Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Note: Dianne Wiest is also the only winner as Best Supporting Actress to have            received more than one Oscar for work in a single director's films (Woody            Allen directed both of her award-winning films).
The Most Best Supporting Actress Nominations (and Wins):
One actress has received six Best Supporting Actress             nominations (without winning), while seven other actresses have received             four Best Supporting Actress nominations (four of them won subsequent             awards).
The actress with the most Best Supporting Actress nominations           (with no wins) is Thelma Ritter, followed by Agnes Moorehead, Geraldine           Page, and Amy Adams.
Actresses with the most Best Supporting Actress            nominations (in parentheses) include:
Thelma Ritter (6) - no wins; nominated for
All About Eve (1950) , The Mating Season (1951), With a Song in My Heart (1952), Pickup on South Street (1953), Pillow Talk (1959) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); nominations were in a 12-year span from 1950-1962 (four nominations were consecutive              in a streak from 1950-1953)
Ethel Barrymore (4) - with one win (None But the Lonely Heart (1944)); also nominated for The           Spiral Staircase (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), Pinky (1949)
Lee Grant (4) - with one win (Shampoo (1975)); also nominated for Detective Story (1951), The Landlord (1970), Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Maggie Smith (4) - with one win (California Suite (1978)); also nominated for Othello (1965), A Room With a View (1986), Gosford Park (2001)
Maureen Stapleton (4) - with one win (Reds (1981)); also nominated for Lonelyhearts (1958), Airport (1970), Interiors (1978)
Meryl Streep (4) - with one win (Kramer vs. Kramer                 (1979)); also nominated for The Deer           Hunter (1978) , Adaptation (2002), and Into the Woods           (2014)
Agnes Moorehead (4) - no wins; nominated for
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) , Mrs. Parkington (1944), Johnny Belinda (1948), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Geraldine Page (4) - no wins; nominated for Hondo (1953), You're a Big Boy Now (1966), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Amy Adams (4) - no wins; nominated for Junebug                 (2005), Doubt (2008), The Fighter (2010),                 and Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Shelley Winters (3) - with two wins (The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), A Patch of Blue (1965)); also nominated for The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Dianne Wiest (3) - with two wins (Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Bullets Over Broadway (1994)); also nominated for Parenthood (1989)
Anne Revere (3) - with one win (National Velvet (1945)); also nominated for The Song of Bernadette (1943), Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Celeste Holm (3) - with one win (Gentleman's Agreement (1947)); also nominated for Come to the Stable (1949),
Gladys Cooper (3) - no wins; nominated for Now, Voyager (1942) , The Song of Bernadette (1943), My Fair Lady (1964)
Diane Ladd (3) - no wins; nominated for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990), Rambling Rose (1991)
Angela Lansbury (3) - no wins; nominated for Gaslight (1944) , The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Frances McDormand (3) - no wins; nominated for Mississippi Burning (1988), Almost Famous (2000), North Country (2005)
Teresa Wright (2) - with one win (Mrs. Miniver                 (1942));               also nominated for The Little Foxes (1941) - these two were consecutive nominations
Post-Humous Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominees/Winners:
There have been no post-humous nominees for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar Academy Award.
