Ranking Best Supporting Actress nominees, 1970s

I don’t have strong opinions about my Hague candidates other than Tyrell gives a classic Claire Trevor blowzy-broad performance in the otherwise solid Fat City, Shelley Winters is Shelley Winters (why she wasn’t nominated for 1976’s Next Stop, Greenwich Village, I don’t know), and Ingrid Bergman overacting the hell out of her mousy character in the elephantine Murder on the Orient Express.

The Hague

Ingrid Bergman – Murder on the Orient Express
Susan Tyrell – Fat City
Shelley Winters – The Poseidon Adventure

Meh

Beatrice Straight – Network
Jane Alexander – All the President’s Men
Barbara Harris – Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Sylvia Miles – Farewell, My Lovely
Jane Alexander – Kramer vs Kramer
Eileen Heckart – Butterflies Are Free
Linda Blair – The Exorcist
Quinn Cummings – The Goodbye Girl
Leslie Browne – The Turning Point
Candy Clark – American Graffiti

Sound, Solid Entertainments

Madeline Kahn – Paper Moon
Candice Bergen – Starting Over
Maggie Smith – California Suite
Talia Shire – The Godfather Part II
Tuesday Weld – Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge
Valentina Cortese – Day for Night
Melinda Dillon – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Barbara Barrie – Breaking Away
Tatum O’Neal –Paper Moon
Maureen Stapleton – Airport
Ronee Blakley – Nashville
Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait
Penelope Milford – Coming Home
Sylvia Sidney – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Good to Great

Lily Tomlin – Nashville
Lee Grant – The Landlord
Piper Laurie – Carrie
Jeannie Berlin – The Heartbreak Kid
Meryl Streep – Kramer vs Kramer
Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show
Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver
Lee Grant – Shampoo
Madeline Kahn – Blazing Saddles
Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
Clovis Leachman – The Last Picture Show
Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter
Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan
Sally Kellerman – MASH
Vanessa Redgrave – Julia
Karen Black – Five Easy Pieces

The Jury’s Out

Geraldine Page – Pete ‘n’ Tillie
Brenda Vaccaro – Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough
Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between
Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned