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).

1970s

• 1970 Helen Hayes - Airport
• Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces
• Lee Grant - The Landlord
• Sally Kellerman - M*A*S*H
• Maureen Stapleton - Airport
• 1971 Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
• Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show
• Barbara Harris - Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
• Margaret Leighton - The Go-Between
• Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge
• 1972 Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free
• Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid
• Geraldine Page - Pete 'N' Tillie
• Susan Tyrrell - Fat City
• Shelley Winters - The Poseidon Adventure
• 1973 Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
• Linda Blair - The Exorcist
• Candy Clark - American Graffiti
• Madeline Kahn - Paper Moon
• Sylvia Sidney - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
• 1974 Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
• Valentina Cortese - La Nuit américaine
• Madeline Kahn - Blazing Saddles
• Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Talia Shire - The Godfather Part II
• 1975 Lee Grant - Shampoo
• Ronee Blakley - Nashville
• Sylvia Miles - Farewell, My Lovely
• Lily Tomlin - Nashville
• Brenda Vaccaro - Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
• 1976 Beatrice Straight - Network
• Jane Alexander - All the President's Men
• Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver
• Lee Grant - Voyage of the Damned
• Piper Laurie - Carrie
• 1977 Vanessa Redgrave - Julia (Also see her controversial acceptance speech)
• Leslie Browne - The Turning Point
• Quinn Cummings - The Goodbye Girl
• Melinda Dillon - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Tuesday Weld - Looking for Mr. Goodbar
• 1978 Maggie Smith - California Suite
• Dyan Cannon - Heaven Can Wait
• Penelope Milford - Coming Home
• Maureen Stapleton - Interiors
• Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter
• 1979 Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
• Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer
• Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away
• Candice Bergen - Starting Over
• Mariel Hemingway - Manhattan