Academy Awards

1979 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerCalifornia SuiteMaggie SmithMisadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.Amazon1979 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesComing HomePenelope MilfordAmazonHeaven Can WaitDyan CannonAmazonInteriorsMaureen StapletonAmazonThe Deer HunterMeryl StreepAmazon

1980 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerKramer vs. KramerMeryl StreepTed Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.Amazon1980 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesBreaking AwayBarbara BarrieAmazonKramer vs. KramerJane AlexanderAmazonManhattanMariel HemingwayAmazonStarting OverCandice BergenAmazon

1981 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerMelvin and HowardMary SteenburgenThe story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.Amazon1981 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesInside MovesDiana ScarwidAmazonPrivate BenjaminEileen BrennanAmazonRaging BullCathy MoriartyAmazonResurrectionEva Le GallienneAmazon

1982 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerRedsMaureen StapletonA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.Amazon1982 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesAbsence of MaliceMelinda DillonAmazonOn Golden PondJane FondaAmazonOnly When I LaughJoan HackettAmazonRagtimeElizabeth McGovernAmazon

1983 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerTootsieJessica LangeMichael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.Amazon1983 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesFrancesKim StanleyAmazonThe World According to GarpGlenn CloseAmazonTootsieTeri GarrAmazonVictor VictoriaLesley Ann WarrenAmazon

1984 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerThe Year of Living DangerouslyLinda HuntA young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.Amazon1984 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesCross CreekAlfre WoodardAmazonSilkwoodCherAmazonThe Big ChillGlenn CloseAmazonYentlAmy IrvingAmazon

1985 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerA Passage to IndiaPeggy AshcroftCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.Amazon1985 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesPlaces in the HeartLindsay CrouseAmazonSwing ShiftChristine LahtiAmazonThe NaturalGlenn CloseAmazonThe Pope of Greenwich VillageGeraldine PageAmazon

1986 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerPrizzi's HonorAnjelica HustonA professional hitman and hitwoman fall in love.Amazon1986 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesAgnes of GodMeg TillyAmazonThe Color PurpleMargaret AveryAmazonThe Color PurpleOprah WinfreyAmazonTwice in a LifetimeAmy MadiganAmazon

1987 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerHannah and Her SistersDianne WiestBetween two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.Amazon1987 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesA Room with a ViewMaggie SmithAmazonChildren of a Lesser GodPiper LaurieAmazonCrimes of the HeartTess HarperAmazonThe Color of MoneyMary Elizabeth MastrantonioAmazon

1988 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role WinnerMoonstruckOlympia DukakisLoretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.Amazon1988 Academy Awards - Actress in a Supporting Role NomineesFatal AttractionAnne ArcherAmazonGaby: A True StoryNorma AleandroAmazonThe Whales of AugustAnn SothernAmazonThrow Momma from the TrainAnne RamseyAmazon