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Academy Award for Best Actress
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Currently held by	Julianne Moore, Still Alice (2014)
Website	www.oscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.

In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930, only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had two films following their names on the ballots. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year.

Since its inception, the award has been given to 73 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars. Meryl Streep has been nominated on 15 occasions (resulting in two awards), more than any other actress. As of the 2015 ceremony, Julianne Moore is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Still Alice.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932 to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Janet Gaynor was the first winner in this category for her roles in 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and Street Angel (1928).

Mary Pickford won in 1929 for her role in Coquette.

Norma Shearer won in 1930 for her performance in The Divorcee.

Katharine Hepburn has the most wins in this category for her roles in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).

Bette Davis won two awards from ten nominations for her roles in Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938).

Luise Rainer became the first person to win two consecutive acting Oscars, having won in both 1936 and 1937 for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth.

Vivien Leigh won twice for her roles in Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Ginger Rogers won in 1940 for portraying the titular role in Kitty Foyle.

Joan Fontaine won in 1941 for her role in Suspicion.

Ingrid Bergman was nominated six times in the category, winning in 1944 for Gaslight and in 1956 for Anastasia.

Joan Crawford won in 1945 for her performance in Mildred Pierce.

Olivia de Havilland won twice in 1946 and 1949 for her roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress.

Audrey Hepburn won in 1953 for her role in Roman Holiday.

Grace Kelly won for her role in 1954's The Country Girl.

Joanne Woodward won in 1957 for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve.

Elizabeth Taylor won two awards from five nominations for 1960's BUtterfield 8 and 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Sophia Loren won in 1961 for her role in Two Women, thus becoming the first person to win for a non-English language performance.

Julie Andrews won for her performance as the titular character in Mary Poppins (1964).

Barbra Streisand won for her role in Funny Girl (1968).

Jane Fonda won twice from six nominations for her roles in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978).

Sally Field won this award twice for her roles in 1979's Norma Rae and 1984's Places in the Heart.

Meryl Streep has received fifteen nominations in this category, winning twice for Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).

Shirley MacLaine won once from five nominations for her role in 1983's Terms of Endearment

At age 21, Marlee Matlin became the youngest person to winner for Best Actress for her performance in Children of a Lesser God (1986).

Jodie Foster won twice for her roles in The Accused (1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

At age 80, Jessica Tandy (left) became the oldest winner in this category for her performance in 1989's Driving Miss Daisy.

Kathy Bates won in 1990 for her role in Misery.

Holly Hunter won for her performance in 1993's The Piano.

Jessica Lange was nominated five times, winning once in 1994 for her role in Blue Sky

Hilary Swank won this award twice for her roles in 1999's Boys Don't Cry and 2004's Million Dollar Baby

Halle Berry won in 2001 for her lead role in Monster's Ball, thus become the first black actress to win this category.

Charlize Theron won in 2003 for her performance in Monster.

Reese Witherspoon won in 2005 for playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line.

Helen Mirren won for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006).

Kate Winslet won for her role in The Reader (2008).

Sandra Bullock won for her performance in 2009's The Blind Side

Natalie Portman won in 2010 for her role in Black Swan.

Cate Blanchett won for her performance in 2013's Blue Jasmine.

Julianne Moore was nominated three times, winning once in 2014 for her role in Still Alice.

Table key

‡	Indicates the winner
*	Indicates posthumous nominee

Year	Actress	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
1927/28 (1st)	Janet Gaynor ‡	7th Heaven Street Angel Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	Diane Angela The Wife
	Louise Dresser	A Ship Comes In	Mrs. Pleznik
	Gloria Swanson	Sadie Thompson	Sadie Thompson
1928/29 (2nd)	Mary Pickford ‡	Coquette	Norma Besant
	Ruth Chatterton	Madame X	Jacqueline Floriot
	Betty Compson	The Barker	Carrie
	Jeanne Eagels *	The Letter	Leslie Crosbie
	Corinne Griffith	The Divine Lady	Emma Hamilton
	Bessie Love	The Broadway Melody	Hank Mahoney
1929/30 (3rd)	Norma Shearer ‡	The Divorcee	Jerry Bernard Martin
	Nancy Carroll	The Devil's Holiday	Hallie Hobart
	Ruth Chatterton	Sarah and Son	Sarah Storm
	Greta Garbo	Anna Christie Romance	Anna Christie Madame Rita Cavallini
	Norma Shearer	Their Own Desire	Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
	Gloria Swanson	The Trespasser	Marion Donnell
1930/31 (4th)	Marie Dressler ‡	Min and Bill	Min Divot
	Marlene Dietrich	Morocco	Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
	Irene Dunne	Cimarron	Sabra Cravat
	Ann Harding	Holiday	Linda Seton
	Norma Shearer	A Free Soul	Jan Ashe
1931/32 (5th)	Helen Hayes ‡	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Madelon Claudet
	Marie Dressler	Emma	Emma Thatcher Smith
	Lynn Fontanne	The Guardsman	The Actress
1932/33 (6th)	Katharine Hepburn ‡	Morning Glory	Eva Lovelace
	May Robson	Lady for a Day	Apple Annie
	Diana Wynyard	Cavalcade	Jane Marryot
1934 (7th)	Claudette Colbert ‡	It Happened One Night	Ellie Andrews
	Grace Moore	One Night of Love	Mary Barrett
	Norma Shearer	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Elizabeth Barrett
	Bette Davis	Of Human Bondage	Mildred Rogers
1935 (8th)	Bette Davis ‡	Dangerous	Joyce Heath
	Elisabeth Bergner	Escape Me Never	Gemma Jones
	Claudette Colbert	Private Worlds	Jane Everest
	Katharine Hepburn	Alice Adams	Alice Adams
	Miriam Hopkins	Becky Sharp	Becky Sharp
	Merle Oberon	The Dark Angel	Kitty Vane
1936 (9th)	Luise Rainer ‡	The Great Ziegfeld	Anna Held
	Irene Dunne	Theodora Goes Wild	Theodora Lynn
	Gladys George	Valiant Is the Word for Carrie	Carrie Snyder
	Carole Lombard	My Man Godfrey	Irene Bullock
	Norma Shearer	Romeo and Juliet	Juliet Capulet
1937 (10th)	Luise Rainer ‡	The Good Earth	O-Lan
	Irene Dunne	The Awful Truth	Lucy Warriner
	Greta Garbo	Camille	Marguerite Gautier
	Janet Gaynor	A Star Is Born	Esther Victoria Blodgett / Vicki Lester
	Barbara Stanwyck	Stella Dallas	Stella Martin Dallas
1938 (11th)	Bette Davis ‡	Jezebel	Julie Marsden
	Fay Bainter	White Banners	Hannah Parmalee
	Wendy Hiller	Pygmalion	Eliza Doolittle
	Norma Shearer	Marie Antoinette	Marie Antoinette
	Margaret Sullavan	Three Comrades	Patricia 'Pat' Hollmann
1939 (12th)	Vivien Leigh ‡	Gone with the Wind	Scarlett O'Hara
	Bette Davis	Dark Victory	Judith Traherne
	Irene Dunne	Love Affair	Terry McKay
	Greta Garbo	Ninotchka	Nina Yakushova 'Ninotchka' Ivanoff
	Greer Garson	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Katherine Bridges
1940 (13th)	Ginger Rogers ‡	Kitty Foyle	Kitty Foyle
	Bette Davis	The Letter	Leslie Crosbie
	Joan Fontaine	Rebecca	The Second Mrs. de Winter
	Katharine Hepburn	The Philadelphia Story	Tracy Lord
	Martha Scott	Our Town	Emily Webb
1941 (14th)	Joan Fontaine ‡	Suspicion	Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
	Bette Davis	The Little Foxes	Regina Giddens
	Olivia de Havilland	Hold Back the Dawn	Emmy Brown
	Greer Garson	Blossoms in the Dust	Edna Gladney
	Barbara Stanwyck	Ball of Fire	Katherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea
1942 (15th)	Greer Garson ‡	Mrs. Miniver	Kay Miniver
	Bette Davis	Now, Voyager	Charlotte Vale
	Katharine Hepburn	Woman of the Year	Tess Harding
	Rosalind Russell	My Sister Eileen	Ruth Sherwood
	Teresa Wright	The Pride of the Yankees	Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig
1943 (16th)	Jennifer Jones ‡	The Song of Bernadette	Bernadette Soubirous
	Jean Arthur	The More the Merrier	Constance "Connie" Milligan
	Ingrid Bergman	For Whom the Bell Tolls	María
	Joan Fontaine	The Constant Nymph	Tessa Sanger
	Greer Garson	Madame Curie	Marie Curie
1944 (17th)	Ingrid Bergman ‡	Gaslight	Paula Alquist Anton
	Claudette Colbert	Since You Went Away	Anne Hilton
	Bette Davis	Mr. Skeffington	Fanny Trellis
	Greer Garson	Mrs. Parkington	Susie 'Sparrow' Parkington
	Barbara Stanwyck	Double Indemnity	Phyllis Dietrichson
1945 (18th)	Joan Crawford ‡	Mildred Pierce	Mildred Pierce Beragon
	Ingrid Bergman	The Bells of St. Mary's	Mary Benedict
	Greer Garson	The Valley of Decision	Mary Rafferty
	Jennifer Jones	Love Letters	Singleton
	Gene Tierney	Leave Her to Heaven	Ellen Berent Harland
1946 (19th)	Olivia de Havilland ‡	To Each His Own	Josephine 'Jody' Norris
	Celia Johnson	Brief Encounter	Laura Jesson
	Jennifer Jones	Duel in the Sun	Pearl Chavez
	Rosalind Russell	Sister Kenny	Elizabeth Kenny
	Jane Wyman	The Yearling	Orry Baxter
1947 (20th)	Loretta Young ‡	The Farmer's Daughter	Katie Holstrom
	Joan Crawford	Possessed	Louise Howell
	Susan Hayward	Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman	Angelica Evans Conway
	Dorothy McGuire	Gentleman's Agreement	Kathy Lacy
	Rosalind Russell	Mourning Becomes Electra	Lavinia Mannon
1948 (21st)	Jane Wyman ‡	Johnny Belinda	Belinda McDonald
	Ingrid Bergman	Joan of Arc	Joan of Arc
	Olivia de Havilland	The Snake Pit	Virginia Stuart Cunningham
	Irene Dunne	I Remember Mama	Martha Hanson
	Barbara Stanwyck	Sorry, Wrong Number	Leona Stevenson
1949 (22nd)	Olivia de Havilland ‡	The Heiress	Catherine Sloper
	Jeanne Crain	Pinky	Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson
	Susan Hayward	My Foolish Heart	Eloise Winters
	Deborah Kerr	Edward, My Son	Evelyn Boult
	Loretta Young	Come to the Stable	Margaret
1950 (23rd)	Judy Holliday ‡	Born Yesterday	Emma 'Billie' Dawn
	Anne Baxter	All About Eve	Eve Harrington
	Bette Davis	All About Eve	Margo Channing
	Eleanor Parker	Caged	Marie Allen
	Gloria Swanson	Sunset Boulevard	Norma Desmond
1951 (24th)	Vivien Leigh ‡	A Streetcar Named Desire	Blanche DuBois
	Katharine Hepburn	The African Queen	Rose Sayer
	Eleanor Parker	Detective Story	Mary McLeod
	Shelley Winters	A Place in the Sun	Alice Tripp
	Jane Wyman	The Blue Veil	Louise Mason
1952 (25th)	Shirley Booth ‡	Come Back, Little Sheba	Lola Delaney
	Joan Crawford	Sudden Fear	Myra Hudson
	Bette Davis	The Star	Margaret Elliot
	Julie Harris	The Member of the Wedding	Frances 'Frankie' Addams
	Susan Hayward	With a Song in My Heart	Jane Froman
1953 (26th)	Audrey Hepburn ‡	Roman Holiday	Princess Ann
	Leslie Caron	Lili	Lili Daurier
	Ava Gardner	Mogambo	Eloise "Honey Bear" Kelly
	Deborah Kerr	From Here to Eternity	Karen Holmes
	Maggie McNamara	The Moon Is Blue	Patty O'Neill
1954 (27th)	Grace Kelly ‡	The Country Girl	Georgie Elgin
	Dorothy Dandridge	Carmen Jones	Carmen Jones
	Judy Garland	A Star is Born	Esther Victoria Blodgett / Vicki Lester
	Audrey Hepburn	Sabrina	Sabrina Fairchild
	Jane Wyman	Magnificent Obsession	Helen Phillips
1955 (28th)	Anna Magnani ‡	The Rose Tattoo	Serafina Delle Rose
	Susan Hayward	I'll Cry Tomorrow	Lillian Roth
	Katharine Hepburn	Summertime	Jane Hudson
	Jennifer Jones	Love is a Many-Splendored Thing	Han Suyin
	Eleanor Parker	Interrupted Melody	Marjorie Lawrence
1956 (29th)	Ingrid Bergman ‡	Anastasia	Anna Koreff / Anastasia
	Carroll Baker	Baby Doll	Baby Doll Meighan
	Katharine Hepburn	The Rainmaker	Lizzie Curry
	Nancy Kelly	The Bad Seed	Christine Penmark
	Deborah Kerr	The King and I	Anna Leonowens
