Sometimes the most incredible performances come from supporting actresses. Here is a list of the winners over the years. Watch and enjoy!

1937 Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse
1938 Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
1939 Fay Bainter - Jezebel
1940 Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind
1941 Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
1942 Mary Astor - The Great Lie
1943 Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver
1944 Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls
1945 Ethel Barrymore - None but the Lonely Heart
1946 Anne Revere - National Velvet
1947 Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge
1948 Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
1949 Claire Trevor - Key Largo
1950 Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
1951 Josephine Hull - Harvey
1952 Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire
1953 Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful
1954 Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity
1955 Eva Marie Saint - On the Waterfront
1956 Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
1957 Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
1958 Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
1959 Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
1960 Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
1961 Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
1962 Rita Moreno - West Side Story
1963 Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
1964 Margaret Rutherford - the V.I.P.s
1965 Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek
1966 Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
1967 Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1968 Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
1969 Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
1970 Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
1971 Helen Hayes - Airport
1972 Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
1973 Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free
1974 Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
1975 Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
1976 Lee Grant - Shampoo
1977 Beatrice Straight - Network
1978 Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
1979 Maggie Smith - California Suite
1980 Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
1981 Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
1982 Maureen Stapleton - Reds
1983 Jessica Lange - Tootsie
1984 Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
1985 Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
1986 Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
1987 Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
1988 Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
1989 Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
1990 Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
1991 Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
1992 Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
1993 Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
1994 Anna Paquin - The Piano
1995 Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
1996 Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
1997 Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
1998 Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
1999 Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
2000 Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted
2001 Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
2002 Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
2003 Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
2004 Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain
2005 Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
2006 Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardner
2007 Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
2008 Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
2009 Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona