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Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 (AMPAS) to recognize an actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry
Film industry

The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking: i.e. production company, Movie studio, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, Distribution ; and actors, film directors and other film crew....
. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. While actresses are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the entire Academy membership.
ughout the past 73 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 73 Best Supporting Actress awards to 71 different actresses.






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Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 (AMPAS) to recognize an actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry
Film industry

The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking: i.e. production company, Movie studio, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, Distribution ; and actors, film directors and other film crew....
. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. While actresses are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the entire Academy membership.

History

Throughout the past 73 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 73 Best Supporting Actress awards to 71 different actresses. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit currently receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. Prior to the 16th Academy Awards
16th Academy Awards

The 16th Academy Awards, in 1944, was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman?s Chinese Theater. Free passes were given out to men and women in uniform....
 ceremony (1943
1943 in film

The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
), however, they received a plaque. The first recipient was Gale Sondergaard
Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard was an American actress.Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse ....
, who was honored at the 9th Academy Awards
9th Academy Awards

The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel ....
 ceremony (1936
1936 in film

The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
) for her performance in Anthony Adverse
Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse is a 1936 United States drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney was based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen....
. The most recent recipient was Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz

Pen?lope Cruz S?nchez , better known as Pen?lope Cruz, is a Spain actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jam?n, Jam?n, La Ni?a de tus ojos, and Belle ?poque ....
, who was honored at the 81st Academy Awards
81st Academy Awards

The 81st Academy Awards ceremony was held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor its selection of the best 2008 in film on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California....
 ceremony (2008
2008 in film

The year '2008 in film' saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels such as Rambo , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight , The X-Files: I...
) for her performance in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 in film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film features well-known stars Javier Bardem, Pen?lope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson, and less-well-known British people actress Rebecca Hall....
.

Until the 8th Academy Awards
8th Academy Awards

The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra....
 ceremony (1935
1935 in film

Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
), nominations for the Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 award were intended to include all actresses, whether the performance was in either a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards
9th Academy Awards

The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel ....
 ceremony (1936
1936 in film

The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
), however, the Best Supporting Actress category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actress category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nonetheless, May Robson had received a Best Actress nomination (Lady for a Day
Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day is a 1933 in film film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Robert Riskin, based on the Damon Runyon story Madame la Gimp....
, 1933
1933 in film

Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
) for her performance in a clear supporting role. Currently, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
, Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
, and Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.

Superlatives

SuperlativeBest Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
Overall
Actress with Most AwardsKatharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
4Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
 and Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award....
2Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
4
Actress with Most NominationsKatharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
 and Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
12Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
6Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
15
Actress with Most Nominations
(without ever winning)
Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
6Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
6Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
 and Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
6
Film with Most NominationsAll About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
; Suddenly, Last Summer
Suddenly, Last Summer (film)

Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 in film drama film made by Columbia Pictures, based on Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. The film was directed by Joseph L....
;
The Turning Point
The Turning Point (1977 film)

The Turning Point was written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell ....
; Terms of Endearment;
and Thelma & Louise
2Tom Jones
Tom Jones (film)

Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
3All About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
4
Oldest WinnerJessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy

Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was a United Kingdom-United States stage and film actress....
80Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft

Dame Peggy Ashcroft Order of the British Empire was an English actress....
77Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy

Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was a United Kingdom-United States stage and film actress....
80
Oldest NomineeJessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy

Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was a United Kingdom-United States stage and film actress....
80Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart

Gloria Frances Stewart, also known as Gloria Stuart is an American actor. Over a Hollywood career that spans more than 70 years, Stuart appeared on stage , television and film, and is best known as for her roles as Claude Rains' sweetheart in The Invisible Man and as the 100-year-old Rose in the film Titanic ....
87Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart

Gloria Frances Stewart, also known as Gloria Stuart is an American actor. Over a Hollywood career that spans more than 70 years, Stuart appeared on stage , television and film, and is best known as for her roles as Claude Rains' sweetheart in The Invisible Man and as the 100-year-old Rose in the film Titanic ....
87
Youngest WinnerMarlee Matlin
Marlee Matlin

Marlee Beth Matlin is an American actress who is Hearing impairment. She is the youngest woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, which she won at the age of 21....
21Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an Academy Awards and Golden Globe-winning United States actor best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s....
10Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an Academy Awards and Golden Globe-winning United States actor best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s....
10
Youngest NomineeKeisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha Castle-Hughes

Keisha Castle-Hughes is a New Zealand film actor who rose to prominence playing Paikea, in the successful film Whale Rider. She was cast in the film as "Pai Apirana" at age eleven....
13Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an Academy Awards and Golden Globe-winning United States actor best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s....
 and Abigail Breslin
Abigail Breslin

'Abigail Kathleen Breslin' is an Academy-Award nominated United States child actor. The fourth youngest actress ever to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award, Breslin is best known for portraying Olive Hoover in the film Little Miss Sunshine, Nim Rusoe in Nim's Island, and the title character in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl...
10Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an Academy Awards and Golden Globe-winning United States actor best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s....
 and Abigail Breslin
Abigail Breslin

'Abigail Kathleen Breslin' is an Academy-Award nominated United States child actor. The fourth youngest actress ever to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award, Breslin is best known for portraying Olive Hoover in the film Little Miss Sunshine, Nim Rusoe in Nim's Island, and the title character in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl...
10


The only actresses to have won the award twice are: Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
, in 1959 and 1965 (she was also nominated in 1972, in addition to receiving a nomination for lead actress in 1951); and Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award....
, in 1986 and 1994 (she was also nominated in 1989).

Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
 had six nominations, more than any other actress. As she never won the award, she also holds the record for the number of unsuccessful nominations. Thelma Ritter is also the only actress with nominations in four successive years (1950-1953). Glenn Close
Glenn Close

Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
 was nominated three years consecutively (1982-1984).

Actresses with four nominations are: Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress and a member of the Celebrity Barrymore family....
, Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
, Lee Grant
Lee Grant

Lee Grant is an United States Academy Awards-winning, Golden Globe-nominated theater, film and television actor, and film director who was Hollywood ten by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
, Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton

Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
, Geraldine Page
Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
, and Dame Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
. All of Agnes Moorehead's and Geraldine Page's nominations were unsuccessful (but Page did win a Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 award); each of the others won once (with Smith also having previously won a Best Actress award).

Those with three nominations are: Anne Revere
Anne Revere

Anne Revere was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning United States stage and film actress....
, Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
, Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor

Claire Trevor was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in Bad girl movies roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers....
, Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
, Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
, Glenn Close
Glenn Close

Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
, Diane Ladd
Diane Ladd

'Diane Ladd' is an American actress, film director and film producer. She has appeared in over 120 roles, in numerous popular TV shows or mini-series during 1958-2003, and several major feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose , Ghosts of Mississippi, Primary Colors , 28 Days...
, Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award....
, Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
, Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand

Frances Louise McDormand is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States film, stage , and television actress....
, Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett

Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
, and Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei is an American theatre, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show television spin-off A Different World , and rose to fame following an Academy Award-winning performance in the 1992 comedy film My Cousin Vinny....
. Lansbury, Close, Ladd, and McDormand have never won a Best Supporting Actress award (but McDormand did win a Best Actress award).

Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was an United States actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Awards. She won the award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
 was the first African American, Miyoshi Umeki
Miyoshi Umeki

=BiographyUmeki was born in Otaru, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The youngest of nine children, her father owned an iron factory. After World War II, Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan, using the name Nancy Umeki, Her early influences were traditional Kabuki theater and American pop music....
 the first (and only) Asian, Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno is a singer, dancer and actress of Puerto Rican people descent. She is the first and only Hispanic female and one of nine performers who have won an List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award....
 the first (and only) Puerto Rican and the first Hispanic, Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker

Brenda Fricker is an Academy Awards-winning Irish actress....
 the first (and only) Irish, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Wales actress, presently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom , The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late...
 the first (and only) Welsh, Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett

Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
 the first (and only) Australian, and Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz

Pen?lope Cruz S?nchez , better known as Pen?lope Cruz, is a Spain actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jam?n, Jam?n, La Ni?a de tus ojos, and Belle ?poque ....
 the first (and only) Spaniard to win Best Supporting Actress.

Only three actresses have received Best Supporting Actress nominations for non-speaking roles: Patty Duke
Patty Duke

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an Academy Awards-, three-time Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning United States actress of Theatre and film....
 won the award for The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker (1962 film)

The Miracle Worker is a 1962 in film United States biographical film directed by Arthur Penn. The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his The Miracle Worker , which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90....
 in 1962, Samantha Morton
Samantha Morton

Samantha Morton is a Golden Globe Award-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated England actress....
 was nominated for Sweet and Lowdown
Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 in film written and directed by Woody Allen which tells the story of a arrogant, obnoxious, alcoholic jazz guitarist named Emmett Ray who may be the best guitarist in the world....
 in 1999, and Rinko Kikuchi
Rinko Kikuchi

, born , January 6, 1981) is a Japanese people actor. She has been nominated for the Academy Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Golden Globe, and won the NBR Award and the CFCA Award....
 was nominated for Babel in 2006. Both Morton and Kikuchi performed their roles without speaking a word, while Duke had no dialogue whatsoever other than grunts and screams.

The earliest nominee in this category who is still alive is Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland

Olivia Mary de Havilland is a two-time Academy Awards-winning actor. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner....
 (1939) followed by Jennifer Jones (1944) and Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
 (1944). The earliest winner in this category who is still alive is Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
 (1947) followed by Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint is an Academy Awards-winning United States Actor. She has starred on Broadway, in films and on television beginning in the 1950s....
 (1954).

The only actor to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner is Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett

Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
. She won Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for playing Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
 in The Aviator
The Aviator

The Aviator is an Cinema of the United States biographical film drama film, film director by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes....
.

There have been no posthumous nominations
List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
 for this award.

Only three black actresses have won the award: Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was an United States actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Awards. She won the award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
, Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
 and Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Kate Hudson is an United States pop music and R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She is one of the few actors to have won all four major screen acting awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as a Grammy Award and more than twenty other prizes....
.

Winners and nominees

Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the film's year of release. For example, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees. For a list sorted by actress names, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees
List of Best Supporting Actress nominees

This is a list of all actresses nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress , sorted by actress. Winners are indicated in bold. Also see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees , which presents the same information sorted by movie name....
. For a list sorted by film titles, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films)
List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films)

The main article for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress presents the nominees and winners by year. This is a list of movies with a cast member nominated for the award sorted by movie title ....
.

1930s

  • 1936 Gale Sondergaard
    Gale Sondergaard

    Gale Sondergaard was an American actress.Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse ....
     - Anthony Adverse
    Anthony Adverse

    Anthony Adverse is a 1936 United States drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney was based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen....
    as Faith Paleologus
    • Beulah Bondi
      Beulah Bondi

      Beulah Bondi was an American actress.Bondi began her acting career as a young child in theatre, and after establishing herself as a stage actress, reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version....
       -
      The Gorgeous Hussy
      The Gorgeous Hussy

      The Gorgeous Hussy is a 1936 in film motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor . The film's plot tells a fictional account of President Andrew Jackson and an innkeeper's daughter....
      as Rachel Jackson
      Rachel Jackson

      Rachael Donelson Robards Jackson, born Rachael Donelson wife to the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson.Born in present-day Halifax County, Virginia, Rachael was the daughter of Colonel John Donelson, a surveyor and member of the House of Burgesses, and Rachel Stockley-Donelson....
    • Alice Brady
      Alice Brady

      Alice Brady was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into sound film....
       -
      My Man Godfrey
      My Man Godfrey

      My Man Godfrey is a screwball comedy film released in by Universal Pictures, directed by Gregory LaCava. It was adapted from Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue by Hatch himself and Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by LaCava....
      as Angelica Bullock
    • Bonita Granville
      Bonita Granville

      Bonita Granville was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actor and television producer....
       -
      These Three
      These Three

      These Three, a film with Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea was an adaptation of the original Lillian Hellman play, The Children's Hour , in which two women running a boarding school for girls lose their careers after one of the students accuses them of lesbianism....
      as Mary Tilford
    • Maria Ouspenskaya
      Maria Ouspenskaya

      Maria Ouspenskaya was an Academy Awards-nominated Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actor as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films....
       -
      Dodsworth
      Dodsworth (film)

      Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
      as Baroness Von Obersdorf


  • 1937 Alice Brady
    Alice Brady

    Alice Brady was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into sound film....
     -
    In Old Chicago
    In Old Chicago

    In Old Chicago is a 1937 in film dramatic film. It tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, with a fictionalized plot, the story of the two sons of Mrs....
    as Molly O'Leary
    • Andrea Leeds
      Andrea Leeds

      Andrea Leeds was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actor.Born Antoinette Lees in Butte, Montana, she began her film career in 1934 playing bit parts and using her given name....
       - Stage Door
      Stage Door

      Stage Door is a RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City....
       as Kay Hamilton
    • Anne Shirley
      Dawn Evelyn Paris

      Dawn Evelyeen Paris , known as Anne Shirley, was an American film actress.Beginning her career as a child actress under the name Dawn O'Day, Shirley adopted the name of the character she played in Anne of Green Gables in 1934, and achieved a successful career in supporting roles....
       - Stella Dallas
      Stella Dallas (1937 film)

      Stella Dallas is a 1937 in film based on the Stella Dallas . It stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles , Dawn Evelyn Paris, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Sr., Marjorie Main and Tim Holt....
       as Laurel "Lollie" Dallas
    • Claire Trevor
      Claire Trevor

      Claire Trevor was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in Bad girl movies roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers....
       - Dead End
      Dead End

      Dead End is a 1937 in film crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway theatre play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney....
       as Francey
    • Dame May Whitty - Night Must Fall
      Night Must Fall (1937 film)

      Night Must Fall is a 1937 in film film adaptation of the Emlyn Williams Night Must Fall. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and adapted by John Van Druten....
       as Mrs. Bramson


  • 1938 Fay Bainter
    Fay Bainter

    Fay Okell Bainter was an Academy Award-winning United States actor. She is the aunt of actress Dorothy Burgess and sister-in-law to actress Grace Burgess....
     - Jezebel
    Jezebel (1938 film)

    Jezebel is an United States drama film released in 1938 in film and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell , and Fay Bainter....
    as Aunt Belle
    • Beulah Bondi
      Beulah Bondi

      Beulah Bondi was an American actress.Bondi began her acting career as a young child in theatre, and after establishing herself as a stage actress, reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version....
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      Of Human Hearts
      Of Human Hearts

      Of Human Hearts is a 1938 in film film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Walter Huston, James Stewart and Beulah Bondi. Bondi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress....
      as Mary Wilkins
    • Billie Burke
      Billie Burke

      Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an Academy Awards-nominated United States actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz ....
       -
      Merrily We Live
      Merrily We Live

      Merrily We Live is a 1938 in film film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Constance Bennett, Bonita Granville, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray, Billie Burke, Clarence Kolb, Tom Brown, Patsy Kelly, Willie Best, Marjorie Kane, and Ann Dvorak....
      as Mrs. Emily Kilbourne
    • Spring Byington
      Spring Byington

      Spring Byington was an Academy Awards-nominated United States actress, best remembered for working as a key MGM contract player....
       -
      You Can't Take It with You
      You Can't Take It with You

      You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936 and played for 837 performances....
      as Penny Sycamore
    • Miliza Korjus
      Miliza Korjus

      Miliza Elizabeth Korjus was a coloratura soprano and Academy Awards-nominated film actress....
       -
      The Great Waltz
      The Great Waltz (film)

      The Great Waltz is a 1938 in film biographical film based very loosely on the life of Johann Strauss II. It starred Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey and Miliza Korjus....
      as Carla Donner


  • 1939 Hattie McDaniel
    Hattie McDaniel

    Hattie McDaniel was an United States actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Awards. She won the award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
     -
    Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
    as Mammy - O'Hara House Servant
    • Olivia de Havilland
      Olivia de Havilland

      Olivia Mary de Havilland is a two-time Academy Awards-winning actor. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner....
       - Gone with the Wind
      Gone with the Wind (film)

      Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
       as Melanie Hamilton
      Melanie Wilkes

      Melanie Hamilton Wilkes is a fictional character first appearing in the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. In the Gone with the Wind she was portrayed by Olivia de Havilland....
    • Geraldine Fitzgerald
      Geraldine Fitzgerald

      Geraldine Fitzgerald was an Academy Award-nominated Ireland-American actor and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame....
       - Wuthering Heights
      Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

