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).

1950s

• 1950 Josephine Hull - Harvey
• Hope Emerson - Caged
• Celeste Holm - All About Eve
• Nancy Olson - Sunset Boulevard
• Thelma Ritter - All About Eve
• 1951 Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire
• Joan Blondell - The Blue Veil
• Mildred Dunnock - Death of a Salesman
• Lee Grant - Detective Story
• Thelma Ritter - The Mating Season
• 1952 Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful
• Jean Hagen - Singin' in the Rain
• Colette Marchand - Moulin Rouge
• Terry Moore - Come Back, Little Sheba
• Thelma Ritter - With a Song in My Heart
• 1953 Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity
• Grace Kelly - Mogambo
• Geraldine Page - Hondo
• Marjorie Rambeau - Torch Song
• Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street
• 1954 Eva Marie Saint - On the Waterfront
• Nina Foch - Executive Suite
• Katy Jurado - Broken Lance
• Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty
• Claire Trevor - The High and the Mighty
• 1955 Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
• Betsy Blair - Marty
• Peggy Lee - Pete Kelly's Blues
• Marisa Pavan - The Rose Tattoo
• Natalie Wood - Rebel Without a Cause
• 1956 Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
• Mildred Dunnock - Baby Doll
• Eileen Heckart - The Bad Seed
• Mercedes McCambridge - Giant
• Patty McCormack - The Bad Seed
• 1957 Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
• Carolyn Jones - The Bachelor Party
• Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution
• Hope Lange - Peyton Place
• Diane Varsi - Peyton Place
• 1958 Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
• Peggy Cass - Auntie Mame
• Martha Hyer - Some Came Running
• Maureen Stapleton - Lonelyhearts
• Cara Williams - The Defiant Ones
• 1959 Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
• Hermione Baddeley - Room at the Top
• Susan Kohner - Imitation of Life
• Juanita Moore - Imitation of Life
• Thelma Ritter - Pillow Talk