1996
Frances McDormand---Fargo
Brenda Blethyn---Secrets and Lies
Diane Keaton---Marvin’s Room
Kristen Scott Thomas---The English Patient
Emily Watson---Breaking the Waves
1995
Susan Sarandon---Dead Man Walking
Elizabeth Shue---Leaving Las Vegas
Sharon Stone---Casino
Meryl Streep---The Bridges of Madison County
Emma Thompson---Sense and Sensibility
1994
Jessica Lange---Blue Sky
Jodie Foster---Nell
Miranda Richardson---Tom and Viv
Winona Ryder---Little Women
Susan Sarandon---The Client
1993
Holly Hunter---The Piano
Angela Bassett---What’s Love Got To Do With It
Stockard Channing---Six Degrees of Seperation
Emma Thompson---The Remains of the Day
Debra Winger---Shadowlands
1992
Emma Thompson---Howard’s End
Catherine Deneuve---Indochine
Mary McDonnell---Passion Fish
Michelle Pfeiffer---Love Field
Susan Sarandon---Lorenzo’s Oil
1991
Jodie Foster---The Silence of the Lambs
Geena Davis---Thelma and Louise
Laura Dern---Rambling Rose
Bette Midler--- For the Boys
Susan Sarandon---Thelma and Louise
1990
Kathy Bates---Misery
Anjelica Huston---The Grifters
Julia Roberts---Pretty Woman
Meryl Streep---Postcards From the Edge
Joanne Woodward---Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
1989
Jessica Tandy---Driving Miss Daisy
Isabelle Adjani---Camille Claudel
Pauline Collins---Shirley Valentine
Jessica Lange---The Music Box
Michelle Pfeiffer---The Fabulous Baker Boys
1988
Jodie Foster---The Accused
Glenn Close---Dangerous Liaisons
Melanie Griffith---Working Girl
Meryl Streep---A Cry in the Dark
Sigourney Weaver---Gorillas in the Mist
1987
Cher---Moonstruck
Glenn Close---Fatal Attraction
Holly Hunter---Broadcast News
Sally Kirkland---Anna
Meryl Streep---Ironweed
1986
Marlee Matlin---Children of a Lesser God
Jane Fonda---The Morning After
Sissy Spacek---Crimes of the Heart
Kathleen Turner---Peggy Sue Got Married
Sigourney Weaver---Aliens
1985
Geraldine Page---The Trip to Bountiful
Anne Bancroft---Agnes of God
Whoopi Goldberg---The Color Purple
Jessica Lange---Sweet Dreams
Meryl Streep---Out of Africa
1984
Sally Field---Places in the Heart
Judy Davis---A Passage to India
Jessica Lange---Country
Vanessa Redgrave---The Bostonians
Sissy Spacek---The River
1983
Shirley MacLaine---Terms of Endearment
Jane Alexander---Testament
Meryl Streep---Silkwood
Julie Walters---Educating Rita
Debra Winger---Terms of Endearment
1982
Meryl Streep---Sophie’s Choice
Julie Andrews---Victor/Victoria
Jessica Lange---Frances
Sissy Spacek---Missing
Debra Winger---An Officer and a Gentleman
1981
Katherine Hepburn---On Golden Pond
Diane Keaton---Reds
Marsha Mason---Only When I Laugh
Susan Sarandon---Atlantic City
Meryl Streep---The French Lieutenant’s Woman
1980
Sissy Spacek---Coal Miner’s Daughter
Ellen Burstyn---Resurrection
Goldie Hawn---Private Benjamin
Mary Tyler Moore---Ordinary People
Gena Rowlands---Gloria
1979
Sally Field---Norma Rae
Jill Clayburgh---Starting Over
Jane Fonda---The China Syndrome
Marsha Mason---Chapter Two
Bette Midler---The Rose
1978
Jane Fonda---Coming Home
Ingrid Bergman---Autumn Sonata
Ellen Burstyn---Some Time, Next Year
Jill Clayburgh---An Unmarried Woman
Geraldine Page---Interiors
1977
Diane Keaton---Annie Hall
Anne Bancroft---The Turning Point
Jane Fonda---Julia
Shirley MacLaine---The Turning Point
Marsha Mason---The Goodbye Girl
1976
Faye Dunaway---Network
Marie-Christine Barrault---Cousin, Cousine
Talia Shire---Rocky
Sissy Spacek---Carrie
Liv Ullman---Face to Face
1975
Louise Fletcher---One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Isabelle Adjani---The Story of Adele H
Ann-Margaret---Tommy
Glenda Jackson---Hedda
Carol Kane---Hester Street
1974
Ellen Burstyn---Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Diahann Carroll---Claudine
Faye Dunaway---Chinatown
Valerie Perrine---Lenny
Gena Rowlands---A Woman Under the Influence
1973
Glenda Jackson---A Touch of Class
Ellen Burstyn---The Exorcist
Marsha Mason---Cinderella Liberty
Barbra Streisand---The Way We Were
Joanne Woodward---Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1972
Liza Minnelli---Cabaret
Diana Ross---Lady Sings the Blues
Maggie Smith---Travels with My Aunt
Cicely Tyson---Sounder
Liv Ullman---The Emigrants
1971
Jane Fonda---Klute
Julie Christie---McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Glenda Jackson---Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Vanessa Redgrave---Mary, Queen of Scots
Janet Suzman---Nicolas and Alexandra
1970
Glenda Jackson---Women in Love
Jane Alexander---The Great White Hope
Ali MacGraw---Love Story
Sarah Miles---Ryan’s Daughter
Carrie Snodgress---Diary of a Mad Housewife
1969
Maggie Smith---The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Genevieve Bujold---Anne of the Thousand Days
Jane Fonda---They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Liza Minnelli---The Sterile Cuckoo
Jean Simmons---The Happy Ending
1968
Katherine Hepburn---The Lion in Winter
Barbra Streisand---Funny Girl
Patricia Neal---The Subject Was Roses
Vanessa Redgrave---Isadora
Joanne Woodward---Rachel, Rachel
1967
Katherine Hepburn---Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Anne Bancroft--The Graduate
Faye Dunaway---Bonnie and Clyde
Dame Edith Evans---The Whisperers
Audrey Hepburn---Wait Until Dark
1966
Elizabeth Taylor---Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Anouk Aimee---A Man and a Woman
Ida Kaminska---The Shop on Main Street
Lynn Redgrave---Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave---Morgan!
1965
Julie Christie---Darling
Julie Andrews---The Sound of Music
Samantha Eggar---The Collector
Elizabeth Hartman---A Patch of Blue
Simone Signoret---Ship of Fools
1964
Julie Andrews---Mary Poppins
Anne Bancroft---The Pumpkin Eater
Sophia Loren---Marriage-Italian Style
Debbie Reynolds---The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Kim Stanley---Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1963
Patricia Neal---Hud
Leslie Caron---The L-Shaped Room
Shirley MacLaine---Irma La Douce
Rachel Roberts---This Sporting Life
Natalie Wood---Love with the Proper Stranger
1962
Anne Bancroft---The Miracle Worker
Bette Davis---Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Katharine Hepburn---Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Geraldine Page---Sweet Bird of Youth
Lee Remick---Days of Wine and Roses
1961
Sophia Loren---Two Women
Audrey Hepburn---Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Piper Laurie---The Hustler
Geraldine Page---Summer and Smoke
Natalie Wood---Splendor in the Grass
1960
Elizabeth Taylor---Butterfield 8
Greer Garson---Sunrise at Campobello
Deborah Kerr---The Sundowners
Shirley MacLaine---The Apartment
Melina Mercouri---Never On Sunday
1959
Simone Signoret---Room at the Top
Doris Day---Pillow Talk
Audrey Hepburn---The Nun’s Story
Katherine Hepburn---Suddenly, Last Summer
Elizabeth Taylor---Suddeny, Last Summer
1958
Susan Hayward---I Want to Live!
Deborah Kerr---Seperate Tables
Shirley MacLaine---Some Came Running
Rosalind Russell---Auntie Mame
Elizabeth Taylor---Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1957
Joanne Woodward---The Three Faces of Eve
Deborah Kerr---Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Anna Magnani---Wild is the Wind
Elizabeth Taylor---Raintree Country
Lana Turner---Peyton Place
1956
Ingrid Bergman---Anastasia
Carroll Baker---Baby Doll
Katharine Hepburn---The Rainmaker
Nancy Kelly---The Bad Seed
Deborah Kerr---The King and I
1955
Anna Magnani---The Rose Tattoo
Susan Hayward---I’ll Cry Tomorrow
Katharine Hepburn---Summertime
Jennifer Jones---Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
Eleanor Parker---Interrupted Melody
1954
Grace Kelly---The Country Girl
Dorothy Dandridge---Carmen Jones
Judy Garland---A Star is Born
Audrey Hepburn---Sabrina
Jane Wyman---Magnificent Obsession
1953
Audrey Hepburn---Roman Holiday
Leslie Caron---Lili
Ava Gardner---Mogambo
Deborah Kerr---From Here to Eternity
Maggie MacNamara---The Moon is Blue
1952
Shirley Booth---Come Back, Little Sheba
Joan Crawford---Sudden Fear
Bette Davis---The Star
Julie Harris---The Member of the Wedding
Susan Hayward---With a Song in My Heart
1951
Vivien Leigh---A Streetcar Named Desire
Katharine Hepburn---The African Queen
Eleanor Parker---Detective Story
Shelley Winters---A Place in the Sun
Jane Wyman---The Blue Veil
1950
Judy Holliday---Born Yesterday
Anne Baxter---All About Eve
Bette Davis---All About Eve
Eleanor Parker---Caged
Gloria Swanson---Sunset Boulevard
1949
Olivia de Havilland---The Heiress
Jeanne Crain---Pinky
Susan Hayward---My Foolish Heart
Deborah Kerr---Edward My Son
Loretta Young---Come to the Stable
1948
Jane Wyman---Johnny Belinda
Ingrid Bergman---Joan of Arc
Olivia de Havilland---The Snake Pit
Irene Dunne---I Remember Mama
Barbara Stanwyck---Sorry, Wrong Number
1947
Loretta Young---The Farmer’s Daughter
Joan Crawford---Possessed
Susan Hayward---Smashup; The Story of a Woman
Dorothy McGuire---Gentleman’s Agreement
Rosalind Russell---Mourning Becomes Electra
1946
Olivia de Havilland---To Each His Own
Celia Johnson---Brief Encounter
Jennifer Jones---Duel in the Sun
Rosalind Russell---Sister Kenny
Jane Wyman---The Yearling
1945
Joan Crawford---Mildred Pierce
Ingrid Bergman---The Bells of St. Mary’s
Greer Garson--- Valley of Decision
Jennifer Jones---Love Letters
Gene Tierney---Leave Her to Heaven
1944
Ingrid Bergman---Gaslight
Claudette Colbert---Since You Went Away
Bette Davis---Mr. Skeffington
Greer Garson---Mrs. Parkinson
Barbara Stanwyck---Double Indemnity
1943
Jennifer Jones---The Song of Bernadette
Jean Arthur---The More the Merrier
Ingrid Bergman---For Whom the Bell Tolls
Joan Fontaine---The Constant Nymph
Greer Garson---Madame Curie
1942
Greer Garson---Mrs. Miniver
Bette Davis---Now Voyager
Katharine Hepburn---Woman of the Year
Rosalind Russell---My Sister Eileen
Teresa Wright---The Pride of the Yankees
1941
Joan Fontaine---Suspicion
Bette Davis---The Little Foxes
Greer Garson---Blossoms in the Dust
Olivia de Havilland---Hold Back the Dawn
Barbara Stanwyck---Ball of Fire
1940
Ginger Rogers---Kitty Foyle
Bette Davis---The Letter
Joan Fontaine---Rebecca
Katharine Hepburn---The Philadelphia Story
Martha Scott---Our Town
1939
Vivien Leigh---Gone With the Wind
Bette Davis---Dark Victory
Irene Dunne---Love Affair
Greta Garbo---Ninotchka
Greer Garson---Goodbye Mr. Chips
1938
Bette Davis---Jezebel
Fay Bainter---White Banners
Wendy Hiller---Pygmalion
Norma Shearer---Marie Antoinette
Margaret Sullivan---Three Comrades
1937
Luise Rainer---The Good Earth
Irene Dunne---The Awful Truth
Greta Garbo---Camille
Janet Gaynor---A Star is Born
Barbara Stanwyck---Stella Dallas
1936
Luise Rainer---The Great Ziegfield
Irene Dunne---Theodora Goes Wild
Gladys George---Valiant is the Word for Carrie
Carole Lombard---My Man Godfrey
Norma Shearer---Romeo and Juliet
1935
Bette Davis---Dangerous
Elizabeth Bergner--- Escape Me Never
Claudette Colbert---Private Worlds
Katherine Hepburn---Alice Adams
Miriam Hopkins---Becky Sharp
Merle Oberon---The Dark Angel
1934
Claudette Colbert---It Happened One Night
Grace Moore---One Night of Love
Norma Shearer---The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1932-1933
Katherine Hepburn--- Morning Glory
May Robson---Lady for a Day
Diana Wynyard---Cavalcade
1931-1932
Helen Hayes---The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Marie Dressler---Emma
Lynn Fontanne---The Guardsmen
1930-1931
Marie Dressler--- Min and Bill
Marlene Dietrich---Morocco
Irene Dunne---Cimarron
Ann Harding---Holiday
Norma Shearer---A Free Soul
1929-1930
Norma Shearer---The Divorcee; Their Own Desire
Nancy Carroll---The Devil’s Holiday
Ruth Chatterton---Sarah and Son
Greta Garbo---Anna Christie; Romance
Gloria Swanson---The Trespasser
1928-1929
Mary Pickford---Coquette
Ruth Chatterton---Madam X
Betty Compson---The Barker
Jeanne Eagels---The Letter
Bessie Love---Broadway Melody
1927-1928
Janet Gaynor---Seventh Heaven; Street Angel; Sunrise
Louise Dresser---A Ship Comes In
Gloria Swanson---Sadie Thompson