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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.
- Jamie Lee Curtis. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022) This was the first career Oscar nomination for Curtis. She plays IRS agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre, who serves as the antagonist to Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) and her family in various timelines.
- Ariana DeBose. “West Side Story” (2021) 2021 Best Supporting Actress nominees: Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter” Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story” Judi Dench, “Belfast”
- Yuh-Jung Youn. “Minari” (2020) Youn won for playing the loving grandmother who follows her son and his family from Korea to build their life in America. She is the second Asian woman to win in this category, after Miyoshi Umeki for “Sayonara.”
- Laura Dern. ‘Marriage Story’ (2019) Dern swept the season for playing a tough-as-nails divorce attorney representing an actress (Scarlett Johansson) leaving her director husband (Adam Driver).
Fay won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for the movie Jezebel (1938). As Bette Davis' stern, reproving Aunt Belle, she excelled in a somewhat meatier role than the genteel or fluttery ladies she had previously been engaged to portray.
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Each year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honours the actress in a supporting role who delivered the most outstanding performance in a movie of a given year. The winning actress is given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar at the annual ceremony. The first Academy Awards presentation and banquet took place in 1929, but prizes ...
•1937: Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)
•1938: Alice Brady (In Old Chicago)
•1940: Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)
•1941: Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath)
•1942: Mary Astor (The Great Lie)
•1943: Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver)
•1944: Katinia Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
•1945: Ethel Barrymore (None but the Lonely Heart)
•1960: Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)
•1961: Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry)
•1962: Rita Moreno (West Side Story)
•1963: Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker)
•1964: Margaret Rutherford (The V.I.P.s)
•1965: Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek)
•1980: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
•1981: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)
•1982: Maureen Stapleton (Reds)
•1983: Jessica Lange (Tootsie)
•1984: Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
•1985: Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India)
•2000: Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted)
•2001: Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock)
•2002: Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)
•2003: Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)
•2004: Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain)
•2005: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)
•2020: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
•2021: Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari)
•2022: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
•2023: Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The 93rd Academy Awards | 2021. Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. Sunday, April 25, 2021. Honoring movies released in 2020.
Mar 10, 2024 · Da’Vine Joy Randolph took home the Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday for her role as a boarding school head cook who is grieving her son in “The Holdovers.”
Mar 12, 2023 · After a tight three-way race, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” co-star Jamie Lee Curtis won the supporting actress Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night, pulling ahead of Angela...
