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2000s
2007
Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie – Away from Her
Laura Linney – The Savages
Ellen Page – Juno
2006
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Penelope Cruz – Volver
Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet – Little Children
2005
Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
Charlize Theron – North Country
Judi Dench – Mrs. Henderson Presents
Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice
2004
Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby
Annette Bening – Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake
Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003
Charlize Theron – Monster
Keisha Castle-Hughes – Whale Rider
Diane Keaton – Something's Gotta Give
Samantha Morton – In America
Naomi Watts – 21 Grams
2002
Nicole Kidman – The Hours
Salma Hayek – Frida
Diane Lane – Unfaithful
Julianne Moore – Far From Heaven
Renee Zellweger – Chicago
2001
Halle Berry – Monster's Ball
Judi Dench – Iris
Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge!
Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom
Renee Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Diary
2000
Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
Joan Allen – The Contender
Juliette Binoche – Chocolat
Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream
Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me
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1990s
1999
Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry
Annette Bening – American Beauty
Janet McTeer – Tumbleweeds
Julianne Moore – The End of the Affair
Meryl Streep – Music of the Heart
1998
Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love
Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth
Fernanda Montenegro – Central Station
Meryl Streep – One True Thing
Emily Watson – Hilary and Jackie
1997
Helen Hunt – As Good As It Gets
Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove
Julie Christie – Afterglow
Judi Dench – Mrs. Brown
Kate Winslet – Titanic
1996
Frances McDormand – Fargo
Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies
Diane Keaton – Marvin's Room
Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient
Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves
1995
Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking
Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas
Sharon Stone – Casino
Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County
Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
1994
Jessica Lange – Blue Sky
Jodie Foster – Nell
Miranda Richardson – Tom and Viv
Winona Ryder – Little Women
Susan Sarandon – The Client
1993
Holly Hunter – The Piano
Angela Bassett – What's Love Got to Do With It
Stockard Channing – Six Degrees of Separation
Emma Thompson – The Remains of the Day
Debra Winger – Shadowlands
1992
Emma Thompson – Howards End
Catherine Deneuve – Indochine
Mary McDonnell – Passion Fish
Michelle Pfeiffer – Love Field
Susan Sarandon – Lorenzo's Oil
1991
Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
Geena Davis – Thelma & Louise
Laura Dern – Rambling Rose
Bette Midler – For the Boys
Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise
1990
Kathy Bates – Misery
Anjelica Huston – The Grifters
Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman
Meryl Streep – Postcards From the Edge
Joanne Woodward – Mr. And Mrs. Bridge
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1980s
1989
Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy
Isabelle Adjani – Camille Claudel
Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine
Jessica Lange – The Music Box
Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys
1988
Jodie Foster – The Accused
Glenn Close – Dangerous Liaisons
Melanie Griffith – Working Girl
Meryl Streep – A Cry in the Dark
Sigourney Weaver – Gorillas in the Mist
1987
Cher – Moonstruck
Glenn Close – Fatal Attraction
Holly Hunter – Broadcast News
Sally Kirkland – Anna
Meryl Streep – Ironwood
1986
Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God
Jane Fonda – The Morning After
Sissy Spacek – Crimes of the Heart
Kathleen Turner – Peggy Sue Got Married
Sigourney Weaver – Aliens
1985
Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful
Anne Bancroft – Agnes of God
Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple
Jessica Lange – Sweet Dreams
Meryl Streep – Out of Africa
1984
Sally Field – Places in the Heart
Judy Davis – A Passage to India
Jessica Lange – Country
Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians
Sissy Spacek – The River
1983
Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment
Jane Alexander – Testament
Meryl Streep – Silkwood
Julie Walters – Educating Rita
Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment
1982
Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice
Julie Andrews – Victor/Victoria
Jessica Lange – Frances
Sissy Spacek – Missing
Debra Winger – An Officer and a Gentleman
1981
Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond
Diane Keaton – Reds
Marsha Mason – Only When I Laugh
Susan Sarandon – Atlantic City
Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant's Woman
1980
Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter
Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection
Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin
Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People
Gena Rowlands – Gloria
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1970s
1979
Sally Field – Norma Rae
Jill Clayburgh – Starting Over
Jane Fonda – The China Syndrome
Marsha Mason – Chapter Two
Bette Midler – The Rose
1978
Jane Fonda – Coming Home
Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata
Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year
Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman
Geraldine Page – Interiors
1977
Diane Keaton – Annie Hall
Anne Bancroft – The Turning Point
Jane Fonda – Julia
Shirley MacLaine – The Turning Point
Marsha Mason – The Goodbye Girl
1976
Fay Dunaway – Network
Marie-Christine Barrault – Cousin, Cousine
Talia Shire – Rocky
Sissy Spacek – Carrie
Liv Ullmann – Face to Face
1975
Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Isabelle Adjani – The Story of Adele H.
