Best Actress Performances I've seen (COMPLETE!)

  1. 1928 - Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven)
  2. 1928 - Janet Gaynor (Sunrise)
  3. 1928 - Janet Gaynor (Street Angel)
  4. 1929 - Mary Pickford (Coquette)
  5. 1930 - Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)
  6. 1931 - Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
  7. 1932 - Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
  8. 1933 - Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)
  9. 1934 - Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
  10. 1935 - Bette Davis (Dangerous)
  11. 1936 - Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)
  12. 1937 - Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)
  13. 1938 - Bette Davis (Jezebel)
  14. 1939 - Vivien Leigh (Gone With The Wind)
  15. 1940 - Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)
  16. 1941 - Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)
  17. 1942 - Greer Garson (Mrs Miniver)
  18. 1943 - Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)
  19. 1944 - Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
  20. 1945 - Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
  21. 1946 - Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)
  22. 1947 - Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter)
  23. 1948 - Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)
  24. 1949 - Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)
  25. 1950 - Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
  26. 1951 - Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
  27. 1952 - Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba)
  28. 1953 - Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
  29. 1954 - Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)
  30. 1955 - Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)
  31. 1956 - Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
  32. 1957 - Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)
  33. 1958 - Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!)
  34. 1959 - Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
  35. 1960 - Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8)
  36. 1961 - Sophia Loren (Two Women)
  37. 1962 - Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)
  38. 1963 - Patricia Neal (Hud)
  39. 1964 - Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)
  40. 1965 - Julie Christie (Darling)
  41. 1966 - Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
  42. 1967 - Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner)
  43. 1968 - (tie) Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter)
  44. 1968 - (tie) Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl)
  45. 1969 - Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
  46. 1970 - Glenda Jackson (Women In Love)
  47. 1971 - Jane Fonda (Klute)
  48. 1972 - Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)
  49. 1973 - Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class)
  50. 1974 - Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
  51. 1975 - Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
  52. 1976 - Faye Dunaway (Network)
  53. 1977 - Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
  54. 1978 - Jane Fonda (Coming Home)
  55. 1979 - Sally Field (Norma Rae)
  56. 1980 - Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter)
  57. 1981 - Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
  58. 1982 - Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
  59. 1983 - Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
  60. 1984 - Sally Field (Places in the Heart)
  61. 1985 - Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)
  62. 1986 - Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)
  63. 1987 - Cher (Moonstruck)
  64. 1988 - Jodie Foster (The Accused)
  65. 1989 - Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy)
  66. 1990 - Kathy Bates (Misery)
  67. 1991 - Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
  68. 1992 - Emma Thompson (Howards End)
  69. 1993 - Holly Hunter (The Piano)
  70. 1994 - Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)
  71. 1995 - Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking)
  72. 1996 - Frances McDormand (Fargo)
  73. 1997 - Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets)
  74. 1998 - Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)
  75. 1999 - Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry)
  76. 2000 - Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)
  77. 2001 - Halle Berry (Monster's Ball)
  78. 2002 - Nicole Kidman (The Hours)
  79. 2003 - Charlize Theron (Monster)
  80. 2004 - Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)
  81. 2005 - Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
  82. 2006 - Helen Mirren (The Queen)
  83. 2007 - Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
  84. 2008 - Kate Winslet (The Reader)