Film Debut Nominees/Winners for Best Supporting Actress Oscars:
Only nine actresses have won the Best Supporting             Actress Oscar for their debut performance (in a feature film)             in a substantial film role, while many others (a sampling) received             a Best Supporting Actress nomination for a substantial role in a             film debut (or during the first year of their career):
(1) Gale Sondergaard in Anthony Adverse (1936) (win) - she won  the first year of the Best Supporting Actress category was honored
Miliza Korjus in The Great Waltz (1938) (nomination)
Teresa Wright in The Little Foxes (1941) (nomination)
Patricia Collinge in The Little Foxes (1941) (nomination)
(2) Katina Paxinou in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) (win)
Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple (1985) (nomination)
(7) Anna Paquin in The Piano (1993) (win)
(8) Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls (2006) (win)
Mo'Nique in Precious (2009) (win)
(9) Lupita Nyong'o in 12 Years a Slave (2013) (win)
Actresses Winning at Least One Statuette in Both            the Lead and Supporting Categories:
There are many actresses who have won only one Best             Supporting Actress award. Six actresses have won acting awards in             both the lead (BA) and supporting (BSA) categories:
Helen Hayes, Best Actress (The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931/32)), Best Supporting Actress (Airport (1970))  - her only two career nominations
Ingrid Bergman, Best Actress ( Gaslight (1944) and Anastasia (1956)), Best Supporting Actress (Murder on the Orient Express (1974))  - the only star to receive a Best Supporting Actress Oscar after winning two Best Actress Academy Awards
Maggie Smith, Best Actress (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)), Best Supporting Actress (California Suite (1978))
Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress (Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)), Best Actress (Sophie's Choice (1982))
Jessica Lange, Best Supporting Actress (Tootsie (1982)), Best Actress (Blue Sky (1994))
Cate Blanchett, Best Supporting Actress (The               Aviator (2004)), Best Actress (Blue Jasmine (2013))
Back-to-Back Winners:
No Best Supporting Actress has won two Academy Awards in a row. Jason Robards is the only star to win back-to-back Best Supporting Actor Oscars.
Multiple Nominations:
No single performer has ever won two performing awards in the          same year. There have been a total of eleven performers            who are double nominees - that means that they have received two acting nominations in the same year. Three were actors and eight were actresses (wins are          marked with *).  (See the Best          Supporting Actor page for further information on male double nominees.) Of the 11 performers (actors and actresses) who've been recognized with nods for two performances in the same year, seven of them ended up winning one of the trophies.
Double nominees usually win in one category.  Often, actresses have been nominated for            Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for different films            in the same year. In 1938, Fay Bainter received the first simultaneous nominations of any performer in lead and supporting categories          (wins are marked with *). Three of the eight            actresses won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, and only one (Holly Hunter) of the            eight won the Best Actress Oscar, while Sigourney Weaver, Emma Thompson,          Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett lost both bids.
Fay Bainter (Best Actress for White Banners (1938) and Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) *)
Teresa Wright (Best Actress for The Pride of the              Yankees (1942) and Best Supporting Actress for Mrs. Miniver              (1942)*)
Jessica Lange (Best Actress for Frances (1982) and Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie (1982)*)
Sigourney Weaver (Best Actress for Gorillas in              the Mist (1987) and Best Supporting Actress for Working Girl              (1987))
Holly Hunter (Best Actress for The Piano (1993)*              and Best Supporting Actress for The Firm (1993))
Emma Thompson (Best Actress for The Remains of              the Day (1993) and Best Supporting Actress for In the Name              of the Father (1993))
Julianne Moore (Best Actress for Far From Heaven              (2002) and Best Supporting Actress for The Hours (2002))
Cate Blanchett (Best Actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There (2007))
African-American (or Black) Notables:
There have only been eighteen nominations              for black performers for Best Supporting Actress (with only six              winners), divided amongst eighteen different             performers. All nominees were nominated only once:
#
Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011)
Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Only fifteen awards have been won by African-Americans             (or blacks) in both lead and supporting categories (four Best Actor,             one Best Actress, four Best Supporting Actor, and six Best Supporting             Actress).
Latino, Asian and Other Ethnic-Minority            (Non-English) Performers:
There have been very few ethnic/minority            (or non-English) performance wins for Best Supporting Actress. They include:
Spanish-born actress Penelope Cruz won the Best            Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as temptress ex-wife Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona  (2008) - with her win, Cruz became the first Spanish-born actress to win an Oscar; in the role, she spoke both English and Spanish
Australian Cate Blanchett won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Welsh) won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Chicago (2002)
Angelina Jolie - with part Haudenosaunee (some sources              say Iroquian Indian) heritage, won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar              for her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Queens NY-born American actress Mercedes Ruehl (of              Cuban and Irish extraction) won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar              for her role in The Fisher King (1991)
Brenda Fricker (Irish) won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in My Left Foot (1989)
Puerto Rican Rita Moreno won the Best Supporting              Actress award for her performance in
West Side Story (1961) - she was the first (and only) Hispanic/Latino actress to win an acting Academy              Award Oscar
twenty-two year old Japanese-born Miyoshi Umeki won              the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Sayonara (1957) - she was the first Asian actress to be nominated for (and              win) an Oscar award
Notable ethnic/minority performance nominations for Best Supporting Actress include:
Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, nominated for her               role as sympathetic wife Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015) -               she was the first Nordic actress nominated at the Oscars since               Lena Olin in 1989
Australian actress Jacki Weaver, again nominated             for her role as concerned mother Dolores in Silver Linings Playbook               (2012)
Argentine-French actress Bérénice             Bejo nominated as Best Supporting Actress              as silent film fan and rising female star             Peppy Miller in The Artist (2011)
Australian actress Jacki Weaver nominated as Best               Supporting Actress for her role as terrifying Melbourne crime family               matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody, in writer/director David Michôd's               noirish crime film Animal Kingdom (2010)
Spanish-born actress Penelope Cruz was also nominated as Best              Supporting Actress  for her role as Carla, the passionate mistress of a married film director,  in Rob Marshall's big budget musical flop Nine (2009)
Mexican-born Adriana Barraza was nominated as Best              Supporting Actress for her role as careless Mexican housekeeper Amelie              in Babel (2006)
Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi was nominated as Best              Supporting Actress for her role as isolated, depressed and troubled              deaf-mute Tokyo teen-aged (speaking with sign-language)  girl Chieko in Babel (2006)
Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo was nominated              as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in House of Sand              and Fog (2003) - she was the first Iranian-Middle Eastern              actress to be nominated for an Oscar
Half-Chinese Jennifer Tilly was nominated as Best              Supporting Actress for her role in Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican Rosie Perez was nominated              as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Fearless (1993)
Swedish-born Lena Olin was nominated as Best Supporting               Actress for her role in Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Argentinian actress Norma Aleandro was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Gaby: A True Story (1987) - it was the first South American actress nomination ever
Half-Chinese Meg Tilly was nominated as Best Supporting              Actress for her role in Agnes of God (1985)
French actress Valentina Cortese was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Day for Night (1974)
Mexican-American Susan Kohner (daughter of Mexican actress Lupita              Tovar) was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her role as a              light-skinned black girl in Imitation of Life (1959)
Mexican-born Katy Jurado was nominated as Best Supporting              Actress for her role in Broken Lance (1954)
Best Supporting Actress Oscar               Winners/Nominees: Prostitute Roles
A large number of actresses have won  the supporting actress  Oscar for portraying hookers (girls            of the night, party girls, whores, call girls, madams, etc.) or loose          women (mistresses, promiscuous ladies, etc.), for example:
Anne Baxter won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar               for her role as tragic, alcoholic Sophie Nelson - a thrown-away               woman who turned to prostitution after the car-crash death of her               husband and child in The Razor's Edge (1946)
