Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
The Farewell
Shuzhen Zhao
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
If Beale Street Could Talk
Regina King
2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
I, Tonya
Allison Janney
2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Other People
Molly Shannon
2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Tangerine
Mya Taylor
2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Boyhood
Patricia Arquette
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
12 Years a Slave
Lupita Nyong’o
2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
The Sessions
Helen Hunt
2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
The Descendants
Shailene Woodley
2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Winter’s Bone
Dale Dickey
2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Precious
Mo’Nique
2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Penélope Cruz
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
I’m Not There
Cate Blanchett
2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Friends with Money
Frances McDormand
2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Junebug
Amy Adams
2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Sideways
Virginia Madsen
2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
House of Sand and Fog
Shohreh Aghdashloo
2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Lovely & Amazing
Emily Mortimer
2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Memento
Carrie-Anne Moss
2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ziyi Zhang
2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Boys Don’t Cry
Chloë Sevigny
1999 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Gods and Monsters
Lynn Redgrave
1998 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Eve’s Bayou
Debbi Morgan
1997 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Lone Star
Elizabeth Peña
1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Georgia
Mare Winningham
1995 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Bullets Over Broadway
Dianne Wiest
1994 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Household Saints
Lili Taylor
1993 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Passion Fish
Alfre Woodard
1992 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Rambling Rose
Diane Ladd
1991 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
To Sleep with Anger
Sheryl Lee Ralph
1990 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Laura San Giacomo
1989 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
Stand and Deliver
Rosanna DeSoto
1988 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Supporting Female
