Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actor winner. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. While actresses are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.
History[]
Throughout the past 76 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 76 Best Supporting Actress awards to 74 different actresses. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit currently receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. Prior to the 16th Academy Awards ceremony (1943), however, they received a plaque. The first recipient was Gale Sondergaard, who was honored at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936) for her performance in Anthony Adverse. The most recent recipient was Octavia Spencer, who was honored at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony (2012) for her performance in The Help.
Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1935), nominations for the Best Actress award were intended to include all actresses, whether the performance was in either a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), however, the Best Supporting Actress category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actress category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nonetheless, May Robson had received a Best Actress nomination (Lady for a Day, 1933) for her performance in a clear supporting role. Under the system currently in place, an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film, and such nominations are limited to five per year. Currently, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.
Nominees and winners[]
Best Supporting Actress By Decade |
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9th Academy Awards (1936)
- Winner
- Gale Sondergaard — Anthony Adverse
- Nominees
- Beulah Bondi — The Gorgeous Hussy
- Alice Brady — My Man Godfrey
- Bonita Granville — These Three
- Maria Ouspenskaya — Dodsworth
10th Academy Awards (1937)
- Winner
- Alice Brady — In Old Chicago
- Nominees
- Andrea Leeds — Stage Door
- Anne Shirley — Stella Dallas
- Claire Trevor — Dead End
- Dame May Whitty — Night Must Fall
11th Academy Awards (1938)
- Winner
- Fay Bainter — Jezebel
- Nominees
- Beulah Bondi — Of Human Hearts
- Billie Burke — Merrily We Live
- Spring Byington — You Can't Take It with You
- Miliza Korjus — The Great Waltz
12th Academy Awards (1939)
- Winner
- Hattie McDaniel — Gone with the Wind
- Nominees
- Olivia de Havilland — Gone with the Wind
- Geraldine Fitzgerald — Wuthering Heights
- Edna May Oliver — Drums along the Mohawk
- Maria Ouspenskaya — Love Affair
1940s
13th Academy Awards (1940)
- Winner
- Jane Darwell — The Grapes of Wrath
- Nominees
- Judith Anderson — Rebecca
- Ruth Hussey — The Philadelphia Story
- Barbara O'Neil — All This, and Heaven Too
- Marjorie Rambeau — Primrose Path
14th Academy Awards (1941)
- Winner
- Mary Astor — The Great Lie
- Nominees
- Sara Allgood — How Green Was My Valley
- Patricia Collinge — The Little Foxes
- Teresa Wright — The Little Foxes
- Margaret Wycherly — Sergeant York
15th Academy Awards (1942)
- Winner
- Teresa Wright — Mrs. Miniver
- Nominees
- Gladys Cooper — Now, Voyager
- Agnes Moorehead — The Magnificent Ambersons
- Susan Peters — Random Harvest
- Dame May Whitty — Mrs. Miniver
16th Academy Awards (1943)
- Winner
- Katina Paxinou — For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Nominees
- Gladys Cooper — The Song of Bernadette
- Paulette Goddard — So Proudly We Hail!
- Anne Revere — The Song of Bernadette
- Lucile Watson — Watch on the Rhine
17th Academy Awards (1944)
- Winner
- Ethel Barrymore — None but the Lonely Heart
- Nominees
- Jennifer Jones — Since You Went Away
- Angela Lansbury — Gaslight
- Aline MacMahon — Dragon Seed
- Agnes Moorehead — Mrs. Parkington
18th Academy Awards (1945)
- Winner
- Anne Revere — National Velvet
- Nominees
- Eve Arden — Mildred Pierce
- Ann Blyth — Mildred Pierce
- Angela Lansbury — The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Joan Lorring — The Corn Is Green
19th Academy Awards (1946)
- Winner
- Anne Baxter — The Razor's Edge
- Nominees
- Ethel Barrymore — The Spiral Staircase
- Lillian Gish — Duel in the Sun
- Flora Robson — Saratoga Trunk
- Gale Sondergaard — Anna and the King of Siam
20th Academy Awards (1947)
- Winner
- Celeste Holm — Gentleman's Agreement
- Nominees
- Ethel Barrymore — The Paradine Case
- Gloria Grahame — Crossfire
- Marjorie Main — The Egg and I
- Anne Revere — Gentleman's Agreement
21st Academy Awards (1948)
- Winner
- Claire Trevor — Key Largo
- Nominees
- Barbara Bel Geddes — I Remember Mama
- Ellen Corby — I Remember Mama
- Agnes Moorehead — Johnny Belinda
- Jean Simmons — Hamlet
22nd Academy Awards (1949)
- Winner
- Mercedes McCambridge — All the King's Men
- Nominees
- Ethel Barrymore — Pinky
- Celeste Holm — Come to the Stable
- Elsa Lanchester — Come to the Stable
- Ethel Waters — Pinky
1950s
23rd Academy Awards (1950)
- Winner
- Josephine Hull — Harvey
- Nominees
- Hope Emerson — Caged
- Celeste Holm — All about Eve
- Nancy Olson — Sunset Blvd.
- Thelma Ritter — All about Eve
24th Academy Awards (1951)
- Winner
- Kim Hunter — A Streetcar Named Desire
- Nominees
- Joan Blondell — The Blue Veil
- Mildred Dunnock — Death of a Salesman
- Lee Grant — Detective Story
- Thelma Ritter — The Mating Season
25th Academy Awards (1952)
- Winner
- Gloria Grahame — The Bad and the Beautiful
- Nominees
- Jean Hagen — Singin' in the Rain
- Colette Marchand — Moulin Rouge
- Terry Moore — Come Back, Little Sheba
- Thelma Ritter — With a Song in My Heart
26th Academy Awards (1953)
- Winner
- Donna Reed — From Here to Eternity
- Nominees
- Grace Kelly — Mogambo
- Geraldine Page — Hondo
- Marjorie Rambeau — Torch Song
- Thelma Ritter — Pickup on South Street
27th Academy Awards (1954)
- Winner
- Eva Marie Saint — On the Waterfront
- Nominees
- Nina Foch — Executive Suite
- Katy Jurado — Broken Lance
- Jan Sterling — The High and the Mighty
- Claire Trevor — The High and the Mighty
28th Academy Awards (1955)
- Winner
- Jo Van Fleet — East of Eden
- Nominees
- Betsy Blair — Marty
- Peggy Lee — Pete Kelly's Blues
- Marisa Pavan — The Rose Tattoo
- Natalie Wood — Rebel without a Cause
29th Academy Awards (1956)
- Winner
- Dorothy Malone — Written on the Wind
- Nominees
- Mildred Dunnock — Baby Doll
- Eileen Heckart — The Bad Seed
- Mercedes McCambridge — Giant
- Patty McCormack — The Bad Seed
30th Academy Awards (1957)
- Winner
- Miyoshi Umeki — Sayonara
- Nominees
- Carolyn Jones — The Bachelor Party
- Elsa Lanchester — Witness for the Prosecution
- Hope Lange — Peyton Place
- Diane Varsi — Peyton Place
31st Academy Awards (1958)
- Winner
- Wendy Hiller — Separate Tables
- Nominees
- Peggy Cass — Auntie Mame
- Martha Hyer — Some Came Running
- Maureen Stapleton — Lonelyhearts
- Cara Williams — The Defiant Ones
32nd Academy Awards (1959)
- Winner
- Shelley Winters — The Diary of Anne Frank
- Nominees
- Hermione Baddeley — Room at the Top
- Susan Kohner — Imitation of Life
- Juanita Moore — Imitation of Life
- Thelma Ritter — Pillow Talk
1960s
33rd Academy Awards (1960)
- Winner
- Shirley Jones — Elmer Gantry
- Nominees
- Glynis Johns — The Sundowners
- Shirley Knight — The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Janet Leigh — Psycho
- Mary Ure — Sons and Lovers
34th Academy Awards (1961)
- Winner
- Rita Moreno — West Side Story
- Nominees
- Fay Bainter — The Children's Hour
- Judy Garland — Judgment at Nuremberg
- Lotte Lenya — The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- Una Merkel — Summer and Smoke
35th Academy Awards (1962)
- Winner
- Patty Duke — The Miracle Worker
- Nominees
- Mary Badham — To Kill a Mockingbird
- Shirley Knight — Sweet Bird of Youth
- Angela Lansbury — The Manchurian Candidate
- Thelma Ritter — Birdman of Alcatraz
36th Academy Awards (1963)
- Winner
- Margaret Rutherford — The V.I.P.s
- Nominees
- Diane Cilento — Tom Jones
- Dame Edith Evans — Tom Jones
- Joyce Redman — Tom Jones
- Lilia Skala — Lilies of the Field
37th Academy Awards (1964)
- Winner
- Lila Kedrova — Zorba the Greek
- Nominees
- Gladys Cooper — My Fair Lady
- Dame Edith Evans — The Chalk Garden
- Grayson Hall — The Night of the Iguana
- Agnes Moorehead — Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
38th Academy Awards (1965)
- Winner
- Shelley Winters — A Patch of Blue
- Nominees
- Ruth Gordon — Inside Daisy Clover
- Joyce Redman — Othello
- Maggie Smith — Othello
- Peggy Wood — The Sound of Music
39th Academy Awards (1966)
- Winner
- Sandy Dennis — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Nominees
- Wendy Hiller — A Man for All Seasons
- Jocelyne Lagarde — Hawaii
- Vivien Merchant — Alfie
- Geraldine Page — You're a Big Boy Now
40th Academy Awards (1967)
- Winner
- Estelle Parsons — Bonnie and Clyde
- Nominees
- Carol Channing — Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Mildred Natwick — Barefoot in the Park
- Beah Richards — Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Katharine Ross — The Graduate
41st Academy Awards (1968)
- Winner
- Ruth Gordon — Rosemary's Baby
- Nominees
- Lynn Carlin — Faces
- Sondra Locke — The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Kay Medford — Funny Girl
- Estelle Parsons — Rachel, Rachel
42nd Academy Awards (1969)
- Winner
- Goldie Hawn — Cactus Flower
- Nominees
- Catherine Burns — Last Summer
- Dyan Cannon — Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- Sylvia Miles — Midnight Cowboy
- Susannah York — They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1970s
43rd Academy Awards (1970)
- Winner
- Helen Hayes — Airport
- Nominees
- Karen Black — Five Easy Pieces
- Lee Grant — The Landlord
- Sally Kellerman — M*A*S*H
- Maureen Stapleton — Airport
44th Academy Awards (1971)
- Winner
- Cloris Leachman — The Last Picture Show
- Nominees
- Ann-Margret — Carnal Knowledge
- 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
45th Academy Awards (1972)
- Winner
- Eileen Heckart — Butterflies Are Free
- Nominees
- Jeannie Berlin — The Heartbreak Kid
- Geraldine Page — Pete 'n' Tillie
- Susan Tyrrell — Fat City
- Shelley Winters — The Poseidon Adventure
46th Academy Awards (1973)
- Winner
- Tatum O'Neal — Paper Moon
- Nominees
- Linda Blair — The Exorcist
- Candy Clark — American Graffiti
- Madeline Kahn — Paper Moon
- Sylvia Sidney — Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
47th Academy Awards (1974)
- Winner
- Ingrid Bergman — Murder on the Orient Express
- Nominees
- Valentina Cortese — Day for Night
- Madeline Kahn — Blazing Saddles
- Diane Ladd — Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Talia Shire — The Godfather Part II
48th Academy Awards (1975)
- Winner
- Lee Grant — Shampoo
- Nominees
- Ronee Blakley — Nashville
- Sylvia Miles — Farewell, My Lovely
- Lily Tomlin — Nashville
- Brenda Vaccaro — Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
49th Academy Awards (1976)
- Winner
- Beatrice Straight — Network
- Nominees
- Jane Alexander — All the President's Men
- Jodie Foster — Taxi Driver
- Lee Grant — Voyage of the Damned
- Piper Laurie — Carrie
50th Academy Awards (1977)
- Winner
- Vanessa Redgrave — Julia
- Nominees
- Leslie Browne — The Turning Point
- Quinn Cummings — The Goodbye Girl
- Melinda Dillon — Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Tuesday Weld — Looking for Mr. Goodbar
51st Academy Awards (1978)
- Winner
- Maggie Smith — California Suite
- Nominees
- Dyan Cannon — Heaven Can Wait
- Penelope Milford — Coming Home
- Maureen Stapleton — Interiors
- Meryl Streep — The Deer Hunter