Ann-Margret – Tommy
Glenda Jackson – Hedda
Carol Kane – Hester Street
1974
Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Diahann Carroll – Claudine
Faye Dunaway – Chinatown
Valerie Perrine – Lenny
Gena Rowlands – A Woman Under the Influence
1973
Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class
Ellen Burstyn – The Exorcist
Marsha Mason – Cinderella Liberty
Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were
Joanne Woodward – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1972
Liza Minnelli – Cabaret
Diana Ross – Lady Sings the Blues
Maggie Smith – Travels With My Aunt
Cicely Tyson – Sounder
Liv Ullmann – The Emigrants
1971
Jane Fonda – Klute
Julie Christie – McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots
Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra
1970
Glenda Jackson – Woman in Love
Jane Alexander – The Great White Hope
Ali McGraw – Love Story
Sarah Miles – Ryan's Daughter
Carrie Snodgrass – Diary of a Mad Housewife
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1960s
1969
Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Genevieve Bujold – Anne of the Thousand Days
Jane Fonda – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Liza Minnelli – The Sterile Cuckoo
Jean Simmons – The Happy Ending
1968
Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl
Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter
(tie)
Patricia Neal – The Subject Was Roses
Vanessa Redgrave – The Loves of Isadora
Joanne Woodward – Rachel, Rachel
1967
Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Anne Bancroft – The Graduate
Faye Dunaway – Bonnie and Clyde
Dame Edith Evans – The Whisperers
Audrey Hepburn – Wait Until Dark
1966
Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Anouk Aimee – A Man and a Woman
Ida Kaminska – The Shop on Main Street
Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment
1965
Julie Christie – Darling
Julie Andrews – The Sound of Music
Samantha Eggar – The Collector
Elisabeth Hartman – A Patch of Blue
Simone Signoret – Ship of Fools
1964
Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins
Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater
Sophia Loren – Marriage - Italian Style
Debbie Reynolds – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Kim Stanley – Séance on a Wet Afternoon
1963
Patricia Neal – Hud
Leslie Caron – The L-Shaped Room
Shirley MacLaine – Irma La Douce
Rachel Roberts – This Sporting Life
Natalie Wood – Love With the Proper Stranger
1962
Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker
Bette Davis – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Katharine Hepburn – Long Day's Journey Into Night
Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth
Lee Remick – Days of Wine and Roses
1961
Sophia Loren – Two Women
Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany's
Piper Laurie – The Hustler
Geraldine Page – Summer & Smoke
Natalie Wood – Splendor in the Grass
1960
Elizabeth Taylor – Butterfield 8
Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello
Deborah Kerr – The Sundowners
Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment
Melina Mercouri – Never on Sunday
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1950s
1959
Simone Signoret – Room at the Top
Doris Day – Pillow Talk
Audrey Hepburn – The Nun's Story
Katharine Hepburn – Suddenly Last Summer
Elizabeth Taylor – Suddenly, Last Summer
1958
Susan Hayward – I Want to Live
Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
Elizabeth Taylor – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1957
Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve
Deborah Kerr – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Anna Magnani – Wild is the Wind
Elizabeth Taylor – Raintree County
Lana Turner – Peyton Place
1956
Ingrid Bergman – Anastasia
Carroll Baker – Baby Doll
Katharine Hepburn – The Rainmaker
Nancy Kelly – The Bad Seed
Deborah Kerr – The King and I
1955
Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo
Susan Hayward – I'll Cry Tomorrow
Katharine Hepburn – Summertime
Jennifer Jones – Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
Eleanor Parker – Interrupted Melody
1954
Grace Kelly – The Country Girl
Dorothy Dandridge – Carmen Jones
Judy Garland – A Star is Born
Audrey Hepburn – Sabrina
Jane Wyman – Magnificent Obsession
1953
Audrey Hepburn – Roman Holiday
Leslie Caron – Lily
Ava Gardner – Mogambo
Deborah Kerr – From Here to Eternity
Maggie McNamara – The Moon is Blue
1952
Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba
Joan Crawford – Sudden Fear
Bette Davis – The Star
Julie Harris – The Member of the Wedding
Susan Hayward – With a Song in My Heart
1951
Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire
Katharine Hepburn – The African Queen
Eleanor Parker – Detective Story
Shelley Winters – A Place in the Sun
Jane Wyman – The Blue Veil
1950
Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday
Anne Baxter – All About Eve
Bette Davis – All About Eve
Eleanor Parker – Caged
Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard
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1940s
1949
Olivia De Havilland – The Heiress
Jeanne Crain – Pinky
Susan Hayward – My Foolish Heart
Deborah Kerr – Edward, My Son
Loretta Young – Come to the Stable
1948
Jane Wyman – Johnny Belinda
Ingrid Bergman – Joan of Arc
Olivia De Havilland – The Snake Pit
Irene Dunne – I Remember Mama
Barbara Stanwyck – Sorry, Wrong Number
1947
Loretta Young – The Farmer's Daughter
Joan Crawford – Possessed
Susan Hayward – Smash-up, The Story of a Woman
Dorothy McGuire – Gentleman's Agreement
Rosalind Russell – Mourning Becomes Electra
1946
Olivia De Havilland – To Each His Own
Celia Johnson – Brief Encounter
Jennifer Jones – Duel in the Sun
Rosalind Russell – Sister Kenny
Jane Wyman – The Yearling
1945
Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce
Ingrid Bergman – The Bells of St. Mary's
Greer Garson – The Valley of Decision
Jennifer Jones – Love Letters
Gene Tierney – Leave Her to Heaven
1944
Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight
Claudette Colbert – Since You Went Away
Bette Davis – Mr. Skeffington
Greer Garson – Mrs. Parkington
Barbara Stanwyck – Double Indemnity
1943
Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette
Jean Arthur – The More the Merrier
Ingrid Bergman – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Joan Fontaine – The Constant Nymph
Greer Garson – Madame Curie
1942
Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver
Bette Davis – Now, Voyager
Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year
Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen
Teresa Wright – The Pride of the Yankees
1941
Joan Fontaine – Suspicion
Bette Davis – The Little Foxes
Olivia De Havilland – Hold Back the Dawn
Greer Garson – Blossoms in the Dust
Barbara Stanwyck – Ball of Fire
1940
Ginger Rogers – Kitty Foyle
Bette Davis – The Letter
Joan Fontaine – Rebecca
Katharine Hepburn – The Philadelphia Story
Martha Scott – Our Town
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1930s
1939
Vivien Leigh – Gone With the Wind
Bette Davis – Dark Victory
Irene Dunne – Love Affair
Greta Garbo – Ninotchka
Greer Garson – Goodbye Mr. Chips
1938
Bette Davis – Jezebel
Fay Bainter – White Banners
Wendy Hiller – Pygmalion
Norma Shearer – Marie Antoinette
Margaret Sullivan – Three Comrades
1937
Luise Rainer – The Good Earth
Irene Dunne – The Awful Truth
Greta Garbo – Camille
Janet Gaynor – A Star is Born
Barbara Stanwyck – Stella Dallas
1936
Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld
Irene Dunne – Theodore Goes Wild
Gladys George – Valiant is the Word for Carrie
Carole Lombard – My Man Godfrey
Norma Shearer – Romeo and Juliet
1935
Bette Davis – Dangerous
Elisabeth Bergner – Escape Me Never
Claudette Colbert – Private Worlds
Katharine Hepburn – Alice Adams
Miriam Hopkins – Becky Sharp
Merle Oberon – The Dark Angel
1934
Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage
Grace Moore – One Night of Love
Norma Shearer – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1933
Katharine Hepburn – Morning Glory
May Robson – Lady For a Day
Diana Wynyard – Cavalcade
1932
Helen Hayes – The Sin of Madeleon Claudet
Marie Dressler – Emma
Lynn Fontanne – The Guardsman
1931
Marie Dressler – Min and Bill
Marlene Dietrich – Morocco
Irene Dunne – Cimarron
Ann Harding – Holiday
Norma Shearer – A Free Soul
1930
Norma Shearer – The Divorcee
Nancy Carroll – The Devil's Holiday
Ruth Chatterton – Sarah and Son
Greta Garbo – Anna Christie
Greta Garbo – Romance
Norma Shearer – Their Own Desire
Gloria Swanson – The Trespasser
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1920s
1929
Mary Pickford – Coquette
Ruth Chatterton – Madame X
Betty Compson – The Barker
Jeanne Engels – The Letter
Corinne Griffiths – The Divine Lady
Bessie Love – The Broadway Melody
1928
Janet Gaynor – Seventh Heaven
Louise Dresser – A Ship Comes In
Janet Gaynor – Street Angel
Janet Gaynor – Sunrise
Gloria Swanson – Sadie Thompson
