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).

1980s

• 1980 Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
• Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin
• Eva Le Gallienne - Resurrection
• Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull
• Diana Scarwid - Inside Moves
• 1981 Maureen Stapleton - Reds
• Melinda Dillon - Absence of Malice
• Jane Fonda - On Golden Pond
• Joan Hackett - Only When I Laugh
• Elizabeth McGovern - Ragtime
• 1982 Jessica Lange - Tootsie
• Glenn Close - The World According to Garp
• Teri Garr - Tootsie
• Kim Stanley - Frances
• Lesley Ann Warren - Victor/Victoria
• 1983 Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
• Cher - Silkwood
• Glenn Close - The Big Chill
• Amy Irving - Yentl
• Alfre Woodard - Cross Creek
• 1984 Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
• Glenn Close - The Natural
• Lindsay Crouse - Places in the Heart
• Christine Lahti - Swing Shift
• Geraldine Page - The Pope of Greenwich Village
• 1985 Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
• Margaret Avery - The Color Purple
• Amy Madigan - Twice in a Lifetime
• Meg Tilly - Agnes of God
• Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple
• 1986 Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
• Tess Harper - Crimes of the Heart
• Piper Laurie - Children of a Lesser God
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - The Color of Money
• Maggie Smith - A Room with a View
• 1987 Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
• Norma Aleandro - Gaby-A True Story
• Anne Archer - Fatal Attraction
• Anne Ramsey - Throw Momma from the Train
• Ann Sothern - The Whales of August
• 1988 Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
• Frances McDormand - Mississippi Burning
• Michelle Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons
• Joan Cusack - Working Girl
• Sigourney Weaver - Working Girl
• 1989 Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
• Anjelica Huston - '
• Lena Olin - '
• Dianne Wiest - Parenthood
• Julia Roberts - Steel Magnolias