🅑 Best Picture Winner
🅒 Criterion Release
🅕 Foreign Language Film
🅝 National Film Registry Selection
🅢 Silent Film
Best Actress Retrospective: An Introduction
Best Actress Retrospective: The Ten Best Winners
Best Actress Retrospective: The Ten Worst Winners
1928: Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise) 🅢
(7th Heaven 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: Louise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld) 🅑
1937: Louise 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: Sofia 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 (Tie): Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter)
1968 (Tie): Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) 🅒🅝
1969: Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brody)
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: Hillary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) 🅝
2000: Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)
2001: Halle Berry (Monster's Ball)
2002: Nicole Kidman (The Hours) 🅝
2003: Charlize Theron (Monster)
2004: Hillary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) 🅑
2005: Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
2006: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
2007: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) 🅕
2008: Kate Winslet (The Reader)
2009: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
2010: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
2011: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
2012: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
2013: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
2014: Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
2015: Brie Larson (Room)
2016: Emma Stone (La La Land)
2017: Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
2018: Olivia Coleman (The Favourite)
2019: Renee Zellweger (Judy)
2020: Frances McDormand (Nomadland) 🅑
2021: Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
2022: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) 🅑
2023: Emma Stone (Poor Things)
2024: Mickey Madison (Anora) 🅑🅒
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