52nd Academy Awards (1979)
- Winner
- Meryl Streep — Kramer vs. Kramer
- Nominees
- Jane Alexander — Kramer vs. Kramer
- Barbara Barrie — Breaking Away
- Candice Bergen — Starting Over
- Mariel Hemingway — Manhattan
1980s
53rd Academy Awards (1980)
- Winner
- Mary Steenburgen — Melvin and Howard
- Nominees
- Eileen Brennan — Private Benjamin
- Eva Le Gallienne — Resurrection
- Cathy Moriarty — Raging Bull
- Diana Scarwid — Inside Moves
54th Academy Awards (1981)
- Winner
- Maureen Stapleton — Reds
- Nominees
- Melinda Dillon — Absence of Malice
- Jane Fonda — On Golden Pond
- Joan Hackett — Only When I Laugh
- Elizabeth McGovern — Ragtime
55th Academy Awards (1982)
- Winner
- Jessica Lange — Tootsie
- Nominees
- Glenn Close — The World According to Garp
- Teri Garr — Tootsie
- Kim Stanley — Frances
- Lesley Ann Warren — Victor/Victoria
56th Academy Awards (1983)
- Winner
- Linda Hunt — The Year of Living Dangerously
- Nominees
- Cher — Silkwood
- Glenn Close — The Big Chill
- Amy Irving — Yentl
- Alfre Woodard — Cross Creek
57th Academy Awards (1984)
- Winner
- Peggy Ashcroft — A Passage to India
- Nominees
- Glenn Close — The Natural
- Lindsay Crouse — Places in the Heart
- Christine Lahti — Swing Shift
- Geraldine Page — The Pope of Greenwich Village
58th Academy Awards (1985)
- Winner
- Anjelica Huston — Prizzi's Honor
- Nominees
- Margaret Avery — The Color Purple
- Amy Madigan — Twice in a Lifetime
- Meg Tilly — Agnes of God
- Oprah Winfrey — The Color Purple
59th Academy Awards (1986)
- Winner
- Dianne Wiest — Hannah and Her Sisters
- Nominees
- 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
60th Academy Awards (1987)
- Winner
- Olympia Dukakis — Moonstruck
- Nominees
- Norma Aleandro — Gaby - A True Story
- Anne Archer — Fatal Attraction
- Anne Ramsey — Throw Momma from the Train
- Ann Sothern — The Whales of August
61st Academy Awards (1988)
- Winner
- Geena Davis — The Accidental Tourist
- Nominees
- Joan Cusack — Working Girl
- Frances McDormand — Mississippi Burning
- Michelle Pfeiffer — Dangerous Liaisons
- Sigourney Weaver — Working Girl
62nd Academy Awards (1989)
- Winner
- Brenda Fricker — My Left Foot
- Nominees
- Anjelica Huston — Enemies, A Love Story
- Lena Olin — Enemies, A Love Story
- Julia Roberts — Steel Magnolias
- Dianne Wiest — Parenthood
1990s
63rd Academy Awards (1990)
- Winner
- Whoopi Goldberg — Ghost
- Nominees
- Annette Bening — The Grifters
- Lorraine Bracco — Good Fellas
- Diane Ladd — Wild at Heart
- Mary McDonnell — Dances With Wolves
64th Academy Awards (1991)
- Winner
- Mercedes Ruehl — The Fisher King
- Nominees
- Diane Ladd — Rambling Rose
- Juliette Lewis — Cape Fear
- Kate Nelligan — The Prince of Tides
- Jessica Tandy — Fried Green Tomatoes
65th Academy Awards (1992)
- Winner
- Marisa Tomei — My Cousin Vinny
- Nominees
- Judy Davis — Husbands and Wives
- Joan Plowright — Enchanted April
- Vanessa Redgrave — Howards End
- Miranda Richardson — Damage
66th Academy Awards (1993)
- Winner
- Anna Paquin — The Piano
- Nominees
- Holly Hunter — The Firm
- Rosie Perez — Fearless
- Winona Ryder — The Age of Innocence
- Emma Thompson — In the Name of the Father
67th Academy Awards (1994)
- Winner
- Dianne Wiest — Bullets over Broadway
