Academy Award for Best Actress

This gallery contains a complete collection of all Academy Award winners in the category of Best Actress. All winning film roles are included as Wikipedia article links in the captions for each actress, along with a brief account of any additional Best Actress nominations they may have received.

See also: Academy Award for Best Actor.

1920s

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  1927–28: Janet Gaynor won a single award for her performances in 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and Street Angel (1928). Gaynor had one more nomination in the 1930s.
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  1928–29: Mary Pickford won for Coquette (1929), her only nomination.
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  1929–30: Norma Shearer won for The Divorcee (1930) and was nominated four more times in the 1930s.

1930s

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  1930–31: Marie Dressler won for Min and Bill (1930) and was nominated one more time in the 1930s.
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  1931–32: Helen Hayes won for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), her only nomination.
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  1932–33: Katharine Hepburn won for Morning Glory (1933) and had three other wins for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981), with a total of 12 nominations spanning six decades.
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  1934: Claudette Colbert won for It Happened One Night (1934) and had two other nominations.
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  1935 and 1938: Bette Davis won twice from ten nominations (plus one write-in nomination in 1934) for her roles in Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938). Her nominations ranged from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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  1936 and 1937: Luise Rainer became the first person to win two consecutive acting Oscars, having won for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937), her only nominations.
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  1939: Vivien Leigh won twice for her roles in Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), her only nominations.

1940s

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  1940: Ginger Rogers won for the title role of Kitty Foyle, her only nomination.
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  1941: Joan Fontaine won for her role in Suspicion and had two other nominations in the 1940s.
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  1942: Greer Garson won for the title role of Mrs. Miniver and was nominated six other times from 1939 to 1960.
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  1943: Jennifer Jones won for the title role in The Song of Bernadette and was nominated six other times from 1945 to 1955.
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  1944: Ingrid Bergman won for Gaslight and Anastasia (1956). She was nominated four other times from 1943 to 1978.
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  1945: Joan Crawford won for the title role of Mildred Pierce and was nominated in 1947 and 1952.
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  1946 and 1949: Olivia de Havilland won for her roles in To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949) and was also nominated in 1941 and 1948.
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  1947: Loretta Young won for her role in The Farmer's Daughter and was nominated in 1949.
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  1948: Jane Wyman won for her role in Johnny Belinda and was nominated three other times from 1946 to 1954.

1950s

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  1950: Judy Holliday won for her role in Born Yesterday, her only nomination.
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  1951: Vivien Leigh won her second Best Actress award for A Streetcar Named Desire.
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  1952: Shirley Booth won for her role in Come Back, Little Sheba, her only nomination.
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  1953: Audrey Hepburn won for her role in Roman Holiday and had four other nominations from 1954 to 1967.
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  1954: Grace Kelly won for her role in The Country Girl, her only nomination.
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  1955: Anna Magnani won for her role in The Rose Tattoo and was nominated again in 1957.
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  1956: Ingrid Bergman won her second Best Actress award for Anastasia.
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  1957: Joanne Woodward won for her role as Eve in The Three Faces of Eve and has three other nominations from 1968 to 1990.
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  1958: Susan Hayward won for I Want to Live! and had four previous nominations from 1947 to 1955.
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  1959: Simone Signoret won for her role in Room at the Top and had one later nomination in 1965.

1960s

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  1960 and 1966: Elizabeth Taylor won for 1960's BUtterfield 8 and 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and had three consecutive nominations from 1957–59.
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  1961: Sophia Loren won for her role in Two Women, the first person to win for a non-English language performance. She was also nominated in 1964.
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  1962: Anne Bancroft won for her role in The Miracle Worker and was nominated four more times from 1964 to 1985.
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  1963: Patricia Neal won for her role in Hud and was also nominated in 1968.
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  1964: Julie Andrews won for her performance as the titular character in Mary Poppins and was nominated two more times in 1965 to 1982.
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  1965: Julie Christie won for Darling and was nominated three more times from 1971 to 2007.
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  1967 and 1968: Katharine Hepburn won her second and third Best Actress awards for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter.
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  1968: Barbra Streisand won for her role in Funny Girl tying Katharine Hepburn's votes that year, and was nominated again in 1973.
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  1969: Maggie Smith won for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and was also nominated in 1972.

1970s

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  1970 and 1973: Glenda Jackson won twice from four nominations in the 1970s, for her roles in Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973).
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  1971 and 1978: Jane Fonda won twice in the 1970s for her roles in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). She was nominated four other times from 1969 to 1986.
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  1972: Liza Minnelli won for Cabaret and was also nominated in 1969.
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  1974: Ellen Burstyn won for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and was nominated four other times from 1973 to 2000.
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  1975: Louise Fletcher won for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, her only nomination.
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  1976: Faye Dunaway won for Network and was nominated in 1967 and 1974.
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  1977: Diane Keaton won for Annie Hall and was nominated three other times from 1981 to 2003.
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  1979: Sally Field won twice for her roles in 1979's Norma Rae and 1984's Places in the Heart, her only nominations for Best Actress.

