# Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress is an annual award given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.

## Winners
### 1980s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 1988 | Frances McDormand | Mississippi Burning | Mrs. Pell |
| 1989 | Laura San Giacomo | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Cynthia Patrice Bishop |
| 1989 | Ellen Barkin | Johnny Handsome | Sunny Boyd |
| 1989 | Shirley MacLaine | Steel Magnolias | Louisa "Ouiser" Boudreaux |
| 1989 | Amy Madigan | Field of Dreams | Annie Kinsella |
| 1989 | Mary Steenburgen | Miss Firecracker | Elain Rutledge |

### 1990s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 1990 | Lorraine Bracco | Goodfellas | Karen Hill |
| 1991 | Mercedes Ruehl | The Fisher King | Anne |
| 1991 | Halle Berry | Jungle Fever | Vivian |
| 1991 | Glenne Headly | Mortal Thoughts | Joyce Urbanski |
| 1991 | Diane Ladd | Rambling Rose | Mother |
| 1991 | Juliette Lewis | Cape Fear | Danielle Bowden |
| 1991 | Elizabeth Perkins | The Doctor | June Ellis |
| 1991 | Amanda Plummer | The Fisher King | Lydia |
| 1992 | Judy Davis | Husbands and Wives | Sally |
| 1992 | Marcia Gay Harden | Used People | Norma |
| 1992 | Rosie Perez | White Men Can't Jump | Gloria Clemente |
| 1992 | Miranda Richardson | The Crying Game | Jude |
| 1992 | Marisa Tomei | My Cousin Vinny | Mona Lisa Vito |
| 1993 | Rosie Perez | Fearless | Carla Rodrigo |
| 1993 | Andie MacDowell | Short Cuts | Ann Finnigan |
| 1993 | Anna Paquin | The Piano | Flora McGrath |
| 1993 | Winona Ryder | The Age of Innocence | May Welland |
| 1993 | Irene Worth | Lost in Yonkers | Grandma |
| 1994 | Dianne Wiest | Bullets Over Broadway | Helen Sinclair |
| 1994 | Claire Danes | Little Women | Elizabeth "Beth" March |
| 1994 | Kirsten Dunst | Interview with the Vampire | Claudia |
| 1994 | Lena Olin | Romeo Is Bleeding | Mona Demarkov |
| 1994 | Uma Thurman | Pulp Fiction | Mia Wallace |
| 1995 | Joan Allen | Nixon | Pat Nixon |
| 1995 | Kathleen Quinlan | Apollo 13 | Marilyn Lovell |
| 1995 | Kyra Sedgwick | Something to Talk About | Emma Rae King |
| 1995 | Mira Sorvino | Mighty Aphrodite | Linda Ash |
| 1995 | Diane Venora | Heat | Justine Hanna |
| 1996 | Irma P. Hall | A Family Thing | Aunt T. |
| 1996 | Joan Allen | The Crucible | Elizabeth Proctor |
| 1996 | Juliette Binoche | The English Patient | Hana |
| 1996 | Barbara Hershey | The Portrait of a Lady | Madame Serena Merle |
| 1996 | Natalie Portman | Beautiful Girls | Marty |
| 1997 | Debbi Morgan | Eve's Bayou | Mozelle Batiste Delacroix |
| 1997 | Joan Allen | The Ice Storm | Elena Hood |
| 1997 | Joan Cusack | In & Out | Emily Montgomery |
| 1997 | Julianne Moore | Boogie Nights | Amber Waves |
| 1997 | Sarah Polley | The Sweet Hereafter | Nicole Burnell |
| 1998 | Kathy Bates | Primary Colors | Libby Holden |
| 1998 | Joan Allen | Pleasantville | Betty Parker |
| 1998 | Kimberly Elise | Beloved | Denver |
| 1998 | Rachel Griffiths | Hilary and Jackie | Hilary du Pré |
| 1998 | Lisa Kudrow | The Opposite of Sex | Lucia De Lury |
| 1999 | Chloë Sevigny | Boys Don't Cry | Lana Tisdel |
| 1999 | Angelina Jolie | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe |
| 1999 | Catherine Keener | Being John Malkovich | Maxine Lund |
| 1999 | Julianne Moore | An Ideal Husband | Mrs. Laura Cheveley |
| 1999 | Samantha Morton | Sweet and Lowdown | Hattie |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Frances McDormand | Almost Famous | Elaine Miller |
| 2000 | Kate Hudson | Almost Famous | Penny Lane |
| 2000 | Julie Walters | Billy Elliot | Mrs. Georgia Wilkinson |
| 2000 | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Traffic | Helena Ayala |
| 2000 | Zhang Ziyi | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Jen Yu |
| 2001 | Cameron Diaz | Vanilla Sky | Julianna Gianni |
| 2001 | Jennifer Connelly | A Beautiful Mind | Alicia Nash |
| 2001 | Helen Mirren | Gosford Park | Mrs. Wilson |
| 2001 | Maggie Smith | Gosford Park | Constance, Countess of Trentham |
| 2001 | Marisa Tomei | In the Bedroom | Natalie Strout |
| 2002 | Meryl Streep | Adaptation | Susan Orlean |
| 2002 | Kathy Bates | About Schmidt | Roberta Hertzel |
| 2002 | Patricia Clarkson | Far from Heaven | Eleanor Fine |
| 2002 | Julianne Moore | The Hours | Laura Brown |
| 2002 | Emily Mortimer | Lovely & Amazing | Elizabeth Marks |
| 2003 | Patricia Clarkson | Pieces of April | Joy Burns |
| 2003 | Ellen DeGeneres | Finding Nemo | Dory |
| 2003 | Marcia Gay Harden | Mystic River | Celeste Boyle |
| 2003 | Holly Hunter | Thirteen | Melanie Freeland |
| 2003 | Miranda Richardson | Spider | Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg |
| 2003 | Renée Zellweger | Cold Mountain | Ruby Thewes |
| 2004 | Virginia Madsen | Sideways | Maya Randall |
| 2005 | Maria Bello | A History of Violence | Edie Stall |
| 2005 | Amy Adams | Junebug | Ashley Johnsten |
| 2005 | Scarlett Johansson | Match Point | Nola Rice |
| 2005 | Catherine Keener | Capote | Harper Lee |
| 2005 | Rachel Weisz | The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle |
| 2005 | Michelle Williams | Brokeback Mountain | Alma Beers-Del Mar |
| 2006 | Rinko Kikuchi | Babel | Chieko |
| 2006 | Adriana Barraza | Babel | Amelia |
| 2006 | Cate Blanchett | Notes on a Scandal | Sheba Hart |
| 2006 | Abigail Breslin | Little Miss Sunshine | Olive Hoover |
| 2006 | Toni Collette | Little Miss Sunshine | Sheryl Hoover |
| 2006 | Jennifer Hudson | Dreamgirls | Effie White |
| 2007 | Cate Blanchett | I'm Not There | Jude Quinn |
| 2007 | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Margot at the Wedding | Pauline |
| 2007 | Leslie Mann | Knocked Up | Debbie |
| 2007 | Amy Ryan | Gone Baby Gone | Helene McCready |
| 2007 | Tilda Swinton | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | The Reader | Hanna Schmitz |
| 2008 | Amy Adams | Doubt | Sister James |
| 2008 | Viola Davis | Doubt | Mrs. Miller |
| 2008 | Penélope Cruz | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | María Elena |
| 2008 | Rosemarie DeWitt | Rachel Getting Married | Rachel |
| 2009 | Mo'Nique | Precious | Mary Lee Johnston |
| 2009 | Vera Farmiga | Up in the Air | Alex Goran |
| 2009 | Anna Kendrick | Up in the Air | Natalie Keener |
| 2009 | Julianne Moore | A Single Man | Charley |
| 2009 | Natalie Portman | Brothers | Grace Cahill |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Hailee Steinfeld | True Grit | Mattie Ross |
| 2010 | Amy Adams | The Fighter | Charlene Fleming |
| 2010 | Melissa Leo | The Fighter | Alice Eklund |
| 2010 | Helena Bonham Carter | The King's Speech | Queen Elizabeth |
| 2010 | Jacki Weaver | Animal Kingdom | Janine "Smurf" Cody |
| 2011 | Jessica Chastain | The Tree of Life | Mrs. O'Brien |
| 2011 | Melissa McCarthy | Bridesmaids | Megan |
| 2011 | Carey Mulligan | Shame | Sissy Sullivan |
| 2011 | Octavia Spencer | The Help | Minny Jackson |
| 2011 | Shailene Woodley | The Descendants | Alexandra King |
| 2012 | Amy Adams | The Master | Peggy Dodd |
| 2012 | Emily Blunt | Looper | Sara Rollins |
| 2012 | Judi Dench | Skyfall | M |
| 2012 | Sally Field | Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln |
| 2012 | Anne Hathaway | Les Misérables | Fantine |
