Every Woman Who Has Ever Won an Academy Award for Best Actress

Janet Gaynor

Year: 1929

Role(s): Diane in 7th Heaven, Angela in Street Angel and The Wife in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

 Mary Pickford

Year: 1930

Role: Norma Besant in Coquette

 Norma Shearer

Year: 1931

Role: Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee

 Marie Dressler

Year: 1932

Role: Min Divot in Min and Bill

 Helen Hayes

Year: 1933

Role: Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Katharine Hepburn

Year: 1934

Role: Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory

 Claudette Colbert

Year: 1935

Role: Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night

Bette Davis

Year: 1936

Role: Joyce Heath in Dangerous

 Luise Rainer

Year: 1937

Role: Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld

 Luise Rainer

Year: 1938

Role: O-Lan in The Good Earth

 Bette Davis

Year: 1939

Role: Julie Marsden in Jezebel

 Vivien Leigh

Year: 1940

Role: Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind

Ginger Rogers

Year: 1941

Role: Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle

 Joan Fontaine

Year: 1942

Role: Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion

 Greer Garson

Year: 1943

Role: Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver

 Jennifer Jones

Year: 1944

Role: Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette

 Ingrid Bergman

Year: 1945

Role: Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight

 Joan Crawford

Year: 1946

Role: Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce

 Olivia de Havilland

Year: 1947

Role: Josephine “Jody” Norris in To Each His Own

 Loretta Young

Year: 1948

Role: Katie Holstrom in The Farmer’s Daughter

 Jane Wyman

Year: 1949

Role: Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda

 Olivia de Havilland

Year: 1950

Role: Catherine Sloper in The Heiress

 Judy Holliday

Year: 1951

Role: Emma “Billie” Dawn in Born Yesterday

 Vivien Leigh

Year: 1952

Role: Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire

 Shirley Booth

Year: 1953

Role: Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba

 Audrey Hepburn

Year: 1954

Role: Princess Ann in Roman Holiday

 Grace Kelly

Year: 1955

Role: Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl

 Anna Magnani

Year: 1956

Role: Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo

 Ingrid Bergman

Year: 1957

Role: Anna Koreff in Anastasia

 Joanne Woodward

Year: 1958

Role: Eve White/Eve Black/Jane in The Three Faces of Eve

 Susan Hayward

Year: 1959

Role: Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!

 Simone Signoret

Year: 1960

Role: Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top

 Elizabeth Taylor

Year: 1961

Role: Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8

Sophia Loren

Year: 1962

Role: Cesira in Two Women

 Anne Bancroft

Year: 1963

Role: Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

Patricia Neal

Year: 1964

Role: Alma Brown in Hud

 Julie Andrews

Year: 1965

Role: Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

Julie Christie

Year: 1966

Role: Diana Scott in Darling

 Elizabeth Taylor

Year: 1967

Role: Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

 Katharine Hepburn

Year: 1968

Role: Christina Drayton in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

 Katharine Hepburn & Barbra Streisand (Tie)

Year: 1969

Role: Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (Hepburn); Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (Streisand)

 Maggie Smith

Year: 1970

Role: Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

 Glenda Jackson

Year: 1971

Role: Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love

 Jane Fonda

Year: 1972

Role: Bree Daniels in Klute

 Liza Minnelli

Year: 1973

Role: Sally Bowles in Cabaret

 Glenda Jackson

Year: 1974

Role: Vickie Allessio in A Touch of Class

 Ellen Burstyn

Year: 1975

Role: Alice Graham-Hyatt in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

 Louise Fletcher

Year: 1976

Role: Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

 Faye Dunaway

Year: 1977

Role: Diana Christensen in Network

Diane Keaton

Year: 1978

Role: Annie Hall in Annie Hall

 Jane Fonda

Year: 1979

Role: Sally Hyde in Coming Home

 Sally Field

Year: 1980

Role: Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae

Sissy Spacek

Year: 1981

Role: Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter

 Katharine Hepburn

Year: 1982

Role: Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond

 Meryl Streep

Year: 1983

Role: Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice

 Shirley MacLaine

Year: 1984

Role: Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment

 Sally Field

Year: 1985

Role: Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart

 Geraldine Page

Year: 1986

Role: Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful

 Marlee Matlin

Year: 1987

Role: Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God

 Cher

Year: 1988

Role: Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck

 Jodie Foster

Year: 1989

Role: Sarah Tobias in The Accused

 Jessica Tandy

Year: 1990

Role: Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy

 Kathy Bates

Year: 1991

Role: Annie Wilkes in Misery

 Jodie Foster

Year: 1992

Role: Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

 Emma Thompson

Year: 1993

Role: Margaret Schlegel in Howards End

 Holly Hunter

Year: 1994

Role: Ada McGrath in The Piano

 Jessica Lange

Year: 1995

Role: Carly Marshall in Blue Sky

 Susan Sarandon

Year: 1996

Role: Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking

 Frances McDormand

Year: 1997

Role: Marge Gunderson in Fargo

 Helen Hunt

Year: 1998

Role: Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets

 Gwyneth Paltrow

Year: 1999

Role: Viola de Lesseps/Thomas Kent in Shakespeare in Love

 Hilary Swank

Year: 2000

Role: Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry

 Julia Roberts

Year: 2001

Role: Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich

 Halle Berry

Year: 2002

Role: Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball

Nicole Kidman

Year: 2003

Role: Virginia Woolf in The Hours

 Charlize Theron

Year: 2004

Role: Aileen “Lee” Wuornos in Monster

 Hilary Swank

Year: 2005

Role: Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby

Reese Witherspoon

Year: 2006

Role: June Carter Cash in Walk the Line

Helen Mirren

Year: 2007

Role: Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen

 Marion Cotillard

Year: 2008

Role: Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose

 Kate Winslet

Year: 2009

Role: Hanna Schmitz in The Reader

 Sandra Bullock

Year: 2010

Role: Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side

 Natalie Portman

Year: 2011

Role: Nina Sayers in Black Swan

Meryl Streep

Year: 2012

Role: Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady

Jennifer Lawrence

Year: 2013

Role: Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook

 Cate Blanchett

Year: 2014

Role: Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis in Blue Jasmine

 Julianne Moore

Year: 2015

Role: Alice Howland in Still Alice

Brie Larson

Year: 2016

Role: Joy Newsome in Room

Emma Stone

Year: 2017

Role: Mia Dolan in La La Land

 Frances McDormand

Year: 2018

Role: Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Olivia Colman

Year: 2019

Role: Anne, Queen of Great Britain in The Favourite