Who Won Best Actress Academy Awards?
From Janet Gaynor in 1929 to Emma Stone in 2024, the Academy Awards have recognized great performances by leading actresses throughout the years. Multiple winners have included Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, Hilary Swank, Frances McDormand and Stone.
| 2024 (96th) |
Emma Stone Poor Things Other Nominees: Annette Bening (Nyad); Lily Gladstone (Killers Of The Flower Moon); Sandra Huller (Anatomy Of A Fall); Carey Mulligan (Maestro) |
| 2023 (95th) |
Michelle Yeoh Everything Everywhere All At Once Other Nominees: Cate Blanchett (Tar); Ana de Armas (Blonde); Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie); Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans) |
| 2022 (94th) |
Jessica Chastain The Eyes Of Tammy Faye Other Nominees: Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter); Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers); Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos); Kristen Stewart (Spencer) |
| 2021 (93rd) |
Frances McDormand Nomadland Other Nominees: Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom); Andra Day (The United States vs Billie Holiday); Vanessa Kirby (Pieces Of A Woman); Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) |
| 2020 (92nd) |
Renée Zellweger Judy Other Nominees: Cynthia Erivo (Harriet); Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story); Saoirse Ronan (Little Women); Charlize Theron (Bombshell) |
| 2019 (91st) |
Olivia Colman The Favourite Other Nominees: Yalitza Aparicio (Roma); Glenn Close (The Wife); Lada Gaga (A Star Is Born); Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) |
| 2018 (90th) |
Frances McDormand Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Other Nominees: Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water); Margot Robbie (I, Tonya); Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird); Meryl Streep (The Post) |
| 2017 (89th) |
Emma Stone La La Land Other Nominees: Isabelle Huppert (Elle); Ruth Negga (Loving); Natalie Portman (Jackie); Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins) |
| 2016 (88th) |
Brie Larson Room Other Nominees: Cate Blanchett (Carol); Jennifer Lawrence (Joy); Charlotte Rampling (45 Years); Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) |
| 2015 (87th) |
Julianne Moore Still Alice Other Nominees: Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night); Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything); Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl); Reese Witherspoon (Wild) |
| 2014 (86th) |
Cate Blanchett Blue Jasmine Other Nominees: Amy Adams (American Hustle); Sandra Bullock (Gravity); Judi Dench (Philomena); Meryl Streep (August: Osage County) |
| 2013 (85th) |
Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook Other Nominees: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty); Emmanuelle Riva (Amour); Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild); Naomi Watts (The Impossible) |
| 2012 (84th) |
Meryl Streep The Iron Lady Other Nominees: Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs); Viola Davis (The Help); Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo); Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn) |
| 2011 (83rd) |
Natalie Portman Black Swan Other Nominees: Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right); Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole); Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone); Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) |
| 2010 | Sandra Bullock | (The Blind Side) |  |
| 2009 | Kate Winslet | (The Reader) |  |
| 2008 | Marion Cotillard | (La Vie en Rose) |  |
| 2007 | Helen Mirren | (The Queen) |  |
| 2006 | Reese Witherspoon | (Walk The Line) |  |
| 2005 | Hilary Swank | (Million Dollar Baby) |  |
| 2004 | Charlize Theron | (Monster) |  |
| 2003 | Nicole Kidman | (The Hours) |  |
| 2002 | Halle Berry | (Monster's Ball) |  |
| 2001 | Julia Roberts | (Erin Brockovich) |  |
| 2000 | Hilary Swank | (Boys Don't Cry) |  |
| 1999 | Gwyneth Paltrow | (Shakespeare In Love) |  |
| 1998 | Helen Hunt | (As Good As It Gets) |  |
| 1997 | Frances McDormand | (Fargo) |  |
| 1996 | Susan Sarandon | (Dead Man Walking) |  |
| 1995 | Jessica Lange | (Blue Sky) |  |
| 1994 | Holly Hunter | (The Piano) |  |
| 1993 | Emma Thompson | (Howards End) |  |
| 1992 | Jodie Foster | (The Silence Of The Lambs) |  |
| 1991 | Kathy Bates | (Misery) |  |
| 1990 | Jessica Tandy | (Driving Miss Daisy) |  |
| 1989 | Jodie Foster | (The Accused) |  |
| 1988 | Cher | (Moonstruck) |  |
| 1987 | Marlee Matlin | (Children Of A Lesser God) |  |
| 1986 | Geraldine Page | (The Trip To Bountiful) |  |
| 1985 | Sally Field | (Places In The Heart) |  |
| 1984 | Shirley MacLaine | (Terms Of Endearment) |  |
| 1983 | Meryl Streep | (Sophie's Choice) |  |
| 1982 | Katharine Hepburn | (On Golden Pond) |  |
| 1981 | Sissy Spacek | (Coal Miner's Daughter) |  |
| 1980 | Sally Field | (Norma Rae) |  |
| 1979 | Jane Fonda | (Coming Home) |  |
| 1978 | Diane Keaton | (Annie Hall) |  |
| 1977 | Faye Dunaway | (Network) |  |
| 1976 | Louise Fletcher | (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) |  |
| 1975 | Ellen Burstyn | (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore) |  |
| 1974 | Glenda Jackson | (A Touch Of Class) |  |
| 1973 | Liza Minnelli | (Cabaret) |  |
| 1972 | Jane Fonda | (Klute) |  |
| 1971 | Glenda Jackson | (Women In Love) |  |
| 1970 | Maggie Smith | (The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie) |  |
| 1969 | Katharine Hepburn & Barbra Streisand | (The Lion In Winter & Funny Girl) |  |
| 1968 | Katharine Hepburn | (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner) |  |
| 1967 | Elizabeth Taylor | (Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?) |  |
| 1966 | Julie Christie | (Darling) |  |
| 1965 | Julie Andrews | (Mary Poppins) |  |
| 1964 | Patricia Neal | (Hud) |  |
| 1963 | Anne Bancroft | (The Miracle Worker) |  |
| 1962 | Sophia Loren | (Two Women) |  |
| 1961 | Elizabeth Taylor | (Butterfield 8) |  |
| 1960 | Simone Signoret | (Room At The Top) |  |
| 1959 | Susan Hayward | (I Want To Live!) |  |
| 1958 | Joanne Woodward | (The Three Faces Of Eve) |  |
| 1957 | Ingrid Bergman | (Anastasia) |  |
| 1956 | Anna Magnani | (The Rose Tattoo) |  |
| 1955 | Grace Kelly | (The Country Girl) |  |
| 1954 | Audrey Hepburn | (Roman Holiday) |  |
| 1953 | Shirley Booth | (Come Back, Little Sheba) |  |
| 1952 | Vivien Leigh | (A Streetcar Named Desire) |  |
| 1951 | Judy Holliday | (Born Yesterday) |  |
| 1950 | Olivia de Havilland | (The Heiress) |  |
| 1949 | Jane Wyman | (Johnny Belinda) |  |
| 1948 | Loretta Young | (The Farmer's Daughter) |  |
| 1947 | Olivia de Havilland | (To Each His Own) |  |
| 1946 | Joan Crawford | (Mildred Pierce) |  |
| 1945 | Ingrid Bergman | (Gaslight) |  |
| 1944 | Jennifer Jones | (Song Of Bernadette) |  |
| 1943 | Greer Garson | (Mrs. Miniver) |  |
| 1942 | Joan Fontaine | (Suspicion) |  |
| 1941 | Ginger Rogers | (Kitty Foyle) |  |
| 1940 | Vivien Leigh | (Gone With The Wind) |  |
| 1939 | Bette Davis | (Jezebel) |  |
| 1938 | Luise Rainer | (The Good Earth) |  |
| 1937 | Luise Rainer | (The Great Ziegfeld) |  |
| 1936 | Bette Davis | (Dangerous) |  |
| 1935 | Claudette Colbert | (It Happened One Night) |  |
| 1934 | Katharine Hepburn | (Morning Glory) |  |
| 1932 | Helen Hayes | (The Sin Of Madelon Claudet) |  |
| 1931 | Marie Dressler | (Min And Bill) |  |
| 1930 | Norma Shearer | (The Divorcee) |  |
| 1930 | Mary Pickford | (Coquette) |  |
| 1929 | Janet Gaynor | (7th Heaven; Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans; Street Angel) |  |