Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year.

The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture".

Past winners

• 1944 – Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls
• 1945 – Agnes Moorehead, Mrs. Parkington
• 1946 – Angela Lansbury, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• 1947 – Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge
• 1948 – Celeste Holm, Gentleman's Agreement
• 1949 – Ellen Corby, I Remember Mama
• 1950 – Mercedes McCambridge, All the King's Men
• 1951 – Josephine Hull, Harvey
• 1952 – Kim Hunter, A Streetcar Named Desire
• 1953 – Katy Jurado, High Noon
• 1954 – Grace Kelly, Mogambo
• 1955 – Jan Sterling, The High and the Mighty
• 1956 – Marisa Pavan, The Rose Tattoo
• 1957 – Eileen Heckart, The Bad Seed
• 1958 – Elsa Lanchester, Witness For the Prosecution
• 1959 – Hermione Gingold, Gigi
• 1960 – Susan Kohner, Imitation of Life
• 1961 – Janet Leigh, Psycho
• 1962 – Rita Moreno, West Side Story
• 1963 – Angela Lansbury, The Manchurian Candidate
• 1964 – Margaret Rutherford, The VIPs
• 1965 – Agnes Moorehead, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• 1966 – Ruth Gordon, Inside Daisy Clover
• 1967 – Jocelyne LaGarde, Hawaii
• 1968 – Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie
• 1969 – Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby
• 1970 – Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower
• 1971 – Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces (Tie) Maureen Stapleton, Airport
• 1972 – Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge
• 1973 – Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure
• 1974 – Linda Blair, The Exorcist
• 1975 – Karen Black, The Great Gatsby
• 1976 – Brenda Vaccaro, Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
• 1977 – Katharine Ross, Voyage of the Damned
• 1978 – Vanessa Redgrave, Julia
• 1979 – Dyan Cannon, Heaven Can Wait
• 1980 – Meryl Streep, Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1981 – Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard
• 1982 – Joan Hackett, Only When I Laugh
• 1983 – Jessica Lange, Tootsie
• 1984 – Cher, Silkwood
• 1985 – Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage To India
• 1986 – Meg Tilly, Agnes of God
• 1987 – Maggie Smith, A Room With a View
• 1988 – Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck
• 1989 – Sigourney Weaver, Working Girl
• 1990 – Julia Roberts, Steel Magnolias
• 1991 – Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost
• 1992 – Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King
• 1993 – Joan Plowright, Enchanted April
• 1994 – Winona Ryder, The Age of Innocence
• 1995 – Dianne Wiest, Bullets Over Broadway
• 1996 – Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite
• 1997 – Lauren Bacall, The Mirror Has Two Faces
• 1998 – Kim Basinger, L. A. Confidential
• 1999 – Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters
• 2000 – Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted
• 2001 – Kate Hudson, Almost Famous
• 2002 – Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind
• 2003 – Meryl Streep, Adaptation
• 2004 – Renée Zellweger, Cold Mountain
• 2004 – Natalie Portman, Closer