Academy Awards, Actress in a Leading Role

2026

Renate Reinsve / Affeksjonsverdi

Kate Hudson / Song Sung Blue

Rose Byrne / If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Emma Stone / Bugonia

Jessie Buckley / Hamnet

2025

Fernanda Torres / Ainda Estou Aqui

Demi Moore / The Substance

Cynthia Erivo / Wicked

Mikey Madison / Anora

Karla Sofía Gascón / Emilia Pérez

2024

Carey Mulligan / Maestro

Lily Gladstone / Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hüller / Anatomie d'une chute

Emma Stone / Poor Things

Annette Bening / NYAD

2023

Michelle Williams / The Fabelmans

Ana de Armas / Blonde

Michelle Yeoh / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Andrea Riseborough / To Leslie

Cate Blanchett / TÁR

2022

Kristen Stewart / Spencer

Nicole Kidman / Being the Ricardos

Penélope Cruz / Madres Paralelas

Olivia Colman / The Lost Daughter

Jessica Chastain / The Eyes of Tammy Faye

2021

Andra Day / The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Carey Mulligan / Promising Young Woman

Vanessa Kirby / Pieces of a Woman

Frances McDormand / Nomadland

Viola Davis / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2020

Scarlett Johansson / Marriage Story

Charlize Theron / Bombshell

Saoirse Ronan / Little Women

Cynthia Erivo / Harriet

Renée Zellweger / Judy

2019

Lady Gaga / A Star Is Born

Melissa McCarthy / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Glenn Close / The Wife

Olivia Colman / The Favourite

2018

Frances McDormand / Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie / I, Tonya

2017

Emma Stone / La La Land

Natalie Portman / Jackie

Isabelle Huppert / Elle

2016

Brie Larson / Room

Cate Blanchett / Carol

2015

Felicity Jones / The Theory of Everything

Marion Cotillard / Deux jours, une nuit

Julianne Moore / Still Alice

2014

Cate Blanchett / Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock / Gravity

Meryl Streep / August: Osage County

2013

Emmanuelle Riva / Amour

Jennifer Lawrence / Silver Linings Playbook

2012

Rooney Mara / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Meryl Streep / The Iron Lady

Viola Davis / The Help

Glenn Close / Albert Nobbs

Michelle Williams / My Week with Marilyn

2011

Annette Bening / The Kids Are All Right

Natalie Portman / Black Swan

Nicole Kidman / Rabbit Hole

Michelle Williams / Blue Valentine

2010

Carey Mulligan / An Education

Sandra Bullock / The Blind Side

Gabourey Sidibe / Precious

2009

Angelina Jolie / Changeling

Meryl Streep / Doubt

Kate Winslet / The Reader

2008

Marion Cotillard / La Môme

Cate Blanchett / Elizabeth: The Golden Age

2007

Meryl Streep / The Devil Wears Prada

Penélope Cruz / Volver

Helen Mirren / The Queen

2006

Charlize Theron / North Country

Reese Witherspoon / Walk the Line

2005

Hilary Swank / Million Dollar Baby

Catalina Sandino Moreno / María, llena eres de gracia

Annette Bening / Being Julia

2004

Charlize Theron / Monster

2003

Nicole Kidman / The Hours

Diane Lane / Unfaithful

Renée Zellweger / Chicago

Salma Hayek / Frida

2002

Renée Zellweger / Bridget Jones's Diary

Judi Dench / Iris

Halle Berry / Monster's Ball

Nicole Kidman / Moulin Rouge!

2001

Julia Roberts / Erin Brockovich

2000

Hilary Swank / Boys Don't Cry

Annette Bening / American Beauty

1999

Fernanda Montenegro / Central do Brasil

Gwyneth Paltrow / Shakespeare in Love

1998

Helen Hunt / As Good as It Gets

Kate Winslet / Titanic

Helena Bonham Carter / The Wings of the Dove

1997

Frances McDormand / Fargo

Kristin Scott Thomas / The English Patient

1996

Elisabeth Shue / Leaving Las Vegas

Susan Sarandon / Dead Man Walking

1995

Jessica Lange / Blue Sky

Winona Ryder / Little Women

1994

Holly Hunter / The Piano

Angela Bassett / What's Love Got to Do with It

1993

Michelle Pfeiffer / Love Field

Emma Thompson / Howards End

Catherine Deneuve / Indochine

1992

Jodie Foster / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Kathy Bates / Misery

Anjelica Huston / The Grifters

1990

Michelle Pfeiffer / The Fabulous Baker Boys

Jessica Tandy / Driving Miss Daisy

Isabelle Adjani / Camille Claudel

Jessica Lange / Music Box

1989

Jodie Foster / The Accused

Glenn Close / Dangerous Liaisons

Sigourney Weaver / Gorillas in the Mist

Meryl Streep / A Cry in the Dark

Melanie Griffith / Working Girl

1988

Cher / Moonstruck

Glenn Close / Fatal Attraction

1987

Marlee Matlin / Children of a Lesser God

Sigourney Weaver / Aliens

1986

Anne Bancroft / Agnes of God

1985

Sally Field / Places in the Heart

Judy Davis / A Passage to India

1984

Shirley MacLaine / Terms of Endearment

Julie Walters / Educating Rita

1983

Debra Winger / An Officer and a Gentleman

Sissy Spacek / Missing

1982

Katharine Hepburn / On Golden Pond

Susan Sarandon / Atlantic City

1981

Mary Tyler Moore / Ordinary People

Sissy Spacek / Coal Miner's Daughter

1980

Jill Clayburgh / Starting Over

1979

Jane Fonda / Coming Home

Ingrid Bergman / Höstsonaten

1978

Diane Keaton / Annie Hall

Shirley MacLaine / The Turning Point

Anne Bancroft / The Turning Point

Marsha Mason / The Goodbye Girl

1977

Faye Dunaway / Network

Talia Shire / Rocky

Marie-Christine Barrault / Cousin, Cousine

1976

Louise Fletcher / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1974

Barbra Streisand / The Way We Were

1973

Diana Ross / Lady Sings the Blues

Liv Ullmann / Utvandrarna

1972

Julie Christie / McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Jane Fonda / Klute

Glenda Jackson / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Glenda Jackson / Women in Love

1969

Barbra Streisand / Funny Girl

Patricia Neal / The Subject Was Roses

Katharine Hepburn / The Lion in Winter

1968

Anne Bancroft / The Graduate

Katharine Hepburn / Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Audrey Hepburn / Wait Until Dark

1967

Anouk Aiméé / Un homme et une femme

Elizabeth Hartman / A Patch of Blue

1965

Anne Bancroft / The Pumpkin Eater

Julie Andrews / Mary Poppins

Sophia Loren / Matrimonio all'italiana

1964

Patricia Neal / Hud

Shirley MacLaine / Irma la Douce

1963

Katharine Hepburn / Long Day's Journey Into Night

Anne Bancroft / The Miracle Worker

1962

Piper Laurie / The Hustler

Sophia Loren / La ciociara

Audrey Hepburn / Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961

Shirley MacLaine / The Apartment

1960

Katharine Hepburn / Suddenly, Last Summer

Audrey Hepburn / The Nun's Story

Doris Day / Pillow Talk

1959

Elizabeth Taylor / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Shirley MacLaine / Some Came Running

1958

Miyoshi Umeki / Sayonara

1957

Ingrid Bergman / Anastasia

Deborah Kerr / The King and I

Nancy Kelly / The Bad Seed

Katharine Hepburn / The Rainmaker

Carroll Baker / Baby Doll

1956

Betsy Blair / Marty

Katharine Hepburn / Summertime

1955

Judy Garland / A Star Is Born

Audrey Hepburn / Sabrina

1954

Maggie McNamara / The Moon Is Blue

Audrey Hepburn / Roman Holiday

1952

Katharine Hepburn / The African Queen

Vivien Leigh / A Streetcar Named Desire

Shelley Winters / A Place in the Sun

1951

Bette Davis / All About Eve

Anne Baxter / All About Eve

Gloria Swanson / Sunset Boulevard

1950

Olivia de Havilland / The Heiress

1949

Jane Wyman / Johnny Belinda

Olivia de Havilland / The Snake Pit

Ingrid Bergman / Joan of Arc

1948

Dorothy McGuire / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Olivia de Havilland / To Each His Own

Jane Wyman / The Yearling

Celia Johnson / Brief Encounter

1946

Joan Crawford / Mildred Pierce

Ingrid Bergman / The Bells of St. Mary's

1945

Claudette Colbert / Since You Went Away

Ingrid Bergman / Gaslight

1944

Ingrid Bergman / For Whom the Bell Tolls

Jennifer Jones / The Song of Bernadette

Joan Fontaine / The Constant Nymph

1943

Katharine Hepburn / Woman of the Year

Greer Garson / Mrs. Miniver

1942

Olivia de Havilland / Hold Back the Dawn

Joan Fontaine / Suspicion

1941

Katharine Hepburn / The Philadelphia Story

Joan Fontaine / Rebecca

1940

Greer Garson / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Vivien Leigh / Gone with the Wind

Greta Garbo / Ninotchka

1938

Greta Garbo / Camille

1936

Claudette Colbert / Private Worlds

Katharine Hepburn / Alice Adams

1935

Claudette Colbert / It Happened One Night

1934

Katharine Hepburn / Morning Glory

1932

Helen Hayes / The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1930

Greta Garbo / Anna Christie

Greta Garbo / Romance

1929

Janet Gaynor / Street Angel

Janet Gaynor / Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Louise Dresser / A Ship Comes In

Gloria Swanson / Sadie Thompson

Janet Gaynor / 7th Heaven

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