De Oscar voor beste vrouwelijke hoofdrol (ook bekend als de Academy Award voor beste vrouwelijke hoofdrol, tot en met de 48e ceremonie in 1976 de Oscar/Academy Award voor beste actrice genoemd) is een jaarlijkse prijs van de Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. De prijs is een van de belangrijkste Oscars en wordt uitgereikt aan de beste actrice in een hoofdrol van het voorgaande jaar. Welke vrouwen daarvoor in aanmerking komen wordt bepaald door mensen die werkzaam zijn in de filmindustrie. Uiteindelijk worden maximaal vijf actrices bekendgemaakt die zijn genomineerd voor de prijs. Tijdens de jaarlijkse uitreiking wordt bekendgemaakt welke van deze vijf actrices de prijs wint.
Winnaars en genomineerden De winnaars staan bovenaan in vette letters op een gele achtergrond. De overige actrices en films die werden genomineerd staan eronder vermeld in alfabetische volgorde.The Official Academy Awards Database
1927-1929 Jaar Actrice Film 1927-28 Janet Gaynor 7th Heaven, Street Angel en Sunrise Louise Dresser A Ship Comes In Gloria Swanson Sadie Thompson 1928-29Er waren bij deze uitreiking geen nominaties, tijdens de ceremonie werden alleen de winnaars bekendgemaakt. Op basis van interne gegevens is achteraf bepaald welke films door de verschillende takken van de Academy in beraad waren genomen. Mary Pickford Coquette Ruth Chatterton Madame X Betty Compson The Barker Jeanne Eagels The Letter Corinne Griffith The Divine Lady Bessie Love The Broadway Melody
1930-1939 Jaar Actrice Film 1929-30 Norma Shearer The Divorcee Nancy Carroll The Devil's Holiday Ruth Chatterton Sarah and Son Greta Garbo Anna Christie en Romance Norma Shearer Their Own Desire Gloria Swanson The Trespasser 1930-31 Marie Dressler Min and Bill Marlene Dietrich Morocco Irene Dunne Cimarron Ann Harding Holiday Norma Shearer A Free Soul 1931-32 Helen Hayes The Sin of Madelon Claudet Marie Dressler Emma Lynn Fontanne The Guardsman 1932-33May Robson werd tweede, Diana Wynyard derde. Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory May Robson Lady for a Day Diana Wynyard Cavalcade 1934Norma Shearer werd tweede, Bette Davis derde. Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night Bette DavisWrite-in nominatie, niet officieel genomineerd door de Academy. Of Human Bondage Grace Moore One Night of Love Norma Shearer The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1935Katharine Hepburn werd tweede, Elisabeth Bergner derde. Bette Davis Dangerous Elisabeth Bergner Escape Me Never Claudette Colbert Private Worlds Katharine Hepburn Alice Adams Miriam Hopkins Becky Sharp Merle Oberon The Dark Angel 1936 Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld Irene Dunne Theodora Goes Wild Gladys George Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Carole Lombard My Man Godfrey Norma Shearer Romeo and Juliet 1937 Luise Rainer The Good Earth Irene Dunne The Awful Truth Greta Garbo Camille Janet Gaynor A Star Is Born Barbara Stanwyck Stella Dallas 1938 Bette Davis Jezebel Fay Bainter White Banners Wendy Hiller Pygmalion Norma Shearer Marie Antoinette Margaret Sullavan Three Comrades 1939 Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind Bette Davis Dark Victory Irene Dunne Love Affair Greta Garbo Ninotchka Greer Garson Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1940-1949 Jaar Actrice Film 1940 Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle Bette Davis The Letter Joan Fontaine Rebecca Katharine Hepburn The Philadelphia Story Martha Scott Our Town 1941 Joan Fontaine Suspicion Bette Davis The Little Foxes Olivia de Havilland Hold Back the Dawn Greer Garson Blossoms in the Dust Barbara Stanwyck Ball of Fire 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 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 1944 Ingrid Bergman Gaslight Claudette Colbert Since You Went Away Bette Davis Mr. Skeffington Greer Garson Mrs. Parkington Barbara Stanwyck Double Indemnity 1945 Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce Ingrid Bergman The Bells of St. Mary's Greer Garson The Valley of Decision Jennifer Jones Love Letters Gene Tierney Leave Her to Heaven 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 1947 Loretta Young The Farmer's Daughter Joan Crawford Possessed Susan Hayward Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman Dorothy McGuire Gentleman's Agreement Rosalind Russell Mourning Becomes Electra 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 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
