Academy Award Best Actress Winners Flashcards by Tara Rosebery

1927/1928 (1st) for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Janet Gaynor

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1928/1929 for Norma Besant in Coquette

Mary Pickford

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1929/1930 for Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee

Norma Shearer

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1930/1931 for Min Divot in Min and Bill

Marie Dressler

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1931/1932 for Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Helen Hayes

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1932/1933 for Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory

Katharine Hepburn

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1934 for Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night

Claudette Colbert

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1935 for Joyce Heath in Dangerous

Bette Davis

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1936 for Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld

Luise Rainer

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1937 for O-Lan in The Good Earth

Luise Rainer

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1938 for Julia Marsden in Jezebel

Bette Davis

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1939 for Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind

Vivien Leigh

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1940 for Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle

Ginger Rogers

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1941 for Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion

Joan Fontaine

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1942 for Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver

Greer Garson

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1943 for Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette

Jennifer Jones

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1944 for Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight

Ingrid Bergman

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1945 for Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce

Joan Crawford

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1946 for Josephine “Jody” Norris in To Each His Own

Olivia de Havilland

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1947 for Katie Holstrom in The Farmer’s Daughter

Loretta Young

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1948 for Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda

Jane Wyman

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1949 for Catherine Sloper in The Heiress

Olivia de Havilland

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1950 for Emma “Billie” Dawn in Born Yesterday

Judy Holliday

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1951 for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire

Vivien Leigh

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1952 for Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba

Shirley Booth

1953 for Princess Ann in Roman Holiday

Audrey Hepburn

1954 for Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl

Grace Kelly

1955 for Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo

Anna Magnani

1956 for Anna Koreff/Anastasia in Anastasia

Ingrid Bergman

1957 for Eve White/Eve Black/Jane in The Three Faces of Eve

Joanne Woodward

1958 for Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!

Susan Hayward

1959 for Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top

Simon Signoret

1960 for Gloria Wandrous in BUtterfield 8

Elizabeth Taylor

1961 for Cesira in Two Women

Sophia Loren

1962 for Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

Anne Bancroft

1963 for Alma Brown in Hud

Patricia Neal

1964 for Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

Julie Andrews

1965 for Diana Scott in Darling

Julie Christie

1966 for Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Elizabeth Taylor

1967 for Christina Drayton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Katharine Hepburn

1968 (tie) for Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter and for Fanny Brice in Funny Girl

Katharine Hepburn for Eleanor of Aquitance and Barbra Streisand for Fanny Brice

1969 for Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Maggie Smith

1970 for Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love

Glenda Jackson

1971 for Bree Daniels in Klute

Jane Fonda

1972 for Sally Bowles in Cabaret

Liza Minnelli

1973 for Vickie Allessio in A Touch of Class

Glenda Jackson

1974 for Alice Graham-Hyatt in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Ellen Burstyn

1975 for Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Louise Fletcher

1976 for Diana Christensen in Network

Faye Dunaway

1977 for Annie Hall in Annie Hall

Diane Keaton

1978 for Sally Hyde in Coming Home

Jane Fonda

1979 for Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae

Sally Field

1980 for Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter

Sissy Spacek

1981 for Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond

Katharine Hepburn

1982 for Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie's Choice

Meryl Streep

1983 for Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment

Shirley MacLaine

1984 for Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart

Sally Field

1985 for Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful

Geraldine Page

1986 for Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God

Marlee Matlin

1987 for Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck

Cher

1988 for Sarah Tobias in The Accused

Jodie Foster

1989 for Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy

Jessica Tandy

1990 for Annie Wilkes in Misery

Kathy Bates

1991 for Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster

1992 for Margaret Schlegel in Howards End

Emma Thompson

1993 for Ada McGrath in The Piano

Holly Hunter

1994 for Carly Marshall in Blue Sky

Jessica Lange

1995 for Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking

Susan Sarandon

1996 for Marge Gunderson in Fargo

Frances McDormand

1997 for Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets

Helen Hunt

1998 for Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love

Gwyneth Paltrow

1999 for Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry

Hilary Swank

2000 for Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich

Julia Roberts

2001 for Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball

Halle Berry

2002 for Virginia Woolf in The Hours

Nicole Kidman

2003 for Aileen “Lee” Wuornos in Monster

Charlize Theron

2004 for Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby

Hilary Swank

2005 for June Carter Cash in Walk the Line

Reese Witherspoon

2006 for Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen

Helen Mirren

2007 for Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose

Marion Cotillard

2008 for Hanna Schmitz in The Reader

Kate Winslet

2009 for Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side

Sandra Bullock

2010 for Nina Sayers in Black Swan

Natalie Portman

2011 for Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady

Meryl Streep

2012 for Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook

Jennifer Lawrence

2013 for Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis in Blue Jasmine

Cate Blanchett

2014 for Alice Howland in Still Alice

Julianne Moore

2015 for Joy Newsome in Room

Brie Larson

2016 for Mia Dolan in La La Land

Emma Stone

2017 for Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand

2018 for Queen Anne in The Favourite

Olivia Colman

Who has the most Best Actress (in a Leading Role) wins, with a total of 3?

Katharine Hepburn for her roles in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), and On Golden Pond (1981)

Who was the first two-time Oscar winner, winning in two consecutive years?

Luise Rainer for her roles in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937)

Who was the first person to win for a non-English language performance?

Sophia Loren for her role in Two Women (1961)

Who is the most nominated woman in the Best Actress category, with seventeen nominations (and two wins)?

Meryl Streep

Who was the youngest actress to win the Best Actress category?

Marlee Matlin (also the only deaf actress to win), who was 21, for her role in Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Who was the oldest actress to win the Best Actress category?

Jessica Tandy, who was 80, for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Who was the first (and to date, only) black actress to win Best Actress?

Halle Berry for her role in Monster's Ball (2001)

Academy Award Best Actress Winners Flashcards

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