Academy Award for Best Actress

This page should also list nominees for each year, instead of just listing the winners...

The films are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best actor in 1999.

• 1999 Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry

• 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare In Love

• 1997 Helen Hunt - As Good As It Gets

• 1996 Frances McDormand - Fargo

• 1995 Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking

• 1994 Jessica Lange - Blue Sky

• 1993 Holly Hunter - The Piano

• 1992 Emma Thompson - Howards End

• 1991 Jodie Foster - The Silence Of The Lambs

• 1990 Kathy Bates - Misery

• 1989 Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy

• 1988 Jodie Foster - The Accused

• 1987 Cher - Moonstruck

• 1986 Marlee Matlin - Children Of A Lesser God

• 1985 Geraldine Page - The Trip To Bountiful

• 1984 Sally Field - Places In The Heart

• 1983 Shirley Maclaine - Terms Of Endearment

• 1982 Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice

• 1981 Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond

• 1980 Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter

• 1979 Sally Field - Norma Rae

• 1978 Jane Fonda - Coming Home

• 1977 Diane Keaton - Annie Hall

• 1976 Faye Dunaway - Network

• 1975 Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• 1974 Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

• 1973 Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class

• 1972 Liza Minnelli - Cabaret

• 1971 Jane Fonda - Klute

• 1970 Glenda Jackson - Women In Love

• 1969 Maggie Smith - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

• 1968 Katharine Hepburn - The Lion In Winter, Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

• 1967 Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

• 1966 Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• 1965 Julie Christie - Darling

• 1964 Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

• 1963 Patricia Neal - Hud

• 1962 Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

• 1961 Sophia Loren - Two Women

• 1960 Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8

• 1959 Simone Signoret - Room At The Top

• 1958 Susan Hayward - I Want To Live!

• 1957 Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

• 1956 Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia

• 1955 Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo

• 1954 Grace Kelly - The Country Girl

• 1953 Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday

• 1952 Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba

• 1951 Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire

• 1950 Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday

• 1949 Olivia De Havilland - The Heiress

• 1948 Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda

• 1947 Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter

• 1946 Olivia De Havilland - To Each His Own

• 1945 Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce

• 1944 Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight

• 1943 Jennifer Jones - The Song Of Bernadette

• 1942 Greer Garson- Mrs. Miniver

• 1941 Joan Fontaine - Suspicion

• 1940 Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle

• 1939 Vivien Leigh - Gone With The Wind

• 1938 Bette Davis - Jezebel

• 1937 Luise Rainer - The Good Earth

• 1936 Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld

• 1935 Bette Davis - Dangerous

• 1934 Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night

• 1933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory

• 1932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet

• 1931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill

• 1930 Norma Shearer - The Divorcee

• 1929 Mary Pickford - Coquette

• 1928 Janet Gaynor - 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise