Research in Progress (April 26, 2021)
Oscar: Best Actress by Film and Winning Age
1927-28 Janet Gaynor, Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise, 22
1928-29 Mary Pickford, Coquette, 37
1929-30 Norma Shearer Their Own Desire, The Divorcee; 28
1930-31 Marie Dressler Min and Bill; 63
1931-32 Helen Haynes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet; 32
1932-33 Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory; 26
1934 Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night; 31
1935 Bette Davis Dangerous 27
1936 Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld 26
1937 Luise Rainer The Good Earth 27
1938 Bette Davis Jezebel 30
1939 Vivien Leigh Gone With the Wind 26
1940 Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle 29
1941 Joan Fontaine Suspicion 24
1942 Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver 38
1943 Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette; 24
1944 Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight; 29
1945 Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce 40
1946 Olivia De Havilland To Each His Own 30
1947 Loretta Young The Farmer’s Daughter 34
1948 Jane Wyman Johnny Belinda 31
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
1954 Grace Kelly The Country Girl, 25
1955 Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo, 47
1956 Ingrid Bergman Anastasia, 41 (Second Oscar)
1957 Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve; 27
1958 Susan Hayward I Want to Live! 40
1959 Simone Signoret Room at the Top 38
1960 Elizabeth Taylor Butterfield 8 28
1961 Sophia Loren Two Women 27
1962 Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker 31
1963 Patricia Neal Hud 37
1964 Julie Andrews Mary Poppins 29
1965 Julie Christie Darling 24
1966 Elizabeth Taylor Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 34
1967 Barbra Streisand Funny Girl 26
(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
1970 Glenda Jackson Women in Love 34
1971 Jane Fonda Klute 34
1972 Liza Minnelli Cabaret 26
1973 Glenada Jackson A Touch of Class 37
1974 Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn’t LIve Here Anymore 42
1975 Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 41
1976 Faye Dunaway Network 35
1977 Diane Keaton Annie Hall 31
1978 Jane Fonda Coming Home 41
1979 Sally Field Norma Rae 33
1980 Sissy Spacek Coal Miner’s Daughter 31
1982 Meryl Streep Sophie’s Choice 33
1983 Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment 49
1984 Sally Field Places in the Heart 38
1985 Geraldine Page The Trip to Bountiful 61
1986 Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God 21
1987 Cher Moonstruck 41
1988 Jodie Foster The Accused 26
1989 Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy 80
1990 Kathy Bates Misery 42
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
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
2010 Natalie Portman Black Swan 25
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, Missouri; 60
2018 Olivia Colman, The Favourite,
2019 Renee Zellweger, Judy, 50
2020 Frances McDormand, Nomadland, 63
