Academy Award for Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress
The 2018 recipient: Frances McDormand
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded	1929 (for performance in films released during the 1927/1928 film season)
Currently held by	Frances McDormand Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Website	oscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise.^[1] Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy.^[2] In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award.^[3] However, during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930, only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had two films following their names on the ballots.^[4]

The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film.^[3] Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year.^[3] One actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels.^[5] Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category: Elizabeth I of England (twice by Cate Blanchett), Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, and Esther Blodgett in A Star Is Born. Seven women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting; they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, Cicely Tyson, Sophia Loren.^[6]

Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars. Meryl Streep, who has a total of 21 Oscar nominations (three wins), has been nominated in this category on 17 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2018 ceremony, Frances McDormand is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Contents

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  1 Winners and nominees
  


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  2 Multiple wins and nominations
  


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  3 Age superlatives
  


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  4 See also
  


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  5 Notes
  


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  6 References
  


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  7 Bibliography
  


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  8 External links
  

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year.^[7] For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31.^[8] For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.^[8] Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.^[8]

Janet Gaynor was the first winner in this category for her roles in 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and Street Angel (1928).

Katharine Hepburn has the most wins in this category for her roles in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).

Claudette Colbert became the first European-born actress (France) to win this award for her performance in It Happened One Night (1934)

Bette Davis won two awards from ten nominations for her roles in Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938).

Luise Rainer became the first person to win two consecutive acting Oscars, for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937). She won the awards at 27 and 28 years old, making her the youngest two-time Oscar winner.

Vivien Leigh won twice for her roles as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Joan Fontaine won for her role in Suspicion (1941).

Joan Crawford won for her performance in Mildred Pierce (1945).

Olivia de Havilland won twice, for her roles in To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949).

Audrey Hepburn won for her role in Roman Holiday (1953).

Elizabeth Taylor won two awards from five nominations for 1960's BUtterfield 8 and 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Sophia Loren won for her role in Two Women (1961), thus becoming the first person to win for a non-English language performance.^[9]

Julie Andrews won for her performance as the titular character in Mary Poppins (1964).

Barbra Streisand won for her role as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968).

Jane Fonda won twice from six nominations for her roles in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978).

Sally Field won this award twice for her roles in 1979's Norma Rae and 1984's Places in the Heart.

Sissy Spacek has received six nominations in this category, winning for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).

With seventeen nominations Meryl Streep is the most nominated woman in this category, winning twice for Sophie's Choice (1982) and for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011).

Shirley MacLaine won once from five nominations for her role in 1983's Terms of Endearment.

At age 21, Marlee Matlin became the youngest person to win Best Actress, winning for her performance in Children of a Lesser God (1986).

Jodie Foster won twice for her roles in The Accused (1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), winning both before she turned 30 years old, at 26 and 29.

At age 80, Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner in this category for her performance in 1989's Driving Miss Daisy.

Emma Thompson won for her role in Howards End (1992).

Jessica Lange was nominated five times, winning once in 1995 for her role in Blue Sky (1994).

Susan Sarandon was nominated five times, winning for her role in Dead Man Walking (1995).

Hilary Swank won this award twice for her roles in Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).

Julia Roberts won for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000).

Halle Berry won for her role in Monster's Ball (2001), becoming the first black actress to win this category.^[10]

Nicole Kidman won for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002).

Charlize Theron won for playing Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), becoming the first South African to win this category.

Reese Witherspoon won for playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005).

Helen Mirren won for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006).

Marion Cotillard won for playing Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (2007), becoming the first person to win for a French-language film.

Kate Winslet won for her role in The Reader (2008).

Sandra Bullock won for her role in The Blind Side (2009).

Natalie Portman won for her role in Black Swan (2010).

Jennifer Lawrence won for her role in Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

Cate Blanchett won for her role in Blue Jasmine (2013).

Julianne Moore won for her role in Still Alice (2014).

Brie Larson won for her role in Room (2015).

Emma Stone won for her role in La La Land (2016).

Table key

Indicates the winner

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1927/28 (1st)	Janet Gaynor	Diane Angela The Wife	7th Heaven Street Angel Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	[11]
	Louise Dresser	Mrs. Pleznik	A Ship Comes In
	Gloria Swanson	Sadie Thompson	Sadie Thompson
1928/29 (2nd) [note 1]	Mary Pickford	Norma Besant	Coquette	[12]
	Ruth Chatterton	Jacqueline Floriot	Madame X
	Betty Compson	Carrie	The Barker
	Jeanne Eagels	Leslie Crosbie	The Letter
	Corinne Griffith	Emma Hamilton	The Divine Lady
	Bessie Love	Hank Mahoney	The Broadway Melody
1929/30 (3rd)	Norma Shearer [A]	Jerry Bernard Martin	The Divorcee	[13]
	Nancy Carroll	Hallie Hobart	The Devil's Holiday
	Ruth Chatterton	Sarah Storm	Sarah and Son
	Greta Garbo[A]	Anna Christie Madame Rita Cavallini	Anna Christie Romance
	Norma Shearer	Lucia Marlett	Their Own Desire
	Gloria Swanson	Marion Donnell	The Trespasser
1930/31 (4th)	Marie Dressler	Min Divot	Min and Bill	[14]
	Marlene Dietrich	Mademoiselle Amy Jolly	Morocco
	Irene Dunne	Sabra Cravat	Cimarron
	Ann Harding	Linda Seton	Holiday
	Norma Shearer	Jan Ashe	A Free Soul
1931/32 (5th)	Helen Hayes	Madelon Claudet	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	[15]
	Marie Dressler	Emma Thatcher Smith	Emma
	Lynn Fontanne	The Actress	The Guardsman
1932/33 (6th)	Katharine Hepburn	Eva Lovelace	Morning Glory	[16]
	May Robson	Apple Annie	Lady for a Day
	Diana Wynyard	Jane Marryot	Cavalcade
1934 (7th)	Claudette Colbert	Ellie Andrews	It Happened One Night	[17]
	Grace Moore	Mary Barrett	One Night of Love
	Norma Shearer	Elizabeth Barrett	The Barretts of Wimpole Street
	Bette Davis (Write-in) [B]	Mildred Rogers	Of Human Bondage
1935 (8th)	Bette Davis	Joyce Heath	Dangerous	[18]
	Elisabeth Bergner	Gemma Jones	Escape Me Never
	Claudette Colbert	Jane Everest	Private Worlds
	Katharine Hepburn	Alice Adams	Alice Adams
	Miriam Hopkins	Becky Sharp	Becky Sharp
	Merle Oberon	Kitty Vane	The Dark Angel
1936 (9th)	Luise Rainer	Anna Held	The Great Ziegfeld	[19]
	Irene Dunne	Theodora Lynn	Theodora Goes Wild
	Gladys George	Carrie Snyder	Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
	Carole Lombard	Irene Bullock	My Man Godfrey
	Norma Shearer	Juliet Capulet	Romeo and Juliet
1937 (10th)	Luise Rainer	O-Lan	The Good Earth	[20]
	Irene Dunne	Lucy Warriner	The Awful Truth
	Greta Garbo	Marguerite Gautier	Camille
	Janet Gaynor	Esther Victoria Blodgett / Vicki Lester	A Star Is Born
	Barbara Stanwyck	Stella Martin Dallas	Stella Dallas
1938 (11th)	Bette Davis	Julie Marsden	Jezebel	[21]
	Fay Bainter	Hannah Parmalee	White Banners
	Wendy Hiller	Eliza Doolittle	Pygmalion
	Norma Shearer	Marie Antoinette	Marie Antoinette
	Margaret Sullavan	Patricia "Pat" Hollmann	Three Comrades
1939 (12th)	Vivien Leigh	Scarlett O'Hara	Gone with the Wind	[22]
	Bette Davis	Judith Traherne	Dark Victory
	Irene Dunne	Terry McKay	Love Affair
	Greta Garbo	Nina Yakushova "Ninotchka" Ivanoff	Ninotchka
	Greer Garson	Katherine Bridges	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1940 (13th)	Ginger Rogers	Kitty Foyle	Kitty Foyle	[23]
	Bette Davis	Leslie Crosbie	The Letter
	Joan Fontaine	The Second Mrs. de Winter	Rebecca
	Katharine Hepburn	Tracy Lord	The Philadelphia Story
	Martha Scott	Emily Webb	Our Town
1941 (14th)	Joan Fontaine	Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth	Suspicion	[24]
	Bette Davis	Regina Giddens	The Little Foxes
	Olivia de Havilland	Emmy Brown	Hold Back the Dawn
	Greer Garson	Edna Gladney	Blossoms in the Dust
	Barbara Stanwyck	Katherine "Sugarpuss" O'Shea	Ball of Fire
1942 (15th)	Greer Garson	Kay Miniver	Mrs. Miniver	[25]
	Bette Davis	Charlotte Vale	Now, Voyager
	Katharine Hepburn	Tess Harding	Woman of the Year
	Rosalind Russell	Ruth Sherwood	My Sister Eileen
	Teresa Wright	Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig	The Pride of the Yankees
1943 (16th)	Jennifer Jones	Bernadette Soubirous	The Song of Bernadette	[26]
