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Academy Award for Best Actress
The
Academy Awards
are awarded the year after the film's release; the films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best actor in 1999.
1928
Janet Gaynor
-
Seventh Heaven
Street Angel
and
Sunrise
Louise Dresser
-
A Ship Comes In
Gloria Swanson
-
Sadie Thompson
1929
Mary Pickford
-
Coquette
Ruth Chatterton
-
Madame X
Betty Compson
-
The Barker
Jeanne Eagels
-
The Letter
Corinne Griffith
-
The Divine Lady
Bessie Love
-
The Broadway Melody
1930
Norma Shearer
-
The Divorcee
Nancy Carroll
-
The Devil's Holiday
Ruth Chatterton
-
Sarah and Son
Greta Garbo
-
Anna Christie
and
Romance
Norma Shearer
-
Their Own Desire
Gloria Swanson
-
The Trespasser
1931
Marie Dressler
-
Min and Bill
Marlene Dietrich
-
Morocco
Irene Dunne
-
Cimarron
Ann Harding
-
Holiday
Norma Shearer
-
A Free Soul
1932
Helen Hayes
-
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Marie Dressler
-
Emma
Lynn Fontanne
-
The Guardsman
1933
Katharine Hepburn
-
Morning Glory
May Robson
-
Lady for a Day
Diana Wynyard
-
Cavalcade
1934
Claudette Colbert
-
It Happened One Night
Grace Moore
-
One Night of Love
Norma Shearer
-
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1935
Bette Davis
-
Dangerous
Elisabeth Bergner
-
Escape Me Never
Claudette Colbert
-
Private Worlds
Katharine Hepburn
-
Alice Adams
Miriam Hopkins
-
Becky Sharp
Merle Oberon
-
The Dark Angel
1936
Luise Rainer
-
The Great Ziegfeld
Irene Dunne
-
Theodora Goes Wild
Gladys George
-
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Carole Lombard
-
My Man Godfrey
Norma Shearer
-
Romeo and Juliet
1937
Luise Rainer
-
The Good Earth
Irene Dunne
-
The Awful Truth
Greta Garbo
-
Camille
Janet Gaynor
-
A Star Is Born
Barbara Stanwyck
-
Stella Dallas
1938
Bette Davis
-
Jezebel
Fay Bainter
-
White Banners
Wendy Hiller
-
Pygmalion
Norma Shearer
-
Marie Antoinette
Margaret Sullavan
-
Three Comrades
1939
Vivien Leigh
-
Gone With the Wind
Bette Davis
-
Dark Victory
Irene Dunne
-
Love Affair
Greta Garbo
-
Ninotchka
Greer Garson
-
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1940
Ginger Rogers
-
Kitty Foyle
Bette Davis
-
The Letter
Joan Fontaine
-
Rebecca
Katharine Hepburn
-
The Philadelphia Story
Martha Scott
-
Our Town
1941
Joan Fontaine
-
Suspicion
Bette Davis
-
The Little Foxes
Olivia de Havilland
-
Hold Back the Dawn
Greer Garson
-
Blossoms in the Dust
Barbara Stanwyck
-
Ball of Fire
1942
Greer Garson
-
Mrs. Miniver
Bette Davis
-
Now, Voyager
Katharine Hepburn
-
Woman of the Year
Rosalind Russell
-
My Sister Eileen
Teresa Wright
-
The Pride of the Yankees
1943
Jennifer Jones
-
The Song of Bernadette
Jean Arthur
-
The More the Merrier
Ingrid Bergman
-
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Joan Fontaine
-
The Constant Nymph
Greer Garson
-
Madame Curie
1944
Ingrid Bergman
-
Gaslight
Claudette Colbert
-
Since You Went Away
Bette Davis
-
Mr. Skeffington
Greer Garson
-
Mrs. Parkington
Barbara Stanwyck
-
Double Indemnity
1945
Joan Crawford
-
Mildred Pierce
Ingrid Bergman
-
The Bells of St. Mary's
Greer Garson
-
The Valley of Decision
Jennifer Jones
-
Love Letters
Gene Tierney
-
Leave Her to Heaven
1946
Olivia de Havilland
-
To Each His Own
Celia Johnson
-
Brief Encounter
Jennifer Jones
-
Duel in the Sun
Rosalind Russell
-
Sister Kenny
Jane Wyman
-
The Yearling
1947
Loretta Young
-
The Farmer's Daughter
Joan Crawford
-
Possessed
Susan Hayward
-
Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
Dorothy McGuire
-
Gentleman's Agreement
Rosalind Russell
-
Mourning Becomes Electra
1948
Jane Wyman
-
Johnny Belinda
Ingrid Bergman
-
Joan of Arc
Olivia de Havilland
-
The Snake Pit
Irene Dunne
-
I Remember Mama
Barbara Stanwyck
-
Sorry, Wrong Number
1949
Olivia de Havilland
-
The Heiress
Jeanne Crain
-
Pinky
Susan Hayward
-
My Foolish Heart
Deborah Kerr
-
Edward, My Son
Loretta Young
-
Come to the Stable
1950
Judy Holliday
-
Born Yesterday
Anne Baxter
-
All About Eve
Bette Davis
-
All About Eve
Eleanor Parker
-
Caged
Gloria Swanson
-
Sunset Boulevard
1951
Vivien Leigh
-
A Streetcar Named Desire
Katharine Hepburn
-
The African Queen
Eleanor Parker
-
Detective Story
Shelley Winters
-
A Place in the Sun
Jane Wyman
-
The Blue Veil
1952
Shirley Booth
-
Come Back, Little Sheba
Joan Crawford
-
Sudden Fear
Bette Davis
-
The Star
Julie Harris
-
The Member of the Wedding
Susan Hayward
-
With a Song in My Heart
1953
Audrey Hepburn
-
Roman Holiday
Leslie Caron
-
Lili
Ava Gardner
-
Mogambo
Deborah Kerr
-
From Here to Eternity
Maggie McNamara
-
The Moon Is Blue
1954
Grace Kelly
-
The Country Girl
Dorothy Dandridge
-
Carmen Jones
Judy Garland
-
A Star Is Born
Audrey Hepburn
-
Sabrina
Jane Wyman
-
Magnificent Obsession
1955
Anna Magnani
-
The Rose Tattoo
Susan Hayward
-
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Katharine Hepburn
-
Summertime
Jennifer Jones
-
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
Eleanor Parker
-
Interrupted Melody
1956
Ingrid Bergman
-
Anastasia
Carroll Baker
-
Baby Doll
Katharine Hepburn
-
The Rainmaker
Nancy Kelly
-
The Bad Seed
Deborah Kerr
-
The King and I
1957
Joanne Woodward
-
The Three Faces of Eve
Deborah Kerr
-
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Anna Magnani
-
Wild Is the Wind
Elizabeth Taylor
-
Raintree County
Lana Turner
-
Peyton Place
1958
Susan Hayward
-
I Want to Live!
Deborah Kerr
-
Separate Tables
Shirley MacLaine
-
Some Came Running
Rosalind Russell
-
Auntie Mame
Elizabeth Taylor
-
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1959
Simone Signoret
-
Room at the Top
Doris Day
-
Pillow Talk
Audrey Hepburn
-
The Nun's Story
Katharine Hepburn
-
Suddenly, Last Summer
Elizabeth Taylor
-
Suddenly, Last Summer
1960
Elizabeth Taylor
-
BUtterfield 8
Greer Garson
-
Sunrise at Campobello
Deborah Kerr
-
The Sundowners
Shirley MacLaine
-
The Apartment
Melina Mercouri
-
Never on Sunday
1961
Sophia Loren
-
Two Women
Audrey Hepburn
-
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Piper Laurie
-
The Hustler
Geraldine Page
-
Summer and Smoke
Natalie Wood
-
Splendor in the Grass
1962
Anne Bancroft
-
The Miracle Worker
Bette Davis
-
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Katharine Hepburn
-
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Geraldine Page
-
Sweet Bird of Youth
Lee Remick
-
Days of Wine and Roses
1963
Patricia Neal
-
Hud
Leslie Caron
-
The L-Shaped Room
Shirley MacLaine
-
Irma la Douce
Rachel Roberts
-
This Sporting Life
Natalie Wood
-
Love with the Proper Stranger
1964
Julie Andrews
-
Mary Poppins
Anne Bancroft
-
The Pumpkin Eater
Sophia Loren
-
Marriage Italian Style
Debbie Reynolds
-
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Kim Stanley
-
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1965
Julie Christie
-
Darling
Julie Andrews
-
The Sound of Music
Samantha Eggar
-
The Collector
Elizabeth Hartman
-
A Patch of Blue
Simone Signoret
-
Ship of Fools
1966
Elizabeth Taylor
-
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Anouk Aimée
-
A Man and a Woman
Ida Kaminska
-
The Shop on Main Street
Lynn Redgrave
-
Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave
-
Morgan!
1967
Katharine Hepburn
-
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Anne Bancroft
-
The Graduate
Faye Dunaway
-
Bonnie and Clyde
Edith Evans
-
The Whisperers
Audrey Hepburn
-
Wait Until Dark
1968
Katharine Hepburn
-
The Lion in Winter
and
Barbra Streisand
-
Funny Girl
Patricia Neal
-
The Subject Was Roses
Vanessa Redgrave
-
Isadora
Joanne Woodward
-
Rachel, Rachel
1969
Maggie Smith
-
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Geneviève Bujold
-
Anne of the Thousand Days
Jane Fonda
-
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Liza Minnelli
-
The Sterile Cuckoo
Jean Simmons
-
The Happy Ending
1970
Glenda Jackson
-
Women in Love
Jane Alexander
-
The Great White Hope
Ali MacGraw
-
Love Story
Sarah Miles
-
Ryan's Daughter
Carrie Snodgress
-
Diary of a Mad Housewife
1971
Jane Fonda
-
Klute
Julie Christie
-
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Glenda Jackson
-
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Vanessa Redgrave
-
Mary, Queen of Scots
Janet Suzman
-
Nicholas and Alexandra
1972
Liza Minnelli
-
Cabaret
Diana Ross
-
Lady Sings the Blues
Maggie Smith
-
Travels with My Aunt
Cicely Tyson
-
Sounder
Liv Ullmann
-
The Emigrants
1973
Glenda Jackson
-
A Touch of Class
Ellen Burstyn
-
The Exorcist
Marsha Mason
-
Cinderella Liberty
Barbra Streisand
-
The Way We Were
Joanne Woodward
-
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1974
Ellen Burstyn
-
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Diahann Carroll
-
Claudine
Faye Dunaway
-
Chinatown
Valerie Perrine
-
Lenny
Gena Rowlands
-
A Woman Under the Influence
1975
Louise Fletcher
-
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ann-Margret
-
Tommy
Isabelle Adjani
-
The Story of Adele H.
Glenda Jackson
-
Hedda
Carol Kane
-
Hester Street
1976
Faye Dunaway
-
Network
Marie-Christine Barrault
-
Cousin, cousine
Talia Shire
-
Rocky
Sissy Spacek
-
Carrie
Liv Ullmann
-
Face to Face[?]
1977
Diane Keaton
-
Annie Hall
Anne Bancroft
-
The Turning Point
Jane Fonda
-
Julia
Shirley MacLaine
-
The Turning Point
Marsha Mason
-
The Goodbye Girl
1978
Jane Fonda
-
Coming Home
Ingrid Bergman
-
Autumn Sonata
Ellen Burstyn
-
Same Time, Next Year
Jill Clayburgh
-
An Unmarried Woman
Geraldine Page
-
Interiors
1979
Sally Field
-
Norma Rae
Jill Clayburgh
-
Starting Over
Jane Fonda
-
The China Syndrome
Marsha Mason
-
Chapter Two
Bette Midler
-
The Rose
1980
Sissy Spacek
-
Coal Miner's Daughter
Ellen Burstyn
-
Resurrection
Goldie Hawn
-
Private Benjamin
Mary Tyler Moore
-
Ordinary People
Gena Rowlands
-
Gloria
1981
Katharine Hepburn
-
On Golden Pond
Diane Keaton
-
Reds
Marsha Mason
-
Only When I Laugh
Susan Sarandon
-
Atlantic City
Meryl Streep
-
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1982
Meryl Streep
-
Sophie's Choice
Julie Andrews
-
Victor/Victoria
Jessica Lange
-
Frances
Sissy Spacek
-
Missing
Debra Winger
-
An Officer and a Gentleman
1983
Shirley MacLaine
-
Terms of Endearment
Jane Alexander
-
Testament
Meryl Streep
-
Silkwood
Julie Walters
-
Educating Rita
Debra Winger
-
Terms of Endearment
1984
Sally Field
-
Places in the Heart
Judy Davis
-
A Passage to India
Jessica Lange
-
Country
Vanessa Redgrave
-
A Passage to India
Sissy Spacek
-
The River
1985
Geraldine Page
-
The Trip to Bountiful
Anne Bancroft
-
Agnes of God
Whoopi Goldberg
-
The Color Purple
Jessica Lange
-
Sweet Dreams
Meryl Streep
-
Out of Africa
1986
Marlee Matlin
-
Children of a Lesser God
Jane Fonda
-
The Morning After
Sissy Spacek
-
Crimes of the Heart
Kathleen Turner
-
Peggy Sue Got Married
Sigourney Weaver
-
Aliens
1987
Cher
-
Moonstruck
Glenn Close
-
Fatal Attraction
Holly Hunter
-
Broadcast News
Sally Kirkland
-
Anna[?]
