Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in actress in a supporting role category

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and ...

Actors : Paul Michael Glaser, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Fred Ward, Goldie Hawn, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Actors : Isa Crino, Sidney Poitier, Lisa Mann, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

A traveling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

Actors : Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

Actors : Vincent Price, Lillian Gish, Ann Sothern, Bette Davis,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island ...

Actors : Sondra Locke, Alan Arkin, Peter Mamakos, Chuck McCann,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Ireland, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Miles,
Directors : Dick Richards,

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Joanne Woodward, Kate Harrington, James Olson,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, Lee Grant, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...

Actors : Oskar Werner, Faye Dunaway, Sam Wanamaker, Lee Grant,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

Actors : Dana Hill, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Actors : Tim Dutton, Rosemary Harris, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : Brian Gilbert,

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

In Australia's Outback during the early 20th century the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon but the mom and son want to settle while the dad is against it.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Actors : Richard Burton, Elsa Martinelli, Louis Jourdan, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Anthony Asquith,

Fog delays a group of travelers headed for New York. They wait at the V.I.P. lounge of London Airport, each at a moment of crisis in his or her life.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Peter Kastner,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Frank Perry,

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly ...

Actors : Candice Bergen, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.