1957 (30th)	Joanne Woodward ‡	The Three Faces of Eve	Eve White / Eve Black / Jane
	Deborah Kerr	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	Angela
	Anna Magnani	Wild Is the Wind	Gioia
	Elizabeth Taylor	Raintree County	Susanna Drake
	Lana Turner	Peyton Place	Constance MacKenzie
1958 (31st)	Susan Hayward ‡	I Want to Live!	Barbara Graham
	Deborah Kerr	Separate Tables	Sibyl Railton-Bell
	Shirley MacLaine	Some Came Running	Ginnie Moorehead
	Rosalind Russell	Auntie Mame	Mame Dennis
	Elizabeth Taylor	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Margaret 'Maggie the Cat' Pollitt
1959 (32nd)	Simone Signoret ‡	Room at the Top	Alice Aisgill
	Doris Day	Pillow Talk	Jan Morrow
	Audrey Hepburn	The Nun's Story	Gabrielle van der Mal
	Katharine Hepburn	Suddenly, Last Summer	Violet Venable
	Elizabeth Taylor	Suddenly, Last Summer	Catherine Holly
1960 (33rd)	Elizabeth Taylor ‡	BUtterfield 8	Gloria Wandrous
	Greer Garson	Sunrise at Campobello	Eleanor Roosevelt
	Deborah Kerr	The Sundowners	Ida Carmody
	Shirley MacLaine	The Apartment	Fran Kubelik
	Melina Mercouri	Never on Sunday	Ilya
1961 (34th)	Sophia Loren ‡	Two Women	Cesira
	Audrey Hepburn	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Holly Golightly
	Piper Laurie	The Hustler	Sarah Packard
	Geraldine Page	Summer and Smoke	Alma Winemiller
	Natalie Wood	Splendor in the Grass	Wilma Dean 'Deanie' Loomis
1962 (35th)	Anne Bancroft ‡	The Miracle Worker	Annie Sullivan
	Bette Davis	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Baby Jane Hudson
	Katharine Hepburn	Long Day's Journey into Night	Mary Cavan Tyrone
	Geraldine Page	Sweet Bird of Youth	Alexandra Del Lago
	Lee Remick	Days of Wine and Roses	Kirsten Arnesen Clay
1963 (36th)	Patricia Neal ‡	Hud	Alma Brown
	Leslie Caron	The L-Shaped Room	Jane Fossett
	Shirley MacLaine	Irma la Douce	Irma La Douce
	Rachel Roberts	This Sporting Life	Margaret Hammond
	Natalie Wood	Love with the Proper Stranger	Angie Rossini
1964 (37th)	Julie Andrews ‡	Mary Poppins	Mary Poppins
	Anne Bancroft	The Pumpkin Eater	Jo Armitage
	Sophia Loren	Marriage Italian Style	Filumena Marturano
	Debbie Reynolds	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Molly Brown
	StanleyKim Stanley	Séance on a Wet Afternoon	Myra Savage
1965 (38th)	Julie Christie ‡	Darling	Diana Scott
	Julie Andrews	The Sound of Music	Maria von Trapp
	Samantha Eggar	The Collector	Miranda Grey
	Elizabeth Hartman	A Patch of Blue	Selina D'Arcy
	Simone Signoret	Ship of Fools	La Contessa
1966 (39th)	Elizabeth Taylor ‡	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Martha
	Anouk Aimée	A Man and a Woman	Anne Gauthier
	Ida Kamińska	The Shop on Main Street	Rozalie Lautmann
	Lynn Redgrave	Georgy Girl	Georgina 'Georgy' Parkin
	Vanessa Redgrave	Morgan!	Leonie Delt
1967 (40th)	Katharine Hepburn ‡	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Christina Drayton
	Anne Bancroft	The Graduate	Mrs. Robinson
	Faye Dunaway	Bonnie and Clyde	Bonnie Parker
	Edith Evans	The Whisperers	Maggie Ross
	Audrey Hepburn	Wait Until Dark	Susy Hendrix
1968 (41st)	Katharine Hepburn ‡	The Lion in Winter	Eleanor of Aquitaine
	Barbra Streisand ‡	Funny Girl	Fanny Brice
	Patricia Neal	The Subject was Roses	Nettie Cleary
	Vanessa Redgrave	Isadora	Isadora Duncan
	Joanne Woodward	Rachel, Rachel	Rachel Cameron
1969 (42nd)	Maggie Smith ‡	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Jean Brodie
	Geneviève Bujold	Anne of the Thousand Days	Anne Boleyn
	Jane Fonda	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Gloria Beatty
	Liza Minnelli	The Sterile Cuckoo	Mary Ann 'Pookie' Adams
	Jean Simmons	The Happy Ending	Mary Wilson
1970 (43rd)	Glenda Jackson ‡	Women in Love	Gudrun Brangwen
	Jane Alexander	The Great White Hope	Eleanor Backman
	Ali MacGraw	Love Story	Jennifer Cavalleri
	Sarah Miles	Ryan's Daughter	Rosy Ryan
	Carrie Snodgress	Diary of a Mad Housewife	Bettina "Tina" Balser
1971 (44th)	Jane Fonda ‡	Klute	Bree Daniels
	Julie Christie	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Constance Miller
	Glenda Jackson	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Alex Greville
	Vanessa Redgrave	Mary, Queen of Scots	Mary, Queen of Scots
	Janet Suzman	Nicholas and Alexandra	Empress Alexandra of Russia
1972 (45th)	Liza Minnelli ‡	Cabaret	Sally Bowles
	Diana Ross	Lady Sings the Blues	Billie Holiday
	Maggie Smith	Travels with My Aunt	Augusta Bertram
	Cicely Tyson	Sounder	Rebecca Morgan
	Liv Ullmann	The Emigrants	Kristina
1973 (46th)	Glenda Jackson ‡	A Touch of Class	Vicki Allessio
	Ellen Burstyn	The Exorcist	Chris MacNeil
	Marsha Mason	Cinderella Liberty	Maggie Paul
	Barbra Streisand	The Way We Were	Katie Morosky
	Joanne Woodward	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Rita Walden
1974 (47th)	Ellen Burstyn ‡	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Alice Hyatt
	Diahann Carroll	Claudine	Claudine Price
	Faye Dunaway	Chinatown	Evelyn Cross Mulwray
	Valerie Perrine	Lenny	Honey Bruce
	Gena Rowlands	A Woman Under the Influence	Mabel Longhetti
1975 (48th)	Louise Fletcher ‡	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Nurse Mildred Ratched
	Isabelle Adjani	The Story of Adele H.	Adèle Hugo Adèle Lewry
	Ann-Margret	Tommy	Nora Walker
	Glenda Jackson	Hedda	Hedda Gabler
	Carol Kane	Hester Street	Gitl
1976 (49th)	Faye Dunaway ‡	Network	Diana Christensen
	Marie-Christine Barrault	Cousin Cousine	Marthe
	Talia Shire	Rocky	Adrian Pennino
	Sissy Spacek	Carrie	Carrie White
	Liv Ullmann	Face to Face	Dr. Jenny Isaksson
1977 (50th)	Diane Keaton ‡	Annie Hall	Annie Hall
	Anne Bancroft	The Turning Point	Emma Jacklin
	Jane Fonda	Julia	Lillian Hellman
	Shirley MacLaine	The Turning Point	Deedee Rodgers
	Marsha Mason	The Goodbye Girl	Paula McFadden
1978 (51st)	Jane Fonda ‡	Coming Home	Sally Hyde
	Ingrid Bergman	Autumn Sonata	Charlotte Andergast
	Ellen Burstyn	Same Time, Next Year	Doris
	Jill Clayburgh	An Unmarried Woman	Erica Benton
	Geraldine Page	Interiors	Eve
1979 (52nd)	Sally Field ‡	Norma Rae	Norma Rae Webster
	Jill Clayburgh	Starting Over	Marilyn Holmberg
	Jane Fonda	The China Syndrome	Kimberly Wells
	Marsha Mason	Chapter Two	Jennie MacLaine
	Bette Midler	The Rose	Mary Rose Foster
1980 (53rd)	Sissy Spacek ‡	Coal Miner's Daughter	Loretta Lynn
	Ellen Burstyn	Resurrection	Edna Mae McCauley
	Goldie Hawn	Private Benjamin	Pvt. Judy Benjamin
	Mary Tyler Moore	Ordinary People	Beth Jarrett
	Gena Rowlands	Gloria	Gloria Swenson
1981 (54th)	Katharine Hepburn ‡	On Golden Pond	Ethel Thayer
	Diane Keaton	Reds	Louise Bryant
	Marsha Mason	Only When I Laugh	Georgia Hines
	Susan Sarandon	Atlantic City	Sally Matthews
	Meryl Streep	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Anna Sara Woodruff
1982 (55th)	Meryl Streep ‡	Sophie's Choice	Sophie Zawistowska
	Julie Andrews	Victor Victoria	Victoria Grant
	Jessica Lange	Frances	Frances Farmer
	Sissy Spacek	Missing	Beth Horman
	Debra Winger	An Officer and a Gentleman	Paula Pokrifki
1983 (56th)	Shirley MacLaine ‡	Terms of Endearment	Aurora Greenway
	Jane Alexander	Testament	Carol Wetherly
	Meryl Streep	Silkwood	Karen Silkwood
	Julie Walters	Educating Rita	Rita
	Debra Winger	Terms of Endearment	Emma Greenway Horton
1984 (57th)	Sally Field ‡	Places in the Heart	Edna Spalding
	Judy Davis	A Passage to India	Adela Quested
	Jessica Lange	Country	Jewell Ivy
	Vanessa Redgrave	The Bostonians	Olive Chancellor
	Sissy Spacek	The River	Mae Garvey
1985 (58th)	Geraldine Page ‡	The Trip to Bountiful	Carrie Watts
	Anne Bancroft	Agnes of God	Mother Miriam Ruth
	Whoopi Goldberg	The Color Purple	Celie Harris Johnson
	Jessica Lange	Sweet Dreams	Patsy Cline
	Meryl Streep	Out of Africa	Karen Blixen
1986 (59th)	Marlee Matlin ‡	Children of a Lesser God	Sarah Norman
	Jane Fonda	The Morning After	Alex Sternbergen
	Sissy Spacek	Crimes of the Heart	Babe Magrath
	Kathleen Turner	Peggy Sue Got Married	Peggy Sue Bodell
	Sigourney Weaver	Aliens	Ellen Ripley
1987 (60th)	Cher ‡	Moonstruck	Loretta Castorini
	Glenn Close	Fatal Attraction	Alex Forrest
	Holly Hunter	Broadcast News	Jane Craig
	Sally Kirkland	Anna	Anna
	Meryl Streep	Ironweed	Helen Archer
1988 (61st)	Jodie Foster ‡	The Accused	Sarah Tobias
	Glenn Close	Dangerous Liaisons	Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
	Melanie Griffith	Working Girl	Tess McGill
	Meryl Streep	A Cry in the Dark	Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
	Sigourney Weaver	Gorillas in the Mist	Dian Fossey
1989 (62nd)	Jessica Tandy ‡	Driving Miss Daisy	Daisy Werthan
	Isabelle Adjani	Camille Claudel	Camille Claudel
	Pauline Collins	Shirley Valentine	Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
	Jessica Lange	Music Box	Ann Talbot
	Michelle Pfeiffer	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Susie Diamond
1990 (63rd)	Kathy Bates ‡	Misery	Annie Wilkes
	Anjelica Huston	The Grifters	Lilly Dillon
	Julia Roberts	Pretty Woman	Vivian Ward
	Meryl Streep	Postcards from the Edge	Suzanne Vale
	Joanne Woodward	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge	India Bridge
1991 (64th)	Jodie Foster ‡	The Silence of the Lambs	Clarice Starling
	Geena Davis	Thelma & Louise	Thelma Dickinson
	Laura Dern	Rambling Rose	Rose
	Bette Midler	For the Boys	Dixie Leonard
	Susan Sarandon	Thelma & Louise	Louise Sawyer
1992 (65th)	Emma Thompson ‡	Howards End	Margaret Schlegel
	Catherine Deneuve	Indochine	Eliane Devries
	Mary McDonnell	Passion Fish	May-Alice Culhane
	Michelle Pfeiffer	Love Field	Lurene Hallett
	Susan Sarandon	Lorenzo's Oil	Michaela Odone
1993 (66th)	Holly Hunter ‡	The Piano	Ada McGrath
	Angela Bassett	What's Love Got to Do with It	Tina Turner
	Stockard Channing	Six Degrees of Separation	Ouisa Kittredge
	Emma Thompson	The Remains of the Day	Sarah "Sally" Kenton
	Debra Winger	Shadowlands	Joy Gresham
1994 (67th)	Jessica Lange ‡	Blue Sky	Carly Marshall
	Jodie Foster	Nell	Nell Kellty
	Miranda Richardson	Tom & Viv	Vivienne Haigh-Wood
	Winona Ryder	Little Women	Jo March
	Susan Sarandon	The Client	Reggie Love
1995 (68th)	Susan Sarandon ‡	Dead Man Walking	Sister Helen Prejean
	Elisabeth Shue	Leaving Las Vegas	Sera
	Sharon Stone	Casino	Ginger McKenna
	Meryl Streep	The Bridges of Madison County	Francesca Johnson
	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility	Elinor Dashwood
1996 (69th)	Frances McDormand ‡	Fargo	Marge Gunderson
	Brenda Blethyn	Secrets & Lies	Cynthia Rose Purley
	Diane Keaton	Marvin's Room	Bessie
	Kristin Scott Thomas	The English Patient	Katharine Clifton
	Emily Watson	Breaking the Waves	Bess McNeill
1997 (70th)	Helen Hunt ‡	As Good as It Gets	Carol Connelly
	Helena Bonham Carter	The Wings of the Dove	Kate Croy
	Julie Christie	Afterglow	Phyllis Mann
	Judi Dench	Mrs Brown	Queen Victoria
	Kate Winslet	Titanic	Rose DeWitt Bukater
1998 (71st)	Gwyneth Paltrow ‡	Shakespeare in Love	Viola De Lesseps
	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth	Elizabeth I of England
	Fernanda Montenegro	Central Station	Dora
	Meryl Streep	One True Thing	Kate Gulden
	Emily Watson	Hilary and Jackie	Jacqueline du Pré
1999 (72nd)	Hilary Swank ‡	Boys Don't Cry	Brandon Teena
	Annette Bening	American Beauty	Carolyn Burnham
	Janet McTeer	Tumbleweeds	Mary Jo Walker
	Julianne Moore	The End of the Affair	Sarah Miles
	Meryl Streep	Music of the Heart	Roberta Guaspari
2000 (73rd)	Julia Roberts ‡	Erin Brockovich	Erin Brockovich
	Joan Allen	The Contender	Laine Hanson
	Juliette Binoche	Chocolat	Vianne Rocher
	Ellen Burstyn	Requiem for a Dream	Sara Goldfarb
	Laura Linney	You Can Count on Me	Sammy Prescott
2001 (74th)	Halle Berry ‡	Monster's Ball	Leticia Musgrove
	Judi Dench	Iris	Iris Murdoch
	Nicole Kidman	Moulin Rouge!	Satine
	Sissy Spacek	In the Bedroom	Ruth Fowler
	Renée Zellweger	Bridget Jones's Diary	Bridget Jones
2002 (75th)	Nicole Kidman ‡	The Hours	Virginia Woolf
	Salma Hayek	Frida	Frida Kahlo
	Diane Lane	Unfaithful	Constance 'Connie' Sumner
	Julianne Moore	Far from Heaven	Cathy Whitaker
	Renée Zellweger	Chicago	Roxie Hart
2003 (76th)	Charlize Theron ‡	Monster	Aileen Wuornos
	Keisha Castle-Hughes	Whale Rider	Paikea Apirana
	Diane Keaton	Something's Gotta Give	Erika Berry
	Samantha Morton	In America	Sarah Sullivan
	Naomi Watts	21 Grams	Cristina "Cris" (Williams) Peck
2004 (77th)	Hilary Swank ‡	Million Dollar Baby	Maggie Fitzgerald
	Annette Bening	Being Julia	Julia Lambert
	Catalina Sandino Moreno	Maria Full of Grace	María Álvarez
	Imelda Staunton	Vera Drake	Vera Rose Drake
	Kate Winslet	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Clementine Kruczynski
2005 (78th)	Reese Witherspoon ‡	Walk the Line	June Carter
	Judi Dench	Mrs Henderson Presents	Laura Henderson
	Felicity Huffman	Transamerica	Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne
	Keira Knightley	Pride & Prejudice	Elizabeth Bennet
	Charlize Theron	North Country	Josey Aimes
2006 (79th)	Helen Mirren ‡	The Queen	Queen Elizabeth II
	Penélope Cruz	Volver	Raimunda
	Judi Dench	Notes on a Scandal	Barbara Covett
	Meryl Streep	The Devil Wears Prada	Miranda Priestly
	Kate Winslet	Little Children	Sarah Pierce
2007 (80th)	Marion Cotillard ‡	La Vie en Rose	Édith Piaf
	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Queen Elizabeth I of England
	Julie Christie	Away from Her	Fiona Anderson
	Laura Linney	The Savages	Wendy Savage
	Ellen Page	Juno	Juno MacGuff
2008 (81st)	Kate Winslet ‡	The Reader	Hanna Schmitz
	Anne Hathaway	Rachel Getting Married	Kym Buchman
	Angelina Jolie	Changeling	Christine Collins
	Melissa Leo	Frozen River	Ray Eddy
	Meryl Streep	Doubt	Aloysius Beauvier
2009 (82nd)	Sandra Bullock ‡	The Blind Side	Leigh Anne Tuohy
	Helen Mirren	The Last Station	Sophia Tolstaya
	Carey Mulligan	An Education	Jenny Mellor
	Gabourey Sidibe	Precious	Claireece "Precious" Jones
	Meryl Streep	Julie & Julia	Julia Child
2010 (83rd)	Natalie Portman ‡	Black Swan	Nina Sayers
	Annette Bening	The Kids Are All Right	Nicole "Nic" Allgood
	Nicole Kidman	Rabbit Hole	Becca Corbett
	Jennifer Lawrence	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly
	Michelle Williams	Blue Valentine	Cynthia "Cindy" Heller
2011 (84th)	Meryl Streep ‡	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
	Glenn Close	Albert Nobbs	Albert Nobbs
	Viola Davis	The Help	Aibileen Clark
	Rooney Mara	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Lisbeth Salander
	Michelle Williams	My Week with Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe
2012 (85th)	Jennifer Lawrence ‡	Silver Linings Playbook	Tiffany Maxwell
	Jessica Chastain	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya
	Emmanuelle Riva	Amour	Anne Laurent
	Quvenzhané Wallis	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Hushpuppy
	Naomi Watts	The Impossible	Maria Bennett
2013 (86th)	Cate Blanchett ‡	Blue Jasmine	Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis
	Amy Adams	American Hustle	Sydney Prosser/Edith Greensly
	Sandra Bullock	Gravity	Ryan Stone
	Judi Dench	Philomena	Philomena Lee
	Meryl Streep	August: Osage County	Violet Weston
2014 (87th)	Julianne Moore ‡	Still Alice	Alice Howland
	Marion Cotillard	Two Days, One Night	Sandra Bya
	Felicity Jones	The Theory of Everything	Jane Wilde Hawking
	Rosamund Pike	Gone Girl	Amy Elliott-Dunne
	Reese Witherspoon	Wild	Cheryl Strayed

Multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received two or more Best Actress awards:

Wins	Actress
4	Katharine Hepburn
2	Ingrid Bergman
	Bette Davis
	Olivia de Havilland
	Sally Field
	Jane Fonda
	Jodie Foster
	Glenda Jackson
	Vivien Leigh
	Luise Rainer
	Meryl Streep
	Hilary Swank
	Elizabeth Taylor

The following individuals received four or more Best Actress nominations:

Nominations	Actress
15	Meryl Streep
12	Katharine Hepburn
10	Bette Davis
7	Greer Garson
6	Ingrid Bergman
	Jane Fonda
	Deborah Kerr
	Sissy Spacek
5	Anne Bancroft
	Ellen Burstyn
	Judi Dench
	Irene Dunne
	Susan Hayward
	Audrey Hepburn
	Jessica Lange
	Shirley MacLaine
	Susan Sarandon
	Norma Shearer
	Elizabeth Taylor
4	Julie Christie
	Olivia de Havilland
	Glenda Jackson
	Jennifer Jones
	Diane Keaton
	Marsha Mason
	Geraldine Page
	Vanessa Redgrave
	Rosalind Russell
	Barbara Stanwyck
	Kate Winslet
	Joanne Woodward
	Jane Wyman

Age superlatives

Record	Actress	Film	Age (in years)	Ref.
Oldest winner	Jessica Tandy	Driving Miss Daisy	80
Oldest nominee	Emmanuelle Riva	Amour	85
Youngest winner	Marlee Matlin	Children of a Lesser God	21
Youngest nominee	Quvenzhané Wallis	Beasts of the Southern Wild	9

See also

• BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Notes

A^{1 2} : Rules at the time of the first three ceremonies allowed for a performer to receive a single nomination which could honor their work in more than one film. Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer were both nominated for two different roles in the same category. Current Academy rules forbid this from happening. No official reason was ever given as to why Shearer won the award for only one of the two films she was listed for.

B^ : Bette Davis's performance in Of Human Bondage was not nominated for an Oscar. Several influential people at the time campaigned to have her name included on the list, so for that year (and the following year also) the Academy relaxed its rules and allowed a write-in vote. Technically this meant that any performance was eligible; however, the Academy does not officially recognize this as a nomination for Davis.

C^{1 2} : Both Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand received the exact number of votes resulting in both actresses receiving the award, according to Academy rules.

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