Independent Spirit Award / Best Supporting Actress
Award-winning and nominated actresses for the Independent Spirit Award in the category Best Supporting Actress (Best Supporting Female) . So far, no actress has won the award more than once.
In 1995, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019, the winner agreed with the Oscar winner in the Best Supporting Actress category .
| statistics | Surname | number | year |
| Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
Allison Janney | 3 | 2006, 2011, 2018 * |
| Most frequent nominations without a win | Jessica Chastain | 2 | 2012, 2015 |
| Patricia Clarkson | 2 | 1999, 2004 | |
| Rosemarie DeWitt | 2 | 2009, 2013 | |
| Marcia Gay Harden | 2 | 2001, 2007 | |
| Amy Madigan | 2 | 1989, 1998 |
1980s
1988
Anjelica Huston - The Dead (The Dead)
- Karen Allen - The Glass Menagerie (The Glass Menagerie)
- Kathy Baker - Glittering Asphalt (Street Smart)
- Martha Plimpton - Shy People - Menacing Silence (Shy People)
- Ann Sothern - whales in August (The Whales of August)
1989
Rosanna DeSoto - Stand and Deliver
- Bonnie Bedelia - The Prince of Pennsylvania (The Prince of Pennsylvania)
- Debbie Harry - Hairspray
- Amy Madigan - The Prince of Pennsylvania (The Prince of Pennsylvania)
- Patti Yasutake - The Wash
1990s
1990
Laura San Giacomo - Sex, Lies and Video (Sex, Lies, and Videotape)
- Bridget Fonda - Shag - More Dancing (Shag)
- Heather Graham - Drugstore Cowboy
- Mare Winningham - Decision Night - Miracle Mile (Miracle Mile)
- Mary Woronov - Luxury, Sex and Lotter Life (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills)
1991
Sheryl Lee Ralph - Angry sleep (To Sleep with Anger)
- Tracy Arnold - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Ethel Ayler - Angry sleep (To Sleep with Anger)
- Tisha Campbell-Martin - House Party
- AJ Johnson - House Party
1992
Diane Ladd - The Lust of the Beautiful Rose (Rambling Rose)
- Sheila McCarthy - A Mission Infernal (Bright Angel)
- Deirdre O'Connell - His Last Game (Pastime)
- Emma Thompson - In Love With Chopin (Impromptu)
- Mary B. Ward - Hangin 'Out - 4 Homeboys on the move (Hangin' with the Homeboys)
1993
- Brooke Adams - Gas Food Lodging
- Sara Gilbert - Poison Ivy - The Deadly Embrace (Poison Ivy)
- Karen Sillas - Simple Men
- Danitra Vance - Manny and Dan - Live and Die in the Bronx (Jumpin 'at the Boneyard)
1994
Lili Taylor - A Normal Miracle (Household Saints)
- Lara Flynn Boyle - Equinox
- Lucinda Jenney - American Heart - The Second Chance (American Heart)
- Ya-Lei Kuei - The Wedding Banquet (喜宴, Hsi yen )
- Julianne Moore - Short Cuts
1995
Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
- VS Brodie - Go Fish
- Carla Gallo - Spanking the Monkey
- Kelly Lynch - Hopeless (The Beans of Egypt, Maine)
- Brooke Smith - Vanja on 42nd Street (Vanya on 42nd Street)
1996
- Jennifer Lopez - My family (My Family)
- Vanessa Redgrave - Little Odessa
- Chloë Sevigny - Kids
- Celia Weston - Dead Man Walking - His Last Walk (Dead Man Walking)
1997
- Queen Latifah - Set It Off
- Mary Kay Place - Manny & Lo
- Lili Taylor - Girls Town
- Lily Tomlin - Flirting with Disaster - A disaster of Hazzard (Flirting with Disaster)
1998
- Farrah Fawcett - Apostles! (The Apostle)
- Amy Madigan - Loved
- Miranda Richardson - Apostles! (The Apostle)
- Patricia Richardson - Ulee's Gold
1999
Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters
- Stockard Channing - Baby Blues
- Patricia Clarkson - High Art
- Lisa Kudrow - The Opposite of Sex (The Opposite of Sex)
- Joely Richardson - A Heavenly Garden (Under Heaven)
2000s
2000
Chloë Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry
- Barbara Barrie - Judy Berlin
- Vanessa Martinez - When the Fog Lifts - Limbo (Limbo)
- Sarah Polley - Go - Life doesn't start until 3 a.m. (Go)
- Jean Smart - Guinevere
2001
Zhang Ziyi - Tiger & Dragon (臥虎藏龍; Wòhǔ Cánglóng )
- Pat Carroll - song catcher
- Jennifer Connelly - Requiem for a Dream
- Magnifying Glass Ontiveros - Chuck & Buck
- Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
