ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress - Winners

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ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES BEST ACTRESS* AND BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS* WINNERS (*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
2008	Kate Winslet The Reader	Penelope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona