Retrospective Catalog: Best Actress Oscar Winners

🅑 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) 🅑🅒