This is a complete list of notable Hollywood movies (and a few others) which won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actress, as well as the other movies which were nominated for the award. A couple of points of note:
This is not a comprehensive list of every award winner or nominee, because I did not consider some movies worthy of inclusion. (A complete list of Best Actress winners and nominees can be found here.)
The award or nomination is generally given to movies released in the year immediately preceding the year of the award ceremony.
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1931
Nominee
Irene Dunne
Cimarron
Wesley Ruggles
Richard Dix, Estelle Lee
YouTube $
1934
Winner
Claudette Colbert
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra
Clark Gable, Walter Connolly
Sling TV (free)
1936
Nominee
Carole Lombard
My Man Godfrey
Gregory La Cava
William Powell, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray
YouTube (free)
1936
Nominee
Greta Garbo
Camille
George Cukor
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
YouTube $
1938
Winner
Bette Davis
Jezebel
William Wyler
Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter
YouTube $
1939
Winner
Vivien Leigh
Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
YouTube $
1939
Nominee
Greer Garson
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sam Wood
Robert Donat
YouTube $
1939
Nominee
Greta Garbo
Ninotchka
Ernst Lubitsch
Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
YouTube $
1940
Nominee
Bette Davis
Letter, The
William Wyler
Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
YouTube $
1940
Nominee
Katharine Hepburn
Philadelphia Story, The
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Ruth Hussey
YouTube $
1940
Nominee
Joan Fontaine
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson
YouTube (free)
1941
Nominee
Bette Davis
Little Foxes, The
William Wyler
Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid
YouTube (free)
1942
Winner
Greer Garson
Mrs. Miniver
William Wyler
Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty, Richard Ney
YouTube $
1942
Nominee
Teresa Wright
Pride of the Yankees, The
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth (as himself), Walter Brennan
Tubi (free)
1943
Nominee
Greer Garson
Madame Curie
Mervyn LeRoy
Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
YouTube $
1944
Winner
Ingrid Bergman
Gaslight
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury
Prime Video
1944
Nominee
Barbara Stanwyck
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson
YouTube $
1945
Winner
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Michael Curtiz
Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth
YouTube $
1947
Nominee
Dorothy McGuire
Gentleman's Agreement
Elia Kazan
Gregory Peck, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere
YouTube $
1949
Winner
Olivia de Havilland
Heiress, The
William Wyler
Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
1950
Winner
Judy Holliday
Born Yesterday
George Cukor
William Holden, Broderick Crawford
YouTube $
1950
Nominee
Gloria Swanson
Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Erich von Stroheim
PlutoTV (free)
1950
Nominees
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
George Sanders, Celeste Holm
YouTube $
1951
Winner
Vivien Leigh
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
YouTube $
1951
Nominee
Shelley Winters
Place in the Sun, A
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
PlutoTV (free)
1953
Winner
Audrey Hepburn
Roman Holiday
William Wyler
Gregory Peck
Prime Video $
1953
Nominee
Deborah Karr
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine
YouTube $
1954
Nominee
Audrey Hepburn
Sabrina
Billy Wilder
Humphrey Bogart, William Holden
YouTube (free)
1954
Nominee
Judy Garland
Star Is Born, A
George Cukor
James Mason
YouTube $
1956
Nominee
Deborah Kerr
King and I, The
Walter Lang
Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson
Vudu $
1957
Nominee
Lana Turner
Peyton Place
Mark Robson
Hope Lange, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Diane Varsi, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn
YouTube $
1958
Nominee
Elizabeth Taylor
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Brooks
Paul Newman, Burl Ives. Judith Anderson
YouTube $
1958
Nominee
Deborah Kerr
Separate Tables
Delbert Mann
Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster
Tubi (free)
1960
Nominee
Shirley MacLaine
Apartment, The
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray
Tubi (free)
1962
Winner
Anne Bancroft
Miracle Worker, The
Arthur Penn
Patty Duke
YouTube $
1962
Nominee
Bette Davis
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Robert Altrich
Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
YouTube $
1963
Nominee
Shirley MacLaine
Irma La Douce
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi
Tubi (free)
1964
Winner
Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
Robert Stevenson
Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns
Disney+
1965
Nominee
Julie Andrews
Sound of Music, The
Robert Wise
Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, Eleanor Parker, Charmian Carr
Disney+
1966
Winner
Elizabeth Taylor
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols
Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
YouTube $
1967
Winner
Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Stanley Kramer
Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Houghton
YouTube $
1967
Nominee
Faye Dunaway
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn
Warren Beatty, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Prime Video $
