Academy Awards, Actress in a Leading Role

2024

Carey Mulligan / Maestro

Annette Bening / NYAD

Lily Gladstone / Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hüller / Anatomie d'une chute

Emma Stone / Poor Things

2023

Ana de Armas / Blonde

Cate Blanchett / TÁR

Michelle Williams / The Fabelmans

Andrea Riseborough / To Leslie

Michelle Yeoh / Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

Nicole Kidman / Being the Ricardos

Jessica Chastain / The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Olivia Colman / The Lost Daughter

Kristen Stewart / Spencer

Penélope Cruz / Madres Paralelas

2021

Frances McDormand / Nomadland

Vanessa Kirby / Pieces of a Woman

Viola Davis / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Andra Day / The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Carey Mulligan / Promising Young Woman

2020

Saoirse Ronan / Little Women

Cynthia Erivo / Harriet

Charlize Theron / Bombshell

Renée Zellweger / Judy

Scarlett Johansson / Marriage Story

2019

Lady Gaga / A Star is Born

Olivia Colman / The Favourite

Melissa McCarthy / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Glenn Close / The Wife

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

Meryl Streep / August: Osage County

Sandra Bullock / Gravity

Cate Blanchett / Blue Jasmine

2013

Jennifer Lawrence / Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva / Amour

2012

Rooney Mara / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Glenn Close / Albert Nobbs

Meryl Streep / The Iron Lady

Michelle Williams / My Week with Marilyn

Viola Davis / The Help

2011

Michelle Williams / Blue Valentine

Nicole Kidman / Rabbit Hole

Natalie Portman / Black Swan

Annette Bening / The Kids Are All Right

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

Catalina Sandino Moreno / Maria Full of Grace

Annette Bening / Being Julia

Hilary Swank / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Charlize Theron / Monster

2003

Renée Zellweger / Chicago

Nicole Kidman / The Hours

Diane Lane / Unfaithful

Salma Hayek / Frida

2002

Halle Berry / Monster's Ball

Renée Zellweger / Bridget Jones's Diary

Nicole Kidman / Moulin Rouge!

Judi Dench / Iris

2001

Julia Roberts / Erin Brockovich

2000

Annette Bening / American Beauty

Hilary Swank / Boys Don't Cry

1999

Fernanda Montenegro / Central do Brasil

Gwyneth Paltrow / Shakespeare in Love

1998

Kate Winslet / Titanic

Helena Bonham Carter / The Wings of the Dove

Helen Hunt / As Good as It Gets

1997

Frances McDormand / Fargo

Kristin Scott Thomas / The English Patient

1996

Susan Sarandon / Dead Man Walking

Elisabeth Shue / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Winona Ryder / Little Women

Jessica Lange / Blue Sky

1994

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

Holly Hunter / The Piano

1993

Catherine Deneuve / Indochine

Michelle Pfeiffer / Love Field

Emma Thompson / Howards End

1992

Jodie Foster / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Kathy Bates / Misery

Anjelica Huston / The Grifters

1990

Jessica Tandy / Driving Miss Daisy

Jessica Lange / Music Box

Michelle Pfeiffer / The Fabulous Baker Boys

Isabelle Adjani / Camille Claudel

1989

Meryl Streep / A Cry in the Dark

Glenn Close / Dangerous Liaisons

Melanie Griffith / Working Girl

Sigourney Weaver / Gorillas in the Mist

Jodie Foster / The Accused

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

Sissy Spacek / Missing

Debra Winger / An Officer and a Gentleman

1982

Susan Sarandon / Atlantic City

Katharine Hepburn / On Golden Pond

1981

Sissy Spacek / Coal Miner's Daughter

Mary Tyler Moore / Ordinary People

1980

Jill Clayburgh / Starting Over

1979

Ingrid Bergman / Höstsonaten

Jane Fonda / Coming Home

1978

Anne Bancroft / The Turning Point

Shirley MacLaine / The Turning Point

Diane Keaton / Annie Hall

Marsha Mason / The Goodbye Girl

1977

Marie-Christine Barrault / Cousin, Cousine

Faye Dunaway / Network

Talia Shire / Rocky

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

Glenda Jackson / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Jane Fonda / Klute

1971

Glenda Jackson / Women in Love

1969

Patricia Neal / The Subject Was Roses

Katharine Hepburn / The Lion in Winter

Barbra Streisand / Funny Girl

1968

Anne Bancroft / The Graduate

Audrey Hepburn / Wait Until Dark

Katharine Hepburn / Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1967

Elizabeth Hartman / A Patch of Blue

Anouk Aiméé / Un homme et une femme

1965

Sophia Loren / Matrimonio all'italiana

Julie Andrews / Mary Poppins

Anne Bancroft / The Pumpkin Eater

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

Audrey Hepburn / The Nun's Story

Katharine Hepburn / Suddenly, Last Summer

Doris Day / Pillow Talk

1959

Elizabeth Taylor / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Shirley MacLaine / Some Came Running

1958

Miyoshi Umeki / Sayonara

1957

Deborah Kerr / The King and I

Ingrid Bergman / Anastasia

Katharine Hepburn / The Rainmaker

Carroll Baker / Baby Doll

Nancy Kelly / The Bad Seed

1956

Katharine Hepburn / Summertime

Betsy Blair / Marty

1955

Judy Garland / A Star Is Born

Audrey Hepburn / Sabrina

1954

Audrey Hepburn / Roman Holiday

Maggie McNamara / The Moon Is Blue

1952

Shelley Winters / A Place in the Sun

Katharine Hepburn / The African Queen

Vivien Leigh / A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Anne Baxter / All About Eve

Gloria Swanson / Sunset Boulevard

Bette Davis / All About Eve

1950

Olivia de Havilland / The Heiress

1949

Jane Wyman / Johnny Belinda

Ingrid Bergman / Joan of Arc

Olivia de Havilland / The Snake Pit

1948

Dorothy McGuire / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Celia Johnson / Brief Encounter

Olivia de Havilland / To Each His Own

Jane Wyman / The Yearling

1946

Joan Crawford / Mildred Pierce

Ingrid Bergman / The Bells of St. Mary's

1945

Ingrid Bergman / Gaslight

Claudette Colbert / Since You Went Away

1944

Joan Fontaine / The Constant Nymph

Jennifer Jones / The Song of Bernadette

Ingrid Bergman / For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943

Greer Garson / Mrs. Miniver

Katharine Hepburn / Woman of the Year

1942

Joan Fontaine / Suspicion

Olivia de Havilland / Hold Back the Dawn

1941

Joan Fontaine / Rebecca

Katharine Hepburn / The Philadelphia Story

1940

Vivien Leigh / Gone with the Wind

Greta Garbo / Ninotchka

Greer Garson / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1938

Greta Garbo / Camille

1936

Katharine Hepburn / Alice Adams

Claudette Colbert / Private Worlds

1935

Claudette Colbert / It Happened One Night

1934

Katharine Hepburn / Morning Glory

1932

Helen Hayes / The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1930

Greta Garbo / Romance

Greta Garbo / Anna Christie

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