List of Best Supporting Actress winners by age at win

This is a list of winners of the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to an actress who has Delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. More popularly known as the Academy Award (or the Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress, this award was initially presented at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony for 1936 and was most recently presented at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony for 2006. Throughout the past 71 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 71 Best Supporting Actress awards to 69 different actresses. This is a list of winners arranged in descending order by age of the actress on the date of the award ceremony in which she was named Best Supporting Actress.

List of winners

Rank	Name	Film	Annual	Year	Date of Birth	Date of Award	Notes
1	Peggy Ashcroft	A Passage to India	57th	1984	December 22, 1907	March 25, 1985
2	Ruth Gordon	Rosemary's Baby	41st	1968	October 30, 1896	April 14, 1969
3	Margaret Rutherford	The V.I.P.s	36th	1963	May 11, 1892	April 13, 1964
4	Helen Hayes	Airport	43rd	1970	October 10, 1900	April 15, 1971
5	Ethel Barrymore	None but the Lonely Heart	17th	1944	August 15, 1879	March 15, 1945
6	Josephine Hull	Harvey	23rd	1950	January 3, 1886	March 29, 1951
7	Judi Dench	Shakespeare in Love	71st	1998	December 9, 1934	March 21, 1999
8	Beatrice Straight	Network	49th	1976	August 2, 1914	March 28, 1977
9	Jane Darwell	The Grapes of Wrath	13th	1940	October 15, 1879	February 27, 1941
10	Ingrid Bergman	[...] on the Orient Express	47th	1974	August 29, 1915	April 8, 1975
11	Olympia Dukakis	Moonstruck	60th	1987	June 20, 1931	April 11, 1988
12	Maureen Stapleton	Reds	54th	1981	June 21, 1925	March 25, 1982
13	Eileen Heckart	Butterflies Are Free	45th	1972	March 29, 1919	April 27, 1973
14	Lee Grant	Shampoo	48th	1975	October 31, 1927	March 29, 1976
15	Dianne Wiest	Bullets Over Broadway	67th	1994	March 28, 1948	March 27, 1995
16	Wendy Hiller	Separate Tables	31st	1958	August 15, 1912	April 6, 1959
17	Lila Kedrova	Zorba the Greek	37th	1964	October 9, 1918	April 13, 1965
18	Cloris Leachman	The Last Picture Show	44th	1971	April 30, 1926	April 10, 1972
19	Shelley Winters	A Patch of Blue	38th	1965	August 18, 1920	April 18, 1966
20	Alice Brady	In Old Chicago	10th	1937	November 2, 1892	March 10, 1938
21	Fay Bainter	Jezebel	11th	1938	December 7, 1893	February 23, 1939
22	Brenda Fricker	My Left Foot	62nd	1989	February 17, 1945	March 26, 1990
23	Hattie McDaniel	Gone with the Wind	12th	1939	June 10, 1895	February 29, 1940
24	Kim Basinger	L.A. Confidential	70th	1997	December 8, 1953	March 23, 1998
25	Maggie Smith	California Suite	51st	1978	December 28, 1934	April 9, 1979
26	Mercedes Ruehl	The Fisher King	64th	1991	February 28, 1948	March 30, 1992
27	Katina Paxinou	For Whom the Bell Tolls	16th	1943	December 17, 1900	March 2, 1944	Debut
28	Anne Revere	National Velvet	18th	1945	June 25, 1903	March 7, 1946
29	Marcia Gay Harden	Pollock	73rd	2000	August 14, 1959	March 25, 2001
30	Jo Van Fleet	East of Eden	28th	1955	December 30, 1914	March 21, 1956	Debut
31	Vanessa Redgrave	Julia	50th	1977	January 30, 1937	April 3, 1978
32	Estelle Parsons	Bonnie and Clyde	40th	1967	November 20, 1927	April 10, 1968
33	Shelley Winters	The Diary of Anne Frank	32nd	1959	August 18, 1920	April 4, 1960
34	Claire Trevor	Key Largo	21st	1948	March 8, 1910	March 24, 1949
35	Linda Hunt	The Year of Living Dangerously	56th	1983	April 2, 1945	April 9, 1984
36	Dianne Wiest	Hannah and Her Sisters	59th	1986	March 28, 1948	March 31, 1987
37	Gale Sondergaard	Anthony Adverse	9th	1936	February 15, 1899	March 4, 1937	Debut
38	Mary Astor	The Great Lie	14th	1941	May 3, 1906	February 26, 1942
39	Cate Blanchett	The Aviator	77th	2004	May 14, 1969	February 27, 2005
40	Whoopi Goldberg	Ghost	63rd	1990	November 13, 1955	March 25, 1991
41	Rachel Weisz	The Constant Gardener	78th	2005	March 7, 1971	March 5, 2006
42	Renée Zellweger	Cold Mountain	76th	2003	April 25, 1969	February 29, 2004
43	Anjelica Huston	Prizzi's Honor	58th	1985	July 8, 1951	March 24, 1986
44	Mercedes McCambridge	All the King's Men	22nd	1949	March 16, 1916	March 23, 1950	Debut
45	Jessica Lange	Tootsie	55th	1982	April 20, 1949	April 11, 1983
46	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Chicago	75th	2002	September 25, 1969	March 23, 2003
47	Geena Davis	The Accidental Tourist	61st	1988	January 21, 1956	April 29, 1989
48	Donna Reed	From Here to Eternity	26th	1953	January 27, 1921	March 25, 1954
49	Juliette Binoche	The English Patient	69th	1996	March 9, 1964	March 24, 1997
50	Dorothy Malone	Written on the Wind	29th	1956	January 30, 1925	March 27, 1957
51	Jennifer Connelly	A Beautiful Mind	74th	2001	December 12, 1970	March 24, 2002
52	Celeste Holm	Gentleman's Agreement	20th	1947	April 29, 1917	March 24, 1948
53	Meryl Streep	Kramer vs. Kramer	52nd	1979	June 22, 1949	April 14, 1980
54	Eva Marie Saint	On the Waterfront	27th	1954	July 4, 1924	March 30, 1955	Debut
55	Rita Moreno	West Side Story	34th	1961	December 11, 1931	April 9, 1962
56	Sandy Dennis	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	39th	1966	April 27, 1937	April 10, 1967
57	Kim Hunter	A Streetcar Named Desire	24th	1951	November 12, 1922	March 20, 1952
58	Gloria Grahame	The Bad and the Beautiful	25th	1952	November 28, 1923	March 19, 1953
59	Miyoshi Umeki	Sayonara	30th	1957	May 8, 1929	March 26, 1958
60	Mira Sorvino	Mighty Aphrodite	68th	1995	September 28, 1967	March 25, 1996
61	Marisa Tomei	My Cousin Vinny	65th	1992	December 4, 1964	March 29, 1993
62	Mary Steenburgen	Melvin and Howard	53rd	1980	February 8, 1953	March 31, 1981
63	Shirley Jones	Elmer Gantry	33rd	1960	March 31, 1934	April 17, 1961
64	Jennifer Hudson	''Dreamgirls	79th	2006	September 12, 1981	February 25, 2007	Debut
65	Angelina Jolie	Girl, Interrupted	72nd	1999	June 4, 1975	March 26, 2000
66	Goldie Hawn	Cactus Flower	42nd	1969	November 21, 1945	April 7, 1970
67	Teresa Wright	Mrs. Miniver	15th	1942	October 27, 1918	March 4, 1943
68	Anne Baxter	The Razor's Edge	19th	1946	May 7, 1923	March 13, 1947
69	Patty Duke	The Miracle Worker	35th	1962	December 14, 1946	April 8, 1963
70	Anna Paquin	The Piano	66th	1993	July 24, 1982	March 21, 1994	Debut
71	Tatum O'Neal	Paper Moon	46th	1973	November 5, 1963	April 2, 1974	Debut

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