Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

The Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best supporting Canadian actress.

1st Genie Awards

* Geneviève Bujold, "Murder by Decree"
* Patricia Collins, "Summer's Children"
* Frances Hyland, "The Changeling"
* Helen Burns, "The Changeling"
* Barbara Gordon, "Wild Horse Hank"

2nd Genie Awards

* Kate Reid, "Atlantic City, U.S.A."
* Micheline Lanctôt, "L'Affaire Coffin"
* Frances Hyland, "The Hounds of Notre Dame"
* Gale Garnett, "Tribute"
* Colleen Dewhurst, "Tribute"

3rd Genie Awards

* Denise Filiatrault, "Les Plouffe"
* Juliette Huot, "Les Plouffe"
* Anne Létourneau, "Les Plouffe"
* Chapelle Jaffe, "The Amateur"
* Dixie Seatle, "Ticket to Heaven"

4th Genie Awards

* Jackie Burroughs, "The Grey Fox"
* Clare Coulter, "By Design"
* Geneviève Brassard, "Doux Aveux"
* Patricia Nolin, "La Quarantine"
* Trudy Young, "Melanie"

5th Genie Awards

* Jackie Burroughs, "The Wars"
* Tedde Moore, "A Christmas Story"
* Linda Sorgini, "Bonheur d'occasion"
* Amulette Garneau, "Maria Chapdelaine"
* Elva Mai Hoover, "The Terry Fox Story"

6th Genie Awards

* Linda Sorenson, "Draw!"
* Barbara Law, "Bedroom Eyes"
* Leah Pinsent, "The Bay Boy"
* Jane McKinnon, "The Bay Boy"
* Jackie Burroughs, "The Surrogate"
* Elizabeth Leigh-Milne, "Walls"

7th Genie Awards

* Linda Sorenson, "Joshua Then and Now"
* Fernanda Tavares, "90 Days"
* Barbara Gordon, "Overnight"
* Lally Cadeau, "Separate Vacations"

8th Genie Awards

* Louise Portal, "Le Déclin de l'empire américain"
* Lucie Laurier, "Anne Trister"
* Andreé Pelletier, "Bach et Botine"
* Genevieve Rioux, "Le Déclin de l'empire américain"
* Marie Tifo, "Les Fous de Bassan"

9th Genie Awards

* Paule Baillargeon, "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"
* Fran Gebhard, "Blue City Slammers"
* Maruska Stankova, "Dreams Beyond Memory"
* Ann-Marie MacDonald, "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"
* Jayne Eastwood, "Night Friend"

10th Genie Awards

* Colleen Dewhurst, "Obsessed"
* Janet-Laine Green, "Cowboys Don't Cry"
* Miou Miou, "Les Portes Tournantes"
* Helen Hughes, "Martha, Ruth, Edie"
* Susan Douglas Rubes, "The Outside Chance of Maxmillion Glick"

11th Genie Awards

* Robyn Stevan, "Bye Bye Blues"
* Johanne Marie Tremblay, "Jesus de Montreal"
* Pauline Martin, "Jesus de Montreal"

12th Genie Awards

* Danielle Proulx, "Amoureux Fou"
* Sandrine Holt, "Black Robe"
* Ofelia Medina, "Diplomatic Immunity"
* Catherine Roche, "The Company of Strangers"
* Winifred Holden, "The Company of Strangers"

13th Genie Awards

* Monique Mercure, "Naked Lunch"
* Tracey Moore, "Defy Gravity"
* Johanne Marie Tremblay, "La Sarasine"
* Judy Davis, "On My Own"
* Krista Bridges, "The Shower"

14th Genie Awards

* Nicola Cavendish, "The Grocer"
* Charlene Fernetz, "Harmony Cats"
* Brigitte Bako, "I Love a Man in Uniform"
* Sylvie Drapeau, "Le Sexe des Etoiles"
* Céline Bonnier, "Tectonic Plates"
* Kate Hennig, "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"

15th Genie Awards

* Martha Henry, "Mustard Bath"
* Wanda Cannon, "For the Moment"
* Mia Kirshner, "Love and Human Remains"
* Joanne Vannicola, "Love and Human Remains"
* Johanne McKay, "Mon Amie Max"

16th Genie Awards

* Kate Nelligan, "Margaret's Museum"
* Pascale Monpetit, "Eclipse"
* Anne Marie Cadieux, "Le Confessionnal"
* Marie Gignac, "Le Confessionnal"
* Rachael Crawford, "Rude"

17th Genie Awards

* Martha Burns, "Long Days Journey into Night"
* Marie-Andrée Corneille, "Mistaken Person"
* Manon Miclette, "J'aime, J'aime pas"
* Maria de Medeiros, "Le Polygraphe"
* Josee Deschenes, "Le Polygraphe"

18th Genie Awards

* Seana McKenna, "The Hanging Garden"
* France Castel, "Karmina"
* France Castel, "La Comtesse de Baton Rouge"
* Kerry Fox, "The Hanging Garden"
* Joan Orenstein, "The Hanging Garden"

19th Genie Awards

* Monique Mercure, "Conquest"
* Geneviève Bujold, "Last Night"
* Roberta Maxwell, "Last Night"
* Rachael Crawford, "Pale Saints"
* Anna Henry, "The Fishing Trip"

20th Genie Awards

* Catherine O'Hara, "The Life Before This"
* Suzanne Champagne, "Histoires d'hiver"
* Kathryn Zenna, "Jack & Jill"
* Rachel Weisz, "Sunshine"
* Deborah Kara Unger, "Sunshine"

21st Genie Awards

* Helen Shaver, "We All Fall Down"
* Annick Bergeron, "La Beauté de Pandore"
* Céline Bonnier, "Les Muses Orphelines"
* Barbara Williams, "Love Come Down"
* Mary Walsh, "New Waterford Girl"
* Stacy Smith, "New Waterford Girl"

22nd Genie Awards

* Molly Parker, "Last Wedding"
* Marya Delver, "Last Wedding"
* Mimi Kuzyk, "Lost and Delirious"
* Brenda Fricker, "The War Bride"
* Molly Parker, "The War Bride"

23rd Genie Awards

* Pascale Montpetit, "Savage Messiah"
* Dina Pathak, "Bollywood Hollywood"
* Moushmi Chatterji, "Bollywood Hollywood"
* Rachel McAdams, "Perfect Pie"
* Brigitte Bako, "Saint Monica"

24th Genie Awards

* Marie-Josée Croze, "The Barbarian Invasions"
* Emily Hampshire, "A Problem with Fear"
* Meredith McGeachie, "Punch"
* Olympia Dukakis, "The Event"
* Annabella Piugattuk, "The Snow Walker"

25th Genie Awards

* Jennifer Jason Leigh, "Childstar"
* Susanna Salazar, "A Silent Love"
* Sylvie Moreau, "Love and Magnets"
* Juliette Gosselin, "Nouvelle-France"
* Ellen Page, "Wilby Wonderful"

26th Genie Awards

* Danielle Proulx, "C.R.A.Z.Y."
* Babz Chula, "Seven Times Lucky"
* Suzanne Clément, "L'Audition"
* Marianne Fortier, "Aurore"
* Micheline Lanctôt, "Familia"

27th Genie Awards

* Carrie-Anne Moss, "Snow Cake"
* Caroline Dhavernas, "Niagara Motel"
* Marie Gignac, "La Vie secrète des gens heureux"
* Emily Hampshire, "Snow Cake"
* Vivian Wu, "Eve and the Fire Horse"

28th Genie Awards

* Kristen Thomson, "Away From Her"
* Fanny Mallette, "Continental, un film sans fusil" ("Continental, a Film Without Guns")
* Marie-Ginette Guay, "Continental, un film sans fusil" ("Continental, a Film Without Guns")
* Laurence Leboeuf, "Ma fille mon ange" ("My Daughter, My Angel")
* Véronique Le Flaguais, "Surviving My Mother"