup on South Street as Moe Williams
- 1954: Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront as Edie Doyle
- Nina Foch for Executive Suite as Erica Martin
- Katy Jurado for Broken Lance as Senora Deveraux
- Jan Sterling for The High and the Mighty as Sally McKee
- Claire Trevor for The High and the Mighty as May Holst
- 1955: Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden as Cathy Ames / Kate Trask
- Betsy Blair for Marty as Clara Snyder
- Peggy Lee for Pete Kelly's Blues as Rose Hopkins
- Marisa Pavan for The Rose Tattoo as Rosa Delle Rose
- Natalie Wood for Rebel Without a Cause as Judy
- 1956: Dorothy Malone for Written on the Wind as Marylee Hadley
- Mildred Dunnock for Baby Doll as Rose Comfort
- Eileen Heckart for The Bad Seed as Hortense Daigle
- Mercedes McCambridge for Giant as Luz Benedict
- Patty McCormack for The Bad Seed as Rhoda Penmark
- 1957: Miyoshi Umeki for Sayonara as Katsumi Kelly
- Carolyn Jones for The Bachelor Party as The Existentialist
- Elsa Lanchester for Witness for the Prosecution as Miss Plimsoll
- Hope Lange for Peyton Place as Selena Cross
- Diane Varsi for Peyton Place as Alison MacKenzie
- 1958: Wendy Hiller for Separate Tables as Pat Cooper
- Peggy Cass for Auntie Mame as Agnes Gooch
- Martha Hyer for Some Came Running as Gwen French
- Maureen Stapleton for Lonelyhearts as Fay Doyle
- Cara Williams for The Defiant Ones as Billy's Mother
- 1959: Shelley Winters for The Diary of Anne Frank as Petronella van Daan
- Hermione Baddeley for Room at the Top as Elspeth
- Susan Kohney for Imitation of Life as Sarah Jane Johnson
- Juanita Moore for Imitation of Life as Annie Johnson
- Thelma Ritter for Pillow Talk as Alma
1960s
- 1960: Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry as Lulu Baines
- Glynis Johns for The Sundowners as Mrs. Firth
- Shirley Knight for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Reenie Flood
- Janet Leigh for Psycho as Marion Crane
- Mary Ure for Sons and Lovers as Clara Dawes
- 1961: Rita Moreno for West Side Story as Anita
- Fay Bainter for The Children's Hour as Amelia Tilford
- Judy Garland for Judgment at Nuremberg as Irene Hoffman-Wallner
- Lotta Lenya for The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
- Una Merkel for Summer and Smoke as Mrs. Winemiller
- 1962: Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller
- Mary Badham for To Kill a Mockingbird as Jean Louise "Scout" Finch
- Shirley Knight for Sweet Bird of Youth as Heavenly Finley
- Angela Lansbury for The Manchurian Candidate as Eleanor Iselin
- Thelma Ritter for Birdman of Alcatraz as Elizabeth McCartney-Shroud
- 1963: Margaret Rutherford for The V.I.P.s as The Duchess of Brighton
- Diane Cilento for Tom Jones as Molly Seagrim
- Edith Evans for Tom Jones as Miss Western
- Joyce Redman for Tom Jones as Mrs. Waters / Jenny Jones
- Lilia Skala for Lilies of the Field as Mother Maria Marthe
- 1964: Lila Kedrova for Zorba the Greek as Madame Hortense
- Gladys Cooper for My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins
- Edith Evans for The Chalk Garden as Mrs. St. Maugham
- Grayson Hall for The Night of the Iguana as Judith Fellowes
- Agnes Moorehead for Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Velma Cruther
- 1965: Shelley Winters for A Patch of Blue as Rose-Ann D'Arcey
- Ruth Gordon for Inside Daisy Clover as Lucille Clover / The Dealer
- Joyce Redman for Othello as Emilia
- Maggie Smith for Othello as Desdemona
- Peggy Wood for The Sound of Music as Mother Abbess
- 1966: Sandy Dennis for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Honey
- Wendy Hiller for A Man for All Seasons as Alice More
- Jocelyne LaGarde for Hawaii as Malama Kanakoa
- Vivien Merchant for Alfie as Lily Clamacraft
- Geraldine Page for You're a Big Boy Now as Margery Chanticleer
- 1967: Estelle Parsons for Bonnie and Clyde as Blanche Barrow
- Carol Channing for Thoroughly Modern Millie as Muzzy von Hossmere
- Mildred Natwick for Barefoot in the Park as Ethel Banks
- Beah Richards for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Mary Prentice
- Katharine Ross for The Graduate as Elaine Robinson
- 1968: Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby as Minnie Castevet
- Lynn Carlin for Faces as Maria Frost
- Sondra Locke for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as Mick Kelly
- Kay Medford for Funny Girl as Rose Stern-Borach
- Estelle Parsons for Rachel, Rachel as Calla Mackie
- 1969: Goldie Hawn for Cactus Flower as Toni Simmons
- Catherine Burns for Last Summer as Rhoda
- Dyan Cannon for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Alice Henderson
- Sylvia Miles for Midnight Cowboy as Cass
- Susannah York for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Alice LeBlanc
1970s
- 1970: Helen Hayes for Airport as Ada Quonsett
- Karen Black for Five Easy Pieces as Rayette Dipesto
- Lee Grant for The Landlord as Joyce Enders
- Sally Kellerman for M*A*S*H as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
- Maureen Stapleton for Airport as Inez Guerrero
- 1971: Cloris Leachman for The Last Picture Show as Ruth Popper
- Ann-Margret for Carnal Knowledge as Bobbie
- Ellen Burstyn for The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow
- Barbara Harris for Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? as Allison Densmore
- Margaret Leighton for The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley
- 1972: Eileen Heckart for Butterflies Are Free as Mrs. Baker
- Jeannie Berlin for The Heartbreak Kid as Lila Kolodny
- Geraldine Page for Pete 'n' Tillie as Gertrude Wilson
- Susan Tyrell for Fat City as Oma Lee Greer
- Shelley Winters for The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
- 1973: Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon as Addie Loggins
- Linda Blair for The Exorcist as Regan MacNeil
- Candy Clark for American Graffiti as Debbie Dunham
- Madeline Kahn for Paper Moon as Trixie Delight
- Sylvia Sidney for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Mrs. Pritchett
- 1974: Ingrid Bergman for Murder on the Orient Express as Greta Ohlsson
- Valentina Cortese for Day for Night as Severine
- Madeline Kahn for Blazing Saddles as Lili von Shtupp
- Diane Ladd for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Flo Castleberry
- Talia Shire for The Godfather Part II as Connie Corleone
- 1975: Lee Grant for Shampoo as Felicia Karpf
- Ronee Blakley for Nashville as Barbara Jean
- Sylvia Miles for Farewell, My Lovely as Jessie Halstead Florian
- Lily Tomlin for Nashville as Linnea Reese
- Brenda Vaccaro for Once Is Not Enough as Linda Riggs
- 1976: Beatrice Straight for Network as Louise Schumacher
- Jane Alexander for All the President's Men as Judy Hoback
- Jodie Foster for Taxi Driver as Iris Steensma
- Lee Grant for Voyage of the Damned as Lillian Rosen
- Piper Laurie for Carrie as Margaret White
- 1977: Vanessa Redgrave for Julia as Julia
- Leslie Browne for The Turning Point as Emilia Rodgers
- Quinn Cummings for The Goodbye Girl as Lucy McFadden
- Melinda Dillon for Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Jillian Guiler
- Tuesday Weld for Looking For Mr. Goodbar as Katherine Dunn
- 1978: Maggie Smith for California Suite as Diana Barrie
- Dyan Cannon for Heaven Can Wait as Julia Farnsworth
- Penelope Milford for Coming Home as Vi Munson
- Maureen Stapleton for Interiors as Pearl
- Meryl Streep for The Deer Hunter as Linda
- 1979: Meryl Streep for Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
- Jane Alexander for Kramer vs. Kramer as Margaret Phelps
- Barbara Barrie for Breaking Away as Evelyn Stoller
- Candice Bergen for Starting Over as Jessica Porter
- Mariel Hemingway for Manhattan as Tracy
1980s
- 1980: Mary Steenburgen for Melvin and Howard as Lynda West-Dummar
- Eileen Brennan for Private Benjamin as Doreen Lewis
- Eva Le Gallienne for Resurrection as Pearl
- Cathy Moriarty for Raging Bull as Vikki LaMotta
- Diana Scarwid for Inside Moves as Louise
- 1981: Maureen Stapleton for Reds as Emma Goldman
- Melinda Dillon for Absence of Malice as Teresa Perrone
- Jane Fonda for On Golden Pond as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
- Joan Hackett for Only When I Laugh as Toby Landau
- Elizabeth McGovern for Ragtime as Evelyn Nesbit
- 1982: Jessica Lange for Tootsie as Julie Nichols
- Glenn Close for The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields
- Teri Garr for Tootsie as Sandy Lester
- Kim Stanley for Frances as Lillian Farmer
- Lesley Ann Warren for Victor/Victoria as Norma Cassidy
- 1983: Linda Hunt for The Year of Living Dangerously as Billy Kwan
- Cher for Silkwood as Dolly Pelliker
- Glenn Close for The Big Chill as Dr. Sarah Cooper
- Amy Irving for Yentl as Hadass Vishkower
- Alfre Woodard for Cross Creek as Beatrice
- 1984: Peggy Ashcroft for A Passage to India as Mrs. Moore
- Glenn Close for The Natural as Iris Gaines
- Lindsay Crouse for Places in the Heart as Margaret Lomax
- Christine Lahti for Swing Shift as Hazel Zanussi
- Geraldine Page for The Pope of Greenwich Village as Mrs. Ritter
- 1985: Anjelica Huston for Prizzi's Honor as Maerose Prizzi
- Margaret Avery for The Color Purple (1985) as Shug Avery
- Amy Madigan for Twice in a Lifetime as Sunny MacKenzie-Sobel
- Meg Tilly for Agnes of God as Sister Agnes Deveraux
- Oprah Winfrey for The Color Purple as Sofia Johnson
- 1986: Dianne Wiest for Hannah and Her Sisters as Holly
- Tess Harper for Crimes of the Heart as Chick Boyle
- Piper Laurie for Children of a Lesser God as Mrs. Norman
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio for The Color of Money as Carmen
- Maggie Smith for A Room with a View as Charlotte Bartlett
- 1987: Olympia Dukakis for Moonstruck as Rose Castorini
- Norma Aleandro for Gaby: A True Story as Florienca Sanchez Morales
- Anne Archer for Fatal Attraction as Beth Rogerson-Gallagher
- Anne Ramsey for Throw Momma from the Train as Momma Lift
- Ann Sothern for The Whales of August as Letitia Benson-Doughy
- 1988: Geena Davis for The Accidental Tourist as Muriel Pritchett
- Joan Cusack for Working Girl as Cynthia
- Frances McDormand for Mississippi Burning as Mrs. Pell
- Michelle Pfeiffer for Dangerous Liaisons as Madame Marie de Trouvel
- Sigourney Weaver for Working Girl as Katharine Parker
- 1989: Brenda Fricker for My Left Foot as Bridget Fagan-Brown
- Anjelica Huston for Enemies, A Love Story as Tamara Broder
- Lena Olin for Enemies, A Love Story as Masha Bloch
- Julia Roberts for Steel Magnolias as Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie
- Dianne Wiest for Parenthood as Helen Buckman
1990s
- 1990: Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost as Oda Mae Brown
- Annette Bening for The Grifters as Myra Lantry
- Lorraine Bracco for Goodfellas as Karen Hill
- Diane Ladd for Wild at Heart as Marietta Fortune
- Mary McDonnell for Dances with Wolves as Stands With a Fist
- 1991: Mercedes Ruehl for The Fisher King as Anne Napolitano
- Diane Ladd for Rambling Rose as Mrs. Hillyer
- Juliette Lewis for Cape Fear as Danielle Bowden
- Kate Nelligan for The Prince of Tides as Lila Wingo Newbury
- Jessica Tandy for Fried Green Tomatoes as Virginia "Ninny" Threadgoode
- 1992: Marisa Tomei for My Cousin Vinny as Mona Lisa Vito
- Judy Davis for Husbands and Wives as Sally Simmons
- Joan Plowright for Enchanted April as Mrs. Fisher
- Vanessa Redgrave for Howards End as Ruth Wilcox
- Miranda Richardson for Damage as Ingrid Thompson-Fleming
- 1993: Anna Paquin for The Piano as Flora McGrath
- Holly Hunter for The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
- Rosie Perez for Fearless as Carla Rodrigo
- Winona Ryder for The Age of Innocence as May Welland
- Emma Thompson for In the Name of the Father as Gareth Pierce
- 1994: Dianne Wiest for Bullets over Broadway as Helen Sinclair
- Rosemary Harris for Tom & Viv as Rose Haigh-Wood
- Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George as Queen Charlotte
- Uma Thurman for Pulp Fiction as Mia Wallace
- Jennifer Tilly for Bullets over Broadway as Olive Neal
- 1995: Mira Sorvino for Mighty Aphrodite as Linda Ash
- Joan Allen for Nixon as Pat Nixon
- Kathleen Quinlan for Apollo 13 as Marilyn Lovell
- Mare Winningham for Georgia as Georgia Flood
