Oscar: Best Actress 1927 to Present

(note: the ceremony has often take place in the next year but in this clasament was counted by the year the movie has made)

• 2008: Reader, The (2008) - Kate Winslet
  


• 2007: Mome, La (2007) - Marion Cotillard


• 2006: Queen, The (2006) - Helen Mirren


• 2005: Walk the Line (2005) - Reese Witherspoon


• 2004: Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby


• 2003: Charlize Theron - Monster


• 2002: Nicole Kidman - The Hours


• 2001: Halle Berry - Monsters Ball


• 2000: Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich

• 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: (tie) 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


• 1932/33: Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory


• 1931/32: Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet


• 1930/31: Marie Dressler - Min and Bill


• 1929/30: Norma Shearer - The Divorcée


• 1928/29: Mary Pickford - Coquette


• 1927/28: Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven