Best Supporting Actresses of the 80s
1980 Mary Steenburgen
Character: Lynda West-Dummar Movie: Melvin and Howard
Other Nominees: Eileen Brennan as Doreen Lewis, Private Benjamin Eva Le Gallienne as Pearl, Resurrection Cathy Moriarty as Vicki Thailer-LaMotta, Raging Bull Diana Scarwid as Louise, Inside Moves
1981 Maureen Stapleton
Character: Emma Goldman Movie: Reds
Other Nominees: Melinda Dillon as Teresa Perrone, Absence of Malice Jane Fonda as Chelsea Thayer Wayne, On Golden Pond Joan Hackett as Toby Landau, Only When I Laugh Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit, Ragtime
1982 Jessica Lange
Character: Julie Nichols Movie: Tootsie
Other Nominees: Glenn Close as Jenny Fields, The World According to Garp Teri Garr as Sandy Lester, Tootsie Kim Stanley as Lillian Farmer, Frances Lesley Ann Warren as Norma Cassady, Victor/Victoria
1983 Linda Hunt
Character: Billy Kwan Movie: The Year of Living Dangerously
Other Nominees: Cher as Dolly Pelliker, Silkwood Glenn Close as Sarah Cooper, The Big Chill Amy Irving as Hadass Vishkower, Yentl Alfre Woodard as Beatrice "Geechee", Cross Creek
1984 Peggy Ashcroft
Character: Mrs. Moore, A Passage to India
Other Nominees: Glenn Close as Iris Gaines, The Natural Lindsay Crouse as Margaret Lomax, Places in the Heart Christine Lahti as Hazel Zanussi, Swing Shift Geraldine Page as Mrs. Ritter, The Pope of Greenwich Village
1985 Anjelica Huston
Character: Maerose Prizzi Movie: Prizzi's Honor
Other Nominees: Margaret Avery as Shug Avery, The Color Purple Amy Madigan as Sunny MacKenzie-Sobel, Twice in a Lifetime Meg Tilly as Sister Agnes Devereaux, Agnes of God Oprah Winfrey as Sofia Johnson, The Color Purple
1986 Dianne Wiest
Character: Holly Movie: Hannah and Her Sisters
Other Nominees: Tess Harper as Chick Boyle, Crimes of the Heart Piper Laurie as Mrs. Norman, Children of a Lesser God Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Carmen, The Color of Money Maggie Smith as Charlotte Bartlett, A Room with a View
1987 Olympia Dukakis
Character: Rose Castorini Movie: Moonstruck
Other Nominees: Norma Aleandro as Florencia Sánchez Morales, Gaby: A True Story Anne Archer as Beth Rogerson-Gallagher, Fatal Attraction Anne Ramsey as Mrs. Lift Movie: Throw Momma from the Train Ann Sothern as Letitia Benson-Doughty, The Whales of August
1988 Geena Davis
Character: Muriel Pritchett Movie: The Accidental Tourist
Other Nominees: Joan Cusack as Cyn, Working Girl Frances McDormand as Mrs. Pell, Mississippi Burning Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame Marie de Tourvel, Dangerous Liaisons Sigourney Weaver as Katharine Parker, Working Girl
1989 Brenda Fricker
Character: Bridget Fagan-Brown Movie: My Left Foot
Other Nominees: Anjelica Huston as Tamara Broder, Enemies, A Love Story Lena Olin as Masha Bloch, Enemies, A Love Story Julia Roberts as Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, Steel Magnolias Dianne Wiest as Helen Buckman, Parenthood
Best Supporting Actress
Jessica Lange won Best Supporting Actress in 1982
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