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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees. Originally, the trophy for this award was a plaque.
1 1930s
- 1937 Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
- Andrea Leeds - Stage Door
- Anne ShirleyIsao Takahata's 1979 animation Anne Shirley is a fictional character from the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Another Anne Shirley was an actress, who played the fictional Anne in a Hollywood film version. See below. Montgomery reporte - Stella DallasStella Dallas is a 1937 film which tells the story of a woman who sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her daughter. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Sr. Marjorie Main and Tim Holt. The movie was adap
- Claire TrevorClaire Trevor (born Claire Wemlinger ( March 8, 1910 April 8, 2000) was an American movie star. She had a long career, and won an Academy Award for Key Largo in 1948. Other appearances include in Desperadoes and How To Murder Your Wife''. External link Tr - Dead EndImportant note: This article deals with the film called "Dead End", not the street sign Dead end. Dead End is a 1937 crime drama film. It marked the first appearance of the Dead End Kids. Unemployed architect Dave Connell ( Joel McCrea) is torn between Dr
- May WhittyDame May Whitty ( June 19, 1865 May 29, 1948) was a British theater and cinema actress. Born in Liverpool, England Whitty made her first stage appearance in Liverpool in 1881 before moving to London to appear in the West End. She married the actor Ben Web - Night Must FallNight Must Fall is a play, a psychological thriller, by Emlyn Williams, first performed in 1935. The 1937 film of the play tells the story of an elderly woman who hires a young man as a companion, despite her niece's worries that he may be a murderer.
- 1938 Fay BainterFay Bainter ( December 7, 1891 April 16, 1968) was an American actress. Born in Los Angeles, California, her film debut didn't occur until This Side of Heaven in 1934. But she hit Hollywood fast, and in 1938 she was nominated for both the Academy Award fo - Jezebel