- Nominees
- Rosemary Harris — Tom & Viv
- Helen Mirren — The Madness of King George
- Uma Thurman — Pulp Fiction
- Jennifer Tilly — Bullets over Broadway
68th Academy Awards (1995)
- Winner
- Mira Sorvino — Mighty Aphrodite
- Nominees
- Joan Allen — Nixon
- Kathleen Quinlan — Apollo 13
- Mare Winningham — Georgia
- Kate Winslet — Sense and Sensibility
69th Academy Awards (1996)
- Winner
- Juliette Binoche — The English Patient
- Nominees
- Joan Allen — The Crucible
- Lauren Bacall — The Mirror Has Two Faces
- Barbara Hershey — The Portrait of a Lady
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste — Secrets & Lies
70th Academy Awards (1997)
- Winner
- Kim Basinger — L.A. Confidential
- Nominees
- Joan Cusack — In & Out
- Minnie Driver — Good Will Hunting
- Julianne Moore — Boogie Nights
- Gloria Stuart — Titanic
71st Academy Awards (1998)
- Winner
- Judi Dench — Shakespeare in Love
- Nominees
- Kathy Bates — Primary Colors
- Brenda Blethyn — Little Voice
- Rachel Griffiths — Hilary and Jackie
- Lynn Redgrave — Gods and Monsters
72nd Academy Awards (1999)
- Winner
- Angelina Jolie — Girl, Interrupted
- Nominees
- Toni Collette — The Sixth Sense
- Catherine Keener — Being John Malkovich
- Samantha Morton — Sweet and Lowdown
- Chloë Sevigny — Boys Don't Cry
2000s
73rd Academy Awards (2000)
- Winner
- Marcia Gay Harden — Pollock
- Nominees
- Judi Dench — Chocolat
- Kate Hudson — Almost Famous
- Frances McDormand — Almost Famous
- Julie Walters — Billy Elliot
74th Academy Awards (2001)
- Winner
- Jennifer Connelly — A Beautiful Mind
- Nominees
- Helen Mirren — Gosford Park
- Maggie Smith — Gosford Park
- Marisa Tomei — In the Bedroom
- Kate Winslet — Iris
75th Academy Awards (2002)
- Winner
- Catherine Zeta-Jones — Chicago
- Nominees
- Kathy Bates — About Schmidt
- Julianne Moore — The Hours
- Queen Latifah — Chicago
- Meryl Streep — Adaptation
76th Academy Awards (2003)
- Winner
- Renée Zellweger — Cold Mountain
- Nominees
- Shohreh Aghdashloo — House of Sand and Fog
- Patricia Clarkson — Pieces of April
- Marcia Gay Harden — Mystic River
- Holly Hunter — Thirteen
77th Academy Awards (2004)
- Winner
- Cate Blanchett — The Aviator
- Nominees
- Laura Linney — Kinsey
- Virginia Madsen — Sideways
- Sophie Okonedo — Hotel Rwanda
- Natalie Portman — Closer
78th Academy Awards (2005)
- Winner
- Rachel Weisz — The Constant Gardener
- Nominees
- Amy Adams — Junebug
- Catherine Keener — Capote
- Frances McDormand — North Country
- Michelle Williams — Brokeback Mountain
79th Academy Awards (2006)
- Winner
- Jennifer Hudson — Dreamgirls
- Nominees
- Adriana Barraza — Babel
- Cate Blanchett — Notes on a Scandal
- Abigail Breslin — Little Miss Sunshine
- Rinko Kikuchi — Babel
80th Academy Awards (2007)
- Winner
- Tilda Swinton — Michael Clayton
- Nominees
- Cate Blanchett — I'm Not There
- Ruby Dee — American Gangster
- Saoirse Ronan — Atonement
- Amy Ryan — Gone Baby Gone
81st Academy Awards (2008)
- Winner
- Penélope Cruz — Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Nominees
- Amy Adams — Doubt
- Viola Davis — Doubt
- Taraji P. Henson — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Marisa Tomei — The Wrestler
82nd Academy Awards (2009)
- Winner
- Mo'Nique — Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
