Research in Progress (April 30, 2021):
93 years of Oscar (including 2021)
The Best Supporting Actress category was established in 1936.
Total number of women winners: 77 (lead) +76 (supporting)=153
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Winners: Best Actress and Supporting Actress (A to Z)
Andrews, Julie, Mary Poppins
Arquette, Patricia, Boyhood
Ashcroft, Peggy, A Passage to India
Astor, Mary, The Great Lie
Bainter, Faye, Jezebel
Bancroft, Anne, The Miracle Worker
Barrymore, Ethel, None But the Lonely Heart
Basinger, Kim, L.A. Confidential
Baxter, Anne, The Razor’s Edge
Bergman, Ingrid (3): Gaslight; Anastasia; Murder on the Orient Express
Binoche, Juliette, The English Patient
Blanchette, Cate (2): The Aviator; Blue Jasmine
Booth, Shirley, Come Back, Little Sheba
Brady, Alice, In Old Chicag0
Burstyn, Ellen, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Cher, Moonstruck
Colbert, Claudette, It Happened One Night
Connelly, Jennifer, A Beautiful Mind
Cruz, Penelope, Vicki, Cristina, Barcelona
Darwell, Jane, The Grapes of Wrath
Davis, Bette, Dangerous, 1935; Jezebel, 1938
Davis, Geena, The Accidental Tourist
De Havilland, Olivia (2) To Each His Own, The Heiress
Dench, Judi, Shakespeare in Love
Dennis, Sandy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Dern, Laura, Marriage Story
Dressler, Marie, Min and Bill
Dukakis, Olympia, Moonstruck
Duke, Patty, The Miracle Worker
Dunaway, Faye, Network;
Field, Sally (2): Norma Rae; Places in the Heart;
Fontaine, Joan, Suspicion
Foster, Jodie (2): The Accused; The Silence of the Lambs
Fricker, Brenda, My Left Foot
Garson, Greer, Mrs. Miniver
Gaynor, Janet (3 films)
Goldberg, Whoopi, Ghost
Gordon, Ruth, Rosemary’s Baby
Grahame, Gloria, The Bad and the Beautiful
Grant, Lee, Shampoo
Harden, Marcia Gay, Pollock
Hathaway, Anne, Les Miserables
Hawn, Goldie, Cactus Flower
Hayes, Helen, The Sin of Madelon Claudet; Airport
Hayward, Susan, I Want to Live!
Heckart, Eileen, Butterflies Are Free
Hepburn, Audrey, Roman Holiday
Hepburn, Katharine (4), Morning Glory, 1933; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967); The Lion in Winter (1968)
Hiller, Wendy, Separate Tables
Holliday, Judy, Born Yesterday
Holme, Celeste, Gentleman’s Agreement
Hudson, Jennifer, Dreamgirls
Hull, Josephine Hull, Harvey
Hunt, Linda, The Year of Living Dangerously
Hunter, Kim, A Streetcar Named Desire
Huston, Anjelica, Prizzi’s Honor
Janney, Allison, I, Tonya
Jolie, Angelina, Girl, Interrupted
Jones, Jennifer, The Song of Bernadette
Jones, Shirley, Elmer Gantry
Kedrova, Lila, Zorba the Greek
Kidman, Nicole, The Hours
King, Regina, If Beale Street Could Talk
Lange, Jessica (2): Tootsie; Blue Sky
Lawrence, Jennifer, The Silver Linings Handbook;
Leachman, Cloris, The Last Picture Show
Leigh, Vivien (2), Gone With the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire
Leo, Melissa, The Fighter
McCambrdige, Mercedes; All the King’s Men
McDaniel, Hattie, Gone With the Wind
McDormand, Frances; Fargo; Three Billboards; Nomadland (3 Best Actress)
Mo’ Nique, Precious
Moreno, Rita, West Side Story
Malone, Dorothy, Written on the Wind
Neal, Patricia Hud
N’Yong, Lupita, 12 Years a Slave
O’Neal, Tatum, Paper Moon
Parsons, Estelle, Bonnie and Clyde
Paquin, Anna, The Piano
Paxinou, Katina, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pickford, Mary, Coquette
Rainer, Luise (2), Great Ziegfeld, 1936; The Good Earth, 1937
Redgrave, Vanessa, Julia
Reed, Donna, From Here to Eternity
Revere, Anne, National Velvet
Rogers, Ginger, Kitty Foyle
Ruehl, Mercedes, The Fisher King
Rutherford, Margaret, The V.I.P.’s
Saint, Eva Marie, On the Waterfront
Shearer, Norma, The Divorcee
Smith, Maggie (2), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; California Suite;
Sondergaard, Gale, Anthony Adverse
Sorvino, Mira, Mighty Aphrodite
Spencer, Octavia, The Help
Stapleton, Maureen, Reds
Steenburgen, Mary, Melvin and Howard
Straight, Beatrice, Network
Streep, Meryl (3): Kramer Vs. Kramer; Sophie’s Choice; The Iron Lady
Streisand, Barbra, Funny Girl (Tie with Hepburn)
Swinton, Tilda, Michael Clayton
Taylor, Elizabeth (2), BUtterfield 8! Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Tomei, Marisa, My Cousin Vinny
Trevor, Claire, Key Largo
Vikander, Alicia, The Danish Girl
Umeki, Miyoshi, Sayonara
Van Fleet, Jo, East of Eden
Weisz, Rachel, The Constant Gardener
Wiest, Dianne (2): Hannah and Her Sisters; Bullets Over Broadway
Winters, Shelley (2), The Diary of Anne Frank, A Patch of Blue
Wright, Teresa, Mrs. Miniver
Wyman, Jane, Johnny Belinda
Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Zellweger, Renee (2): Cold Mountain; Judy
Zeta-Jones, Catherine, Chicago;
Notes:
Best Actress: In 93 years, 77 women have won the Best Actress; some multiple times.
Of the 77 women, 7 have won the Best Actress and the Best Supporting Actress.
Of the 7 actresses, Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, and Maggie Smith, have first won the Best Actress and then Best Supporting Actress.
Of the 76 Supporting Actresses winners, two, Shelley Winters and Diane Wiest, have won two Best Supporting Actress Oscars.