      Wuthering Heights is a film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the celebrated novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront?, although the film only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters....
       as Isabella Linton
    • Edna May Oliver - Drums Along the Mohawk
      Drums Along the Mohawk

      Drums Along the Mohawk is a 1939 in film historical Technicolor film based upon a 1936 in literature Drums Along the Mohawk by American author, Walter D....
       as Sarah McKlennar
    • Maria Ouspenskaya
      Maria Ouspenskaya

      Maria Ouspenskaya was an Academy Awards-nominated Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actor as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films....
       - Love Affair as Grandmother Janou


1940s

  • 1940 Jane Darwell
    Jane Darwell

    Jane Darwell was an Academy Awards-winning United States theater and film actor.Born Patti Woodard in Palmyra, Missouri, she originally intended to become a Circus performer; her father objected, however, and she compromised by becoming an actress....
     - The Grapes of Wrath
    The Grapes of Wrath (film)

    The Grapes of Wrath is a United States drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Grapes of Wrath , written by John Steinbeck....
    as Ma Joad
    • Judith Anderson
      Judith Anderson

      Dame Judith Anderson, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire was an Australian Tony award- and Emmy-winning actress of theatre and film, who was also nominated for a Grammy and an Academy Awards....
       -
      Rebecca
      Rebecca (film)

      Rebecca is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first United States project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O....
      as Mrs. Danvers
    • Ruth Hussey
      Ruth Hussey

      Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Awards-nominated role as photographer Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story....
       -
      The Philadelphia Story
      The Philadelphia Story

      The Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart , and directed by George Cukor. Based on a Broadway theatre play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicat...
      as Elizabeth Imbrie
    • Barbara O'Neil
      Barbara O'Neil

      Barbara O'Neil was an United States actress.O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She began her acting career in summer stock. In July 1931 Bretaigne Windust, Charles Leatherbee , and Joshua Logan, the three directors of the University Players, a three-year old summer stock company at West Falmouth on Cape Code, were looking for a leadi...
       -
      All This and Heaven Too
      All This and Heaven Too

      All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 in film drama film made by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B....
      as Duchesse de Praslin
    • Marjorie Rambeau
      Marjorie Rambeau

      Marjorie Rambeau was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film and stage actress....
       -
      Primrose Path
      Primrose Path

      To be "led down the Primulaceae path" is an idiom suggesting that one is being deceived or led astray, often by a hypocrite. The primrose path also refers to someone living a life of luxury apparently linking primroses to libertine indulgence....
      as Mamie Adams


  • 1941 Mary Astor
    Mary Astor

    Mary Astor was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long film career as a teenager in the silent films of the early 1920 in film....
     -
    The Great Lie
    The Great Lie

    The Great Lie is a 1941 in film film with Mary Astor, Bette Davis and George Brent. It was directed by Edmund Goulding.Mary Astor won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her part in this film....
    as Sandra Kovak
    • Sara Allgood
      Sara Allgood

      Sara Allgood was an Academy Award-nominated Ireland character-actress....
       - How Green Was My Valley
      How Green Was My Valley (film)

      How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by John Ford. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written by Philip Dunne, and based on the Richard Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley....
       as Mrs. Morgan
    • Patricia Collinge
      Patricia Collinge

      Patricia Collinge was an Academy Award-nominated Ireland actress. She was born in Dublin, Ireland....
       - The Little Foxes
      The Little Foxes (film)

      The Little Foxes is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her The Little Foxes....
       as Birdie Hubbard
    • Teresa Wright
      Teresa Wright

      Teresa Wright was an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
       - The Little Foxes
      The Little Foxes (film)

      The Little Foxes is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her The Little Foxes....
       as Alexandra Giddens
    • Margaret Wycherly
      Margaret Wycherly

      Margaret Wycherly was an Academy Awards-nominated England stage and film actress....
       - Sergeant York
      Sergeant York

      Sergeant York is a 1941 in film biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
       as Mother York


  • 1942 Teresa Wright
    Teresa Wright

    Teresa Wright was an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
     - Mrs. Miniver
    Mrs. Miniver (film)

    Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
    as Carol Beldon
    • Gladys Cooper
      Gladys Cooper

      Dame Gladys Constance Cooper Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-nominated England actress....
       -
      Now, Voyager
      Now, Voyager

      Now, Voyager is a 1942 in film United States drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted...
      as Mrs. Henry Windle Vale
    • Agnes Moorehead
      Agnes Moorehead

      Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
       -
      The Magnificent Ambersons
      The Magnificent Ambersons (film)

      The Magnificent Ambersons is a Cinema of the United States drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins....
      as Fanny Minafer
    • Susan Peters
      Susan Peters

      Susan Peters was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actress whose promising career was cut tragically short....
       -
      Random Harvest as Kitty
    • May Whitty - Mrs. Miniver
      Mrs. Miniver (film)

      Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
      as Lady Beldon


Beginning with the 1943 awards, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded Oscar statuettes similar to those awarded to winners in all other categories, including the leading acting categories. Prior to this, however, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded plaques.

  • 1943 Katina Paxinou
    Katina Paxinou

    Katina Paxinou was an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe-winning Greece film and theatre actor....
     -
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an anti-fascist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War....
    as Pilar
    • Gladys Cooper
      Gladys Cooper

      Dame Gladys Constance Cooper Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-nominated England actress....
       - The Song of Bernadette
      The Song of Bernadette (film)

      The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
       as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
    • Paulette Goddard
      Paulette Goddard

      Paulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child Model and in several Broadway theatre productions as Ziegfeld Follies, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s....
       - So Proudly We Hail!
      So Proudly We Hail!

      So Proudly We Hail! is a 1943 in film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard , George Reeves and Veronica Lake....
       as Lt. Joan O'Doul
    • Anne Revere
      Anne Revere

      Anne Revere was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning United States stage and film actress....
       - The Song of Bernadette
      The Song of Bernadette (film)

      The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
       as Louise Soubirous
    • Lucile Watson
      Lucile Watson

      Lucile Watson was an Academy Awards-nominated Canada actress. Watson was born in Quebec City.Watson began her career on the stage debuting on Broadway in the play Hearts Aflame in 1902....
       - Watch on the Rhine
      Watch on the Rhine

      Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 in film drama film that was adapted by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman from Hellman's play. The film stars Bette Davis, Paul Lukas and Geraldine Fitzgerald and was directed by Herman Shumlin and Hal Mohr ....
       as Fanny Farrelly


  • 1944 Ethel Barrymore
    Ethel Barrymore

    Ethel Barrymore was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress and a member of the Celebrity Barrymore family....
     - None but the Lonely Heart as Ma Mott
    • Jennifer Jones - Since You Went Away
      Since You Went Away

      Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder....
      as Jane Deborah Hilton
    • Angela Lansbury
      Angela Lansbury

      Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
       -
      Gaslight
      Gaslight (1944 film)

      Gaslight is a 1944 in film Mystery film-Thriller adapted from Patrick Hamilton 's play Angel Street. It was the second version to be filmed; the Gaslight , released in United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier....
      as Nancy Oliver
    • Aline MacMahon
      Aline MacMahon

      Aline MacMahon was an American actress.MacMahon's career began in theatre during the 1920s, and she worked extensively in film and television, until her retirement in the mid 1970s....
       -
      Dragon Seed as Ling Tan's Wife
    • Agnes Moorehead
      Agnes Moorehead

      Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
       -
      Mrs. Parkington
      Mrs. Parkington

      Mrs. Parkington is a 1944 in film drama film which tells the story of a woman's life, told in flashback s, from hotel maid to society matron....
      as Baroness Aspasia Conti


  • 1945 Anne Revere
    Anne Revere

    Anne Revere was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning United States stage and film actress....
     -
    National Velvet
    National Velvet (film)

    National Velvet is a 1944 in film film based on the National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, first published in 1935. It stars a very young Elizabeth Taylor ....
    as Mrs. Brown
    • Eve Arden
      Eve Arden

      Eve Arden was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Awards-winning United States actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with supporting and leading roles, but she is perhaps best remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging high school teacher in the classic Our Miss Brooks , and as the Rydell High School prin...
       - Mildred Pierce
      Mildred Pierce (film)

      Mildred Pierce is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a film noir tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter....
       as Ida Corwin
    • Ann Blyth
      Ann Blyth

      Ann Marie Blyth is an Academy Awards United States actor and singer, often cast in Musical theatre, but also successful in dramatic roles....
       - Mildred Pierce
      Mildred Pierce (film)

      Mildred Pierce is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a film noir tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter....
       as Veda Pierce Forrester
    • Angela Lansbury
      Angela Lansbury

      Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
       - The Picture of Dorian Gray
      The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)

      The Picture of Dorian Gray is an United States horror film-drama film film based on the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, his only novel....
       as Sibyl Vane
    • Joan Lorring
      Joan Lorring

      Joan Lorring is an Academy Awards-nominated Hong Kong-born United States actress....
       - The Corn is Green
      The Corn Is Green (1945 film)

      The Corn Is Green is a 1945 in film drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition....
       as Bessie Watty


  • 1946 Anne Baxter
    Anne Baxter

    Anne Baxter was an Academy Award-winning United States actress....
     - The Razor's Edge
    The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

    The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne , Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester....
    as Sophie MacDonald
    • Ethel Barrymore
      Ethel Barrymore

      Ethel Barrymore was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress and a member of the Celebrity Barrymore family....
       -
      The Spiral Staircase
      The Spiral Staircase

      The Spiral Staircase is a 1945 United States psychological thriller film, based on Ethel Lina White's novel Some Must Watch, in which the heroine was crippled rather than mute....
      as Mrs. Warren
    • Lillian Gish
      Lillian Gish

      Lillian Diana Gish , was an United States stage, screen and television actor whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W....
       -
      Duel in the Sun as Laura Belle McCanles
    • Flora Robson
      Flora Robson

      Dame Flora McKenzie Robson Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-nominated English people actor, renowned as one of the great character players and one of Britain's theatrical grandes dames....
       -
      Saratoga Trunk
      Saratoga Trunk

      Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 film written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Florence Bates, and Flora Robson, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance....
      as Angelique Buiton
    • Gale Sondergaard
      Gale Sondergaard

      Gale Sondergaard was an American actress.Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse ....
       -
      Anna and the King of Siam as Lady Thiang


  • 1947 Celeste Holm
    Celeste Holm

    Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
     -
    Gentleman's Agreement
    Gentleman's Agreement

    Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 in film drama film about a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to research antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut....
    as Anne Dettrey
    • Ethel Barrymore
      Ethel Barrymore

      Ethel Barrymore was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress and a member of the Celebrity Barrymore family....
       - The Paradine Case
      The Paradine Case

      The Paradine Case is a Legal drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht, from an adaptation by Alma Reville and James Bridie of the novel by Robert S....
       as Lady Sophie Horfield
    • Gloria Grahame
      Gloria Grahame

      Gloria Grahame was an Academy Awards-winning United States film actor....
       - Crossfire
      Crossfire (film)

      Crossfire is a film noir drama film which deals with the theme of antisemitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement....
       as Ginny Tremaine
    • Marjorie Main
      Marjorie Main

      Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
       - The Egg and I
      The Egg and I (film)

      The Egg and I is a 1947 film directed by Chester Erskine, and starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Marjorie Main.This comedy was such a hit with audiences, it spawned the Ma and Pa Kettle film series....
       as Ma Kettle
    • Anne Revere
      Anne Revere

      Anne Revere was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning United States stage and film actress....
       - Gentleman's Agreement
      Gentleman's Agreement

      Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 in film drama film about a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to research antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut....
       as Mrs. Green


  • 1948 Claire Trevor
    Claire Trevor

    Claire Trevor was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in Bad girl movies roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers....
     - Key Largo
    Key Largo (film)

    Key Largo is a 1948 in film crime film starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor. This was the fourth and final film pairing of married actors Bogart and Bacall....
    as Gaye Dawn
    • Barbara Bel Geddes
      Barbara Bel Geddes

      Barbara Bel Geddes was an United States actress, artist and children's literature. Best known for her role on the CBS drama, Dallas , as matriarch Eleanor "Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Southworth Ewing Farlow" Ewing, Bel Geddes also created the role of "Maggie" in the original broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and collaborated with A...
       -
      I Remember Mama
      I Remember Mama

      I Remember Mama is a play by John Van Druten. Based on the memoir Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes, it focuses on a loving family of Norway immigrants living on Steiner Street in San Francisco, California in the 1910s....
      as Katrin Hanson
    • Ellen Corby
      Ellen Corby

      Ellen Corby was an American Academy Award-nominated actress. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Walton" on the television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards....
       -
      I Remember Mama
      I Remember Mama

      I Remember Mama is a play by John Van Druten. Based on the memoir Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes, it focuses on a loving family of Norway immigrants living on Steiner Street in San Francisco, California in the 1910s....
      as Aunt Trina
    • Agnes Moorehead
      Agnes Moorehead

      Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
       -
      Johnny Belinda
      Johnny Belinda (1948 film)

      Johnny Belinda is a 1948 in film drama film based on the Play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and film director by Jean Negulesco....
      as Aggie McDonald
    • Jean Simmons
      Jean Simmons

      Jean Merilyn Simmons, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Awards-nominated English actress. Simmons was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2003....
       -
      Hamlet
      Hamlet (1948 film)

      Hamlet is a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films....
      as Ophelia, daughter of Polonius


  • 1949 Mercedes McCambridge
    Mercedes McCambridge

    Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge , nicknamed Mercy, was an Academy Awards-winning American film actress, also known for her acting in radio dramas....
     -
    All the King's Men
    All the King's Men (1949 film)

    All the King's Men is a 1949 in film drama film film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark....
    as Sadie Burke
    • Ethel Barrymore
      Ethel Barrymore

      Ethel Barrymore was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress and a member of the Celebrity Barrymore family....
       - Pinky as Miss Em
    • Celeste Holm
      Celeste Holm

      Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
       - Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable

      Come to the Stable is a 1949 film which tells the story of two France nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital....
       as Sister Scholastica
    • Elsa Lanchester
      Elsa Lanchester

      Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was an Academy Awards-nominated England character actor who became a naturalized American citizen in 1950 along with her husband, actor Charles Laughton....
       - Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable

      Come to the Stable is a 1949 film which tells the story of two France nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital....
       as Amelia Potts
    • Ethel Waters
      Ethel Waters

      Ethel Waters was an United States blues and jazz vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway theatre stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues....
       - Pinky as Pinky's Granny


1950s

  • 1950 Josephine Hull
    Josephine Hull

    Josephine Hull was an Academy Awards and Golden Globe winning United States actress. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film....
     - Harvey
    Harvey (film)

    Harvey is a 1950 in film based on Mary Coyle Chase's Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning Harvey , directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull....
    as Veta Louise Simmons
    • Hope Emerson
      Hope Emerson

      Hope Emerson was an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
       -
      Caged
      Caged (1950 film)

      Caged is a 1950 film which tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into a hardened convict....
      as Evelyn Harper
    • Celeste Holm
      Celeste Holm

      Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
       -
      All About Eve
      All About Eve

      All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
      as Karen Richards
    • Nancy Olson
      Nancy Olson

      Nancy Ann Olson is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor....
       -
      Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaefer
    • Thelma Ritter
      Thelma Ritter

      Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
       -
      All About Eve
      All About Eve

      All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
      as Birdie


  • 1951 Kim Hunter
    Kim Hunter

    Kim Hunter was an United States film, television, and stage actress....
     -
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 Play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948....
    as Stella Kowalski
    Stella Kowalski

    Stella Kowalski is one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams' Play A Streetcar Named Desire . She is the sister of central character Blanche DuBois ....
    • Joan Blondell
      Joan Blondell

      Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell, was an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Production Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 film and television productions....
       - The Blue Veil
      The Blue Veil

      The Blue Veil is a drama film made by Jerry Wald/Norman Krasna Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It tells the story of a child torn between the competing claims of his birth mother and his adoptive mother....
       as Annie Rawlins
    • Mildred Dunnock
      Mildred Dunnock

      Mildred Dunnock was an Academy Award-nominated United States theater, film and television actor....
       - Death of a Salesman
      Death of a Salesman

      Death of a Salesman is a 1949 Play by American playwright Arthur Miller and is a classic of American theater. The play ran for 742 performances, directed by Elia Kazan with Lee J....
       as Linda Loman
    • Lee Grant
      Lee Grant

      Lee Grant is an United States Academy Awards-winning, Golden Globe-nominated theater, film and television actor, and film director who was Hollywood ten by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
       - Detective Story
      Detective Story

      Detective Story is a film noir which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. It features Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, Lee Grant, among others....
       as Shoplifter
    • Thelma Ritter
      Thelma Ritter

      Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
       - The Mating Season
      The Mating Season (film)

      The Mating Season is a 1951 in film classic farce with elements of screwball comedy film made by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Mitchell Leisen and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Charles Brackett, Richard Breen and Walter Reisch, based on the play Maggie by Caesar Dunn....
       as Ellen McNulty


  • 1952 Gloria Grahame
    Gloria Grahame

    Gloria Grahame was an Academy Awards-winning United States film actor....
     - The Bad and the Beautiful
    The Bad and the Beautiful

    The Bad and the Beautiful is a MGM melodramatic film which tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan , and Gloria Grahame....
    as Rosemary
    • Jean Hagen
      Jean Hagen

      Jean Hagen was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actor.Hagen was born as Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, Illinois, to Dutch immigrant Christian Verhagen and his Chicago-born wife, Marie ....
       -
      Singin' in the Rain
      Singin' in the Rain (film)

      Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 in film comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography....
      as Lina Lamont
    • Colette Marchand - Moulin Rouge
      Moulin Rouge (1952 film)

      Moulin Rouge is a film directed by John Huston, produced by Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and released by United Artists....
      as Marie Charlet
    • Terry Moore
      Terry Moore (actress)

      Terry Moore is an Academy Awards-nominated United States actor....
       -
      Come Back, Little Sheba
      Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)

      Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1952 in film drama film made by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house....
      as Marie Buckholder
    • Thelma Ritter
      Thelma Ritter

      Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
       -
      With a Song in My Heart
      With a Song in My Heart (film)

      With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal, but entertained the troops in World War...
      as Clancy


  • 1953 Donna Reed
    Donna Reed

    Donna Reed was an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress....
     -
    From Here to Eternity
    From Here to Eternity

    From Here to Eternity is a 1953 in film Academy Award winning drama film based on the From Here to Eternity by James Jones . It deals with the troubles of soldiers stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor....
    as Alma 'Lorene' Burke
    • Grace Kelly
      Grace Kelly

      Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
       - Mogambo
      Mogambo

      Mogambo is a 1953 in film film directed by John Ford, featuring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Donald Sinden. The film was adapted by John Lee Mahin from the play by Wilson Collison....
       as Linda Nordley
    • Geraldine Page
      Geraldine Page

      Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
       - Hondo
      Hondo (film)

      Hondo is a 1953 western film starring John Wayne. It is somewhat a retelling of Hamlet, in that Hondo kills a young boy's father, marries the boy's mother, and becomes a father figure for the boy....
       as Angie Lowe
    • Marjorie Rambeau
      Marjorie Rambeau

      Marjorie Rambeau was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film and stage actress....
       - Torch Song
      Torch Song (film)

      Torch Song is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding in a story about a Broadway star and her rehearsal pianist....
       as Mrs. Stewart
    • Thelma Ritter
      Thelma Ritter

      Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
       - Pickup on South Street
      Pickup on South Street

      Pickup on South Street is writer-director Samuel Fuller's 1953 film noir released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter....
       as Moe


  • 1954 Eva Marie Saint
    Eva Marie Saint

    Eva Marie Saint is an Academy Awards-winning United States Actor. She has starred on Broadway, in films and on television beginning in the 1950s....
     - On the Waterfront
    On the Waterfront

    On the Waterfront is a United States drama film about mob violence and corruption among stevedore. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg....
    as Edie Doyle
    • Nina Foch
      Nina Foch

      Nina Foch was an Academy Award-nominated Netherlands-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films....
       -
      Executive Suite
      Executive Suite

      Executive Suite is a 1954 in film MGM drama film depicting the transfer of power in a corporation in trouble. The film stars William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, and Walter Pidgeon....
      as Erica Martin
    • Katy Jurado
      Katy Jurado

      Katy Jurado , born Mar?a Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado Garc?a in Guadalajara, Jalisco, was a Mexico actress....
       -
      Broken Lance
      Broken Lance

      Broken Lance is a 1954 in film Western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Sol C. Siegel. The movie stars Spencer Tracy and features Katy Jurado, Richard Widmark, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, and Hugh O'Brian....
      as Señora Devereaux
    • Jan Sterling
      Jan Sterling

      Jan Sterling was an American actress.Most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for her performance in The High and the Mighty , and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance....
       -
      The High and the Mighty
      The High and the Mighty (film)

      The High and the Mighty is a 1954 CinemaScope drama adventure film with a star laden ensemble cast released through Warner Bros.. The film starred and was co-produced by John Wayne, directed by William A....
      as Sally McKee
    • Claire Trevor
      Claire Trevor

      Claire Trevor was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in Bad girl movies roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers....
       -
      The High and the Mighty
      The High and the Mighty (film)

      The High and the Mighty is a 1954 CinemaScope drama adventure film with a star laden ensemble cast released through Warner Bros.. The film starred and was co-produced by John Wayne, directed by William A....
      as May Holst


  • 1955 Jo Van Fleet
    Jo Van Fleet

    'Jo Van Fleet' was an Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning United States theatre and film actor.Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway theatre over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role, playing an unsympathetic, even abusive character, in Horton Foote's The Trip to...
     -
    East of Eden
    East of Eden (1955 film)

    East of Eden is a 1955 in film, directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on part of the East of Eden by US author John Steinbeck.It stars Julie Harris, James Dean , and Raymond Massey; it also features Burl Ives, Richard Davalos and Jo Van Fleet, and was adapted by Paul Osborn and John Steinbeck ....
    as Kate
    • Betsy Blair
      Betsy Blair

      Betsy Blair is an American actress.Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1940....
       - Marty
      Marty

      Marty is a 1955 in film romance film based on a teleplay by the same name. It was directed by Delbert Mann, starring Ernest Borgnine in the title role, and Betsy Blair as the female lead....
       as Clara Snyder
    • Peggy Lee
      Peggy Lee

      Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
       - Pete Kelly's Blues
      Pete Kelly's Blues (1955 film)

      Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1955 film based on the 1951 Pete Kelly's Blues . It was directed by and starred Jack Webb in the title role. Janet Leigh is featured as party girl Ivy Conrad, and Peggy Lee portrays alcoholic jazz singer Rose Hopkins....
       as Rose Hopkins
    • Marisa Pavan
      Marisa Pavan

      Marisa Pavan is an Italy-born actor who first became famous as the twin sister to film star Pier Angeli before achieving movie stardom on her own....
       - The Rose Tattoo
      The Rose Tattoo (film)

      The Rose Tattoo is a 1955 film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo. It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet....
       as Rosa Delle Rose
    • Natalie Wood
      Natalie Wood

      Natalie Wood was an American actress.Following her film debut at the age of four, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street ....
       - Rebel Without a Cause
      Rebel Without a Cause

      Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 in film film directed by Nicholas Ray that tells the story of a rebellious Adolescence#Teenagers played by James Dean, who comes to a new town, meets a girl, defies his parents, and faces the local high school bullies....
       as Judy


  • 1956 Dorothy Malone
    Dorothy Malone

    Dorothy Malone is an Academy Award-winning United States actor....
     - Written on the Wind
    Written on the Wind

    Written on the Wind is a 1956 in film United States drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman was based on Robert Wilder 's 1945 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised account of the real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, tobacco heir Smith Reynolds....
    as Marylee Hadley
    • Mildred Dunnock
      Mildred Dunnock

      Mildred Dunnock was an Academy Award-nominated United States theater, film and television actor....
       -
      Baby Doll
      Baby Doll

      Baby Doll is a 1956 film which tells the story of the childlike bride of a Mississippi cotton gin owner, who becomes the pawn in a battle between her husband and his enemy....
      as Rose Comfort
    • Eileen Heckart
      Eileen Heckart

      Eileen Heckart was an Academy Awards- and Tony Award-winning United States actress of stage, screen, and television....
       -
      The Bad Seed
      The Bad Seed (film)

      The Bad Seed is a 1956 in film Academy Award-nominated Horror film/Thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. It is based upon a play by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn is based upon William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed....
      as Hortense Daigle
    • Mercedes McCambridge
      Mercedes McCambridge

      Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge , nicknamed Mercy, was an Academy Awards-winning American film actress, also known for her acting in radio dramas....
       -
      Giant
      Giant (film)

      Giant is a drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman....
      as Luz Benedict
    • Patty McCormack
      Patty McCormack

      Patty McCormack is an American actress with a career in theater, films and television.She achieved success as a child actor, and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Bad Seed ....
       -
      The Bad Seed
      The Bad Seed (film)

      The Bad Seed is a 1956 in film Academy Award-nominated Horror film/Thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. It is based upon a play by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn is based upon William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed....
      as Rhoda Penmark
      Rhoda Penmark

      Rhoda Penmark is a fictional character in William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed and the stage play adapted from it by Maxwell Anderson. She was portrayed by Patty McCormack in the The Bad Seed and by Carrie Wells in the 1985 Made-for-TV movie remake....


  • 1957 Miyoshi Umeki
    Miyoshi Umeki

    =BiographyUmeki was born in Otaru, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The youngest of nine children, her father owned an iron factory. After World War II, Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan, using the name Nancy Umeki, Her early influences were traditional Kabuki theater and American pop music....
     -
    Sayonara
    Sayonara

    Sayonara is a film which tells the story of an United States United States Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan....
    as Katsumi
    • Carolyn Jones
      Carolyn Jones

      Carolyn Sue Jones was an United States actress.Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising actresses of 1959....
       - The Bachelor Party
      The Bachelor Party

      The Bachelor Party is a film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Delbert Mann, with Don Murray , E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, and Carolyn Jones....
       as The Existentialist
    • Elsa Lanchester
      Elsa Lanchester

      Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was an Academy Awards-nominated England character actor who became a naturalized American citizen in 1950 along with her husband, actor Charles Laughton....
       - Witness for the Prosecution
      Witness for the Prosecution

      Witness for the Prosecution is a courtroom drama film based on a The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie dealing with the trial of a man accused of murder....
       as Miss Plimsoll
    • Hope Lange
      Hope Lange

      Hope Elise Ross Lange was an Academy Award-nominated American stage, film, and television actress....
       - Peyton Place
      Peyton Place (film)

      Peyton Place is a 1957 in film United States drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling Peyton Place by Grace Metalious....
       as Selena Cross
    • Diane Varsi
      Diane Varsi

      Diane Marie Antonia Varsi was an American film actress best known for her performances in Peyton Place – her film debut, in which she played Lana Turner's daughter, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the Streets ....
       - Peyton Place
      Peyton Place (film)

      Peyton Place is a 1957 in film United States drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling Peyton Place by Grace Metalious....
       as Allison MacKenzie


  • 1958 Wendy Hiller
    Wendy Hiller

    Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller Order of the British Empire was an English people film and theatre actor. The Academy Awards-winning actress enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years....
     - Separate Tables
    Separate Tables (film)

    Separate Tables is a 1958 in film American drama film based on Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name....
    as Pat Cooper
    • Peggy Cass
      Peggy Cass

      Mary Margaret ?Peggy? Cass was an American award-winning actor, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer.A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Cass became interested in acting as a member of the drama club at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School; however, she attended all of high school without a speaking part....
       -
      Auntie Mame
      Auntie Mame

      Auntie Mame is a 1955 in literature novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the Ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis....
      as Agnes Gooch
    • Martha Hyer
      Martha Hyer

      Martha Hyer is an United States actress.Her first movie role was at age eleven when she appeared in Thunder Mountain. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946....
       -
      Some Came Running
      Some Came Running

      Spurred on by the sales and the critical acclaim of his best-selling From Here to Eternity , James Jones set out to write yet another great American novel....
      as Gwen French
    • Maureen Stapleton
      Maureen Stapleton

      Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
       -
      Lonelyhearts
      Lonelyhearts

      Lonelyhearts is a 1958 film noir drama film directed by Vincent J. Donehue. It is based on the play by Howard Teichmann and the 1933 novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West....
      as Fay Doyle
    • Cara Williams
      Cara Williams

      Cara Williams is an United States film and television actor....
       -
      The Defiant Ones
      The Defiant Ones

      The Defiant Ones is a film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive....
      as Billy's mother


  • 1959 Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters

    Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
     -
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    as Mrs. Petronella Van Daan
    • Hermione Baddeley
      Hermione Baddeley

      Hermione Baddeley was a celebrated Academy Award-nominated England character actor of theatre, film and television....
       - Room at the Top as Elspeth
    • Susan Kohner
      Susan Kohner

      Susan Kohner is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia....
       - Imitation of Life
      Imitation of Life (1959 film)

      Imitation of Life is a 1959 film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from Fannie Hurst's novel Imitation of Life , produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal Pictures....
       as Sarah Jane, age 18
    • Juanita Moore
      Juanita Moore

      Juanita Moore is an United States film and television actress. Moore is the fourth African American to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category....
       - Imitation of Life
      Imitation of Life (1959 film)

      Imitation of Life is a 1959 film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from Fannie Hurst's novel Imitation of Life , produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal Pictures....
       as Annie Johnson
    • Thelma Ritter
      Thelma Ritter

      Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
       - Pillow Talk as Alma


1960s

  • 1960 Shirley Jones
    Shirley Jones

    Shirley Mae Jones is an United States singer and character actress of stage , film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma , Carousel , and The Music Man ....
     - Elmer Gantry
    Elmer Gantry (film)

    Elmer Gantry is a drama film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis and stars Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons....
    as Lulu Bains
    • Glynis Johns
      Glynis Johns

      Glynis Johns is a British people stage and film actor, dancer, pianist and singer . With a career spanning seven decades, Johns is often cited as the "complete actress", who happens to be a trained pianist and singer....
       -
      The Sundowners
      The Sundowners

      The Sundowners is a 1960 film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place....
      as Mrs. Firth
    • Shirley Knight
      Shirley Knight

      Shirley Enola Knight is an award-winning United States theatre, film, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth....
       -
      The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
      The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

      The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small town near Oklahoma City....
      as Reenie Flood
    • Janet Leigh
      Janet Leigh

      Janet Leigh was an American actress.Discovered by the actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s....
       -
      Psycho
      Psycho (1960 film)

      Psycho is an Cinema of the United States Thriller /thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano. It is based on the Psycho by Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein....
      as Marion Crane
    • Mary Ure
      Mary Ure

      Eileen Mary Ure was a Scotland actress of stage and film....
       -
      Sons and Lovers
      Sons and Lovers (1960 film)

      Sons and Lovers is a 1960 in film film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert and directed by Jack Cardiff....
      as Clara Dawes


  • 1961 Rita Moreno
    Rita Moreno

    Rita Moreno is a singer, dancer and actress of Puerto Rican people descent. She is the first and only Hispanic female and one of nine performers who have won an List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award....
     -
    West Side Story
    West Side Story (film)

    West Side Story is a 1961 in film Cinema of the United States film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story, which itself was adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
    as Anita
    • Fay Bainter
      Fay Bainter

      Fay Okell Bainter was an Academy Award-winning United States actor. She is the aunt of actress Dorothy Burgess and sister-in-law to actress Grace Burgess....
       - The Children's Hour
      The Children's Hour (1961 film)

      The Children's Hour is a 1961 in film film adaptation of The Children's Hour written by Lillian Hellman. It was directed by William Wyler and stars Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner in the leading roles....
       as Amelia Tilford
    • Judy Garland
      Judy Garland

      Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
       - Judgment at Nuremberg
      Judgment at Nuremberg

      Judgment at Nuremberg is a fictionalized film account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemperer, and William Shatner....
       as Irene Hoffman Wallner
    • Lotte Lenya
      Lotte Lenya

      Lotte Lenya was an Austrian singer and actress. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill....
       - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
      The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

      The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is a 1961 in film Great Britain motion picture made by Seven Arts Productions-Warner Bros.. It was directed by Jos? Quintero and produced by Louis De Rochemont with Lothar Wolff as associate producer....
       as Contessa
    • Una Merkel
      Una Merkel

