1928 Janet Gaynor – Seventh Heaven as Diane, Street Angel as Angela, and
1929 Mary Pickford – Coquette as Norma Besant
1930 Norma Shearer – The Divorcee as Jerry Bernard Martin
1931 Marie Dressler – Min and Bill as Min Divot, Innkeeper
1932 Helen Hayes – The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet
1933 Catharine Hepburn – Morning Glory as Eva Lovelace
1934 Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night as Ellie Andrews
1935 Bette Davis – Dangerous as Joyce Heath
1936 Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld as Anna Held
1937 Luise Rainer – The Good Earth as O-Lan
1938 Bette Davis – Jezebel as Julie Marsden
1939 Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara
1940 Ginger Rogers – Kitty Foyle as Kitty Foyle
1941 Joan Fontaine – Suspicion as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
1942 Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver as Mrs. Miniver
1943 Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette as Bernadette Soubirous
1944 Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight as Paula Alquist Anton
1945 Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce as Mildred Pierce
1946 Olivia de Havilland – To Each His Own as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris
1947 Loretta Young – The Farmer's Daughter as Katrin Holstrom
1948 Jane Wyman – Johnny Belinda as Belinda McDonald
1949 Olivia de Havilland – The Heiress as Catherine Sloper
1950 Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday as Emma 'Billie' Dawn
1951 Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois
1952 Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba as Lola Delaney
1953 Audrey Hepburn – Roman Holiday as Princess Ann
1954 Grace Kelly – The Country Girl as Georgie Elgin
1955 Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo as Serafina Delle Rose
1956 Ingrid Bergman – Anastasia as Anna Koreff / Anastasia
1957 Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve as Eve White / Eve Black / Jane
1958 Susan Hayward – I Want to Live! as Barbara Graham
1959 Simone Signoret – Room at the Top as Alice Aisgill
1960 Elizabeth Taylor – Butterfield 8 as Gloria Wandrous
1961 Sophia Loren – Two Women as Cesira
1962 Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker as Annie Sullivan
1963 Patricia Neal – Hud as Alma Brown
1964 Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins as Mary Poppins
1965 Julie Christie – Darling as Diana Scott
1966 Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha
1967 Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Christina Drayton
1968 Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Barbra
1969 Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie
1970 Glenda Jackson – Women in Love as Gudrun Brangwen
1971 Jane Fonda – Klute as Bree Daniels
1972 Liza Minnelli – Cabaret as Sally Bowles
1973 Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class as Vicki Allessio
1974 Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Alice Hyatt
1975 Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched
1976 Faye Dunaway – Network as Diana Christensen
1977 Diane Keaton – Annie Hall as Annie Hall
1978 Jane Fonda – Coming Home as Sally Hyde
1979 Sally Field – Norma Rae as Norma Rae Webster
1980 Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn
1981 Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond as Ethel Thayer
1982 Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice as Sophie Zawistowski
1983 Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment as Aurora Greenway
1984 Sally Field – Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding
1985 Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts
1986 Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God as Sarah Norman
1987 Cher – Moonstruck as Loretta Castorini
1988 Jodie Foster – The Accused as Sarah Tobias
1989 Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan
1990 Kathy Bates – Misery as Annie Wilkes
1991 Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
1992 Emma Thompson – Howards End as Margaret Schlegel
1993 Holly Hunter – The Piano as Ada McGrath
1994 Jessica Lange – Blue Sky as Carly Marshall
1995 Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking as Helen Prejean
1996 Frances McDormand – Fargo as Marge Olmstead-Gunderson
1997 Helen Hunt – As Good as It Gets as Carol Connelly
1998 Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love as Viola De Lesseps/Thomas Kent
1999 Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena
2000 Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich as Erin Brockovich
2001 Halle Berry – Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove
2002 Nicole Kidman – The Hours as Virginia Woolf
2003 Charlize Theron – Monster as Aileen Wuornos
2004 Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald
2005 Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line as June Carter Cash
2006 Helen Mirren – The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II
2007 Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose as Édith Piaf
2008 Kate Winslet – The Reader as Hanna Schmitz
2009 Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy
2010 Natalie Portman – Black Swan as Nina Sayers
2011 Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
2012 Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
2013 Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