	Jean Arthur	Constance "Connie" Milligan	The More the Merrier
	Ingrid Bergman	María	For Whom the Bell Tolls
	Joan Fontaine	Tessa Sanger	The Constant Nymph
	Greer Garson	Marie Curie	Madame Curie
1944 (17th)	Ingrid Bergman	Paula Alquist Anton	Gaslight	[27]
	Claudette Colbert	Anne Hilton	Since You Went Away
	Bette Davis	Fanny Trellis	Mr. Skeffington
	Greer Garson	Susie "Sparrow" Parkington	Mrs. Parkington
	Barbara Stanwyck	Phyllis Dietrichson	Double Indemnity
1945 (18th)	Joan Crawford	Mildred Pierce Beragon	Mildred Pierce	[28]
	Ingrid Bergman	Mary Benedict	The Bells of St. Mary's
	Greer Garson	Mary Rafferty	The Valley of Decision
	Jennifer Jones	Singleton	Love Letters
	Gene Tierney	Ellen Berent Harland	Leave Her to Heaven
1946 (19th)	Olivia de Havilland	Josephine "Jody" Norris	To Each His Own	[29]
	Celia Johnson	Laura Jesson	Brief Encounter
	Jennifer Jones	Pearl Chavez	Duel in the Sun
	Rosalind Russell	Elizabeth Kenny	Sister Kenny
	Jane Wyman	Orry Baxter	The Yearling
1947 (20th)	Loretta Young	Katie Holstrom	The Farmer's Daughter	[30]
	Joan Crawford	Louise Howell	Possessed
	Susan Hayward	Angelica Evans Conway	Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
	Dorothy McGuire	Kathy Lacy	Gentleman's Agreement
	Rosalind Russell	Lavinia Mannon	Mourning Becomes Electra
1948 (21st)	Jane Wyman	Belinda McDonald	Johnny Belinda	[31]
	Ingrid Bergman	Joan of Arc	Joan of Arc
	Olivia de Havilland	Virginia Stuart Cunningham	The Snake Pit
	Irene Dunne	Martha Hanson	I Remember Mama
	Barbara Stanwyck	Leona Stevenson	Sorry, Wrong Number
1949 (22nd)	Olivia de Havilland	Catherine Sloper	The Heiress	[32]
	Jeanne Crain	Patricia "Pinky" Johnson	Pinky
	Susan Hayward	Eloise Winters	My Foolish Heart
	Deborah Kerr	Evelyn Boult	Edward, My Son
	Loretta Young	Margaret	Come to the Stable
1950 (23rd)	Judy Holliday	Emma "Billie" Dawn	Born Yesterday	[33]
	Anne Baxter	Eve Harrington	All About Eve
	Bette Davis	Margo Channing
	Eleanor Parker	Marie Allen	Caged
	Gloria Swanson	Norma Desmond	Sunset Boulevard
1951 (24th)	Vivien Leigh	Blanche DuBois	A Streetcar Named Desire	[34]
	Katharine Hepburn	Rose Sayer	The African Queen
	Eleanor Parker	Mary McLeod	Detective Story
	Shelley Winters	Alice Tripp	A Place in the Sun
	Jane Wyman	Louise Mason	The Blue Veil
1952 (25th)	Shirley Booth	Lola Delaney	Come Back, Little Sheba	[35]
	Joan Crawford	Myra Hudson	Sudden Fear
	Bette Davis	Margaret Elliot	The Star
	Julie Harris	Frances "Frankie" Addams	The Member of the Wedding
	Susan Hayward	Jane Froman	With a Song in My Heart
1953 (26th)	Audrey Hepburn	Princess Ann	Roman Holiday	[36]
	Leslie Caron	Lili Daurier	Lili
	Ava Gardner	Eloise "Honey Bear" Kelly	Mogambo
	Deborah Kerr	Karen Holmes	From Here to Eternity
	Maggie McNamara	Patty O'Neill	The Moon Is Blue
1954 (27th)	Grace Kelly	Georgie Elgin	The Country Girl	[37]
	Dorothy Dandridge	Carmen Jones	Carmen Jones
	Judy Garland	Esther Victoria Blodgett / Vicki Lester	A Star Is Born
	Audrey Hepburn	Sabrina Fairchild	Sabrina
	Jane Wyman	Helen Phillips	Magnificent Obsession
1955 (28th)	Anna Magnani	Serafina Delle Rose	The Rose Tattoo	[38]
	Susan Hayward	Lillian Roth	I'll Cry Tomorrow
	Katharine Hepburn	Jane Hudson	Summertime
	Jennifer Jones	Han Suyin	Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
	Eleanor Parker	Marjorie Lawrence	Interrupted Melody
1956 (29th)	Ingrid Bergman	Anna Koreff / Anastasia	Anastasia	[39]
	Carroll Baker	Baby Doll Meighan	Baby Doll
	Katharine Hepburn	Lizzie Curry	The Rainmaker
	Nancy Kelly	Christine Penmark	The Bad Seed
	Deborah Kerr	Anna Leonowens	The King and I
1957 (30th)	Joanne Woodward	Eve White / Eve Black / Jane	The Three Faces of Eve	[40]
	Deborah Kerr	Angela	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
	Anna Magnani	Gioia	Wild Is the Wind
	Elizabeth Taylor	Susanna Drake	Raintree County
	Lana Turner	Constance MacKenzie	Peyton Place
1958 (31st)	Susan Hayward	Barbara Graham	I Want to Live!	[41]
	Deborah Kerr	Sibyl Railton-Bell	Separate Tables
	Shirley MacLaine	Ginnie Moorehead	Some Came Running
	Rosalind Russell	Mame Dennis	Auntie Mame
	Elizabeth Taylor	Margaret "Maggie the Cat" Pollitt	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1959 (32nd)	Simone Signoret	Alice Aisgill	Room at the Top	[42]
	Doris Day	Jan Morrow	Pillow Talk
	Audrey Hepburn	Gabrielle van der Mal	The Nun's Story
	Katharine Hepburn	Violet Venable	Suddenly, Last Summer
	Elizabeth Taylor	Catherine Holly
1960 (33rd)	Elizabeth Taylor	Gloria Wandrous	BUtterfield 8	[43]
	Greer Garson	Eleanor Roosevelt	Sunrise at Campobello
	Deborah Kerr	Ida Carmody	The Sundowners
	Shirley MacLaine	Fran Kubelik	The Apartment
	Melina Mercouri	Ilya	Never on Sunday
1961 (34th)	Sophia Loren	Cesira	Two Women	[44]
	Audrey Hepburn	Holly Golightly / Lula Mae Barnes	Breakfast at Tiffany's
	Piper Laurie	Sarah Packard	The Hustler
	Geraldine Page	Alma Winemiller	Summer and Smoke
	Natalie Wood	Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis	Splendor in the Grass
1962 (35th)	Anne Bancroft	Annie Sullivan	The Miracle Worker	[45]
	Bette Davis	Baby Jane Hudson	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	Katharine Hepburn	Mary Cavan Tyrone	Long Day's Journey into Night
	Geraldine Page	Alexandra Del Lago	Sweet Bird of Youth
	Lee Remick	Kirsten Arnesen Clay	Days of Wine and Roses
1963 (36th)	Patricia Neal	Alma Brown	Hud	[46]
	Leslie Caron	Jane Fossett	The L-Shaped Room
	Shirley MacLaine	Irma La Douce	Irma la Douce
	Rachel Roberts	Margaret Hammond	This Sporting Life
	Natalie Wood	Angie Rossini	Love with the Proper Stranger
1964 (37th)	Julie Andrews	Mary Poppins	Mary Poppins	[47]
	Anne Bancroft	Jo Armitage	The Pumpkin Eater
	Sophia Loren	Filumena Marturano	Marriage Italian Style
	Debbie Reynolds	Molly Brown	The Unsinkable Molly Brown
	Kim Stanley	Myra Savage	Séance on a Wet Afternoon
1965 (38th)	Julie Christie	Diana Scott	Darling	[48]
	Julie Andrews	Maria von Trapp	The Sound of Music
	Samantha Eggar	Miranda Grey	The Collector
	Elizabeth Hartman	Selina D'Arcy	A Patch of Blue
	Simone Signoret	La Contessa	Ship of Fools
1966 (39th)	Elizabeth Taylor	Martha	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	[49]
	Anouk Aimée	Anne Gauthier	A Man and a Woman
	Ida Kamińska	Rozalie Lautmann	The Shop on Main Street
	Lynn Redgrave	Georgina "Georgy" Parkin	Georgy Girl
	Vanessa Redgrave	Leonie Delt	Morgan!
1967 (40th)	Katharine Hepburn	Christina Drayton	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	[50]
	Anne Bancroft	Mrs. Robinson	The Graduate
	Faye Dunaway	Bonnie Parker	Bonnie and Clyde
	Edith Evans	Maggie Ross	The Whisperers
	Audrey Hepburn	Susy Hendrix	Wait Until Dark
1968 (41st)	Katharine Hepburn (TIE) [C]	Eleanor of Aquitaine	The Lion in Winter	[51]
	Barbra Streisand (TIE) [C]	Fanny Brice	Funny Girl
	Patricia Neal	Nettie Cleary	The Subject was Roses
	Vanessa Redgrave	Isadora Duncan	Isadora
	Joanne Woodward	Rachel Cameron	Rachel, Rachel
1969 (42nd)	Maggie Smith	Jean Brodie	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	[52]
	Geneviève Bujold	Anne Boleyn	Anne of the Thousand Days
	Jane Fonda	Gloria Beatty	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
	Liza Minnelli	Mary Ann "Pookie" Adams	The Sterile Cuckoo
	Jean Simmons	Mary Wilson	The Happy Ending
1970 (43rd)	Glenda Jackson	Gudrun Brangwen	Women in Love	[53]
	Jane Alexander	Eleanor Backman	The Great White Hope
	Ali MacGraw	Jennifer Cavalleri-Barrett	Love Story
	Sarah Miles	Rosy Ryan	Ryan's Daughter
	Carrie Snodgress	Bettina "Tina" Balser	Diary of a Mad Housewife
1971 (44th)	Jane Fonda	Bree Daniels	Klute	[54]
	Julie Christie	Constance Miller	McCabe & Mrs. Miller
	Glenda Jackson	Alex Greville	Sunday Bloody Sunday
	Vanessa Redgrave	Mary, Queen of Scots	Mary, Queen of Scots
	Janet Suzman	Empress Alexandra of Russia	Nicholas and Alexandra
1972 (45th)	Liza Minnelli	Sally Bowles	Cabaret	[55]
	Diana Ross	Billie Holiday	Lady Sings the Blues
	Maggie Smith	Augusta Bertram	Travels with My Aunt
	Cicely Tyson	Rebecca Morgan	Sounder
	Liv Ullmann	Kristina Nilsson	The Emigrants
1973 (46th)	Glenda Jackson	Vickie Allessio	A Touch of Class	[56]
	Ellen Burstyn	Chris MacNeil	The Exorcist
	Marsha Mason	Maggie Paul	Cinderella Liberty
	Barbra Streisand	Katie Morosky	The Way We Were
	Joanne Woodward	Rita Walden	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1974 (47th)	Ellen Burstyn	Alice Graham-Hyatt	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	[57]
	Diahann Carroll	Claudine Price	Claudine
	Faye Dunaway	Evelyn Cross Mulwray	Chinatown
	Valerie Perrine	Harriett Jolliff / Honey Bruce	Lenny
	Gena Rowlands	Mabel Longhetti	A Woman Under the Influence
1975 (48th)	Louise Fletcher	Nurse Mildred Ratched	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	[58]
	Isabelle Adjani	Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewly	The Story of Adele H.
	Ann-Margret	Nora Walker	Tommy
	Glenda Jackson	Hedda Gabler-Tesman	Hedda
	Carol Kane	Gitl	Hester Street
1976 (49th)	Faye Dunaway	Diana Christensen	Network	[59]
	Marie-Christine Barrault	Marthe	Cousin Cousine
	Talia Shire	Adrian Pennino	Rocky
	Sissy Spacek	Carrie White	Carrie
	Liv Ullmann	Jenny Isaksson	Face to Face
1977 (50th)	Diane Keaton	Annie Hall	Annie Hall	[60]
	Anne Bancroft	Emma Jacklin	The Turning Point
	Jane Fonda	Lillian Hellman	Julia
	Shirley MacLaine	Deedee Rodgers	The Turning Point
	Marsha Mason	Paula McFadden	The Goodbye Girl
1978 (51st)	Jane Fonda	Sally Hyde	Coming Home	[61]
	Ingrid Bergman	Charlotte Andergast	Autumn Sonata
	Ellen Burstyn	Doris	Same Time, Next Year
	Jill Clayburgh	Erica Benton	An Unmarried Woman
	Geraldine Page	Eve	Interiors
1979 (52nd)	Sally Field	Norma Rae Webster	Norma Rae	[62]
	Jill Clayburgh	Marilyn Holmberg	Starting Over
	Jane Fonda	Kimberly Wells	The China Syndrome
	Marsha Mason	Jennie MacLaine	Chapter Two
	Bette Midler	Mary Rose Foster	The Rose
1980 (53rd)	Sissy Spacek	Loretta Lynn	Coal Miner's Daughter	[63]
	Ellen Burstyn	Edna Mae Harper-McCauley	Resurrection
	Goldie Hawn	Judy Benjamin	Private Benjamin
	Mary Tyler Moore	Beth Jarrett	Ordinary People
	Gena Rowlands	Gloria Swenson	Gloria
1981 (54th)	Katharine Hepburn	Ethel Thayer	On Golden Pond	[64]
	Diane Keaton	Louise Bryant	Reds
	Marsha Mason	Georgia Hines	Only When I Laugh
	Susan Sarandon	Sally Matthews	Atlantic City
	Meryl Streep	Anna / Sara Woodruff	The French Lieutenant's Woman
1982 (55th)	Meryl Streep	Sophie Zawistowski	Sophie's Choice	[65]
	Julie Andrews	Victor Grazinski / Victoria Grant	Victor/Victoria
	Jessica Lange	Frances Farmer	Frances
	Sissy Spacek	Beth Horman	Missing
	Debra Winger	Paula Pokrifki	An Officer and a Gentleman
1983 (56th)	Shirley MacLaine	Aurora Greenway	Terms of Endearment	[66]
	Jane Alexander	Carol Wetherly	Testament
	Meryl Streep	Karen Silkwood	Silkwood
	Julie Walters	Susan White / Rita	Educating Rita
	Debra Winger	Emma Greenway Horton	Terms of Endearment
1984 (57th)	Sally Field	Edna Spalding	Places in the Heart	[67]
	Judy Davis	Adela Quested	A Passage to India
	Jessica Lange	Jewell Ivy	Country
	Vanessa Redgrave	Olive Chancellor	The Bostonians
	Sissy Spacek	Mae Garvey	The River
1985 (58th)	Geraldine Page	Carrie Watts	The Trip to Bountiful	[68]
	Anne Bancroft	Miriam Ruth / Anna Maria Burchetti	Agnes of God
	Whoopi Goldberg	Celie Harris-Johnson	The Color Purple
	Jessica Lange	Patsy Cline	Sweet Dreams
	Meryl Streep	Karen Blixen	Out of Africa
1986 (59th)	Marlee Matlin	Sarah Norman	Children of a Lesser God	[69]
	Jane Fonda	Alex Sternbergen / Viveca Van Loren	The Morning After
	Sissy Spacek	Babe Botrelle / Rebecca MaGrath	Crimes of the Heart
	Kathleen Turner	Peggy Sue Kelcher-Bodell	Peggy Sue Got Married
	Sigourney Weaver	Ellen Ripley	Aliens
1987 (60th)	Cher	Loretta Castorini	Moonstruck	[70]
	Glenn Close	Alex Forrest	Fatal Attraction
	Holly Hunter	Jane Craig	Broadcast News
	Sally Kirkland	Anna	Anna
	Meryl Streep	Helen Archer	Ironweed
1988 (61st)	Jodie Foster	Sarah Tobias	The Accused	[71]
	Glenn Close	Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil	Dangerous Liaisons
	Melanie Griffith	Tess McGill	Working Girl
	Meryl Streep	Lindy Chamberlain	A Cry in the Dark
	Sigourney Weaver	Dian Fossey	Gorillas in the Mist
1989 (62nd)	Jessica Tandy	Daisy Werthan	Driving Miss Daisy	[72]
	Isabelle Adjani	Camille Claudel	Camille Claudel
	Pauline Collins	Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw	Shirley Valentine
	Jessica Lange	Ann Talbot	Music Box
	Michelle Pfeiffer	Susie Diamond	The Fabulous Baker Boys
1990 (63rd)	Kathy Bates	Annie Wilkes	Misery	[73]
	Anjelica Huston	Lilly Dillon	The Grifters
	Julia Roberts	Vivian Ward	Pretty Woman
	Meryl Streep	Suzanne Vale	Postcards from the Edge
	Joanne Woodward	India Bridge	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1991 (64th)	Jodie Foster	Clarice Starling	The Silence of the Lambs	[74]
	Geena Davis	Thelma Dickinson	Thelma & Louise
	Laura Dern	Rose	Rambling Rose
	Bette Midler	Dixie Leonard	For the Boys
	Susan Sarandon	Louise Sawyer	Thelma & Louise
1992 (65th)	Emma Thompson	Margaret Schlegel	Howards End	[75]
	Catherine Deneuve	Eliane Devries	Indochine
	Mary McDonnell	May-Alice Culhane	Passion Fish
	Michelle Pfeiffer	Louise Irene "Lurene" Hallett	Love Field
	Susan Sarandon	Michaela Murphy Odone	Lorenzo's Oil
1993 (66th)	Holly Hunter	Ada McGrath	The Piano	[76]
	Angela Bassett	Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner	What's Love Got to Do with It
	Stockard Channing	Louisa "Ouisa" Kittredge	Six Degrees of Separation
	Emma Thompson	Sarah "Sally" Kenton	The Remains of the Day
	Debra Winger	Joy Davidman	Shadowlands
1994 (67th)	Jessica Lange	Carly Marshall	Blue Sky	[77]
	Jodie Foster	Nell Kellty	Nell
	Miranda Richardson	Vivienne Haigh-Wood	Tom & Viv
	Winona Ryder	Josephine "Jo" March	Little Women
	Susan Sarandon	Regina "Reggie" Love	The Client
1995 (68th)	Susan Sarandon	Helen Prejean	Dead Man Walking	[78]
	Elisabeth Shue	Sera	Leaving Las Vegas
	Sharon Stone	Ginger McKenna	Casino
	Meryl Streep	Francesca Johnson	The Bridges of Madison County
	Emma Thompson	Elinor Dashwood	Sense and Sensibility
1996 (69th)	Frances McDormand	Marge Gunderson	Fargo	[79]
	Brenda Blethyn	Cynthia Rose Purley	Secrets & Lies
	Diane Keaton	Bessie Wakefield	Marvin's Room
	Kristin Scott Thomas	Katharine Clifton	The English Patient
	Emily Watson	Bess McNeill	Breaking the Waves
1997 (70th)	Helen Hunt	Carol Connelly	As Good as It Gets	[80]
	Helena Bonham Carter	Kate Croy	The Wings of the Dove
	Julie Christie	Phyllis Hart	Afterglow
	Judi Dench	Queen Victoria	Mrs Brown
	Kate Winslet	Rose DeWitt Bukater	Titanic
1998 (71st)	Gwyneth Paltrow	Viola de Lesseps / Thomas Kent	Shakespeare in Love	[81]
	Cate Blanchett	Queen Elizabeth I	Elizabeth
	Fernanda Montenegro	Isadora "Dora" Teixeira	Central Station
	Meryl Streep	Kate Gulden	One True Thing
	Emily Watson	Jacqueline du Pré	Hilary and Jackie
1999 (72nd)	Hilary Swank	Brandon Teena	Boys Don't Cry	[82]
	Annette Bening	Carolyn Burnham	American Beauty
	Janet McTeer	Mary Jo Walker	Tumbleweeds
	Julianne Moore	Sarah Miles	The End of the Affair
	Meryl Streep	Roberta Guaspari	Music of the Heart
2000 (73rd)	Julia Roberts	Erin Brockovich	Erin Brockovich	[83]
	Joan Allen	Laine Hanson	The Contender
	Juliette Binoche	Vianne Rocher	Chocolat
	Ellen Burstyn	Sara Goldfarb	Requiem for a Dream
	Laura Linney	Samantha "Sammy" Prescott	You Can Count On Me
2001 (74th)	Halle Berry	Leticia Musgrove	Monster's Ball	[84]
	Judi Dench	Iris Murdoch	Iris
	Nicole Kidman	Satine	Moulin Rouge!
	Sissy Spacek	Ruth Fowler	In the Bedroom
	Renée Zellweger	Bridget Jones	Bridget Jones's Diary
2002 (75th)	Nicole Kidman	Virginia Woolf	The Hours	[85]
	Salma Hayek	Frida Kahlo	Frida
	Diane Lane	Constance "Connie" Sumner	Unfaithful