      Una Merkel was an United States film actress.Merkel resembled the popular actress Lillian Gish, and her resemblance allowed her to begin her career as a stand-in for Gish in 1920's Way Down East ....
       - Summer and Smoke
      Summer and Smoke (film)

      Summer and Smoke is a drama film directed by Peter Glenville and was based on the play of the Summer and Smoke.It starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman....
       as Mrs. Winemiller


  • 1962 Patty Duke
    Patty Duke

    Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an Academy Awards-, three-time Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning United States actress of Theatre and film....
     - The Miracle Worker
    The Miracle Worker (1962 film)

    The Miracle Worker is a 1962 in film United States biographical film directed by Arthur Penn. The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his The Miracle Worker , which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90....
    as Helen Keller
    Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was an United States author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblindness person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
    • Mary Badham
      Mary Badham

      Mary Badham is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch in the Oscar-winning 1962 in film film To Kill a Mockingbird , for which she was nominated for a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award....
       -
      To Kill a Mockingbird
      To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

      To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
      as Scout Finch
    • Shirley Knight
      Shirley Knight

      Shirley Enola Knight is an award-winning United States theatre, film, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth....
       -
      Sweet Bird of Youth
      Sweet Bird of Youth

      Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 in literature play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she can help him to break into the movies....
      as Heavenly Finley
    • Angela Lansbury
      Angela Lansbury

      Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
       -
      The Manchurian Candidate
      The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)

      The Manchurian Candidate is a Cold War political Thriller adapted by George Axelrod from the The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury and features Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver....
      as Mrs. Iselin
    • Thelma Ritter
      Thelma Ritter

      Thelma Ritter was an United States Tony Award-winning character actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....
       -
      Birdman of Alcatraz
      Birdman of Alcatraz (film)

      Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" because of his life with birds....
      as Elizabeth Stroud


  • 1963 Margaret Rutherford
    Margaret Rutherford

    Dame Margaret Rutherford Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-winning England character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest....
     -
    The V.I.P.s
    The V.I.P.s

    The V.I.P.s, also known as Hotel International, is a 1963 in film MGM drama film. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and written by Terence Rattigan, with a music score by Mikl?s R?zsa....
    as The Duchess of Brighton
    • Diane Cilento
      Diane Cilento

      Diane Cilento Order of Australia , is a theatre and film actor.Her parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Lady Cilento, were both distinguished medical practitioners....
       - Tom Jones
      Tom Jones (film)

      Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
       as Molly Seagrim
    • Edith Evans
      Edith Evans

      Dame Edith Mary Evans Order of the British Empire was an actress who had a long and distinguished career on the British stage. Later in her career, she appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award....
       - Tom Jones
      Tom Jones (film)

      Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
       as Miss Western
    • Joyce Redman
      Joyce Redman

      Joyce Redman is an Irish actress.She was born in County Mayo, Ireland, to an Anglo-Irish family. She was educated by a private governess in Ireland, along with her three sisters....
       - Tom Jones
      Tom Jones (film)

      Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
       as Mrs. Waters
    • Lilia Skala
      Lilia Skala

      Lilia Skala was an Austrian-American actress.Skala was born in Vienna, Austria. In the late 1930s, she was forced to flee her Nazi-occupied homeland with her Jewish husband, Eric Pollack, and their two young sons....
       - Lilies of the Field
      Lilies of the Field

      Lilies of the Field is a 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett which was made into a 1963 film and adapted for the musical stage with the title Look to the Lilies....
       as Mother Maria


  • 1964 Lila Kedrova
    Lila Kedrova

    Lila Kedrova was a Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning Russian-born France actor....
     - Zorba the Greek as Madame Hortense
    • Gladys Cooper
      Gladys Cooper

      Dame Gladys Constance Cooper Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-nominated England actress....
       -
      My Fair Lady
      My Fair Lady (film)

      My Fair Lady is a musical film film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, My Fair Lady, based in turn on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw....
      as Mrs. Higgins
    • Edith Evans
      Edith Evans

      Dame Edith Mary Evans Order of the British Empire was an actress who had a long and distinguished career on the British stage. Later in her career, she appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award....
       -
      The Chalk Garden
      The Chalk Garden

      The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered in 1955 on Broadway theatre. The play tells the story of Mrs. St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under Miss Madrigal's care....
      as Mrs. St. Maugham
    • Grayson Hall
      Grayson Hall

      Grayson Hall was an Academy Award-nominated United States acting .Hall was born Shirley Grossman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was widely regarded for her avant garde theatrical performances in the 1960s-80s....
       -
      The Night of the Iguana
      The Night of the Iguana (film)

      The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 in film film based on the play by Tennessee Williams. Set in 1940s Mexico, the main character is an ex-Episcopalian minister turned tour guide, the Reverend Dr....
      as Judith Fellowes
    • Agnes Moorehead
      Agnes Moorehead

      Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
       -
      Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
      Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

      Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a 1964 in film United States horror film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead....
      as Velma Cruther


  • 1965 Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters

    Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
     -
    A Patch of Blue
    A Patch of Blue

    A Patch of Blue is a 1965 in film film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between an African American man, Gordon , and a Blindness White people female teenager, Selina , and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America....
    as Rose-Ann D'Arcy
    • Ruth Gordon
      Ruth Gordon

      Ruth Gordon Jones , better known as Ruth Gordon, was an United States actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude....
       - Inside Daisy Clover
      Inside Daisy Clover

      Inside Daisy Clover is a 1965 drama film based on the 1963 in literature novel by Gavin Lambert. It stars Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall and Ruth Gordon in her Academy Award nominated role....
       as The Dealer - Mrs. Clover
    • Joyce Redman
      Joyce Redman

      Joyce Redman is an Irish actress.She was born in County Mayo, Ireland, to an Anglo-Irish family. She was educated by a private governess in Ireland, along with her three sisters....
       - Othello
      Othello (1965 film)

      Othello is a 1965 in film film based on the William Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman....
       as Emilia
    • Maggie Smith
      Maggie Smith

      Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
       - Othello
      Othello (1965 film)

      Othello is a 1965 in film film based on the William Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman....
       as Desdemona
    • Peggy Wood
      Peggy Wood

      Peggy Wood , born Mary Margaret Wood, was an Academy Award nominated United States actor of stage, film and television....
       - The Sound of Music
      The Sound of Music (film)

      Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews in the lead role. The film is based on the Broadway theatre The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and R...
       as Mother Abbess


  • 1966 Sandy Dennis
    Sandy Dennis

    Sandra Dale ?Sandy? Dennis was an Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning United States theater and film actor.BiographyEarly life...
     - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 film adaptation of the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. It was the first film directed by Mike Nichols, and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha and Richard Burton as George, with George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey....
    as Honey
    • Wendy Hiller
      Wendy Hiller

      Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller Order of the British Empire was an English people film and theatre actor. The Academy Awards-winning actress enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years....
       -
      A Man for All Seasons
      A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)

      A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 in film film based on Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons about Sir Thomas More. Paul Scofield, who had played More in the West End theatre stage premiere, also took the role in the film....
      as Alice More
    • Jocelyne LaGarde
      Jocelyne LaGarde

      Jocelyne LaGarde was a Tahitian who became famous for her one acting role in the 1966 in film motion picture, Hawaii .The film was a big-budget drama based on the best-selling novel of the same name by James A....
       -
      Hawaii
      Hawaii (film)

      Hawaii is a 1966 in film United States motion picture based on the novel of the Hawaii by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student who, along with his new bride , becomes a Calvinism missionary in the Hawaiian Islands....
      as Queen Malama
    • Vivien Merchant
      Vivien Merchant

      Vivien Merchant was a United Kingdom actress, who was born Ada Thompson. She performed in many stage productions and films, including Alfie and Frenzy ....
       -
      Alfie as Lily
    • Geraldine Page
      Geraldine Page

      Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
       -
      You're a Big Boy Now
      You're a Big Boy Now

      You're a Big Boy Now is a 1966 film with Peter Kastner, Geraldine Page, Julie Harris and Karen Black, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on a novel by David Benedictus....
      as Margery Chanticleer


  • 1967 Estelle Parsons
    Estelle Parsons

    Estelle Margaret Parsons is an Academy Awards-winning United States theatre, film and television actress. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame....
     -
    Bonnie and Clyde
    Bonnie and Clyde (film)

    Bonnie and Clyde is a Cinema of the United States crime film about Bonnie and Clyde, the bank robbers who operated in the central United States during the Great Depression....
    as Blanche Barrow
    Blanche Barrow

    Bennie Iva "Blanche" Frasure was the third wife of Buck Barrow and a member of the Barrow gang....
    • Carol Channing
      Carol Channing

      Carol Elaine Channing is an United States singer and actor. The recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination, Channing is best remembered for her role Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , and as Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly! ....
       - Thoroughly Modern Millie
      Thoroughly Modern Millie

      This article is about the 1967 film. For the Broadway musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie .Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 in film musical film comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing, Beatrice Lillie , Pat Morita and Jack Soo....
       as Muzzy
    • Mildred Natwick
      Mildred Natwick

      Mildred Natwick was an United States stage and film actress....
       - Barefoot in the Park
      Barefoot in the Park (film)

      Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 in film United States comedy film.Based on Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, it focuses on newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule sixth floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone....
       as Ethel Banks
    • Beah Richards
      Beah Richards

      Beah Richards was an American actress with a long career on stage, screen and television. She was also a poet, playwright and author.Born Beulah Richardson in Vicksburg, Mississippi, her mother was a seamstress and PTA advocate and her father was a Baptist minister....
       - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
      Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

      Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Katharine Houghton....
       as Mrs. Prentice
    • Katharine Ross
      Katharine Ross

      Katharine Juliet Ross is an Academy Award-nominated American film and theatre actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, and her role as Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman a...
       - The Graduate
      The Graduate

      The Graduate is a Cinema of United States comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote the piece shortly after graduating from Williams College....
       as Elaine Robinson


  • 1968 Ruth Gordon
    Ruth Gordon

    Ruth Gordon Jones , better known as Ruth Gordon, was an United States actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude....
     - Rosemary's Baby
    Rosemary's Baby (film)

    Rosemary's Baby is a United States Horror film/thriller film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling novel Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin....
    as Minnie Castevet
    • Lynn Carlin
      Lynn Carlin

      Lynn Carlin is an American actress. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the movie Faces . Her father, Larry Reynolds, was a Hollywood business manager in the 1930s....
       -
      Faces
      Faces (film)

      Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin, who both received Academy Award nominations for this film....
      as Maria Forst
    • Sondra Locke
      Sondra Locke

      Sondra Locke is an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe-nominated United States actress, singer and film director, best known for frequently starring in films with Clint Eastwood....
       -
      The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
      The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (film)

      The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a 1968 in film film adaptation of the novel of the The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. It was directed by Robert Ellis Miller....
      as Mick
    • Kay Medford
      Kay Medford

      Kay Medford , was an Academy Award-nominated United States character actress.Born Margaret O'Regan in New York City, the daughter of first-generation Irish parents, she was the original "Mama" in Bye Bye Birdie, starring opposite Dick van Dyke on Broadway, and garnering excellent reviews....
       -
      Funny Girl
      Funny Girl (film)

      Funny Girl is a musical film based on Funny Girl . The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway theatre and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein....
      as Rose Brice
    • Estelle Parsons
      Estelle Parsons

      Estelle Margaret Parsons is an Academy Awards-winning United States theatre, film and television actress. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame....
       -
      Rachel, Rachel
      Rachel, Rachel

      Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 film which tells the story of a repressed school teacher, living with her overbearing mother, who suddenly gets a man in her life during her summer vacation....
      as Calla Mackie


  • 1969 Goldie Hawn
    Goldie Hawn

    Goldie Jean Hawn is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe- winning United Statesn actress, film director and film producer, best known for her 'dumb blonde' persona in a series of popular comedy....
     -
    Cactus Flower
    Cactus Flower (film)

    Cactus Flower is a 1969 comedic film directed by Gene Saks and starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn. The film is adapted from an earlier Cactus Flower, written by Abe Burrows, which in turn was based upon the French play Fleur de cactus....
    as Toni Simmons
    • Catherine Burns
      Catherine Burns

      Catherine Burns is an United States actress.Born in New York City, Burns attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her Broadway theatre debut in 1968 in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie....
       - Last Summer
      Last Summer

      Last Summer is a 1969 coming-of-age movie about adolescent sexuality. Director Frank Perry filmed at Fire Island, New York locations with a cast of Catherine Burns, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison and Richard Thomas ....
       as Rhoda
    • Dyan Cannon
      Dyan Cannon

      Dyan Cannon is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film and television actor, Film director, screenwriter, Film editing#Film Editor, and Film producer....
       - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
      Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

      This article is about the 1969 film. For the 1973 television series based on this film, see Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice .'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' is a 1969 in film comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky....
       as Alice Henderson
    • Sylvia Miles
      Sylvia Miles

      Sylvia Miles is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actress.Miles was born Sylvia Reuben Lee in New York City, the daughter of Belle and Reuben Lee, a furniture maker....
       - Midnight Cowboy
      Midnight Cowboy

      Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 in film Cinema of the United States drama film based on the 1965 in literature Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy....
       as Cass
    • Susannah York
      Susannah York

      Susannah York is an Academy Award-nominated England film and television actor....
       - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
      They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

      They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1969 in film United States drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by James Poe and Robert E....
       as Alice LeBlanc


1970s

  • 1970 Helen Hayes
    Helen Hayes

    Helen Hayes was an United States actress, whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
     - Airport
    Airport (film)

    Airport is a 1970 in film film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey Airport . This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 in flight....
    as Ada Quonsett
    • Karen Black
      Karen Black

      Karen Black is an United States actor, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. She is noted for films such as Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby and Nashville in a career that has spanned five decades....
       -
      Five Easy Pieces
      Five Easy Pieces

      Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 in film film written by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. It tells the story of Bobby Dupea , a former piano prodigy who is estranged from his artistic upper class family....
      as Rayette Dipesto
    • Lee Grant
      Lee Grant

      Lee Grant is an United States Academy Awards-winning, Golden Globe-nominated theater, film and television actor, and film director who was Hollywood ten by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
       -
      The Landlord
      The Landlord

      The Landlord is a 1970 film directed by Hal Ashby, which was based on the novel by Kristin Hunter....
      as Joyce Enders
    • Sally Kellerman
      Sally Kellerman

      Sally Claire Kellerman is an United States actress and singer known for her role as Margaret Houlihan in the film MASH , for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role....
       -
      MASH
      MASH (film)

      MASH is a American satire dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by H....
      as Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan
      Margaret Houlihan

      Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan is a fictional character first created in the book M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by H. Richard Hornberger....
    • Maureen Stapleton
      Maureen Stapleton

      Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
       -
      Airport
      Airport (film)

      Airport is a 1970 in film film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey Airport . This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 in flight....
      as Inez Guerrero


  • 1971 Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman

    Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
     -
    The Last Picture Show
    The Last Picture Show

    The Last Picture Show is a 1971 in film film drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry....
    as Ruth Popper
    • Ellen Burstyn
      Ellen Burstyn

      Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Awards-winning American actress....
       - The Last Picture Show
      The Last Picture Show

      The Last Picture Show is a 1971 in film film drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry....
       as Lois Farrow
    • Barbara Harris
      Barbara Harris (actress)

      Barbara Harris is an American Tony Award-winning Broadway theatre stage star and Academy Awards-nominated motion picture actor.Biography...
       - Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
      Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

      Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? is a movie released in 1971 starring Dustin Hoffman. It portrays a single day in life of Georgie Soloway, played by Hoffman....
       as Allison Densmore
    • Margaret Leighton
      Margaret Leighton

      Margaret Leighton was an English actress....
       - The Go-Between
      The Go-Between (film)

      The Go-Between is a 1970 in film United Kingdom film adaptation of the The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley directed by Joseph Losey and starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, and Edward Fox , among others....
       as Mrs. Maudsley
    • Ann-Margret
      Ann-Margret

      Ann-Margret is a Sweden-born American actress, singer and dancer. She has won the Golden Globe Award five times, and has been nominated for the Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy....
       - Carnal Knowledge
      Carnal Knowledge (film)

      Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 United States drama film. The film was Film director by Mike Nichols and screenwriter by Jules Feiffer....
       as Bobbie


  • 1972 Eileen Heckart
    Eileen Heckart

    Eileen Heckart was an Academy Awards- and Tony Award-winning United States actress of stage, screen, and television....
     - Butterflies Are Free
    Butterflies Are Free