2002
- Davenia McFadden - The Stranger
- Summer Phoenix - Inside a Skinhead (The Believer)
- Uma Thurman - tape
- Tamara Tunie - The Caveman's Valentine
2003
Emily Mortimer - Lovely & Amazing
- Viola Davis - Antwone Fisher
- Jacqueline Kim - Charlotte Sometimes
- Juliette Lewis - Hysterical Blindness
- Julianne Nicholson - Tully
2004
Shohreh Aghdashloo - House of Sand and Fog (House of Sand and Fog)
- Sarah Bolger - In America
- Patricia Clarkson - Pieces of April - A Day with April Burns (Pieces of April)
- Hope Davis - The Secret Lives of Dentists
- Frances McDormand - Laurel Canyon
2005
- Cate Blanchett - Coffee and Cigarettes
- Loretta Devine - Woman Thou Art Loosed
- Robin Simmons - Robbing Peter
- Yenny Paola Vega - Maria Full of Grace (Maria Full of Grace)
2006
- Maggie Gyllenhaal - Happy Endings
- Allison Janney - Our Very Own
- Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
- Robin Wright Penn - Nine Lives
2007
Frances McDormand - Friends with Money (Friends with Money)
- Melonie Diaz - Kids - In the Streets of New York (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints)
- Marcia Gay Harden - American Gun
- Mary Beth Hurt - Dead Girl (The Dead Girl)
- Amber Tamblyn - Stephanie Daley
2008
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
- Anna Kendrick - Rocket Science
- Jennifer Jason Leigh - Margot at the Wedding (Margot at the Wedding)
- Tamara Podemski - Four Sheets to the Wind
- Marisa Tomei - Deadly Decision - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
2009
Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Rosemarie DeWitt - Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Getting Married)
- Rosie Perez - The Take - Revenge Is All That Matters (The Take)
- Misty Upham - Frozen River
- Debra Winger - Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Getting Married)
2010s
2010
Mo'Nique - Precious - Life is Precious (Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire)
- Dina Korzun - Cold Souls
- Samantha Morton - The Messenger - The last message (The Messenger)
- Natalie Press - 50 Dead Men Walking - The Spy (Fifty Dead Men Walking)
- Mia Wasikowska - That Evening Sun
2011
- Ashley Bell - The Last Exorcism (The Last Exorcism)
- Allison Janney - Life During Wartime
- Daphne Rubin-Vega - Jack in Love (Jack Goes Boating)
- Naomi Watts - Mothers and Daughters (Mother and Child)
2012
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants - Family and Other Affairs (The Descendants)
- Jessica Chastain - Take Shelter - A Storm Is Coming (Take Shelter)
- Anjelica Huston - 50/50 - Friends for Life (50/50)
- Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
- Harmony Santana - Gun Hill Road
2013
Helen Hunt - The Sessions - When Words Touch (The Sessions)
- Rosemarie DeWitt - Your Sister's Sister
- Ann Dowd - Compliance
- Brit Marling - Sound of My Voice
- Lorraine Toussaint - Middle of Nowhere
2014
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
- Melonie Diaz - Next Stop: Fruitvale Station (Fruitvale Station)
- Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
- Yolonda Ross - Go for Sisters
- June Squibb - Nebraska
2015
- Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year
- Carmen Ejogo - Selma
- Emma Stone - Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))
- Andrea Suarez Paz - Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
2016
- Robin Bartlett - H.
- Marin Ireland - Glass Chin
- Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anomalisa
- Cynthia Nixon - James White
2017
- Edwina Findley - Free In Deed
- Paulina García - Little Men
- Lily Gladstone - Certain Women
- Riley Keough - American Honey
- Holly Hunter - The Big Sick
- Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird
- Lois Smith - Marjorie Prime
- Taliah Webster - Good Time
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
- Tyne Daly - A Bread Factory
- Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie - Leave No Trace
- J. Smith-Cameron -Nancy
- Kayli Carter - Private Life