Academy Award Best Pictures
ACADEMY of
MOTION PICTURE
ARTS and SCIENCES

Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress

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Best Picture Winners

ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE
ARTS and SCIENCES


BEST ACTRESS* AND
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS*


(*Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading (Supporting) Role)

[Note: Winning Co-Stars - Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the Same Film are indicated by a Shaded-in Year]


Year of
Award
Best Actress*
Academy Award Winner
Best Supporting Actress*
Academy Award Winner



1927-28

Janet Gaynor
Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise
N/A
1928-29
Mary Pickford
Coquette
N/A
1929-30
Norma Shearer
The Divorcee
N/A
1930-31
Marie Dressler
Min and Bill
N/A
1931-32
Helen Hayes
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
N/A
1932-33
Katharine Hepburn
Morning Glory
N/A
1934
Claudette Colbert
It Happened One Night
N/A
1935
Bette Davis
Dangerous
N/A
1936
Luise Rainer
The Great Ziegfeld
Gale Sondergaard
Anthony Adverse
1937
Luise Rainer
The Good Earth
Alice Brady
In Old Chicago
1938
Bette Davis
Jezebel
Fay Bainter
Jezebel
1939
Vivien Leigh
Gone With the Wind
Hattie McDaniel
Gone With the Wind
1940
Ginger Rogers
Kitty Foyle
Jane Darwell
The Grapes of Wrath
1941
Joan Fontaine
Suspicion
Mary Astor
The Great Lie
1942
Greer Garson
Mrs. Miniver
Teresa Wright
Mrs. Miniver
1943
Jennifer Jones
The Song of Bernadette
Katina Paxinou
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944
Ingrid Bergman
Gaslight
Ethel Barrymore
None But the Lonely Heart
1945
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Anne Revere
National Velvet
1946
Olivia de Havilland
To Each His Own

Anne Baxter
The Razor's Edge

1947
Loretta Young
The Farmer's Daughter
Celeste Holm
Gentleman's Agreement
1948
Jane Wyman
Johnny Belinda
Claire Trevor
Key Largo
1949
Olivia de Havilland
The Heiress
Mercedes McCambridge
All the King's Men
1950
Judy Holliday
Born Yesterday
Josephine Hull
Harvey
1951
Vivien Leigh
A Streetcar Named Desire
Kim Hunter
A Streetcar Named Desire
1952
Shirley Booth
Come Back, Little Sheba
Gloria Grahame
The Bad and the Beautiful
1953
Audrey Hepburn
Roman Holiday
Donna Reed
From Here to Eternity
1954
Grace Kelly
The Country Girl
Eva Marie Saint
On the Waterfront
1955
Anna Magnani
The Rose Tattoo
Jo Van Fleet
East of Eden
1956
Ingrid Bergman
Anastasia
Dorothy Malone
Written on the Wind
1957
Joanne Woodward
The Three Faces of Eve
Miyoshi Umeki
Sayonara
1958
Susan Hayward
I Want to Live!
Wendy Hiller
Separate Tables
1959
Simone Signoret
Room at the Top
Shelley Winters
The Diary of Anne Frank
1960
Elizabeth Taylor
Butterfield 8
Shirley Jones
Elmer Gantry
1961

Sophia Loren
Two Women

Rita Moreno
West Side Story
1962
Anne Bancroft
The Miracle Worker
Patty Duke
The Miracle Worker
1963
Patricia Neal
Hud
Margaret Rutherford
The V.I.P.'s
1964
Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
Lila Kedrova
Zorba the Greek
1965
Julie Christie
Darling
Shelley Winters
A Patch of Blue
1966
Elizabeth Taylor
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Sandy Dennis
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Estelle Parsons
Bonnie and Clyde
1968
Katharine Hepburn; Barbra Streisand
The Lion in Winter; Funny Girl
Ruth Gordon
Rosemary's Baby
1969
Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Goldie Hawn
Cactus Flower
1970
Glenda Jackson
Women in Love
Helen Hays
Airport
1971
Jane Fonda
Klute
Cloris Leachman
The Last Picture Show
1972
Liza Minnelli
Cabaret
Eileen Heckart
Butterflies Are Free
1973
Glenda Jackson
A Touch of Class
Tatum O'Neal
Paper Moon
1974
Ellen Burstyn
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Ingrid Bergman
Murder on the Orient Express
1975
Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Lee Grant
Shampoo
1976
Faye Dunaway
Network
Beatrice Straight
Network
1977
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
Vanessa Redgrave
Julia
1978
Jane Fonda
Coming Home
Maggie Smith
California Suite
1979
Sally Field
Norma Rae
Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
1980
Sissy Spacek
Coal Miner's Daughter
Mary Steenburgen
Melvin and Howard
1981
Katharine Hepburn
On Golden Pond
Maureen Stapleton
Reds
1982
Meryl Streep
Sophie's Choice
Jessica Lange
Tootsie
1983
Shirley MacLaine
Terms of Endearment
Linda Hunt
The Year of Living Dangerously
1984
Sally Field
Places in the Heart
Dame Peggy Ashcroft
A Passage to India
1985
Geraldine Page
The Trip to Bountiful
Anjelica Huston
Prizzi's Honor
1986
Marlee Matlin
Children of a Lesser God
Dianne Wiest
Hannah and Her Sisters
1987
Cher
Moonstruck
Olympia Dukakis
Moonstruck
1988
Jodie Foster
The Accused
Geena Davis
The Accidental Tourist
1989
Jessica Tandy
Driving Miss Daisy
Brenda Fricker
My Left Foot
1990
Kathy Bates
Misery
Whoopi Goldberg
Ghost
1991
Jodie Foster
The Silence of the Lambs
Mercedes Ruehl
The Fisher King
1992
Emma Thompson
Howards End
Marisa Tomei
My Cousin Vinny
1993
Holly Hunter
The Piano
Anna Paquin
The Piano
1994
Jessica Lange
Blue Sky
Dianne Wiest
Bullets Over Broadway
1995
Susan Sarandon
Dead Man Walking
Mira Sorvino
Mighty Aphrodite
1996
Frances McDormand
Fargo
Juliette Binoche
The English Patient
1997
Helen Hunt
As Good As It Gets
Kim Basinger
L.A. Confidential
1998
Gwyneth Paltrow
Shakespeare in Love
Judi Dench
Shakespeare in Love
1999
Hilary Swank
Boys Don't Cry
Angelina Jolie
Girl, Interrupted
2000
Julia Roberts
Erin Brockovich
Marcia Gay Harden
Pollock
2001
Halle Berry
Monster's Ball
Jennifer Connelly
A Beautiful Mind
2002
Nicole Kidman
The Hours
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chicago
2003
Charlize Theron
Monster
Renee Zellweger
Cold Mountain
2004
Hilary Swank
Million Dollar Baby
Cate Blanchett
The Aviator
2005
Reese Witherspoon
Walk the Line
Rachel Weisz
The Constant Gardener
2006
Helen Mirren
The Queen
Jennifer Hudson
Dreamgirls
2007
Marion Cotillard
La Vie en Rose
Tilda Swinton
Michael Clayton


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