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ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLEhas been at the Oscars for 98 years. These are the winners.

YearFilmNominee
2025Hamnet IMDB Jessie Buckley
2024Anora IMDB Mikey Madison
2023Poor Things IMDB Emma Stone
2022Everything Everywhere All at Once IMDB Michelle Yeoh
2021The Eyes of Tammy Faye IMDB Jessica Chastain
2020Nomadland IMDB Frances McDormand
2019Judy IMDB Renée Zellweger
2018The Favourite IMDB Olivia Colman
2017Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri IMDB Frances McDormand
2016La La Land IMDB Emma Stone
2015Room IMDB Brie Larson
2014Still Alice IMDB Julianne Moore
2013Blue Jasmine IMDB Cate Blanchett
2012Silver Linings Playbook IMDB Jennifer Lawrence
2011The Iron Lady IMDB Meryl Streep
2010Black Swan IMDB Natalie Portman
2009The Blind Side IMDB Sandra Bullock
2008The Reader IMDB Kate Winslet
2007La Vie en Rose IMDB Marion Cotillard
2006The Queen IMDB Helen Mirren
2005Walk the Line IMDB Reese Witherspoon
2004Million Dollar Baby IMDB Hilary Swank
2003Monster IMDB Charlize Theron
2002The Hours IMDB Nicole Kidman
2001Monster's Ball IMDB Halle Berry
2000Erin Brockovich IMDB Julia Roberts
1999Boys Don't Cry IMDB Hilary Swank
1998Shakespeare in Love IMDB Gwyneth Paltrow
1997As Good as It Gets IMDB Helen Hunt
1996Fargo IMDB Frances McDormand
1995Dead Man Walking IMDB Susan Sarandon
1994Blue Sky IMDB Jessica Lange
1993The Piano IMDB Holly Hunter
1992Howards End IMDB Emma Thompson
1991The Silence of the Lambs IMDB Jodie Foster
1990Misery IMDB Kathy Bates
1989Driving Miss Daisy IMDB Jessica Tandy
1988The Accused IMDB Jodie Foster
1987Moonstruck IMDB Cher
1986Children of a Lesser God IMDB Marlee Matlin
1985The Trip to Bountiful IMDB Geraldine Page
1984Places in the Heart IMDB Sally Field
1983Terms of Endearment IMDB Shirley MacLaine
1982Sophie's Choice IMDB Meryl Streep
1981On Golden Pond IMDB Katharine Hepburn
1980Coal Miner's Daughter IMDB Sissy Spacek
1979Norma Rae IMDB Sally Field
1978Coming Home IMDB Jane Fonda
1977Annie Hall IMDB Diane Keaton
1976Network IMDB Faye Dunaway
1975One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest IMDB Louise Fletcher
1974Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore IMDB Ellen Burstyn
1973A Touch of Class IMDB Glenda Jackson
1972Cabaret IMDB Liza Minnelli
1971Klute IMDB Jane Fonda
1970Women in Love IMDB Glenda Jackson
1969The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie IMDB Maggie Smith
1968Funny Girl IMDB Barbra Streisand
1968The Lion in Winter IMDB Katharine Hepburn
1967Guess Who's Coming to Dinner IMDB Katharine Hepburn
1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? IMDB Elizabeth Taylor
1965Darling IMDB Julie Christie
1964Mary Poppins IMDB Julie Andrews
1963Hud IMDB Patricia Neal
1962The Miracle Worker IMDB Anne Bancroft
1961Two Women IMDB Sophia Loren
1960Butterfield 8 IMDB Elizabeth Taylor
1959Room at the Top IMDB Simone Signoret
1958I Want to Live! IMDB Susan Hayward
1957The Three Faces of Eve IMDB Joanne Woodward
1956Anastasia IMDB Ingrid Bergman
1955The Rose Tattoo IMDB Anna Magnani
1954The Country Girl IMDB Grace Kelly
1953Roman Holiday IMDB Audrey Hepburn
1952Come Back, Little Sheba IMDB Shirley Booth
1951A Streetcar Named Desire IMDB Vivien Leigh
1950Born Yesterday IMDB Judy Holliday
1949The Heiress IMDB Olivia de Havilland
1948Johnny Belinda IMDB Jane Wyman
1947The Farmer's Daughter IMDB Loretta Young
1946To Each His Own IMDB Olivia de Havilland
1945Mildred Pierce IMDB Joan Crawford
1944Gaslight IMDB Ingrid Bergman
1943The Song of Bernadette IMDB Jennifer Jones
1942Mrs. Miniver IMDB Greer Garson
1941Suspicion IMDB Joan Fontaine
1940Kitty Foyle IMDB Ginger Rogers
1939Gone with the Wind IMDB Vivien Leigh
1938Jezebel IMDB Bette Davis
1937The Good Earth IMDB Luise Rainer
1936The Great Ziegfeld IMDB Luise Rainer
1935Dangerous IMDB Bette Davis
1934It Happened One Night IMDB Claudette Colbert
1932/33Morning Glory IMDB Katharine Hepburn
1931/32The Sin of Madelon Claudet IMDB Helen Hayes
1930/31Min and Bill IMDB Marie Dressler
1929/30The Divorcee IMDB Norma Shearer
1928/29Coquette IMDB Mary Pickford
1927/287th Heaven IMDB Janet Gaynor
1927/28Street Angel IMDB Janet Gaynor
1927/28Sunrise IMDB Janet Gaynor

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