Academy Awards, Actress in a Leading Role

2026

Cynthia Erivo / Wicked: For Good

2025

Cynthia Erivo / Wicked

Fernanda Torres / Ainda Estou Aqui

Demi Moore / The Substance

Mikey Madison / Anora

Karla Sofía Gascón / Emilia Pérez

2024

Annette Bening / NYAD

Sandra Hüller / Anatomie d'une chute

Emma Stone / Poor Things

Carey Mulligan / Maestro

Lily Gladstone / Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Michelle Yeoh / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Cate Blanchett / TÁR

Michelle Williams / The Fabelmans

Andrea Riseborough / To Leslie

Ana de Armas / Blonde

2022

Olivia Colman / The Lost Daughter

Jessica Chastain / The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Penélope Cruz / Madres Paralelas

Nicole Kidman / Being the Ricardos

Kristen Stewart / Spencer

2021

Frances McDormand / Nomadland

Andra Day / The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Carey Mulligan / Promising Young Woman

Vanessa Kirby / Pieces of a Woman

Viola Davis / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2020

Charlize Theron / Bombshell

Saoirse Ronan / Little Women

Renée Zellweger / Judy

Cynthia Erivo / Harriet

Scarlett Johansson / Marriage Story

2019

Olivia Colman / The Favourite

Melissa McCarthy / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Lady Gaga / A Star is Born

Glenn Close / The Wife

2018

Margot Robbie / I, Tonya

Frances McDormand / Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017

Isabelle Huppert / Elle

Emma Stone / La La Land

Natalie Portman / Jackie

2016

Brie Larson / Room

Cate Blanchett / Carol

2015

Marion Cotillard / Deux jours, une nuit

Julianne Moore / Still Alice

Felicity Jones / The Theory of Everything

2014

Meryl Streep / August: Osage County

Cate Blanchett / Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock / Gravity

2013

Jennifer Lawrence / Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva / Amour

2012

Michelle Williams / My Week with Marilyn

Glenn Close / Albert Nobbs

Viola Davis / The Help

Meryl Streep / The Iron Lady

Rooney Mara / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011

Natalie Portman / Black Swan

Annette Bening / The Kids Are All Right

Michelle Williams / Blue Valentine

Nicole Kidman / Rabbit Hole

2010

Sandra Bullock / The Blind Side

Carey Mulligan / An Education

Gabourey Sidibe / Precious

2009

Meryl Streep / Doubt

Kate Winslet / The Reader

Angelina Jolie / Changeling

2008

Cate Blanchett / Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Marion Cotillard / La Môme

2007

Helen Mirren / The Queen

Meryl Streep / The Devil Wears Prada

Penélope Cruz / Volver

2006

Reese Witherspoon / Walk the Line

Charlize Theron / North Country

2005

Annette Bening / Being Julia

Hilary Swank / Million Dollar Baby

Catalina Sandino Moreno / Maria Full of Grace

2004

Charlize Theron / Monster

2003

Nicole Kidman / The Hours

Renée Zellweger / Chicago

Salma Hayek / Frida

Diane Lane / Unfaithful

2002

Nicole Kidman / Moulin Rouge!

Judi Dench / Iris

Halle Berry / Monster's Ball

Renée Zellweger / Bridget Jones's Diary

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

Helen Hunt / As Good as It Gets

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

Winona Ryder / Little Women

Jessica Lange / Blue Sky

1994

Holly Hunter / The Piano

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

1993

Michelle Pfeiffer / Love Field

Catherine Deneuve / Indochine

Emma Thompson / Howards End

1992

Jodie Foster / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Anjelica Huston / The Grifters

Kathy Bates / Misery

1990

Jessica Lange / Music Box

Michelle Pfeiffer / The Fabulous Baker Boys

Jessica Tandy / Driving Miss Daisy

Isabelle Adjani / Camille Claudel

1989

Sigourney Weaver / Gorillas in the Mist

Meryl Streep / A Cry in the Dark

Jodie Foster / The Accused

Melanie Griffith / Working Girl

Glenn Close / Dangerous Liaisons

1988

Glenn Close / Fatal Attraction

Cher / Moonstruck

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

Julie Walters / Educating Rita

Shirley MacLaine / Terms of Endearment

1983

Sissy Spacek / Missing

Debra Winger / An Officer and a Gentleman

1982

Katharine Hepburn / On Golden Pond

Susan Sarandon / Atlantic City

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

Marsha Mason / The Goodbye Girl

Anne Bancroft / The Turning Point

Diane Keaton / Annie Hall

Shirley MacLaine / The Turning Point

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

Jane Fonda / Klute

Glenda Jackson / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Glenda Jackson / Women in Love

1969

Katharine Hepburn / The Lion in Winter

Patricia Neal / The Subject Was Roses

Barbra Streisand / Funny Girl

1968

Katharine Hepburn / Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Audrey Hepburn / Wait Until Dark

Anne Bancroft / The Graduate

1967

Anouk Aiméé / Un homme et une femme

Elizabeth Hartman / A Patch of Blue

1965

Sophia Loren / Matrimonio all'italiana

Julie Andrews / Mary Poppins

Anne Bancroft / The Pumpkin Eater

1964

Shirley MacLaine / Irma la Douce

Patricia Neal / Hud

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

Doris Day / Pillow Talk

Katharine Hepburn / Suddenly, Last Summer

Audrey Hepburn / The Nun's Story

1959

Shirley MacLaine / Some Came Running

Elizabeth Taylor / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

Miyoshi Umeki / Sayonara

1957

Carroll Baker / Baby Doll

Ingrid Bergman / Anastasia

Nancy Kelly / The Bad Seed

Katharine Hepburn / The Rainmaker

Deborah Kerr / The King and I

1956

Katharine Hepburn / Summertime

Betsy Blair / Marty

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

Shelley Winters / A Place in the Sun

Vivien Leigh / A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Gloria Swanson / Sunset Boulevard

Bette Davis / All About Eve

Anne Baxter / All About Eve

1950

Olivia de Havilland / The Heiress

1949

Ingrid Bergman / Joan of Arc

Jane Wyman / Johnny Belinda

Olivia de Havilland / The Snake Pit

1948

Dorothy McGuire / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Celia Johnson / Brief Encounter

Jane Wyman / The Yearling

Olivia de Havilland / To Each His Own

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

Greer Garson / Mrs. Miniver

Katharine Hepburn / Woman of the Year

1942

Olivia de Havilland / Hold Back the Dawn

Joan Fontaine / Suspicion

1941

Joan Fontaine / Rebecca

Katharine Hepburn / The Philadelphia Story

1940

Greta Garbo / Ninotchka

Vivien Leigh / Gone with the Wind

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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