Academy Awards, Actress in a Leading Role

2026

Cynthia Erivo / Wicked: For Good

2025

Cynthia Erivo / Wicked

Demi Moore / The Substance

Fernanda Torres / Ainda Estou Aqui

Karla Sofía Gascón / Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison / Anora

2024

Sandra Hüller / Anatomie d'une chute

Emma Stone / Poor Things

Carey Mulligan / Maestro

Annette Bening / NYAD

Lily Gladstone / Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Michelle Yeoh / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Andrea Riseborough / To Leslie

Michelle Williams / The Fabelmans

Cate Blanchett / TÁR

Ana de Armas / Blonde

2022

Penélope Cruz / Madres Paralelas

Jessica Chastain / The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Olivia Colman / The Lost Daughter

Nicole Kidman / Being the Ricardos

Kristen Stewart / Spencer

2021

Vanessa Kirby / Pieces of a Woman

Viola Davis / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Frances McDormand / Nomadland

Carey Mulligan / Promising Young Woman

Andra Day / The United States vs. Billie Holiday

2020

Charlize Theron / Bombshell

Saoirse Ronan / Little Women

Renée Zellweger / Judy

Scarlett Johansson / Marriage Story

Cynthia Erivo / Harriet

2019

Olivia Colman / The Favourite

Lady Gaga / A Star is Born

Melissa McCarthy / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Glenn Close / The Wife

2018

Frances McDormand / Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie / I, Tonya

2017

Isabelle Huppert / Elle

Emma Stone / La La Land

Natalie Portman / Jackie

2016

Cate Blanchett / Carol

Brie Larson / Room

2015

Felicity Jones / The Theory of Everything

Julianne Moore / Still Alice

Marion Cotillard / Deux jours, une nuit

2014

Cate Blanchett / Blue Jasmine

Meryl Streep / August: Osage County

Sandra Bullock / Gravity

2013

Emmanuelle Riva / Amour

Jennifer Lawrence / Silver Linings Playbook

2012

Viola Davis / The Help

Glenn Close / Albert Nobbs

Rooney Mara / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Michelle Williams / My Week with Marilyn

Meryl Streep / The Iron Lady

2011

Natalie Portman / Black Swan

Annette Bening / The Kids Are All Right

Michelle Williams / Blue Valentine

Nicole Kidman / Rabbit Hole

2010

Gabourey Sidibe / Precious

Carey Mulligan / An Education

Sandra Bullock / The Blind Side

2009

Kate Winslet / The Reader

Meryl Streep / Doubt

Angelina Jolie / Changeling

2008

Marion Cotillard / La Môme

Cate Blanchett / Elizabeth: The Golden Age

2007

Helen Mirren / The Queen

Meryl Streep / The Devil Wears Prada

Penélope Cruz / Volver

2006

Charlize Theron / North Country

Reese Witherspoon / Walk the Line

2005

Annette Bening / Being Julia

Catalina Sandino Moreno / Maria Full of Grace

Hilary Swank / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Charlize Theron / Monster

2003

Nicole Kidman / The Hours

Diane Lane / Unfaithful

Renée Zellweger / Chicago

Salma Hayek / Frida

2002

Nicole Kidman / Moulin Rouge!

Halle Berry / Monster's Ball

Renée Zellweger / Bridget Jones's Diary

Judi Dench / Iris

2001

Julia Roberts / Erin Brockovich

2000

Annette Bening / American Beauty

Hilary Swank / Boys Don't Cry

1999

Gwyneth Paltrow / Shakespeare in Love

Fernanda Montenegro / Central do Brasil

1998

Helena Bonham Carter / The Wings of the Dove

Kate Winslet / Titanic

Helen Hunt / As Good as It Gets

1997

Kristin Scott Thomas / The English Patient

Frances McDormand / Fargo

1996

Elisabeth Shue / Leaving Las Vegas

Susan Sarandon / Dead Man Walking

1995

Jessica Lange / Blue Sky

Winona Ryder / Little Women

1994

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

Holly Hunter / The Piano

1993

Michelle Pfeiffer / Love Field

Emma Thompson / Howards End

Catherine Deneuve / Indochine

1992

Jodie Foster / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Anjelica Huston / The Grifters

Kathy Bates / Misery

1990

Michelle Pfeiffer / The Fabulous Baker Boys

Jessica Tandy / Driving Miss Daisy

Jessica Lange / Music Box

Isabelle Adjani / Camille Claudel

1989

Glenn Close / Dangerous Liaisons

Sigourney Weaver / Gorillas in the Mist

Melanie Griffith / Working Girl

Meryl Streep / A Cry in the Dark

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

Judy Davis / A Passage to India

Sally Field / Places in the Heart

1984

Shirley MacLaine / Terms of Endearment

Julie Walters / Educating Rita

1983

Sissy Spacek / Missing

Debra Winger / An Officer and a Gentleman

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

Ingrid Bergman / Höstsonaten

Jane Fonda / Coming Home

1978

Shirley MacLaine / The Turning Point

Diane Keaton / Annie Hall

Anne Bancroft / The Turning Point

Marsha Mason / The Goodbye Girl

1977

Talia Shire / Rocky

Marie-Christine Barrault / Cousin, Cousine

Faye Dunaway / Network

1976

Louise Fletcher / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1974

Barbra Streisand / The Way We Were

1973

Liv Ullmann / Utvandrarna

Diana Ross / Lady Sings the Blues

1972

Glenda Jackson / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Jane Fonda / Klute

Julie Christie / McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1971

Glenda Jackson / Women in Love

1969

Katharine Hepburn / The Lion in Winter

Patricia Neal / The Subject Was Roses

Barbra Streisand / Funny Girl

1968

Audrey Hepburn / Wait Until Dark

Anne Bancroft / The Graduate

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

Anne Bancroft / The Pumpkin Eater

Julie Andrews / Mary Poppins

1964

Shirley MacLaine / Irma la Douce

Patricia Neal / Hud

1963

Anne Bancroft / The Miracle Worker

Katharine Hepburn / Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962

Sophia Loren / La ciociara

Piper Laurie / The Hustler

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

Shirley MacLaine / Some Came Running

Elizabeth Taylor / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

Miyoshi Umeki / Sayonara

1957

Ingrid Bergman / Anastasia

Deborah Kerr / The King and I

Carroll Baker / Baby Doll

Katharine Hepburn / The Rainmaker

Nancy Kelly / The Bad Seed

1956

Katharine Hepburn / Summertime

Betsy Blair / Marty

1955

Audrey Hepburn / Sabrina

Judy Garland / A Star Is Born

1954

Maggie McNamara / The Moon Is Blue

Audrey Hepburn / Roman Holiday

1952

Shelley Winters / A Place in the Sun

Katharine Hepburn / The African Queen

Vivien Leigh / A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Bette Davis / All About Eve

Gloria Swanson / Sunset Boulevard

Anne Baxter / 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

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

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

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

Vivien Leigh / Gone with the Wind

Greer Garson / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

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 / Romance

Greta Garbo / Anna Christie

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