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2000s
2008
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Amy Adams – Doubt
Viola Davis – Doubt
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
2007
Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton
Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There
Ruby Dee – American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan – Atonement
Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone
2006
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Adriana Barraza – Babel
Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi – Babel
2005
Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain
Amy Adams – Junebug
Catherine Keener – Capote
Frances McDormand – North Country
2004
Cate Blanchett – The Aviator
Laura Linney – Kinsey
Virginia Madsen – Sideways
Sophie Okonedo – Hotel Rwanda
Natalie Portman – Closer
2003
Renee Zellweger – Cold Mountain
Shohreh Aghdashloo – House of Sand and Fog
Patricia Clarkson – Pieces of April
Marcia Gay Harden – Mystic River
Holly Hunter – Thirteen
2002
Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago
Julianne Moore – The Hours
Kathy Bates – About Schmidt
Meryl Streep – Adaptation
Queen Latifah – Chicago
2001
Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind
Helen Mirren – Gosford Park
Maggie Smith – Gosford Park
Marisa Tomei – In the Bedroom
Kate Winslet – Iris
2000
Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock
Judi Dench – Chocolat
Kate Hudson – Almost Famous
Frances McDormand – Almost Famous
Julie Walters – Billy Elliot
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1990s
1999
Angelina Jolie – Girl, Interrupted
Toni Collette – The Sixth Sense
Catherine Keener – Being John Malkovich
Samantha Morton – Sweet and Lowdown
Chloe Sevigny – Boys Don't Cry
1998
Judi Dench – Shakespeare in Love
Kathy Bates – Primary Colors
Brenda Blethyn – Little Voice
Rachel Griffiths – Hilary and Jackie
Lynn Redgrave – Gods and Monsters
1997
Kim Basinger – L.A. Confidential
Joan Cusack – In & Out
Minnie Driver – Good Will Hunting
Julianne Moore – Boogie Nights
Gloria Stuart – Titanic
1996
Juliette Binoche – The English Patient
Joan Allen – The Crucible
Lauren Bacall – The Mirror Has Two Faces
Barbara Hershey – The Portrait of a Lady
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Secrets & Lies
1995
Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite
Joan Allen – Nixon
Kathleen Quinlan – Apollo 13
Mare Winningham – Georgia
Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility
1994
Dianne Wiest – Bullets Over Broadway
Rosemary Harris – Tom and Viv
Helen Mirren – The Madness of King George
Uma Thurman – Pulp Fiction
Jennifer Tilly – Bullets Over Broadway
1993
Anna Paquin – The Piano
Holly Hunter – The Firm
Rosie Perez – Fearless
Winona Ryder – The Age of Innocence
Emma Thompson – In the Name of the Father
1992
Marisa Tomei – My Cousin Vinny
Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives
Joan Plowright – Enchanted April
Vanessa Redgrave – Howards End
Miranda Richardson – Damage
1991
Mercedes Ruehl – The Fisher King
Diane Ladd – Rambling Rose
Juliette Lewis – Cape Fear
Kate Nelligan – The Prince of Tides
Jessica Tandy – Fried Green Tomatoes
1990
Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost
Annette Bening – The Grifters
Lorraine Bracco – Good Fellas
Diane Ladd – Wild at Heart
Mary McDonnell – Dances With Wolves
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1980s
1989
Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot
Anjelica Huston – Enemies, A Love Story
Lena Olin – Enemies, A Love Story
Julia Roberts – Steel Magnolias
Dianne Wiest – Parenthood
1988
Geena Davis – The Accidental Tourist
Joan Cusack – Working Girl
Frances McDormand – Mississippi Burning
Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Liaisons
Sigourney Weaver – Working Girl
1987
Olympia Dukakis – Moonstruck
Norma Aleandro – Gaby - A True Story
Anne Archer – Fatal Attraction
Anne Ramsey – Throw Momma From the Train
Ann Sothern – The Whales of August
1986
Dianne Wiest – Hannah and Her Sisters
Tess Harper – Crimes of the Heart
Piper Laurie – Children of a Lesser God
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – The Color of Money
Maggie Smith – A Room With a View
1985
Anjelica Huston – Prizzi's Honor
Margaret Avery – The Color Purple
Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime
Meg Tilly – Agnes of God
Oprah Winfrey – The Color Purple
1984
Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
Glenn Close – The Natural
Lindsay Crouse – Places in the Heart
Christine Lahti – Swing Shift
Geraldine Page – The Pope of Greenwich Village
1983
Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously
Cher – Silkwood
Glenn Close – The Big Chill
Amy Irving – Yentl
Alfre Woodard – Cross Creek
1982
Jessica Lange – Tootsie
Glenn Close – The World According to Garp
Teri Garr – Tootsie
Kim Stanley – Frances
Lesley Ann Warren – Victor/Victoria
1981
Maureen Stapleton – Reds
Melinda Dillon – Absence of Malice
Jane Fonda – On Golden Pond
Joan Hackett – Only When I Laugh
Elizabeth McGovern – Ragtime
1980
Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard
Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin
Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection
Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves
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1970s
1979
Meryl Streep – Kramer vs Kramer
Jane Alexander – Kramer vs Kramer
Barbara Barrie – Breaking Away
Candice Bergen – Starting Over
Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan
1978
Maggie Smith – California Suite
Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait
Penelope Milford – Coming Home
Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter
1977
Vanessa Redgrave – Julia
Leslie Browne – The Turning Point
Quinn Cummings – The Goodbye Girl
Melinda Dillon – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Tuesday Weld – Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1976
Beatrice Straight – Network
Jane Alexander – All the President's Men
Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver
Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned
Piper Laurie – Carrie
1975
Lee Grant – Shampoo
Ronee Blakley – Nashville
Sylvia Miles – Farewell, My Lovely
Lily Tomlin – Nashville
Brenda Vaccaro – Jacqueline Susann's Once is Not Enough
1974
Ingrid Bergman – Murder on the Orient Express
Valentina Cortese – Day for Night
Madeline Kahn – Blazing Saddles
Diane Ladd – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Talia Shire – The Godfather, Part II
1973
Tatum O'Neal – Paper Moon
Linda Blair – The Exorcist
Candy Clark – American Graffiti
Madeline Kahn – Paper Moon
Sylvia Sidney – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1972
Eileen Heckart – Butterflies are Free
Jeannie Berlin – The Heartbreak Kid
Geraldine Page – Pete 'n Tillie
Susan Tyrrell – Fat City
Shelley Winters – The Poseiden Adventure
1971
Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show
Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge
Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show
Barbara Harris – Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between
1970
Helen Hayes – Airport
Karen Black – Five Easy Pieces
Lee Grant – The Landlord
Sally Kellerman – M*A*S*H
Maureen Stapleton – Airport
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1960s
1969
Goldie Hawn – Cactus Flower
Catherine Burns – Last Summer
Dyan Cannon – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Sylvia Miles – Midnight Cowboy
Susannah York – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1968
Ruth Gordon – Rosemary's Baby
Lynn Carlin – Faces
Sondra Locke – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Kay Medford – Funny Girl
Estelle Parsons – Rachel, Rachel
1967
Estelle Parsons – Bonnie and Clyde
Carol Channing – Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mildred Natwick – Barefoot in the Park
Beah Richards – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Katharine Ross – The Graduate
1966
Sandy Dennis – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wendy Hiller – A Man for All Seasons
Jocelyn La Garde – Hawaii
Vivien Merchant – Alfie
Geraldine Page – You Are a Big Boy Now
1965
Shelley Winters – A Patch of Blue
Ruth Gordon – Inside Daisy Clover
Joyce Redman – Othello
Maggie Smith – Othello
Peggy Wood – The Sound of Music
1964
Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek
Gladys Cooper – My Fair Lady
Dame Edith Evans – The Chalk Garden
Grayson Hall – The Night of the Iguana
Agnes Moorehead – Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1963
Margaret Rutherford – The V.I.P.s
Diane Cilento – Tom Jones
Dame Edith Evans – Tom Jones
Joyce Redman – Tom Jones
Lilia Skala – Lilies of the Field
1962
Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker
Mary Badham – To Kill a Mockingbird
Shirley Knight – Sweet Bird of Youth
Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate
Thelma Ritter – Birdman of Alcatraz
1961
Rita Moreno – West Side Story
Fay Bainter – The Children's Hour
Judy Garland – Judgment at Nuremberg
Lotte Lenya – The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Una Merkel – Summer and Smoke
1960
Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry
Glynis Johns – The Sundowners
Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Janet Leigh – Psycho
Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers
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1950s
1959
Shelley Winters – The Diary of Anne Frank
Hermione Baddeley – Room at the Top
Susan Kohner – Imitation of Life
Juanita Moore – Imitation of Life
Thelma Ritter – Pillow Talk
1958
Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame
Martha Hyer – Some Came Running
Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts
Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones
1957
Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara
Carolyn Jones – The Bachelor Party
Elsa Lancaster – Witness for the Prosecution
Hope Lange – Peyton Place
Diane Varsi – Peyton Place
1956
Dorothy Malone – Written on the Wind
Mildred Dunnock – Baby Doll
Eileen Heckart – The Bad Seed
Mercedes McCambridge – Giant
Patty McCormack – The Bad Seed
1955
Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden
Betsy Blair – Marty
Peggy Lee – Pete Kelly's Blues
Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo
Natalie Wood – Rebel Without a Cause
1954
Eva Marie Saint – On the Waterfront
Nina Foch – Executive Suite
Katy Jurado – Broken Lance
Jan Sterling – The High and the Mighty
Claire Trevor – The High and the Mighty
1953
Donna Reed – From Here to Eternity
Grace Kelly – Mogambo
Geraldine Page – Hondo
Marjorie Rambeau – Torch Song
Thelma Ritter – Pickup on South Street
1952
Gloria Grahame – The Bad & The Beautiful
Jean Hagen – Singin' in the Rain
Colette Marchand – Moulin Rouge
Terry Moore – Come Back, Little Sheba
Thelma Ritter – With a Song in My Heart
1951
Kim Hunter – A Streetcar Named Desire
Joan Blondell – The Blue Veil
Mildred Dunnock – Death of a Salesman
Lee Grant – Detective Story
Thelma Ritter – The Mating Season
1950
Josephine Hull – Harvey
Hope Emerson – Caged
Celeste Holm – All About Eve
Nancy Olson – Sunset Boulevard
Thelma Ritter – All About Eve
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1940s
1949
Mercedes McCambridge – All the King's Money
Ethel Barrymore – Pinky
Celeste Holm – Come to the Stable
Elsa Lancaster – Come to the Stable
Ethel Waters – Pinky
1948
Claire Trevor – Key Largo
Barbara Bel Geddes – I Remember Mama
Ellen Corby – I Remember Mama
Agnes Moorehead – Johnny Belinda
Jean Simmons – Hamlet
1947
Celeste Holm – Gentleman's Agreement
Ethel Barrymore – The Paradine Case
Gloria Grahame – Crossfire
Marjorie Main – The Egg and I
Anne Revere – Gentleman's Agreement
1946
Anne Baxter – The Razor's Edge
Ethel Barrymore – The Spiral Staircase
Lillian Gish – Duel in the Sun
Flora Robson – Saratoga Trunk
Gale Sondergaard – Anna and the King of Siam
1945
Anne Revere – National Velvet
Eve Arden – Mildred Pierce
Ann Blyth – Mildred Pierce
Angela Lansbury – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Joan Lorring – The Corn is Green
1944
Ethel Barrymore – None But the Lonely Heart
Jennifer Jones – Since You Went Away
Angela Lansbury – Gaslight
Aline MacMahon – Dragon Seed
Agnes Moorehead – Mrs. Parkington
1943
Katina Paxinou – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Gladys Cooper – The Song of Bernadette
Paulette Goddard – So Proudly We Hail
Anne Revere – The Song of Bernadette
Lucille Watson – Watch on the Rhine
1942
Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver
Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager
Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons
Susan Peters – Random Harvest
Dame May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver
1941
Mary Astor – The Great Lie
Sara Algood – How Green Was My Valley
Patricia Collinge – The Little Foxes
Teresa Wright – The Little Foxes
Margaret Wycherly – Sergeant York
1940
Jane Darwell – The Grapes of Wrath
Judith Anderson – Rebecca
Ruth Hussey – The Philadelphia Story
Barbara O'Neil – All This and Heaven Too
Marjorie Rambeau – Primrose Path
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1930s
1939
Hattie McDaniel – Gone With the Wind
Olivia De Havilland – Gone with the Wind
Geraldine Fitzgerald – Wuthering Heights
Edna May Oliver – Drums Along the Mohawk
Maria Ouspenskaya – Love Affair
1938
Fay Bainter – Jezebel
Beulah Bondi – Of Human Hearts
Billie Burke – Merrily We Live
Spring Byington – You Can't Take It With You
Miliza Korjus – The Great Waltz
1937
Alice Brady – In Old Chicago
Andrea Leeds – Stage Door
Anne Shirley – Stella Dallas
Claire Trevor – Dead End
Dame May Whitty – Night Must Fall
1936
Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse
Beulah Bondi – The Gorgeous Hussy
Alice Brady – My Man Godfrey
Bonita Granville – These Three
Maria Ouspenskaya – Dodsworth
