Best Actress

2002--Nicole Kidman, The Hours
2001--Halle Berry, Monster's Ball
2000--Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich
1999--Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
1998--Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love
1997--Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets
1996--Frances McDormand, Fargo
1995--Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking
1994--Jessica Lange, Blue Sky
1993--Holly Hunter, The Piano
1992--Emma Thompson, Howards End
1991--Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs
1990--Kathy Bates, Misery
1989--Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy
1988--Jodie Foster, The Accused
1987--Cher, Moonstruck
1986--Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God
1985--Geraldine Page, The Trip to Bountiful
1984--Sally Field, Places in the Heart
1983--Shirley Maclaine, Terms of Endearment
1982--Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice
1981--Katharine Hepburn, On Golden Pond
1980--Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter
1979--Sally Field, Norma Rae
1978--Jane Fonda, Coming Home
1977--Diane Keaton, Annie Hall
1976--Faye Dunaway, Network
1975--Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974--Ellen Burstyn, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1973--Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class
1972--Liza Minnelli, Cabaret
1971--Jane Fonda, Klute
1970--Glenda Jackson, Women in Love
1969--Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1968--Tie: Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter; Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl
1967--Katharine Hepburn, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1966--Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1965--Julie Christie, Darling
1964--Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins
1963--Patricia Neal, Hud
1962--Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker
1961--Sophia Loren, Two Women
1960--Elizabeth Taylor, Butterfield 8
1959--Simone Signoret, Room at the Top
1958--Susan Hayward, I Want To Live!
1957--Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve
1956--Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia
1955--Anna Magnani, The Rose Tattoo
1954--Grace Kelly, The Country Girl
1953--Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
1952--Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba
1951--Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
1950--Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday
1949--Olivia De Havilland, The Heiress
1948--Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda
1947--Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter
1946--Olivia De Havilland, To Each His Own
1945--Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce
1944--Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
1943--Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette
1942--Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver
1941--Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
1940--Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle
1939--Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
1938--Bette Davis, Jezebel
1937--Luise Rainer, The Good Earth
1936--Luise Rainer, The Great Ziegfeld
1935--Bette Davis, Dangerous
1934--Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
1933/32--Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory
1932/31--Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931/30--Marie Dressler, Min and Bill
1930/29--Norma Shearer, The Divorcee
1929/28--Mary Pickford, Coquette
1928/27--Janet Gaynor, 7th Heaven