Academy Award for Best Actress

Winners

2025	Hamnet	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Jessie Buckley
2024	Anora	★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Mikey Madison
2023	Poor Things	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Emma Stone
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Michelle Yeoh
2021	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	★☆	Jessica Chastain
2020	Nomadland	★★★★★★★★★☆☆☆	Frances McDormand
2019	Judy	★★★	Renée Zellweger
2018	The Favourite	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Olivia Colman
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Frances McDormand
2016	La La Land	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Emma Stone
2015	Room	★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Brie Larson
2014	Still Alice	★★★	Julianne Moore
2013	Blue Jasmine	★★★☆	Cate Blanchett
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Jennifer Lawrence
2011	The Iron Lady	★★★	Meryl Streep
2010	Black Swan	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Natalie Portman
2009	The Blind Side	★★☆	Sandra Bullock
2008	The Reader	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Kate Winslet
2007	La Vie en Rose	★★	Marion Cotillard
2006	The Queen	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Helen Mirren
2005	Walk the Line	★★☆☆	Reese Witherspoon
2004	Million Dollar Baby	★★★★★☆☆☆	Hilary Swank
2003	Monster	★★☆	Charlize Theron
2002	The Hours	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Nicole Kidman
2001	Monster's Ball	★☆☆☆	Halle Berry
2000	Erin Brockovich	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Julia Roberts
1999	Boys Don't Cry	★★☆	Hilary Swank
1998	Shakespeare in Love	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Gwyneth Paltrow
1997	As Good as It Gets	★★☆☆☆☆	Helen Hunt
1996	Fargo	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Frances McDormand
1995	Dead Man Walking	★☆☆☆☆☆	Susan Sarandon
1994	Blue Sky	★★	Jessica Lange
1993	The Piano	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Holly Hunter
1992	Howards End	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Emma Thompson
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Jodie Foster
1990	Misery	★★	Kathy Bates
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	★★★★☆☆	Jessica Tandy
1988	The Accused	★★☆	Jodie Foster
1987	Moonstruck	★★☆☆☆☆	Cher
1986	Children of a Lesser God	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Marlee Matlin
1985	The Trip to Bountiful	★☆☆	Geraldine Page
1984	Places in the Heart	★★★☆☆☆☆	Sally Field
1983	Terms of Endearment	★★★★★★★☆☆	Shirley MacLaine
1982	Sophie's Choice	★★☆☆☆	Meryl Streep
1981	On Golden Pond	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Katharine Hepburn
1980	Coal Miner's Daughter	★☆☆☆	Sissy Spacek
1979	Norma Rae	★★☆☆☆☆	Sally Field
1978	Coming Home	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Jane Fonda
1977	Annie Hall	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Diane Keaton
1976	Network	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Faye Dunaway
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Louise Fletcher
1974	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	★★★☆☆☆	Ellen Burstyn
1973	A Touch of Class	★☆☆☆☆	Glenda Jackson
1972	Cabaret	★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Liza Minnelli
1971	Klute	★★☆☆☆	Jane Fonda
1970	Women in Love	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Glenda Jackson
1969	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	★★☆☆	Maggie Smith
1968	Funny Girl	★☆☆☆	Barbra Streisand
1968	The Lion in Winter	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Katharine Hepburn
1967	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Katharine Hepburn
1966	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Elizabeth Taylor
1965	Darling	★★★★☆☆☆☆	Julie Christie
1964	Mary Poppins	★☆☆☆	Julie Andrews
1963	Hud	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Patricia Neal
1962	The Miracle Worker	★★☆☆☆☆	Anne Bancroft
1961	Two Women	★★	Sophia Loren
1960	BUtterfield 8	★☆	Elizabeth Taylor
1959	Room at the Top	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Simone Signoret
1958	I Want to Live!	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Susan Hayward
1957	The Three Faces of Eve	★★☆	Joanne Woodward
1956	Anastasia	★★	Ingrid Bergman
1955	The Rose Tattoo	★★★☆	Anna Magnani
1954	The Country Girl	★★★☆☆☆☆	Grace Kelly
1953	Roman Holiday	★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Audrey Hepburn
1952	Come Back, Little Sheba	★★☆☆	Shirley Booth
1951	A Streetcar Named Desire	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Vivien Leigh
1950	Born Yesterday	★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Judy Holliday
1949	The Heiress	★★☆☆	Olivia de Havilland
1948	Johnny Belinda	★★★☆☆☆☆	Jane Wyman
1947	The Farmer's Daughter	★	Loretta Young
1946	To Each His Own	★	Olivia de Havilland
1945	Mildred Pierce	★☆☆	Joan Crawford
1944	Gaslight	★★☆☆☆	Ingrid Bergman
1943	The Song of Bernadette	★★★★☆☆☆	Jennifer Jones
1942	Mrs. Miniver	★★★★☆	Greer Garson
1941	Suspicion	★☆	Joan Fontaine
1940	Kitty Foyle	★☆☆☆	Ginger Rogers
1939	Gone with the Wind	★★★★☆	Vivien Leigh
1938	Jezebel	★☆	Bette Davis
1937	The Good Earth	★☆☆	Luise Rainer
1936	The Great Ziegfeld	★★☆	Luise Rainer
1935	Dangerous	★	Bette Davis
1934	It Happened One Night	★★★★★	Claudette Colbert
1932	Morning Glory	★	Katharine Hepburn
1931	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	★	Helen Hayes
1930	Min and Bill	★	Marie Dressler
1929	The Divorcee	★☆☆☆	Norma Shearer
1928	Coquette	★	Mary Pickford
1927	7th Heaven	★★★☆	Janet Gaynor