Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1990-2008)

1990s

• 1990 Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost as Oda Mae Brown
  • Annette Bening - The Grifters as Myra Langtry
  • Lorraine Bracco - Goodfellas as Karen Hill
  • Diane Ladd - Wild at Heart as Marietta Fortune
  • Mary McDonnell - Dances with Wolves as Stands With A Fist

• 1991 Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King as Anne Napolitano
  • Diane Ladd - Rambling Rose as Mother
  • Juliette Lewis - Cape Fear as Danielle Bowden
  • Kate Nelligan - The Prince of Tides as Lila Wingo Newbury
  • Jessica Tandy - Fried Green Tomatoes as Ninny Threadgoode

• 1992 Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny as Mona Lisa Vito
  • Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives as Sally
  • Joan Plowright - Enchanted April as Mrs. Fisher
  • Vanessa Redgrave - Howards End as Ruth Wilcox
  • Miranda Richardson - Damage as Ingrid Fleming

• 1993 Anna Paquin - The Piano as Flora McGrath
  • Holly Hunter - The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
  • Rosie Perez - Fearless as Carla Rodrigo
  • Winona Ryder - The Age of Innocence as May Welland
  • Emma Thompson - In the Name of the Father as Gareth Peirce

• 1994 Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway as Helen Sinclair
  • Rosemary Harris - Tom & Viv as Rose Haigh-Wood
  • Helen Mirren - The Madness of King George as Queen Charlotte
  • Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction as Mia Wallace
  • Jennifer Tilly - Bullets Over Broadway as Olive Neal

• 1995 Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite as Linda Ash/Judy Cum
  • Joan Allen - Nixon as Pat Nixon
  • Kathleen Quinlan - Apollo 13 as Marilyn Lovell
  • Mare Winningham - Georgia as Georgia Flood
  • Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood

• 1996 Juliette Binoche - The English Patient as Hana
  • Joan Allen - The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor
  • Lauren Bacall - The Mirror Has Two Faces as Hannah Morgan
  • Barbara Hershey - The Portrait of a Lady as Madame Serena Merle
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Secrets & Lies as Hortense Cumberbatch

• 1997 Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential as Lynn Bracken
  • Joan Cusack - In & Out as Emily Montgomery
  • Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting as Skylar
  • Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights as Amber Waves
  • Gloria Stuart - Titanic as Old Rose

• 1998 Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love as Queen Elizabeth
  • Kathy Bates - Primary Colors as Libby Holden
  • Brenda Blethyn - Little Voice as Mari Hoff
  • Rachel Griffiths - Hilary and Jackie as Hilary du Pré
  • Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters as Hanna

• 1999 Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted as Lisa Rowe
  • Toni Collette - The Sixth Sense as Lynn Sear
  • Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich as Maxine Lund
  • Samantha Morton - Sweet and Lowdown as Hattie
  • Chloë Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry as Lana Tisdel

[edit] 2000s

• 2000 Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock as Lee Krasner
  • Judi Dench - Chocolat as Armande Voizin
  • Kate Hudson - Almost Famous as Penny Lane
  • Frances McDormand - Almost Famous as Elaine Miller
  • Julie Walters - Billy Elliot as Mrs. Wilkinson

• 2001 Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind as Alicia Nash
  • Helen Mirren - Gosford Park as Mrs. Wilson
  • Maggie Smith - Gosford Park as Constance Trentham
  • Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom as Natalie Strout
  • Kate Winslet - Iris as Young Iris Murdoch

• 2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago as Velma Kelly
  • Kathy Bates - About Schmidt as Roberta Hertzel
  • Julianne Moore - The Hours as Laura Brown
  • Queen Latifah - Chicago as Matron Mama Morton
  • Meryl Streep - Adaptation. as Susan Orlean

• 2003 Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain as Ruby Thewes
  • Shohreh Aghdashloo - House of Sand and Fog as Nadi Behrani
  • Patricia Clarkson - Pieces of April as Joy Burns
  • Marcia Gay Harden - Mystic River as Celeste Boyle
  • Holly Hunter - Thirteen as Melanie 'Mel' Freeland

• 2004 Cate Blanchett - The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn
  • Laura Linney - Kinsey as Clara McMillen
  • Virginia Madsen - Sideways as Maya Randall
  • Sophie Okonedo - Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana Rusesabagina
  • Natalie Portman - Closer as Alice Ayres

• 2005 Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener as Tessa Quayle
  • Amy Adams - Junebug as Ashley Johnsten
  • Catherine Keener - Capote as Nelle Harper Lee
  • Frances McDormand - North Country as Glory Dodge
  • Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain as Alma Beers Del Mar

• 2006 Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls as Effie White
  • Adriana Barraza - Babel as Amelia
  • Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal as Sheba Hart
  • Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine as Olive Hoover
  • Rinko Kikuchi - Babel as Chieko

• 2007 Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder
  • Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There as Jude Quinn
  • Ruby Dee - American Gangster as Mama Lucas
  • Saoirse Ronan - Atonement as Briony Tallis - Aged 13
  • Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone as Helene McCready

• 2008 Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena
  • Amy Adams - Doubt as Sister James
  • Viola Davis - Doubt as Mrs. Miller
  • Taraji Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Queenie
  • Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler as Cassidy