The Academy Award For... Best Actress

A video of every best actress winner at the Academy Awards, from 1928 to 2007. The winners are...

1928 Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven as Diane, Street Angel as Angela, AND Sunrise as The Wife (Indre)
1929 Mary Pickford - Coquette as Norma Besant
1930 Norma Shearer - The Divorcee as Jerry Bernard Martin
1931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill as Min Divot
1932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet
1933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory as Eva Lovelace
1934 Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night as Ellie Andrews
1935 Bette Davis - Dangerous as Joyce Heath
1936 Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld as Anna Held
1937 Luise Rainer - The Good Earth as O-Lan Lung
1938 Bette Davis - Jezebel as Julie Marsden
1939 Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara
1940 Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle as Katherine "Kitty" Foyle
1941 Joan Fontaine - Suspicion as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
1942 Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver as Kay Miniver
1943 Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette as Bernadette Soubirous
1944 Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight as Paula Alquist Anto
1945 Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce as Mildred Pierce
1946 Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own as Josephine Norris
1947 Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter as Katrin Holstrom
1948 Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda as Belinda McDonald
1949 Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress as Catherine Sloper
1950 Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday as Emma 'Billie' Dawn
1951 Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois
1952 Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba as Lola Delaney
1953 Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday as Princess Ann
1954 Grace Kelly - The Country Girl as Georgie Elgin
1955 Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo as Serafina Delle Rose
1956 Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia as The Woman (aka Anna Koreff or Anastasia)
1957 Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve as Eve White/Eve Black/Jane
1958 Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! as Barbara Graham
1959 Simone Signoret - Room at the Top as Alice Aisgill
1960 Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8 as Gloria Wandrous
1961 Sophia Loren - Two Women as Cesira
1962 Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker as Annie Sullivan
1963 Patricia Neal - Hud as Alma Brown
1964 Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins as Mary Poppins
1965 Julie Christie - Darling as Diana Scott
1966 Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha
1967 Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Christina Drayton
1968 Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine AND Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl as Fanny Brice
1969 Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie
1970 Glenda Jackson - Women in Love as Gudrun Brangwen
1971 Jane Fonda - Klute as Bree Daniels
1972 Liza Minnelli - Cabaret as Sally Bowles
1973 Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class as Vicki Allessio
1974 Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Alice Hyatt
1975 Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched
1976 Faye Dunaway - Network as Diana Christiansen
1977 Diane Keaton - Annie Hall as Annie Hall
1978 Jane Fonda - Coming Home as Sally Hyde
1979 Sally Field - Norma Rae as Norma Rae Webster
1980 Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn
1981 Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond as Ethel Thayer
1982 Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice as Sophie Zawistowska
1983 Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment as Aurora Greenway
1984 Sally Field - Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding
1985 Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts
1986 Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God as Sarah Norman
1987 Cher - Moonstruck as Loretta Castorini
1988 Jodie Foster - The Accused as Sarah Tobias
1989 Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan
1990 Kathy Bates - Misery as Annie Wilkes
1991 Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
1992 Emma Thompson - Howards End as Margaret Wilcox
1993 Holly Hunter - The Piano as Ada McGrath
1994 Jessica Lange - Blue Sky as Carly Marshall
1995 Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean
1996 Frances McDormand - Fargo as Marge Gunderson
1997 Helen Hunt - As Good as It Gets as Carol Connelly
1998 Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love as Viola de Lesseps
1999 Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena
2000 Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich as Erin Brockovich
2001 Halle Berry - Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove
2002 Nicole Kidman - The Hours as Virginia Woolf
2003 Charlize Theron - Monster as Aileen Wuornos
2004 Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald
2005 Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line as June Carter
2006 Helen Mirren - The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II
2007 Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose as Édith Piaf

MUSIC: "Windowpane" by Opeth.

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[44excalibur]

The fact that Cate Blanchett hasn't won an Oscar for best actress yet is a crime! Gwenyth Paltrow totally stole the Oscar from her!

[outinsider]

1970's picture from Women In Love does not show Glenda Jackson, it shows Jennie Linden and Alan Bates.

[Rosannasfriend]

@LickMyCuntMoFo I agree.

[Rosannasfriend]

@44excalibur I agree that Cate is brilliant, but I wouldn't sweat her not winning Lead Actress. It is better to an actress that everyone thought should have won , than one who did win who everyone thought shouldn't have. LOL. As long as she's great and we all know it, she's done her job. These awards are more about backstage politics than the most deserving, and she isn't in the business for awards, but to act. :)

[ItBrandonSilver]

That belongs to Kate Winslet.

[OldSchoolFan87]

Olivia de Havilland rocks!!!!!!!!!

[SexyChck7821]

i have fetishized getting dick

[MysterEy1]

@FemaleSingle7383 duh stfu

[IRIDOMANIA]

YOUR WORK IS PRICELESS IN THIS VIDEO. THUMBS UP! THE SONG- AN EXCELLENT CHOICE... AND SO LONG.

[c0nram]

@44excalibur "Cate Blanchett is the best actress of this generation", that's a matter of opinion. I don't feel she deserves to win.