    Butterflies Are Free is a play by Leonard Gershe.Loosely based on the life of attorney Scarsdale, New York#Notable People, the plot revolves around a Manhattan blind man whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie....
    as Mrs. Baker
    • Jeannie Berlin
      Jeannie Berlin

      Jeannie Berlin is an Academy Awards-nominated United States actress.Berlin was born in Los Angeles, California to screenwriter/playwright Elaine May....
       -
      The Heartbreak Kid
      The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)

      The Heartbreak Kid is a 1972 in film romantic comedy film directed by Elaine May, written by Neil Simon, and starring Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin, and Cybill Shepherd....
      as Lila Kolodny
    • Geraldine Page
      Geraldine Page

      Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
       -
      Pete 'n' Tillie
      Pete 'n' Tillie

      Pete 'n' Tillie was a film released in 1972 in film. It starred Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett in the title roles....
      as Gertrude
    • Susan Tyrrell
      Susan Tyrrell

      Susan Tyrrell is an Academy Award-nominated American actress of Irish descent, who may be recognized as well for her role as Ramona Rickettes in Cry-Baby....
       -
      Fat City
      Fat City (film)

      Fat City is an United States boxing drama film directed by John Huston. The picture stars Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, and Susan Tyrrell.The movie, one of John Huston's later films, is based on the boxing novel Fat City by Leonard Gardner, who also wrote the screenplay....
      as Oma
    • Shelley Winters
      Shelley Winters

      Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
       -
      The Poseidon Adventure
      The Poseidon Adventure (film)

      The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film based on a The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico. It concerns the capsize of a luxurious ocean liner by a tidal wave and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to journey up to the bottom of the hull of the liner before it sinks....
      as Belle Rosen


  • 1973 Tatum O'Neal
    Tatum O'Neal

    Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an Academy Awards and Golden Globe-winning United States actor best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s....
     -
    Paper Moon
    Paper Moon (film)

    Paper Moon is an United States motion picture comedy that was released in 1973 in film and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white....
    as Addie Loggins
    • Linda Blair
      Linda Blair

      Linda Denise Blair is an American Actor most famous for her role as the demonic possession child, Regan, in the 1973 in film film The Exorcist , and its sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic....
       - The Exorcist
      The Exorcist (film)

      The Exorcist is a 1973 in film United States horror film, adapted from the 1971 The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother?s desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests....
       as Regan MacNeil
      Regan MacNeil

      Regan MacNeil is a fictional character from William Peter Blatty's horror novel and film The Exorcist and its first sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic....
    • Candy Clark
      Candy Clark

      Candace June Clark is an Academy Award-nominated United States film and television actress. She is well known for her role as Debbie Dunham in the 1973 hit film American Graffiti, a role which garnered her an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, a role which she reprised in 1979 for the sequel More American Graffiti....
       - American Graffiti
      American Graffiti

      American Graffiti is a 1973 period piece coming of age film directed by George Lucas, and written by Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams and Wolfman Jack and features Harrison Ford....
       as Debbie Dunham
    • Madeline Kahn
      Madeline Kahn

      Madeline Kahn was an American actor, known primarily for her comedic roles. Director Mel Brooks — who directed her in four films — said of her: "She is one of the most talented people that ever lived....
       - Paper Moon
      Paper Moon (film)

      Paper Moon is an United States motion picture comedy that was released in 1973 in film and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white....
       as Trixie Delight
    • Sylvia Sidney
      Sylvia Sidney

      Sylvia Sidney was an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress....
       - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
      Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

      Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams is a 1973 film which tells the story of a New York City homemaker who rethinks her relationships with her husband, her children and her mother....
       as Mrs. Pritchett


  • 1974 Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
     - Murder on the Orient Express
    Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on January 1, 1934 in literature and in the U.S....
    as Greta Ohlsson
    • Valentina Cortese
      Valentina Cortese

      Valentina Cortese, sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa is an Italian actor.In her US career she starred in The House on Telegraph Hill directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan....
       -
      Day for Night
      Day for Night (film)

      La Nuit am?ricaine is a 1974 French language film directed by Fran?ois Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre L?aud. In French, day for night is a technical process whereby sequences shot during the daytime are made to appear as if they are taking place at night....
      as Severine
    • Madeline Kahn
      Madeline Kahn

      Madeline Kahn was an American actor, known primarily for her comedic roles. Director Mel Brooks — who directed her in four films — said of her: "She is one of the most talented people that ever lived....
       -
      Blazing Saddles
      Blazing Saddles

      Blazing Saddles is a satire Western #Western movies comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, it was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft....
      as Lili Von Shtupp
    • Diane Ladd
      Diane Ladd

      'Diane Ladd' is an American actress, film director and film producer. She has appeared in over 120 roles, in numerous popular TV shows or mini-series during 1958-2003, and several major feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose , Ghosts of Mississippi, Primary Colors , 28 Days...
       -
      Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
      Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

      .Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 in film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner....
      as Flo Castleberry
      Florence Jean Castleberry

      Florence Jean Castleberry , better known to all as "Flo", is a fictional character in the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, the subsequent television series, Alice , and that show's spinoff, Flo....
    • Talia Shire
      Talia Shire

      Talia Shire is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
       -
      The Godfather Part II
      The Godfather Part II

      The Godfather Part II is an Cinema of the United States 1974 in film crime drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo....
      as Connie Corleone
      Connie Corleone

      Constanzia Corleone, usually known as Connie Corleone, is a fictional character from The Godfather by Mario Puzo. In the Godfather Trilogy, Connie is portrayed by Talia Shire, the sister of director Francis Ford Coppola....


  • 1975 Lee Grant
    Lee Grant

    Lee Grant is an United States Academy Awards-winning, Golden Globe-nominated theater, film and television actor, and film director who was Hollywood ten by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
     -
    Shampoo
    Shampoo (film)

    Shampoo is a 1975 in film film that is directed by Hal Ashby and stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher and Tony Bill....
    as Felicia Carp
    • Ronee Blakley
      Ronee Blakley

      Ronee Blakley is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress, singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and director....
       - Nashville
      Nashville (1975 film)

      Nashville is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Robert Altman. A winner of many awards, selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Nashville is generally considered to be one of Altman's best films....
       as Barbara Jean
    • Sylvia Miles
      Sylvia Miles

      Sylvia Miles is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actress.Miles was born Sylvia Reuben Lee in New York City, the daughter of Belle and Reuben Lee, a furniture maker....
       - Farewell, My Lovely
      Farewell, My Lovely (1975 film)

      Farewell, My Lovely is a neo-noir film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling. The picture is based on the novel Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler....
       as Jessie Halstead Florian
    • Lily Tomlin
      Lily Tomlin

      Mary Jean ?Lily? Tomlin is an United States actor, comedian, writer and Theatrical producer. During her 40-year career she has also been nominated for an Academy Award, and has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award....
       - Nashville
      Nashville (1975 film)

      Nashville is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Robert Altman. A winner of many awards, selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Nashville is generally considered to be one of Altman's best films....
       as Linnea Reese
    • Brenda Vaccaro
      Brenda Vaccaro

      Brenda Buell Vaccaro is an United States stage, television and film actor....
       - Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
      Once Is Not Enough

      Once Is Not Enough is a 1973 novel by Jacqueline Susann. It was the #2 best-selling novel of 1973 in the United States. It was made into a 1975 film, Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, starring Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, and Brenda Vaccaro ....
       as Linda Riggs


  • 1976 Beatrice Straight
    Beatrice Straight

    Beatrice Whitney Straight was an United States Academy Award-winning Broadway theatre, film, and television actor....
     - Network
    Network (film)

    Network is a satire about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor Nielsen Ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight....
    as Louise Schumacher
    • Jane Alexander
      Jane Alexander

      Jane Alexander is an award-winning American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of c...
       -
      All the President's Men
      All the President's Men (film)

      All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post....
      as Judy Hoback
    • Jodie Foster
      Jodie Foster

      Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
       -
      Taxi Driver
      Taxi Driver

      Taxi Driver is a 1976 in film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in early post?Vietnam War Era New York City and stars Robert De Niro and features a young Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris , Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd....
      as Iris Steensma
    • Lee Grant
      Lee Grant

      Lee Grant is an United States Academy Awards-winning, Golden Globe-nominated theater, film and television actor, and film director who was Hollywood ten by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
       -
      Voyage of the Damned
      Voyage of the Damned

      Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 in film film drama and of its 1974 in literature source book, written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts....
      as Lillian Rosen
    • Piper Laurie
      Piper Laurie

      Rosetta Jacobsbetter known as Piper Laurie is an United States actress of stage and screen noted for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the film Carrie ....
       -
      Carrie as Margaret White


  • 1977 Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave

    Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
     -
    Julia
    Julia (film)

    Julia is a 1977 in film film drama made by 20th Century Fox. It is based on Lillian Hellman's book Pentimento , a portion of which purports to tell the story of her relationship with her lifelong friend, "Julia," who worked as an anti-nazism in the years prior to World War II....
    as Julia (Also see her controversial acceptance speech)
    • Leslie Browne
      Leslie Browne

      Leslie Browne is an United States ballet dancer and actress.She was born Leslie Brown in New York, the daughter of Kelly Brown and Isabel Mirrow....
       - The Turning Point
      The Turning Point (1977 film)

      The Turning Point was written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell ....
       as Emilia Rodgers
    • Quinn Cummings
      Quinn Cummings

      Quinn Cummings is an United States inventor, businesswoman, television and film actress best known for her Academy Awards role in Neil Simon The Goodbye Girl....
       - The Goodbye Girl
      The Goodbye Girl

      The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
       as Lucy McFadden
    • Melinda Dillon
      Melinda Dillon

      Melinda Rose Dillon is an United States actress....
       - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
      Close Encounters of the Third Kind

      Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Fran?ois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey....
       as Gillian Guiler
    • Tuesday Weld
      Tuesday Weld

      Tuesday Weld is an American actress.Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award in 1960....
       - Looking for Mr. Goodbar
      Looking for Mr. Goodbar

      Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1975 novel by Judith Rossner. Rossner based the novel on the events surrounding the brutal murder of Roseann Quinn, a 28-year-old New York City schoolteacher in 1973....
       as Katherine


  • 1978 Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith

    Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
     - California Suite
    California Suite (film)

    California Suite is a 1978 in film film based on the Play by Neil Simon....
    as Diana Barrie
    • Dyan Cannon
      Dyan Cannon

      Dyan Cannon is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film and television actor, Film director, screenwriter, Film editing#Film Editor, and Film producer....
       -
      Heaven Can Wait
      Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

      Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. The screenplay by Beatty, Elaine May and an uncredited Robert Towne is adapted from the original stage play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall....
      as Julia Farnsworth
    • Penelope Milford
      Penelope Milford

      Penelope Milford is an Academy Award nominated United States film, stage, and television actress.An alumnus of the Chicago/New York theatrical scene , American actress Penelope Milford struck paydirt with her first film Coming Home ....
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      Coming Home
      Coming Home

      Coming Home is a 1978 in film drama film which tells the story of an injured Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life after his return from the war....
      as Vi Munson
    • Maureen Stapleton
      Maureen Stapleton

      Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
       -
      Interiors
      Interiors

      Interiors is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. Featured performers are Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G....
      as Pearl
    • Meryl Streep
      Meryl Streep

      Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
       -
      The Deer Hunter
      The Deer Hunter

      The Deer Hunter is a War film drama film about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War....
      as Linda


  • 1979 Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
     -
    Kramer vs. Kramer
    Kramer vs. Kramer

    Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 in film trial movies film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son....
    as Joanna Kramer
    • Jane Alexander
      Jane Alexander

      Jane Alexander is an award-winning American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of c...
       - Kramer vs. Kramer
      Kramer vs. Kramer

      Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 in film trial movies film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son....
       as Margaret Phelps
    • Barbara Barrie
      Barbara Barrie

      Barbara Barrie is an United States actress and author of children's books....
       - Breaking Away
      Breaking Away

      Breaking Away is a 1979 in film coming of age film that tells the story of four teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana who have graduated from high school and are not sure what they want to do with their lives, other than hang out and go swimming in an abandoned Indiana Limestone quarry....
       as Mom
    • Candice Bergen
      Candice Bergen

      'Candice Patricia Bergen' is an Academy Awards-nominated and Golden Globe- and Emmy Awards-winning United States actress and former fashion model, best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown, and as Shirley Schmidt, the legal partner of Denny Crane , on the American Broadcasting Company comedy-drama B...
       - Starting Over
      Starting Over (film)

      Starting Over is a 1979 film which tells the story of a recently divorced man who is torn between his new girlfriend and his ex-wife . It costars Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen, Austin Pendleton and Mary Kay Place....
       as Jessica Potter
    • Mariel Hemingway
      Mariel Hemingway

      Mariel Hadley Hemingway is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated United States actor....
       - Manhattan
      Manhattan (film)

      Manhattan is a 1979 in film romantic comedy film about Isaac Davis , a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer dating a 17-year-old high school girl ....
       as Tracy


1980s

  • 1980 Mary Steenburgen
    Mary Steenburgen

    Mary Nell Steenburgen is an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
     - Melvin and Howard
    Melvin and Howard

    Melvin and Howard is a 1980 in film United States comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Demme. The screenplay by Bo Goldman was inspired by real-life Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar, who was listed as the beneficiary of $156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of The...
    as Lynda Dummar
    • Eileen Brennan
      Eileen Brennan

      Eileen Brennan is an United States actress of film, television, and theater....
       -
      Private Benjamin
      Private Benjamin

      Private Benjamin is a 1980 comedy film starring Goldie Hawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a short-lived television series....
      as Capt. Doreen Lewis
    • Eva Le Gallienne
      Eva Le Gallienne

      Eva Le Gallienne was a well-known actress, Theatrical producer, and Theatre direction, during the first half of the 20th century....
       -
      Resurrection
      Resurrection (1980 film)

      Resurrection is a 1980 film which tells the story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people....
      as Grandma Pearl
    • Cathy Moriarty
      Cathy Moriarty

      Cathy Moriarty-Gentile is an United States actress.Moriarty was born in The Bronx, New York City of Irish Catholic descent, the daughter of Catherine, a homemaker, and John Moriarty, a warehouse worker....
       -
      Raging Bull as Vickie Thailer LaMotta
      Vikki LaMotta

      Vikki LaMotta , born Beverly Thailer in The Bronx, New York, was the wife of boxing Jake LaMottaShe was portrayed by actress Cathy Moriarty in the Academy Award-winning 1980 film Raging Bull....
    • Diana Scarwid
      Diana Scarwid

      Diana Scarwid is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor. Scarwid has done work in film, television and theater....
       -
      Inside Moves
      Inside Moves

      Inside Moves is a drama film film director by Richard Donner....
      as Louise


  • 1981 Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton

    Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
     -
    Reds
    as Emma Goldman
    Emma Goldman

    Emma Goldman was an anarchism known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....
    • Melinda Dillon
      Melinda Dillon

      Melinda Rose Dillon is an United States actress....
       - Absence of Malice
      Absence of Malice

      Absence of Malice is a 1981 film which tells the story of Michael Gallagher , the son of a dead Mafia boss who discovers that he has become a front-page story in the local Miami newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated for a murder he didn't commit....
       as Teresa Perrone
    • Jane Fonda
      Jane Fonda

      Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
       - On Golden Pond
      On Golden Pond (1981 film)

      On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
       as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
    • Joan Hackett
      Joan Hackett

      Joan Hackett was an American actor who appeared on stage, in films, and on television....
       - Only When I Laugh
      Only When I Laugh (film)

      Only When I Laugh is a 1981 film based on Neil Simon's play The Gingerbread Lady.The story is about an alcoholic Broadway theatre actress who tries to stay sober while dealing with the problems of her teenaged daughter and her friends: an overly vain woman who fears the loss of her looks and a gay actor relegated to small roles in...
       as Toby
    • Elizabeth McGovern
      Elizabeth McGovern

      Elizabeth McGovern is an Academy Award-nominated United States film and theater actress, who later became a singer songwriter. In 1992, she married English producer and director Simon Curtis, with whom she lives in Chiswick, London, together with their two daughters....
       - Ragtime
      Ragtime (film)

      Ragtime is a 1981 film based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. The action takes place in and around New York City in the 1900?1909, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time....
       as Evelyn Nesbit
      Evelyn Nesbit

      Evelyn Nesbit was an United States Model and Chorus line, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry Kendall Thaw....


  • 1982 Jessica Lange
    Jessica Lange

    Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
     - Tootsie
    Tootsie

    Tootsie is a 1982 in film comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job....
    as Julie Nichols
    • Glenn Close
      Glenn Close

      Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
       -
      The World According to Garp
      The World According to Garp (film)

      The World According to Garp is 1982 in film comedy-drama film directed by George Roy Hill based on the The World According to Garp by John Irving....
      as Jenny Fields
    • Teri Garr
      Teri Garr

      Terry Ann "Teri" Garr is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian....
       -
      Tootsie
      Tootsie

      Tootsie is a 1982 in film comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job....
      as Sandy Lester
    • Kim Stanley
      Kim Stanley

      Kim Stanley was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning United States actor....
       -
      Frances
      Frances

      Frances is a 1982 in film Universal Studios drama film starring Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard. When it was released this film was advertised as a purportedly true account of actress Frances Farmer's life but the script was largely fictional and sensationalized....
      as Lillian Farmer
    • Lesley Ann Warren
      Lesley Ann Warren

      Lesley Ann Warren is an award-winning United Statesn actress and singer....
       -
      Victor/Victoria
      Victor/Victoria

      Victor Victoria is a 1982 in film musical comedy film, which involves transvestism and sexual identity as central themes. It stars Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston , Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras and John Rhys-Davies....
      as Norma Cassady


  • 1983 Linda Hunt
    Linda Hunt

    Linda Hunt is an American film, stage and television actor. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Awards-winning role in 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously....
     -
    The Year of Living Dangerously
    The Year of Living Dangerously

    The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 Peter Weir film adapted from the The Year of Living Dangerously by its author Christopher Koch, Weir, and David Williamson....
    as Billy Kwan
    • Cher
      Cher

      Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
       - Silkwood
      Silkwood

      Silkwood is a 1983, Academy Award-nominated film which dramatizes the story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a car accident under suspicious circumstances while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked....
       as Dolly Pelliker
    • Glenn Close
      Glenn Close

      Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
       - The Big Chill
      The Big Chill (film)

      The Big Chill is a 1983 film about a group of baby boomer college friends who reunite after many years and explore the aftermath of the 1960s....
       as Sarah Cooper
    • Amy Irving
      Amy Irving

      Amy Davis Irving is an United States actress, known for her roles in the films Crossing Delancey, The Fury , Carrie and her The Oscars- and Golden Raspberry Awards nominated role in Yentl as well as acclaimed roles on Broadway theatre and off-Broadway....
       - Yentl
      Yentl (film)

      Yentl is a 1983 American film from United Artists, and directed, co-written, co-produced and starring Barbra Streisand based on Yentl by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, itself based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy"....
       as Hadass
    • Alfre Woodard
      Alfre Woodard

      Alfre Ette Woodard is an American actor. She has been nominated for an Academy Awards and has won four Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards and one Golden Globe Award....
       - Cross Creek
      Cross Creek (film)

      Cross Creek is a 1983 in film film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It received four Academy Awards nominations, for its Costume Design, Music, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress ....
       as Geechee


  • 1984 Peggy Ashcroft
    Peggy Ashcroft

    Dame Peggy Ashcroft Order of the British Empire was an English actress....
     - A Passage to India
    A Passage to India (film)

    A Passage to India is a 1984 in film adventure film-drama film directed by David Lean, based on the A Passage to India by E. M. Forster....
    as Mrs. Moore
    • Glenn Close
      Glenn Close

      Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
       -
      The Natural
      The Natural (film)

      The Natural is a 1984 in film film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 baseball The Natural. The film was directed by Barry Levinson and stars Robert Redford....
      as Iris Gaines
    • Lindsay Crouse
      Lindsay Crouse

      Lindsay Ann Crouse is an American actor....
       -
      Places in the Heart
      Places in the Heart

      Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....
      as Margaret Lomax
    • Christine Lahti
      Christine Lahti

      Christine Lahti is an United States Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning actress and Academy Awards-winning film director....
       -
      Swing Shift
      Swing Shift (film)

      Swing Shift is a 1984 feature film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn with Kurt Russell. It also starred Christine Lahti, Fred Ward and Ed Harris....
      as Hazel
    • Geraldine Page
      Geraldine Page

      Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
       -
      The Pope of Greenwich Village
      The Pope of Greenwich Village

      The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 in film United States film starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young....
      as Mrs. Ritter


  • 1985 Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston

    Anjelica Huston is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning United Statesn actor and former fashion model.Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Oscar for her performance in 1985 in film's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston....
     -
    Prizzi's Honor
    Prizzi's Honor

    Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 in film black comedy film that tells the story of a Mafia hit man and hit woman who fall in love with each other, even though they have been hired to kill each other....
    as Maerose Prizzi
    • Margaret Avery
      Margaret Avery

      Margaret Avery is an American actor and singing. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Shug in The Color Purple ....
       - The Color Purple
      The Color Purple

      The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 in literature epistolary novel by United States author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award....
       as Shug Avery
    • Amy Madigan
      Amy Madigan

      Amy Madigan is an United States actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale....
       - Twice in a Lifetime
      Twice in a Lifetime (1985 film)

      Twice in a Lifetime is a 1985 in film starring Gene Hackman and directed by Bud Yorkin. The plot involves a steelworker and married man going through a mid-life crisis when he finds himself attracted to another woman, played by Ann-Margret....
       as Sunny
    • Meg Tilly
      Meg Tilly

      Meg Tilly is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress, Broadway theatre dancer and ballerina....
       - Agnes of God
      Agnes of God (film)

      Agnes of God is a United States film starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly. It was adapted by John Pielmeier from his own Agnes of God, and directed by Norman Jewison....
       as Sister Agnes
    • Oprah Winfrey
      Oprah Winfrey

      Oprah Gail Winfrey is an United Statesn television presenter, Media proprietor and philanthropist. Her television syndication talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television....
       - The Color Purple
      The Color Purple (film)

      The Color Purple is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple by Alice Walker....
       as Sofia


  • 1986 Dianne Wiest
    Dianne Wiest

    Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award....
     - Hannah and Her Sisters
    Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 in film comedy film drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner....
    as Holly
    • Tess Harper
      Tess Harper

      Tess Harper is an United States Actor....
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      Crimes of the Heart
      Crimes of the Heart (film)

      Crimes of the Heart is a 1986 in film United States black comedy film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Beth Henley is adapted from her Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning Crimes of the Heart....
      as Chick Boyle
    • Piper Laurie
      Piper Laurie

      Rosetta Jacobsbetter known as Piper Laurie is an United States actress of stage and screen noted for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the film Carrie ....
       -
      Children of a Lesser God
      Children of a Lesser God

      Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 in film film that tells the story of a speech teacher at a school for deaf students who falls in love with a deaf woman who also works there....
      as Mrs. Norman
    • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
      Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

      Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor and singer best known for her role as Carmen in The Color of Money, as well as for her roles as Lindsey Brigman in The Abyss, Gina Montana in Scarface , and Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves....
       -
      The Color of Money
      The Color of Money

      The Color of Money is a 1984 novel by American writer Walter Tevis, continuing the story of Edward "Fast Eddie" Felson from The Hustler ....
      as Carmen
    • Maggie Smith
      Maggie Smith

      Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
       -
      A Room with a View
      A Room with a View (film)

      A Room with a View is a 1986 Merchant Ivory Productions' feature film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant....
      as Charlotte Bartlett


  • 1987 Olympia Dukakis
    Olympia Dukakis

    Olympia Dukakis is an United States Actor....
     -
    Moonstruck
    Moonstruck

    Moonstruck is a 1987 in film romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. The movie was released on December 18, 1987, and earned largely positive reviews from critics....
    as Rose Castorini
    • Norma Aleandro
      Norma Aleandro

      Norma Aleandro Robledo is an Academy Award-nominated Argentina actress, born in Buenos Aires to Mar?a Luisa Robledo and Pedro Aleandro, both actors....
       - Gaby: A True Story
      Gaby: A True Story

      Gaby: A True Story is a 1987 United States-Mexican film directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Michael Love and Mart?n Salinas....
       as Florencia
    • Anne Archer
      Anne Archer

      Anne Archer is an Academy Award-nominated American actress....
       - Fatal Attraction
      Fatal Attraction

      Fatal Attraction is a 1987 Thriller film about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes Obsession with him....
       as Beth Gallagher
    • Anne Ramsey
      Anne Ramsey

      Anne Ramsey was an United States actor who is probably most famous for her roles as Mama Fratelli in Richard Donner's The Goonies, and as Mrs....
       - Throw Momma from the Train
      Throw Momma from the Train

      Throw Momma from the Train is a comedy film released in 1987 in film. The movie was inspired by the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train , which also plays a role in the movie....
       as Mrs. Lift
    • Ann Sothern
      Ann Sothern

      Ann Sothern was an Academy Award-nominated United States actor with a career spanning six decades....
       - The Whales of August as Tisha Doughty


  • 1988 Geena Davis
    Geena Davis

    Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis is an Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor, Film producer, writer, former fashion model and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist ....
     - The Accidental Tourist
    The Accidental Tourist (film)

    The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 in film United States drama film. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, with an Academy Award nominated score by John Williams, the film's screenplay was adapted by Kasdan and Frank Galati from the The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler....
    as Muriel Pritchett
    • Joan Cusack
      Joan Cusack

      Joan Mary Cusack is an Academy Awards-nominated United States actor and comedian....
       -
      Working Girl
      Working Girl

      Working Girl is a 1988 film written by Kevin Wade and directed by Mike Nichols. It tells the story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill , working in the mergers and acquisitions department of a Wall Street investment bank....
      as Cyn
    • Frances McDormand
      Frances McDormand

      Frances Louise McDormand is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States film, stage , and television actress....
       -
      Mississippi Burning
      Mississippi Burning

      Mississippi Burning is a 1988 crime drama film based on the FBI investigation into the real-life Mississippi civil rights workers murders in the U.S....
      as Mrs. Pell
    • Michelle Pfeiffer
      Michelle Pfeiffer

      Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
       -
      Dangerous Liaisons
      Dangerous Liaisons

      Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman. It is based upon a play by Christopher Hampton which in turn is based on the classic eighteenth-century novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos....
      as Madame Marie de Tourvel
    • Sigourney Weaver
      Sigourney Weaver

      Sigourney Weaver is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, best known for her roles as Lt. Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies....
       -
      Working Girl
      Working Girl

      Working Girl is a 1988 film written by Kevin Wade and directed by Mike Nichols. It tells the story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill , working in the mergers and acquisitions department of a Wall Street investment bank....
      as Katharine Parker


  • 1989 Brenda Fricker
    Brenda Fricker

    Brenda Fricker is an Academy Awards-winning Irish actress....
     -
    My Left Foot
    My Left Foot (film)

    My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 in film drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It tells the story of Christy Brown, an Ireland born with cerebral palsy, who could only control his left foot....
    as Mrs. Brown
    • Anjelica Huston
      Anjelica Huston

      Anjelica Huston is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning United Statesn actor and former fashion model.Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Oscar for her performance in 1985 in film's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston....
       - Enemies, a Love Story
      Enemies, a Love Story (film)

      Enemies, a Love Story is a 1989 in film film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer....
       as Tamara Broder
    • Lena Olin
      Lena Olin

      Lena Maria Jonna Olin is an Academy Award-nominated Swedish people actress....
       - Enemies, a Love Story
      Enemies, a Love Story (film)

      Enemies, a Love Story is a 1989 in film film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer....
       as Masha
    • Julia Roberts
      Julia Roberts

      Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and former fashion model. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide....
       - Steel Magnolias
      Steel Magnolias

      Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling , is a 1987 off-Broadway Play , made into a film in 1989. Based on the author's experience with the death of his sister, Steel Magnolias is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern United States women in northwest Louisiana....
       as Shelby Eatenton Latcherie
    • Dianne Wiest
      Dianne Wiest

      Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award....
       - Parenthood
      Parenthood

      Parenthood is a 1989 in film comedy-drama film with an ensemble cast that includes Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Harley Jane Kozak, Eileen Ryan, Helen Shaw, Jasen Fisher, Alisan Porter, Zachary LaVoy, Ivyann Schwan, Joaquin Phoenix , and Dennis Dugan....
       as Helen Buckman


1990s

  • 1990 Whoopi Goldberg
    Whoopi Goldberg

    Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
     - Ghost
    Ghost (film)

    Ghost is a 1990 in film romance film fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker ....
    as Oda Mae Brown
    • Annette Bening
      Annette Bening

      Annette Francine Bening is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning United States actor....
       -
      The Grifters
      The Grifters (film)

      The Grifters is a 1990 neo-noir film directed by Stephen Frears and produced by Martin Scorsese. It is based upon The Grifters, a pulp novel by Jim Thompson ....
      as Myra Langtry
    • Lorraine Bracco
      Lorraine Bracco

      Lorraine Bracco is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Karen Hill in Goodfellas and Jennifer Melfi on the hit HBO television series, The Sopranos....
       -
      Goodfellas as Karen Hill
    • Diane Ladd
      Diane Ladd

      'Diane Ladd' is an American actress, film director and film producer. She has appeared in over 120 roles, in numerous popular TV shows or mini-series during 1958-2003, and several major feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose , Ghosts of Mississippi, Primary Colors , 28 Days...
       -
      Wild at Heart
      Wild at Heart (film)

      Wild at Heart is a 1990 in film Cinema of the United States written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's pulp magazine novel Wild at Heart ....
      as Marietta Fortune
    • Mary McDonnell
      Mary McDonnell

      Mary McDonnell is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is famous for her Oscar-nominated role as Stands With Fist in Dances with Wolves, and for starring as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica ....
       -
      Dances with Wolves
      Dances with Wolves

      Dances with Wolves is a 1990 in film epic film which tells the story of a Civil War-era United States Army lieutenant who travels to the American Frontier to find a military post....
      as Stands With A Fist


  • 1991 Mercedes Ruehl
    Mercedes Ruehl

    Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American theater, television and film actor....
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    The Fisher King
    The Fisher King (film)

    The Fisher King is a comedy-drama film made in 1991 in film, written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer and Michael Jeter....
    as Anne Napolitano
    • Diane Ladd
      Diane Ladd

      'Diane Ladd' is an American actress, film director and film producer. She has appeared in over 120 roles, in numerous popular TV shows or mini-series during 1958-2003, and several major feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose , Ghosts of Mississippi, Primary Colors , 28 Days...
       - Rambling Rose
      Rambling Rose (film)

      Rambling Rose is a 1991 film set in 1930s Georgia starring Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. Ladd and Dern in real life are mother and daughter, and both earned Academy Award nominations for their performances in this film....
       as Mother
    • Juliette Lewis
      Juliette Lewis

      Juliette L. Lewis is an United States actress and musician....
       - Cape Fear
      Cape Fear (1991 film)

      Cape Fear is a 1991 in film thriller film, directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a remake of the Cape Fear and tells the story of a family man, a former public defender, whose family is threatened by a convicted rapist who wants vengeance for having been imprisoned for 14 years because of the lawyer's purposefully faulty legal defense tact...
       as Danielle Bowden
    • Kate Nelligan
      Kate Nelligan

      Patricia Colleen "Kate" Nelligan is an award-winning Canada stage, film and television actor....
       - The Prince of Tides
      The Prince of Tides

      The Prince of Tides is a 1986 in literature novel by Pat Conroy. It tells the story of the narrator's struggle to overcome the psychological damage inflicted by his dysfunctional childhood in South Carolina....
       as Lila Wingo Newbury
    • Jessica Tandy
      Jessica Tandy

      Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was a United Kingdom-United States stage and film actress....
       - Fried Green Tomatoes
      Fried Green Tomatoes (film)

      Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 drama film based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. It was released in the UK under the novel's full title....
       as Ninny Threadgoode


  • 1992 Marisa Tomei
    Marisa Tomei

    Marisa Tomei is an American theatre, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show television spin-off A Different World , and rose to fame following an Academy Award-winning performance in the 1992 comedy film My Cousin Vinny....
     - My Cousin Vinny
    My Cousin Vinny

    My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 in film comedy film written by Dale Launer, and directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio and Marisa Tomei, and featuring Fred Gwynne in his final role....
    as Mona Lisa Vito
    • Judy Davis
      Judy Davis

