Every Academy Award for Best Actress Winner in History

The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the most prestigious honors in entertainment. This page lists every winner in history, from 1929 to 2026, organized by decade, with links to our full guides where available.

1920s

• 1929 Street Angel
• 1929 Janet Gaynor
• 1929 Seventh Heaven
• 1929 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• 1929 The Divorcee

1930s

• 1930 Mary Pickford
• 1930 Coquette
• 1930 [Norma Shearer](/celebrity-style/norma-shearer-fashion figure-bio)
• 1931 Min and Bill
• 1931 Marie Dressler
• 1932 Helen Hayes
• 1932 The Sin of Madelon Claudet
• 1934 Katharine Hepburn
• 1934 Morning Glory
• 1935 Claudette Colbert
• 1935 It Happened One Night
• 1936 Bette Davis
• 1936 Dangerous
• 1937 Luise Rainer
• 1937 The Great Ziegfeld
• 1938 Luise Rainer
• 1938 The Good Earth
• 1939 Jezebel
• 1939 Bette Davis

1940s

• 1940 Vivien Leigh
• 1940 Gone with the Wind
• 1941 Kitty Foyle
• 1941 Ginger Rogers
• 1942 Suspicion
• 1942 Joan Fontaine
• 1943 Greer Garson
• 1943 Mrs. Miniver
• 1944 [Jennifer Jones](/celebrity-style/jennifer-jones-fashion figure-bio)
• 1944 The Song of Bernadette
• 1945 Ingrid Bergman
• 1945 Gaslight
• 1946 [Joan Crawford](/celebrity-style/joan-crawford-fashion figure-bio)
• 1946 Mildred Pierce
• 1947 To Each His Own
• 1947 Olivia de Havilland
• 1948 Loretta Young
• 1948 The Farmer's Daughter
• 1949 Johnny Belinda
• 1949 Jane Wyman

1950s

• 1950 The Heiress
• 1950 Olivia de Havilland
• 1951 Judy Holliday
• 1951 Born Yesterday
• 1952 Vivien Leigh
• 1952 A Streetcar Named Desire
• 1953 Come Back, Little Sheba
• 1953 Shirley Booth
• 1954 Roman Holiday
• 1954 Audrey Hepburn
• 1955 The Country Girl
• 1955 Grace Kelly
• 1956 Anna Magnani
• 1956 The Rose Tattoo
• 1957 Ingrid Bergman
• 1957 Anastasia
• 1958 Joanne Woodward
• 1958 The Three Faces of Eve
• 1959 I Want to Live!
• 1959 [Susan Hayward](/iconic-outfits/susan-hayward-fashion figure-bio)

1960s

• 1960 Simone Signoret
• 1960 Room at the Top
• 1961 Elizabeth Taylor
• 1961 BUtterfield 8
• 1962 Two Women
• 1962 Sophia Loren
• 1963 Anne Bancroft
• 1963 The Miracle Worker
• 1964 Hud
• 1964 Patricia Neal
• 1965 Julie Andrews
• 1965 Mary Poppins
• 1966 Julie Christie
• 1967 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 1967 Elizabeth Taylor
• 1968 Katharine Hepburn
• 1968 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• 1969 The Lion in Winter
• 1969 Funny Girl
• 1969 Barbra Streisand
• 1969 Katharine Hepburn

1970s

• 1970 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• 1971 Glenda Jackson
• 1971 Women in Love
• 1972 Klute
• 1972 Jane Fonda
• 1973 Liza Minnelli
• 1973 Cabaret
• 1974 A Touch of Class
• 1974 Glenda Jackson
• 1975 Ellen Burstyn
• 1975 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• 1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 1976 Louise Fletcher
• 1977 Faye Dunaway
• 1977 Network
• 1978 Diane Keaton
• 1978 Annie Hall
• 1979 Coming Home
• 1979 Jane Fonda

1980s

• 1980 Norma Rae
• 1980 Sally Field
• 1981 Coal Miner's Daughter
• 1981 Sissy Spacek
• 1982 On Golden Pond
• 1982 Katharine Hepburn
• 1983 Sophie's Choice
• 1984 Terms of Endearment
• 1984 Shirley MacLaine
• 1985 Sally Field
• 1985 Places in the Heart
• 1986 Geraldine Page
• 1986 The Trip to Bountiful
• 1987 Children of a Lesser God
• 1987 Marlee Matlin
• 1988 Cher
• 1988 Moonstruck
• 1989 Jodie Foster
• 1989 The Accused

1990s

• 1990 Jessica Tandy
• 1990 Driving Miss Daisy
• 1991 Kathy Bates
• 1991 Misery
• 1992 The Silence of the Lambs
• 1992 Jodie Foster
• 1993 Emma Thompson
• 1993 Howards End
• 1994 Holly Hunter
• 1994 The Piano
• 1995 Jessica Lange
• 1995 Blue Sky
• 1996 Susan Sarandon
• 1996 Dead Man Walking
• 1997 Frances McDormand
• 1997 Fargo
• 1998 Helen Hunt
• 1998 As Good as It Gets
• 1999 Shakespeare in Love
• 1999 Gwyneth Paltrow

2000s

• 2000 Boys Don't Cry
• 2000 Hilary Swank
• 2001 Erin Brockovich
• 2001 Julia Roberts
• 2002 Halle Berry
• 2002 Monster's Ball
• 2003 The Hours
• 2003 Nicole Kidman
• 2004 Monster
• 2004 [Charlize Theron](/fashion-trends/charlize-theron-fashion figure-bio)
• 2005 Million Dollar Baby
• 2005 Hilary Swank
• 2006 Walk the Line
• 2006 Reese Witherspoon
• 2007 The Queen
• 2007 Helen Mirren
• 2008 La Vie en Rose
• 2008 Marion Cotillard
• 2009 The Reader

2010s

• 2010 The Blind Side
• 2010 Sandra Bullock
• 2011 Black Swan
• 2011 Natalie Portman
• 2012 The Iron Lady
• 2013 Silver Linings Playbook
• 2013 Jennifer Lawrence
• 2014 Blue Jasmine
• 2014 Cate Blanchett
• 2015 Still Alice
• 2015 Julianne Moore
• 2016 Room
• 2016 Brie Larson
• 2018 Frances McDormand
• 2018 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• 2019 The Favourite
• 2019 Olivia Colman

2020s

• 2020 Renée Zellweger
• 2020 Judy
• 2021 Frances McDormand
• 2021 Nomadland
• 2022 Jessica Chastain
• 2023 Michelle Yeoh
• 2025 Anora
• 2025 Mikey Madison
• 2026 Jessie Buckley

Undated

• Sonia Mbele

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