| 2013 | Lupita Nyong'o | 12 Years a Slave | Patsey |
| 2013 | Scarlett Johansson | Her | Samantha (voice) |
| 2013 | Jennifer Lawrence | American Hustle | Rosalyn Rosenfeld |
| 2013 | Léa Seydoux | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Emma |
| 2013 | June Squibb | Nebraska | Kate Grant |
| 2014 | Patricia Arquette | Boyhood | Olivia Evans |
| 2014 | Jessica Chastain | A Most Violent Year | Anna Morales |
| 2014 | Laura Dern | Wild | Barbara "Bobbi" Grey |
| 2014 | Agata Kulesza | Ida | Wanda |
| 2014 | Emma Stone | Birdman | Sam Thomson |
| 2015 | Alicia Vikander | Ex Machina | Ava |
| 2015 | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Anomalisa | Lisa Hesselman |
| 2015 | Jennifer Jason Leigh | The Hateful Eight | Daisy Domergue |
| 2015 | Cynthia Nixon | James White | Gail White |
| 2015 | Kristen Stewart | Clouds of Sils Maria | Valentine |
| 2016 | Michelle Williams | Manchester by the Sea | Randi Chandler |
| 2016 | Viola Davis | Fences | Rose Maxson |
| 2016 | Lily Gladstone | Certain Women | Jamie |
| 2016 | Naomie Harris | Moonlight | Paula |
| 2016 | Janelle Monáe | Hidden Figures | Mary Jackson |
| 2017 | Laurie Metcalf | Lady Bird | Marion McPherson |
| 2017 | Mary J. Blige | Mudbound | Florence Jackson |
| 2017 | Holly Hunter | The Big Sick | Beth Gardner |
| 2017 | Allison Janney | I, Tonya | LaVona Golden |
| 2017 | Lesley Manville | Phantom Thread | Cyril Woodcock |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman | The Favourite | Queen Anne |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Debicki | Widows | Alice |
| 2018 | Zoe Kazan | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Alice Longabaugh |
| 2018 | Regina King | If Beale Street Could Talk | Sharon Rivers |
| 2018 | Rachel Weisz | The Favourite | Lady Sarah |
| 2019 | Florence Pugh | Little Women | Amy March |
| 2019 | Cho Yeo-jeong | Parasite | Yeon-gyo |
| 2019 | Laura Dern | Marriage Story | Nora Fanshaw |
| 2019 | Jennifer Lopez | Hustlers | Ramona Vega |
| 2019 | Zhao Shuzhen | The Farewell | Nai Nai |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Maria Bakalova | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | Tutar Sagdiyev |
| 2020 | Toni Collette | I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Mother |
| 2020 | Amanda Seyfried | Mank | Marion Davies |
| 2020 | Letitia Wright | Mangrove | Altheia Jones-LeCointe |
| 2020 | Youn Yuh-jung | Minari | Soon-ja |
| 2021 | Ruth Negga | Passing | Clare Bellew |
| 2021 | Catriona Balfe | Belfast | Ma |
| 2021 | Jessie Buckley | The Lost Daughter | Young Leda Caruso |
| 2021 | Ariana DeBose | West Side Story | Anita |
| 2021 | Riley Keough | Zola | Stefani |
| 2022 | Kerry Condon | The Banshees of Inisherin | Siobhán Súilleabháin |
| 2022 | Hong Chau | The Whale | Liz |
| 2022 | Stephanie Hsu | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Joy Wang |
| 2022 | Janelle Monáe | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Helen Brand |
| 2022 | Michelle Williams | The Fabelmans | Mitzi Schildkraut-Fabelman |
| 2023 | Da’Vine Joy Randolph | The Holdovers | Mary Lamb |
| 2023 | Jodie Foster | Nyad | Bonnie Stoll |
| 2023 | Sandra Hüller | The Zone of Interest | Hedwig Höss |
| 2023 | Rachel McAdams | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. | Barbara Simon |
| 2023 | Julianne Moore | May December | Gracie Atherton-Yoo |
| 2024 | Natasha Lyonne | His Three Daughters | Rachel |
| 2024 | Danielle Deadwyler | The Piano Lesson | Berniece Charles |
| 2024 | Ariana Grande | Wicked | Galinda Upland |
| 2024 | Margaret Qualley | The Substance | Sue |
| 2024 | Zoe Saldaña | Emilia Pérez | Rita Mora Castro |