| 2009 | Winner | Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) | Penélope Cruz | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Nominated | Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008) | Taraji P. Henson |
| Doubt (2008/I) | Amy Adams (III) |
| Viola Davis (I) |
| Wrestler, The (2008) | Marisa Tomei |
| 2008 | Winner | Michael Clayton (2007) | Tilda Swinton |
| Nominated | American Gangster (2007) | Ruby Dee (I) |
| Atonement (2007) | Saoirse Ronan |
| Gone Baby Gone (2007) | Amy Ryan (I) |
| I'm Not There. (2007) | Cate Blanchett |
| 2007 | Winner | Dreamgirls (2006) | Jennifer Hudson (I) |
| Nominated | Babel (2006) | Adriana Barraza |
| Rinko Kikuchi |
| Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | Abigail Breslin |
| Notes on a Scandal (2006) | Cate Blanchett |
| 2006 | Winner | Constant Gardener, The (2005) | Rachel Weisz |
| Nominated | Brokeback Mountain (2005) | Michelle Williams (I) |
| Capote (2005) | Catherine Keener |
| Junebug (2005) | Amy Adams (III) |
| North Country (2005) | Frances McDormand |
| 2005 | Winner | Aviator, The (2004) | Cate Blanchett |
| Nominated | Closer (2004/I) | Natalie Portman |
| Hotel Rwanda (2004) | Sophie Okonedo |
| Kinsey (2004) | Laura Linney |
| Sideways (2004) | Virginia Madsen |
| 2004 | Winner | Cold Mountain (2003) | Renée Zellweger | Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Nominated | House of Sand and Fog (2003) | Shohreh Aghdashloo |
| Mystic River (2003) | Marcia Gay Harden |
| Pieces of April (2003) | Patricia Clarkson |
| Thirteen (2003) | Holly Hunter |
| 2003 | Winner | Chicago (2002) | Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| Nominated | About Schmidt (2002) | Kathy Bates (I) |
| Adaptation. (2002) | Meryl Streep |
| Chicago (2002) | Queen Latifah |
| Hours, The (2002) | Julianne Moore (I) |
| 2002 | Winner | Beautiful Mind, A (2001) | Jennifer Connelly |
| Nominated | Gosford Park (2001) | Helen Mirren |
| Maggie Smith (I) |
| In the Bedroom (2001) | Marisa Tomei |
| Iris (2001/I) | Kate Winslet |
| 2001 | Winner | Pollock (2000) | Marcia Gay Harden |
| Nominated | Almost Famous (2000) | Kate Hudson (I) |
| Frances McDormand |
| Billy Elliot (2000) | Julie Walters (I) |
| Chocolat (2000) | Judi Dench |
| 2000 | Winner | Girl, Interrupted (1999) | Angelina Jolie |
| Nominated | Being John Malkovich (1999) | Catherine Keener |
| Boys Don't Cry (1999) | Chloë Sevigny |
| Sixth Sense, The (1999) | Toni Collette |
| Sweet and Lowdown (1999) | Samantha Morton |
| 1999 | Winner | Shakespeare in Love (1998) | Judi Dench |
| Nominated | Gods and Monsters (1998) | Lynn Redgrave |
| Hilary and Jackie (1998) | Rachel Griffiths (I) |
| Little Voice (1998) | Brenda Blethyn |
| Primary Colors (1998) | Kathy Bates (I) |
| 1998 | Winner | L.A. Confidential (1997) | Kim Basinger |
| Nominated | Boogie Nights (1997) | Julianne Moore (I) |
| Good Will Hunting (1997) | Minnie Driver |
| In & Out (1997) | Joan Cusack |
| Titanic (1997) | Gloria Stuart |
| 1997 | Winner | English Patient, The (1996) | Juliette Binoche |
| Nominated | Crucible, The (1996) | Joan Allen (I) |
| Mirror Has Two Faces, The (1996) | Lauren Bacall |
| Portrait of a Lady, The (1996) | Barbara Hershey |
| Secrets & Lies (1996) | Marianne Jean-Baptiste |
| 1996 | Winner | Mighty Aphrodite (1995) | Mira Sorvino |
| Nominated | Apollo 13 (1995) | Kathleen Quinlan |
| Georgia (1995) | Mare Winningham |
| Nixon (1995) | Joan Allen (I) |
| Sense and Sensibility (1995) | Kate Winslet |
| 1995 | Winner | Bullets Over Broadway (1994) | Dianne Wiest |
| Nominated | Jennifer Tilly |
| Madness of King George, The (1994) | Helen Mirren |
| Pulp Fiction (1994) | Uma Thurman |
| Tom & Viv (1994) | Rosemary Harris (I) |
| 1994 | Winner | Piano, The (1993) | Anna Paquin |
| Nominated | Age of Innocence, The (1993) | Winona Ryder |
| Fearless (1993) | Rosie Perez |
| Firm, The (1993) | Holly Hunter |
| In the Name of the Father (1993) | Emma Thompson (I) |
| 1993 | Winner | My Cousin Vinny (1992) | Marisa Tomei |
| Nominated | Damage (1992) | Miranda Richardson (I) |
| Enchanted April (1992) | Joan Plowright |
| Howards End (1992) | Vanessa Redgrave |
| Husbands and Wives (1992) | Judy Davis (I) |
| 1992 | Winner | Fisher King, The (1991) | Mercedes Ruehl |
| Nominated | Cape Fear (1991) | Juliette Lewis (I) |
| Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) | Jessica Tandy |
| Prince of Tides, The (1991) | Kate Nelligan |
| Rambling Rose (1991) | Diane Ladd |
| 1991 | Winner | Ghost (1990) | Whoopi Goldberg |
| Nominated | Dances with Wolves (1990) | Mary McDonnell (I) |
| Goodfellas (1990) | Lorraine Bracco |
| Grifters, The (1990) | Annette Bening |
| Wild at Heart (1990) | Diane Ladd |
| 1990 | Winner | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) | Brenda Fricker |
| Nominated | Enemies: A Love Story (1989) | Anjelica Huston |
| Lena Olin |
| Parenthood (1989) | Dianne Wiest |
| Steel Magnolias (1989) | Julia Roberts (I) |
| 1989 | Winner | Accidental Tourist, The (1988) | Geena Davis |
| Nominated | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) | Michelle Pfeiffer |
| Mississippi Burning (1988) | Frances McDormand |
| Working Girl (1988) | Joan Cusack |
| Sigourney Weaver |
| 1988 | Winner | Moonstruck (1987) | Olympia Dukakis |
| Nominated | Fatal Attraction (1987) | Anne Archer |
| Gaby: A True Story (1987) | Norma Aleandro |
| Throw Momma from the Train (1987) | Anne Ramsey |
| Whales of August, The (1987) | Ann Sothern |
| 1987 | Winner | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) | Dianne Wiest |
| Nominated | Children of a Lesser God (1986) | Piper Laurie |
| Color of Money, The (1986) | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio |
| Crimes of the Heart (1986) | Tess Harper |
| Room with a View, A (1985) | Maggie Smith (I) |
| 1986 | Winner | Prizzi's Honor (1985) | Anjelica Huston |
| Nominated | Agnes of God (1985) | Meg Tilly |
| Color Purple, The (1985) | Margaret Avery |
| Oprah Winfrey |
| Twice in a Lifetime (1985) | Amy Madigan |
| 1985 | Winner | Passage to India, A (1984) | Peggy Ashcroft |
| Nominated | Natural, The (1984) | Glenn Close |
| Places in the Heart (1984) | Lindsay Crouse |
| Pope of Greenwich Village, The (1984) | Geraldine Page |
| Swing Shift (1984) | Christine Lahti (I) |
| 1984 | Winner | Year of Living Dangerously, The (1982) | Linda Hunt |
| Nominated | Big Chill, The (1983) | Glenn Close |
| Cross Creek (1983) | Alfre Woodard |
| Silkwood (1983) | Cher (I) |
| Yentl (1983) | Amy Irving |
| 1983 | Winner | Tootsie (1982) | Jessica Lange |
| Nominated | Frances (1982) | Kim Stanley (I) |
| Tootsie (1982) | Teri Garr |
| Victor Victoria (1982) | Lesley Ann Warren |
| World According to Garp, The (1982) | Glenn Close |
| 1982 | Winner | Reds (1981) | Maureen Stapleton |
| Nominated | Absence of Malice (1981) | Melinda Dillon |
| On Golden Pond (1981) | Jane Fonda |
| Only When I Laugh (1981) | Joan Hackett |
| Ragtime (1981) | Elizabeth McGovern |
| 1981 | Winner | Melvin and Howard (1980) | Mary Steenburgen |
| Nominated | Inside Moves (1980) | Diana Scarwid |
| Private Benjamin (1980) | Eileen Brennan (I) |
| Raging Bull (1980) | Cathy Moriarty |
| Resurrection (1980) | Eva Le Gallienne |
| 1980 | Winner | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | Meryl Streep |
| Nominated | Breaking Away (1979) | Barbara Barrie |
| Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | Jane Alexander (I) |
| Manhattan (1979) | Mariel Hemingway |
