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2020 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Judy
Renée Zellweger
2019 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Favourite
Olivia Colman
2018 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Frances McDormand
2017 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
La La Land
Emma Stone
2016 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Room
Brie Larson
2015 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Still Alice
Julianne Moore
2014 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Blue Jasmine
Cate Blanchett
2013 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Silver Linings Playbook
Jennifer Lawrence
2012 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep
2011 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Black Swan
Natalie Portman
2010 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Blind Side
Sandra Bullock
2009 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Reader
Kate Winslet
2008 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
La Vie en Rose
Marion Cotillard
2007 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Queen
Helen Mirren
2006 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Walk the Line
Reese Witherspoon
2005 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Million Dollar Baby
Hilary Swank
2004 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Monster
Charlize Theron
2003 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Hours
Nicole Kidman
2002 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Monster’s Ball
Halle Berry
2001 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts
2000 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Boys Don’t Cry
Hilary Swank
1999 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Shakespeare in Love
Gwyneth Paltrow
1998 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
As Good as It Gets
Helen Hunt
1997 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Fargo
Frances McDormand
1996 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Dead Man Walking
Susan Sarandon
1995 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Blue Sky
Jessica Lange
1994 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Piano
Holly Hunter
1993 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Howards End
Emma Thompson
1992 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster
1991 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Misery
Kathy Bates
1990 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Driving Miss Daisy
Jessica Tandy
1989 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Accused
Jodie Foster
1988 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Moonstruck
Cher
1987 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Children of a Lesser God
Marlee Matlin
1986 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Trip to Bountiful
Geraldine Page
1985 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Places in the Heart
Sally Field
1984 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine
1983 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Sophie’s Choice
Meryl Streep
1982 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
On Golden Pond
Katharine Hepburn
1981 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Sissy Spacek
1980 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Norma Rae
Sally Field
1979 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Coming Home
Jane Fonda
1978 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Annie Hall
Diane Keaton
1977 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Network
Faye Dunaway
1976 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Louise Fletcher
1975 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Ellen Burstyn
1974 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
A Touch of Class
Glenda Jackson
1973 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Cabaret
Liza Minnelli
1972 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Klute
Jane Fonda
1971 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Women in Love
Glenda Jackson
1970 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Maggie Smith
1969 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Funny Girl
Barbra Streisand
1969 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Lion in Winter
Katharine Hepburn
1968 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Katharine Hepburn
1967 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Taylor
1966 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Darling
Julie Christie
1965 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Mary Poppins
Julie Andrews
1964 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Hud
Patricia Neal
1963 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Miracle Worker
Anne Bancroft
1962 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Two Women
Sophia Loren
1961 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
BUtterfield 8
Elizabeth Taylor
1960 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Room at the Top
Simone Signoret
1959 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
I Want to Live!
Susan Hayward
1958 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Three Faces of Eve
Joanne Woodward
1957 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Anastasia
Ingrid Bergman
1956 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Rose Tattoo
Anna Magnani
1955 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Country Girl
Grace Kelly
1954 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn
1953 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Come Back, Little Sheba
Shirley Booth
1952 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
A Streetcar Named Desire
Vivien Leigh
1951 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Born Yesterday
Judy Holliday
1950 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Heiress
Olivia de Havilland
1949 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Johnny Belinda
Jane Wyman
1948 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Farmer’s Daughter
Loretta Young
1947 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
To Each His Own
Olivia de Havilland
1946 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Mildred Pierce
Joan Crawford
1945 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Gaslight
Ingrid Bergman
1944 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Song of Bernadette
Jennifer Jones
1943 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Mrs. Miniver
Greer Garson
1942 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Suspicion
Joan Fontaine
1941 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Kitty Foyle
Ginger Rogers
1940 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Gone with the Wind
Vivien Leigh
1939 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Jezebel
Bette Davis
1938 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Good Earth
Luise Rainer
1937 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Great Ziegfeld
Luise Rainer
1936 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Dangerous
Bette Davis
1935 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
It Happened One Night
Claudette Colbert
1934 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Morning Glory
Katharine Hepburn
1932 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Helen Hayes
1931 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Min and Bill
Marie Dressler
1930s Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
The Divorcee
Norma Shearer
1930 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
Coquette
Mary Pickford
1929 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role
