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	Name of Character Role	Best Supporting Actress* Academy Award Winner	Name of Character Role
1927-28	Janet Gaynor Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise	Diane/Angela/The Wife	N/A	N/A
1928-29	Mary Pickford Coquette	Norma Besant	N/A	N/A
1929-30	Norma Shearer The Divorcee	Jerry Bernard Martin	N/A	N/A
1930-31	Marie Dressler Min and Bill	Min Divot	N/A	N/A
1931-32	Helen Hayes The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Madelon Claudet	N/A	N/A
1932-33	Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory	Eva Lovelace	N/A	N/A
1934	Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night	Ellie Andrews	N/A	N/A
1935	Bette Davis Dangerous	Joyce Heath	N/A	N/A
1936	Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld	Anna Held	Gale Sondergaard Anthony Adverse	Faith Paleologus
1937	Luise Rainer The Good Earth	O-Lan	Alice Brady In Old Chicago	Molly O'Leary
1938	Bette Davis Jezebel	Julie Marsden	Fay Bainter Jezebel	Aunt Belle
1939	Vivien Leigh Gone With the Wind	Scarlett O'Hara	Hattie McDaniel Gone With the Wind	Mammy
1940	Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle	Kitty Foyle	Jane Darwell The Grapes of Wrath	Ma Joad
1941	Joan Fontaine Suspicion	Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth	Mary Astor The Great Lie	Sandra Kovak
1942	Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver	Mrs. Miniver	Teresa Wright Mrs. Miniver	Carol Beldon
1943	Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette	Bernadette	Katina Paxinou For Whom the Bell Tolls	Pilar
1944	Ingrid Bergman Gaslight	Paula Alquist Anton	Ethel Barrymore None But the Lonely Heart	Ma Mott
1945	Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce	Mildred Pierce Beragon	Anne Revere National Velvet	Mrs. Brown
1946	Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own	Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris	Anne Baxter The Razor's Edge	Sophie MacDonald
1947	Loretta Young The Farmer's Daughter	Katrin Holstrom	Celeste Holm Gentleman's Agreement	Anne Dettrey
1948	Jane Wyman Johnny Belinda	Belinda McDonald	Claire Trevor Key Largo	Gaye Dawn
1949	Olivia de Havilland The Heiress	Catherine Sloper	Mercedes McCambridge All the King's Men	Sadie Burke
1950	Judy Holliday Born Yesterday	Emma 'Billie' Dawn	Josephine Hull Harvey	Veta Louise Simmons
1951	Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire	Blanche DuBois	Kim Hunter A Streetcar Named Desire	Stella Kowalski
1952	Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba	Lola Delaney	Gloria Grahame The Bad and the Beautiful	Rosemary
1953	Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday	Princess Ann	Donna Reed From Here to Eternity	Alma 'Lorene' Burke
1954	Grace Kelly The Country Girl	Georgie Elgin	Eva Marie Saint On the Waterfront	Edie Doyle
1955	Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo	Serafina Delle Rose	Jo Van Fleet East of Eden	Kate
1956	Ingrid Bergman Anastasia	Anna Koreff/Anastasia	Dorothy Malone Written on the Wind	Marylee Hadley
1957	Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve	Eve White/Eve Black/Jane	Miyoshi Umeki Sayonara	Katsumi
1958	Susan Hayward I Want to Live!	Barbara Graham	Wendy Hiller Separate Tables	Pat Cooper
1959	Simone Signoret Room at the Top	Alice Aisgill	Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank	Mrs. Petronella Van Daan
1960	Elizabeth Taylor Butterfield 8	Gloria Wandrous	Shirley Jones Elmer Gantry	Lulu Bains
1961	Sophia Loren Two Women	Cesira	Rita Moreno West Side Story	Anita
1962	Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker	Annie Sullivan	Patty Duke The Miracle Worker	Helen Keller
1963	Patricia Neal Hud	Alma Brown	Margaret Rutherford The V.I.P.'s	The Duchess of Brighton
1964	Julie Andrews Mary Poppins	Mary Poppins	Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek	Madame Hortense
1965	Julie Christie Darling	Diana Scott	Shelley Winters A Patch of Blue	Rose-Ann D'Arcy
1966	Elizabeth Taylor Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Martha	Sandy Dennis Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Honey
1967	Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Christina Drayton	Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde	Blanche Barrow
1968	Katharine Hepburn; Barbra Streisand The Lion in Winter; Funny Girl	Eleanor of Aquitaine/Fanny Brice	Ruth Gordon Rosemary's Baby	Minnie Castevet
1969	Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Jean Brodie	Goldie Hawn Cactus Flower	Toni Simmons
1970	Glenda Jackson Women in Love	Gudrun Brangwen	Helen Hays Airport	Ada Quonsett
1971	Jane Fonda Klute	Bree Daniels	Cloris Leachman The Last Picture Show	Ruth Popper
1972	Liza Minnelli Cabaret	Sally Bowles	Eileen Heckart Butterflies Are Free	Mrs. Baker
1973	Glenda Jackson A Touch of Class	Vicki Allessio	Tatum O'Neal Paper Moon	Addie Loggins
1974	Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Alice Hyatt	Ingrid Bergman Murder on the Orient Express	Greta Ohlsson
1975	Louise Fletcher One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest	Nurse Ratched	Lee Grant Shampoo	Felicia Carp
1976	Faye Dunaway Network	Diana Christensen	Beatrice Straight Network	Louise Schumacher
1977	Diane Keaton Annie Hall	Annie Hall	Vanessa Redgrave Julia	Julia
1978	Jane Fonda Coming Home	Sally Hyde	Maggie Smith California Suite	Diana Barrie
1979	Sally Field Norma Rae	Norma Rae Webster	Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer	Joanna Kramer
1980	Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter	Loretta Lynn	Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard	Lynda Dummar
1981	Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond	Ethel Thayer	Maureen Stapleton Reds	Emma Goldman
1982	Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice	Sophie Zawistowski	Jessica Lange Tootsie	Julie Nichols
1983	Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment	Aurora Greenway	Linda Hunt The Year of Living Dangerously	Billy Kwan
1984	Sally Field Places in the Heart	Edna Spalding	Dame Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India	Mrs. Moore
1985	Geraldine Page The Trip to Bountiful	Carrie Watts	Anjelica Huston Prizzi's Honor	Maerose Prizzi
1986	Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God	Sarah Norman	Dianne Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters	Holly
1987	Cher Moonstruck	Loretta Castorini	Olympia Dukakis Moonstruck	Rose Castorini
1988	Jodie Foster The Accused	Sarah Tobias	Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist	Muriel Pritchett
1989	Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy	Daisy Werthan	Brenda Fricker My Left Foot	Mrs. Brown
1990	Kathy Bates Misery	Annie Wilkes	Whoopi Goldberg Ghost	Oda Mae Brown
1991	Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs	Clarice Starling	Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King	Anne Napolitano
1992	Emma Thompson Howards End	Margaret J. 'Meg' Schlegel	Marisa Tomei My Cousin Vinny	Mona Lisa Vito
1993	Holly Hunter The Piano	Ada McGrath	Anna Paquin The Piano	Flora McGrath
1994	Jessica Lange Blue Sky	Carly Marshall	Dianne Wiest Bullets Over Broadway	Helen Sinclair
1995	Susan Sarandon Dead Man Walking	Sister Helen Prejean	Mira Sorvino Mighty Aphrodite	Linda Ash
1996	Frances McDormand Fargo	Marge Gunderson	Juliette Binoche The English Patient	Hana
1997	Helen Hunt As Good As It Gets	Carol Connelly	Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential	Lynn Bracken
1998	Gwyneth Paltrow Shakespeare in Love	Viola De Lesseps	Judi Dench Shakespeare in Love	Queen Elizabeth
1999	Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry	Brandon Teena	Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted	Lisa Rowe
2000	Julia Roberts Erin Brockovich	Erin Brockovich	Marcia Gay Harden Pollock	Lee Krasner
2001	Halle Berry Monster's Ball	Leticia Musgrove	Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind	Alicia Nash
2002	Nicole Kidman The Hours	Virginia Woolf	Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago	Velma Kelly
2003	Charlize Theron Monster	Aileen Wuornos	Renee Zellweger Cold Mountain	Ruby Thewes
2004	Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby	Maggie Fitzgerald	Cate Blanchett The Aviator	Katharine Hepburn
2005	Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line	June Carter	Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener	Tessa Quayle
2006	Helen Mirren The Queen	Queen Elizabeth II	Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls	Effie White
2007	Marion Cotillard La Vie en Rose	Edith Piaf	Tilda Swinton Michael Clayton	Karen Crowder
2008	Kate Winslet The Reader	Hanna Schmitz	Penelope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Maria Elena
2009	TBD		TBD