Best Actress Oscar nominees

Name every actress who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

The year is that of the release of the film (not the year of the Award ceremony).

Winners are in blue on yellow background. (Note: There was a tie for 1968.)

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Year	Film	Actress
2016	La La Land	Emma Stone
2016	Elle	Isabelle Huppert
2016	Loving	Ruth Negga
2016	Jackie	Natalie Portman
2016	Florence Foster Jenkins	Meryl Streep
2015	Room	Brie Larson
2015	Carol	Cate Blanchett
2015	Joy	Jennifer Lawrence
2015	45 Years	Charlotte Rampling
2015	Brooklyn	Saoirse Ronan
2014	Still Alice	Julianne Moore
2014	Two Days, One Night	Marion Cotillard
2014	The Theory of Everything	Felicity Jones
2014	Gone Girl	Rosamund Pike
2014	Wild	Reese Witherspoon
2013	Blue Jasmine	Cate Blanchett
2013	American Hustle	Amy Adams
2013	Gravity	Sandra Bullock
2013	Philomena	Judi Dench
2013	August: Osage County	Meryl Streep
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	Jennifer Lawrence
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Jessica Chastain
2012	Amour	Emmanuelle Riva
2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Quvenzhané Wallis
2012	The Impossible	Naomi Watts
2011	The Iron Lady	Meryl Streep
2011	Albert Nobbs	Glenn Close
2011	The Help	Viola Davis
2011	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Rooney Mara
2011	My Week with Marilyn	Michelle Williams
2010	Black Swan	Natalie Portman
2010	The Kids Are All Right	Annette Bening
2010	The Rabbit Hole	Nicole Kidman
2010	Winter’s Bone	Jennifer Lawrence
2010	Blue Valentine	Michelle Williams
2009	The Blind Side	Sandra Bullock
2009	The Last Station	Helen Mirren
2009	An Education	Carey Mulligan
2009	Precious	Gabourey Sidibe
2009	Julie & Julia	Meryl Streep
2008	The Reader	Kate Winslet
2008	Rachel Getting Married	Anne Hathaway
2008	Changeling	Angelina Jolie
2008	Frozen River	Melissa Leo
2008	Doubt	Meryl Streep
2007	La Vie en rose	Marion Cotillard
2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Cate Blanchett
2007	Away from Her	Julie Christie
2007	The Savages	Laura Linney
2007	Juno	Ellen Page
2006	The Queen	Helen Mirren
2006	Volver	Penélope Cruz
2006	Notes on a Scandal	Judi Dench
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	Meryl Streep
2006	Little Children	Kate Winslet
2005	Walk the Line	Reese Witherspoon
2005	Mrs Henderson Presents	Judi Dench
2005	Transamerica	Felicity Huffman
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Keira Knightley
2005	North Country	Charlize Theron
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Hilary Swank
2004	Being Julia	Annette Bening
2004	Maria Full of Grace	Catalina Sandino Moreno
2004	Vera Drake	Imelda Staunton
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Kate Winslet
2003	Monster	Charlize Theron
2003	Whale Rider	Keisha Castle-Hughes
2003	Something’s Gotta Give	Diane Keaton
2003	In America	Samantha Morton
2003	21 Grams	Naomi Watts
2002	The Hours	Nicole Kidman
2002	Frida	Salma Hayek
2002	Unfaithful	Diane Lane
2002	Far from Heaven	Julianne Moore
2002	Chicago	Renée Zellweger
2001	Monster’s Ball	Halle Berry
2001	Iris	Judi Dench
2001	Moulin Rouge!	Nicole Kidman
2001	In the Bedroom	Sissy Spacek
2001	Bridget Jones’s Diary	Renée Zellweger
2000	Erin Brockovich	Julia Roberts
2000	The Contender	Joan Allen
2000	Chocolat	Juliette Binoche
2000	Requiem for a Dream	Ellen Burstyn
