Oscar Winners for Best Actress

The Oscars have been awarded annually since 1927 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

• Janet Gaynor (born 1906, died 1984)

  American actress.

  • 1928 Academy Award winner for her performance in Seventh Heaven
• Mary Pickford (born 1894, died 1979)

  Canadian actress. Original name: Gladys Mary Smith.

  • 1929 Academy Award winner for her performance in Coquette
• Olivia De Havilland (born 1916)

  American actress.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress: 1946, for To Each His Own; 1949, for The Heiress
• Barbra Streisand (born 1942)

  American singer, actress, director and producer. Original name: Barbara Joan Streisand.

  • 1968 Academy Award winner for her performance in Funny Girl
• Sissy Spacek (born 1949)

  American actress. Original name: Mary Elizabeth Spacek.

  • 1980 Academy Award winner for her performance in Coal Miner''s Daughter
• Jessica Tandy (born 1909, died 1994)

  American actress.

  • 1989 Academy Award winner for her performance in Driving Miss Daisy
• Elizabeth Taylor (born 1932)

  American actress.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress: 1960, for Butterfield 8; 1966, for Who''s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Bette Davis (born 1908, died 1989)

  American actress.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress: 1935, for Dangerous; 1938, for Jezebel
• Shirley Booth (born 1907, died 1992)

  American actress.

  • 1952 Academy Award winner for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba
• Joan Crawford (born 1908, died 1977)

  American actress. Original name: Lucille Le Sueur.

  • 1945 Academy Award winner for her performance in Mildred Pierce
• Claudette Colbert (born 1903, died 1996)

  French actress. Original name: Lily Chauchoin.

  • 1934 Academy Award winner for her performance in It Happened One Night
• Marie Dressler (born 1869, died 1934)

  Canadian actress. Original name: Leila Marie Koerber.

  • 1931 Academy Award winner for her performance in Min and Bill
• Audrey Hepburn (born 1929, died 1993)

  Belgian-born American actress and activist for famine relief in Africa.

  • 1953 Academy Award winner for her performance in Roman Holiday
• Judy Holliday (born 1922, died 1965)

  American actress. Original name: Judith Tuvim.

  • 1950 Academy Award winner for her performance in Born Yesterday
• Jennifer Jones (born 1919)

  American actress. Original name: Phyllis Isley.

  • 1943 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Song of Bernadette
• Grace Kelly (born 1929, died 1982)

  American actress who married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956.

  • 1954 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Country Girl
• Shirley MacLaine (born 1934)

  American actress, singer and author.

  • 1983 Academy Award winner for her performance in Terms of Endearment
• Anna Magnani (born 1908, died 1973)

  American actress.

  • 1955 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Rose Tattoo
• Norma Shearer (born 1904, died 1983)

  Canadian-born American actress.

  • 1930 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Divorcee
• Helen Hayes (born 1900, died 1993)

  American actress.

  • 1932 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet
• Liza Minnelli (born 1946)

  American singer and actress.

  • 1972 Academy Award winner for her performance in Cabaret
• Simone Signoret (born 1921, died 1985)

  German actress.

  • 1959 Academy Award winner for her performance in Room at the Top
• Anne Bancroft (born 1931)

  American actress. Original name: Anna Maria Italiano.

  • 1962 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Miracle Worker
• Sally Field (born 1946)

  American actress, director and producer.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress: 1979, for Norma Rae; 1984, for Places in the Heart
• Cher (born 1946)

  American singer, actress and director. Original name: Cherilyn Sarkisian.

  • 1987 Academy Award winner for her performance in Moonstruck
• Meryl Streep (born 1949)

  American actress.

  • 1982 Academy Award winner for her performance in Sophie''s Choice
• Holly Hunter (born 1958)

  American actress.

  • 1993 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Piano
• Geraldine Page (born 1924, died 1987)

  American actress.

  • 1985 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Trip to Bountiful
• Jane Wyman (born 1914)

  American actress and producer. Once married to Ronald Reagan. Original name: Sarah Jane Fulks.

  • 1948 Academy Award winner for her performance in Johnny Belinda
• Diane Keaton (born 1945)

  American actress, director and producer.

