Award |
Best Actress* Academy Award Winner |
Best Supporting Actress* Academy Award Winner |
| Janet Gaynor Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise |
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| Mary Pickford Coquette |
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| Norma Shearer The Divorcee |
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| Marie Dressler Min and Bill |
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| Helen Hayes The Sin of Madelon Claudet |
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| Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory |
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| Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night |
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| Bette Davis Dangerous |
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| Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld |
Gale Sondergaard Anthony Adverse |
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| Luise Rainer The Good Earth |
Alice Brady In Old Chicago |
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| Bette Davis Jezebel |
Fay Bainter Jezebel |
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| Vivien Leigh Gone With the Wind |
Hattie McDaniel Gone With the Wind |
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| Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle |
Jane Darwell The Grapes of Wrath |
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| Joan Fontaine Suspicion |
Mary Astor The Great Lie |
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| Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver |
Teresa Wright Mrs. Miniver |
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| Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette |
Katina Paxinou For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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| Ingrid Bergman Gaslight |
Ethel Barrymore None But the Lonely Heart |
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| Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce |
Anne Revere National Velvet |
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| Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own |
Anne Baxter The Razor's Edge |
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| Loretta Young The Farmer's Daughter |
Celeste Holm Gentleman's Agreement |
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| Jane Wyman Johnny Belinda |
Claire Trevor Key Largo |
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| Olivia de Havilland The Heiress |
Mercedes McCambridge All the King's Men |
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| Judy Holliday Born Yesterday |
Josephine Hull Harvey |
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| Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire |
Kim Hunter A Streetcar Named Desire |
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| Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba |
Gloria Grahame The Bad and the Beautiful |
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| Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday |
Donna Reed From Here to Eternity |
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| Grace Kelly The Country Girl |
Eva Marie Saint On the Waterfront |
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| Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo |
Jo Van Fleet East of Eden |
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| Ingrid Bergman Anastasia |
Dorothy Malone Written on the Wind |
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| Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve |
Miyoshi Umeki Sayonara |
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| Susan Hayward I Want to Live! |
Wendy Hiller Separate Tables |
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| Simone Signoret Room at the Top |
Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank |
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| Elizabeth Taylor Butterfield 8 |
Shirley Jones Elmer Gantry |
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| Sophia Loren Two Women |
Rita Moreno West Side Story |
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| Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker |
Patty Duke The Miracle Worker |
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| Patricia Neal Hud |
Margaret Rutherford The V.I.P.'s |
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| Julie Andrews Mary Poppins |
Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek |
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| Julie Christie Darling |
Shelley Winters A Patch of Blue |
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| Elizabeth Taylor Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Sandy Dennis Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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| Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde |
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| Katharine Hepburn; Barbra Streisand The Lion in Winter; Funny Girl |
Ruth Gordon Rosemary's Baby |
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| Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Goldie Hawn Cactus Flower |
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| Glenda Jackson Women in Love |
Helen Hays Airport |
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| Jane Fonda Klute |
Cloris Leachman The Last Picture Show |
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| Liza Minnelli Cabaret |
Eileen Heckart Butterflies Are Free |
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| Glenda Jackson A Touch of Class |
Tatum O'Neal Paper Moon |
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| Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
Ingrid Bergman Murder on the Orient Express |
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| Louise Fletcher One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
Lee Grant Shampoo |
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| Faye Dunaway Network |
Beatrice Straight Network |
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| Diane Keaton Annie Hall |
Vanessa Redgrave Julia |
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| Jane Fonda Coming Home |
Maggie Smith California Suite |
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| Sally Field Norma Rae |
Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer |
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| Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter |
Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard |
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| Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond |
Maureen Stapleton Reds |
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| Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice |
Jessica Lange Tootsie |
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| Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment |
Linda Hunt The Year of Living Dangerously |
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| Sally Field Places in the Heart |
Dame Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India |
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| Geraldine Page The Trip to Bountiful |
Anjelica Huston Prizzi's Honor |
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| Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God |
Dianne Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters |
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| Cher Moonstruck |
Olympia Dukakis Moonstruck |
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| Jodie Foster The Accused |
Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist |
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| Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy |
Brenda Fricker My Left Foot |
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| Kathy Bates Misery |
Whoopi Goldberg Ghost |
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| Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs |
Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King |
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| Emma Thompson Howards End |
Marisa Tomei My Cousin Vinny |
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| Holly Hunter The Piano |
Anna Paquin The Piano |
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| Jessica Lange Blue Sky |
Dianne Wiest Bullets Over Broadway |
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| Susan Sarandon Dead Man Walking |
Mira Sorvino Mighty Aphrodite |
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| Frances McDormand Fargo |
Juliette Binoche The English Patient |
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| Helen Hunt As Good As It Gets |
Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential |
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| Gwyneth Paltrow Shakespeare in Love |
Judi Dench Shakespeare in Love |
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| Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry |
Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted |
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| Julia Roberts Erin Brockovich |
Marcia Gay Harden Pollock |
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| Halle Berry Monster's Ball |
Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind |
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| Nicole Kidman The Hours |
Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago |
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| Charlize Theron Monster |
Renee Zellweger Cold Mountain |
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| Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby |
Cate Blanchett The Aviator |
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| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon Walk The Line |
Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren The Queen |
Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls |
| 2007 | Marion Cotillard La Vie En Rose |
Tilda Swinton Michael Clayton |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet The Reader |
Penelop Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan An Education |
Mo'Nique Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire |
| 2010 | Natalie Portman Black Swan |
Helena Bonham Carter The King's Speech |
| 2011 |
