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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees. For a list sorted by actor, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees. For a list sorted by movie title, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films).The trophy for the award was originally a plaque.
List of Winners
| Year | Supporting Actor | Picture |
| 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 |
| 2006 | Jennifer Hudson | Dreamgirls |
| 2007 | Tilda Swinton | Michael Clayton |
| 2008 | Penélope Cruz | Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
