Name an actress who has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress: rare answers
We accept 88 answers to “Name an actress who has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress” in our Krillion practice game. Most players reach for Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, which keeps them near the surface. Deep cuts such as Wendy Hiller, Fay Bainter and Jo Van Fleet score up to 100 points.
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- Accepted answers
- 88
- Category
- Movies
- Deep answers (85–100 pts)
- 31 (35%)
- Alternate spellings accepted
- None needed
- First letters
- 22 different; M is the most common (14)
The rarest answers
11 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Wendy Hiller, Fay Bainter, Jo Van Fleet and Gale Sondergaard. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.
🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)
Wendy Hiller, Fay Bainter, Jo Van Fleet, Gale Sondergaard, Katina Paxinou, Miyoshi Umeki, Beatrice Straight, Eileen Heckart, Josephine Hull, Anne Revere, Lila Kedrova
🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)
Teresa Wright, Ruth Gordon, Dorothy Malone, Mo'Nique, Brenda Fricker, Ethel Barrymore, Mercedes Ruehl, Maureen Stapleton, Margaret Rutherford, Mercedes McCambridge, Claire Trevor, Peggy Ashcroft, Kim Hunter, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Sandy Dennis, Celeste Holm, Estelle Parsons, Alice Brady, Youn Yuh-jung, Jane Darwell
🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)
Mary Steenburgen, Anjelica Huston, Mira Sorvino, Juliette Binoche, Rita Moreno, Octavia Spencer, Patty Duke, Cloris Leachman, Regina King, Anne Baxter, Shelley Winters, Donna Reed, Melissa Leo, Dianne Wiest, Marcia Gay Harden, Hattie McDaniel, Helen Hayes, Shirley Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Linda Hunt, Mary Astor, Olympia Dukakis, Gloria Grahame, Tatum O'Neal, Amy Madigan, Lee Grant, Ariana DeBose
🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)
Rachel Weisz, Jamie Lee Curtis, Goldie Hawn, Renée Zellweger, Maggie Smith, Penélope Cruz, Whoopi Goldberg, Alicia Vikander, Judi Dench, Zoe Saldaña, Lupita Nyong'o, Laura Dern, Kim Basinger, Viola Davis, Marisa Tomei, Ingrid Bergman, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Geena Davis, Patricia Arquette, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Hudson, Anna Paquin, Allison Janney
🌊 Surface answers (10 points)
Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Connelly, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.
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