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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.

Sandra Bullock

Year: 2010

Role: Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side

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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

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91.

Olivia Colman

Year: 2019

Role: Anne, Queen of Great Britain in The Favourite


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