Academy Awards: Nominees and Winners - Leading Actress 1990-1999

Academy Awards: Nominees and Winners-Actress in a Leading Role 1990-1999

· 1990 Kathy Bates - Misery as Annie Wilkes (winner)
o Anjelica Huston - The Grifters as Lilly Dillon
o Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman as Vivian Ward
o Meryl Streep - Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale
o Joanne Woodward - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge as India Bridge

· 1991 Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling (winner)
o Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise as Thelma
o Laura Dern - Rambling Rose as Rose
o Bette Midler - For the Boys as Dixie Leonard
o Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise as Louise

· 1992 Emma Thompson - Howards End as Margaret J. 'Meg' Schlegel (winner)
o Catherine Deneuve - Indochine as Eliane
o Mary McDonnell - Passion Fish as May-Alice Culhane
o Michelle Pfeiffer - Love Field as Lurene Hallett
o Susan Sarandon - Lorenzo's Oil as Michaela Odone

· 1993 Holly Hunter - The Piano as Ada McGrath (winner)
o Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It? as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner
o Stockard Channing - Six Degrees of Separation as Louisa ('Ouisa') Kittredge
o Emma Thompson - The Remains of the Day as Mary Kenton
o Debra Winger - Shadowlands as Joy Gresham

· 1994 Jessica Lange - Blue Sky as Carly Marshall (winner)
o Jodie Foster - Nell as Nell Kellty
o Miranda Richardson - Tom & Viv as Vivienne Haigh-Wood
o Winona Ryder - Little Women as Jo March
o Susan Sarandon - The Client as Regina "Reggie" Love

· 1995 Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean (winner)
o Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas as Sera
o Sharon Stone - Casino as Ginger McKenna
o Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
o Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood

· 1996 Frances McDormand - Fargo as Marge Gunderson (winner)
o Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies as Cynthia Rose Purley
o Diane Keaton - Marvin's Room as Bessie
o Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient as Katharine Clifton
o Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves as Bess McNeill

· 1997 Helen Hunt - As Good as It Gets as Carol Connelly (winner)
o Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy
o Julie Christie - Afterglow as Phyllis Mann
o Judi Dench - Mrs. Brown as Queen Victoria
o Kate Winslet- Titanic as Rose DeWitt Bukater

· 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love as Viola De Lesseps (winner)
o Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth as Elizabeth I
o Fernanda Montenegro - Central do Brasil as Dora
o Meryl Streep - One True Thing as Kate Gulden
o Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie as Jackie

· 1999 Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena (winner)
o Annette Bening - American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham
o Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds as Mary Jo Walker
o Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair as Sarah Miles
o Meryl Streep - Music of the Heart as Roberta Guaspari

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