Claire Trevor won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar                for her role as a faded, torch-singing floozy turned into a gangster's               (Edward G. Robinson) pathetic alcoholic mistress Gaye Dawn in Key               Largo (1948)
Donna Reed  won the Best Supporting                Actress Oscar for her against-type role as dark-haired, sailor               port 'club' hostess ("prostitute" - a working girl/nightclub singer)               (Alma) Lorene at the New Congress Club in Honolulu servicing soldiers               in From                 Here to Eternity (1953)
Jo Van Fleet won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar                for her role as a wizened brothel madam and love-starved James               Dean's estranged and mysterious mother  Kate in East                 of Eden (1955)
Dorothy Malone won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as  alcoholic Robert Stack's wild, sexually provocative,               nymphomaniacal, trampy and spoiled rich sister Marylee Hadley in Written                 on the Wind (1956)
Shirley Jones won the Best Supporting                Actress Oscar for her against-type role as  blonde Lulu Bains               - Gantry's (Burt Lancaster) former dishevelled girlfriend/turned               hustling, blackmailing prostitute who sought revenge in Elmer                 Gantry (1960)
Mira Sorvino won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar                for her role as  bubble-headed, naive prostitute/porno               star Linda Ash ('Judy Cum'), the birth mother of divorced sportswriter               Woody Allen's adopted son in Mighty Aphrodite                (1995)
Kim Basinger won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar                for her role as glamorous, sultry movie-star look-a-like (a                la Veronica Lake) -  high-priced prostitute Lynn Bracken                in L.A. Confidential                (1997)
(Jodie Foster was nominated for Best Supporting               Actress for her role as 12 year-old runaway and prostitute Iris           Steensman in
Shortest:
The shortest performance to win an Oscar            was in the Best Supporting Actress category:
Beatrice Straight won the              Best Supporting Actress Oscar for less than eight minutes of screen              time in Network (1976) , with only 8 speaking              parts (of approx. 260 words).
(Runner up: Judi Dench for about              ten minutes of screen time as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in            Love (1998), with 14 speaking parts (of approx. 446 words).)
The shortest performance to be nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar:
Hermione Baddeley was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Room At the Top (1959), with approximately only 2 minutes and 20 seconds of screen time
Non-Speaking Role Nominees/Winners:
16 year old Patty Duke won Best Supporting              Actress for portraying Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962),              a role that required her to speak only one word in the last scene - "water." She was also the first minor to win a competitive              Oscar.
Samantha Morton was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for  her role as the shy, waifish, mute        laundress Hattie in Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi was nominated as Best              Supporting Actress for her role as isolated, depressed and troubled            deaf-mute Tokyo teen-aged (speaking with sign-language)  girl Chieko in Babel (2006)
Argentine-French actress               Bérénice               Bejo was nominated for her non-speaking role in the modern-day               silent film The               Artist (2011)
Related Oscar Winners and Nominees:               Father-Son, Father-Daughter, Mother-Daughter
Father-son acting nominees include:
Kirk Douglas (for Champion (1949), The                   Bad and the Beautiful (1952) , and Lust for Life                   (1956)), and Michael Douglas (for Wall Street (1987))
Raymond Massey (for Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940))               and Daniel Massey for Star! (1980))
The only father-son/daughter Oscar nominees             are Henry Fonda, Peter Fonda (nominated as Best Actor for Ulee's             Gold (1997)),             and Jane Fonda. Henry and Jane are also the only father-daughter         duo nominated for the same film: On Golden Pond (1981).
Winning father-daughter acting combos include:
Jon Voight (Best Actor for Coming Home (1978))               and Angelina Jolie (Best Supporting Actress for Girl, Interrupted               (1999))
Henry Fonda (Best Actor for On Golden Pond (1981) and               Jane Fonda (Best Actress for Klute (1971) and Coming               Home (1978))
Nominated father-daughter acting combos         also include:
Ryan O'Neal (Best Actor for Love             Story (1970) ) and Tatum O'Neal (Best Supporting Actress for Paper               Moon (1973)).
Michael, Vanessa, and Lynn Redgrave are             the only father-daughter/daughter group among acting nominees. Michael's         single nomination was for Mourning Becomes Electra (1947).
The only mother-daughter duo to have won performance Oscars are:
Judy Garland (a special juvenile award winner)               for
Liza Minnelli (as Best Actress) for Cabaret (1972)
(Note: Vincente Minnelli (Garland's husband               and Minnelli's father) also won a Best Director Oscar for Gigi           (1958))
The first and only mother-daughter acting             pair nominated for the same film in Oscar history:
Diane Ladd and             Laura Dern both received             nominations for Rambling Rose (1991).
(Note:            Add to that the fact           that father Bruce Dern was Oscar-nominated (Best Supporting Actor           for Coming Home (1978)) - that makes them the only mother-father-daughter             acting group with Oscar nominations)
Films with Three Best Supporting Actress Nominees:
Only one film has had three nominees for Best Supporting            Actress:
Tom Jones (1963) - Diane Cilento, Edith Evans,              and Joyce Redman (all lost to Margaret Rutherford for The V.I.P.'s              (1963))
Other Notables:
Opposite Gender Role Nominees (With Two               Winners)
(Note: Katharine Hepburn was not nominated for her cross-dressing             role in Sylvia Scarlett (1935))
Dustin Hoffman was nominated as Best Actor for Tootsie               (1982), for his role as unemployed actor Michael Dorsey/Dorothy               Michaels
Julie Andrews was nominated as Best Actress for Victor/Victoria             (1982), for her role as a British singer/transvestite ("a             woman impersonating a man impersonating a woman") - the             title role
Linda Hunt              won Best Supporting Actress for director Peter Weir's The Year             of Living Dangerously (1983) for playing a man (Chinese-Australian             photographer Billy Kwan) - she was the first (and only)             person to win an Oscar for playing a gender-switched character             role - a character of the opposite sex
(Note: Barbra Streisand was not nominated           for her role as Yentl/Anshel in Yentl (1983))
Gwyneth Paltrow's Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love (1998) was for playing cross-dressing Viola De Lesseps/Thomas Kent
Hilary Swank's Best Actress Oscar for Boys              Don't Cry (1999) was for playing a member of the opposite sex, although she was a pre-operative transsexual, biologically female
Janet McTeer was nominated             as Best Supporting Actress for Albert               Nobbs (2011),             as Hubert Page, a cross-dressing woman passing as a man - and married             to another woman
Glenn Close was a Best Actress nominee for Albert               Nobbs (2011) as the title character               Albert Nobbs, a hotel waiter trapped after masquerading as a man           in late 19th century and early 20th century Ireland
Jared Leto's Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Dallas               Buyers Club (2013) was as  transformed transgender (or transvestite)               prostitute Rayon, infected with HIV and dying of AIDS
For four years in a row (1978-1981), the            Best Supporting Actress winner's initials were M.S.: Maggie Smith, Meryl            Streep, Mary Steenbergen, Maureen Stapleton.
Cate Blanchett's Best Supporting Actress            Oscar win for The Aviator (2004) in her role as Katharine Hepburn marked the first time            a performer won an Oscar for playing an Oscar-winning actress.
Ruth Gordon, a Broadway playwright (Years Ago, Over Twenty-One), stage actress (Tony Award-nominated in 1956 for The Matchmaker), Oscar-nominated screenwriter (A Double Life (1947), Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952), co-scripted with husband Garson Kanin),  book author (Myself Among Others, An Open Book, and My Side),  Golden Globe Award winner (Best Supporting Actress for Inside Daisy Clover (1965) for which she also had an Oscar nomination), and Emmy Award winner (for a 1978 episode of Taxi) won Best Supporting Actress (and a Golden Globe) for her performance in Rosemary's          Baby (1968) . She was also nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance as Maude in Harold and Maude (1971).
Youngest and Oldest Best Supporting                Actresses: Nominees and Winners
Note: The calculated time is from date             of birth to the date of either (1) the nominations announcement,           or (2) the date of the awards ceremony.
Youngest Best Supporting Actress                    Nominee
Youngest Best Supporting Actress                    Winner
Oldest Best Supporting Actress                    Nominee
Oldest Best Supporting Actress                    Winner