1967
Nominee
Anne Bancroft
Graduate, The
Mike Nichols
Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross
Tubi (free)
1967
Nominee
Audrey Hepburn
Wait Until Dark
Terence Young
Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
Prime Video $
1968
Winner
Katharine Hepburn
Lion in Winter, The
Anthony Harvey
Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton
YouTube $
1970
Nominee
Ali MacGraw
Love Story
Arthur Hiller
Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland, John Marley
YouTube (free)
1973
Winner
Glenda Jackson
Touch of Class, A
Melvin Frank
George Segal
Prime Video $
1973
Nominee
Ellen Burstyn
Exorcist, The
William Friedkin
Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller
YouTube $
1973
Nominee
Barbra Streisand
Way We Were, The
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
YouTube $
1974
Nominee
Faye Dunaway
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
Jack Nicholson, John Huston
Prime Video
1975
Winner
Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman
Jack Nicholson
YouTube $
1976
Winner
Faye Dunaway
Network
Sidney Lumet
Peter Finch, William Holden, Robert Duvall
Prime Video $
1976
Nominee
Talia Shire
Rocky
John G. Avildsen
Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith
Prime Video
1977
Winner
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Paul Simon, Ben Gazzara
YouTube $
1977
Nominee
Marsha Mason
Goodbye Girl, The
Herbert Ross
Richard Dreyfuss
YouTube $
1978
Winner
Jane Fonda
Coming Home
Hal Ashby
Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
1979
Nominee
Jane Fonda
China Syndrome, The
James Bridges
Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas
YouTube $
1980
Winner
Sissy Spacek
Coal Miner's Daughter
Michael Apted
Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm
YouTube $
1980
Nominee
Mary Tyler Moore
Ordinary People
Robert Redford
Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern
Prime Video
1981
Winner
Katharine Hepburn
On Golden Pond
Mark Rydell
Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau
YouTube (free)
1980
Nominee
Susan Sarandon
Atlantic City
Louis Malle
Burt Lancaster
YouTube $
1981
Nominee
Diane Keaton
Reds
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson
Prime Video $
1982
Nominee
Debra Winger
Officer and a Gentleman, An
Tayhor Hackford
Richard Gere, Louis Gossett Jr.
YouTube $
1983
Nominee
Meryl Streep
Silkwood
Mike Nichols
Kurt Russell, Cher
1983
Nominee
Jane Alexander
Testament
Lynne Littman
William Devane, Kevin Costner, Rebecca De Mornay
Prime Video $
1983
Winner*, nominee
Shirley MacLaine*, Debra Winger
Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks
Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow
YouTube $
1984
Winner
Sally Field
Places in the Heart
Robert Benton
Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan
YouTube $
1984
Nominee
Judy Davis
Passage to India, A
David Lean
Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness
YouTube $
1985
Nominee
Whoopi Goldberg
Color Purple, The
Steven Spielberg
Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong
Tubi (free)
1985
Nominee
Meryl Streep
Out of Africa
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
YouTube $
1986
Nominee
Sigourney Weaver
Aliens
James Cameron
Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn
YouTube $
1987
Winner
Cher
Moonstruck
Norman Jewison
Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
PlutoTV (free)
1987
Nominee
Glenn Close
Fatal Attraction
Adrian Lyne
Michael Douglas, Anne Archer
Prime Video $
1988
Winner
Jodie Foster
Accused, The
Jonathan Kaplan
Kelly McGillis
YouTube $
1988
Nominee
Sigourney Weaver
Gorillas in the Mist
Michael Apted
Bryan Brown, Julie Harris
YouTube $
1988
Nominee
Melanie Griffith
Working Girl
Mike Nichols
Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver
YouTube $
1989
Winner
Jessica Tandy
Driving Miss Daisy
Bruce Beresford
Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle
YouTube $
1990
Winner
Kathy Bates
Misery
Rob Reiner
James Caan, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall
YouTube $$
1990
Nominee
Julia Roberts
Pretty Woman
Garry Marshall
Richard Gere
Prime Video $
1991
Winner
Jodie Foster
Silence of the Lambs, The
Jonathan Demme
Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
YouTube $
1992
Winner
Emma Thompson
Howards End
James Ivory
Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, James Wilby, Samuel West
YouTube $
1993
Winner
Holly Hunter
Piano, The
Jane Campion
Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin
1993
Nominee
Emma Thompson
Remains of the Day, The
James Ivory
Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant
YouTube $
1994
Nominee
Susan Sarandon
Client, The
Joel Schumacher
Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, Mary-Louise Parker
Tubi (free)
1995
Nominee
Meryl Streep
Bridges of Madison County, The
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
YouTube $
1995
Nominee
Emma Thompson
Sense and Sensibility
Ang Lee
Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant
BYUtv (free)
1996
Winner
Frances McDormand
Fargo
Joel & Ethan Coen
William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
YouTube $
1996
Nominee
Kristin Scott Thomas
English Patient, The
Anthony Minghella
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth
YouTube $
1997
Winner
Helen Hunt
As Good As It Gets
James L. Brooks
Jack Nicholson, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight
YouTube $
1997
Nominee
Kate Winslet
Titanic
James Cameron
Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane
Netflix
1997
Nominee
Helena Bonham Carter
