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Best Actress

1929 to 2026 · 486 nominations

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Most nominated in this category

  1. 1Meryl Streep17 noms2
  2. 2Katharine Hepburn12 noms4
  3. 3Bette Davis11 noms2
  4. 4Greer Garson7 noms1
  5. 5Ingrid Bergman6 noms2
  6. 6Jane Fonda6 noms2
  7. 7Norma Shearer6 noms1
  8. 8Sissy Spacek6 noms1
  9. 9Deborah Kerr6 noms
  10. 10Elizabeth Taylor5 noms2
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Year by year

2020s7 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 2026
    Also nominated

    Emma Stone (Bugonia), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)

  2. 2025
    Also nominated

    Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here), Demi Moore (The Substance), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)

  3. 2024
    Also nominated

    Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Annette Bening (Nyad)

  4. 2023
    Also nominated

    Ana de Armas (Blonde), Cate Blanchett (Tár), Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans), Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)

  5. 2022
    Also nominated

    Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos), Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers), Kristen Stewart (Spencer), Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)

  6. 2021
    Also nominated

    Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman), Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman), Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)

  7. 2020
    Also nominated

    Charlize Theron (Bombshell), Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), Saoirse Ronan (Little Women), Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)

2010s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 2019
    Also nominated

    Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born), Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Yalitza Aparicio (Roma), Glenn Close (The Wife)

  2. 2018
    Also nominated

    Margot Robbie (I, Tonya), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Meryl Streep (The Post), Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)

  3. 2017
    Also nominated

    Isabelle Huppert (Elle), Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins), Natalie Portman (Jackie), Ruth Negga (Loving)

  4. 2016
    Also nominated

    Charlotte Rampling (45 Years), Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn), Cate Blanchett (Carol), Jennifer Lawrence (Joy)

  5. 2015
    Also nominated

    Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night), Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

  6. 2014
    Also nominated

    Amy Adams (American Hustle), Meryl Streep (August: Osage County), Sandra Bullock (Gravity), Judi Dench (Philomena)

  7. 2013
    Also nominated

    Emmanuelle Riva (Amour), Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Naomi Watts (The Impossible), Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

  8. 2012
    Also nominated

    Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn), Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Viola Davis (The Help)

  9. 2011
    Also nominated

    Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)

  10. 2010
    Also nominated

    Carey Mulligan (An Education), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Helen Mirren (The Last Station)

2000s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 2009
    Also nominated

    Angelina Jolie (Changeling), Meryl Streep (Doubt), Melissa Leo (Frozen River), Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)

  2. 2008
    Also nominated

    Julie Christie (Away from Her), Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Elliot Page (Juno), Laura Linney (The Savages)

  3. 2007
    Also nominated

    Kate Winslet (Little Children), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada), Penélope Cruz (Volver)

  4. 2006
    Also nominated

    Judi Dench (Mrs. Henderson Presents), Charlize Theron (North Country), Keira Knightley (Pride & Prejudice), Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)

  5. 2005
    Also nominated

    Annette Bening (Being Julia), Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)

  6. 2004
    Also nominated

    Naomi Watts (21 Grams), Samantha Morton (In America), Diane Keaton (Something's Gotta Give), Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider)

  7. 2003
    Also nominated

    Renée Zellweger (Chicago), Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven), Salma Hayek (Frida), Diane Lane (Unfaithful)

  8. 2002
    Also nominated

    Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones's Diary), Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom), Judi Dench (Iris), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge!)

  9. 2001
    Also nominated

    Juliette Binoche (Chocolat), Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream), Joan Allen (The Contender), Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me)

  10. 2000
    Also nominated

    Annette Bening (American Beauty), Meryl Streep (Music of the Heart), Julianne Moore (The End of the Affair), Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds)

1990s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 1999
    Also nominated

    Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station), Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth), Emily Watson (Hilary and Jackie), Meryl Streep (One True Thing)

  2. 1998
    Also nominated

    Julie Christie (Afterglow), Judi Dench (Mrs. Brown), Helena Bonham Carter (The Wings of the Dove), Kate Winslet (Titanic)

  3. 1997
    Also nominated

    Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves), Diane Keaton (Marvin's Room), Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies), Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient)

  4. 1996
    Also nominated

    Sharon Stone (Casino), Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas), Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility), Meryl Streep (The Bridges of Madison County)

  5. 1995
    Also nominated

    Winona Ryder (Little Women), Jodie Foster (Nell), Susan Sarandon (The Client), Miranda Richardson (Tom & Viv)

  6. 1994
    Also nominated

    Debra Winger (Shadowlands), Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation), Emma Thompson (The Remains of the Day), Angela Bassett (What's Love Got to Do with It)

  7. 1993
    Also nominated

    Catherine Deneuve (Indochine), Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil), Michelle Pfeiffer (Love Field), Mary McDonnell (Passion Fish)

  8. 1992
    Also nominated

    Bette Midler (For the Boys), Laura Dern (Rambling Rose), Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise), Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise)

  9. 1991
    Also nominated

    Joanne Woodward (Mr. & Mrs. Bridge), Meryl Streep (Postcards from the Edge), Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman), Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)

  10. 1990
    Also nominated

    Isabelle Adjani (Camille Claudel), Jessica Lange (Music Box), Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine), Michelle Pfeiffer (The Fabulous Baker Boys)

1980s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 1989
    Also nominated

    Meryl Streep (A Cry in the Dark), Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons), Sigourney Weaver (Gorillas in the Mist), Melanie Griffith (Working Girl)

  2. 1988
    Also nominated

    Sally Kirkland (Anna), Holly Hunter (Broadcast News), Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction), Meryl Streep (Ironweed)

  3. 1987
    Also nominated

    Sigourney Weaver (Aliens), Sissy Spacek (Crimes of the Heart), Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue Got Married), Jane Fonda (The Morning After)

  4. 1986
    Also nominated

    Anne Bancroft (Agnes of God), Meryl Streep (Out of Africa), Jessica Lange (Sweet Dreams), Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple)

  5. 1985
    Also nominated

    Judy Davis (A Passage to India), Jessica Lange (Country), Vanessa Redgrave (The Bostonians), Sissy Spacek (The River)

  6. 1984
    Also nominated

    Julie Walters (Educating Rita), Meryl Streep (Silkwood), Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment), Jane Alexander (Testament)

  7. 1983
    Also nominated

    Debra Winger (An Officer and a Gentleman), Jessica Lange (Frances), Sissy Spacek (Missing), Julie Andrews (Victor/Victoria)

  8. 1982
    Also nominated

    Susan Sarandon (Atlantic City), Marsha Mason (Only When I Laugh), Diane Keaton (Reds), Meryl Streep (The French Lieutenant's Woman)

  9. 1981
    Also nominated

    Gena Rowlands (Gloria), Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People), Goldie Hawn (Private Benjamin), Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection)

  10. 1980
    Also nominated

    Marsha Mason (Chapter Two), Jill Clayburgh (Starting Over), Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome), Bette Midler (The Rose)

1970s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 1979
    Also nominated

    Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman), Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata), Geraldine Page (Interiors), Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year)

  2. 1978
    Also nominated

    Jane Fonda (Julia), Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl), Shirley MacLaine (The Turning Point), Anne Bancroft (The Turning Point)

  3. 1977
    Also nominated

    Sissy Spacek (Carrie), Marie-Christine Barrault (Cousin, Cousine), Liv Ullmann (Face to Face), Talia Shire (Rocky)

  4. 1976
    Also nominated

    Glenda Jackson (Hedda), Carol Kane (Hester Street), Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H), Ann-Margret (Tommy)

  5. 1975
    Also nominated

    Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence), Faye Dunaway (Chinatown), Diahann Carroll (Claudine), Valerie Perrine (Lenny)

  6. 1974
    Also nominated

    Marsha Mason (Cinderella Liberty), Joanne Woodward (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams), Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), Barbra Streisand (The Way We Were)

  7. 1973
    Also nominated

    Diana Ross (Lady Sings the Blues), Cicely Tyson (Sounder), Liv Ullmann (The Emigrants), Maggie Smith (Travels with My Aunt)

  8. 1972
    Also nominated

    Vanessa Redgrave (Mary, Queen of Scots), Julie Christie (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandra), Glenda Jackson (Sunday Bloody Sunday)

