History MediaNotes / AcademyAwardForBestActressInALeadingRole

* 2023:

** Creator/EmmaStone for ''Film/PoorThings'' as Bella Baxter / Victoria Blessington

* 1936: '''Luise Rainer''' for ''Film/TheGreatZiegfeld'' as Anna Held

** Sandra Hüller for ''Film/AnatomyOfAFall'' as Sandra Voyter

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** Creator/BessieLove for ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody'' as Harriet "Hank" Mahoney

* 1930-31: '''Creator/MarieDressler''' for ''Film/MinAndBill'' as Min Divot

** Creator/MayRobson for ''Film/LadyForADay'' as Apple Annie
** Creator/DianaWynyard for ''{{Film/Cavalcade}}'' as Jane Marryot

** Creator/GraceMoore for ''Film/OneNightOfLove'' as Mary Barrett

* 1936: '''Creator/LuiseRainer''' for ''Film/TheGreatZiegfeld'' as Anna Held

* 1937: '''Creator/LuiseRainer''' for ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'' as O-Lan

** Creator/CeliaJohnson for ''Film/BriefEncounter'' as Laura Jesson

** Creator/DorothyMcGuire for ''Film/GentlemansAgreement'' as Kathy Lacey

** Creator/MaggieMcNamara for ''Theatre/TheMoonIsBlue'' as Patty O'Neill

* 1955: '''Creator/AnnaMagnani''' for ''Theatre/TheRoseTattoo'' as Serafina Delle Rose

** Creator/NancyKelly for ''Film/{{The Bad Seed|1956}}'' as Christine Penmark

* 1957: '''Creator/JoanneWoodward''' for ''Film/TheThreeFacesOfEve'' as Eve White / Eve Black / Jane

** Creator/MelinaMercouri for ''Film/NeverOnSunday'' as Ilya

** Creator/AnoukAimee for ''Film/AManAndAWoman'' as Anne Gauthier
** Creator/IdaKamińska for ''Film/TheShopOnMainStreet'' as Rozália Lautmannová

*** Creator/JoanneWoodward for ''Film/RachelRachel'' as Rachel Cameron

** Creator/SarahMiles for ''Film/RyansDaughter'' as Rosy Ryan

** Creator/JanetSuzman for ''Film/NicholasAndAlexandra'' as Empress Alexandra Feodrovna of Russia

** Creator/MarieChristineBarrault for ''Film/CousinCousine'' as Marthe

* 1985: '''Creator/GeraldinePage''' for ''Film/TheTripToBountiful'' as Carrie Watts

** Creator/PaulineCollins for ''Theatre/ShirleyValentine'' as Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw

** Creator/FernandaMontenegro for ''Film/CentralStation'' as Isadora "Dora" Teixeido

** Creator/EmmanuelleRiva for ''Film/{{Amour}}'' as Anne Laurent

** Creator/YalitzaAparicio for ''Film/{{Roma}}'' as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutiérrez

** Music/LadyGaga for ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|2018}}'' as Ally Maine

** Creator/NicoleKidman for ''Film/BeingTheRicardos'' as Creator/{{Lucille Ball}}

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** Creator/WhoopiGoldberg for ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' as Celie Harris-Johnson

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** Creator/QuvenzhanéWallis for ''Film/BeastsOfTheSouthernWild'' as Hushpuppy

** May Robson for ''Film/LadyForADay'' as Apple Annie
** Diana Wynyard for ''{{Film/Cavalcade}}'' as Jane Marryot

** Grace Moore for ''Film/OneNightOfLove'' as Mary Barrett

* 1936: '''Luise Rainer''' for ''Film/TheGreatZiegfeld'' as Anna Held

* 1937: '''Luise Rainer''' for ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'' as O-Lan

** Celia Johnson for ''Film/BriefEncounter'' as Laura Jesson

** Dorothy [=McGuire=] for ''Film/GentlemansAgreement'' as Kathy Lacey

** Maggie [=McNamara=] for ''Theatre/TheMoonIsBlue'' as Patty O'Neill

* 1955: '''Anna Magnani''' for ''Theatre/TheRoseTattoo'' as Serafina Delle Rose

** Nancy Kelly for ''Film/{{The Bad Seed|1956}}'' as Christine Penmark

* 1957: '''Joanne Woodward''' for ''Film/TheThreeFacesOfEve'' as Eve White / Eve Black / Jane

** Melina Mercouri for ''Film/NeverOnSunday'' as Ilya

** Anouk Aimée for ''Film/AManAndAWoman'' as Anne Gauthier
** Ida Kamińska for ''Film/TheShopOnMainStreet'' as Rozália Lautmannová

*** Joanne Woodward for ''Film/RachelRachel'' as Rachel Cameron

** Sarah Miles for ''Film/RyansDaughter'' as Rosy Ryan

** Janet Suzman for ''Film/NicholasAndAlexandra'' as Empress Alexandra Feodrovna of Russia

** Marie-Christine Barrault for ''Film/CousinCousine'' as Marthe

** Jane Alexander for ''Film/{{Testament}}'' as Carol Wetherly

* 1985: '''Geraldine Page''' for ''Film/TheTripToBountiful'' as Carrie Watts

** Pauline Collins for ''Theatre/ShirleyValentine'' as Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw

** Fernanda Montenegro for ''Film/CentralStation'' as Isadora "Dora" Teixeido

** Emmanuelle Riva for ''Film/{{Amour}}'' as Anne Laurent
** Quvenzhané Wallis for ''Film/BeastsOfTheSouthernWild'' as Hushpuppy

** Yalitza Aparicio for ''Film/{{Roma}}'' as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutiérrez

** Bessie Love for ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody'' as Harriet "Hank" Mahoney

* 1930-31: '''Marie Dressler''' for ''Film/MinAndBill'' as Min Divot

* 1935: '''Creator/BetteDavis''' for ''{{Film/Dangerous}}'' as Joyce Heath

** Martha Scott for ''Theatre/OurTown'' as Emily Webb

* 1956: Creator/IngridBergman for ''Film/{{Anastasia}}'' as Anna Koreff / Anastasia

* 1957: Joanne Woodward for ''Film/TheThreeFacesOfEve'' as Eve White / Eve Black / Jane

[[folder: 2000s]]

* 2001: '''Creator/HalleBerry''' for ''Film/MonstersBall'' as Leticia Musgrove

* 2008: Creator/KateWinslet for ''Literature/TheReader'' as Hanna Schmitz

* 2009: Creator/SandraBullock for ''Literature/TheBlindSide'' as Leigh Anne Tuohy

** Creator/SusanHayward for ''Smash-Up, The Story Of A Woman'' as Angelica "Angie" Evans

** Creator/LorettaYoung for ''Come To The Stable'' as Sister Margaret

** Ali [=MacGraw=] for ''Film/LoveStory'' as Jennifer "Jenny" Cavalleri-Barrett

** Music/DianaRoss for ''Lady Sings The Blues'' as Music/BillieHoliday

** Isabelle Adjani for ''The Story Of Adele H.'' as Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewly

* 1989: Creator/JessicaTandy for ''Theatre/DrivingMissDaisy'' as Daisy "Miss Daisy" Werthan

* 1994: Creator/JessicaLange for ''Blue Sky'' as Carly Marshall

** Creator/WinonaRyder for ''Literature/LittleWomen'' as Josephine "Jo" March

* 1995: Creator/SusanSarandon for ''Film/DeadManWalking'' as Sister Helen Prejean

* 1996: Creator/FrancesMcDormand for ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' as Chief Marge Gunderson

** Creator/SaoirseRonan for ''Film/{{Brooklyn}}'' as Eilis Lacey

[[folder:1927–1939]]
* 1927-28: Creator/JanetGaynor for ''Film/SeventhHeaven'' as Diane, ''Film/StreetAngel'' as Angela and ''{{Film/Sunrise}}: A Song Of Two Humans'' as The Wife
** Louise Dresser for ''A Ship Comes In'' as Mrs. Pleznik

* 1928-29: Creator/MaryPickford for ''Coquette'' as Norma Besant

** Corinne Griffith for ''The Divine Lady'' as Emma Hamilton
** Bessie Love for ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody'' as Hank Mahoney
* 1929-30: Creator/NormaShearer for ''Film/TheDivorcee'' as Jerry Bernard Martin

** Ruth Chatterton for ''Sarah And Son'' as Sarah Storm

** Creator/NormaShearer for ''Their Own Desire'' as Lucia Marlett

* 1930-31: Marie Dressler for ''Film/MinAndBill'' as Min Divot

** Creator/AnnHarding for ''Holiday'' as Linda Seton

* 1931-32: Helen Hayes for ''The Sin of Madelon Claudet'' as Madelon Claudet

** Lynn Fontanne for ''The Guardsman'' as The Actress
* 1932-33: Creator/KatharineHepburn for ''Morning Glory'' as Eva Lovelace

