Best Leading Actress

Winners

2024	Emma Stone	Poor Things
2023	Michelle Yeoh	Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022	Jessica Chastain	The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021	Frances McDormand	Nomadland
2020	Renée Zellweger	Judy
2019	Olivia Colman	The Favourite
2018	Frances McDormand	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017	Emma Stone	La La Land
2016	Brie Larson	Room
2015	Julianne Moore	Still Alice
2014	Cate Blanchett	Blue Jasmine
2013	Jennifer Lawrence	Silver Linings Playbook
2012	Meryl Streep	The Iron Lady
2011	Natalie Portman	Black Swan
2010	Sandra Bullock	The Blind Side
2009	Kate Winslet	The Reader
2008	Marion Cotillard	La Vie en Rose
2007	Helen Mirren	The Queen
2006	Reese Witherspoon	Walk the Line
2005	Hilary Swank	Million Dollar Baby
2004	Charlize Theron	Monster
2003	Nicole Kidman	The Hours
2002	Halle Berry	Monster's Ball
2001	Julia Roberts	Erin Brockovich
2000	Hilary Swank	Boys Don't Cry
1999	Gwyneth Paltrow	Shakespeare in Love
1998	Helen Hunt	As Good as It Gets
1997	Frances McDormand	Fargo
1996	Susan Sarandon	Dead Man Walking
1995	Jessica Lange	Blue Sky
1994	Holly Hunter	The Piano
1993	Emma Thompson	Howards End
1992	Jodie Foster	The Silence of the Lambs
1991	Kathy Bates	Misery
1990	Jessica Tandy	Driving Miss Daisy
1989	Jodie Foster	The Accused
1988	Cher	Moonstruck
1987	Marlee Matlin	Children of a Lesser God
1986	Geraldine Page	The Trip to Bountiful
1985	Sally Field	Places in the Heart
1984	Shirley MacLaine	Terms of Endearment
1983	Meryl Streep	Sophie's Choice
1982	Katharine Hepburn	On Golden Pond
1981	Sissy Spacek	Coal Miner's Daughter
1980	Sally Field	Norma Rae
1979	Jane Fonda	Coming Home
1978	Diane Keaton	Annie Hall
1977	Faye Dunaway	Network
1976	Louise Fletcher	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975	Ellen Burstyn	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974	Glenda Jackson	A Touch of Class
1973	Liza Minnelli	Cabaret
1972	Jane Fonda	Klute
1971	Glenda Jackson	Women in Love
1970	Maggie Smith	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969	Katharine Hepburn	The Lion in Winter
	Barbra Streisand	Funny Girl (Tie)
1968	Katharine Hepburn	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967	Elizabeth Taylor	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966	Julie Christie	Darling
1965	Julie Andrews	Mary Poppins
1964	Patricia Neal	Hud
1963	Anne Bancroft	The Miracle Worker
1962	Sophia Loren	Two Women
1961	Elizabeth Taylor	Butterfield 8
1960	Simone Signoret	Room at the Top
1959	Susan Hayward	I Want to Live!
1958	Joanne Woodward	The Three Faces of Eve
1957	Ingrid Bergman	Anastasia
1956	Anna Magnani	The Rose Tattoo
1955	Grace Kelly	The Country Girl
1954	Audrey Hepburn	Roman Holiday
1953	Shirley Booth	Come Back, Little Sheba
1952	Vivien Leigh	A Streetcar Named Desire
1951	Judy Holliday	Born Yesterday
1950	Olivia de Havilland	The Heiress
1949	Jane Wyman	Johnny Belinda
1948	Loretta Young	The Farmer's Daughter
1947	Olivia de Havilland	To Each His Own
1946	Joan Crawford	Mildred Pierce
1945	Ingrid Bergman	Gaslight
1944	Jennifer Jones	The Song of Bernadette
1943	Greer Garson	Mrs. Miniver
1942	Joan Fontaine	Suspicion
1941	Ginger Rogers	Kitty Foyle
1940	Vivien Leigh	Gone with the Wind
1939	Bette Davis	Jezebel
1938	Luise Rainer	The Good Earth
1937	Luise Rainer	The Great Ziegfeld
1936	Bette Davis	Dangerous
1935	Claudette Colbert	It Happened One Night
1934	Katharine Hepburn	Morning Glory
1933	Helen Hayes	The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1932	Marie Dressler	Min and Bill
1931	Norma Shearer	The Divorcee
1930	Mary Pickford	Coquette
1929	Janet Gaynor	7th Heaven