Best Actress in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film award presented each year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a movie. Actors of all nationalities can receive the award.
Winners and nominees
1960s
1968 – Billie Whitelaw – Charlie Bubbles as Lottie Bubbles and Twisted Nerve as Joan Harper Pat Heywood – Romeo and Juliet Virginia Maskell – Interlude Simone Signoret – Games
1969 – Celia Johnson – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Miss Mackay Peggy Ashcroft – Three Into Two Wont Go Pamela Franklin – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Mary Wimbush – Oh What a Lovely War
1970s
1970 – Susannah York – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Alice LeBlanc Evin Crowley – Ryan's Daughter Estelle Parsons – Watermelon Man Maureen Stapleton – Airport as Inez Guerrero
1971 – Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley Jane Asher – Deep End
Georgia Brown – The Raging Moon
Georgia Engel – Taking Off
1972 – Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show as Ruth Popper Marisa Berenson – Cabaret Eileen Brennan – The Last Picture Show Shelley Winters – The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
1973 – Valentina Cortese – Day for Night as Severine Rosemary Leach – That'll Be the Day Delphine Seyrig – The Day of the Jackal Ingrid Thulin – Cries and Whispers
1974 – Ingrid Bergman – Murder on the Orient Express as Greta Ohlsson Sylvia Sidney – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Sylvia Syms – The Tamarind Seed Cindy Williams – American Graffiti
1975 – Diane Ladd – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Flo Ronee Blakely – Nashville as Bobbie Jean Lelia Goldoni – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Gwen Welles – Nashville
1976 – Jodie Foster – Bugsy Malone as Tallulah and Taxi Driver as Iris "Easy" Steensma Annette Crosbie – The Slipper and the Rose Vivien Merchant – The Homecoming Billie Whitelaw – The Omen
1977 – Jenny Agutter – Equus as Jill Mason Geraldine Chaplin – Welcome to L.A. Joan Plowright – Equus Shelley Winters – Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1978 – Geraldine Page – Interiors as Eve Angela Lansbury – Death on the Nile
Maggie Smith – Death on the Nile
Mona Washbourne – Stevie
1979 – Rachel Roberts – Yanks as Mrs. Clarrie Moreton Lisa Eichhorn – The Europens Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan as Tracy Meryl Streep – Manhattan
1980s
1982 – Rohini Hattangadi – Gandhi as Kasturba Gandhi and Maureen Stapleton – Reds as Emma Goldman Candice Bergen – Gandhi Jane Fonda – On Golden Pond as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
1983 – Jamie Lee Curtis – Trading Places as Ophelia Teri Garr – Tootsie
Rosemary Harris – The Ploughman's Lunch
Maureen Lipman – Educating Rita
1984 – Liz Smith – A Private Function as Joyce's Mother Eileen Atkins – The Dresser Cher – Silkwood as Dolly Pelliker Tuesday Weld – Once Upon a Time in America
1985 – Rosanna Arquette – Desperately Seeking Susan as Roberta Glass Judi Dench – Wetherby Anjelica Huston – Prizzi's Honor as Maerose Prizzi Tracey Ullman – Plenty
1986 – Judi Dench – A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish Rosanna Arquette – After Hours Barbara Hershey – Hannah and Her Sisters Rosemary Leach – A Room with a View
1987 – Susan Wooldridge – Hope and Glory as Molly Judi Dench – 84 Charing Cross Road Vanessa Redgrave – Prick Up Your Ears Dianne Wiest – Radio Days