Nominees and winners of the Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (bold face indicates winner):

• 2007
  • Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
  • Julie Christie - Away from Her
  • Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
  • Laura Linney - The Savages
  • Ellen Page - Juno

2006

• Penélope Cruz - Volver
• Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
• Helen Mirren - The Queen
• Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
• Kate Winslet - Little Children

2005

• Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice
• Charlize Theron - North Country
• Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line

2004

• Annette Bening - Being Julia
• Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace
• Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
• Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
• Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2003

• Keisha Castle-Hughes - Whale Rider
• Diane Keaton - Something's Gotta Give
• Samantha Morton - In America
• Charlize Theron - Monster
• Naomi Watts - 21 Grams

2002

• Salma Hayek - Frida
• Nicole Kidman - The Hours
• Diane Lane - Unfaithful
• Julianne Moore - Far From Heaven
• Renée Zellweger - Chicago

2001

• Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
• Judi Dench - Iris
• Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge
• Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
• Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones's Diary

2000

• Joan Allen - The Contender
• Juliette Binoche - Chocolat
• Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
• Laura Linney - You Can Count On Me
• Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich

1999

• Annette Bening - American Beauty
• Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds
• Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair
• Meryl Streep - Music of the Heart
• Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry

1998

• Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth
• Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station
• Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love
• Meryl Streep - One True Thing
• Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie

1997

• Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove
• Julie Christie - Afterglow
• Judi Dench - Mrs. Brown
• Helen Hunt - As Good As It Gets
• Kate Winslet - Titanic (1997)

1996

• Brenda Blethyn - Secrets and Lies
• Diane Keaton - Marvin's Room
• Frances McDormand - Fargo
• Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient
• Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves

1995

• Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking
• Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
• Sharon Stone - Casino
• Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County
• Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility

1994

• Jodie Foster - Nell
• Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
• Miranda Richardson - Tom & Viv
• Winona Ryder - Little Women (1994)
• Susan Sarandon - The Client

1993

• Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It
• Stockard Channing - Six Degrees of Separation
• Holly Hunter - The Piano
• Emma Thompson - The Remains of the Day
• Debra Winger - Shadowlands

1992

• Catherine Deneuve - Indochine
• Mary McDonnell - Passion Fish
• Michelle Pfeiffer - Love Field
• Susan Sarandon - Lorenzo's Oil
• Emma Thompson - Howards End

1991

• Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
• Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
• Laura Dern - Rambling Rose
• Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
• Bette Midler - For the Boys

1990

• Kathy Bates - Misery
• Anjelica Huston - The Grifters
• Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman
• Meryl Streep - Postcards from the Edge
• Joanne Woodward - Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

1989

• Isabelle Adjani - Camille Claudel
• Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
• Jessica Lange - Music Box
• Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys
• Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy

1988

• Glenn Close - Dangerous Liaisons
• Jodie Foster - The Accused
• Melanie Griffith - Working Girl
• Meryl Streep - A Cry in the Dark
• Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist

1987

• Cher - Moonstruck
• Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
• Holly Hunter - Broadcast News
• Sally Kirkland - Anna
• Meryl Streep - Ironweed

1986

• Jane Fonda - The Morning After
• Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God
• Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart
• Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got Married
• Sigourney Weaver - Aliens

1985

• Anne Bancroft - Agnes of God
• Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple
• Jessica Lange - Sweet Dreams
• Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful
• Meryl Streep - Out of Africa

1984

• Judy Davis - A Passage to India
• Sally Field - Places in the Heart
• Jessica Lange - Country
• Vanessa Redgrave - The Bostonians
• Sissy Spacek - The River

1983

• Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
• Debra Winger - Terms of Endearment
• Jane Alexander - Testament
• Meryl Streep - Silkwood
• Julie Walters - Educating Rita

1982

• Julie Andrews - Victor/Victoria
• Jessica Lange - Frances
• Sissy Spacek - Missing
• Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
• Debra Winger - An Officer and a Gentleman

1981

• Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
• Diane Keaton - Reds
• Marsha Mason - Only When I Laugh
• Susan Sarandon - Atlantic City
• Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman

1980

• Ellen Burstyn - Resurrection
• Goldie Hawn - Private Benjamin
• Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People
• Gena Rowlands - Gloria
• Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter

1979

• Jill Clayburgh - Starting Over
• Sally Field - Norma Rae
• Jane Fonda - The China Syndrome
• Marsha Mason - Chapter Two
• Bette Midler - The Rose

1978

• Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
• Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year
• Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman
• Jane Fonda - Coming Home
• Geraldine Page - Interiors

1977

• Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point
• Shirley MacLaine - The Turning Point
• Jane Fonda - Julia
• Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
• Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl

1976

• Marie-Christine Barrault - Cousin, Cousine
• Faye Dunaway - Network
• Talia Shire - Rocky
• Sissy Spacek - Carrie (1976)
• Liv Ullmann - Face to Face

1975

• Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H.
• Ann-Margret - Tommy
• Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Glenda Jackson - Hedda
• Carol Kane - Hester Street

1974

• Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Diahann Carroll - Claudine
• Faye Dunaway - Chinatown
• Valerie Perrine - Lenny
• Gena Rowlands - A Woman under the Influence

1973

• Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist
• Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class
• Marsha Mason - Cinderella Liberty
• Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
• Joanne Woodward - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1972

• Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
• Diana Ross - Lady Sings the Blues
• Maggie Smith - Travels with My Aunt
• Cicely Tyson - Sounder
• Liv Ullmann - The Emigrants

1971

• Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Jane Fonda - Klute
• Glenda Jackson - Sunday Bloody Sunday
• Vanessa Redgrave - Mary, Queen of Scots
• Janet Suzman - Nicholas and Alexandra

1970

• Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope
• Glenda Jackson - Women in Love
• Ali MacGraw - Love Story
• Sarah Miles - Ryan's Daughter
• Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife

1969

• Genevieve Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days
• Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo
• Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending
• Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1968

• Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter
• Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses
• Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora
• Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
• Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel

1967

• Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
• Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde
• Dame Edith Evans - The Whisperers
• Audrey Hepburn - Wait until Dark
• Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1966

• Anouk Aimee - A Man and a Woman
• Ida Kaminska - The Shop on Main Street
• Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl
• Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan!
• Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1965

• Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music
• Julie Christie - Darling
• Samantha Eggar - The Collector
• Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue
• Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools

1964

• Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
• Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater
• Sophia Loren - Marriage Italian Style
• Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• Kim Stanley - Seance on a Wet Afternoon

1963

• Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
• Shirley MacLaine - Irma La Douce
• Patricia Neal - Hud
• Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life
• Natalie Wood - Love with the Proper Stranger

1962

• Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
• Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey into Night
• Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
• Lee Remick - Days of Wine and Roses

1961

• Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Piper Laurie - The Hustler
• Sophia Loren - Two Women
• Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
• Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass

1960

• Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
• Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners
• Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
• Melina Mercouri - Never on Sunday
• Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8

1959

• Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly, Last Summer
• Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer
• Doris Day - Pillow Talk
• Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story
• Simone Signoret - Room at the Top

1958

• Susan Hayward - I Want To Live!
• Deborah Kerr - Separate Tables
• Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running
• Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame
• Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1957

• Deborah Kerr - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• Anna Magnani - Wild Is the Wind
• Elizabeth Taylor - Raintree County
• Lana Turner - Peyton Place
• Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

1956

• Carroll Baker - Baby Doll
• Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia (1956)
• Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker
• Nancy Kelly - The Bad Seed
• Deborah Kerr - The King and I

1955

• Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Katharine Hepburn - Summertime
• Jennifer Jones - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
• Eleanor Parker - Interrupted Melody

1954

• Dorothy Dandridge - Carmen Jones
• Judy Garland - A Star Is Born (1954)
• Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina (1954)
• Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
• Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession

1953

• Leslie Caron - Lili
• Ava Gardner - Mogambo
• Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
• Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity
• Maggie McNamara - The Moon Is Blue

1952

• Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba
• Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear
• Bette Davis - The Star
• Julie Harris (act) - The Member of the Wedding
• Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart

1951

• Katharine Hepburn - The African Queen
• Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
• Eleanor Parker - Detective Story
• Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun (1951)
• Jane Wyman - The Blue Veil

1950

• Anne Baxter - All about Eve
• Bette Davis - All about Eve
• Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
• Eleanor Parker - Caged
• Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd.

1949

• Jeanne Crain - Pinky
• Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
• Susan Hayward - My Foolish Heart
• Deborah Kerr - Edward, My Son
• Loretta Young - Come to the Stable

1948

• Ingrid Bergman - Joan of Arc
• Olivia de Havilland - The Snake Pit
• Irene Dunne - I Remember Mama
• Barbara Stanwyck - Sorry, Wrong Number
• Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda

1947

• Joan Crawford - Possessed
• Susan Hayward - Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman
• Dorothy McGuire - Gentleman's Agreement
• Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra
• Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter

1946

• Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
• Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter
• Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun
• Rosalind Russell - Sister Kenny
• Jane Wyman - The Yearling

1945

• Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's
• Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce
• Greer Garson - The Valley of Decision
• Jennifer Jones - Love Letters
• Gene Tierney - Leave Her to Heaven

1944

• Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
• Claudette Colbert - Since You Went Away
• Bette Davis - Mr. Skeffington
• Greer Garson - Mrs. Parkington
• Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity

1943

• Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier
• Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph
• Greer Garson - Madame Curie
• Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette

1942

• Bette Davis - Now, Voyager
• Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver
• Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year
• Rosalind Russell - My Sister Eileen
• Teresa Wright - The Pride of the Yankees

1941

• Bette Davis - The Little Foxes
• Olivia de Havilland - Hold Back the Dawn
• Joan Fontaine - Suspicion
• Greer Garson - Blossoms in the Dust
• Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire

1940

• Bette Davis - The Letter (1940)
• Joan Fontaine - Rebecca
• Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story
• Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
• Martha Scott - Our Town

1939

• Bette Davis - Dark Victory
• Irene Dunne - Love Affair
• Greta Garbo - Ninotchka
• Greer Garson - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
• Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind

1938

• Fay Bainter - White Banners
• Bette Davis - Jezebel
• Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion
• Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette
• Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades

1937

• Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth
• Greta Garbo - Camille
• Janet Gaynor - A Star Is Born (1937)
• Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
• Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas

1936

• Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild
• Gladys George - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
• Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey
• Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
• Norma Shearer - Romeo and Juliet (1936)

1935

• Elisabeth Bergner - Escape Me Never
• Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds
• Bette Davis - Dangerous
• Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams
• Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp
• Merle Oberon - The Dark Angel

1934

• Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
• Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage
• Grace Moore - One Night of Love
• Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1932/1933

• Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory
• May Robson - Lady for a Day
• Diana Wynyard - Cavalcade

1931/1932

• Marie Dressler - Emma (1931/32)

Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman

Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1930/1931

• Marlene Dietrich - Morocco
• Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
• Irene Dunne - Cimarron (1930/31)
• Ann Harding - Holiday (1930/31)
• Norma Shearer - A Free Soul

1929/1930

• Nancy Carroll - The Devil's Holiday
• Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son
• Greta Garbo - Anna Christie
• Greta Garbo - Romance
• Norma Shearer - The Divorcee
• Norma Shearer - Their Own Desire
• Gloria Swanson - The Trespasser

1928/1929

• Ruth Chatterton - Madame X
• Betty Compson - The Barker
• Jeanne Eagels - The Letter (1928/29)
• Corinne Griffith - The Divine Lady
• Bessie Love - The Broadway Melody
• Mary Pickford - Coquette

1927/1928

• Janet Gaynor - 7th Heaven
• Janet Gaynor - Street Angel
• Janet Gaynor - Sunrise
• Louise Dresser - A Ship Comes In
• Gloria Swanson - Sadie Thompson

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