Academy Awards: Actress in a Leading Role 1927/1928-2010

Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role 1927-2010

1927 - 1928 - Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven, Sunrise, Street Angels
1928 - 1929 - Mary Pickford - Coquette
1930 - Norma Shearer - The Divorcee
1931 - Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
1932 - Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1933 - Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory
1934 - Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night*
1935 - Bette Davis - Dangerous
1936 - Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
1937 - Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
1938 - Bette Davis - Jezebel
1939 - Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind*
1940 - Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
1941 - Joan Fontaine - Suspicion
1942 - Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver
1943 - Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
1944 - Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
1945 - Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce
1946 - Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
1947 - Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter
1948 - Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
1949 - Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
1950 - Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
1951 - Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire*
1952 - Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba
1953 - Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
1954 - Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
1955 - Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
1956 - Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
1957 - Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
1958 - Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
1959 - Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
1960 - Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8
1961 - Sophia Loren - Two Women
1962 - Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
1963 - Patricia Neal - Hud
1964 - Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins*
1965 - Julie Christie - Darling
1966 - Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 - Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1968 - Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter & Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
1969 - Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1970 - Glenda Jackson - Women in Love
1971 - Jane Fonda - Klute
1972 - Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
1973 - Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class
1974 - Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1975 - Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*
1976 - Faye Dunaway - Network
1977 - Diane Keaton - Annie Hall*
1978 - Jane Fonda - Coming Home*
1979 - Sally Field - Norma Rae
1980 - Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter
1981 - Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
1982 - Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
1983 - Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
1984 - Sally Field - Places in the Heart
1985 - Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful
1986 - Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God
1987 - Cher - Moonstruck*
1988 - Jodie Foster - The Accused
1989 - Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
1990 - Kathy Bates - Misery
1991 - Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs*
1992 - Emma Thompson - Howards End
1993 - Holly Hunter - The Piano
1994 - Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
1995 - Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking*
1996 - Frances McDormand - Fargo
1997 - Helen Hunt - As Good as it Gets*
1998 - Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love*
1999 - Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry*
2000 - Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich*
2001 - Halle Berry - Monster's Ball*
2002 - Nicole Kidman - The Hours*
2003 - Charlize Theron - Monster
2004 - Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby*
2005 - Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line*
2006 - Helen Mirren - The Queen*
2007 - Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
2008 - Kate Winslet - The Reader
2009 - Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
2010 - Natalie Portman - Black Swan

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[4MaryAnna]

I most definitely disagree with the winner of the 1950 award. Hands down,it should have been Bette Davis for "All about Eve".

Thank you for posting this dobazajr! :)

[dobazajr]

@4MaryAnna or Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. I believe there was a splitting of votes 'tween Swanson and Davis that Holliday manage to be the beneficiary.

[71matas]

MUY BUENO!

[dobazajr]

@71matas thanks...

[JBlue761982]

KH with four awards, separated by 48 years: amazing.

[mariandevadas]

well , the most beautiful oscar goes to....vivien leigh! :)

[SoCalGal52]

@dobazajr Actually, I've heard there was a split vote between Anne Baxter and Bette Davis for All About Eve. Instead of accepting an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Anne Baxter insisted on being nominated for Best Actress. Usually when there are two best actor noms for the same movie, it splits the vote and someone else usually wins. Most likely Davis would've won had this not been the case. Miss Baxter may have been the bad guy in this situation, just like the bad guy in AAE.

[SoCalGal52]

@4MaryAnna Totally agree. Bette not only deserved the Oscar, but IMHO, gave the greatest performance by an actress EVER, when she played Margo Channing in All About Eve.

[katharinenbette]

@dobazajr

1950 it shoul have gone to gloria swanson

and 1954 it should have gone to judy garland for A Star is Born

[zoyclem]

Most of the actresses from the 70s onward aren't worth watching. but the ladies from the early days were awesome.

[4MaryAnna]

I'd also like to add that I miss Elizabeth Taylor already! I just heard about her death a little over a week ago. May she rest in peace.

[4MaryAnna]

@dobazajr Thanks so much for telling me this,It's something I hadn't known before,and I enjoy informative information!

Thanks again for taking out the time and effort to post this these wonderful clips for all of us fans!