2000	You Can Count on Me	Laura Linney
1999	Boys Don’t Cry	Hilary Swank
1999	American Beauty	Annette Bening
1999	Tumbleweeds	Janet McTeer
1999	The End of the Affair	Julianne Moore
1999	Music of the Heart	Meryl Streep
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Gwyneth Paltrow
1998	Elizabeth	Cate Blanchett
1998	Central Station	Fernanda Montenegro
1998	One True Thing	Meryl Streep
1998	Hilary and Jackie	Emily Watson
1997	As Good as It Gets	Helen Hunt
1997	The Wings of the Dove	Helena Bonham Carter
1997	Afterglow	Julie Christie
1997	Mrs Brown	Judi Dench
1997	Titanic	Kate Winslet
1996	Fargo	Frances McDormand
1996	Secrets & Lies	Brenda Blethyn
1996	Marvin’s Room	Diane Keaton
1996	The English Patient	Kristin Scott Thomas
1996	Breaking the Waves	Emily Watson
1995	Dean Man Walking	Susan Sarandon
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Elisabeth Shue
1995	Casino	Sharon Stone
1995	The Bridges of Madison County	Meryl Streep
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Emma Thompson
1994	Blue Sky	Jessica Lange
1994	Nell	Jodie Foster
1994	Tom & Viv	Miranda Richardson
1994	Little Women	Winona Ryder
1994	The Client	Susan Sarandon
1993	The Piano	Holly Hunter
1993	What’s Love Got to Do with It	Angela Bassett
1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Stockard Channing
1993	The Remains of the Day	Emma Thompson
1993	Shadowlands	Debra Winger
1992	Howards End	Emma Thompson
1992	Indochine	Catherine Deneuve
1992	Passion Fish	Mary McDonnell
1992	Love Field	Michelle Pfeiffer
1992	Lorenzo’s Oil	Susan Sarandon
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jodie Foster
1991	Thelma and Louise	Geena Davis
1991	Rambling Rose	Laura Dern
1991	For the Boys	Bette Midler
1991	Thelma and Louise	Susan Sarandon
1990	Misery	Kathy Bates
1990	The Grifters	Anjelica Huston
1990	Pretty Woman	Julia Roberts
1990	Postcards from the Edge	Meryl Streep
1990	Mr. & Mrs Bridge	Joanne Woodward
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Jessica Tandy
1989	Camille Claudel	Isabelle Adjani
1989	Shirley Valentine	Pauline Collins
1989	Music Box	Jessica Lange
1989	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Michelle Pfeiffer
1988	The Accused	Jodie Foster
1988	Dangerous Liaisons	Glenn Close
1988	Working Girl	Melanie Griffith
1988	A Cry in the Dark	Meryl Streep
1988	Gorillas in the Mist	Sigourney Weaver
1987	Moonstruck	Cher
1987	Fatal Attraction	Glenn Close
1987	Broadcast News	Holly Hunter
1987	Anna	Sally Kirkland
1987	Ironweed	Meryl Streep
1986	Children of a Lesser God	Marlee Matlin
1986	The Morning After	Jane Fonda
1986	Crimes of the Heart	Sissy Spacek
1986	Peggy Sue Got Married	Kathleen Turner
1986	Aliens	Sigourney Weaver
1985	A Trip to the Bountiful	Geraldine Page
1985	Agnes of God	Anne Bancroft
1985	The Color Purple	Whoopi Goldberg
1985	Sweet Dreams	Jessica Lange
1985	Out of Africa	Meryl Streep
1984	Places in the Heart	Sally Field
1984	A Passage to India	Judy Davis
1984	Country	Jessica Lange
1984	The Bostonians	Vanessa Redgrave
1984	The River	Sissy Spacek
1983	Terms of Endearment	Shirley MacLaine
1983	Testament	Jane Alexander
1983	Silkwood	Meryl Streep
1983	Educating Rita	Julie Walters
1983	Terms of Endearment	Debra Winger
1982	Sophie’s Choice	Meryl Streep
1982	Victor Victoria	Julie Andrews
1982	Frances	Jessica Lange
1982	Missing	Sissy Spacek
1982	An Officer and a Gentleman	Debra Winger
1981	On Golden Pond	Katharine Hepburn
1981	Reds	Diane Keaton
1981	Only When I Laugh	Marsha Mason
1981	Atlantic City	Susan Sarandon
1981	The French Lieutenant’s Woman	Meryl Streep
1980	Coal Miner’s Daughter	Sissy Spacek
1980	Resurrection	Ellen Burstyn
1980	Private Benjamin	Goldie Hawn
1980	Ordinary People	Mary Tyler Moore
1980	Gloria	Gena Rowlands
1979	Norma Rae	Sally Field
1979	Starting Over	Jill Clayburgh
1979	The China Syndrome	Jane Fonda
1979	Chapter Two	Marsha Mason
1979	The Rose	Bette Midler
1978	Coming Home	Jane Fonda
1978	Autumn Sonata	Ingrid Bergman
1978	Same Time, Next Year	Ellen Burstyn
1978	An Unmarried Woman	Jill Clayburgh
1978	Interiors	Geraldine Page
1977	Annie Hall	Diane Keaton
1977	The Turning Point	Anne Bancroft
1977	Julia	Jane Fonda
1977	The Turning Point	Shirley MacLaine
1977	The Goodbye Girl	Marsha Mason
1976	Network	Faye Dunaway
1976	Cousin Cousine	Marie-Christine Barrault
1976	Rocky	Talia Shire
1976	Carrie	Sissy Spacek
1976	Face to Face	Liv Ullmann
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Louise Fletcher
1975	The Story of Adele H.	Isabelle Adjani
1975	Tommy	Ann-Margret
1975	Hedda	Glenda Jackson
1975	Hester Street	Carol Kane
1974	Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore	Ellen Burstyn
1974	Claudine	Diahann Carroll
1974	Chinatown	Faye Dunaway
1974	Lenny	Valerie Perrine
1974	A Woman Under the Influence	Gena Rowlands
1973	A Touch of Class	Glenda Jackson
1973	The Exorcist	Ellen Burstyn
1973	Cinderella Liberty	Marsha Mason
1973	The Way We Were	Barbra Streisand
1973	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Joanne Woodward
1972	Cabaret	Liza Minnelli

Year	Film	Actress
1972	Lady Sings the Blues	Diana Ross
1972	Travels with My Aunt	Maggie Smith
1972	Sounder	Cicely Tyson
1972	The Immigrants	Liv Ullmann
1971	Klute	Jane Fonda
1971	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Julie Christie
1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Glenda Jackson
1971	Mary, Queen of Scots	Vanessa Redgrave
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Janet Suzman
1970	Women in Love	Glenda Jackson
1970	The Great White Hope	Jane Alexander
1970	Love Story	Ali MacGraw
1970	Ryan’s Daughter	Sarah Miles
1970	Diary of a Mad Housewife	Carrie Snodgress
1969	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Maggie Smith
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Geneviève Bujold
1969	They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?	Jane Fonda
1969	The Sterile Cuckoo	Liza Minnelli
1969	The Happy Ending	Jean Simmons
1968	The Lion in Winter	Katharine Hepburn
1968	Funny Girl	Barbra Streisand
1968	The Subject Was Roses	Patricia Neal
1968	Isadora	Vanessa Redgrave
1968	Rachel, Rachel	Joanne Woodward
1967	Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner	Katharine Hepburn
1967	The Graduate	Anne Bancroft
1967	Bonnie and Clyde	Faye Dunaway
1967	The Whisperers	Edith Evans
1967	Wait Until Dark	Audrey Hepburn
1966	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Elizabeth Taylor
1966	A Man and a Woman	Anouk Aimée
1966	The Shop on Main Street	Ida Kamińska
1966	Georgy Girl	Lynn Redgrave
1966	Morgan!	Vanessa Redgrave
1965	Darling	Julie Christie
1965	The Sound of Music	Julie Andrews
1965	The Collector	Samantha Eggar
1965	A Patch of Blue	Elizabeth Hartman
1965	Ship of Fools	Simone Signoret
1964	Mary Poppins	Julie Andrews
1964	The Pumpkin Eater	Anne Bancroft
1964	Marriage Italian Style	Sophia Loren
1964	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Debbie Reynolds
1964	Séance on a Wet Afternoon	Kim Stanley
1963	Hud	Patricia Neal
1963	The L-Shaped Room	Leslie Caron
1963	Irma la Douce	Shirley MacLaine
1963	The Sporting Life	Rachel Roberts
1963	Love with the Proper Stranger	Natalie Wood
1962	The Miracle Worker	Anne Bancroft
1962	Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?	Bette Davis
1962	Long Day’s Journey into Night	Katharine Hepburn
1962	Sweet Bird of Youth	Geraldine Page
1962	Days of Wine and Roses	Lee Remick
1961	Two Women	Sophia Loren
1961	Breakfast at Tiffany’s	Audrey Hepburn
1961	The Hustler	Piper Laurie
1961	Summer and Smoke	Geraldine Page
1961	Splendor in the Grass	Natalie Wood
1960	BUtterfield 8	Elizabeth Taylor
1960	Sunrise at Campobello	Greer Garson
1960	The Sundowners	Deborah Kerr
1960	The Apartment	Shirley MacLaine
1960	Never on a Sunday	Melina Mercouri
1959	Room at the Top	Simone Signoret
1959	Pillow Talk	Doris Day
1959	The Nun’s Story	Audrey Hepburn
1959	Suddenly, Last Summer	Katharine Hepburn
1959	Suddenly, Last Summer	Elizabeth Taylor
1958	I Want to Live!	Susan Hayward
1958	Separate Tables	Deborah Kerr
1958	Some Came Running	Shirley MacLaine
1958	Auntie Mame	Rosalind Russell
1958	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Elizabeth Taylor
1957	The Three Faces of Eve	Joanne Woodward
1957	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	Deborah Kerr
1957	Wild Is the Wind	Anna Magnani
1957	Raintree Country	Elizabeth Taylor
1957	Peyton Place	Lana Turner
1956	Anastasia	Ingrid Bergman
1956	Baby Doll	Carroll Baker
1956	The Rainmaker	Katharine Hepburn
1956	The Bad Seed	Nancy Kelly
1956	The King and I	Deborah Kerr
1955	The Rose Tattoo	Anna Magnani
1955	I’ll Cry Tomorrow	Susan Hayward
1955	Summertime	Katharine Hepburn
1955	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	Jennifer Jones
1955	Interrupted Melody	Eleanor Parker
1954	The Country Girl	Grace Kelly
1954	Carmen Jones	Dorothy Dandridge
1954	A Star Is Born	Judy Garland
1954	Sabrina	Audrey Hepburn
1954	Magnificent Obsession	Jane Wyman
1953	Roman Holiday	Audrey Hepburn
1953	Lili	Leslie Caron
1953	Mogambo	Ava Gardner
1953	From Here to Eternity	Deborah Kerr
1953	The Moon Is Blue	Maggie McNamara
1952	Come Back, Little Sheba	Shirley Booth
1952	Sudden Fear	Joan Crawford
1952	The Star	Bette Davis
1952	The Member of the Wedding	Julie Harris
1952	With a Song in My Heart	Susan Hayward
1951	A Street Car Named Desire	Vivien Leigh
1951	The African Queen	Katharine Hepburn
1951	Detective Story	Eleanor Parker
1951	A Place in the Sun	Shelley Winters
1951	The Blue Veil	Jane Wyman
1950	Born Yesterday	Judy Holliday
1950	All About Eve	Anne Baxter
1950	All About Eve	Bette Davis
1950	Caged	Eleanor Parker
1950	Sunset Bouelvard	Gloria Swanson
1949	The Heiress	Olivia de Havilland
1949	Pinky	Jeanne Crain
1949	My Foolish Heart	Susan Hayward
1949	Edward, My Son	Deborah Kerr
1949	Come to the Stable	Loretta Young
1948	Johnny Belinda	Jane Wyman
1948	Joan of Arc	Ingrid Bergman
1948	The Snake Pit	Olivia de Havilland
1948	I Remember Mama	Irene Dunne
1948	Sorry, Wrong Number	Barbara Stanwyck
1947	The Farmer’s Daughter	Loretta Young
1947	Possessed	Joan Crawford
1947	Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman	Susan Hayward
1947	Gentleman’s Agreement	Dorothy McGuire
1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Rosalind Russell
1946	To Each His Own	Olivia de Havilland