** Diana Wynyard for ''{{Film/Cavalcade}}'' as Jane Marryot
* 1934: Creator/ClaudetteColbert for ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'' as Ellie Andrews

** Creator/BetteDavis (Write-in) for ''Literature/OfHumanBondage'' as Mildred Rogers
* 1935: Creator/BetteDavis for ''{{Film/Dangerous}}'' as Joyce Heath

** Creator/ClaudetteColbert for ''Private Worlds'' as Jane Everest

** Creator/MiriamHopkins for ''Film/BeckySharp'' as Becky Sharp

* 1936: Luise Rainer for ''Film/TheGreatZiegfeld'' as Anna Held
** Creator/IreneDunne for ''Film/TheodoraGoesWild'' as Theodora Lynn/Caroline Adams
** Gladys George for ''Valiant Is The Word For Carrie'' as Carrie Snyder

** Creator/NormaShearer for ''{{Film/Romeo And Juliet|1936}}'' as Juliet Capulet
* 1937: Luise Rainer for ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'' as O-Lan

** Creator/GretaGarbo for ''{{Film/Camille|1936}}'' as Marguerite Gautier
** Creator/JanetGaynor for ''{{Film/A Star Is Born|1937}}'' as Esther Victoria Blodgett/Vicki Lester
** Creator/BarbaraStanwyck for ''{{Film/Stella Dallas|1937}}'' as Stella Martin Dallas
* 1938: Creator/BetteDavis for ''{{Film/Jezebel}}'' as Julie Marsden

** Creator/WendyHiller for ''{{Theatre/Pygmalion}}'' as Eliza Doolittle
** Creator/NormaShearer for ''Marie Antoinette'' as UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette

* 1939: Creator/VivienLeigh for ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' as Scarlett O’Hara
** Creator/BetteDavis for ''Film/DarkVictory'' as Judith Traherne

** Creator/GretaGarbo for ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}'' as Nina Yakushova “Ninotchka” Ivanoff
** Creator/GreerGarson for ''Film/GoodbyeMrChips'' as Katherine Bridges

[[folder:1940–1949]]
* 1940: Creator/GingerRogers for ''Film/KittyFoyle'' as Kitty Foyle

** Creator/JoanFontaine for ''{{Literature/Rebecca}}'' as The Second Mrs. De Winter

* 1941: Creator/JoanFontaine for ''{{Film/Suspicion}}'' as Lina [=McLaidlaw=] Aysgarth

** Creator/BarbaraStanwyck for ''Film/BallOfFire'' as Katherine “Sugarpuss” O’Shea
* 1942: Creator/GreerGarson for ''Film/MrsMiniver'' as Kay Miniver

** Creator/TeresaWright for ''Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees'' as Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig
* 1943: Creator/JenniferJones for ''Film/TheSongOfBernadette'' as Bernadette Soubirous
** Creator/JeanArthur for ''Film/TheMoreTheMerrier'' as Constance “Connie” Milligan
** Creator/IngridBergman for ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' as Maria

* 1944: Creator/IngridBergman for ''{{Film/Gaslight}}'' as Paula Alquist Anton

** Creator/BetteDavis for ''Film/MrSkeffington'' as Fanny Trellis

* 1945: Creator/JoanCrawford for ''Literature/MildredPierce'' as Mildred Pearce Beragon
** Creator/IngridBergman for ''Film/TheBellsOfStMarys'' as Mary Benedict
** Creator/GreerGarson for ''The Valley Of Decision'' as Mary Rafferty
** Creator/JenniferJones for ''Film/LoveLetters'' as Singleton
** Creator/GeneTierney for ''Film/LeaveHerToHeaven'' as Ellen Berent Harland
* 1946: Creator/OliviaDeHavilland for ''Film/ToEachHisOwn'' for Josephine “Jody” Norris

** Creator/RosalindRussell for ''Sister Kenny'' as Elizabeth Kenny
** Creator/JaneWyman for ''Literature/TheYearling'' as Orry Baxter
* 1947: Creator/LorettaYoung for ''The Farmer's Daughter'' as Katie Holstrom

** Creator/SusanHayward for ''Smash-Up, The Story Of A Woman'' as Angelica Evans Conway
** Dorothy [=McGuire=] for ''Film/GentlemansAgreement'' as Kathy Lacy
** Creator/RosalindRussell for ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' as Lavina Mannon
* 1948: Creator/JaneWyman for ''Film/JohnnyBelinda'' as Belinda [=McDonald=]
** Creator/IngridBergman for ''Joan Of Arc'' as UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc
** Creator/OliviaDeHavilland for ''Film/TheSnakePit'' as Virginia Stuart Cunningham
** Creator/IreneDunne for ''Film/IRememberMama'' as Martha Hanson

* 1949: Creator/OliviaDeHavilland for ''Film/TheHeiress'' as Catherine Sloper

** Creator/SusanHayward for ''Film/MyFoolishHeart''

** Creator/LorettaYoung for ''Come To The Stable'' as Margret

[[folder:1950–1959]]
* 1950: Creator/JudyHolliday for ''Theatre/BornYesterday'' as Emma “Billie” Dawn

** Creator/BetteDavis for ''Film/AllAboutEve'' as Margo Channing

* 1951: Creator/VivienLeigh for ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' as Blanche [=DuBois=]

** Creator/JaneWyman for ''The Blue Veil'' as Louise Mason
* 1952: Shirley Booth for ''Come Back, Little Sheba'' as Lola Delaney

** Creator/JulieHarris for ''The Member of the Wedding'' as Frances “Frankie” Addams
** Creator/SusanHayward for ''With A Song In My Heart'' as Jane Froman
* 1953: Creator/AudreyHepburn for ''Film/RomanHoliday'' as Princess Ann
** Creator/LeslieCaron for ''{{Film/Lili}}'' as Lili Daurier
** Creator/AvaGardner for ''{{Film/Mogambo}}'' as Eloise “Honey Bear” Kelly

** Maggie [=McNamara=] for ''Theatre/TheMoonIsBlue'' as Patty O’Neill
* 1954: Creator/GraceKelly for ''Film/TheCountryGirl'' as Georgie Elgin

** Creator/JudyGarland for ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|1954}}'' as Esther Victoria Blodgett/Vicki Lester
** Creator/AudreyHepburn for ''{{Film/Sabrina|1954}}'' as Sabrina Fairchild

* 1955: Anna Magnani for ''Theatre/TheRoseTattoo'' as Serafina Delle Rose
** Creator/SusanHayward for ''I’ll Cry Tomorrow'' as Lillian Roth
** Creator/KatharineHepburn for ''{{Film/Summertime}}'' as Jane Hudson
** Creator/JenniferJones for ''Film/LoveIsAManySplendoredThing'' as Han Suyin

* 1956: Creator/IngridBergman for ''{{Film/Anastasia}}'' as Anna Koreff/Anastasia

* 1957: Joanne Woodward for ''Film/TheThreeFacesOfEve'' as Eve White/Eve Black/Jane
** Creator/DeborahKerr for ''Film/HeavenKnowsMrAllison'' as Angela

* 1958: Creator/SusanHayward for ''Film/IWantToLive'' as Barbara Graham

** Creator/ShirleyMacLaine for ''Film/SomeCameRunning'' as Ginnie Moorehead

** Creator/ElizabethTaylor for ''Theatre/CatOnAHotTinRoof'' as Margaret “Maggie The Cat” Pollitt
* 1959: Creator/SimoneSignoret for ''Film/RoomAtTheTop'' as Alice Aisgill

** Creator/AudreyHepburn for ''Film/TheNunsStory'' as Gabrielle Van Der Mal

** Creator/ElizabethTaylor for ''Theatre/SuddenlyLastSummer'' as Catherine Holly

[[folder:1960–1969]]
* 1960: Creator/ElizabethTaylor for ''[=BUtterfield=] 8'' as Gloria Wandrous

* 1961: Creator/SophiaLoren for ''Film/TwoWomen'' as Cesira
** Creator/AudreyHepburn for ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' as Holly Golightly/Lula Mae Barnes
** Creator/PiperLaurie for ''Film/TheHustler1961'' as Sarah Packard
** Geraldine Page for ''Summer And Smoke'' as Alma Winemiller

* 1962: Creator/AnneBancroft for ''Theatre/TheMiracleWorker'' as Annie Sullivan

** Creator/KatharineHepburn for ''Theatre/LongDaysJourneyIntoNight'' as Mary Cavan Tyrone
** Geraldine Page for ''Sweet Bird Of Youth'' as Alexandra Del Largo
** Lee Remick for ''Film/DaysOfWineAndRoses'' as Kirsten Arnesen Clay
* 1963: Creator/PatriciaNeal for ''{{Film/Hud}}'' as Alma Brown
** Creator/LeslieCaron for ''The L-Shaped Room'' as Jane Fossett
** Creator/ShirleyMacLaine for ''Irma La Douce'' as Irma La Douce
** Rachel Roberts for ''This Sporting Life'' as Margaret Hammond

* 1964: Creator/JulieAndrews for ''Film/MaryPoppins'' as Mary Poppins

** Kim Stanley for ''Séance On A Wet Afternoon'' as Myra Savage
* 1965: Creator/JulieChristie for ''{{Film/Darling}}'' as Diana Scott
** Creator/JulieAndrews for ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' as Maria Von Trapp

** Creator/ElizabethHartman for ''Film/APatchOfBlue'' as Selina D’Arcy
** Creator/SimoneSignoret for ''Film/ShipOfFools'' as La Contessa
* 1966: Creator/ElizabethTaylor for ''Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' as Martha

** Ida Kamińska for ''Film/TheShopOnMainStreet'' as Rozalie Lautmann

** Creator/VanessaRedgrave for Morgan!'' as Leonie Delt
* 1967: Creator/KatharineHepburn for ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' as Christina Drayton

** Edith Evans for The Whisperers'' as Maggie Ross

* 1968: (TIE) Creator/KatharineHepburn for ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'' as UsefulNotes/EleanorOfAquitaine and Music/BarbraStreisand for ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'' as Fanny Brice
** Creator/PatriciaNeal for ''Theatre/TheSubjectWasRoses'' as Nettie Cleary
** Creator/VanessaRedgrave for ''Isadora'' as Creator/IsadoraDuncan
** Joanne Woodward for ''Film/RachelRachel'' as Rachel Cameron
* 1969: Creator/MaggieSmith for ''Literature/ThePrimeOfMissJeanBrodie'' as Jean Brodie

[[folder:1970–1979]]
* 1970: Creator/GlendaJackson for ''Literature/WomenInLove'' as Gudrun Brangwen
** Creator/JaneAlexander for ''The Great White Hope'' as Eleanor Backman
** Ali [=MacGraw=] for ''Film/LoveStory'' as Jennifer Cavalleri-Barrett

** Carrie Snodgress for ''Diary Of A Mad Housewife'' as Bettina “Tina” Balser
* 1971: Creator/JaneFonda for ''Film/{{Klute}}'' as Bree Daniels

** Creator/VanessaRedgrave for ''Film/MaryQueenOfScots1971'' as [[UsefulNotes/MaryOfScotland Mary, Queen Of Scots]]
** Janet Suzman for ''Film/NicholasAndAlexandra'' as Empress Alexandra Of Russia
* 1972: Creator/LizaMinnelli for ''{{Film/Cabaret}}'' as Sally Bowles
** Music/DianaRoss for ''Lady Sings The Blues'' as {{Music/Billie Holiday}}

** Creator/CicelyTyson for ''{{Film/Sounder}}'' as Rebecca Morgan

* 1973: Creator/GlendaJackson for ''A Touch Of Class'' as Vickie Allessio
** Creator/EllenBurstyn for ''{{Film/The Exorcist}}'' as Chris [=MacNeil=]

* 1974: Creator/EllenBurstyn for ''Film/AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore'' as Alice Hyatt

** Creator/FayeDunaway for ''{{Film/Chinatown}}'' as Evelyn Cross Mulwray
** Creator/ValeriePerrine for ''{{Film/Lenny}}'' as Harriett Jolliff/Honey Bruce

* 1975: Creator/LouiseFletcher for ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' as Nurse Mildred Ratchet
** Isabelle Adjani for ''The Story Of Adele H.'' as Adèle Hugo/Adèle Lewly
** Ann-Margret for ''{{Music/Tommy}}'' as Nora Walker

* 1976: Creator/FayeDunaway for ''{{Film/Network}}'' as Diana Christensen

** Talia Shire for ''{{Film/Rocky}}'' as Adrian Pennino
** Creator/SissySpacek for ''Film/Carrie1976'' as Carrie White
** Creator/LivUllmann for ''Film/FaceToFace'' as Jenny Isaksson
* 1977: Creator/DianeKeaton for ''Film/AnnieHall'' as Annie Hall
** Creator/AnneBancroft for ''Film/TheTurningPoint1977'' as Emma Jacklin
** Creator/JaneFonda for ''{{Film/Julia}}'' as Lillian Hellman
** Creator/ShirleyMacLaine for ''Film/TheTurningPoint1977'' as Deedee Rodgers

* 1978: Creator/JaneFonda for ''Film/ComingHome'' as Sally Hyde

** Jill Calyburgh for ''Film/AnUnmarriedWoman'' as Erica Benton

* 1979: Creator/SallyField for ''Film/NormaRae'' as Norma Rae Webster
** Jill Clayburgh for ''Starting Over'' as Marilyn Holmberg
** {{Creator/Jane Fonda}} for ''Film/TheChinaSyndrome'' as Kimberly Wells

** Creator/Bette Midler for ''Film/TheRose'' as Mary Rose Foster

[[folder:1980–1989]]
* 1980: Creator/SissySpacek for ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'' as Loretta Lynn
** Creator/EllenBurstyn for ''Film/Resurrection1980'' as Edna Mae Harper-[=McCauley=]
** Creator/GoldieHawn for ''Film/PrivateBenjamin'' as Judy Benjamin

* 1981: Creator/KatharineHepburn for ''Theatre/OnGoldenPond'' as Ethel Thayer
** Creator/DianeKeaton for ''{{Film/Reds}}'' as Louise Bryant

** Creator/MerylStreep for ''Literature/TheFrenchLieutenantsWoman'' as Anna/Sara Woodruff
* 1982: Creator/MerylStreep for ''Film/SophiesChoice'' as Sophie Zawistowski
** Creator/JulieAndrews for ''Film/VictorVictoria'' as Victor Grazinski/Victoria Grant

** Creator/SissySpacek for ''Film/Missing1982'' as Beth Horman

* 1983: Creator/ShirleyMacLaine for ''Film/TermsOfEndearment'' as Aurora Greenway
** Jane Alexander for ''{{Film/Testament}}'' as Carol Wetherly
** Creator/MerylStreep for ''{{Film/Silkwood}}'' as Karen Silkwood
** Creator/JulieWalters for ''Theatre/EducatingRita'' as Susan White/Rita
** Creator/DebraWinger for ''Film/TermsOfEndearment'' as Emma Greenway Horton
* 1984: Creator/SallyField for ''Film/PlacesInTheHeart'' as Edna Spalding

** Creator/SissySpacek for ''Film/TheRiver'' as Mae Garvey
* 1985: Geraldine Page for ''Film/TheTripToBountiful'' as Carrie Watts
** Creator/AnneBancroft for ''Film/AgnesOfGod'' as Miriam Ruth/Anna Maria Burchetti

** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Sweet Dreams'' as Patsy Cline
** Creator/MerylStreep for ''Film/OutOfAfrica'' as Karen Blixen
* 1986: Creator/MarleeMatlin for ''Film/ChildrenOfALesserGod'' as Sarah Norman
** Creator/JaneFonda for ''The Morning After'' as Alex Sternbergen/Viveca Van Loren
** Creator/SissySpacek for ''Theatre/CrimesOfTheHeart'' as Babe Botrelle/Rebecca Magrath

** Creator/SigourneyWeaver for ''{{Film/Aliens}}'' as Ellen Ripley
* 1987: {{Music/Cher}} for ''{{Film/Moonstruck}}'' as Loretta Castorini
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Film/FatalAttraction'' as Alex Forrest

** Creator/MerylStreep for ''Ironweed'' as Helen Archer
* 1988: Creator/JodieFoster for Film/TheAccused'' as Sarah Tobias
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons'' as Marquise Isabelle De Merteuil

** Creator/MerylStreep for ''A Cry In The Dark'' as Lindy Chamberlain
** Creator/SigourneyWeaver for ''Film/GorillasInTheMist'' as Dianne Fossey
* 1989: Creator/JessicaTandy for ''Theatre/DrivingMissDaisy'' as Daisy Werthan

[[folder:1990–1999]]
* 1990: Creator/KathyBates for ''{{Literature/Misery}}'' as Annie Wilkes

** Creator/MerylStreep for ''Postcards From The Edge'' as Suzanne Vale

* 1991: Creator/JodieFoster for ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' as Clarice Starling

** Creator/BetteMidler for ''For The Boys'' as Dixie Leonard
** Creator/SusanSarandon for ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' as Louise Sawyer
* 1992: Creator/EmmaThompson for ''Literature/HowardsEnd'' as Margaret Schlegel

** Creator/MaryMcDonnell for ''Passion Fish'' as May-Alice Culhane

** Creator/SusanSarandon for ''Film/LorenzosOil'' as Michaela Murphy Odone
* 1993: Creator/HollyHunter for ''Film/ThePiano'' as Ada [=McGrath=]
** Creator/AngelaBassett for ''Film/WhatsLoveGotToDoWithIt1993'' as Annie Mae Bullock / Music/TinaTurner

** Creator/JodieFoster for ''{{Film/Nell}}'' as Nell Kellty
** Creator/MirandaRichardson for ''Tom & Viv'' as Vivienne Haigh-Wood

* 1995: Creator/SusanSarandon for ''Film/DeadManWalking'' as Helen Prejean

** Creator/SharonStone for ''{{Film/Casino}}'' as Ginger [=McKenna=]
** Creator/MerylStreep for ''Film/TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty'' as Francesca Johnson

* 1996: Creator/FrancesMcDormand for ''{{Film/Fargo}}'' as Marge Gunderson
** Brenda Blethyn for ''Film/SecretsAndLies'' as Cynthia Rose Purley

** Creator/KristinScottThomas for ''Film/TheEnglishPatient'' as Katharine Clifton

* 1997: Creator/HelenHunt for ''Film/AsGoodAsItGets'' as Carol Connelly

** Creator/KateWinslet for ''Film/Titanic1997'' as Rose [=DeWitt=] Bukater
* 1998: Creator/GwynethPaltrow for ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' as Viola De Lesseps/Thomas Kent
** Creator/CateBlanchett for ''{{Film/Elizabeth}}'' as UsefulNotes/ElizabethI
** Fernanda Montenegro for ''Central Station'' as Isadora "Dora" Teixeira

** Creator/EmilyWatson for ''Hilary And Jackie'' as Jacqueline Du Pré
* 1999: Creator/HilarySwank for ''Film/BoysDontCry'' as Brandon Teena

** Creator/JulianneMoore for ''[[Film/TheEndOfTheAffair1999 The End of the Affair]]'' as Sarah Miles

[[folder: 2000–2009]]
* 2000: Creator/JuliaRoberts for ''Film/ErinBrockovich'' as Erin Brockovich
** Creator/JoanAllen for ''Film/The Contender'' as Laine Hanson
** Creator/JulietteBinoche for ''{{Film/Chocolat}}'' as Vianne Rocher
** Creator/EllenBurstyn for ''Film/RequiemForADream'' as Sara Goldfarb
** Creator/LauraLinney for ''You Can Count On Me'' as Samantha "Sammy" Prescott
* 2001: Creator/HalleBerry for ''Film/MonstersBall'' as Leticia Musgrove

** Creator/ReneeZellweger for ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'' as Bridget Jones
* 2002: Creator/NicoleKidman for ''Film/TheHours'' as Creator/VirginiaWoolf
** Creator/SalmaHayek for ''{{Film/Frida}}'' as Frida Kahlo
** Creator/DianeLane for ''{{Film/Unfaithful}}'' as Constance "Connie" Sumner
** Creator/JulianneMoore for ''Film/FarFromHeaven'' as Cathy Whitaker
** Creator/ReneeZellweger for ''{{Film/Chicago}}'' as Roxie Hart
* 2003: Creator/CharlizeTheron for ''{{Film/Monster}}'' as Aileen "Lee" Wuornos
** Creator/KeishaCastleHughes for ''Film/WhaleRider'' as Paikea Apriana
** Creator/DianeKeaton for ''Film/SomethingsGottaGive'' as Erica Jane Berry

** Creator/NaomiWatts for ''Film/TwentyOneGrams'' as Cristina Williams-Peck
* 2004: Creator/HilarySwank for ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'' as Maggie Fitzgerald

** Catalina Sandino Moreno for ''Maria Full Of Grace'' as Maria Álvarez
** Creator/ImeldaStaunton for ''Film/VeraDrake'' as Vera Rose Drake

* 2005: Creator/ReeseWitherspoon for ''Film/WalkTheLine'' as June Carter Cash

** Creator/FelicityHuffman for ''{{Film/Transamerica}}'' as Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne
** Creator/KeiraKnightley for ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'' as Elizabeth Bennet
** Creator/CharlizeTheron for ''Film/NorthCountry'' as Josey Aimes
* 2006: Creator/HelenMirren for ''Film/TheQueen'' as UsefulNotes/ElizabethII
** Creator/PenelopeCruz for ''{{Film/Volver}}'' as Raimunda

* 2007: Creator/MarionCotillard for ''Film/LaVieEnRose'' as Music/EdithPiaf
** Creator/CateBlanchett for ''Film/ElizabethTheGoldenAge'' as UsefulNotes/ElizabethI
** Creator/JulieChristie for ''Away From Her'' as Fiona Anderson

* 2008: Creator/KateWinslet for ''Film/TheReader'' as Hanna Schmitz
** Creator/AnneHathaway for ''Film/RachelGettingMarried'' as Kim Buchman

** Creator/MerylStreep for ''{{Theatre/Doubt}}'' as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

** Creator/HelenMirren for ''The Last Station'' as Sophia Tolstaya

** Creator/GaboureySidibe for ''{{Film/Precious}}'' as Claireece "Precious" Jones

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* 2010: Creator/NataliePortman for ''Film/BlackSwan'' as Nina Sayers
** Creator/AnnetteBening for ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'' as Nicole Allgood
** Creator/NicoleKidman for ''Rabbit Hole'' as Becca Corbett

** Creator/MichelleWilliams for ''Film/BlueValentine'' as Cindy Heller
* 2011: Creator/MerylStreep for ''Film/TheIronLady'' as UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher

** Creator/RooneyMara for ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011'' as Lisbeth Salander

* 2012: Creator/JenniferLawrence for ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' as Tiffany Maxwell

** Emmanuelle Riva for ''{{Film/Amour}}'' as Anne Laurent

* 2013: Creator/CateBlanchett for ''Film/BlueJasmine'' as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis
** Creator/AmyAdams for ''Film/AmericanHustle'' as Sydney Prosser
** Creator/SandraBullock for ''{{Film/Gravity}}'' as Dr. Ryan Stone
** Creator/JudiDench for ''{{Film/Philomena}}'' as Philomena Lee

* 2014: Creator/JulianneMoore for ''Film/StillAlice'' as Alice Howland

** Creator/RosamundPike for ''Film/GoneGirl'' as Amy Elliott-Dunne/Nancy

* 2015: Creator/BrieLarson for ''{{Literature/Room}}'' as Joy Newsome
** Creator/CateBlanchett for ''{{Film/Carol}}'' as Carol Aird

** Creator/SaoirseRonan for ''{{Film/Brooklyn}}'' as Eilis Lacey
* 2016: Creator/EmmaStone for ''Film/LaLaLand'' as Mia Dolan
** Creator/IsabelleHuppert for ''{{Film/Elle}}'' as Michèle Leblanc
** Creator/RuthNegga for ''{{Film/Loving}}'' as Mildred Loving
** Creator/NataliePortman for ''{{Film/Jackie}}'' as UsefulNotes/JacquelineKennedy

* 2017: Creator/FrancesMcDormand for ''Film/ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri'' as Mildred Hayes

** Creator/MerylStreep for ''Film/ThePost'' as Katharine Graham
* 2018: Creator/OliviaColman for ''Film/TheFavourite'' as Anne, Queen Of Great Britain
** Yalitza Aparicio for ''{{Film/Roma}}'' as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutiérrez

* 2019: Creator/ReneeZellweger for ''Film/{{Judy|2019}}'' as Creator/JudyGarland
** Creator/CynthiaErivo for ''{{Film/Harriet}}'' as UsefulNotes/HarrietTubman

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* 2020-21: Creator/FrancesMcDormand for ''{{Film/Nomadland}}'' as Fern

* 2021: Creator/JessicaChastain for ''Film/TheEyesOfTammyFaye'' as Tammy Faye Bakker

** Creator/NicoleKidman for ''Film/BeingTheRicardos'' as {{Creator/Lucille Ball}}
** Creator/KristenStewart for ''Film/{{Spencer}}'' as Diana, Princess of Wales
* 2022: Creator/MichelleYeoh for ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' as Evelyn Wang

** Creator/AnaDeArmas for ''Film/{{Blonde}}'' as Creator/MarilynMonroe

** Creator/AngelaBassett for ''Film/WhatsLoveGotToDoWithIt'' as Annie Mae Bullock / Music/TinaTurner

-->--'''Creator/SallyField''' winning for ''Film/PlacesInTheHeart''

-->--'''Creator/SallyField''' winning Best Actress for ''Film/PlacesInTheHeart''

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[[folder:1981-1990]]

[[folder:1991-2000]]

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[[folder:2021-2030]]

* 2022

** Creator/MichelleYeoh for ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' as Evelyn Wang

** Creator/Emily Watson}} for ''Film/BreakingTheWaves'' as Bess [=McNeill=]

** Carroll Baker for ''Film/BabyDoll'' as Baby Doll Meighan

* 2006: Creator/HelenMirren for ''Film/TheQueen'' as [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth II]]