2001 Halle Berry for Monster`s Ball

2000 Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich
1999 Hilary Swank for Boys Don`t Cry

1998 Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love

1997 Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets

1996 Frances McDormand for Fargo

1995 Susan Sarandon for Dead Man Walking

1994 Jessica Lange for Blue Sky

1993 Holly Hunter for The Piano

1992 Emma Thompson for Howards End

1991 Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs

1990 Kathy Bates for Misery

1989 Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy

1988 Jodie Foster for The Accused

1987 Cher for Moonstruck

1986 Marlee Matlin for Children of a Lesser God

1985 Geraldine Page for The Trip to Bountiful

1984 Sally Field for Places in the Heart

1983 Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment

1982 Meryl Streep for Sophie`s Choice

1981 Katharine Hepburn for On Golden Pond

1980 Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner`s Daughter
1979 Sally Field for Norma Rae

1978 Jane Fonda for Coming Home

1977 Diane Keaton for Annie Hall

1976 Faye Dunaway for Network

1975 Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest

1974 Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn`t Live Here Anymore

1973 Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class

1972 Liza Minnelli for Cabaret

1971 Jane Fonda for Klute

1970 Glenda Jackson for Women in Love
1969 Maggie Smith for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1968 Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl

1968 Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter

1967 Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who`s Coming to Dinner?

1966 Elizabeth Taylor for Who`s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1965 Julie Christie for Darling

1964 Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins

1963 Patricia Neal for Hud

1962 Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker

1961 Sophia Loren for Two Women

1960 Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8
1959 Simone Signoret for Room at the Top
1958 Susan Hayward for I Want to Live!
1957 Joanne Woodward for The Three Faces of Eve
1956 Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia
1955 Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo
1954 Grace Kelly for The Country Girl
1953 Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday
1952 Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba
1951 Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire
1950 Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday
1949 Olivia de Havilland for The Heiress
1948 Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda
1947 Loretta Young for The Farmer`s Daughter
1946 Olivia de Havilland for To Each His Own
1945 Joan Crawford for Mildred Pierce
1944 Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight
1943 Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette
1942 Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver
1941 Joan Fontaine for Suspicion
1940 Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle

1939 Vivien Leigh for Gone With the Wind
1938 Bette Davis for Jezebel
1937 Luise Rainer for The Good Earth
1936 Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld
1935 Bette Davis for Dangerous
1934 Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night
1932-1933 Katharine Hepburn for Morning Glory
1931-1932 Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1930-1931 Marie Dressler for Min and Bill

1929 Norma Shearer for The Divorcée
1928 Mary Pickford for Coquette
1927 Janet Gaynor for Street Angel
1927 Janet Gaynor for Sunrise
1927 Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven


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