Oscar Winning Actress
A list of past academy award winning actress in a leading role, and the film for which they won their Oscar. The dates listed below refer to the year the movie was released in the cinema with the year the Oscar was actually awarded usually following it.
The 79th Academy Awards are to be held on the 25th of February 2007 where the oscars for the best films of 2006 are awarded. The nominations for the best actress in a leading role Oscar 2006 were:
- Helen Mirren - The Queen
- Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
- Kate Winslet - Little Children
- Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
- Penelope Cruz - Volver
| Year | Actress | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | ?? | ?? |
| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon | Walk the Line |
| 2004 | Hilary Swank | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2003 | Charlize Theron | Monster |
| 2002 | Nicole Kidman | The Hours |
| 2001 | Halle Berry | Monster's 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 |
| 1981 | 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 | Katharine Hepburn | The Lion In Winter |
| 1968 | 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 | Jezabel |
| 1937 | Luise Rainer | The Good Earth |
| 1936 | Luise Rainer | The Great Ziegfeld |
| 1935 | Bette Davis | Dangerous |
| 1934 | Claudette Colbert | It Happened One Night |
| 1933 | Katharine Hepburn | Morning Glory |
| 1932 | Helen Hayes | The Sin Of Madelon Claudet |
| 1931 | Marie Dressler | Min And Bill |
| 1930 | Norma Shearer | The Divorcee |
| 1929 | Mary Pickford | Coquette |
| 1928 | Janet Gaynor | 7th Heaven |
| 1927 | Janet Gaynor | Street Angel |
| 1927 | Janet Gaynor | Sunrise |