Oscars 2016: Best Supporting Actress Winner Is Alicia Vikander
And the 2016 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress goes to... Alicia Vikander for "The Danish Girl."
The Best Supporting Actress award may be the least talked about but one of the most up-in-the-air categories in the 2016 Oscar race. Vikander had already won a SAG Award for her role in "The Danish Girl," so, while her win isn't a shocker, it's still somewhat of an upset that Winslet didn't take home the Academy Award given that she'd already won a Golden Globe and the BAFTA for her role as Joanna Hoffman in "Steve Jobs."
Oscar-winner Vikander is on a bit of a hot streak, starring in two Oscar-nominated films in 2015: the aforementioned "The Danish Girl" and critical sci-fi darling "Ex Machina" (if you haven't seen the latter, do yourself a favor and watch it.