| Starting Over (1979) | Candice Bergen |
| 1979 | Winner | California Suite (1978) | Maggie Smith (I) |
| Nominated | Coming Home (1978) | Penelope Milford |
| Deer Hunter, The (1978) | Meryl Streep |
| Heaven Can Wait (1978) | Dyan Cannon |
| Interiors (1978) | Maureen Stapleton |
| 1978 | Winner | Julia (1977) | Vanessa Redgrave |
| Nominated | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | Melinda Dillon |
| Goodbye Girl, The (1977) | Quinn Cummings |
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) | Tuesday Weld |
| Turning Point, The (1977) | Leslie Browne |
| 1977 | Winner | Network (1976) | Beatrice Straight |
| Nominated | All the President's Men (1976) | Jane Alexander (I) |
| Carrie (1976) | Piper Laurie |
| Taxi Driver (1976) | Jodie Foster |
| Voyage of the Damned (1976) | Lee Grant (I) |
| 1976 | Winner | Shampoo (1975) |
| Nominated | Farewell, My Lovely (1975) | Sylvia Miles |
| Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975) | Brenda Vaccaro |
| Nashville (1975) | Ronee Blakley |
| Lily Tomlin |
| 1975 | Winner | Murder on the Orient Express (1974) | Ingrid Bergman (I) |
| Nominated | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) | Diane Ladd |
| Blazing Saddles (1974) | Madeline Kahn |
| Godfather: Part II, The (1974) | Talia Shire |
| Nuit américaine, La (1973) | Valentina Cortese |
| 1974 | Winner | Paper Moon (1973) | Tatum O'Neal |
| Nominated | American Graffiti (1973) | Candy Clark |
| Exorcist, The (1973) | Linda Blair |
| Paper Moon (1973) | Madeline Kahn |
| Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973) | Sylvia Sidney |
| 1973 | Winner | Butterflies Are Free (1972) | Eileen Heckart |
| Nominated | Fat City (1972) | Susan Tyrrell |
| Heartbreak Kid, The (1972) | Jeannie Berlin |
| Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) | Geraldine Page |
| Poseidon Adventure, The (1972) | Shelley Winters |
| 1972 | Winner | Last Picture Show, The (1971) | Cloris Leachman |
| Nominated | Carnal Knowledge (1971) | Ann-Margret |
| Go-Between, The (1970) | Margaret Leighton |
| Last Picture Show, The (1971) | Ellen Burstyn |
| Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971) | Barbara Harris (I) |
| 1971 | Winner | Airport (1970) | Helen Hayes (I) |
| Nominated | Maureen Stapleton |
| Five Easy Pieces (1970) | Karen Black (I) |
| Landlord, The (1970) | Lee Grant (I) |
| MASH (1970) | Sally Kellerman |
| 1970 | Winner | Cactus Flower (1969) | Goldie Hawn |
| Nominated | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) | Dyan Cannon |
| Last Summer (1969) | Catherine Burns (I) |
| Midnight Cowboy (1969) | Sylvia Miles |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) | Susannah York |
| 1969 | Winner | Rosemary's Baby (1968) | Ruth Gordon (I) |
| Nominated | Faces (1968/I) | Lynn Carlin |
| Funny Girl (1968) | Kay Medford |
| Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (1968) | Sondra Locke |
| Rachel, Rachel (1968) | Estelle Parsons |
| 1968 | Winner | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
| Nominated | Barefoot in the Park (1967) | Mildred Natwick |
| Graduate, The (1967) | Katharine Ross |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Beah Richards |
| Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) | Carol Channing |
| 1967 | Winner | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | Sandy Dennis (I) |
| Nominated | Alfie (1966) | Vivien Merchant |
| Hawaii (1966) | Jocelyne LaGarde |
| Man for All Seasons, A (1966) | Wendy Hiller |
| You're a Big Boy Now (1966) | Geraldine Page |
| 1966 | Winner | Patch of Blue, A (1965) | Shelley Winters |
| Nominated | Inside Daisy Clover (1965) | Ruth Gordon (I) |
| Othello (1965) | Joyce Redman |
| Maggie Smith (I) |
| Sound of Music, The (1965) | Peggy Wood (I) |
| 1965 | Winner | Alexis Zorbas (1964) | Lila Kedrova |
| Nominated | Chalk Garden, The (1964) | Edith Evans (I) |
| Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) | Agnes Moorehead |
| My Fair Lady (1964) | Gladys Cooper (I) |
| Night of the Iguana, The (1964) | Grayson Hall |
| 1964 | Winner | V.I.P.s, The (1963) | Margaret Rutherford |
| Nominated | Lilies of the Field (1963) | Lilia Skala |
| Tom Jones (1963) | Diane Cilento |
| Edith Evans (I) |
| Joyce Redman |
| 1963 | Winner | Miracle Worker, The (1962) | Patty Duke |
| Nominated | Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) | Thelma Ritter |
| Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) | Angela Lansbury |
| Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) | Shirley Knight (I) |
| To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | Mary Badham |
| 1962 | Winner | West Side Story (1961) | Rita Moreno (I) |
| Nominated | Children's Hour, The (1961) | Fay Bainter |
| Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) | Judy Garland (I) |
| Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (1961) | Lotte Lenya |
| Summer and Smoke (1961) | Una Merkel |
| 1961 | Winner | Elmer Gantry (1960) | Shirley Jones (I) |
| Nominated | Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The (1960) | Shirley Knight (I) |
| Psycho (1960) | Janet Leigh |
| Sons and Lovers (1960) | Mary Ure |
| Sundowners, The (1960) | Glynis Johns |
| 1960 | Winner | Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) | Shelley Winters |
| Nominated | Imitation of Life (1959) | Susan Kohner |
| Juanita Moore |
| Pillow Talk (1959) | Thelma Ritter |
| Room at the Top (1959) | Hermione Baddeley |
| 1959 | Winner | Separate Tables (1958) | Wendy Hiller |
| Nominated | Auntie Mame (1958) | Peggy Cass |
| Defiant Ones, The (1958) | Cara Williams |
| Lonelyhearts (1958) | Maureen Stapleton |
| Some Came Running (1958) | Martha Hyer |
| 1958 | Winner | Sayonara (1957) | Miyoshi Umeki |
| Nominated | Bachelor Party, The (1957) | Carolyn Jones (I) |
| Peyton Place (1957) | Hope Lange |
| Diane Varsi |
| Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | Elsa Lanchester |
| 1957 | Winner | Written on the Wind (1956) | Dorothy Malone |
| Nominated | Baby Doll (1956) | Mildred Dunnock |
| Bad Seed, The (1956) | Eileen Heckart |
| Patty McCormack |
| Giant (1956) | Mercedes McCambridge |
| 1956 | Winner | East of Eden (1955) | Jo Van Fleet |
| Nominated | Marty (1955) | Betsy Blair |
| Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) | Peggy Lee (I) |
| Rebel Without a Cause (1955) | Natalie Wood (I) |
| Rose Tattoo, The (1955) | Marisa Pavan |
| 1955 | Winner | On the Waterfront (1954) | Eva Marie Saint |
| Nominated | Broken Lance (1954) | Katy Jurado |
| Executive Suite (1954) | Nina Foch |
| High and the Mighty, The (1954) | Jan Sterling |
| Claire Trevor |
| 1954 | Winner | From Here to Eternity (1953) | Donna Reed |
| Nominated | Hondo (1953) | Geraldine Page |
| Mogambo (1953) | Grace Kelly (I) |
| Pickup on South Street (1953) | Thelma Ritter |
| Torch Song (1953) | Marjorie Rambeau |
| 1953 | Winner | Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952) | Gloria Grahame |
| Nominated | Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) | Terry Moore (I) |
| Moulin Rouge (1952) | Colette Marchand |
| Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Jean Hagen |
| With a Song in My Heart (1952) | Thelma Ritter |
| 1952 | Winner | Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) | Kim Hunter (I) |
| Nominated | Blue Veil, The (1951) | Joan Blondell |
| Death of a Salesman (1951) | Mildred Dunnock |
| Detective Story (1951) | Lee Grant (I) |
| Mating Season, The (1951) | Thelma Ritter |
