Last year, Zoe Saldaña dominated the award season before winning Best Supporting Actress, but the Oscars 2026 could be a very different year for the category. There are already some wonderful performances challenging to win at the 98th Academy Awards, and I'm thrilled to get to chronicle the race for Screen Rant once more.

Historically, this category almost always goes to someone without an Oscar trophy. There are only five Best Supporting Actress Oscar winners in history who were already Academy Award winners : Shelley Winters in 1965 (won in 1959), Helen Hayes in 1970 (won Best Actress in 1931/1932), Ingrid Bergman in 1974 (won Best Actress in 1944 and 1956), Maggie Smith in 1978 (won Best Actress in 1969), and Diane Wiest in 1994 (won in 1986).

This trend appears likely to con

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