Every Woman Who Has Ever Won an Academy Award for Best Actress
We’ve already filled out our Oscars ballot as we patiently anxiously wait for the Academy to crown the next set of winners on February 9. In honor of the 92nd annual ceremony, we’ve compiled a list of every woman who has ever won an Academy Award for Best Actress. From Janet Gaynor to Olivia Colman, keep reading to see all the winners.
1.
Janet Gaynor
Year: 1929
Role(s): Diane in 7th Heaven, Angela in Street Angel and The Wife in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2.
Mary Pickford
Year: 1930
Role: Norma Besant in Coquette
3.
Norma Shearer
Year: 1931
Role: Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee
4.
Marie Dressler
Year: 1932
Role: Min Divot in Min and Bill
5.
Helen Hayes
Year: 1933
Role: Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet
6.
Katharine Hepburn
Year: 1934
Role: Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory
7.
Claudette Colbert
Year: 1935
Role: Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night
8.
Bette Davis
Year: 1936
Role: Joyce Heath in Dangerous
9.
Luise Rainer
Year: 1937
Role: Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld
10.
Luise Rainer
Year: 1938
Role: O-Lan in The Good Earth
11.
Bette Davis
Year: 1939
Role: Julie Marsden in Jezebel
12.
Vivien Leigh
Year: 1940
Role: Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind
13.
Ginger Rogers
Year: 1941
Role: Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle
14.
Joan Fontaine
Year: 1942
Role: Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion
15.
Greer Garson
Year: 1943
Role: Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver
16.
Jennifer Jones
Year: 1944
Role: Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette
17.
Ingrid Bergman
Year: 1945
Role: Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight
18.
Joan Crawford
Year: 1946
Role: Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce
19.
Olivia de Havilland
Year: 1947
Role: Josephine “Jody” Norris in To Each His Own
20.
Loretta Young
Year: 1948
Role: Katie Holstrom in The Farmer’s Daughter
21.
Jane Wyman
Year: 1949
Role: Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda
22.
Olivia de Havilland
Year: 1950
Role: Catherine Sloper in The Heiress
23.
Judy Holliday
Year: 1951
Role: Emma “Billie” Dawn in Born Yesterday
24.
Vivien Leigh
Year: 1952
Role: Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire
25.
Shirley Booth
Year: 1953
Role: Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba
26.
Audrey Hepburn
Year: 1954
Role: Princess Ann in Roman Holiday
27.
Grace Kelly
Year: 1955
Role: Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl
28.
Anna Magnani
Year: 1956
Role: Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo
29.
Ingrid Bergman
Year: 1957
Role: Anna Koreff in Anastasia
30.
Joanne Woodward
Year: 1958
Role: Eve White/Eve Black/Jane in The Three Faces of Eve
31.
Susan Hayward
Year: 1959
Role: Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!
32.
Simone Signoret
Year: 1960
Role: Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top
33.
Elizabeth Taylor
Year: 1961
Role: Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8
34.
Sophia Loren
Year: 1962
Role: Cesira in Two Women
35.
Anne Bancroft
Year: 1963
Role: Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker
36.
Patricia Neal
Year: 1964
Role: Alma Brown in Hud
37.
Julie Andrews
Year: 1965
Role: Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins
38.
Julie Christie
Year: 1966
Role: Diana Scott in Darling
39.
Elizabeth Taylor
Year: 1967
Role: Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
40.
Katharine Hepburn
Year: 1968
Role: Christina Drayton in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
41.
Katharine Hepburn & Barbra Streisand (Tie)
Year: 1969
Role: Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (Hepburn); Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (Streisand)
42.
Maggie Smith
Year: 1970
Role: Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
43.
Glenda Jackson
Year: 1971
Role: Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love
44.
Jane Fonda
Year: 1972
Role: Bree Daniels in Klute
45.
Liza Minnelli
Year: 1973
Role: Sally Bowles in Cabaret
46.
Glenda Jackson
Year: 1974
Role: Vickie Allessio in A Touch of Class
47.
Ellen Burstyn
Year: 1975
Role: Alice Graham-Hyatt in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
48.
Louise Fletcher
Year: 1976
Role: Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
49.
Faye Dunaway
Year: 1977
Role: Diana Christensen in Network
50.
Diane Keaton
Year: 1978
Role: Annie Hall in Annie Hall
51.
Jane Fonda
Year: 1979
Role: Sally Hyde in Coming Home
52.
Sally Field
Year: 1980
Role: Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae
53.
Sissy Spacek
Year: 1981
Role: Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter
54.
Katharine Hepburn
Year: 1982
Role: Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond
55.
Meryl Streep
Year: 1983
Role: Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice
56.
Shirley MacLaine
Year: 1984
Role: Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment
57.
Sally Field
Year: 1985
Role: Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart
58.
Geraldine Page
Year: 1986
Role: Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful
59.
Marlee Matlin
Year: 1987
Role: Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God
60.
Cher
Year: 1988
Role: Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck
61.
Jodie Foster
Year: 1989
Role: Sarah Tobias in The Accused
62.
Jessica Tandy
Year: 1990
Role: Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy
63.
Kathy Bates
Year: 1991
Role: Annie Wilkes in Misery
64.
Jodie Foster
Year: 1992
Role: Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs
65.
Emma Thompson
Year: 1993
Role: Margaret Schlegel in Howards End
66.
Holly Hunter
Year: 1994
Role: Ada McGrath in The Piano
67.
Jessica Lange
Year: 1995
Role: Carly Marshall in Blue Sky
68.
Susan Sarandon
Year: 1996
Role: Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking
69.
Frances McDormand
Year: 1997
Role: Marge Gunderson in Fargo
70.
Helen Hunt
Year: 1998
Role: Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets
71.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Year: 1999
Role: Viola de Lesseps/Thomas Kent in Shakespeare in Love
72.
Hilary Swank
Year: 2000
Role: Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry
73.
Julia Roberts
Year: 2001
Role: Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich
74.
Halle Berry
Year: 2002
Role: Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball
75.
Nicole Kidman
Year: 2003
Role: Virginia Woolf in The Hours
76.
Charlize Theron
Year: 2004
Role: Aileen “Lee” Wuornos in Monster
77.
Hilary Swank
Year: 2005
Role: Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby
78.
Reese Witherspoon
Year: 2006
Role: June Carter Cash in Walk the Line
79.
Helen Mirren
Year: 2007
Role: Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen
80.
Marion Cotillard
Year: 2008
Role: Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose
81.
Kate Winslet
Year: 2009
Role: Hanna Schmitz in The Reader
82.
83.
Natalie Portman
Year: 2011
Role: Nina Sayers in Black Swan
84.
Meryl Streep
Year: 2012
Role: Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
85.
Jennifer Lawrence
Year: 2013
Role: Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook
86.
Cate Blanchett
Year: 2014
Role: Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis in Blue Jasmine
87.
Julianne Moore
Year: 2015
Role: Alice Howland in Still Alice
88.
Brie Larson
Year: 2016
Role: Joy Newsome in Room
89.
Emma Stone
Year: 2017
Role: Mia Dolan in La La Land
90.
Frances McDormand
Year: 2018
Role: Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
91.
Olivia Colman
Year: 2019
Role: Anne, Queen of Great Britain in The Favourite
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