      Judy Davis is an Academy Awards-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award, three-time Emmy Award, two-time BAFTA Award and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actor....
       -
      Husbands and Wives
      Husbands and Wives

      Husbands and Wives is a 1992 in film United States film directed and written by Woody Allen. The films stars Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson and Blythe Danner....
      as Sally
    • Joan Plowright
      Joan Plowright

      Joan Ann Olivier, Lady Olivier, Order of the British Empire , better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is a Tony Award- winning, Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award- nominated, and Emmy Award- nominated England actor....
       -
      Enchanted April as Mrs. Fisher
    • Vanessa Redgrave
      Vanessa Redgrave

      Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
       -
      Howards End
      Howards End (film)

      Howards End is a 1992 in film film adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1910 in literature novel Howards End, a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England....
      as Ruth Wilcox
    • Miranda Richardson
      Miranda Richardson

      Miranda Jane Richardson is an England stage, film and television actor....
       -
      Damage
      Damage (film)

      Damage, also known as Fatale, is a 1992 in film film Film director by Louis Malle. It is based on the novel Damage by Josephine Hart....
      as Ingrid Fleming


  • 1993 Anna Paquin
    Anna Paquin

    Anna Helene Paquin is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy Award-nominated, New Zealander actress. Her breakthrough performance was in the New Zealand film The Piano, which earned her an Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994....
     -
    The Piano
    The Piano

    The Piano is a 1993 film about a mute female pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier New Zealand backwater....
    as Flora McGrath
    • Holly Hunter
      Holly Hunter

      Holly P. Hunter is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She is best known for films such as Raising Arizona, Broadcast News , Always and The Piano....
       - The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
    • Rosie Perez
      Rosie Perez

      Rosa Mar?a "Rosie" P?rez is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress, dancer, choreographer and film director. She is recognized for her nasal voice and thick New York dialect....
       - Fearless
      Fearless (1993 film)

      Fearless is a 1993 film directed by Peter Weir and written by Rafael Yglesias from his Fearless . It was shot entirely in California.Rosie Perez was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carla Rodrigo....
       as Carla Rodrigo
    • Winona Ryder
      Winona Ryder

      Winona Laura Horowitz , better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. Although Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas , her first significant role came in 1988 with Beetle Juice as Lydia Deetz, a Goth subculture teenager, in a performance that gained her critical an...
       - The Age of Innocence
      The Age of Innocence (film)

      The Age of Innocence is a 1993 in film film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder, released by Columbia Pictures....
       as May Welland
    • Emma Thompson
      Emma Thompson

      Emma Thompson is a two-time Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council....
       - In the Name of the Father as Gareth Peirce
      Gareth Peirce

      Gareth Peirce is an England solicitor, and was educated at the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics....


  • 1994 Dianne Wiest
    Dianne Wiest

    Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award....
     - Bullets Over Broadway
    Bullets Over Broadway

    Bullets Over Broadway is a Cinema of the United States crime film-comedy film screenwriter by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath and film director by Woody Allen....
    as Helen Sinclair
    • Rosemary Harris
      Rosemary Harris

      Rosemary Ann Harris is an England Tony Award-winning and Academy Awards-nominated actor and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame....
       -
      Tom & Viv
      Tom & Viv

      Tom & Viv is a 1994 film which tells the story of the true-life relationship between T. S. Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood. They were married in 1915 after a very brief courtship and separated in 1933 though they never divorced....
      as Rose Haigh-Wood
    • Helen Mirren
      Helen Mirren

      Dame Helen Mirren, Order of the British Empire is a multi-award winnning English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career....
       -
      The Madness of King George
      The Madness of King George

      The Madness of King George is a 1994 in film film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own Play The Madness of George III ....
      as Queen Charlotte
      Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

      Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the List of British consorts as spouse of King George III of the United Kingdom.Queen Charlotte was a patroness of the arts, known to Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others....
    • Uma Thurman
      Uma Thurman

      Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
       -
      Pulp Fiction
      Pulp Fiction (film)

      Pulp Fiction is a 1994 in film United States crime film by director Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclecticism dialogue, irony Black comedy, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic and popular culture references....
      as Mia Wallace
      List of Pulp Fiction characters

      This is a list of characters with speaking roles appearing in Quentin Tarantino's widely noted 1994 in film Pulp Fiction . Each of the four stories revolve around a certain character, the first is Vincent Vega as is the second, the third story's protagonist was Butch Coolidge....
    • Jennifer Tilly
      Jennifer Tilly

      Jennifer Tilly is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian-American actor and a World Series of Poker World Series of Poker bracelet winner....
       -
      Bullets Over Broadway
      Bullets Over Broadway

      Bullets Over Broadway is a Cinema of the United States crime film-comedy film screenwriter by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath and film director by Woody Allen....
      as Olive Neal


  • 1995 Mira Sorvino
    Mira Sorvino

    Mira Katherine Sorvino is an Academy Award-winning United States actress....
     -
    Mighty Aphrodite
    Mighty Aphrodite

    Mighty Aphrodite is a 1995 in film United States comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The screenplay was inspired by the mythology tale of Pygmalion ....
    as Linda Ash
    • Joan Allen
      Joan Allen

      Joan Allen is an American actress.Allen worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway theatre debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989....
       - Nixon
      Nixon (film)

      Nixon is a 1995 in film USA biographical film directed by Oliver Stone for Cinergi Pictures that tells the story of the political and personal life of former President of the United States Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins....
       as Pat Nixon
      Pat Nixon

      Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan Nixon was the wife of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974....
    • Kathleen Quinlan
      Kathleen Quinlan

      Kathleen Denise Quinlan is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-nominated United States actress, mostly seen on television and in motion pictures....
       - Apollo 13
      Apollo 13 (film)

      Apollo 13 is a 1995 in film film that dramatized the ill-fated Apollo 13 in 1970. The movie was adapted by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert from the book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, and was directed by Ron Howard ....
       as Marilyn Lovell
    • Mare Winningham
      Mare Winningham

      Mary Megan "Mare" Winningham is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States actress and singer....
       - Georgia
      Georgia (1995 film)

      Georgia is a 1995 American independent movie starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham. In the film, Leigh played Sadie Flood, a Punk rocky barroom singer who has a complicated, jealous but loving relationship with her older sister, Georgia, played by Winningham....
       as Georgia Flood
    • Kate Winslet
      Kate Winslet

      'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
       - Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood


  • 1996 Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche

    Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award-winning France film Actor. Binoche is well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The English Patient and Chocolat as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue and Cach? ....
     - The English Patient
    The English Patient (film)

    The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
     as Hana
    • Joan Allen
      Joan Allen

      Joan Allen is an American actress.Allen worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway theatre debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989....
       - The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor
      Elizabeth Proctor

      Elizabeth Proctor was accused of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials. Her husband, John Proctor, was executed as a witch/wizard in 1692. Part of her life was dramatized as part of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, which was later adapted into a The Crucible and The Crucible ....
    • Lauren Bacall
      Lauren Bacall

      Lauren Bacall is an American film and theater actress and Model . Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she has continued acting to the present day....
       - The Mirror Has Two Faces
      The Mirror Has Two Faces

      The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 in film United States romance film dramedy film produced and directed by Barbra Streisand, who also stars....
       as Hannah Morgan
    • Barbara Hershey
      Barbara Hershey

      Barbara Hershey is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning United States actress, known for her many film roles....
       - The Portrait of a Lady
      The Portrait of a Lady (film)

      The Portrait of a Lady is a 1996 film adaptation of Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady directed by Jane Campion.The film stars Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Duvall, Richard E....
       as Madame Serena Merle
    • Marianne Jean-Baptiste
      Marianne Jean-Baptiste

      Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated English people actress.She became a star overnight following the international success of the social drama Secrets & Lies in 1996 receiving an Academy Award nomination....
       - Secrets & Lies
      Secrets & Lies

      Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...
       as Hortense Cumberbatch


  • 1997 Kim Basinger
    Kim Basinger

    'Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger' is an United States film actor and former fashion model.She won multiple best supporting actress awards for her role in the 1997 film L.A....
     - L.A. Confidential as Lynn Bracken
    • Joan Cusack
      Joan Cusack

      Joan Mary Cusack is an Academy Awards-nominated United States actor and comedian....
       -
      In & Out
      In & Out

      In & Out is a 1997 in film romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz and starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Newhart, and Wilford Brimley....
      as Emily Montgomery
    • Minnie Driver
      Minnie Driver

      Minnie Driver is an Emmy-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated England Actor and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting....
       -
      Good Will Hunting
      Good Will Hunting

      Good Will Hunting is a 1997 in film drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, both of whom star in the film....
      as Skylar
    • Julianne Moore
      Julianne Moore

      Julianne Moore is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning and four time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
       -
      Boogie Nights
      Boogie Nights

      Boogie Nights is a United States drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the screenplay focuses on a young nightclub Dishwashing who becomes the popular star of pornographic films and finds himself slowly descending into a nightmare of drug abuse when his fame...
      as Amber Waves
    • Gloria Stuart
      Gloria Stuart

      Gloria Frances Stewart, also known as Gloria Stuart is an American actor. Over a Hollywood career that spans more than 70 years, Stuart appeared on stage , television and film, and is best known as for her roles as Claude Rains' sweetheart in The Invisible Man and as the 100-year-old Rose in the film Titanic ....
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      Titanic
      Titanic (1997 film)

      Titanic is a 1997 United States romantic film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
      as Old Rose


  • 1998 Judi Dench
    Judi Dench

    Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
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    Shakespeare in Love
    Shakespeare in Love

    Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 in film romantic comedy/drama film. The film was directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard....
    as
    Queen Elizabeth
    • Kathy Bates
      Kathy Bates

      Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an Academy Awards-, two-time Golden Globe-, and two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American theatrical, film and television actress, and a stage and television director....
       - Primary Colors
      Primary Colors (film)

      Primary Colors is a 1998 film starring John Travolta based on the Primary_Colors . It also starred Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates and Adrian Lester....
       as Libby Holden
    • Brenda Blethyn
      Brenda Blethyn

      Brenda Blethyn Order of the British Empire is a Golden Globe-winning England actress and author. Blethyn began her career on stage as part of the Royal National Theatre, and made her late television debut in 1980....
       - Little Voice
      Little Voice (film)

      Little Voice is a 1998 British drama film with music written and directed by Mark Herman. The screenplay is adapted from the play, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright....
       as Mari Hoff
    • Rachel Griffiths
      Rachel Griffiths

      Rachel Anne Griffiths is an Australian Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated film and television, actress known primarily for her roles in films and television....
       - Hilary and Jackie
      Hilary and Jackie

      Hilary and Jackie is a 1998 in film United Kingdom biographical film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is based on the memoir A Genius in the Family by Piers and Hilary du Pr?, which chronicles the life and career of their sister, cello Jacqueline du Pr?....
       as Hilary du Pré
      Hilary du Pré

      Hilary du Pr? is a United Kingdom flautist and memoirist famous for her involvement in the book A Genius in the Family and film Hilary and Jackie, both of which relate the family story around her sister, the famous cellist, Jacqueline du Pr?....
    • Lynn Redgrave
      Lynn Redgrave

      Lynn Rachel Redgrave Order of British Empire is an English actress.A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn Redgrave trained in London, before making her theatrical debut in 1962....
       - Gods and Monsters
      Gods and Monsters

      Gods and Monsters is a 1998 film which recounts the last days of the life of troubled film director James Whale, whose homosexuality is a central theme....
       as Hanna


  • 1999 Angelina Jolie
    Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie is an American film actor and a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported....
     - Girl, Interrupted
    Girl, Interrupted (film)

    Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 in film Oscar Award-winning drama film about a teen's 18-month stay at a mental institution, and stars Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie....
    as Lisa Rowe
    • Toni Collette
      Toni Collette

      Antonia "Toni" Collette is an Australian actor and musician, known for her acting work on stage actor, television and film actor as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish....
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      The Sixth Sense
      The Sixth Sense

      The Sixth Sense is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who claims to be able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him....
      as Lynn Sear
    • Catherine Keener
      Catherine Keener

      Catherine Ann Keener is a two time Academy Awards and Emmy-nominated United States actress....
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      Being John Malkovich
      Being John Malkovich

      Being John Malkovich is a 1999 in film film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. It stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, as well as the actor John Malkovich, who plays a fictionalized version of himself....
      as Maxine Lund
    • Samantha Morton
      Samantha Morton

      Samantha Morton is a Golden Globe Award-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated England actress....
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      Sweet and Lowdown
      Sweet and Lowdown

      Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 in film written and directed by Woody Allen which tells the story of a arrogant, obnoxious, alcoholic jazz guitarist named Emmett Ray who may be the best guitarist in the world....
      as Hattie
    • Chloë Sevigny
      Chloë Sevigny

      Chlo? Stevens Sevigny is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated United States actress and former Model . Sevigny became known for her fashion career and starred in a string of critically acclaimed independent films in the 1990s before her first mainstream role as Brandon Teena's girlfriend, Lana Tisdel, in Boys Don't Cry ....
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      Boys Don't Cry
      Boys Don't Cry (film)

      Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 in film independent film drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transman who was raped and murdered on December 31, 1993 by his male friends after they found out he had vagina....
      as Lana Tisdel


2000s

  • 2000
    2000 in film

    The year 2000 in film involved some significant events....
     Marcia Gay Harden
    Marcia Gay Harden

    Marcia Gay Harden is an Academy Award-winning, Saturn Award-winning, and Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated United States actress....
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    Pollock
    Pollock (film)

    Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson....
    as
    Lee Krasner
    Lee Krasner

    Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionism painter in the second half of the 20th century.On October 25th 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
    • Judi Dench
      Judi Dench

      Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
       - Chocolat as Armande Voizin
    • Kate Hudson
      Kate Hudson

      'Kate Garry Hudson' is an American film actor. She came to prominence in 2001 after receiving an Academy Awards nomination and a Golden Globe for her role in the drama Almost Famous, and has since established herself as a Hollywood lead actress, starring in several films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key, ...
       - Almost Famous
      Almost Famous

      Almost Famous is a 2000 in film comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, writer and director of Jerry Maguire, Singles and Say Anything....
       as Penny Lane
    • Frances McDormand
      Frances McDormand

      Frances Louise McDormand is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States film, stage , and television actress....
       - Almost Famous
      Almost Famous

      Almost Famous is a 2000 in film comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, writer and director of Jerry Maguire, Singles and Say Anything....
       as Elaine Miller
    • Julie Walters
      Julie Walters

      Julie Walters, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-award winning England actor and novelist....
       - Billy Elliot
      Billy Elliot

      Billy Elliot is a 2000 in film film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of 'Everington' in the real County Durham, UK, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher...
       as Mrs. Wilkinson


  • 2001
    2001 in film

    The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
     Jennifer Connelly
    Jennifer Connelly

    'Jennifer Lynn Connelly' is an United States film Actor and former child modeling. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities , she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama R...
     - A Beautiful Mind
    A Beautiful Mind (film)

    A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 in film United States film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel....
    as Alicia Nash
    • Helen Mirren
      Helen Mirren

      Dame Helen Mirren, Order of the British Empire is a multi-award winnning English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career....
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      Gosford Park
      Gosford Park

      Gosford Park is a 2001 in film film directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Bob Balaban....
      as Mrs. Wilson
    • Maggie Smith
      Maggie Smith

      Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
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      Gosford Park
      Gosford Park

      Gosford Park is a 2001 in film film directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Bob Balaban....
      as Constance Trentham
    • Marisa Tomei
      Marisa Tomei

      Marisa Tomei is an American theatre, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show television spin-off A Different World , and rose to fame following an Academy Award-winning performance in the 1992 comedy film My Cousin Vinny....
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      In the Bedroom
      In the Bedroom

      In the Bedroom is a 2001 American film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus whose short story Killings is the source material from which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based....
      as Natalie Strout
    • Kate Winslet
      Kate Winslet

      'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
       -
      Iris as Young Iris Murdoch
      Iris Murdoch

      Dame Jean Iris Murdoch Order of the British Empire was an Ireland-born British people author and philosopher, best known for her stories regarding ethical and sexual themes....


  • 2002
    2002 in film

    The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
     Catherine Zeta-Jones
    Catherine Zeta-Jones

    Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Wales actress, presently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom , The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late...
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    Chicago
    Chicago (2002 film)

    Chicago is a musical film film adaptation of the Satire Musical theatre Chicago , the film explores the themes of celebrity and scandal in Jazz#History##1920s to 1950s Chicago, Illinois....
    as
    Velma Kelly
    • Kathy Bates
      Kathy Bates

      Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an Academy Awards-, two-time Golden Globe-, and two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American theatrical, film and television actress, and a stage and television director....
       - About Schmidt
      About Schmidt

      About Schmidt is a 2002 in film United States film directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson as Warren Schmidt and Hope Davis as his daughter Jeannie....
       as Roberta Hertzel
    • Julianne Moore
      Julianne Moore

      Julianne Moore is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning and four time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
       - The Hours
      The Hours (film)

      The Hours is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film directed by Stephen Daldry. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours by Michael Cunningham....
       as Laura Brown
    • Queen Latifah
      Queen Latifah

      Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American Rapping, Singing, CoverGirl and actress. Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nominat...
       - Chicago
      Chicago (2002 film)

      Chicago is a musical film film adaptation of the Satire Musical theatre Chicago , the film explores the themes of celebrity and scandal in Jazz#History##1920s to 1950s Chicago, Illinois....
       as Matron Mama Morton
    • Meryl Streep
      Meryl Streep

      Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
       - Adaptation.
      Adaptation.

      Adaptation is a 2002 in film comedy-drama satire film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean book The Orchid Thief through self-reference events....
       as Susan Orlean
      Susan Orlean

      Susan Orlean is an United Statesn journalist whose feature writing drolly but affectionately considers "softer" subjects than some of those covered by her colleagues....


  • 2003
    2003 in film

    The year '2003 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Freddy vs Jason, X2: X-Men Uni...
     Renée Zellweger
    Renée Zellweger

    Ren?e Kathleen Zellweger is an Academy Awards-, BAFTA Award-, SAG Award-, and Golden Globe-winning United States actress and producer, who has established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses in recent years....
     - Cold Mountain
    Cold Mountain (film)

    Cold Mountain is a 2003 film written and directed by Anthony Minghella, and stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Ren?e Zellweger, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ray Winstone and Natalie Portman....
    as Ruby Thewes
    • Shohreh Aghdashloo
      Shohreh Aghdashloo

      Shohreh Aghdashloo is an Academy Awards-nominated Iranian-American actress....
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      House of Sand and Fog
      House of Sand and Fog

      House of Sand and Fog is a 2003 in film Cinema of United States drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The screenplay by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto is based on the House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III....
      as Nadi Behrani
    • Patricia Clarkson
      Patricia Clarkson

      Patricia Davies Clarkson is an American Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning actress....
       -
      Pieces of April as Joy Burns
    • Marcia Gay Harden
      Marcia Gay Harden

      Marcia Gay Harden is an Academy Award-winning, Saturn Award-winning, and Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated United States actress....
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      Mystic River
      Mystic River (film)

      Mystic River is a United States drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum....
      as Celeste Boyle
    • Holly Hunter
      Holly Hunter

      Holly P. Hunter is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She is best known for films such as Raising Arizona, Broadcast News , Always and The Piano....
       -
      Thirteen
      Thirteen (film)

      Thirteen is a 2003 in film drama film co-written by Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed . It is an autobiographical film based on Reed's experiences as a 12 and 13-year-old....
      as Melanie 'Mel' Freeland


  • 2004
    2004 in film

    The year '2004 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ,The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Shrek 2, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs....
     Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett

    Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
     -
    The Aviator
    The Aviator

    The Aviator is an Cinema of the United States biographical film drama film, film director by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes....
    as
    Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
    • Laura Linney
      Laura Linney

      Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress. Throughout her career in film, television, and theatre, Linney has won three Emmy Award Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award Award and has also been nominated for three Oscars and a BAFTA Award....
       - Kinsey
      Kinsey (film)

      Kinsey is a 2004 in film biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Kinsey . As a pioneer in the area of sexology research, his 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate sexual behaviour and i...
       as Clara McMillen
      Clara McMillen

      Clara Bracken McMillen contributed to the Kinsey Reports on human sexuality. She was the wife of Alfred Kinsey.Born in Bloomington, Indiana, McMillen majored in chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and other honors....
    • Virginia Madsen
      Virginia Madsen

      Virginia Madsen is an United States actor. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. During the 2000s, she once again became known after an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated role in the film Sideways....
       - Sideways
      Sideways

      Sideways is an United States comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's Sideways , Sideways follows two forty-something men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to the wine country of Santa Barbara....
       as Maya Randall
    • Sophie Okonedo
      Sophie Okonedo

      Sophie Okonedo is an Academy Awards-nominated England Actor....
       - Hotel Rwanda
      Hotel Rwanda

      Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 in film historical drama film about the hotelier Paul Rusesabagina during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The film, which has been called an African Schindler's List, documents Rusesabagina's acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees, by granting them shelter in the besieged H?t...
       as Tatiana Rusesabagina
    • Natalie Portman
      Natalie Portman

      Natalie Portman is an Israeli United Statesn actor. Portman began her career in the early 1990s, turning down the opportunity to become a child model in favor of acting....
       - Closer
      Closer (film)

      Closer is a 2004 in film written by Patrick Marber, based on his award-winning Closer . It was produced and directed by Mike Nichols and stars Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen....
       as Alice Ayres


  • 2005
    2005 in film

    The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,The Devil's Rejects, Saw II, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, ''The Ring Two, ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, ''xXx: State of the Union, ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous...
     Rachel Weisz
    Rachel Weisz

    Rachel Hannah Weisz is an Academy Award-winning England actress. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns....
     - The Constant Gardener
    The Constant Gardener (film)

    The Constant Gardener is a 2005 in film drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carr? The Constant Gardener....
    as Tessa Quayle
    • Amy Adams
      Amy Adams (actress)

      Amy Lou Adams is an United States actor. She began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous ....
       -
      Junebug as Ashley Johnsten
    • Catherine Keener
      Catherine Keener

      Catherine Ann Keener is a two time Academy Awards and Emmy-nominated United States actress....
       -
      Capote
      Capote (film)

      Capote is a 2005 in film biographical film about Truman Capote on a writing assignment for The New Yorker. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the title role....
      as Nelle Harper Lee
      Harper Lee

      Nelle Harper Lee is an United States author known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007....
    • Frances McDormand
      Frances McDormand

      Frances Louise McDormand is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States film, stage , and television actress....
       -
      North Country
      North Country (film)

      North Country is a 2005 in film United States drama film directed by Niki Caro. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of Jenson v....
      as Glory Dodge
    • Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
      Brokeback Mountain

      Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States romance film-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the Western United States from 1963 to 1983....
      as Alma Beers Del Mar


  • 2006
    2006 in film

    The year '2006 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with Saw III, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Casino Royale , Clerks II, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible III, Final Destination 3 and Scary Movie 4....
     Jennifer Hudson
    Jennifer Hudson

    Jennifer Kate Hudson is an United States pop music and R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She is one of the few actors to have won all four major screen acting awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as a Grammy Award and more than twenty other prizes....
     -
    Dreamgirls
    Dreamgirls (film)

    Dreamgirls is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States musical film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures....
    as
    Effie White
    • Adriana Barraza
      Adriana Barraza

      Adriana Barraza is an Academy Award-nominated Mexico film and television actress and film director. She has also been nominated for a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and Broadcast Film Critics Association....
       - Babel
      Babel (2006 film)

      Babel is a 2006 film, directed by Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Gonz?lez I??rritu's Death Trilogy, which also consists of Amores perros and 21 Grams....
       as Amelia
    • Cate Blanchett
      Cate Blanchett

      Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
       - Notes on a Scandal
      Notes on a Scandal (film)

      Notes on a Scandal is an Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated 2006 in film United Kingdom film adapted from the 2003 novel Notes on a Scandal by Zo? Heller....
       as Sheba Hart
    • Abigail Breslin
      Abigail Breslin

      'Abigail Kathleen Breslin' is an Academy-Award nominated United States child actor. The fourth youngest actress ever to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award, Breslin is best known for portraying Olive Hoover in the film Little Miss Sunshine, Nim Rusoe in Nim's Island, and the title character in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl...
       - Little Miss Sunshine
      Little Miss Sunshine

      Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film, and the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris....
       as Olive Hoover
    • Rinko Kikuchi
      Rinko Kikuchi

      , born , January 6, 1981) is a Japanese people actor. She has been nominated for the Academy Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Golden Globe, and won the NBR Award and the CFCA Award....
       - Babel
      Babel (2006 film)

      Babel is a 2006 film, directed by Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Gonz?lez I??rritu's Death Trilogy, which also consists of Amores perros and 21 Grams....
       as Chieko


  • 2007
    2007 in film

    The year '2007 in film' saw major releases such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ,The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers , TMNT , Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum , Pirates of the Caribbean:...
     Tilda Swinton
    Tilda Swinton

    Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Coppa Volpi award-winning United Kingdom actor known for both art film and Mainstream#In film....
     - Michael Clayton
    Michael Clayton (film)

    Michael Clayton is a 2007 in film United States drama film written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack. It stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson , Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack....
    as Karen Crowder
    • Cate Blanchett
      Cate Blanchett

      Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
       -
      I'm Not There
      I'm Not There

      I'm Not There is a 2007 biography film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by pop icon United States of America singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona; they are: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw....
      as Jude Quinn
    • Ruby Dee
      Ruby Dee

      Ruby Dee is an Academy Award nominated American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activism....
       -
      American Gangster as Mama Lucas
    • Saoirse Ronan
      Saoirse Ronan

      Saoirse Ronan is an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, and Golden Globe-nominated, American-born Irish people actress. She is the eleventh youngest person to be nominated for an Academy Award and the List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress....
       -
      Atonement
      Atonement (film)

      Atonement is a 2007 in film film adaptation of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed Atonement , directed by Joe Wright, and based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton....
      as Briony Tallis - Aged 13
    • Amy Ryan
      Amy Ryan

      Amy Ryan is an Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-nominated American actress....
       -
      Gone Baby Gone
      Gone Baby Gone

      Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 in film United States crime drama/mystery film directed by Ben Affleck. The screenplay by Affleck and Aaron Stockard is based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, Mystic River of Mystic River ....
      as Helene McCready


  • 2008
    2008 in film

    The year '2008 in film' saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels such as Rambo , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight , The X-Files: I...
     Penélope Cruz
    Penélope Cruz

    Pen?lope Cruz S?nchez , better known as Pen?lope Cruz, is a Spain actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jam?n, Jam?n, La Ni?a de tus ojos, and Belle ?poque ....
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    Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 in film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film features well-known stars Javier Bardem, Pen?lope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson, and less-well-known British people actress Rebecca Hall....
    as
    María Elena
    • Amy Adams - Doubt as Sister James
    • Viola Davis
      Viola Davis

      Viola Davis is an American actress of theatre and film.Davis is known primarily as a stage actress, and won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II ....
       - Doubt as Mrs. Miller
    • Taraji P. Henson
      Taraji P. Henson

      Taraji Penda Henson is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She is best known for her roles as Yvette in Baby Boy , Shug in Hustle and Flow and Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ....
       - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
      The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)

      The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 in film Cinema of the United States drama film, inspired by the 1921 in literature short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by F....
       as Queenie
    • Marisa Tomei
      Marisa Tomei

      Marisa Tomei is an American theatre, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show television spin-off A Different World , and rose to fame following an Academy Award-winning performance in the 1992 comedy film My Cousin Vinny....
       - The Wrestler as Cassidy


International presence

As the Academy Awards are based in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and are centered on the Hollywood film industry
Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
, the majority of Academy Award winners have been American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
s. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

  • Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    : Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett

    Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
  • Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     / New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
    : Anna Paquin
    Anna Paquin

    Anna Helene Paquin is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy Award-nominated, New Zealander actress. Her breakthrough performance was in the New Zealand film The Piano, which earned her an Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994....
  • France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    : Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche

    Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award-winning France film Actor. Binoche is well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The English Patient and Chocolat as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue and Cach? ....
  • Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    : Lila Kedrova
    Lila Kedrova

    Lila Kedrova was a Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning Russian-born France actor....
  • Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    : Katina Paxinou
    Katina Paxinou

    Katina Paxinou was an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe-winning Greece film and theatre actor....
  • Ireland
    Republic of Ireland

    Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
    : Brenda Fricker
    Brenda Fricker

    Brenda Fricker is an Academy Awards-winning Irish actress....
  • Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    : Miyoshi Umeki
    Miyoshi Umeki

    =BiographyUmeki was born in Otaru, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The youngest of nine children, her father owned an iron factory. After World War II, Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan, using the name Nancy Umeki, Her early influences were traditional Kabuki theater and American pop music....
  • Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
    : Rita Moreno
    Rita Moreno

    Rita Moreno is a singer, dancer and actress of Puerto Rican people descent. She is the first and only Hispanic female and one of nine performers who have won an List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award....
  • Spain
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
    : Penélope Cruz
    Penélope Cruz

    Pen?lope Cruz S?nchez , better known as Pen?lope Cruz, is a Spain actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jam?n, Jam?n, La Ni?a de tus ojos, and Belle ?poque ....
  • Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
    : Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
  • United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    : Peggy Ashcroft
    Peggy Ashcroft

    Dame Peggy Ashcroft Order of the British Empire was an English actress....
    , Dame Judi Dench, Wendy Hiller
    Wendy Hiller

    Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller Order of the British Empire was an English people film and theatre actor. The Academy Awards-winning actress enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years....
    , Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave

    Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
    , Margaret Rutherford
    Margaret Rutherford

    Dame Margaret Rutherford Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-winning England character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest....
    , Dame Maggie Smith, Tilda Swinton
    Tilda Swinton

    Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Coppa Volpi award-winning United Kingdom actor known for both art film and Mainstream#In film....
    , Rachel Weisz
    Rachel Weisz

    Rachel Hannah Weisz is an Academy Award-winning England actress. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns....
    , and Catherine Zeta-Jones
    Catherine Zeta-Jones

    Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Wales actress, presently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom , The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late...


At the 37th Academy Awards
37th Academy Awards

The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards were awarded for 2007 in film....
 (1964
1964 in film

The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
), for the first time in history, all four of the top acting honors were awarded to non-Americans: Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison

Sir Reginald ?Rex? Carey Harrison was an England actor of theatre and film, who won both an Academy Award and Tony Award....
, Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews

Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
, Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
, and Lila Kedrova
Lila Kedrova

Lila Kedrova was a Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning Russian-born France actor....
. This occurred for the second time at the 80th Academy Awards
80th Academy Awards

The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
 (2007
2007 in film

The year '2007 in film' saw major releases such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ,The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers , TMNT , Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum , Pirates of the Caribbean:...
), when all four acting categories were similarly represented: Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
, Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard is an Academy-Award winning French actress who has appeared in almost forty film and television productions since 1993.Born into an acting family, Cotillard started on the stage as a child and during her teens progressed from roles in television to cinema....
, Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem

Javier ?ngel Encinas Bardem is an Academy Award-winning Spain actor who has starred in over two dozen films in Spain. He had garnered critical acclaim as an actor for films such as Jam?n, jam?n, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro....
, and Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton

Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Coppa Volpi award-winning United Kingdom actor known for both art film and Mainstream#In film....
.

See also

  • Academy Award for Best Actor
    Academy Award for Best Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  • Academy Award for Best Actress
    Academy Award for Best Actress

    Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  • List of Academy Awards ceremonies
    List of Academy Awards ceremonies

    This is a list of Academy Awards ceremonies complete with date of each event, list of years in film, ceremony host, and the Academy Award for Best Picture award winner....
  • List of actors
    List of actors

    The following are lists of actors:...
  • List of Best Actor winners by age at win
    List of Best Actor winners by age at win

    This is a list of winners of the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actor, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  • List of Best Actress winners by age at win
    List of Best Actress winners by age at win

    This is a list of winners of the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  • List of Best Supporting Actor winners by age at win
    List of Best Supporting Actor winners by age at win

    This is a list of winners of the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  • List of Best Supporting Actress winners by age at win
    List of Best Supporting Actress winners by age at win

    This is a list of winners of the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  • Lists of films
    Lists of films

    This article contains a summary list of Wikipedia articles containing film lists....


External links

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  • (official ceremony promotional site)
  • (official site)