1980s

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  1980: Sissy Spacek won for Coal Miner's Daughter and has five other nominations from 1976 to 2001.
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  1981: Katharine Hepburn won her fourth Best Actress award for On Golden Pond.
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  1982: Meryl Streep has received seventeen nominations in this category, winning twice for Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).
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  1983: Shirley MacLaine won once from five nominations for her role in 1983's Terms of Endearment. Her other nominations were from 1958 to 1977.
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  1984: Sally Field won her second Best Actress award for Places in the Heart.
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  1985: Geraldine Page won for The Trip to Bountiful and was nominated three times from 1961 to 1978.
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  1986: Marlee Matlin won for Children of a Lesser God, her only nomination, becoming the only deaf Oscar winner.
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  1987: Cher won for her performance in Moonstruck, her only nomination.
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  1988: Jodie Foster won twice for her roles in The Accused (1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She was also nominated in 1994. Foster later came out as a lesbian in 2013, making her the only openly LGBT Best Actress winner.
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  1989: Jessica Tandy won for Driving Miss Daisy, her only nomination.

1990s

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  1990: Kathy Bates won for her role in Misery, her only nomination.
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  1991: Jodie Foster won her second Best Actress award for The Silence of the Lambs.
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  1992: Emma Thompson won for her role in Howards End and was nominated two more times in the 1990s.
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  1993: Holly Hunter won for her performance in The Piano and was nominated in 1987.
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  1994: Jessica Lange won for her role in Blue Sky with four other nominations in the 1980s.
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  1995: Susan Sarandon won for her role in Dead Man Walking with four other nominations from 1981 to 1994.
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  1996: Frances McDormand won for her performance in Fargo and also won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and Nomadland (2020), her only nominations.
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  1997: Helen Hunt won for her role in As Good as It Gets, her only nomination.
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  1998: Gwyneth Paltrow won for her role in Shakespeare in Love, her only nomination.
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  1999: Hilary Swank won for her role in Boys Don't Cry and also won for Million Dollar Baby (2004), her only nominations.

2000s

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  2000: Julia Roberts won for playing the title role in Erin Brockovich and was also nominated in 1990.
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  2001: Halle Berry won for her role in Monster's Ball (2001), her only nomination. Berry is the first black actress to win this category.
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  2002: Nicole Kidman won for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours and was also nominated in 2001 and 2010.
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  2003: Charlize Theron won for playing Aileen Wuornos in Monster and was also nominated in 2005 and 2019.
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  2004: Hilary Swank won her second Best Actress award for Million Dollar Baby.
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  2005: Reese Witherspoon won for playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line and was also nominated in 2014.
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  2006: Helen Mirren won for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen and was also nominated in 2009.
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  2007: Marion Cotillard won for playing Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, and was also nominated in 2014.
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  2008: Kate Winslet won for her role in The Reader and was nominated three other times from 1997 to 2006.
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  2009: Sandra Bullock won for her role in The Blind Side and was also nominated in 2013.

2010s

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  2010: Natalie Portman won for her role in Black Swan and was also nominated in 2016.
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  2011: Meryl Streep won her second Best Actress award for The Iron Lady.
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  2012: Jennifer Lawrence won for her role in Silver Linings Playbook and was also nominated in 2010 and 2015.
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  2013: Cate Blanchett won for her role in Blue Jasmine and was nominated three other times from 1998 to 2015.
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  2014: Julianne Moore won for her role in Still Alice and was also nominated in 1999 and 2002.
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  2015: Brie Larson won for her role in Room, her only nomination.
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  2016: Emma Stone won for her role in La La Land and was also nominated and won in 2023.
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  2017: Frances McDormand won her second Best Actress award for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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  2018: Olivia Colman won for her role in The Favourite, her only nomination.
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  2019: Renée Zellweger won for her role in Judy and was also nominated in 2001 and 2002.

2020s

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  2020: Frances McDormand won her third Best Actress award for Nomadland.
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  2021: Jessica Chastain won for The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
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  2022: Michelle Yeoh won for Everything Everywhere All at Once, becoming the first actress of East Asian descent and the second POC to win in this category.
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  2023: Emma Stone won her second Best Actress award for her role in Poor Things.

Bibliography

• Crouse, Richard (2005) Reel Winners: Movie Award Trivia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 978-1-55002-574-3.