1946	Brief Encounter	Celia Johnson
1946	Duel in the Sun	Jennifer Jones
1946	Sister Kenny	Rosalind Russell
1946	The Yearling	Jane Wyman
1945	Mildred Pierce	Joan Crawford
1945	The Bells of St. Mary’s	Ingrid Bergman
1945	The Valley of Decision	Greer Garson
1945	Love Letters	Jennifer Jones
1945	Leave Her to Heaven	Gene Tierney
1944	Gaslight	Ingrid Bergman
1944	Since You Went Away	Claudette Colbert
1944	Mr. Skeffington	Bette Davis
1944	Mrs. Parkington	Greer Garson
1944	Double Indemnity	Barbara Stanwyck
1943	The Song of Bernadette	Jennifer Jones
1943	The More the Merrier	Jean Arthur
1943	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ingrid Bergman
1943	The Constant Nymph	Joan Fontaine
1943	Madame Curie	Greer Garson
1942	Mrs. Miniver	Greer Garson
1942	Now, Voyager	Bette Davis
1942	Woman of the Year	Katharine Hepburn
1942	My Sister Eileen	Rosalind Russell
1942	The Pride of the Yankees	Teresa Wright
1941	Suspicion	Joan Fontaine
1941	The Little Foxes	Bette Davis
1941	Hold Back the Dawn	Olivia de Havilland
1941	Blossoms in the Dust	Greer Garson
1941	Ball of Fire	Barbara Stanwyck
1940	Kitty Foyle	Ginger Rogers
1940	The Letter	Bette Davis
1940	Rebecca	Joan Fontaine
1940	The Philadelphia Story	Katharine Hepburn
1940	Our Town	Martha Scott
1939	Gone with the Wind	Vivien Leigh
1939	Dark Victory	Bette Davis
1939	Love Affair	Irene Dunne
1939	Ninotchka	Greta Garbo
1939	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Greer Garson
1938	Jezebel	Bette Davis
1938	White Banners	Fay Bainter
1938	Pygmalion	Wendy Hiller
1938	Marie Antoinette	Norma Shearer
1938	Three Comrades	Margaret Sullavan
1937	The Good Earth	Luise Rainer
1937	The Awful Truth	Irene Dunne
1937	Camille	Greta Garbo
1937	A Star Is Born	Janet Gaynor
1937	Stella Dallas	Barbara Stanwyck
1936	The Great Ziegfeld	Luise Rainer
1936	Theodora Goes Wild	Irene Dunne
1936	Valiant Is the Word for Carrie	Gladys George
1936	My Man Godfrey	Carole Lombard
1936	Romeo and Juliet	Norma Shearer
1935	Dangerous	Bette Davis
1935	Escape Me Never	Elisabeth Bergner
1935	Private Worlds	Claudette Colbert
1935	Alice Adams	Katharine Hepburn
1935	Becky Sharp	Miriam Hopkins
1935	The Dark Angel	Merle Oberon
1934	It Happened One Night	Claudette Colbert
1934	Of Human Bondage	Bette Davis
1934	One Night of Love	Grace Moore
1934	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Norma Shearer
1932–33	Morning Glory	Katharine Hepburn
1932–33	Lady for a Day	May Robson
1932–33	Cavalcade	Diana Wynyard
1931–32	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Helen Hayes
1931–32	Emma	Marie Dressler
1931–32	The Guardsman	Lynn Fontanne
1930–31	Min and Bill	Marie Dressler
1930–31	Morocco	Marlene Dietrich
1930–31	Cimarron	Irene Dunne
1930–31	Holiday	Ann Harding
1930–31	A Free Soul	Norma Shearer
1929–30	The Divorcee	Norma Shearer
1929–30	The Devil’s Holiday	Nancy Carroll
1929–30	Sarah and Son	Ruth Chatterton
1929–30	Anna Christie / Romance	Greta Garbo
1929–30	Their Own Desire	Norma Shearer
1929–30	The Trespasser	Gloria Swanson
1928–29	Coquette	Mary Pickford
1928–29	Madame X	Ruth Chatterton
1928–29	The Barker	Betty Compson
1928–29	The Letter	Jeanne Eagels
1928–29	The Divine Lady	Corinne Griffith
1928–29	The Broadway Melody	Bessie Love
1927–28	7^th Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	Janet Gaynor
1927–28	A Ship Comes In	Louise Dresser
1927–28	Sadie Thompson	Gloria Swanson

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