Every Woman Who Has Ever Won an Academy Award for Best Actress
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We’ve already filled out our Oscars ballot as we patiently anxiously wait for the Academy to crown the next set of winners on February 9. In honor of the 92nd annual ceremony, we’ve compiled a list of every woman who has ever won an Academy Award for Best Actress. From Janet Gaynor to Olivia Colman, keep reading to see all the winners.
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1.
Janet Gaynor
Year: 1929
Role(s): Diane in 7th Heaven, Angela in Street Angel and The Wife in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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2.
Mary Pickford
Year: 1930
Role: Norma Besant in Coquette
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3.
Norma Shearer
Year: 1931
Role: Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee
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4.
Marie Dressler
Year: 1932
Role: Min Divot in Min and Bill
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5.
Helen Hayes
Year: 1933
Role: Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet
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6.
Katharine Hepburn
Year: 1934
Role: Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory
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7.
Claudette Colbert
Year: 1935
Role: Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night
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8.
Bette Davis
Year: 1936
Role: Joyce Heath in Dangerous
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9.
Luise Rainer
Year: 1937
Role: Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld
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10.
Luise Rainer
Year: 1938
Role: O-Lan in The Good Earth
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11.
Bette Davis
Year: 1939
Role: Julie Marsden in Jezebel
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12.
Vivien Leigh
Year: 1940
Role: Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind
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13.
Ginger Rogers
Year: 1941
Role: Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle
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14.
Joan Fontaine
Year: 1942
Role: Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion
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15.
Greer Garson
Year: 1943
Role: Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver
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16.
Jennifer Jones
Year: 1944
Role: Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette
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17.
Ingrid Bergman
Year: 1945
Role: Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight
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18.
Joan Crawford
Year: 1946
Role: Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce
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19.
Olivia de Havilland
Year: 1947
Role: Josephine “Jody” Norris in To Each His Own
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20.
Loretta Young
Year: 1948
Role: Katie Holstrom in The Farmer’s Daughter
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21.
Jane Wyman
Year: 1949
Role: Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda
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22.
Olivia de Havilland
Year: 1950
Role: Catherine Sloper in The Heiress
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23.
Judy Holliday
Year: 1951
Role: Emma “Billie” Dawn in Born Yesterday
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24.
Vivien Leigh
Year: 1952
Role: Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire
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25.
Shirley Booth
Year: 1953
Role: Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba
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26.
Audrey Hepburn
Year: 1954
Role: Princess Ann in Roman Holiday
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27.
Grace Kelly
Year: 1955
Role: Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl
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28.
Anna Magnani
Year: 1956
Role: Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo
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29.
Ingrid Bergman
Year: 1957
Role: Anna Koreff in Anastasia
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30.
Joanne Woodward
Year: 1958
Role: Eve White/Eve Black/Jane in The Three Faces of Eve
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31.
Susan Hayward
Year: 1959
Role: Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!
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32.
Simone Signoret
Year: 1960
Role: Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top
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33.
Elizabeth Taylor
Year: 1961
Role: Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8
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34.
Sophia Loren
Year: 1962
Role: Cesira in Two Women
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35.
Anne Bancroft
Year: 1963
Role: Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker
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36.
Patricia Neal
Year: 1964
Role: Alma Brown in Hud
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37.
Julie Andrews
Year: 1965
Role: Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins
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38.
Julie Christie
Year: 1966
Role: Diana Scott in Darling
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39.
Elizabeth Taylor
Year: 1967
Role: Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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40.
Katharine Hepburn
Year: 1968
Role: Christina Drayton in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
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41.
Katharine Hepburn & Barbra Streisand (Tie)
Year: 1969
Role: Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (Hepburn); Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (Streisand)
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42.
Maggie Smith
Year: 1970
Role: Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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43.
Glenda Jackson
Year: 1971
Role: Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love
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44.
Jane Fonda
Year: 1972
Role: Bree Daniels in Klute
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45.
Liza Minnelli
Year: 1973
Role: Sally Bowles in Cabaret
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46.
Glenda Jackson
Year: 1974
Role: Vickie Allessio in A Touch of Class
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47.
Ellen Burstyn
Year: 1975
Role: Alice Graham-Hyatt in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
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48.
Louise Fletcher
Year: 1976
Role: Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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49.
Faye Dunaway
Year: 1977
Role: Diana Christensen in Network
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50.
Diane Keaton
Year: 1978
Role: Annie Hall in Annie Hall
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51.
Jane Fonda
Year: 1979
Role: Sally Hyde in Coming Home
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52.
Sally Field
Year: 1980
Role: Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae
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53.
Sissy Spacek
Year: 1981
Role: Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter
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54.
Katharine Hepburn
Year: 1982
Role: Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond
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55.
Meryl Streep
Year: 1983
Role: Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice
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56.
Shirley MacLaine
Year: 1984
Role: Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment
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57.
Sally Field
Year: 1985
Role: Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart
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58.
Geraldine Page
Year: 1986
Role: Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful
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59.
Marlee Matlin
Year: 1987
Role: Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God
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60.
Cher
Year: 1988
Role: Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck
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61.
Jodie Foster
Year: 1989
Role: Sarah Tobias in The Accused
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62.
Jessica Tandy
Year: 1990
Role: Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy
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63.
Kathy Bates
Year: 1991
Role: Annie Wilkes in Misery
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64.
Jodie Foster
Year: 1992
Role: Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs
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65.
Emma Thompson
Year: 1993
Role: Margaret Schlegel in Howards End
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66.
Holly Hunter
Year: 1994
Role: Ada McGrath in The Piano
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67.
Jessica Lange
Year: 1995
Role: Carly Marshall in Blue Sky
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68.
Susan Sarandon
Year: 1996
Role: Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking
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69.
Frances McDormand
Year: 1997
Role: Marge Gunderson in Fargo
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70.
Helen Hunt
Year: 1998
Role: Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets
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71.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Year: 1999
Role: Viola de Lesseps/Thomas Kent in Shakespeare in Love
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72.
Hilary Swank
Year: 2000
Role: Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry
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73.
Julia Roberts
Year: 2001
Role: Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich
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74.
Halle Berry
Year: 2002
Role: Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball
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75.
Nicole Kidman
Year: 2003
Role: Virginia Woolf in The Hours
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76.
Charlize Theron
Year: 2004
Role: Aileen “Lee” Wuornos in Monster
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77.
Hilary Swank
Year: 2005
Role: Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby
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78.
Reese Witherspoon
Year: 2006
Role: June Carter Cash in Walk the Line
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79.
Helen Mirren
Year: 2007
Role: Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen
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80.
Marion Cotillard
Year: 2008
Role: Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose
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81.
Kate Winslet
Year: 2009
Role: Hanna Schmitz in The Reader
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82.
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83.
Natalie Portman
Year: 2011
Role: Nina Sayers in Black Swan
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84.
Meryl Streep
Year: 2012
Role: Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
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85.
Jennifer Lawrence
Year: 2013
Role: Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook
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86.
Cate Blanchett
Year: 2014
Role: Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis in Blue Jasmine
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87.
Julianne Moore
Year: 2015
Role: Alice Howland in Still Alice
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88.
Brie Larson
Year: 2016
Role: Joy Newsome in Room
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89.
Emma Stone
Year: 2017
Role: Mia Dolan in La La Land
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90.
Frances McDormand
Year: 2018
Role: Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
![best actress olivia colman](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/best-actress-olivia-colman.jpg?fit=675%2C501)
91.
Olivia Colman
Year: 2019
Role: Anne, Queen of Great Britain in The Favourite
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