BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

**Best Actress in a Supporting Role** is a British Academy Film award presented each year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).  It is to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a movie. Actors of all nationalities can receive the award.

### 1960s

- **1968** – **Billie Whitelaw** – ***Charlie Bubbles_ as Lottie Bubbles** and ***Twisted Nerve_ as Joan Harper**
    - Pat Heywood – _Romeo and Juliet_
    - Virginia Maskell – _Interlude_
    - Simone Signoret – _Games_

- **1969** – **Celia Johnson** – ***The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_ as Miss Mackay**
    - Peggy Ashcroft – _Three Into Two Wont Go_
    - Pamela Franklin – _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_
    - Mary Wimbush – _Oh What a Lovely War_

### 1970s

- **1970** – **Susannah York** – ***They Shoot Horses, Don't They?_ as Alice LeBlanc**
    - Evin Crowley – _Ryan's Daughter_
    - Estelle Parsons – _Watermelon Man_
    - Maureen Stapleton – _Airport_ as Inez Guerrero

- **1971** – **Margaret Leighton** – ***The Go-Between_ as Mrs. Maudsley**
    - Jane Asher – _Deep End_
    - Georgia Brown – _The Raging Moon_
    - Georgia Engel – _Taking Off_

- **1972** – **Cloris Leachman** – ***The Last Picture Show_ as Ruth Popper**
    - Marisa Berenson – _Cabaret_
    - Eileen Brennan – _The Last Picture Show_
    - Shelley Winters – _The Poseidon Adventure_ as Belle Rosen

- **1973** – **Valentina Cortese** – ***Day for Night_ as Severine**
    - Rosemary Leach – _That'll Be the Day_
    - Delphine Seyrig – _The Day of the Jackal_
    - Ingrid Thulin – _Cries and Whispers_

- **1974** – **Ingrid Bergman** – ***Murder on the Orient Express_ as Greta Ohlsson**
    - Sylvia Sidney – _Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams_
    - Sylvia Syms – _The Tamarind Seed_
    - Cindy Williams – _American Graffiti_

- **1975** – **Diane Ladd** – ***Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore_ as Flo**
    - Ronee Blakely – _Nashville_ as Bobbie Jean
    - Lelia Goldoni – _Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore_
    - Gwen Welles – _Nashville_

- **1976** – **Jodie Foster** – ***Bugsy Malone_ as Tallulah** and ***Taxi Driver_ as Iris "Easy" Steensma**
    - Annette Crosbie – _The Slipper and the Rose_
    - Vivien Merchant – _The Homecoming_
    - Billie Whitelaw – _The Omen_

- **1977 ** – **Jenny Agutter** – ***Equus_ as Jill Mason**
    - Geraldine Chaplin – _Welcome to L.A._
    - Joan Plowright – _Equus_
    - Shelley Winters – _Next Stop, Greenwich Village_

- **1978 ** – **Geraldine Page** – ***Interiors_ as Eve**
    - Angela Lansbury – _Death on the Nile_
    - Maggie Smith – _Death on the Nile_
    - Mona Washbourne – _Stevie_

- **1979** – **Rachel Roberts** – ***Yanks_ as Mrs. Clarrie Moreton**
    - Lisa Eichhorn – _The Europens_
    - Mariel Hemingway – _Manhattan_ as Tracy
    - Meryl Streep – _Manhattan_

### 1980s

- **1982** – **Rohini Hattangadi** – ***Gandhi_ as Kasturba Gandhi** and **Maureen Stapleton** – ***Reds_ as Emma Goldman**
    - Candice Bergen – _Gandhi_
    - Jane Fonda – _On Golden Pond_ as Chelsea Thayer Wayne

- **1983** – **Jamie Lee Curtis** – ***Trading Places_ as Ophelia**
    - Teri Garr – _Tootsie_
    - Rosemary Harris – _The Ploughman's Lunch_
    - Maureen Lipman – _Educating Rita_

- **1984** – **Liz Smith** – ***A Private Function_ as Joyce's Mother**
    - Eileen Atkins – _The Dresser_
    - Cher – _Silkwood_ as Dolly Pelliker
    - Tuesday Weld – _Once Upon a Time in America_

