Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 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 Actress 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 actress, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees. For a list sorted by movie title, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films).

1930s

• 1936 Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse
• Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy
• Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey
• Bonita Granville - These Three
• Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth
• 1937 Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
• Andrea Leeds - Stage Door
• Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas
• Claire Trevor - Dead End
• May Whitty - Night Must Fall
• 1938 Fay Bainter - Jezebel
• Beulah Bondi - Of Human Hearts
• Billie Burke - Merrily We Live
• Spring Byington - You Can't Take It with You
• Miliza Korjus - The Great Waltz
• 1939 Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind
• Olivia de Havilland - Gone with the Wind
• Geraldine Fitzgerald - Wuthering Heights
• Edna May Oliver - Drums Along the Mohawk
• Maria Ouspenskaya - Love Affair