| 1951 | Winner | Harvey (1950) | Josephine Hull |
| Nominated | All About Eve (1950) | Celeste Holm |
| Thelma Ritter |
| Caged (1950) | Hope Emerson |
| Sunset Blvd. (1950) | Nancy Olson |
| 1950 | Winner | All the King's Men (1949) | Mercedes McCambridge |
| Nominated | Come to the Stable (1949) | Celeste Holm |
| Elsa Lanchester |
| Pinky (1949) | Ethel Barrymore |
| Ethel Waters |
| 1949 | Winner | Key Largo (1948) | Claire Trevor |
| Nominated | Hamlet (1948) | Jean Simmons (I) |
| I Remember Mama (1948) | Barbara Bel Geddes |
| Ellen Corby |
| Johnny Belinda (1948) | Agnes Moorehead |
| 1948 | Winner | Gentleman's Agreement (1947) | Celeste Holm |
| Nominated | Crossfire (1947) | Gloria Grahame |
| Egg and I, The (1947) | Marjorie Main |
| Gentleman's Agreement (1947) | Anne Revere |
| Paradine Case, The (1947) | Ethel Barrymore |
| 1947 | Winner | Razor's Edge, The (1946) | Anne Baxter |
| Nominated | Anna and the King of Siam (1946) | Gale Sondergaard |
| Duel in the Sun (1946) | Lillian Gish |
| Saratoga Trunk (1945) | Flora Robson |
| Spiral Staircase, The (1945) | Ethel Barrymore |
| 1946 | Winner | National Velvet (1944) | Anne Revere |
| Nominated | Corn Is Green, The (1945) | Joan Lorring |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Eve Arden |
| Ann Blyth |
| Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945) | Angela Lansbury |
| 1945 | Winner | None But the Lonely Heart (1944) | Ethel Barrymore |
| Nominated | Dragon Seed (1944) | Aline MacMahon |
| Gaslight (1944) | Angela Lansbury |
| Mrs. Parkington (1944) | Agnes Moorehead |
| Since You Went Away (1944) | Jennifer Jones (I) |
| 1944 | Winner | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) | Katina Paxinou |
| Nominated | So Proudly We Hail! (1943) | Paulette Goddard |
| Song of Bernadette, The (1943) | Gladys Cooper (I) |
| Anne Revere |
| Watch on the Rhine (1943) | Lucile Watson |
| 1943 | Winner | Mrs. Miniver (1942) | Teresa Wright (I) |
| Nominated | Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) | Agnes Moorehead |
| Mrs. Miniver (1942) | Dame May Whitty |
| Now, Voyager (1942) | Gladys Cooper (I) |
| Random Harvest (1942) | Susan Peters (I) |
| 1942 | Winner | Great Lie, The (1941) | Mary Astor |
| Nominated | How Green Was My Valley (1941) | Sara Allgood |
| Little Foxes, The (1941) | Patricia Collinge |
| Teresa Wright (I) |
| Sergeant York (1941) | Margaret Wycherly |
| 1941 | Winner | Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) | Jane Darwell |
| Nominated | All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Barbara O'Neil |
| Philadelphia Story, The (1940) | Ruth Hussey |
| Primrose Path (1940) | Marjorie Rambeau |
| Rebecca (1940) | Judith Anderson (I) |
| 1940 | Winner | Gone with the Wind (1939) | Hattie McDaniel |
| Nominated | Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) | Edna May Oliver |
| Gone with the Wind (1939) | Olivia de Havilland |
| Love Affair (1939) | Maria Ouspenskaya |
| Wuthering Heights (1939) | Geraldine Fitzgerald (I) |
| 1939 | Winner | Jezebel (1938) | Fay Bainter |
| Nominated | Great Waltz, The (1938) | Miliza Korjus |
| Merrily We Live (1938) | Billie Burke |
| Of Human Hearts (1938) | Beulah Bondi |
| You Can't Take It with You (1938) | Spring Byington |
| 1938 | Winner | In Old Chicago (1937) | Alice Brady |
| Nominated | Dead End (1937) | Claire Trevor |
| Night Must Fall (1937) | Dame May Whitty |
| Stage Door (1937) | Andrea Leeds |
| Stella Dallas (1937) | Anne Shirley |
| 1937 | Winner | Anthony Adverse (1936) | Gale Sondergaard |
| Nominated | Dodsworth (1936) | Maria Ouspenskaya |
| Gorgeous Hussy, The (1936) | Beulah Bondi |
| My Man Godfrey (1936) | Alice Brady |
| These Three (1936) | Bonita Granville |