1950-1959 Jaar Actrice Film 1950 Judy Holliday Born Yesterday Anne Baxter All About Eve Bette Davis All About Eve Eleanor Parker Caged Gloria Swanson Sunset Blvd. 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 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 1953 Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday Leslie Caron Lili Ava Gardner Mogambo Deborah Kerr From Here to Eternity Maggie McNamara The Moon Is Blue 1954 Grace Kelly The Country Girl Dorothy Dandridge Carmen Jones Judy Garland A Star Is Born Audrey Hepburn Sabrina Jane Wyman Magnificent Obsession 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 1956 Ingrid Bergman Anastasia Carroll Baker Baby Doll Katharine Hepburn The Rainmaker Nancy Kelly The Bad Seed Deborah Kerr The King and I 1957 Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve Deborah Kerr Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Anna Magnani Wild Is the Wind Elizabeth Taylor Raintree County Lana Turner Peyton Place 1958 Susan Hayward I Want to Live! Deborah Kerr Separate Tables Shirley MacLaine Some Came Running Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame Elizabeth Taylor Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1959 Simone Signoret Room at the Top Doris Day Pillow Talk Audrey Hepburn The Nun's Story Katharine Hepburn Suddenly, Last Summer Elizabeth Taylor Suddenly, Last Summer
1960-1969 Jaar Actrice Film 1960 Elizabeth Taylor Butterfield 8 Greer Garson Sunrise at Campobello Deborah Kerr The Sundowners Shirley MacLaine The Apartment Melina Mercouri Never on Sunday 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 1962 Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker Bette Davis What Ever 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 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 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 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 1966 Elizabeth Taylor Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Anouk Aimée A Man and a Woman Ida Kaminska The Shop on Main Street Lynn Redgrave Georgy Girl Vanessa Redgrave Morgan! 1967 Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Anne Bancroft The Graduate Faye Dunaway Bonnie and Clyde Edith Evans The Whisperers Audrey Hepburn Wait Until Dark 1968Gedeelde winst. Katharine Hepburn The Lion in Winter Barbra Streisand Funny Girl Patricia Neal The Subject Was Roses Vanessa Redgrave Isadora Joanne Woodward Rachel, Rachel 1969 Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Geneviève Bujold Anne of the Thousand Days Jane Fonda They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Liza Minnelli The Sterile Cuckoo Jean Simmons The Happy Ending
1970-1979 Jaar Actrice Film 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 1971 Jane Fonda Klute Julie Christie McCabe & Mrs. Miller Glenda Jackson Sunday Bloody Sunday Vanessa Redgrave Mary, Queen of Scots Janet Suzman Nicholas and Alexandra 1972 Liza Minnelli Cabaret Diana Ross Lady Sings the Blues Maggie Smith Travels with My Aunt Cicely Tyson Sounder Liv Ullmann The Emigrants 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 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 1975 Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ann-Margret Tommy Isabelle Adjani The Story of Adele H. Glenda Jackson Hedda Carol Kane Hester Street 1976 Faye Dunaway Network Marie-Christine Barrault Cousin, Cousine Talia Shire Rocky Sissy Spacek Carrie Liv Ullmann Face to Face 1977 Diane Keaton Annie Hall Anne Bancroft The Turning Point Jane Fonda Julia Shirley MacLaine The Turning Point Marsha Mason The Goodbye Girl 1978 Jane Fonda Coming Home Ingrid Bergman Autumn Sonata Ellen Burstyn Same Time, Next Year Jill Clayburgh An Unmarried Woman Geraldine Page Interiors 1979 Sally Field Norma Rae Jill Clayburgh Starting Over Jane Fonda The China Syndrome Marsha Mason Chapter Two Bette Midler The Rose
1980-1989 Jaar Actrice Film 1980 Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter Ellen Burstyn Resurrection Goldie Hawn Private Benjamin Mary Tyler Moore Ordinary People Gena Rowlands Gloria 1981 Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond Diane Keaton Reds Marsha Mason Only When I Laugh Susan Sarandon Atlantic City Meryl Streep The French Lieutenant's Woman 1982 Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice Julie Andrews Victor/Victoria Jessica Lange Frances Sissy Spacek Missing Debra Winger An Officer and a Gentleman 1983 Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment Jane Alexander Testament Meryl Streep Silkwood Julie Walters Educating Rita Debra Winger Terms of Endearment 1984 Sally Field Places in the Heart Judy Davis A Passage to India Jessica Lange Country Vanessa Redgrave The Bostonians Sissy Spacek The River 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 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 1987 Cher Moonstruck Glenn Close Fatal Attraction Holly Hunter Broadcast News Sally Kirkland Anna Meryl Streep Ironweed 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 1989 Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy Isabelle Adjani Camille Claudel Pauline Collins Shirley Valentine Jessica Lange Music Box Michelle Pfeiffer The Fabulous Baker Boys
1990-1999