  • 1977 Academy Award winner for her performance in Annie Hall
• Loretta Young (born 1913)

  American actress.

  • 1947 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Farmer''s Daughter
• Luise Rainer (born 1909)

  Austrian actress.

  • 1936 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Great Ziegfeld
• Faye Dunaway (born 1940)

  American actress.

  • 1976 Academy Award winner for her performance in Network
• Joanne Woodward (born 1930)

  American actress and director.

  • 1957 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve
• Susan Hayward (born 1919, died 1975)

  American actress. Original name: Edythe Marriner.

  • 1958 Academy Award winner for her performance in I Want to Live
• Ginger Rogers (born 1911, died 1995)

  American actress and dancer. Original name: Virginia McMath.

  • 1940 Academy Award winner for her performance in Kitty Foyle
• Ingrid Bergman (born 1915, died 1982)

  Swedish actress.

  • 1944 Academy Award winner for her performance in Gaslight
• Sophia Loren (born 1934)

  Italian actress.

  • 1961 Academy Award winner for her performance in Two Women
• Greer Garson (born 1903, died 1996)

  Irish actress.

  • 1942 Academy Award winner for her performance in Mrs. Miniver
• Julie Andrews (born 1935)

  British actress and singer. Original name: Julia Wells.

  • 1964 Academy Award winner for her performance in Mary Poppins
• Susan Sarandon (born 1946)

  American actress and producer.

  • 1995 Academy Award winner for her performance in Dead Man Walking
• Joan Fontaine (born 1917)

  American actress. Original name: Joan de Havilland. Sister of actress Olivia de Havilland.

  • 1941 Academy Award winner for her performance in Suspicion
• Vivien Leigh (born 1913, died 1967)

  British actress. Original name: Vivian Hartley.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress: 1939, for Gone With the Wind; 1951, for A Streetcar Named Desire
• Katharine Hepburn (born 1907)

  American actress.

  • Four-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress: 1933, for Morning Glory; 1967, for Guess Who''s Coming to Dinner?; 1968, for The Lion in Winter; and 1981, for On Golden Pond
• Jodie Foster (born 1962)

  American actress, director and producer. Original name: Alicia Christian Foster.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress: 1988, for The Accused; 1991, for The Silence of the Lambs
• Jane Fonda (born 1937)

  American actress and fitness guru. Married to entertainment mogul Ted Turner.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress: 1971, for Klute; 1978, for Coming Home
• Patricia Neal (born 1926)

  American actress.

  • 1963 Academy Award winner for her performance in Hud
• Julie Christie (born 1941)

  English actress.

  • 1965 Academy Award winner for her performance in Darling
• Maggie Smith (born 1934)

  English actress.

  • 1969 Academy Award winner for her performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Glenda Jackson (born 1937)

  English actress and member of parliament.

  • 1970 Academy Award winner for her performance in Women in Love
• Ellen Burstyn (born 1932)

  American actress. Original name: Edna Gilhooley.

  • 1974 Academy Award winner for her performance in Alice Doesn''t Live Here Anymore
• Louise Fletcher (born 1934)

  American actress.

  • 1975 Academy Award winner for her performance in One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest
• Jessica Lange (born 1949)

  American actress and producer.

  • 1994 Academy Award winner for her performance in Blue Sky
• Marlee Matlin (born 1965)

  American actress. The first deaf actress to receive a Best Actress Oscar.

  • 1986 Academy Award winner for her performance in Children of a Lesser God
• Kathy Bates (born 1948)

  American actress.

  • 1990 Academy Award winner for her performance in Misery
• Emma Thompson (born 1959)

  English actress and writer.

  • 1992 Academy Award winner for her performance in Howards End
• Frances McDormand (born 1957)

  American actress.

  • 1996 Academy Award winner for her performance in Fargo
• Helen Hunt (born 1963)

  American actress.

  • 1997 Academy Award winner for her performance in As Good as It Gets
• Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born 1973)

  American actress

  • 1998 Academy Award winner for Shakespeare In Love
• Hilary Swank (born 1974)

  American actress

  • 1999 Academy Award winner for Boys don''t cry