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BEST ACTRESS* AND BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS* WINNERS (*Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading (and Supporting) Role) [Note: Winning Co-Stars - Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the Same Film are indicated by a Shaded-in Year] |
Award |
Academy Award Winner |
Academy Award Winner |
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Janet Gaynor Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise |
Diane/Angela/The Wife | N/A | N/A | |
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Mary Pickford Coquette |
Norma Besant | N/A | N/A |
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Norma Shearer The Divorcee |
Jerry Bernard Martin | N/A | N/A |
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Marie Dressler Min and Bill |
Min Divot | N/A | N/A |
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Helen Hayes The Sin of Madelon Claudet |
Madelon Claudet | N/A | N/A |
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Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory |
Eva Lovelace | N/A | N/A |
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Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night |
Ellie Andrews | N/A | N/A |
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Bette Davis Dangerous |
Joyce Heath | N/A | N/A |
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Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld |
Anna Held | Gale Sondergaard Anthony Adverse |
Faith Paleologus |
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Luise Rainer The Good Earth |
O-Lan | Alice Brady In Old Chicago |
Molly O'Leary |
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Bette Davis Jezebel |
Julie Marsden | Fay Bainter Jezebel |
Aunt Belle |
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Vivien Leigh Gone With the Wind |
Scarlett O'Hara | Hattie McDaniel Gone With the Wind |
Mammy |
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Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle |
Kitty Foyle | Jane Darwell The Grapes of Wrath |
Ma Joad |
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Joan Fontaine Suspicion |
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth | Mary Astor The Great Lie |
Sandra Kovak |
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Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver |
Mrs. Miniver | Teresa Wright Mrs. Miniver |
Carol Beldon |
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Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette |
Bernadette | Katina Paxinou For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Pilar |
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Ingrid Bergman Gaslight |
Paula Alquist Anton | Ethel Barrymore None But the Lonely Heart |
Ma Mott |
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Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce |
Mildred Pierce Beragon | Anne Revere National Velvet |
Mrs. Brown |
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Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own |
Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris |
Anne Baxter The Razor's Edge |
Sophie MacDonald |
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Loretta Young The Farmer's Daughter |
Katrin Holstrom | Celeste Holm Gentleman's Agreement |
Anne Dettrey |
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Jane Wyman Johnny Belinda |
Belinda McDonald | Claire Trevor Key Largo |
Gaye Dawn |
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Olivia de Havilland The Heiress |
Catherine Sloper | Mercedes McCambridge All the King's Men |
Sadie Burke |
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Judy Holliday Born Yesterday |
Emma 'Billie' Dawn | Josephine Hull Harvey |
Veta Louise Simmons |
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Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire |
Blanche DuBois | Kim Hunter A Streetcar Named Desire |
Stella Kowalski |
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Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba |
Lola Delaney | Gloria Grahame The Bad and the Beautiful |
Rosemary |
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Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday |
Princess Ann | Donna Reed From Here to Eternity |
Alma 'Lorene' Burke |
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Grace Kelly The Country Girl |
Georgie Elgin | Eva Marie Saint On the Waterfront |
Edie Doyle |
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Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo |
Serafina Delle Rose | Jo Van Fleet East of Eden |
Kate |
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Ingrid Bergman Anastasia |
Anna Koreff/Anastasia | Dorothy Malone Written on the Wind |
Marylee Hadley |
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Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve |
Eve White/Eve Black/Jane | Miyoshi Umeki Sayonara |
Katsumi |
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Susan Hayward I Want to Live! |
Barbara Graham | Wendy Hiller Separate Tables |
Pat Cooper |
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Simone Signoret Room at the Top |
Alice Aisgill | Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank |
Mrs. Petronella Van Daan |
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Elizabeth Taylor Butterfield 8 |
Gloria Wandrous | Shirley Jones Elmer Gantry |
Lulu Bains |
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Sophia Loren Two Women |
Cesira | Rita Moreno West Side Story |
Anita |
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Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker |
Annie Sullivan | Patty Duke The Miracle Worker |
Helen Keller |
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Patricia Neal Hud |
Alma Brown | Margaret Rutherford The V.I.P.'s |
The Duchess of Brighton |
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Julie Andrews Mary Poppins |
Mary Poppins | Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek |
Madame Hortense |
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Julie Christie Darling |
Diana Scott | Shelley Winters A Patch of Blue |
Rose-Ann D'Arcy |
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Elizabeth Taylor Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Martha | Sandy Dennis Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Honey |
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Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Christina Drayton | Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde |
Blanche Barrow |
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Katharine Hepburn; Barbra Streisand The Lion in Winter; Funny Girl |
Eleanor of Aquitaine/Fanny Brice | Ruth Gordon Rosemary's Baby |
Minnie Castevet |
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Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Jean Brodie | Goldie Hawn Cactus Flower |
Toni Simmons |
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Glenda Jackson Women in Love |
Gudrun Brangwen | Helen Hayes Airport |
Ada Quonsett |
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Jane Fonda Klute |
Bree Daniels | Cloris Leachman The Last Picture Show |
Ruth Popper |
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Liza Minnelli Cabaret |
Sally Bowles | Eileen Heckart Butterflies Are Free |
Mrs. Baker |
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Glenda Jackson A Touch of Class |
Vicki Allessio | Tatum O'Neal Paper Moon |
Addie Loggins |
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Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
Alice Hyatt | Ingrid Bergman Murder on the Orient Express |
Greta Ohlsson |
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Louise Fletcher One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
Nurse Ratched | Lee Grant Shampoo |
Felicia Carp |
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Faye Dunaway Network |
Diana Christensen | Beatrice Straight Network |
Louise Schumacher |
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Diane Keaton Annie Hall |
Annie Hall | Vanessa Redgrave Julia |
Julia |
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Jane Fonda Coming Home |
Sally Hyde | Maggie Smith California Suite |
Diana Barrie |
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Sally Field Norma Rae |
Norma Rae Webster | Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer |
Joanna Kramer |
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Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter |
Loretta Lynn | Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard |
Lynda Dummar |
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Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond |
Ethel Thayer | Maureen Stapleton Reds |
Emma Goldman |
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Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice |
Sophie Zawistowski | Jessica Lange Tootsie |
Julie Nichols |
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Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment |
Aurora Greenway | Linda Hunt The Year of Living Dangerously |
Billy Kwan |
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Sally Field Places in the Heart |
Edna Spalding | Dame Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India |
Mrs. Moore |
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Geraldine Page The Trip to Bountiful |
Carrie Watts | Anjelica Huston Prizzi's Honor |
Maerose Prizzi |
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Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God |
Sarah Norman | Dianne Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters |
Holly |
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Cher Moonstruck |
Loretta Castorini | Olympia Dukakis Moonstruck |
Rose Castorini |
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Jodie Foster The Accused |
Sarah Tobias | Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist |
Muriel Pritchett |
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Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy |
Daisy Werthan | Brenda Fricker My Left Foot |
Mrs. Brown |
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Kathy Bates Misery |
Annie Wilkes | Whoopi Goldberg Ghost |
Oda Mae Brown |
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Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs |
Clarice Starling | Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King |
Anne Napolitano |
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Emma Thompson Howards End |
Margaret J. 'Meg' Schlegel | Marisa Tomei My Cousin Vinny |
Mona Lisa Vito |
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Holly Hunter The Piano |
Ada McGrath | Anna Paquin The Piano |
Flora McGrath |
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Jessica Lange Blue Sky |
Carly Marshall | Dianne Wiest Bullets Over Broadway |
Helen Sinclair |
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Susan Sarandon Dead Man Walking |
Sister Helen Prejean | Mira Sorvino Mighty Aphrodite |
Linda Ash |
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Frances McDormand Fargo |
Marge Gunderson | Juliette Binoche The English Patient |
Hana |
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Helen Hunt As Good As It Gets |
Carol Connelly | Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential |
Lynn Bracken |
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Gwyneth Paltrow Shakespeare in Love |
Viola De Lesseps/Thomas Kent | Judi Dench Shakespeare in Love |
Queen Elizabeth |
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Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry |
Brandon Teena | Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted |
Lisa Rowe |
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Julia Roberts Erin Brockovich |
Erin Pattee-Brockovich | Marcia Gay Harden Pollock |
Lee Krasner |
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Halle Berry Monster's Ball |
Leticia Musgrove | Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind |
Alicia Nash |
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Nicole Kidman The Hours |
Virginia Woolf | Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago |
Velma Kelly |
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Charlize Theron Monster |
Aileen Wuornos | Renee Zellweger Cold Mountain |
Ruby Thewes |
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Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby |
Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald | Cate Blanchett The Aviator |
Katharine Hepburn |
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Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line |
June Carter | Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener |
Tessa Quayle |
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Helen Mirren The Queen |
Queen Elizabeth II | Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls |
Effie White |
Marion Cotillard La Vie en Rose |
Edith Piaf | Tilda Swinton Michael Clayton |
Karen Crowder | |
Kate Winslet The Reader |
Hanna Schmitz | Penelope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
Maria Elena | |
Sandra Bullock The Blind Side |
Leigh Anne Roberts-Tuohy | Mo'Nique Precious |
Mary Jones | |
Natalie Portman Black Swan |
Nina Sayers | Melissa Leo The Fighter |
Alice Ward | |
Meryl Streep The Iron Lady |
Margaret Thatcher | Octavia Spencer The Help |
Minny Jackson | |
Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook |
Tiffany Maxwell | Anne Hathaway Les Miserables |
Fantine | |
Cate Blanchett Blue Jasmine |
Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis | Lupita Nyong'o 12 Years a Slave |
Patsey | |
Julianne Moore Still Alice |
Alice Daly-Howland | Patricia Arquette Boyhood |
Olivia Evans | |
Brie Larson Room |
Joy "Ma" Newsome | Alicia Vikander The Danish Girl |
Gerda Wegener | |
Emma Stone La La Land |
Mia | Viola Davis Fences |
Rose Maxson | |
Frances McDormand Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri |
Mildred Hayes | Allison Janey I, Tonya |
LaVona Fay Golden | |
Olivia Colman The Favourite |
Queen Anne | Regina King If Beale Street Could Talk |
Sharon Rivers | |
Renée Zellweger Judy |
Judy Garland | Laura Dern Marriage Story |
Nora Fanshaw | |
Frances McDormand Nomadland |
Fern | Yuh-Jung Youn Minari |
Soon-ja | |
Jessica Chastain The Eyes of Tammy Faye |
Tammy Faye | Ariana De Bose West Side Story |
Anita | |
Michelle Yeoh Everything Everywhere All at Once |
Evelyn Wang | Jamie Lee Curtis Everything Everywhere All at Once |
Deirdre Beaubeirdra |