Academy Award untuk Aktris Pendukung Terbaik
Pemenang dan nominasi > 1980-an

| Tahun | Aktor | Film | Peran |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
1980 (53rd): 
| 1980 (53rd) | Mary Steenburgen | Melvin and Howard | Lynda Dummar |
| 1980 (53rd) | Eileen Brennan | Private Benjamin | Captain Doreen Lewis |
| 1980 (53rd) | Eva Le Gallienne | Resurrection | Grandma Pearl |
| 1980 (53rd) | Cathy Moriarty | Raging Bull | Vickie Thailer LaMotta |
| 1980 (53rd) | Diana Scarwid | Inside Moves | Louise |
1981 (54th): 
| 1981 (54th) | Maureen Stapleton | Reds | Emma Goldman |
| 1981 (54th) | Melinda Dillon | Absence of Malice | Teresa Perrone |
| 1981 (54th) | Jane Fonda | On Golden Pond | Chelsea Thayer Wayne |
| 1981 (54th) | Joan Hackett | Only When I Laugh | Toby Landau |
| 1981 (54th) | Elizabeth McGovern | Ragtime | Evelyn Nesbit |
1982 (55th): 
| 1982 (55th) | Jessica Lange | Tootsie | Julie Nichols |
| 1982 (55th) | Glenn Close | The World According to Garp | Jenny Fields |
| 1982 (55th) | Teri Garr | Tootsie | Sandy Lester |
| 1982 (55th) | Kim Stanley | Frances | Lillian Farmer |
| 1982 (55th) | Lesley Ann Warren | Victor Victoria | Norma Cassady |
1983 (56th): 
| 1983 (56th) | Linda Hunt | The Year of Living Dangerously | Billy Kwan |
| 1983 (56th) | Cher | Silkwood | Dolly Pelliker |
| 1983 (56th) | Glenn Close | The Big Chill | Sarah Cooper |
| 1983 (56th) | Amy Irving | Yentl | Hadass |
| 1983 (56th) | Alfre Woodard | Cross Creek | Geechee |
1984 (57th): 
| 1984 (57th) | Peggy Ashcroft | A Passage to India | Mrs. Moore |
| 1984 (57th) | Glenn Close | The Natural | Iris Gaines |
| 1984 (57th) | Lindsay Crouse | Places in the Heart | Margaret Lomax |
| 1984 (57th) | Christine Lahti | Swing Shift | Hazel Zanussi |
| 1984 (57th) | Geraldine Page | The Pope of Greenwich Village | Mrs. Ritter |
1985 (58th): 
| 1985 (58th) | Anjelica Huston | Prizzi's Honor | Maerose Prizzi |
| 1985 (58th) | Margaret Avery | The Color Purple | Shug Avery |
| 1985 (58th) | Amy Madigan | Twice in a Lifetime | Sunny Sobel |
| 1985 (58th) | Meg Tilly | Agnes of God | Sister Agnes |
| 1985 (58th) | Oprah Winfrey | The Color Purple | Sofia |
1986 (59th): 
| 1986 (59th) | Dianne Wiest | Hannah and Her Sisters | Holly |
| 1986 (59th) | Tess Harper | Crimes of the Heart | Chick Boyle |
| 1986 (59th) | Piper Laurie | Children of a Lesser God | Mrs. Norman |
| 1986 (59th) | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | The Color of Money | Carmen |
| 1986 (59th) | Maggie Smith | A Room with a View | Charlotte Bartlett |
1987 (60th): 
| 1987 (60th) | Olympia Dukakis | Moonstruck | Rose Castorini |
| 1987 (60th) | Norma Aleandro | Gaby: A True Story | Florencia |
| 1987 (60th) | Anne Archer | Fatal Attraction | Beth Gallagher |
| 1987 (60th) | Anne Ramsey | Throw Momma from the Train | Mrs. Lift |
| 1987 (60th) | Ann Sothern | The Whales of August | Tisha Doughty |
1988 (61st): 
| 1988 (61st) | Geena Davis | The Accidental Tourist | Muriel Pritchett |
| 1988 (61st) | Joan Cusack | Working Girl | Cyn |
| 1988 (61st) | Frances McDormand | Mississippi Burning | Mrs. Pell |
| 1988 (61st) | Michelle Pfeiffer | Dangerous Liaisons | Madame Marie de Tourvel |
| 1988 (61st) | Sigourney Weaver | Working Girl | Katharine Parker |
1989 (62nd): 
| 1989 (62nd) | Brenda Fricker | My Left Foot | Mrs. Brown |
| 1989 (62nd) | Anjelica Huston | Enemies, a Love Story | Tamara Broder |
| 1989 (62nd) | Lena Olin | Enemies, a Love Story | Masha |
| 1989 (62nd) | Julia Roberts | Steel Magnolias | Shelby Eatenton Latcherie |
| 1989 (62nd) | Dianne Wiest | Parenthood | Helen Buckman |