This is a page for Academy Award-winning actresses.
Full list[]
- 1927/28: Janet Gaynor, for Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise
- 1928/29: Mary Pickford, for Croquette
- 1929/30: Norma Shearer, for The Divorcee
- 1930/31: Marie Dressler, for Min and Bill
- 1931/32: Helen Hayes, for The Sin of Madelon Claudet
- 1932/33: Katharine Hepburn, for Morning Glory
- 1934: Claudette Colbert, for It Happened One Night
- 1935: Bette Davis, for Dangerous
- 1936: Luise Rainer, for The Great Ziegfeld
- 1937: Luise Rainer, for The Good Earth
- 1938: Bette Davis, for Jezebel
- 1939: Vivien Leigh, for Gone with the Wind
- 1940: Ginger Rogers, for Kitty Foyle
- 1941: Joan Fontaine, for Suspicion
- 1942: Greer Garson, for Mrs. Miniver
- 1943: Jennifer Jones, for The Song of Bernadette
- 1944: Ingrid Bergman, for Gaslight
- 1945: Joan Crawford, for Mildred Pierce
- 1946: Olivia de Havilland, for To Each His Own
- 1947: Loretta Young, for The Farmer's Daughter
- 1948: Jane Wyman, for Johnny Belinda
- 1949: Olivia de Havilland, for The Heiress
- 1950: Judy Holliday, for Born Yesterday
- 1951: Vivien Leigh, for A Streetcar Named Desire
- 1952: Shirley Booth, for Come Back, Little Sheba
- 1953: Audrey Hepburn, for Roman Holiday
- 1954: Grace Kelly, for The Country Girl
- 1955: Anna Magnani, for The Rose Tattoo
- 1956: Ingrid Bergman, for Anastasia
- 1957: Joanne Woodward, for The Three Faces of Eve
- 1958: Susan Hayward, for I Want to Live!
- 1959: Simone Signoret, for Room at the Top
- 1960: Elizabeth Taylor, for BUtterfield 8
- 1961: Sophia Loren, for Two Women
- 1962: Anne Bancroft, for The Miracle Worker
- 1963: Patricia Neal, for Hud
- 1964: Julie Andrews, for Mary Poppins
- 1965: Julie Christie, for Darling
- 1966: Elizabeth Taylor, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1967: Katharine Hepburn, for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- 1968: Katharine Hepburn, for The Lion in Winter/Barbra Streisand, for Funny Girl (tie)
- 1969: Maggie Smith, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- 1970: Glenda Jackson, for Women in Love
- 1971: Jane Fonda, for Klute
- 1972: Liza Minnelli, for Cabaret
- 1973: Glenda Jackson, for A Touch of Class
- 1974: Ellen Burstyn, for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- 1975: Louise Fletcher, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1976: Faye Dunaway, for Network
- 1977: Diane Keaton, for Annie Hall
- 1978: Jane Fonda, for Coming Home
- 1979: Sally Field, for Norma Rae
- 1980: Sissy Spacek, for Coal Miner's Daughter
- 1981: Katharine Hepburn, for On Golden Pond
- 1982: Meryl Streep, for Sophie's Choice
- 1983: Shirley MacLaine, for Terms of Endearment
- 1984: Sally Field, for Places in the Heart
- 1985: Geraldine Page, for The Trip to Bountiful
- 1986: Marlee Matlin, for Children of a Lesser God
- 1987: Cher, for Moonstruck
- 1988: Jodie Foster, for The Accused
- 1989: Jessica Tandy, for Driving Miss Daisy
- 1990: Kathy Bates, for Misery
- 1991: Jodie Foster, for The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992: Emma Thompson, for Howards End
- 1993: Holly Hunter, for The Piano
- 1994: Jessica Lange, for Blue Sky
- 1995: Susan Sarandon, for Dead Man Walking
- 1996: Frances McDormand, for Fargo
- 1997: Helen Hunt, for As Good As It Gets
- 1998: Gwyneth Paltrow, for Shakespeare in Love
- 1999: Hilary Swank, for Boys Don't Cry
- 2000: Julia Roberts, for Erin Brockovich
- 2001: Halle Berry, for Monster's Ball
- 2002: Nicole Kidman, for The Hours
- 2003: Charlize Theron, for Monster
- 2004: Hilary Swank, for Million Dollar Baby
- 2005: Reese Witherspoon, for Walk the Line
- 2006: Helen Mirren, for The Queen
- 2007: Marion Cotillard, for La Vie en Rose
- 2008: Kate Winslet, for The Reader
- 2009: Sandra Bullock, for The Blind Side
- 2010: Natalie Portman, for Black Swan
- 2011: Meryl Streep, for The Iron Lady
- 2012: Jennifer Lawrence, for Silver Linings Playbook
- 2013: Cate Blanchett, for Blue Jasmine
- 2014: Julianne Moore, for Still Alice
- 2015: Brie Larson, for Room
- 2016: Emma Stone, for La La Land
- 2017: Frances McDormand, for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- 2018: Olivia Colman, for The Favourite
- 2019: Renee Zellweger, for Judy
- 2020: Frances McDormand, for Nomadland
- 2021: Jessica Chastain, for The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- 2022: Michelle Yeoh, for Everything Everywhere All at Once
- 2023: TBA