- **1985** – **Rosanna Arquette** – ***Desperately Seeking Susan_ as Roberta Glass**
    - Judi Dench – _Wetherby_
    - Anjelica Huston – _Prizzi's Honor_ as Maerose Prizzi
    - Tracey Ullman – _Plenty_

- **1986** – **Judi Dench** – ***A Room with a View_ as Eleanor Lavish**
    - Rosanna Arquette – _After Hours_
    - Barbara Hershey – _Hannah and Her Sisters_
    - Rosemary Leach – _A Room with a View_

- **1987** – **Susan Wooldridge** – ***Hope and Glory_ as Molly**
    - Judi Dench – _84 Charing Cross Road_
    - Vanessa Redgrave – _Prick Up Your Ears_
    - Dianne Wiest – _Radio Days_

- **1988 ** – **Judi Dench** – ***A Handful of Dust***
    - Maria Aitken – _A Fish Called Wanda_
    - Anne Archer – _Fatal Attraction_ as Beth Gallagher
    - Olympia Dukakis – _Moonstruck_ as Rose Castorini

- **1989** – **Michelle Pfeiffer** – ***Dangerous Liaisons_ as Madame de Tourvel**
    - Peggy Ashcroft – _Madame Sousatzka_
    - Laura San Giacomo – _Sex, Lies, and Videotape_ as Cynthia Bishop
    - Sigourney Weaver – _Working Girl_ as Katharine Parker

### 1990s

- **1990** – **Whoopi Goldberg** – ***Ghost_ as Oda Mae Brown**
    - Anjelica Huston – _The Grifters_
    - Shirley Maclaine – _Steel Magnolias_
    - Billie Whitelaw – _The Krays_

- **1991** – **Kate Nelligan** – ***Frankie and Johnny_ as Cora**
    - Annette Bening – _The Grifters_
    - Amanda Plummer – _The Fisher King_
    - Julie Walters – _Stepping Out_

- **1992** – **Miranda Richardson** – ***Damage_ as Ingrid Fleming**
    - Kathy Bates – _Fried Green Tomatoes_
    - Helena Bonham-Carter – _Howards End_
    - Miranda Richardson – _The Crying Game_ as Jude

- **1993** – **Miriam Margolyes** – ***The Age of Innocence_ as Mrs. Mingott**
    - Holly Hunter – _The Firm_ as Tammy Hemphill
    - Winona Ryder – _The Age of Innocence_ as May Welland
    - Maggie Smith – _The Secret Garden_

- **1994** – **Kristin Scott Thomas** – ***Four Weddings and a Funeral_ as Fiona**
    - Charlotte Coleman – _Four Weddings and a Funeral_
    - Sally Field – _Forrest Gump_ as Mrs. Gump
    - Anjelica Huston – _Manhattan Murder Mystery_

- **1995** – **Kate Winslet** – ***Sense and Sensibility_ as Marianne Dashwood**
    - Joan Allen – _Nixon_ as Pat Nixon
    - Mira Sorvino – _Mighty Aphrodite_ as Linda Ash
    - Elizabeth Spriggs – _Sense and Sensibility_

- **1996** – **Juliette Binoche** – ***The English Patient_ as Hana**
    - Lauren Bacall – _The Mirror Has Two Faces_ as Hannah Morgan
    - Marianne Jean-Baptiste – _Secrets & Lies_ as Hortense Cumberbatch
    - Lynn Redgrave – _Shine_

- **1997** – **Sigourney Weaver** – ***The Ice Storm_ as Janey Carver**
    - Jennifer Ehle – _Wilde_
    - Lesley Sharp – _The Full Monty_
    - Zoë Wanamaker – _Wilde_

- **1998** – **Judi Dench** – ***Shakespeare in Love_ as Queen Elizabeth I**
    - Kathy Bates – _Primary Colors_
    - Brenda Blethyn – _Little Voice_
    - Lynn Redgrave – _Gods and Monsters_

- **1999** – **Maggie Smith** – ***Tea with Mussolini_ as Lady Hester Random**
    - Thora Birch – _American Beauty_
    - Cate Blanchett – _The Talented Mr. Ripley_
    - Cameron Diaz – _Being John Malkovich_
    - Mena Suvari – _American Beauty_

### 2000s

- **2000** – **Julie Walters** – ***Billy Elliot_ as Mrs. Georgia Wilkinson**
    - Judi Dench – _Chocolat_
    - Frances McDormand – _Almost Famous_
    - Lena Olin – _Chocolat_
    - Zhang Ziyi – _Wo hu cang long_

- **2001** – **Jennifer Connelly** – ***A Beautiful Mind_ as Alicia Nash**
    - Judi Dench – _The Shipping News_
    - Helen Mirren – _Gosford Park_
    - Maggie Smith – _Gosford Park_
    - Kate Winslet – _Iris_ as Young Iris Murdoch

- **2002** – **Catherine Zeta-Jones** – ***Chicago_ as Velma Kelly**
    - Toni Collette – _About a Boy_
    - Julianne Moore – _The Hours_
    - Queen Latifah – _Chicago_ as Matron Mama Morton
    - Meryl Streep – _Adaptation._ as Susan Orlean

- **2003** – **Renée Zellweger** – ***Cold Mountain_ as Ruby Thewes**
    - Holly Hunter – _Thirteen_ as Melanie Freeland
    - Laura Linney – _Mystic River_
    - Judy Parfitt – _Girl with a Pearl Earring_
    - Emma Thompson – _Love Actually_

- **2004** – **Cate Blanchett** – ***The Aviator_ as Katharine Hepburn**
    - Julie Christie – _Finding Neverland_
    - Heather Craney – _Vera Drake_
    - Natalie Portman – _Closer_ as Alice
    - Meryl Streep – _The Manchurian Candidate_

- **2005** – **Thandie Newton** – ***Crash_ as Christine Thayer**
    - Brenda Blethyn – _Pride & Prejudice_
    - Catherine Keener – _Capote_ as Harper Lee
    - Frances McDormand – _North Country_
    - Michelle Williams – _Brokeback Mountain_ as Alma Beers Del Mar

- **2006** – **Jennifer Hudson** – ***Dreamgirls_ as Effie White**
    - Abigail Breslin – _Little Miss Sunshine_ as Olive Hoover
    - Emily Blunt – _The Devil Wears Prada_
    - Toni Collette – _Little Miss Sunshine_
    - Frances de la Tour – _The History Boys_

- **2007** – **Tilda Swinton** – ***Michael Clayton_ as Karen Crowder**
    - Cate Blanchett – _I'm Not There_ as Jude Quinn
    - Kelly Macdonald – _No Country for Old Men_
    - Samantha Morton – _Control_
    - Saoirse Ronan – _Atonement_ as Young Briony Tallis

- **2008** – **Penélope Cruz – _Vicky Cristina Barcelona_ as María Elena**
    - Amy Adams – _Doubt_
    - Freida Pinto – _Slumdog Millionaire_
    - Tilda Swinton – _Burn After Reading_
    - Marisa Tomei – _The Wrestler_ as Cassidy

- **2009** – **Mo'Nique – _Precious_ as Mary Lee Johnston**
    - Anne-Marie Duff – _Nowhere Boy_
    - Vera Farmiga – _Up in the Air_ as Alex Goran
    - Anna Kendrick – _Up in the Air_ as Natalie Keener
    - Kristin Scott Thomas – _Nowhere Boy_

### 2010s

- **2010 – Helena Bonham Carter – _The King's Speech_ as Queen Elizabeth**
    - Amy Adams – _The Fighter_ as Charlene Fleming
    - Barbara Hershey – _Black Swan_
    - Lesley Manville – _Another Year_
    - Miranda Richardson – _Made in Dagenham_

- **2011 – Octavia Spencer – _The Help_ as Minny Jackson**
    - Jessica Chastain - _The Help_ as Celia Foote
    - Judi Dench - _My Week with Marilyn_ as Dame Sybil Thorndike
    - Melissa McCarthy - _Bridesmaids_ as Megan
    - Carey Mulligan - _Drive_ as Irene

## References

- BAFTA Awards Database