Favorite Supporting Actress Oscar Winner

[Antonio]

1936: Gale Sondergaard -- Anthony Adverse
1937: Alice Brady -- In Old Chicago
1938: Fay Bainter -- Jezebel
1939: Hattie McDaniel -- Gone with the Wind
1940: Jane Darwell -- The Grapes of Wrath
1941: Mary Astor -- The Great Lie
1942: Teresa Wright -- Mrs. Miniver
1943: Katina Paxinou -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944: Ethel Barrymore -- None but the Lonely Heart
1945: Anne Revere -- National Velvet
1946: Anne Baxter -- The Razor's Edge
1947: Celeste Holm -- Gentleman's Agreement
1948: Claire Trevor -- Key Largo
1949: Mercedes McCambridge -- All the King's Men
1950: Josephine Hull -- Harvey
1951: Kim Hunter -- A Streetcar Named Desire
1952: Gloria Grahame -- The Bad and the Beautiful
1953: Donna Reed -- From Here to Eternity
1954: Eva Marie Saint -- On the Waterfront
1955: Jo Van Fleet -- East of Eden
1956: Dorothy Malone -- Written on the Wind
1957: Miyoshi Umeki -- Sayonara
1958: Wendy Hiller -- Separate Tables
1959: Shelley Winters -- The Diary of Anne Frank
1960: Shirley Jones -- Elmer Gantry
1961: Rita Moreno -- West Side Story
1962: Patty Duke -- The Miracle Worker
1963: Margaret Rutherford -- The V.I.P.s
1964: Lila Kedrova -- Zorba the Greek
1965: Shelley Winters -- A Patch of Blue
1966: Sandy Dennis -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967: Estelle Parsons -- Bonnie and Clyde
1968: Ruth Gordon -- Rosemary's Baby
1969: Goldie Hawn -- Cactus Flower
1970: Helen Hayes -- Airport
1971: Cloris Leachman -- The Last Picture Show
1972: Eileen Heckart -- Butterflies Are Free
1973: Tatum O'Neal -- Paper Moon
1974: Ingrid Bergman -- Murder on the Orient Express
1975: Lee Grant -- Shampoo
1976: Beatrice Straight -- Network
1977: Vanessa Redgrave -- Julia
1978: Maggie Smith -- California Suite
1979: Meryl Streep -- Kramer vs. Kramer
1980: Mary Steenburgen -- Melvin and Howard
1981: Maureen Stapleton -- Reds
1982: Jessica Lange -- Tootsie
1983: Linda Hunt -- The Year of Living Dangerously
1984: Peggy Ashcroft -- A Passage to India
1985: Anjelica Huston -- Prizzi's Honor
1986: Dianne Wiest -- Hannah and Her Sisters
1987: Olympia Dukakis -- Moonstruck
1988: Geena Davis -- The Accidental Tourist
1989: Brenda Fricker -- My Left Foot
1990: Whoopi Goldberg -- Ghost
1991: Mercedes Ruehl -- The Fisher King
1992: Marisa Tomei -- My Cousin Vinny
1993: Anna Paquin -- The Piano
1994: Dianne Wiest -- Bullets over Broadway
1995: Mira Sorvino -- Mighty Aphrodite
1996: Juliette Binoche -- The English Patient
1997: Kim Basinger -- L.A. Confidential
1998: Judi Dench -- Shakespeare in Love
1999: Angelina Jolie -- Girl, Interrupted
2000: Marcia Gay Harden -- Pollock
2001: Jennifer Connelly -- A Beautiful Mind
2002: Catherine Zeta-Jones -- Chicago
2003: Renée Zellweger -- Cold Mountain
2004: Cate Blanchett -- The Aviator
2005: Rachel Weisz -- The Constant Gardener

[Cobretti]

1999: Angelina Jolie -- Girl, Interrupted
2004: Cate Blanchett -- The Aviator
2005: Rachel Weisz -- The Constant Gardener

[Antonio]

1. Geena Davis in THE ACCIDENTIAL TOURIST
2. Ruth Gordon in ROSEMARY'S BABY
3. Kim Hunter in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
4. Linda Hunt in THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
5. Anjelica Huston in PRIZZI'S HONOR
6. Meryl Streep in KRAMER VS. KRAMER
7. Mary Steenburgen in MELVIN & HOWARD
8. Juliette Binoche in THE ENGLISH PATIENT
9. Catherine Zeta-Jones in CHICAGO
10. Tatum O'Neal in PAPER MOON

So many to choose from (even moreso than the Best Actress Oscar winners)! I ultimately went with my favorites, but technically the best are Cloris Leachman, Wendy Hiller, Eva Marie Saint, Jane Darwell, etc.

[HHHLovesMovies]

CATE BLANCHETT in THE AVIATOR

[Buck Turgidson]

Cloris Leachman ('71) and Juliette Binoche ('96) are the standouts on that list.

[CharlieBrooster]

1. Diane Wiest, Hannah and Her Sisters

2. Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King
3. Rachael Weisz, The Constant Gardener
4. Diane Wiest, Bullets Over Broadway
5. Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost
6. Eva Maria Saint, On the Waterfront
7. Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny
8. Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby
9. Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love
10. Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite

[ilovemovies]

Top 5 picks:


5. Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardner
4. Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential
3. Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted
2. Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind
1. Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago

[RandalGraves]

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Bergmen

[Pride]

1. Cate Blanchet - The Aviator
2. Rachel Weisz- The Constant Gardener
3. Jennifer Connelly- A Beautiful Mind

[QUENTIN]

Cloris Leachman's performance in Last Picture Show is the best supporting female performance ever, so it gets my vote.

No one else really comes close, though Darwell, Hunt, O'Neal, and Saint are probably closest.

[The Other]

Either Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables or Maggie Smith in California Suite.

[Hannibal21]

BEST:
Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
Eva Marie Saint - On the Waterfront

WORST:
Renee Zellweger - Cold Mountain

MOST OVERRATED:
Jessica Lange - Tootsie

MOST UNDERRATED:
Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential (she receives too much flack for it, and although I wouldn't rank her over Julianne Moore's performance in Boogie Nights, I nevertheless thought it was a deserved win)

[Southpaw]

My favorites are:
Rachael Weisz -- The Constant Gardener
Tatum O'Neal -- Paper Moon
Claire Trevor -- Key Largo
Eva Maria Saint, On the Waterfront
Juliette Binoche -- The English Patient

I've never seen The Last Picture Show...but I definitely see it appearing on my netflix queue in the near future now.

[Buck Turgidson]

I think if you liked Paper Moon, you should probably like it.

Hopefully as much as those of us who really love it do