Wings of the Dove, The
Iain Softley
Alison Elliott, Linus Roache
PlutoTV (free)
1998
Winner
Gwyneth Paltrow
Shakespeare in Love
John Madden
Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench
YouTube $
1998
Nominee
Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth
Shekhar Kapur
Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough
Prime Video $
1999
Nominee
Annette Bening
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
Kevin Spacey, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper
Prime Video $
2000
Winner
Julia Roberts
Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh
Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart
YouTube $
2000
Nominee
Juliette Binoche
Chocolat
Lasse Hallström
Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp
PlutoTV (free)
2002
Winner
Nicole Kidman
Hours, The
Stephen Daldry
Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson
Prime Video $
2002
Nominee
Renée Zellweger
Chicago
Rob Marshall
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly
YouTube $
2003
Nominee
Diane Keaton
Something's Gotta Give
Nancy Meyers
Jack Nicholson, Keanu Reeves, Frances McDormand, Amanda Peet, Jon Favreau
2004
Winner
Hilary Swank
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman
YouTube $
2006
Winner
Helen Mirren
Queen, The
Stephen Frears
Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings
PlutoTV (free)
2006
Nominee
Meryl Streep
Devil Wears Prada, The
David Frankel
Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Emily Blunt, Adrian Grenier
YouTube $
2007
Nominee
Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Shekhar Kapur
Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Abbie Cornish
Prime Video $
2007
Nominee
Ellen Page
Juno
Jason Reitman
Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons
YouTube $
2008
Winner
Kate Winslet
Reader, The
Stephen Daldry
Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz
Tubi (free)
2008
Nominee
Angelina Jolie
Changeling
Clint Eastwood
Jeffrey Donovan, John Malkovich
YouTube $
2008
Nominee
Meryl Streep
Doubt
John Patrick Shanley
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
YouTube $
2009
Winner
Sandra Bullock
Blind Side, The
John Lee Hancock
Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Kathy Bates
Prime Video $
2009
Nominee
Meryl Streep
Julie and Julia
Nora Ephron
Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond
Tubi (free)
2010
Winner
Natalie Portman
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky
Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder
YouTube $
2011
Winner
Meryl Streep
Iron Lady, The
Phyllida Lloyd
Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Roger Allam, Susan Brown, Nick Dunning, Nicholas Farrell, Iain Glen
YouTube $
2011
Nominee
Rooney Mara
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The
David Fincher
Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson
YouTube $
2011
Nominee
Viola Davis
Help, The
Tate Taylor
Jessica Chastain, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone
Prime Video
2011
Nominee
Michelle Williams
My Week with Marilyn
Simon Curtis
Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Zoë Wanamaker, Emma Watson, Judi Dench
Prime Video $
2012
Winner
Jennifer Lawrence
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Anupam Kher, Chris Tucker
Prime Video
2012
Nominee
Jessica Chastain
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Édgar Ramírez, James Gandolfini
Prime Video
2013
Nominee
Amy Adams
American Hustle
David O. Russell
Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C. K., Jack Huston, Michael Peña
PlutoTV (free)
2013
Nominee
Sandra Bullock
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
George Clooney, Ed Harris (voice)
YouTube $
2013
Nominee
Judi Dench
Philomena
Stephen Frears
Steve Coogan
YouTube (free)
2014
Nominee
Rosamund Pike
Gone Girl
David Fincher
Ben Affleck, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
YouTube $
2014
Nominee
Felicity Jones
Theory of Everything, The
James Marsh
Eddie Redmayne, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, David Thewlis, Maxine Peake
YouTube $
2015
Nominee
Saoirse Ronan
Brooklyn
John Crowley
Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, , Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters
YouTube $
2016
Nominee
Natalie Portman
Jackie
Pablo Larraín
Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt
YouTube $
2016
Nominee
Ruth Negga
Loving
Jeff Nicols
Joel Edgerton
Netflix
2017
Winner
Frances McDormand
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Martin McDonagh
Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage
YouTube $
2017
Nominee
Margot Robbie
I, Tonya
Craig Gillespie
Sebastian Stan, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney
YouTube $
2017
Nominee
Saoirse Ronan
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges
Prime Video $
2017
Nominee
Meryl Streep
Post, The
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Rhys
Amazon (free)
2018
Nominee
Lady Gaga
Star is Born, A
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, Sam Elliott
YouTube $
2019
Nominee
Charlize Theron
Bombshell
Jay Roach
Nicole Kidman, John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, Margot Robbie
YouTube $
2019
Nominee
Saoirse Ronan
Little Women
Greta Gerwig
Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
Prime Video $
2021
Nominee
Nicole Kidman
Being the Ricardos
Aaron Sorkin
Javier Bardem, J. K. Simmons, Nina Arianda
Prime Video
2022
Nominee
Michelle Williams
Fabelmans, The
Steven Spielberg
Gabriel LaBelle , Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch