Best Actress in a Leading Role

(1927-28) - Janet Gaynor, Seventh Heaven (1928) - Also for Sunrise and Street Angel (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 Virgina Woolf? (1967) - Katharine Hepburn, Guess Whos Coming to Dinner (1968) - *TIE* Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter (1968) - Barbara 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 Cukoo'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 Diasy
(1990) - Kathy Bates, Misery
(1991) - Jodie Foster, 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 Vien Rose
(2008) - Kate Winslet, The Reader