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Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress, introduced at the awards debut in 1929, is presented annually for the best achievement in acting by a leading actress in a film from the previous year.

The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Actor winner. From 1929–31, actresses were nominated for their work in all qualifying films released during the eligibility period—as many as three films. From 1932 on, actresses have been nominated for a specific performance in a single film.

Sorted chronologically by awards year. Winners in BOLD. Acceptance speech linked in Notes (where available).

UPDATED: May 2026

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AWARD RECORDS:
Most Awards: Katharine Hepburn (4)
Most Nominations: Meryl Streep (17)
Most Nominations Without a Win: Deborah Kerr (6)

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CATEGORY NAME HISTORY:
1929–1976: Academy Award for Best Actress
1977–Present: Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

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  • 7th Heaven

    1

  • Street Angel

    2

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    3

  • Coquette

    4

  • The Divorcee

    5

  • Min and Bill

    6

  • The Sin of Madelon Claudet

    7

  • Morning Glory

    8

  • It Happened One Night

    9

  • Dangerous

    10

  • The Great Ziegfeld

    11

  • The Good Earth

    12

  • Jezebel

    13

  • Gone with the Wind

    14

  • Kitty Foyle

    15

  • Suspicion

    16

  • Mrs. Miniver

    17

  • The Song of Bernadette

    18

  • Gaslight

    19

  • Mildred Pierce

    20

  • To Each His Own

    21

  • The Farmer's Daughter

    22

  • Johnny Belinda

    23

  • The Heiress

    24

  • Born Yesterday

    25

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    26

  • Come Back, Little Sheba

    27

  • Roman Holiday

    28

  • The Country Girl

    29

  • The Rose Tattoo

    30

  • Anastasia

    31

  • The Three Faces of Eve

    32

  • I Want to Live!

    33

  • Room at the Top

    34

  • BUtterfield 8

    35

  • Two Women

    36

  • The Miracle Worker

    37

  • Hud

    38

  • Mary Poppins

    39

  • Darling

    40

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    41

  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    42

  • Funny Girl

    43

  • The Lion in Winter

    44

  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    45

  • Women in Love

    46

  • Klute

    47

  • Cabaret

    48

  • A Touch of Class

    49

  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    50

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    51

  • Network

    52

  • Annie Hall

    53

  • Coming Home

    54

  • Norma Rae

    55

  • Coal Miner's Daughter

    56

  • On Golden Pond

    57

  • Sophie's Choice

    58

  • Terms of Endearment

    59

  • Places in the Heart

    60

  • The Trip to Bountiful

    61

  • Children of a Lesser God

    62

  • Moonstruck

    63

  • The Accused

    64

  • Driving Miss Daisy

    65

  • Misery

    66

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    67

  • Howards End

    68

  • The Piano

    69

  • Blue Sky

    70

  • Dead Man Walking

    71

  • Fargo

    72

  • As Good as It Gets

    73

  • Shakespeare in Love

    74

  • Boys Don't Cry

    75

  • Erin Brockovich

    76

  • Monster's Ball

    77

  • The Hours

    78

  • Monster

    79

  • Million Dollar Baby

    80

  • Walk the Line

    81

  • The Queen

    82

  • La Vie en Rose

    83

  • The Reader

    84

  • The Blind Side

    85

  • Black Swan

    86

  • The Iron Lady

    87

  • Silver Linings Playbook

    88

  • Blue Jasmine

    89

  • Still Alice

    90

  • Room

    91

  • La La Land

    92

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    93

  • The Favourite

    94

  • Nomadland

    95

  • The Eyes of Tammy Faye

    96

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    97

  • Poor Things

    98

  • Anora

    99

  • Hamnet

    100