Oscar Best Supporting Actress. Who Should've Won...
by La_Notte61 | created - 28 Aug 2014 | updated - 28 Aug 2014 | PublicThe list shows my pick of who should've won the Oscar in the best supporting actress category.
The rest of the nominees for each year are ranked in order of preference. * denotes the actual winner
I'm currently watching every single nominated/winning performance, the list will be upload every now and then.
I'm only listing years from what I've seen at least 3 performances
1. Celeste Holm
Actress | All About Eve
Celeste Holm was an only child, born into a home where her mother was a painter and her father worked in insurance. She would study acting at the University of Chicago and make her stage debut in 1936. Her Broadway debut came when she was 19 in 'The Time of Your Life'. She appeared in many ...
1950.
For All About Eve
Nancy Olson, Sunset Blvd.
Thelma Ritter, All About Eve
2. Juanita Moore
Actress | Imitation of Life
African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959 she ...
1959.
For Imitation of Life
Thelma Ritter, Pillow Talk
Susan Kohner, Imitation of Life
Hermione Baddeley / Shelley Winters N/S
3. Maggie Smith
Actress | Gosford Park
One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...
1978.
For California Suite * (right choice!)
Maureen Stapleton, Interiors
Penelope Milford, Coming Home
Dyan Cannon / Meryl Streep N/S
4. Mariel Hemingway
Actress | Manhattan
Mariel Hemingway was born on November 22, 1961 in Mill Valley, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Manhattan (1979), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) and The Sex Monster (1999). She was previously married to Stephen Crisman.
1979.
For Manhattan
Jane Alexander, Kramer vs. Kramer
Meryl Streep, Kramer vs. Kramer *
Candice Bergen / Barbara Barrie N/S
5. Lesley Ann Warren
Actress | Victor/Victoria
Entrancing, gorgeous Lesley Ann Warren started gearing towards a life in show business right off the bat as a young ballerina who trained at the School of American Ballet at the age of 14. Little did she know that Hollywood stardom would arrive on her doorstep in the form of a "Cinderella" story.
...
1982.
For Victor/Victoria
Teri Garr, Tootise
Jessica Lange, Tootsie *
Glenn Close, The World According to Garp
Kim Stanley N/S
6. Michelle Pfeiffer
Actress | The Fabulous Baker Boys
Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High ...
1988.
For Dangerous Liaisons
Sigourney Weaver, Working Girl
Joan Cusack, Working Girl
Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist *
Frances McDormand N/S
7. Diane Ladd
Actress | Wild at Heart
The amazingly gifted and versatile, Ms. Diane Ladd, received immense praise for her dramatic efforts throughout the course of her electric and unique seventy-year career. Her timeless offbeat charm and beauty reminiscent of a lamented Hollywood Golden Era actress gleam in the most understated roles...
1990.
For Wild at Heart
Annette Bening, The Grifters
Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost *
Lorraine Bracco / McDonnell N/S
8. Judy Davis
Actress | Husbands and Wives
Davis was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She found international success with the role of Adela Quested in A Passage to India (1984). Her performance was nominated an Academy Award for Best...
1992.
For Husbands and Wives
Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny *
Vanessa Redgrave, Howards End
Miranda Richardson / Joan Plowright N/S
9. Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Actress | Without a Trace
Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is an English actress. She is known for her role in the 1996 comedy-drama film Secrets & Lies, for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the same category. ...
1996.
For Secrets & Lies
Juliette Binoche, The English Patient *
Lauren Bacall, The Mirror Has Two Faces
Joan Allen / Barbara Hershey N/S
10. Julianne Moore
Actress | Far from Heaven
Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...
1997.
For Boogie Nights
Joan Cusack, In & Out
Gloria Stewart, Titanic
Kim Basinger N/S
Minnie Driver N/S
11. Rachel Griffiths
Actress | Six Feet Under
Her mother, Anna Griffiths, is an art consultant. Her uncle is a Jesuit priest. Has two older brothers. One brother, Ben, is a ski instructor. Lived on the Gold Coast, Queensland until age five, then moved to Melbourne. Attended Star of the Sea Catholic Girls' College, did well at school and ...
1998.
For Hilary and Jackie
Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters
Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love *
Brenda Blethyn, Little Voice
Kathy Bates N/S
12. Samantha Morton
Actress | Minority Report
Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.