- Nominees
- Penélope Cruz — Nine
- Vera Farmiga — Up in the Air
- Maggie Gyllenhaal — Crazy Heart
- Anna Kendrick — Up in the Air
2010s
83rd Academy Awards (2010)
- Winner
- Melissa Leo — The Fighter
- Nominees
- Amy Adams — The Fighter
- Helena Bonham Carter — The King's Speech
- Hailee Steinfeld — True Grit
- Jacki Weaver — Animal Kingdom
84th Academy Awards (2011)
- Winner
- Octavia Spencer — The Help
- Nominees
- Bérénice Bejo — The Artist
- Jessica Chastain — The Help
- Melissa McCarthy — Bridesmaids
- Janet McTeer — Albert Nobbs
85th Academy Awards (2012)
- Winner
- Anne Hathaway — Les Misérables
- Nominees
- Amy Adams — The Master
- Sally Field — Lincoln
- Helen Hunt — The Sessions
- Jacki Weaver — Silver Linings Playbook
86th Academy Awards (2013)
- Winner
- Lupita Nyong'o — 12 Years a Slave
- Nominees
- Sally Hawkins — Blue Jasmine
- Jennifer Lawrence — American Hustle
- Julia Roberts — August: Osage County
- June Squibb — Nebraska
87th Academy Awards (2014)
- Winner
- Patricia Arquette — Boyhood
- Nominees
- Laura Dern — Wild
- Keira Knightley — The Imitation Game
- Emma Stone — Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- Meryl Streep — Into the Woods
88th Academy Awards (2015)
- Winner
- Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl
- Nominees
- Jennifer Jason Leigh — The Hateful Eight
- Rooney Mara — Carol
- Rachel McAdams — Spotlight
- Kate Winslet — Steve Jobs
89th Academy Awards (2016)
- Winner
- Viola Davis — Fences
- Nominees
- Naomie Harris — Moonlight
- Nicole Kidman — Lion
- Octavia Spencer — Hidden Figures
- Michelle Williams — Manchester by the Sea
90th Academy Awards (2017)
- Winner
- Allison Janney — I, Tonya
- Nominees
- Mary J. Blige — Mudbound
- Lesley Manville — Phantom Thread
- Laurie Metcalf — Lady Bird
- Octavia Spencer — The Shape of Water
91st Academy Awards (2018)
- Winner
- Regina King — If Beale Street Could Talk
- Nominees
- Amy Adams — Vice
- Marina de Tavira — Roma
- Emma Stone — The Favourite
- Rachel Weisz — The Favourite
92nd Academy Awards (2019)
- Winner
- Laura Dern — Marriage Story
- Nominees
- Kathy Bates — Richard Jewell
- Scarlett Johansson — Jojo Rabbit
- Florence Pugh — Little Women
- Margot Robbie — Bombshell
2020s
93rd Academy Awards (2020)
- Winner
- Youn Yuh-jung — Minari
- Nominees
- Maria Bakalova — Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Glenn Close — Hillbilly Elegy
- Olivia Colman — The Father
- Amanda Seyfried — Mank
94th Academy Awards (2021)
- Winner
- Ariana DeBose — West Side Story
- Nominees
- Jessie Buckley — The Lost Daughter
- Judi Dench — Belfast
- Kirsten Dunst — The Power of the Dog
- Aunjanue Ellis — King Richard
95th Academy Awards (2022)
- Winner
- Jamie Lee Curtis — Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Nominees
- Angela Bassett — Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Hong Chau — The Whale
- Kerry Condon — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Stephanie Hsu — Everything Everywhere All at Once
96th Academy Awards (2023)
- Winner
- TBD
- Nominees
- Emily Blunt — Oppenheimer
- Danielle Brooks — The Color Purple
- America Ferrera — Barbie
- Jodie Foster — Nyad
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers