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Oct 22, 2024 · Knocking out her costar Amy Adams, Melissa Leo took home the award for best supporting actress in The Fighter, mirroring costar Christian Bale, who won for best supporting actor. Leo led David O ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.
- Jamie Lee Curtis. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022) This was the first career Oscar nomination for Curtis. She plays IRS agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre, who serves as the antagonist to Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) and her family in various timelines.
- Ariana DeBose. “West Side Story” (2021) 2021 Best Supporting Actress nominees: Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter” Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story” Judi Dench, “Belfast”
- Yuh-Jung Youn. “Minari” (2020) Youn won for playing the loving grandmother who follows her son and his family from Korea to build their life in America. She is the second Asian woman to win in this category, after Miyoshi Umeki for “Sayonara.”
- Laura Dern. ‘Marriage Story’ (2019) Dern swept the season for playing a tough-as-nails divorce attorney representing an actress (Scarlett Johansson) leaving her director husband (Adam Driver).
Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for their performances in films since its inception.
Playing sweet Melanie Hamilton, Olivia received her first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, only to lose out to one of her co-stars in the film, Hattie McDaniel. After GWTW, Olivia returned to Warner Bros. and continued to churn out films.
Fay won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for the movie Jezebel (1938). As Bette Davis' stern, reproving Aunt Belle, she excelled in a somewhat meatier role than the genteel or fluttery ladies she had previously been engaged to portray.
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph has won the Academy Award for best supporting actress. Randolph took home the Oscar on Sunday for her role as a boarding school head cook who is grieving her son.