...
1999.
For Sweet and Lowdown
Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich
Chlöe Sevigny, Boys Don't Cry
Toni Collette, The Sixth Sense
Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted *
13. Kate Hudson
Actress | Almost Famous
Almost everyone who has spent time with Kate Hudson -including directors, family members, co-stars and interviewers - is quick to comment on her ability to light up a room. Through some combination of a winning smile, solid work ethic, and good old-fashioned talent, the young actress has gone from ...
2000.
For Almost Famous
Julie Walters, Billy Elliot
Marcia Gay Harden, Pollock *
Frances McDormand, Almost Famous
Judi Dench, Chocolat
14. Marisa Tomei
Actress | My Cousin Vinny
Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, to Patricia "Addie" (Bianchi), a teacher of English, and Gary Tomei, a lawyer, both of Italian descent. Marisa has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy ...
2001.
For In the Bedroom
Helen Mirren, Gosford Park
Kate Winslet, Iris
Maggie Smith, Gosford Park
Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind *
15. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
2002.
For Adaptation.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago *
Queen Latifah, Chicago
Julianne Moore, The Hours
Kathy Bates N/S
16. Renée Zellweger
Actress | Chicago
Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (Andreassen), is a Norwegian-born former nurse and midwife, of Norwegian, Kven (Finnish), and Swedish descent. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born engineer. The two married in 1963. Renée ...
2003
For Cold Mountain * (right choice!)
Shohoreh Aghdashloo, House of Sand and Fog
Marcia Gay Harden, Mystic River
Patricia Clarkson, Pieces of April
Holly Hunter N/S
17. Laura Linney
Actress | The Big C
Laura Leggett Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964, into a theatre family. Her father was prominent playwright Romulus Linney, whose own great-grandfather was a congressman from North Carolina. Her mother, Miriam Anderson (Leggett), is a nurse. Although she did not live in her ...
2004.
For Kinsey
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator *
Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Natalie Portman, Closer
18. Rachel Weisz
Actress | The Constant Gardener
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. ...
2005.
For The Constant Gardener * (right choice!)
Amy Adams, Junebug
Catherine Keener, Capote
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain
Frances McDormand, North Country
19. Adriana Barraza
Actress | Babel
Adriana Barraza was born on March 5, 1956 in Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico. She is a director and actress, known for Babel (2006), Blue Beetle (2023) and Drag Me to Hell (2009). She has been married to Arnaldo Pipke since April 29, 2005. She was previously married to Carlos Valsagna.
2006.
For Babel
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls *
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
20. Cate Blanchett
Actress | Carol
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...
2007.
For I'm Not There
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton *
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Ruby Dee N/S
21. Penélope Cruz
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress", Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...
2008.
For Vicky Cristina Barcelona * (right choice!)
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Amy Adams, Doubt
Viola Davis, Doubt
22. Vera Farmiga
Actress | Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga is an American actress who has received an Academy Award nomination for her role in Up in the Air (2009) and Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in Bates Motel (2013) and When They See Us (2019).
She was born Vera Ann Farmiga, the second of seven children, on August 6, 1973, ...
2009.
For Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo'Nique, Precious *
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
23. Jacki Weaver
Actress | Silver Linings Playbook
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver is an Australian theatre, film and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdom (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012), both of which earned her nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Weaver emerged in the ...
2010.
For Animal Kingdom
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Melissa Leo, The Fighter *
24. Janet McTeer
Actress | Albert Nobbs
Janet McTeer was born on August 5, 1961 in Newcastle, England, UK to parents Jean and Allan McTeer. She was raised in York from the age of 6. She attended Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls, where there was not much opportunity for drama. She became interested in acting at age 16, when she saw "...
2011.
For Albert Nobbs
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Octavia Spencer, The Help *
Jessica Chastain, The Help
25. Amy Adams
Actress | Arrival
Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...
2012.
For The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables *
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
26. Sally Hawkins
Actress | The Shape of Water
Sally Cecilia Hawkins was born in 1976 in Lewisham hospital, London, England, to Jacqui and Colin Hawkins, authors and illustrators of children's books. She is of English and Irish descent. Hawkins was brought up in Greenwich, in southeast London. She attended James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich...
2013.
For Blue Jasmine
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave *
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
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