Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actor winner. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette , supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards ,[ 1] when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.[ 2]
The Best Supporting Actress award has been presented a total of 88 times, to 86 actresses. The first winner was Gale Sondergaard for her role in Anthony Adverse . The most recent winner is Da'Vine Joy Randolph for her role in The Holdovers .[ 3] The record for most wins is two, held jointly by Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters . Each other recipient has only won once, in this category. Thelma Ritter has received the most nominations in the category, with six—although she never won. Hattie McDaniel made history in 1940, when she became the first person of color to win an Oscar in any category.[ 4]
Nominations process [ edit ]
Nominees are currently determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.[ 5]
Winners and nominees [ edit ]
In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County ; the ceremonies are always held the following year.[ 6] For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31.[ 7] For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.[ 7] Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.[ 7]
Table key
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Indicates the winner
Multiple wins and nominations [ edit ]
Individuals who received two Best Supporting Actress awards:
Individuals receiving three or more Best Supporting Actress nominations:
Films with multiple Supporting Actress nominations [ edit ]
There have been 36 instances in which films have produced more than one nominee within this category. Tom Jones (1963) was the only film which garnered three nominations, while all others obtained two.
Winners are in bold .
Multiple character nominations [ edit ]
Winners are in bold .
^ Kinn & Piazza 2014 , pp. 39–67
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^ Richmond, Ray (February 15, 2023). "Oscar Flashback: In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American winner. But she had to accept her award in a 'No Blacks' hotel" . GoldDerby . Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023 . Yet despite the undeniable progress inherent in McDaniel's triumph, that night 83 years ago was rife with racist and humiliating overtones for McDaniel, the daughter of two former slaves. It began months before with her being barred from the Gone with the Wind world premiere on December 15, 1939, at the Loew's Grand Theater on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Star Clark Gable had threatened to boycott the event unless McDaniel were allowed to attend, but she convinced him to go, anyway, while she stayed away, a victim of Georgia's strict segregation laws of the time.
^ "Rule Six: Special Rules for the Acting Awards" (PDF) . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). p. 8-7. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2013 .
^ Crouse 2005 , p. 257
^ a b c Levy 2003 , p. 52
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Combined major Academy Awards Acting Directing Film Countries of the nominees Nominees demographics Other Combined major awards
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