Meryl Streep
-
Ironweed
1988
Jodie Foster
-
The Accused[?]
Glenn Close
-
Dangerous Liasions[?]
Melanie Griffith[?]
-
Working Girl
Meryl Streep
-
A Cry in the Dark[?]
Sigourney Weaver
-
Gorillas in the Mist[?]
1989
Jessica Tandy
-
Driving Miss Daisy
Isabelle Adjani
-
Camille Claudel
Pauline Collins[?]
-
Shirley Valentine[?]
Jessica Lange
-
Music Box[?]
Michelle Pfeiffer
-
The Fabulous Baker Boys[?]
1990
Kathy Bates[?]
-
Misery[?]
Anjelica Huston
-
The Grifters[?]
Julia Roberts
-
Pretty Woman
Meryl Streep
-
Postcards from the Edge[?]
Joanne Woodward
-
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge[?]
1991
Jodie Foster
-
The Silence of the Lambs
Geena Davis
-
Thelma and Louise
Laura Dern[?]
-
Rambling Rose[?]
Bette Midler
-
For the Boys[?]
Susan Sarandon
-
Thelma and Louise
1992
Emma Thompson
-
Howards End
Catherine Deneuve
-
Indochina
Mary McDonnell[?]
-
Passion Fish[?]
Michelle Pfeiffer
-
Love Field[?]
Susan Sarandon
-
Lorenzo's Oil[?]
1993
Holly Hunter
-
The Piano
Angela Bassett[?]
-
What's Love Got to Do with It[?]
Stockard Channing[?]
-
Six Degrees of Separation
Emma Thompson
-
Remains of the Day[?]
Debra Winger
-
Shadowlands[?]
1994
Jessica Lange
-
Blue Sky[?]
Jodie Foster
-
Nell
Miranda Richardson
-
Tom and Viv[?]
Winona Ryder
-
Little Women
Susan Sarandon
-
The Client[?]
1995
Susan Sarandon
-
Dead Man Walking
Elisabeth Shue[?]
-
Leaving Las Vegas
Sharon Stone
-
Casino
Meryl Streep
-
The Bridges of Madison County[?]
Emma Thompson
-
Sense and Sensibility
1996
Frances McDormand[?]
-
Fargo
Brenda Blethyn[?]
-
Secrets and Lies
Diane Keaton
-
Marvin's Room[?]
Kristin Scott Thomas[?]
-
The English Patient
Emily Watson[?]
-
Breaking the Waves[?]
1997
Helen Hunt
-
As Good As It Gets
Helena Bonham Carter
-
The Wings of the Dove[?]
Julie Christie
-
Afterglow
Judi Dench
-
Mrs. Brown
Kate Winslet
-
Titanic
1998
Gwyneth Paltrow
-
Shakespeare in Love
Cate Blanchett
-
Elizabeth
Fernanda Montenegro[?]
-
Central do Brasil[?]
Meryl Streep
-
One True Thing[?]
Emily Watson[?]
-
Hilary and Jackie[?]
1999
Hilary Swank[?]
-
Boys Don't Cry
Annette Bening[?]
-
American Beauty
Julianne Moore
-
The End of the Affair[?]
Meryl Streep
-
Music of the Heart[?]
Janet McTeer[?]
-
Tumbleweeds[?]
2000
Julia Roberts
-
Erin Brockovich
Juliette Binoche
-
Chocolat
Joan Allen[?]
-
The Contender[?]
Ellen Burstyn
-
Requiem for a Dream
Laura Linney[?]
-
You Can Count on Me[?]
2001
Halle Berry
-
Monster's Ball[?]
Renée Zellweger
-
Bridget Jones's Diary
Sissy Spacek
-
In the Bedroom
Judi Dench
-
Iris
Nicole Kidman
-
Moulin Rouge!
2002
Nicole Kidman
-
The Hours[?]
Renée Zellweger
-
Chicago
Julianne Moore
-
Far from Heaven[?]
Salma Hayek
-
Frida[?]
Diane Lane[?]
-
Unfaithful[?]
See also
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