Research in Progress (Jan 19, 2022)
1928: Janet Gaynor, Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise, 22; 1 more Oscar nom (1937)
1929: Mary Pickford, Coquette, 37
1930: Norma Shearer, Their Own Desire, The Divorcee, 28; 4 more Oscar noms
1931 Marie Dressler, Min and Bill, 63; 1 more Oscar nom
1932 Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet, 32; 1 more Oscar Award, 1970
1933 Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory, 26; 11 more Oscar noms; 3 more Oscar Awards
1934 Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night, 31; 2 more Oscar noms;
1935 Bette Davis, Dangerous, 27; 1 more Oscar; 9 more Oscar noms
1936 Luise Rainer, The Great Ziegfeld, 26; 1 more Oscar
1937 Luise Rainer, The Good Earth. 27
1938 Bette Davis, Jezebel, 30
1939 Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind, 26; 1 more Oscar
1940 Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle, 29
1941 Joan Fontaine, Suspicion. 24; 1 more Oscar nom
1942 Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver, 38; 4 more Oscar noms;
1943 Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette, 24; 4 more Oscar noms;
1944 Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight, 29, 2 more Oscars; 3 more Oscar noms
1945 Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce, 40; 2 more Oscar noms
1946 Olivia De Havilland, To Each His Own, 30; 1 more Oscar; 1 more Oscar nom
1947 Loretta Young, The Farmer’s Daughter, 34; 1 more Oscar nom
1948 Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda, 31; 3 more Oscar noms
1949 Olivia De Havilland, The Heiress, 33
1950 Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday. 29;
1951 Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire, 38
1952 Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba, 54
1953 Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday, 24; 4 more Oscar noms
1954 Grace Kelly, The Country Girl, 25
1955: Anna Magnani, The Rose Tattoo, 47; 1 more Oscar nom
1956 Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia, 41
1957 Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve, 27; 3 more Oscar noms
1958 Susan Hayward, I Want to Live! 40 (won at 5th nom)
1959 Simone Signoret, Room at the Top, 38; 1 more Oscar nom
1960 Elizabeth Taylor, Butterfield 8, 28; 1 more Oscar nom
1961 Sophia Loren, Two Women, 27; 1 more Oscar nom
1962 Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker, 31; 4 more Oscar noms
1963 Patricia Neal, Hud, 37; 1 more Oscar nom
1964 Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins, 29; 2 more Oscar noms
1965 Julie Christie, Darling, 24; 3 more Oscar noms
1966 Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 34
1967 Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl, 26; 1 more Oscar nom
(Tie) Katharine Hepburn, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? 59
1968 Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter, 60
1969 Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 35; 1 more Oscar; 3 more Oscar noms
1970 Glenda Jackson, Women in Love, 34; 3 more Oscar noms
1971 Jane Fonda, Klute, 34; 5 more Oscar noms
1972 Liza Minnelli, Cabaret, 26
1973 Glenada Jackson, A Touch of Class, 37
1974 Ellen Burstyn, Alice Doesn’t LIve Here Anymore, 42; 3 more Oscar noms
1975 Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 41
1976 Faye Dunaway, Network, 35 (won at 3rd nom)
1977 Diane Keaton, Annie Hall, 31; 3 more Oscar noms
1978 Jane Fonda, Coming Home, 41
1979 Sally Field, Norma Rae, 33; 1 more Oscar; 1 more Oscar nom
1980 Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner’s Daughter, 31; 4 more Oscar nom;
1982 Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice, 33; 1 more Oscar; multiple Oscar noms
1983 Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment, 49
1984 Sally Field, Places in the Heart, 38
1985: Geraldine Page, The Trip to Bountiful, 61; won at 8th nomination
1986 Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God, 21
1987 Cher, Moonstruck, 41;
1988 Jodie Foster, The Accused, 26; 1 more Oscar; 1 more Oscar nom
1989 Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy, 80; 1 more Oscar nom
1990 Kathy Bates, Misery, 42; 3 more Oscar noms
1991 Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs, 29
1992 Emma Thompson, Howards End, 33
1993 Holly Hunter, The Piano, 35
1994 Jessica Lange, Blue Sky, 45
1995 Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking, 49
1996 Frances McDormand, Fargo, 39; 2 more Oscars
1997 Helen Hunt, As Good As It gets, 34
1998 Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love; 26
1999 Hilary Swank, Boys Don’t Cry, 25
2000 Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich; 33
2001 Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball; 35
2002 Nicole Kidman, The Hours; 35
2003 Charlize Theron, Monster; 28
2004 Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby, 30
2005 Reese Witherspoon, Ray, 29
2006 Helen Mirren, The Queen, 61
2007 Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose, 32
2008: Kate Winslet, The Reader, 33
2009: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side, 45; 1 more nom
2010: Natalie Portman, Black Swan, 25; 1 more nom
2011: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady, 62
2012: Jennifer Lawrence, The Silver Lining Handbook, 22
2013: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine, 44
2014: Julianne Moore, Still Alice? 54
2015: Brie Larson, Room, 26
2016: Emma Stone, La La Land, 29
2017: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, 60; 1 more Oscar
2018: Olivia Colman, The Favourite, 44; 1 more supp. nom
(done, see below)
2019: Renee Zellweger, Judy, 50
2020 Frances McDormand, Nomadland; 63 (3rd Oscar)
Colman, Olivia
Sarah Caroline Colman was born in Norwich on January 30, 1974, the daughter of nurse Mary (née Leakey) and chartered surveyor Keith Colman.
She was privately educated at Norwich High School for Girls and Gresham’s School in Holt, Norfolk. Her first role was Jean Brodie in a school production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the age of 16.
She cites her mother’s interrupted career as a ballet dancer as an inspiration to pursue acting professionally.
Colman spent a term studying primary teaching at Homerton College, Cambridge before studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, from which she graduated in 1999.
During her time at Cambridge, she auditioned for the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and met future co-stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
Colman made her professional acting debut in 2000, at the age of 26, as part of the BBC2 comedy sketch show Bruiser. She has since appeared in roles in many BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 television series, such as People Like Us, Look Around You, Black Books, The Office, The Time of Your Life and provided the voice-over for Five’s poll for Britain’s Funniest Comedy Character.
Colman regularly featured in BBC Radio 4 comedies, such as Concrete Cow, Think the Unthinkable, The House of Milton Jones and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. She was also the voice of Minka, the Polish secretary in the Radio 4 comedy Hut 33, set in a fictional codebreaking hut of the real-life Bletchley Park during World War II. Colman appeared as Bev, alongside Mark Burdis as Kev, in a series of television adverts for AA car insurance. She provided voices for the Andrex “be kind to your behind” adverts and Glade fragrance adverts, where her character is a gorilla.