  9. 1971
    Also nominated

    Carrie Snodgress (Diary of a Mad Housewife), Ali MacGraw (Love Story), Sarah Miles (Ryan's Daughter), Jane Alexander (The Great White Hope)

  10. 1970
    Also nominated

    Genevieve Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days), Jean Simmons (The Happy Ending), Liza Minnelli (The Sterile Cuckoo), Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)

1960s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 1969
    Also nominated

    Vanessa Redgrave (Isadora), Joanne Woodward (Rachel, Rachel), Patricia Neal (The Subject Was Roses)

  2. 1968
    Also nominated

    Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde), Anne Bancroft (The Graduate), Dame Edith Evans (The Whisperers), Audrey Hepburn (Wait Until Dark)

  3. 1967
    Also nominated

    Anouk Aimee (A Man and a Woman), Lynn Redgrave (Georgy Girl), Vanessa Redgrave (Morgan!), Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street)

  4. 1966
    Also nominated

    Elizabeth Hartman (A Patch of Blue), Simone Signoret (Ship of Fools), Samantha Eggar (The Collector), Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music)

  5. 1965
    Also nominated

    Sophia Loren (Marriage Italian Style), Kim Stanley (Seance on a Wet Afternoon), Anne Bancroft (The Pumpkin Eater), Debbie Reynolds (The Unsinkable Molly Brown)

  6. 1964
    Also nominated

    Shirley MacLaine (Irma la Douce), Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger), Leslie Caron (The L-Shaped Room), Rachel Roberts (This Sporting Life)

  7. 1963
    Also nominated

    Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses), Katharine Hepburn (Long Day's Journey Into Night), Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth), Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)

  8. 1962
    Also nominated

    Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass), Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke), Piper Laurie (The Hustler)

  9. 1961
    Also nominated

    Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), Greer Garson (Sunrise at Campobello), Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment), Deborah Kerr (The Sundowners)

  10. 1960
    Also nominated

    Doris Day (Pillow Talk), Katharine Hepburn (Suddenly, Last Summer), Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer), Audrey Hepburn (The Nun's Story)

1950s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 1959
    Also nominated

    Rosalind Russell (Auntie Mame), Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Deborah Kerr (Separate Tables), Shirley MacLaine (Some Came Running)

  2. 1958
    Also nominated

    Deborah Kerr (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison), Lana Turner (Peyton Place), Elizabeth Taylor (Raintree County), Anna Magnani (Wild Is the Wind)

  3. 1957
    Also nominated

    Carroll Baker (Baby Doll), Nancy Kelly (The Bad Seed), Deborah Kerr (The King and I), Katharine Hepburn (The Rainmaker)

  4. 1956
    Also nominated

    Susan Hayward (I'll Cry Tomorrow), Eleanor Parker (Interrupted Melody), Jennifer Jones (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing), Katharine Hepburn (Summertime)

  5. 1955
    Also nominated

    Judy Garland (A Star Is Born), Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones), Jane Wyman (Magnificent Obsession), Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina)

  6. 1954
    Also nominated

    Deborah Kerr (From Here to Eternity), Leslie Caron (Lili), Ava Gardner (Mogambo), Maggie McNamara (The Moon Is Blue)

  7. 1953
    Also nominated

    Joan Crawford (Sudden Fear), Julie Harris (The Member of the Wedding), Bette Davis (The Star), Susan Hayward (With a Song in My Heart)

  8. 1952
    Also nominated

    Shelley Winters (A Place in the Sun), Eleanor Parker (Detective Story), Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen), Jane Wyman (The Blue Veil)

  9. 1951
    Also nominated

    Bette Davis (All About Eve), Anne Baxter (All About Eve), Eleanor Parker (Caged), Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard)

  10. 1950
    Also nominated

    Loretta Young (Come to the Stable), Deborah Kerr (Edward, My Son), Susan Hayward (My Foolish Heart), Jeanne Crain (Pinky)

1940s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 1949
    Also nominated

    Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama), Ingrid Bergman (Joan of Arc), Barbara Stanwyck (Sorry, Wrong Number), Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)

  2. 1948
    Also nominated

    Dorothy McGuire (Gentleman's Agreement), Rosalind Russell (Mourning Becomes Electra), Joan Crawford (Possessed), Susan Hayward (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman)

  3. 1947
    Also nominated

    Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter), Jennifer Jones (Duel in the Sun), Rosalind Russell (Sister Kenny), Jane Wyman (The Yearling)

  4. 1946
    Also nominated

    Gene Tierney (Leave Her to Heaven), Jennifer Jones (Love Letters), Ingrid Bergman (The Bells of St. Mary's), Greer Garson (The Valley of Decision)

  5. 1945
    Also nominated

    Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), Bette Davis (Mr. Skeffington), Greer Garson (Mrs. Parkington), Claudette Colbert (Since You Went Away)

  6. 1944
    Also nominated

    Ingrid Bergman (For Whom the Bell Tolls), Greer Garson (Madame Curie), Joan Fontaine (The Constant Nymph), Jean Arthur (The More the Merrier)

  7. 1943
    Also nominated

    Rosalind Russell (My Sister Eileen), Bette Davis (Now, Voyager), Teresa Wright (The Pride of the Yankees), Katharine Hepburn (Woman of the Year)

  8. 1942
    Also nominated

    Barbara Stanwyck (Ball of Fire), Greer Garson (Blossoms in the Dust), Olivia de Havilland (Hold Back the Dawn), Bette Davis (The Little Foxes)

  9. 1941
    Also nominated

    Martha Scott (Our Town), Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Bette Davis (The Letter), Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)

  10. 1940
    Also nominated

    Bette Davis (Dark Victory), Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips), Irene Dunne (Love Affair), Greta Garbo (Ninotchka)

1930s10 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 1939
    Also nominated

    Norma Shearer (Marie Antoinette), Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion), Margaret Sullavan (Three Comrades), Fay Bainter (White Banners)

  2. 1938
    Also nominated

    Janet Gaynor (A Star Is Born), Greta Garbo (Camille), Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas), Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth)

  3. 1937
    Also nominated

    Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey), Norma Shearer (Romeo and Juliet), Irene Dunne (Theodora Goes Wild), Gladys George (Valiant Is the Word for Carrie)

  4. 1936
    Also nominated

    Katharine Hepburn (Alice Adams), Miriam Hopkins (Becky Sharp), Elisabeth Bergner (Escape Me Never), Claudette Colbert (Private Worlds), Merle Oberon (The Dark Angel)

  5. 1935
    Also nominated

    Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage), Grace Moore (One Night of Love), Norma Shearer (The Barretts of Wimpole Street)

  6. 1934
    Also nominated

    Diana Wynyard (Cavalcade), May Robson (Lady for a Day)

  7. 1932
    Also nominated

    Marie Dressler (Emma), Lynn Fontanne (The Guardsman)

  8. 1931
    Also nominated

    Norma Shearer (A Free Soul), Irene Dunne (Cimarron), Ann Harding (Holiday), Marlene Dietrich (Morocco)

  9. 1930
    • Norma Shearer · Jerry

      NOTE: As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films. Though the final awards ballot listed both The Divorcee and Their Own Desire in her nomination, the award was announced for only the The Divorcee performance. It has never been established as to why this was, but it possibly could have been because the original report from the Acting Branch Board of Judges only listed The Divorcee performance in the results of the nominations voting, or it could have been because on some of the final ballots, the voters had indicated the The Divorcee performance over the other.

    Also nominated

    Greta Garbo (Anna Christie), Ruth Chatterton (Sarah and Son), Nancy Carroll (The Devil's Holiday), Gloria Swanson (The Trespasser), Norma Shearer (Their Own Desire)

  10. 1930
    • Mary Pickford · Norma Besant

      NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930.

    Also nominated

    Ruth Chatterton (Madame X), Betty Compson (The Barker), Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody), Corinne Griffith (The Divine Lady), Jeanne Eagels (The Letter)

1920s1 ceremonies, tap to open
  1. 1929
    Also nominated

    Louise Dresser (A Ship Comes In), Gloria Swanson (Sadie Thompson)

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