	Julianne Moore	Cathy Whitaker	Far from Heaven
	Renée Zellweger	Roxie Hart	Chicago
2003 (76th)	Charlize Theron	Aileen Wuornos	Monster	[86]
	Keisha Castle-Hughes	Paikea Apirana	Whale Rider
	Diane Keaton	Erica Jane Berry	Something's Gotta Give
	Samantha Morton	Sarah Sullivan	In America
	Naomi Watts	Cristina Williams-Peck	21 Grams
2004 (77th)	Hilary Swank	Maggie Fitzgerald	Million Dollar Baby	[87]
	Annette Bening	Julia Lambert	Being Julia
	Catalina Sandino Moreno	María Álvarez	Maria Full of Grace
	Imelda Staunton	Vera Rose Drake	Vera Drake
	Kate Winslet	Clementine Kruczynski	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 (78th)	Reese Witherspoon	June Carter Cash	Walk the Line	[88]
	Judi Dench	Laura Forster-Henderson	Mrs Henderson Presents
	Felicity Huffman	Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne	Transamerica
	Keira Knightley	Elizabeth Bennet	Pride & Prejudice
	Charlize Theron	Josey Aimes	North Country
2006 (79th)	Helen Mirren	Queen Elizabeth II	The Queen	[89]
	Penélope Cruz	Raimunda	Volver
	Judi Dench	Barbara Covett	Notes on a Scandal
	Meryl Streep	Miranda Priestly	The Devil Wears Prada
	Kate Winslet	Sarah Pierce	Little Children
2007 (80th)	Marion Cotillard	Édith Piaf	La Vie en Rose	[90]
	Cate Blanchett	Queen Elizabeth I	Elizabeth: The Golden Age
	Julie Christie	Fiona Anderson	Away from Her
	Laura Linney	Wendy Savage	The Savages
	Ellen Page	Juno MacGuff	Juno
2008 (81st)	Kate Winslet	Hanna Schmitz	The Reader	[91]
	Anne Hathaway	Kym Buchman	Rachel Getting Married
	Angelina Jolie	Christine Collins	Changeling
	Melissa Leo	Ray Eddy	Frozen River
	Meryl Streep	Aloysius Beauvier	Doubt
2009 (82nd)	Sandra Bullock	Leigh Anne Tuohy	The Blind Side	[92]
	Helen Mirren	Sophia Tolstaya	The Last Station
	Carey Mulligan	Jenny Mellor	An Education
	Gabourey Sidibe	Claireece "Precious" Jones	Precious
	Meryl Streep	Julia Child	Julie & Julia
2010 (83rd)	Natalie Portman	Nina Sayers	Black Swan	[93]
	Annette Bening	Nicole Allgood	The Kids Are All Right
	Nicole Kidman	Becca Corbett	Rabbit Hole
	Jennifer Lawrence	Ree Dolly	Winter's Bone
	Michelle Williams	Cindy Heller	Blue Valentine
2011 (84th)	Meryl Streep	Margaret Thatcher	The Iron Lady	[94]
	Glenn Close	Albert Nobbs	Albert Nobbs
	Viola Davis	Aibileen Clark	The Help
	Rooney Mara	Lisbeth Salander	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Michelle Williams	Marilyn Monroe	My Week with Marilyn
2012 (85th)	Jennifer Lawrence	Tiffany Maxwell	Silver Linings Playbook	[95]
	Jessica Chastain	Maya	Zero Dark Thirty
	Emmanuelle Riva	Anne Laurent	Amour
	Quvenzhané Wallis	Hushpuppy	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Naomi Watts	Maria Bennett	The Impossible
2013 (86th)	Cate Blanchett	Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis	Blue Jasmine	[96]
	Amy Adams	Sydney Prosser	American Hustle
	Sandra Bullock	Ryan Stone	Gravity
	Judi Dench	Philomena Lee	Philomena
	Meryl Streep	Violet Weston	August: Osage County
2014 (87th)	Julianne Moore	Alice Howland	Still Alice	[97]
	Marion Cotillard	Sandra Bya	Two Days, One Night
	Felicity Jones	Jane Hawking	The Theory of Everything
	Rosamund Pike	Amy Elliott-Dunne	Gone Girl
	Reese Witherspoon	Cheryl Strayed	Wild
2015 (88th)	Brie Larson	Joy Newsome	Room	[98]
	Cate Blanchett	Carol Aird	Carol
	Jennifer Lawrence	Joy Mangano	Joy
	Charlotte Rampling	Kate Mercer	45 Years
	Saoirse Ronan	Eilis Lacey	Brooklyn
2016 (89th)	Emma Stone	Mia Dolan	La La Land	[99]
	Isabelle Huppert	Michèle Leblanc	Elle
	Ruth Negga	Mildred Loving	Loving
	Natalie Portman	Jackie Kennedy	Jackie
	Meryl Streep	Florence Foster Jenkins	Florence Foster Jenkins
2017 (90th)	Frances McDormand	Mildred Hayes	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	[100]
	Sally Hawkins	Elisa Esposito	The Shape of Water
	Margot Robbie	Tonya Harding	I, Tonya
	Saoirse Ronan	Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson	Lady Bird
	Meryl Streep	Katharine Graham	The Post

Multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received two or more Best Actress awards: Wins Actress Nominations 4 Katharine Hepburn 12 2 Meryl Streep 17 Bette Davis 10 Ingrid Bergman 6 Jane Fonda Elizabeth Taylor 5 Olivia de Havilland 4 Glenda Jackson Jodie Foster 3 Sally Field 2 Vivien Leigh Frances McDormand Luise Rainer Hilary Swank

The following individuals received four or more Best Actress nominations: Nominations Actress 17 Meryl Streep 12 Katharine Hepburn 10 Bette Davis 7 Greer Garson 6 Ingrid Bergman Jane Fonda Deborah Kerr Sissy Spacek 5 Anne Bancroft Ellen Burstyn Judi Dench Irene Dunne Susan Hayward Audrey Hepburn Jessica Lange Shirley MacLaine Susan Sarandon Norma Shearer Elizabeth Taylor 4 Cate Blanchett Julie Christie Olivia de Havilland Glenda Jackson Jennifer Jones Diane Keaton Marsha Mason Geraldine Page Vanessa Redgrave Rosalind Russell Barbara Stanwyck Kate Winslet Joanne Woodward Jane Wyman

Age superlatives

Record	Actress	Film	Age (in years)	Ref.
Oldest winner	Jessica Tandy	Driving Miss Daisy	80	[101]
Oldest nominee	Emmanuelle Riva	Amour	85	[101]
Youngest winner	Marlee Matlin	Children of a Lesser God	21	[101]
Youngest nominee	Quvenzhané Wallis	Beasts of the Southern Wild	9	[101]

See also

• All Academy Award acting nominees


• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress


• Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead


• BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role


• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama


• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical


• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Notes

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   ^ The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges.
   

A^{1 2} : Rules at the time of the first three ceremonies allowed for a performer to receive a single nomination which could honor their work in more than one film. Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer were both nominated for two different roles in the same category. Current Academy rules forbid this from happening. No official reason was ever given as to why Shearer won the award for only one of the two films she was listed for.^[102]

B^ : Bette Davis's performance in Of Human Bondage was not nominated for an Oscar.^[103] Several influential people at the time campaigned to have her name included on the list, so for that year (and the following year also) the Academy relaxed its rules and allowed a write-in vote.^[104] Technically this meant that any performance was eligible to win the award, whether or not they were an official nominee. While the Academy does not officially recognize this as a nomination for Davis,^[105][106] they have included her in the list of nominees for the 1935 ceremony on their official website.^[17]

C^{1 2} : Both Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand received the exact number of votes resulting in both actresses receiving the award, according to Academy rules.^[107]

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Special awards	Governors Awards Academy Honorary Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Special Achievement Academy Award Academy Scientific and Technical Awards Academy Award of Merit (non-competitive) Scientific and Engineering Award Technical Achievement Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Gordon E. Sawyer Award Student Awards Student Academy Award
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Footnote	‡ Dates and years listed for each ceremony were the eligibility period of film release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period was done on a seasonal basis, from August to July. For the 6th ceremony, held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932 to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
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v t e Academy Award for Best Actress
1928–1950	Janet Gaynor (1928) Mary Pickford (1929) Norma Shearer (1930) Marie Dressler (1931) Helen Hayes (1932) Katharine Hepburn (1933) Claudette Colbert (1934) Bette Davis (1935) Luise Rainer (1936) Luise Rainer (1937) Bette Davis (1938) Vivien Leigh (1939) Ginger Rogers (1940) Joan Fontaine (1941) Greer Garson (1942) Jennifer Jones (1943) Ingrid Bergman (1944) Joan Crawford (1945) Olivia de Havilland (1946) Loretta Young (1947) Jane Wyman (1948) Olivia de Havilland (1949) Judy Holliday (1950)
1951–1975	Vivien Leigh (1951) Shirley Booth (1952) Audrey Hepburn (1953) Grace Kelly (1954) Anna Magnani (1955) Ingrid Bergman (1956) Joanne Woodward (1957) Susan Hayward (1958) Simone Signoret (1959) Elizabeth Taylor (1960) Sophia Loren (1961) Anne Bancroft (1962) Patricia Neal (1963) Julie Andrews (1964) Julie Christie (1965) Elizabeth Taylor (1966) Katharine Hepburn (1967) Katharine Hepburn / Barbra Streisand (1968) Maggie Smith (1969) Glenda Jackson (1970) Jane Fonda (1971) Liza Minnelli (1972) Glenda Jackson (1973) Ellen Burstyn (1974) Louise Fletcher (1975)
1976–2000	Faye Dunaway (1976) Diane Keaton (1977) Jane Fonda (1978) Sally Field (1979) Sissy Spacek (1980) Katharine Hepburn (1981) Meryl Streep (1982) Shirley MacLaine (1983) Sally Field (1984) Geraldine Page (1985) Marlee Matlin (1986) Cher (1987) Jodie Foster (1988) Jessica Tandy (1989) Kathy Bates (1990) Jodie Foster (1991) Emma Thompson (1992) Holly Hunter (1993) Jessica Lange (1994) Susan Sarandon (1995) Frances McDormand (1996) Helen Hunt (1997) Gwyneth Paltrow (1998) Hilary Swank (1999) Julia Roberts (2000)
2001–present	Halle Berry (2001) Nicole Kidman (2002) Charlize Theron (2003) Hilary Swank (2004) Reese Witherspoon (2005) Helen Mirren (2006) Marion Cotillard (2007) Kate Winslet (2008) Sandra Bullock (2009) Natalie Portman (2010) Meryl Streep (2011) Jennifer Lawrence (2012) Cate Blanchett (2013) Julianne Moore (2014) Brie Larson (2015) Emma Stone (2016) Frances McDormand (2017)

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