Oscar Best Actresses

1929 - Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise

Gaynor

1930 - Coquette

Pickford

1931 - The Divorcee

Shearer

1932 - Min and Bill

Dressler

1933 - The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Hayes

1934 - Morning Glory, 1968 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1969 - The Lion in Winter, 1982 - On Golden Pond

Hepburn

1935 - It Happened One Night

Colbert

1936 - Dangerous, 1939 - Jezebel

Davis

1937 - The Great Ziegfield, 1938 - The Good Earth

Rainer

1940 - Gone with the Wind, 1952 - A Streetcar Named Desire

Leigh

1941 - Kitty Foyle

Rogers

1942 - Suspicion

Fontaine

1943 - Mrs. Miniver

Garson

1944 - The Song of Bernadette

Jones

1945 - Gaslight, 1957 - Anastasia

Bergman

1946 - Mildred Pierce

Crawford

1947 - To Each His Own, 1950 - The Heiress

Havilland

1948 - The Farmer’s Daughter

Young

1949 - Johnny Belinda

Jane Wyman

1951 - Born Yesterday

Judy Holliday

1953 - Come Back, Little Sheba

Shirley Booth

1955 - The Country Girl

Grace Kelly

1956 - The Rose Tattoo

Anna Magnani

1958 - The Three Faces of Eve

Joanne Woodward

1959 - I Want to Live!

Susan Hayward

1960 - Room at the Top

Simone Signoret

1961 - BUtterfield 8, 1967 - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Elizabeth Taylor

1962 - Two Women

Sophia Loren

1963 - The Miracle Worker

Anne Bancroft

1964 - Hud

Patricia Neal

1965 - Mary Poppins

Julie Andrews

1966 - Darling

Julie Christie

1970 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Maggie Smith

1971 - Women in Love, 1974 - A Touch of Class

Glenda Jackson

1972 - Klute, 1979 - Coming Home

Jane Fonda

1973 - Cabaret

Liza Minnelli

1975 - Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Ellen Burstyn

1976 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Louise Fletcher

1977 - Network

Faye Dunaway

1978 - Annie Hall

Diane Keaton

1980 - Norma Rae, 1985 - Places in the Heart

Sally Field

1981 - Coal Miner’s Daughter

Sissy Spacek

1983 - Sophie’s Choice, 2012 - The Iron Lady

Meryl Streep

1984 - Terms of Endearment

Shirley MacLaine

1986 - The Trip to Bountiful

Geraldine Page

1987 - Children of a Lesser God

Marlee Matlin

1988 - Moonstruck

Cher

1989 - The Accused, 1992 - The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster

1990 - Driving Miss Daisy

Jessica Taldy

1991 - Misery

Kathy Bates

1993 - Howards End

Emma Thompson

1994 - The Piano

Holly Hunter

1995 - Blue Sky

Jessica Lange

1996 - Dead Man Walking

Susan Sarandon

1997 - Fargo, 2018 - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, 2021 - Nomadland

Frances McDormand

1998 - As Good as It Gets

Helen Hunt

1999 - Shakespeare in Love

Gwyneth Paltrow

2000 - Boys Don’t Cry, 2005 - Million Dollar Baby

Hilary Swank

2001 - Erin Brockovich

Julia Roberts

2002 - Monster’s Ball

Halle Berry

2003 - The Hours

Nicole Kidman

2004 - Monster

Charlize Theron

2006 - Walk the Line

Reese Witherspoon

2007 - The Queen

Helen Mirren

2008 - The Rose

Marion Cotillard

2009 - The Reader

Kate Winslet

2010 - The Blind Side

Sandra Bullock

2011 - Black Swan

Natalie Portman

2013 - Silver Linings Playbook

Jennifer Lawrence

2014 - Blue Jasmine

Cate Blanchett

2015 - Still Alice

Julianne Moore

2016 - Room

Brie Larson

2017 - La La Land, 2024 - Poor Things

Emma Stone

2019 - The Favourite

Olivia Colman

2020 - Judy

Renee Zellweger

2022 - The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Jessica Chastain

2023 - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh

2025 - Anora

Mikey Madison