Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture

The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture".

Past winners

• 1944 – Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls
• 1945 – Agnes Moorehead, Mrs. Parkington
• 1946 – Angela Lansbury, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• 1947 – Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge
• 1948 – Celeste Holm, Gentleman's Agreement
• 1949 – Ellen Corby, I Remember Mama
• 1950 – Mercedes McCambridge, All the King's Men
• 1951 – Josephine Hull, Harvey
• 1952 – Kim Hunter, A Streetcar Named Desire
• 1953 – Katy Jurado, High Noon
• 1954 – Grace Kelly, Mogambo
• 1955 – Jan Sterling, The High and the Mighty
• 1956 – Marisa Pavan, The Rose Tattoo
• 1957 – Eileen Heckart, The Bad Seed
• 1958 – Elsa Lanchester, Witness for the Prosecution
• 1959 – Hermione Gingold, Gigi
• 1960 – Susan Kohner, Imitation of Life
• 1961 – Janet Leigh, Psycho
• 1962 – Rita Moreno, West Side Story
• 1963 – Angela Lansbury, The Manchurian Candidate
• 1964 – Margaret Rutherford, The V.I.P.s
• 1965 – Agnes Moorehead, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• 1966 – Ruth Gordon, Inside Daisy Clover
• 1967 – Jocelyne LaGarde, Hawaii
• 1968 – Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie
• 1969 – Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby
• 1970 – Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower
• 1971 – Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces (Tie) Maureen Stapleton, Airport
• 1972 – Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge
• 1973 – Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure
• 1974 – Linda Blair, The Exorcist
• 1975 – Karen Black, The Great Gatsby
• 1976 – Brenda Vaccaro, Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
• 1977 – Katharine Ross, Voyage of the Damned
• 1978 – Vanessa Redgrave, Julia
• 1979 – Dyan Cannon, Heaven Can Wait
• 1980 – Meryl Streep, Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1981 – Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard
• 1982 – Joan Hackett, Only When I Laugh
• 1983 – Jessica Lange, Tootsie
• 1984 – Cher, Silkwood
• 1985 – Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India
• 1986 – Meg Tilly, Agnes of God
• 1987 – Maggie Smith, A Room with a View
• 1988 – Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck
• 1989 – Sigourney Weaver, Working Girl
• 1990 – Julia Roberts, Steel Magnolias
• 1991 – Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost
• 1992 – Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King
• 1993 – Joan Plowright, Enchanted April
• 1994 – Winona Ryder, The Age of Innocence
• 1995 – Dianne Wiest, Bullets Over Broadway
• 1996 – Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite
• 1997 – Lauren Bacall, The Mirror Has Two Faces
• 1998 – Kim Basinger, L. A. Confidential
• 1999 – Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters

2000s

• '2000 Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted as "Lisa Rowe"
• Chloë Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry as "Lana Tisedale"
• Natalie Portman - Anywhere but Here as "Ann August"
• Samantha Morton - Sweet and Lowdown as "Hattie"
• Cameron Diaz - Being John Malkovich as "Lotte Schwartz"
• Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich as "Maxine Lund"

• '2001 Kate Hudson - Almost Famous as "Penny Lane"
• Judi Dench - Chocolat as "Armande Voizin"
• Frances McDormand - Almost Famous as "Elaine Miller"
• Julie Walters - Billy Elliot as "Mrs. Wilkinson"
• Catherine Zeta-Jones - Traffic as "Helena Ayala"

• '2002 Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind as "Alicia Nash"
• Cameron Diaz - Vanilla Sky as "Julie Gianni"
• Helen Mirren - Gosford Park as "Mrs. Wilson"
• Maggie Smith - Gosford Park as "Constance, Countess of Trentham"
• Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom as "Natalie Strout"
• Kate Winslet - Iris as "Young Iris Murdoch"

• '2003 Meryl Streep - Adaptation. as Susan Orlean
• Kathy Bates - About Schmidt as "Roberta Hertzel"
• Cameron Diaz - Gangs of New York as "Jenny Everdeane"
• Queen Latifah - Chicago as "'Mama' Morton"
• Susan Sarandon - Igby Goes Down as "Mimi Slocumb"

• '2004 Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain as "Ruby Thewes"
• Maria Bello - The Cooler as "Natalie Belisario"
• Patricia Clarkson - Pieces of April as "Joy Burns"
• Hope Davis - American Splendor as "Joyce Brabner"
• Holly Hunter - thirteen as "Melanie 'Mel' Freeland"

• '2005 Natalie Portman - Closer as "Alice Ayres"
• Cate Blanchett - The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn
• Laura Linney - Kinsey as "Clara McMillen"
• Virginia Madsen - Sideways as "Maya Randall"
• Meryl Streep - The Manchurian Candidate as "Senator Eleanor Shaw"

• '2006 Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener as "Tessa Quayle"
• Scarlett Johansson - Match Point as "Nola Rice"
• Shirley MacLaine - In Her Shoes as "Ella Hirsch"
• Frances McDormand - North Country as "Glory Dodge"
• Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain as "Alma Beers del Mar"

• '2007 Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls as "Effie White"
• Adriana Barraza - Babel as "Amelia"
• Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal as "Sheba Hart"
• Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada as "Emily"
• Rinko Kikuchi - Babel as "Chieko"

• '2008 Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There'' as "Jude"
• Julia Roberts - Charlie Wilson's War
• Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
• Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
• Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton