Research in Progress (March 3, 2025)
Best Actress Winners: 79 (by Year)
2028: Janet Gaynor
Mary Pickford
Norma Shearer
Marie Dressler
Helen Hayes
Katharine Hepburn
Claudette Colbert
Bette Davis
Luise Rainer
Luise Rainer
Bette Davis
Vivien Leigh
Ginger Rogers
Joan Fontaine
Greer Garson
Jennifer Jones
Ingrid Bergman
Joan Crawford
Olivia De Havilland
Loretta Young, ND; child actress; parents separated
Jane Wyman
Olivia De Havilland
Judy Holliday
Vivien Leigh
Shirley Booth, No Data
Detailed
Audrey Hepburn
Grace Kelly
Anna Magnani
Joanne Woodward
Susan Hayward
Simone Signoret
Elizabeth Taylor
Sophia Loren
Anne Bancroft
Patricia Neal
Julie Andrews
Julie Christie
Elizabeth Taylor
Barbra Streisand
Maggie Smith
Glenda Jackson
Jane Fonda
Liza Minnelli
Glenda Jackson
Ellen Burstyn
Louise Fletcher
Faye Dunnaway
Diane Keaton
Jane Fonda
Sally Field
Sissy Spacek
Meryl Streep
Shirley MacLaine
Sally Field
Geraldine Page
Mary Matlin
Cher
Jodie Foster
Jessica Tandy
Kathy Bates
Jodie Foster
Emma Thompson
Holly Hunter
Jessica Lange
Susan Sarandon
Frances McDormand
Helen Hunt
Gwyneth Paltrow
Hilary Swank
Julia Roberts
Hallie Berry
Nicole Kidman
Charlize Theron
Hilary Swank
Reese Witherspoon
Helen Mirren
Marion Cottillard
Kate Winslet
Sandra Bullock
Natalie Portman
Meryl Streep
Jennifer Lawrence
Cate Blanchette
Julianne Moore
Brie Larson
Emma Stone
Frances McDormand
Olivia Colman
2019: Renee Zellweger
2020: Frances McDormand
2021: Jessica Chastain
2022: Michelle Yeoh
2023: Emma Stone
2024: Demi Moore
Best Actress Winners: 80 (alphabet, A to Z)
13 of the 79 (15 percent) women have won 2 or more Best Actress
Andrews, Julie
Bancroft, Anne
Bates, Kathy
Bergman, Ingrid, 2
Berry, Hallie
Blanchette, Cate
Booth, Shirley
Bullock, Sandra
Burstyn, Ellen
Chastain, Jessica
Cher
Christie, Julie
Colbert, Claudette
Colman, Olivia
Cottillard, Marion
Crawford, Joan
Davis, Bette, 2
De Havilland, Olivia 2
Dressler, Marie
Dunnaway, Faye
Field, Sally, 2
Fletcher, Louise
Fonda, Jane
Fontaine, Joan
Foster, Jodie, 2
Garson, Greer
Gaynor, Janet
Hayes, Helen
Hayward, Susan
Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Katharine 4
Holliday, Judy
Hunt, Helen
Hunter, Holly
Jackson, Glenda, 2
Jones, Jennifer
Keaton, Diane
Kelly, Grace
Kidman, Nicole
Lange, Jessica
Larson, Brie
Lawrence, Jennifer
Leigh, Vivien, 2
Loren, Sophia
MacLaine, Shirley
Magnani, Anna
Matlin, Marlee
McDormand Frances, 3
Minnelli, Liza
Mirren, Helen
Moore, Demi
Moore, Julianne
Neal, Patricia
Page, Geraldine
Paltrow, Gwyneth
Pickford, Mary
Portman, Natalie
Rainer, Luise, 2
Roberts, Julia
Rogers, Ginger
Sarandon, Susan
Shearer, Norma
Signoret, Simone
Smith, Maggie
Spacek, Sissy
Stone, Emma 2
Streep, Meryl, 2
Streisand, Barbra
Swank, Hilary, 2
Tandy, Jessica
Taylor, Elizabeth
Theron, Charlize
Thompson, Emma
Winslet, Kate
Witherspoon, Reese
Woodward, Joanne
Wyman, Jane
Yeoh, Michelle
Young, Loretta
Zellweger, Rene
