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