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

Ghost(1990)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 26

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.



The Last Picture Show(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.



Bullets Over Broadway(1994)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.





Airport(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.



Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.



Paper Moon(1973)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 23

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.







A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Shampoo(1975)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968.



Elmer Gantry(1960)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.



Cactus Flower(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.



California Suite(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.



The Miracle Worker(1962)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.



Melvin and Howard(1980)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.



A Patch of Blue(1965)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.



Butterflies Are Free(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

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



The V.I.P.s(1963)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.




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