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Academy Award for Best Actress
The Academy Awards are awarded the year after the film's release; the films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best actor in 1999.
- 1928 Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven Street Angel and Sunrise
- 1929 Mary Pickford - Coquette
- 1930 Norma Shearer - The Divorcee
- 1931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
- 1932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
- 1933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory
- 1934 Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
- 1935 Bette Davis - Dangerous
- 1936 Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
- 1937 Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
- 1938 Bette Davis - Jezebel
- 1939 Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind
- 1940 Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
- 1941 Joan Fontaine - Suspicion
- 1942 Greer Garson- Mrs. Miniver
- 1943 Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
- 1944 Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
- 1945 Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce
- 1946 Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
- 1947 Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter
- 1948 Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
- 1949 Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
- 1950 Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
- 1951 Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
- 1952 Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba
- 1953 Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
- 1954 Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
- 1955 Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
- 1956 Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
- 1957 Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
- 1958 Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
- 1959 Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
- 1960 Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8
- 1961 Sophia Loren - Two Women
- 1962 Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
- 1963 Patricia Neal - Hud
- 1964 Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
- 1965 Julie Christie - Darling
- 1966 Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1967 Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- 1968 Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
- 1969 Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- 1970 Glenda Jackson - Women in Love
- 1971 Jane Fonda - Klute
- 1972 Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
- 1973 Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class
- 1974 Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- 1975 Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1976 Faye Dunaway - Network
- 1977 Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
- 1978 Jane Fonda - Coming Home
- 1979 Sally Field - Norma Rae
- 1980 Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter
- 1981 Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
- 1982 Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
- 1983 Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
- 1984 Sally Field - Places in the Heart
- 1985 Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful
- 1986 Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God
- 1987 Cher - Moonstruck
- 1988 Jodie Foster - The Accused[?]
- 1989 Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
- 1990 Kathy Bates[?] - Misery[?]
- 1991 Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992 Emma Thompson - Howards End
- 1993 Holly Hunter - The Piano
- 1994 Jessica Lange - Blue Sky[?]
- 1995 Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking
- 1996 Frances McDormand[?] - Fargo
- 1997 Helen Hunt - As Good As It Gets
- 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love
- 1999 Hilary Swank[?] - Boys Don't Cry
- 2000 Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
- 2001 Halle Berry - Monster's Ball[?]
- 2002 Nicole Kidman -The Hours[?]
- See also: Academy Awards
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