Best Actress
Acting · 98 ceremonies · 1928-present
2025 (98th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
2024 (97th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Ani, Anora
Elphaba, Wicked
Emilia/Manitas, Emilia Pérez
Elisabeth Sparkle, The Substance
Eunice Paiva, I'm Still Here
2023 (96th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Bella Baxter, Poor Things
Diana Nyad, Nyad
Mollie Burkhart, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra, Anatomy of a Fall
Felicia Montealegre, Maestro
2022 (95th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Evelyn Wang, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Lydia Tár, Tár
Norma Jeane, Blonde
Leslie, To Leslie
Mitzi Fabelman, The Fabelmans
2021 (94th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
2020 (93rd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Ma Rainey, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Billie Holiday, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Martha, Pieces of a Woman
Cassandra, Promising Young Woman
2019 (92nd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Judy Garland, Judy
Harriet/Minty, Harriet
Nicole Barber, Marriage Story
Jo March, Little Women
Megyn Kelly, Bombshell
2018 (91st)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Queen Anne, The Favourite
Cleo, Roma
Joan Castleman, The Wife
Ally, A Star Is Born
Lee Israel, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2017 (90th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Elisa Esposito, The Shape of Water
Tonya Harding, I, Tonya
Lady Bird McPherson, Lady Bird
Kay Graham, The Post
2016 (89th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Mia, La La Land
Michèle, Elle
Mildred, Loving
Jackie Kennedy, Jackie
Florence Foster Jenkins, Florence Foster Jenkins
2015 (88th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
2014 (87th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
2013 (86th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jasmine, Blue Jasmine
Sydney Prosser, American Hustle
Ryan Stone, Gravity
Philomena, Philomena
Violet Weston, August: Osage County
2012 (85th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
2011 (84th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady
Albert Nobbs, Albert Nobbs
Aibileen Clark, The Help
Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Marilyn Monroe, My Week with Marilyn
2010 (83rd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nina Sayers/The Swan Queen, Black Swan
Becca, Rabbit Hole
2009 (82nd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Leigh Anne Tuohy, The Blind Side
Sofya, The Last Station
Jenny, An Education
Julia Child, Julie & Julia
2008 (81st)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Hanna Schmitz, The Reader
Christine Collins, Changeling
Ray Eddy, Frozen River
Sister Aloysius Beauvier, Doubt
2007 (80th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Edith Piaf, La Vie en Rose
Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Fiona, Away from Her
Wendy Savage, The Savages
Juno MacGuff, Juno
2006 (79th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Queen, The Queen
Raimunda, Volver
Barbara Covett, Notes on a Scandal
Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada
Sarah Pierce, Little Children
2005 (78th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
June Carter, Walk the Line
Mrs. Laura Henderson, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Elizabeth Bennet, Pride & Prejudice
Josey Aimes, North Country
2004 (77th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Maggie Fitzgerald, Million Dollar Baby
Julia Lambert, Being Julia
Clementine Kruczynski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003 (76th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Aileen Wuornos, Monster
Paikea, Whale Rider
Erica Barry, Something's Gotta Give
Sarah, In America
Cristina Peck, 21 Grams
2002 (75th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Virginia Woolf, The Hours
Frida Kahlo, Frida
Connie Sumner, Unfaithful
Cathy Whitaker, Far from Heaven
Roxie Hart, Chicago
2001 (74th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Leticia Musgrove, Monster's Ball
Iris Murdoch, Iris
Satine, Moulin Rouge
Ruth Fowler, In the Bedroom
Bridget Jones, Bridget Jones's Diary
2000 (73rd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Erin Brockovich, Erin Brockovich
Laine Hanson, The Contender
Vianne Rocher, Chocolat
Sara Goldfarb, Requiem for a Dream
Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott, You Can Count on Me
1999 (72nd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Brandon Teena/Teena Brandon, Boys Don't Cry
Carolyn Burnham, American Beauty
Mary Jo Walker, Tumbleweeds
Sarah Miles, The End of the Affair
Roberta Guaspari, Music of the Heart
1998 (71st)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Viola De Lesseps, Shakespeare in Love
Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth
Kate Gulden, One True Thing
Jacqueline du Pré, Hilary and Jackie
1997 (70th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Carol Connelly, As Good as It Gets
Kate Croy, The Wings of the Dove
Phyllis Mann, Afterglow
Queen Victoria, Mrs. Brown
Rose DeWitt Bukater, Titanic
1996 (69th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Marge Gunderson, Fargo
Cynthia, Secrets & Lies
Bessie, Marvin's Room
Katharine Clifton, The English Patient
1995 (68th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking
Ginger McKenna, Casino
Francesca Johnson, The Bridges of Madison County
Elinor Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
1994 (67th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
1993 (66th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Tina Turner, What's Love Got to Do with It
Ouisa Kittredge, Six Degrees of Separation
Miss Kenton, The Remains of the Day
Joy Gresham, Shadowlands
1992 (65th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Margaret Schlegel, Howards End
Eliane, Indochine
May-Alice, Passion Fish
Lurene Hallett, Love Field
Michaela Odone, Lorenzo's Oil
1991 (64th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Clarice Starling, The Silence of the Lambs
Thelma, Thelma & Louise
Rose, Rambling Rose
Dixie Leonard, For the Boys
Louise, Thelma & Louise
1990 (63rd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Annie Wilkes, Misery
Lilly Dillon, The Grifters
Vivian Ward, Pretty Woman
Suzanne Vale, Postcards from the Edge
India Bridge, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1989 (62nd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Daisy Werthan, Driving Miss Daisy
Camille Claudel, Camille Claudel
Shirley Valentine, Shirley Valentine
Ann Talbot, Music Box
Susie Diamond, The Fabulous Baker Boys
1988 (61st)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sarah Tobias, The Accused
Marquise de Merteuil, Dangerous Liaisons
Tess McGill, Working Girl
Dian Fossey, Gorillas in the Mist
1987 (60th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Loretta Castorini, Moonstruck
Alex Forrest, Fatal Attraction
Jane Craig, Broadcast News
Anna, Anna
Helen, Ironweed
1986 (59th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Alex Sternbergen, The Morning After
Babe Magrath, Crimes of the Heart
Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue Got Married
Ripley, Aliens
1985 (58th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Mrs. Watts, The Trip to Bountiful
Sister Miriam Ruth, Agnes of God
Patsy Cline, Sweet Dreams
Karen, Out of Africa
1984 (57th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Edna Spalding, Places in the Heart
Adela Quested, A Passage to India
Jewell Ivy, Country
Olive Chancellor, The Bostonians
Mae Garvey, The River
1983 (56th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Aurora Greenway, Terms of Endearment
Carol Wetherly, Testament
Karen Silkwood, Silkwood
Emma Horton, Terms of Endearment
1982 (55th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sophie, Sophie's Choice
Victor/Victoria, Victor/Victoria
Frances Farmer, Frances
Beth Horman, Missing
Paula Pokrifki, An Officer and a Gentleman
1981 (54th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Ethel Thayer, On Golden Pond
Louise Bryant, Reds
Georgia, Only When I Laugh
Sally, Atlantic City
Sara Woodruff/Anna, The French Lieutenant's Woman
1980 (53rd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner's Daughter
Edna May, Resurrection
Judy Benjamin, Private Benjamin
Beth Jarrett, Ordinary People
Gloria Swenson, Gloria
1979 (52nd)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Norma Rae, Norma Rae
Marilyn Homberg, Starting Over
Kimberly Wells, The China Syndrome
Jennie MacLaine, Chapter Two
Rose, The Rose
1978 (51st)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sally Hyde, Coming Home
Charlotte Andergast, Autumn Sonata
1977 (50th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Annie Hall, Annie Hall
Emma Jacklin, The Turning Point
Lillian Hellman, Julia
Deedee Rodgers, The Turning Point
Paula McFadden, The Goodbye Girl
1976 (49th)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
1975 (48th)
Best Actress
Nurse Mildred Ratched, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Adele Hugo, The Story of Adele H.
Nora Walker Hobbs, Tommy
Hedda Gabler, Hedda
Gitl, Hester Street
1974 (47th)
Best Actress
Alice Hyatt, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Claudine, Claudine
Evelyn Cross Mulwray, Chinatown
Honey Bruce, Lenny
Mabel Longhetti, A Woman under the Influence
1973 (46th)
Best Actress
Vicki Allessio, A Touch of Class
Chris MacNeil, The Exorcist
Maggie Paul, Cinderella Liberty
Katie Morosky, The Way We Were
Rita Walden, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1972 (45th)
Best Actress
Sally Bowles, Cabaret
Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues
Aunt Augusta, Travels with My Aunt
Rebecca Morgan, Sounder
Kristina, The Emigrants
1971 (44th)
Best Actress
Bree Daniel, Klute
Mrs. Constance Miller, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Alex Greville, Sunday Bloody Sunday
Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary, Queen of Scots
Alexandra, Nicholas and Alexandra
1970 (43rd)
Best Actress
Gudrun Brangwen, Women in Love
Eleanor Bachman, The Great White Hope
Jenny Cavilleri, Love Story
Rosy Ryan, Ryan's Daughter
Tina Balser, Diary of a Mad Housewife
1969 (42nd)
Best Actress
Miss Jean Brodie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Anne Boleyn, Anne of the Thousand Days
Gloria Beatty, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Pookie Adams, The Sterile Cuckoo
Mary Wilson, The Happy Ending
1968 (41st)
Best Actress
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Lion in Winter
Fanny Brice, Funny Girl
Nettie Cleary, The Subject Was Roses
Isadora Duncan, Isadora
Rachel Cameron, Rachel, Rachel
1967 (40th)
Best Actress
Christina Drayton, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Mrs. Robinson, The Graduate
Bonnie Parker, Bonnie and Clyde
Mrs. Ross, The Whisperers
Susy Hendrix, Wait until Dark
1966 (39th)
Best Actress
Anne Gauthier, A Man and a Woman
Rozalie Lautmanova, The Shop on Main Street
Georgy Parkin, Georgy Girl
Leonie Delt, Morgan!
1965 (38th)
Best Actress
Diana Scott, Darling
Miranda Grey, The Collector
Selina D'Arcey, A Patch of Blue
La Condessa, Ship of Fools
1964 (37th)
Best Actress
Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Jo Armitage, The Pumpkin Eater
Filomena Marturano, Marriage Italian Style
Molly Brown, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Myra Savage, Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1963 (36th)
Best Actress
1962 (35th)
Best Actress
Annie Sullivan, The Miracle Worker
Jane Hudson, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Mary Tyrone, Long Day's Journey into Night
Alexandra Del Lago, Sweet Bird of Youth
Kirsten Arnesen, Days of Wine and Roses
1961 (34th)
Best Actress
Cesira, Two Women
Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Sarah Packard, The Hustler
Alma Winemiller, Summer and Smoke
Wilma Dean Loomis, Splendor in the Grass
1960 (33rd)
Best Actress
Gloria Wandrous, Butterfield 8
Eleanor Roosevelt, Sunrise at Campobello
Ida Carmody, The Sundowners
Fran Kubelik, The Apartment
1959 (32nd)
Best Actress
Alice Aisgill, Room at the Top
Jan Morrow, Pillow Talk
Sister Luke, The Nun's Story
Mrs. Venable, Suddenly, Last Summer
Catherine Holly, Suddenly, Last Summer
1958 (31st)
Best Actress
Barbara Graham, I Want to Live!
Sibyl Railton-Bell, Separate Tables
Ginny Moorhead, Some Came Running
Auntie Mame Dennis, Auntie Mame
Maggie Pollitt, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1957 (30th)
Best Actress
Eve White/Eve Black/Jane, The Three Faces of Eve
Sister Angela, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Gioia, Wild Is the Wind
Susanna Drake, Raintree County
Constance MacKenzie, Peyton Place
1956 (29th)
Best Actress
1955 (28th)
Best Actress
Serafina Della Rose, The Rose Tattoo
Lillian Roth, I'll Cry Tomorrow
Jane Hudson, Summertime
Marjorie Lawrence, Interrupted Melody
1954 (27th)
Best Actress
Georgie Elgin, The Country Girl
Carmen Jones, Carmen Jones
Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester, A Star Is Born
Sabrina Fairchild, Sabrina
Helen Phillips, Magnificent Obsession
1953 (26th)
Best Actress
Princess Anne, Roman Holiday
Lili Daurier, Lili
Eloise 'Honey Bear' Kelly, Mogambo
Karen Holmes, From Here to Eternity
Patty O'Neill, The Moon Is Blue
1952 (25th)
Best Actress
Lola Delaney, Come Back, Little Sheba
Myra Hudson, Sudden Fear
Margaret Elliot, The Star
Frankie Addams, The Member of the Wedding
Jane Froman, With a Song in My Heart
1951 (24th)
Best Actress
Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
Rose Sayer, The African Queen
Mary McLeod, Detective Story
Alice Tripp, A Place in the Sun
Louise Mason, The Blue Veil
1950 (23rd)
Best Actress
Billie Dawn, Born Yesterday
Eve Harrington, All about Eve
Margo Channing, All about Eve
Marie Allen, Caged
Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd.
1949 (22nd)
Best Actress
Catherine Sloper, The Heiress
Pinky, Pinky
Eloise Winters, My Foolish Heart
Evelyn Boult, Edward, My Son
Sister Margaret, Come to the Stable
1948 (21st)
Best Actress
Belinda McDonald, Johnny Belinda
Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc
Virginia Stuart Cunningham, The Snake Pit
Leona Stevenson, Sorry, Wrong Number
1947 (20th)
Best Actress
Katrin Holstrom, The Farmer's Daughter
Louise Howell, Possessed
Lavinia Mannon, Mourning Becomes Electra
1946 (19th)
Best Actress
Jody Norris, To Each His Own
Laura Jesson, Brief Encounter
Pearl Chavez, Duel in the Sun
Elizabeth Kenny, Sister Kenny
Ma Baxter, The Yearling
1945 (18th)
Best Actress
Mildred Pierce, Mildred Pierce
Sister Benedict, The Bells of St. Mary's
Mary Rafferty, The Valley of Decision
Singleton, Love Letters
Ellen Berent, Leave Her to Heaven
1944 (17th)
Best Actress
Paula Alquist, Gaslight
Anne Hilton, Since You Went Away
Fanny Trellis Skeffington, Mr. Skeffington
Susie Parkington, Mrs. Parkington
Phyllis Dietrichson, Double Indemnity
1943 (16th)
Best Actress
Bernadette Soubirous, The Song of Bernadette
Connie Milligan, The More the Merrier
Teresa 'Tessa' Sanger, The Constant Nymph
Madame Marie Curie, Madame Curie
1942 (15th)
Best Actress
Kay Miniver, Mrs. Miniver
Charlotte Vale, Now, Voyager
Tess Harding, Woman of the Year
Ruth Sherwood, My Sister Eileen
Eleanor Gehrig, The Pride of the Yankees
1941 (14th)
Best Actress
Lina McLaidlaw, Suspicion
Regina Hubbard Giddens, The Little Foxes
Emmy Brown, Hold Back the Dawn
Edna Gladney, Blossoms in the Dust
Sugarpuss O'Shea, Ball of Fire
1940 (13th)
Best Actress
Kitty Foyle, Kitty Foyle
Leslie Crosbie, The Letter
Mrs. de Winter, Rebecca
Tracy Lord, The Philadelphia Story
Emily Webb, Our Town
1939 (12th)
Best Actress
Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind
Judith Traherne, Dark Victory
Terry McKay, Love Affair
Lena Yakushova (Ninotchka), Ninotchka
Katherine Chipping, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1938 (11th)
Best Actress
Julie Morrison, Jezebel
Hannah, White Banners
Eliza Doolittle, Pygmalion
Marie Antoinette, Marie Antoinette
Pat Hollmann, Three Comrades
1937 (10th)
Best Actress
O-Lan, The Good Earth
Lucy Warriner, The Awful Truth
Marguerite Gautier (Camille), Camille
Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester, A Star Is Born
Stella Dallas, Stella Dallas
1936 (9th)
Best Actress
Anna Held, The Great Ziegfeld
Theodora Lynn, Theodora Goes Wild
Carrie Snyder, Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Irene Bullock, My Man Godfrey
Juliet, Romeo and Juliet
1935 (8th)
Best Actress
Joyce Heath, Dangerous
Gemma Jones, Escape Me Never
Jane Everest, Private Worlds
Alice Adams, Alice Adams
Becky Sharp, Becky Sharp
Kitty Vane, The Dark Angel
1934 (7th)
Best Actress
Ellie Andrews, It Happened One Night
Mildred, Of Human Bondage
Elizabeth Barrett, The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1932/33 (6th)
Best Actress
1931/32 (5th)
Best Actress
Emma, Emma
The Actress, The Guardsman
1930/31 (4th)
Best Actress
1929/30 (3rd)
Best Actress
Jerry, The Divorcee · Lucia 'Lally' Marlett, Their Own Desire
Hallie Hobart, The Devil's Holiday
Sarah Storm, Sarah and Son
Anna Christie, Anna Christie · Madame Rita Cavallini, Romance
Marion Donnell, The Trespasser
1928/29 (2nd)
Best Actress
Norma Besant, Coquette
Jacqueline Floriot, Madame X
Carrie, The Barker
Leslie Crosbie, The Letter
Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton, The Divine Lady
Hank Mahoney, The Broadway Melody
1927/28 (1st)
Best Actress
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Best Actress in a Leading Role
1976-present
Best Actress
1928-1975