Year |
Actress |
Movie |
2022 |
Michelle Yeoh |
Everything Everywhere All at Once |
2021 |
Jessica Chastain |
The Eyes of Tammy Faye |
2020 |
Frances McDormand |
Nomadland |
2019 |
Renée Zellweger |
Judy |
2018 |
Olivia Colman |
The Favourite |
2017 |
Frances McDormand |
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
2016 |
Emma Stone |
La La Land |
2015 |
Brie Larson |
Room |
2014 |
Julianne Moore |
Still Alice |
2013 |
Cate Blanchett |
Blue Jasmine |
2012 |
Jennifer Lawrence |
Silver Linings Playbook |
2011 |
Meryl Streep |
The Iron Lady |
2010 |
Natalie Portman |
Black Swan |
2009 |
Sandra Bullock |
The Blind Side |
2008 |
Kate Winslet |
The Reader |
2007 |
Marion Cotillard |
La Vie en Rose |
2006 |
Helen Mirren |
The Queen |
2005 |
Reese Witherspoon |
Walk the Line |
2004 |
Hilary Swank |
Million Dollar Baby |
2003 |
Charlize Theron |
Monster |
2002 |
Nicole Kidman |
The Hours |
2001 |
Halle Berry |
Monsters 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 |
1971 |
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 |
1968 (TIE) |
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 |
1932/33 |
Katharine Hepburn |
Morning Glory |
1931/32 |
Helen Hayes |
The Sin of Madelon Claudet |
1930/31 |
Marie Dressler |
Min and Bill |
1929/30 |
Norma Shearer |
The Divorcee |
1928/29 |
Mary Pickford |
Coquette |
1927/28 |
Janet Gaynor |
7th Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise |