Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress has been awarded regularly since 1936. In the first years, the winners received a ceremonial plaque, and after 1943, the winners received a gilded statue, like all other Oscar winners.
1930s
1936 Gail Sondergaard — Dishonorable Anthony as Faith Paleologus
Beulah Bondi — A hot shameless woman played by Rachel Jackson
Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey as Angelica Bullock
Bonita Granville — The Three of them as Mary Tilford
Maria Uspenska — Dodsworth in the role of Baroness Von Obersdorf
1937 Alice Brady — In Old Chicago as Mrs. Molly 'O'Leary
Andrea Leeds — Stage Door as Kay Hamilton
Ann Shirley — Stella Dallas as Laurel Lolly Dallas
Claire Trevor — Dead End as Francie
May Whitty — Night Must Fall as Mrs. Bramson
1938 Fay Bainter - Jezebel as Aunt Belle Massey
Beulah Bondi — About Human Hearts as Mary Wilkins
Billie Burke — Live Merrily as Mrs. Emily Kilburn
Spring Byington — You take nothing to the grave as Penny Sycamore
Milica Korjus — Big Waltz in the role of Karla Donner
1939. Hattie McDaniel — Gone with the Wind as Mama
Olivia de Havilland — Gone with the Wind as Melanie Wilkis
Geraldine Fitzgerald — Hurricane Heights as Isabella Linton
Edna May Oliver — Drums Along the Mohawk as Mrs. McLennar
Maria Uspenska — A love affair in the role of Jean's grandmother
1940s
1940 Jane Darwell - Fruits of Wrath as Mama Jode
Judith Anderson — Rebecca as Miss Danvers
Ruth Hussey — Philadelphia Story as Elizabeth Imbry
Barbara O'Neill — All this, and heaven too in the role of Duchesse de Praslin
Marjorie Rambo — Goosebumps as Mamie Adams
1941. Mary Astor — The Big Lie as Sandra Kovak
Sarah Allgood — How Green Was My Valley as Beth Morgan
Patricia Collinge — Little Foxes as Birdie Hubbard
Teresa Wright — Little Foxes as Alexandra Giddens
Margaret Wycherley — Sergeant York as Mother York
1942 Theresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon Miniver
Gladys Cooper — At the Crossroads as Miss Henry Windle Vale
Agnes Moorehead — The Magnificent Ambersons as Fanny Minafer
Susan Peters — Accidental Harvest as Kitty Chilsett
May Whitty — Mrs. Miniver as Lady Beldon