- Kate Winslet for Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood
- 1996: Juliette Binoche for The English Patient as Hana
- Joan Allen for The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor
- Lauren Bacall for The Mirror Has Two Faces as Hannah Morgan
- Barbara Hershey for The Portrait of a Lady as Madame Serena Merle
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Secrets & Lies as Hortense Cumberbatch
- 1997: Kim Basinger for L.A. Confidential as Lynn Bracken
- Joan Cusack for In & Out as Emily Montgomery
- Minnie Driver for Good Will Hunting as Skylar
- Julianne Moore for Boogie Nights as Amber Waves
- Gloria Stuart for Titanic as Rose Calvert
- 1998: Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love as Queen Elizabeth I
- Kathy Bates for Primary Colors as Libby Holden
- Branda Blethyn for Little Voice as Mari Hoff
- Rachel Griffiths for Hilary and Jackie as Hilary du Pre
- Lynn Redgrave for Gods and Monsters as Hanna
- 1999: Angelina Jolie for Girl, Interrupted as Lisa Rowe
- Toni Collette for The Sixth Sense as Lynn Sear
- Catherine Keener for Being John Malkovich as Maxine Lund
- Samantha Morton for Sweet and Lowdown as Hattie
- Chloë Sevigny for Boys Don't Cry as Lana Tisdel
2000s
- 2000: Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock as Lee Krasner
- Judi Dench for Chocolat as Armande Voizin
- Kate Hudson for Almost Famous as Penny Lane
- Frances McDormand for Almost Famous as Elaine Miller
- Julie Walters for Billy Elliot as Georgia Wilkinson
- 2001: Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind as Alicia Nash
- Helen Mirren for Gosford Park as Mrs. Wilson
- Maggie Smith for Gosford Park as Constance Trentham
- Marisa Tomei for In the Bedroom as Natalie Strout
- Kate Winslet for Iris as Iris Murdoch
- 2002: Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago as Velma Kelly
- Kathy Bates for About Schmidt as Roberta Hertzel
- Julianne Moore for The Hours as Laura McGrath-Brown
- Queen Latifah for Chicago as Matron Mama Morton
- Meryl Streep for Adaptation. as Susan Orlean
- 2003: Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain as Ruby Thewes
- Shohreh Aghdashloo for House of Sand and Fog as Nadereh Behrani
- Patricia Clarkson for Pieces of April as Joy Burns
- Marcia Gay Harden for Mystic River as Celeste Boyle
- Holly Hunter for Thirteen as Melanie Freeland
- 2004: Cate Blanchett for The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn
- Laura Linney for Kinsey as Clara McMillan
- Virginia Madsen for Sideways as Maya Randall
- Sophia Okonedo for Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana Rusesabagina
- Natalie Portman for Closer as Jane Jones
- 2005: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener as Tessa Quayle
- Amy Adams for Junebug as Ashley Johnsten
- Catherine Keener for Capote as Harper Lee
- Frances McDormand for North Country as Glory Dodge
- Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain as Alma Beers
- 2006: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls as Effie White
- Adriana Barraza for Babel as Amelia Hernandez
- Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal as Bathsheba "Sheba" Hart
- Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine as Olive Hoover
- Rinko Kikuchi for Babel as Chieko Wataya
- 2007: Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder
- Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There as Jude Quinn
- Ruby Dee for American Gangster as Mahalee Lucas
- Saoirse Ronan for Atonement as Briony Tallis
- Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone as Helene McCready
- 2008: Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Maria Elena
- Amy Adams for Doubt as Sister James
- Viola Davis for Doubt as Mrs. Miller
- Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Queenie
- Marisa Tomei for The Wrestler as Cassidy
- 2009: Mo'Nique for Precious as Mary Lee Johnston
- Penélope Cruz for 9 as Carla Albanese
- Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air as Alex Goran
- Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock
- Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
2010s
- 2010: Melissa Leo for The Fighter as Alice Eklund-Ward
- Amy Adams for The Fighter as Charlene Fleming
- Helena Bonham Carter The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth
- Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit as Mattie Ross
- Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom as Janine "Smurf" Cody
- 2011: Octavia Spencer for The Help as Minny Jackson
- Bérénice Bejo for The Artist as Peppy Miller
- Jessica Chastain for The Help as Celia Foote
- Melissa McCarthy for Bridesmaids as Megan Price
- Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page
- 2012: Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables as Fantine
- Amy Adams for The Master as Peggy Dodd
- Sally Field for Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
- Helen Hunt for The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene
- Jacki Weaver for Silver Linings Playbook as Dolores Solitano
- 2013: Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave as Patsey
- Sally Hawkins for Blue Jasmine as Ginger
- Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld
- Julia Roberts for August: Osage County as Barbra Weston-Fordham
- June Squibb for Nebraska! as Kate Grant
- 2014: Patricia Arquette for Boyhood as Olivia Evans
- Laura Dern for Wild as Bobbi Grey
- Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
- Emma Stone for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson
- Meryl Streep for Into the Woods as The Witch
- 2015: Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener
- Jennifer Jason Leigh for The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue
- Rooney Mara for Carol as Therese Belivet
- Rachel McAdams for Spotlight as Sacha Pfeiffer
- Kate Winslet for Steve Jobs as Joanna Hoffman
- 2016: Viola Davis for Fences as Rose Lee Maxson
- Naomie Harris for Moonlight as Paula Harris
- Nicole Kidman for Lion as Sue Brierley
- Octavia Spencer for Hidden Figures as Dorothy Vaughan
- Michelle Williams for Manchester by the Sea as Randi Chandler
- 2017: Allison Janney for I, Tonya as LaVona Golden
- Mary J. Blige for Mudbound as Florence Jackson
- Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
- Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird as Marion McPherson
- Octavia Spencer for The Shape of Water as Zelda Fuller
- 2018: Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
- Amy Adams for Vice as Lynne Cheney
- Marina de Tavira for Roma as Sofia
- Emma Stone for The Favourite as Abigail Hill
- Rachel Weisz for The Favourite as Sarah Churchill
- 2019: Laura Dern for Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw
- Kathy Bates for Richard Jewell as Barbara “Bobi” Jewell
- Scarlett Johansson for Jojo Rabbit as Rosie Betzler
- Florence Pugh for Little Women as Amy March
- Margot Robbie for Bombshell as Kayla Pospisil
2020s
- 2020-21: Youn Yuh-jung for Minari as Soon-ja
- Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
- Glenn Close for Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie “Mawmaw” Vance
- Olivia Colman for The Father as Anne
- Amanda Seyfried for Mank as Marion Davies
- 2021: Ariana DeBose for West Side Story as Anita
- Jessie Buckley for The Lost Daughter as young Leda Caruso
- Judi Dench for Belfast as "Granny"
- Kirsten Dunst for The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon
- Aunjanue Ellis for King Richard as Oracene "Brandy" Price
- 2022: Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre
- Angela Bassett for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Queen Ramonda
- Hong Chau for The Whale as Liz
- Kerry Condon for The Banshees of Inisherin as Siobhán Súilleabháin
- Stephanie Hsu for Everything Everywhere All at Once as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki
- 2023: Da'Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers as Mary Lamb
- Emily Blunt for Oppenheimer as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer
- Danielle Brooks for The Color Purple as Sofia Johnson
- America Ferrera for Barbie as Gloria
- Jodie Foster for Nyad as Bonnie Stoll
