Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role

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Nominees and winners of the Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (bold face indicates winner):

2007
- Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Julie Christie - Away from Her
- Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
- Laura Linney - The Savages
- Ellen Page - Juno
2006
- Penélope Cruz - Volver
- Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
- Helen Mirren - The Queen
- Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
- Kate Winslet - Little Children
2005
- Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
- Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
- Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice
- Charlize Theron - North Country
- Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
2004
- Annette Bening - Being Julia
- Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace
- Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
- Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
- Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003
- Keisha Castle-Hughes - Whale Rider
- Diane Keaton - Something's Gotta Give
- Samantha Morton - In America
- Charlize Theron - Monster
- Naomi Watts - 21 Grams
2002
- Salma Hayek - Frida
- Nicole Kidman - The Hours
- Diane Lane - Unfaithful
- Julianne Moore - Far From Heaven
- Renée Zellweger - Chicago
2001
- Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
- Judi Dench - Iris
- Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge
- Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
- Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones's Diary
2000
- Joan Allen - The Contender
- Juliette Binoche - Chocolat
- Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
- Laura Linney - You Can Count On Me
- Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
1999
- Annette Bening - American Beauty
- Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds
- Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair
- Meryl Streep - Music of the Heart
- Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
1998
- Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth
- Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station
- Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love
- Meryl Streep - One True Thing
- Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie
1997
- Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove
- Julie Christie - Afterglow
- Judi Dench - Mrs. Brown
- Helen Hunt - As Good As It Gets
- Kate Winslet - Titanic (1997)
1996
- Brenda Blethyn - Secrets and Lies
- Diane Keaton - Marvin's Room
- Frances McDormand - Fargo
- Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient
- Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves
1995
- Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking
- Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
- Sharon Stone - Casino
- Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County
- Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility
1994
- Jodie Foster - Nell
- Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
- Miranda Richardson - Tom & Viv
- Winona Ryder - Little Women (1994)
- Susan Sarandon - The Client
1993
- Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It
- Stockard Channing - Six Degrees of Separation
- Holly Hunter - The Piano
- Emma Thompson - The Remains of the Day
- Debra Winger - Shadowlands
1992
- Catherine Deneuve - Indochine
- Mary McDonnell - Passion Fish
- Michelle Pfeiffer - Love Field
- Susan Sarandon - Lorenzo's Oil
- Emma Thompson - Howards End
1991
- Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
- Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
- Laura Dern - Rambling Rose
- Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
- Bette Midler - For the Boys
1990
- Kathy Bates - Misery
- Anjelica Huston - The Grifters
- Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman
- Meryl Streep - Postcards from the Edge
- Joanne Woodward - Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1989
- Isabelle Adjani - Camille Claudel
- Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
- Jessica Lange - Music Box
- Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
1988
- Glenn Close - Dangerous Liaisons
- Jodie Foster - The Accused
- Melanie Griffith - Working Girl
- Meryl Streep - A Cry in the Dark
- Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist
1987
- Cher - Moonstruck
- Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
- Holly Hunter - Broadcast News
- Sally Kirkland - Anna
- Meryl Streep - Ironweed
1986
- Jane Fonda - The Morning After
- Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God
- Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart
- Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got Married
- Sigourney Weaver - Aliens
1985
- Anne Bancroft - Agnes of God
- Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple
- Jessica Lange - Sweet Dreams
- Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful
- Meryl Streep - Out of Africa
1984
- Judy Davis - A Passage to India
- Sally Field - Places in the Heart
- Jessica Lange - Country
- Vanessa Redgrave - The Bostonians
- Sissy Spacek - The River
1983
- Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
- Debra Winger - Terms of Endearment
- Jane Alexander - Testament
- Meryl Streep - Silkwood
- Julie Walters - Educating Rita
1982
- Julie Andrews - Victor/Victoria
- Jessica Lange - Frances
- Sissy Spacek - Missing
- Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
- Debra Winger - An Officer and a Gentleman
1981
- Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
- Diane Keaton - Reds
- Marsha Mason - Only When I Laugh
- Susan Sarandon - Atlantic City
- Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman
1980
- Ellen Burstyn - Resurrection
- Goldie Hawn - Private Benjamin
- Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People
- Gena Rowlands - Gloria
- Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter
1979
- Jill Clayburgh - Starting Over
- Sally Field - Norma Rae
- Jane Fonda - The China Syndrome
- Marsha Mason - Chapter Two
- Bette Midler - The Rose
1978
- Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
- Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year
- Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman
- Jane Fonda - Coming Home
- Geraldine Page - Interiors
1977
- Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point
- Shirley MacLaine - The Turning Point
- Jane Fonda - Julia
- Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
- Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl
1976
- Marie-Christine Barrault - Cousin, Cousine
- Faye Dunaway - Network
- Talia Shire - Rocky
- Sissy Spacek - Carrie (1976)
- Liv Ullmann - Face to Face
1975
- Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H.
- Ann-Margret - Tommy
- Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Glenda Jackson - Hedda
- Carol Kane - Hester Street
1974
- Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Diahann Carroll - Claudine
- Faye Dunaway - Chinatown
- Valerie Perrine - Lenny
- Gena Rowlands - A Woman under the Influence
1973
- Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist
- Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class
- Marsha Mason - Cinderella Liberty
- Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
- Joanne Woodward - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1972
- Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
- Diana Ross - Lady Sings the Blues
- Maggie Smith - Travels with My Aunt
- Cicely Tyson - Sounder
- Liv Ullmann - The Emigrants
1971
- Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- Jane Fonda - Klute
- Glenda Jackson - Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Vanessa Redgrave - Mary, Queen of Scots
- Janet Suzman - Nicholas and Alexandra
1970
- Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope
- Glenda Jackson - Women in Love
- Ali MacGraw - Love Story
- Sarah Miles - Ryan's Daughter
- Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife
1969
- Genevieve Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days
- Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo
- Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending
- Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1968
- Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter
- Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses
- Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora
- Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
- Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel
1967
- Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
- Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde
- Dame Edith Evans - The Whisperers
- Audrey Hepburn - Wait until Dark
- Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1966
- Anouk Aimee - A Man and a Woman
- Ida Kaminska - The Shop on Main Street
- Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl
- Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan!
- Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1965
- Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music
- Julie Christie - Darling
- Samantha Eggar - The Collector
- Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue
- Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools
1964
- Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
- Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater
- Sophia Loren - Marriage Italian Style
- Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Kim Stanley - Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1963
- Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
- Shirley MacLaine - Irma La Douce
- Patricia Neal - Hud
- Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life
- Natalie Wood - Love with the Proper Stranger
1962
- Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
- Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey into Night
- Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
- Lee Remick - Days of Wine and Roses
1961
- Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Piper Laurie - The Hustler
- Sophia Loren - Two Women
- Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
- Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass
1960
- Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
- Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners
- Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
- Melina Mercouri - Never on Sunday
- Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8
1959
- Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly, Last Summer
- Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer
- Doris Day - Pillow Talk
- Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story
- Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
1958
- Susan Hayward - I Want To Live!
- Deborah Kerr - Separate Tables
- Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running
- Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame
- Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1957
- Deborah Kerr - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Anna Magnani - Wild Is the Wind
- Elizabeth Taylor - Raintree County
- Lana Turner - Peyton Place
- Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
1956
- Carroll Baker - Baby Doll
- Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia (1956)
- Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker
- Nancy Kelly - The Bad Seed
- Deborah Kerr - The King and I
1955
- Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow
- Katharine Hepburn - Summertime
- Jennifer Jones - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
- Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
- Eleanor Parker - Interrupted Melody
1954
- Dorothy Dandridge - Carmen Jones
- Judy Garland - A Star Is Born (1954)
- Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina (1954)
- Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
- Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession
1953
- Leslie Caron - Lili
- Ava Gardner - Mogambo
- Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
- Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity
- Maggie McNamara - The Moon Is Blue
1952
- Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba
- Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear
- Bette Davis - The Star
- Julie Harris (act) - The Member of the Wedding
- Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart
1951
- Katharine Hepburn - The African Queen
- Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Eleanor Parker - Detective Story
- Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Jane Wyman - The Blue Veil
1950
- Anne Baxter - All about Eve
- Bette Davis - All about Eve
- Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
- Eleanor Parker - Caged
- Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd.
1949
- Jeanne Crain - Pinky
- Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
- Susan Hayward - My Foolish Heart
- Deborah Kerr - Edward, My Son
- Loretta Young - Come to the Stable
1948
- Ingrid Bergman - Joan of Arc
- Olivia de Havilland - The Snake Pit
- Irene Dunne - I Remember Mama
- Barbara Stanwyck - Sorry, Wrong Number
- Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
1947
- Joan Crawford - Possessed
- Susan Hayward - Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman
- Dorothy McGuire - Gentleman's Agreement
- Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra
- Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter
1946
- Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
- Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter
- Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun
- Rosalind Russell - Sister Kenny
- Jane Wyman - The Yearling
1945
- Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's
- Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce
- Greer Garson - The Valley of Decision
- Jennifer Jones - Love Letters
- Gene Tierney - Leave Her to Heaven
1944
- Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
- Claudette Colbert - Since You Went Away
- Bette Davis - Mr. Skeffington
- Greer Garson - Mrs. Parkington
- Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity
1943
- Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier
- Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph
- Greer Garson - Madame Curie
- Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
1942
- Bette Davis - Now, Voyager
- Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver
- Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year
- Rosalind Russell - My Sister Eileen
- Teresa Wright - The Pride of the Yankees
1941
- Bette Davis - The Little Foxes
- Olivia de Havilland - Hold Back the Dawn
- Joan Fontaine - Suspicion
- Greer Garson - Blossoms in the Dust
- Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire
1940
- Bette Davis - The Letter (1940)
- Joan Fontaine - Rebecca
- Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story
- Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
- Martha Scott - Our Town
1939
- Bette Davis - Dark Victory
- Irene Dunne - Love Affair
- Greta Garbo - Ninotchka
- Greer Garson - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind
1938
- Fay Bainter - White Banners
- Bette Davis - Jezebel
- Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion
- Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette
- Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades
1937
- Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth
- Greta Garbo - Camille
- Janet Gaynor - A Star Is Born (1937)
- Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
- Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas
1936
- Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild
- Gladys George - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
- Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey
- Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
- Norma Shearer - Romeo and Juliet (1936)
1935
- Elisabeth Bergner - Escape Me Never
- Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds
- Bette Davis - Dangerous
- Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams
- Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp
- Merle Oberon - The Dark Angel
1934
- Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
- Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage
- Grace Moore - One Night of Love
- Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1932/1933
- Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory
- May Robson - Lady for a Day
- Diana Wynyard - Cavalcade
1931/1932