Statistics for Best Actress Oscar nominees

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Year	Film	Actress	% Correct
2011	The Iron Lady	Meryl Streep	98%
1987	Ironweed	Meryl Streep	98%
1999	Music of the Heart	Meryl Streep	98%
1998	One True Thing	Meryl Streep	98%
1995	The Bridges of Madison County	Meryl Streep	98%
2013	August: Osage County	Meryl Streep	98%
2009	Julie & Julia	Meryl Streep	98%
1988	A Cry in the Dark	Meryl Streep	98%
1990	Postcards from the Edge	Meryl Streep	98%
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	Meryl Streep	98%
1982	Sophie’s Choice	Meryl Streep	98%
1981	The French Lieutenant’s Woman	Meryl Streep	98%
2008	Doubt	Meryl Streep	98%
2016	Florence Foster Jenkins	Meryl Streep	98%
1985	Out of Africa	Meryl Streep	98%
1983	Silkwood	Meryl Streep	98%
1990	Pretty Woman	Julia Roberts	97%
2000	Erin Brockovich	Julia Roberts	97%
1953	Roman Holiday	Audrey Hepburn	96%
1959	The Nun’s Story	Audrey Hepburn	96%
1961	Breakfast at Tiffany’s	Audrey Hepburn	96%
1954	Sabrina	Audrey Hepburn	96%
1967	Wait Until Dark	Audrey Hepburn	96%
2016	La La Land	Emma Stone	96%
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Kate Winslet	96%
2006	Little Children	Kate Winslet	96%
2008	The Reader	Kate Winslet	96%
1997	Titanic	Kate Winslet	96%
1956	The Rainmaker	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1951	The African Queen	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1962	Long Day’s Journey into Night	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1967	Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1968	The Lion in Winter	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1981	On Golden Pond	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1942	Woman of the Year	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1959	Suddenly, Last Summer	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1955	Summertime	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1932–33	Morning Glory	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1940	The Philadelphia Story	Katharine Hepburn	96%
1935	Alice Adams	Katharine Hepburn	96%
2013	Blue Jasmine	Cate Blanchett	95%
2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Cate Blanchett	95%
1998	Elizabeth	Cate Blanchett	95%
2015	Carol	Cate Blanchett	95%
2010	Black Swan	Natalie Portman	95%
2016	Jackie	Natalie Portman	95%
2010	The Rabbit Hole	Nicole Kidman	95%
2001	Moulin Rouge!	Nicole Kidman	95%
2002	The Hours	Nicole Kidman	95%
2013	Gravity	Sandra Bullock	95%
2009	The Blind Side	Sandra Bullock	95%
2010	Winter’s Bone	Jennifer Lawrence	94%
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	Jennifer Lawrence	94%
2015	Joy	Jennifer Lawrence	94%
1994	Nell	Jodie Foster	94%
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jodie Foster	94%
1988	The Accused	Jodie Foster	94%
1941	The Little Foxes	Bette Davis	93%
1935	Dangerous	Bette Davis	93%
1938	Jezebel	Bette Davis	93%
1939	Dark Victory	Bette Davis	93%
1962	Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?	Bette Davis	93%
1952	The Star	Bette Davis	93%
1950	All About Eve	Bette Davis	93%
1934	Of Human Bondage	Bette Davis	93%
1940	The Letter	Bette Davis	93%
1944	Mr. Skeffington	Bette Davis	93%
1942	Now, Voyager	Bette Davis	93%
1991	Thelma and Louise	Geena Davis	93%
2014	Still Alice	Julianne Moore	93%
2002	Far from Heaven	Julianne Moore	93%
1999	The End of the Affair	Julianne Moore	93%
1963	The Sporting Life	Rachel Roberts	93%
1995	Casino	Sharon Stone	93%
2011	The Help	Viola Davis	93%
2006	The Queen	Helen Mirren	92%
2009	The Last Station	Helen Mirren	92%
1982	Victor Victoria	Julie Andrews	92%
1964	Mary Poppins	Julie Andrews	92%
1965	The Sound of Music	Julie Andrews	92%
1992	Lorenzo’s Oil	Susan Sarandon	92%
1991	Thelma and Louise	Susan Sarandon	92%
1994	The Client	Susan Sarandon	92%
1981	Atlantic City	Susan Sarandon	92%
1995	Dean Man Walking	Susan Sarandon	92%
1984	A Passage to India	Judy Davis	91%
2005	Walk the Line	Reese Witherspoon	91%
2014	Wild	Reese Witherspoon	91%
2005	North Country	Charlize Theron	90%
2003	Monster	Charlize Theron	90%
1977	Annie Hall	Diane Keaton	90%
1981	Reds	Diane Keaton	90%
2003	Something’s Gotta Give	Diane Keaton	90%
1996	Marvin’s Room	Diane Keaton	90%
1959	Suddenly, Last Summer	Elizabeth Taylor	90%
1957	Raintree Country	Elizabeth Taylor	90%
1960	BUtterfield 8	Elizabeth Taylor	90%
1966	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Elizabeth Taylor	90%
1958	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Elizabeth Taylor	90%
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Hilary Swank	90%
1999	Boys Don’t Cry	Hilary Swank	90%
1997	Mrs Brown	Judi Dench	90%
2013	Philomena	Judi Dench	90%
2001	Iris	Judi Dench	90%
2005	Mrs Henderson Presents	Judi Dench	90%
2006	Notes on a Scandal	Judi Dench	90%
1980	Ordinary People	Mary Tyler Moore	90%
1968	Funny Girl	Barbra Streisand	89%
1973	The Way We Were	Barbra Streisand	89%
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Emma Thompson	89%
1993	The Remains of the Day	Emma Thompson	89%
1992	Howards End	Emma Thompson	89%
2014	The Theory of Everything	Felicity Jones	89%
1934	One Night of Love	Grace Moore	89%
1997	As Good as It Gets	Helen Hunt	89%
2002	Chicago	Renée Zellweger	89%
2001	Bridget Jones’s Diary	Renée Zellweger	89%
2011	Albert Nobbs	Glenn Close	88%
1987	Fatal Attraction	Glenn Close	88%
1988	Dangerous Liaisons	Glenn Close	88%
1945	Love Letters	Jennifer Jones	87%
1946	Duel in the Sun	Jennifer Jones	87%
1955	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	Jennifer Jones	87%
1943	The Song of Bernadette	Jennifer Jones	87%
1972	Travels with My Aunt	Maggie Smith	87%
1969	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Maggie Smith	87%
1971	Klute	Jane Fonda	86%
1969	They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?	Jane Fonda	86%
1979	The China Syndrome	Jane Fonda	86%
1986	The Morning After	Jane Fonda	86%
1978	Coming Home	Jane Fonda	86%
1977	Julia	Jane Fonda	86%
1987	Moonstruck	Cher	85%
2001	Monster’s Ball	Halle Berry	85%
1990	Misery	Kathy Bates	85%
1939	Gone with the Wind	Vivien Leigh	85%
1951	A Street Car Named Desire	Vivien Leigh	85%
2013	American Hustle	Amy Adams	84%
1987	Broadcast News	Holly Hunter	84%
1993	The Piano	Holly Hunter	84%
2007	La Vie en rose	Marion Cotillard	84%
2014	Two Days, One Night	Marion Cotillard	84%
1986	Aliens	Sigourney Weaver	84%
1988	Gorillas in the Mist	Sigourney Weaver	84%
1986	Crimes of the Heart	Sissy Spacek	84%
1976	Carrie	Sissy Spacek	84%
1984	The River	Sissy Spacek	84%
1982	Missing	Sissy Spacek	84%
1980	Coal Miner’s Daughter	Sissy Spacek	84%
2001	In the Bedroom	Sissy Spacek	84%
1967	Bonnie and Clyde	Faye Dunaway	83%
1974	Chinatown	Faye Dunaway	83%
1976	Network	Faye Dunaway	83%
1996	Fargo	Frances McDormand	83%
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Keira Knightley	83%
2007	Juno	Ellen Page	82%
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Gwyneth Paltrow	82%
1945	The Bells of St. Mary’s	Ingrid Bergman	82%
1978	Autumn Sonata	Ingrid Bergman	82%
1948	Joan of Arc	Ingrid Bergman	82%
1944	Gaslight	Ingrid Bergman	82%
1943	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ingrid Bergman	82%
1956	Anastasia	Ingrid Bergman	82%
1958	Some Came Running	Shirley MacLaine	82%
1977	The Turning Point	Shirley MacLaine	82%
1960	The Apartment	Shirley MacLaine	82%
1963	Irma la Douce	Shirley MacLaine	82%
1983	Terms of Endearment	Shirley MacLaine	82%
2008	Changeling	Angelina Jolie	81%
2006	Volver	Penélope Cruz	81%
1984	Places in the Heart	Sally Field	81%
1979	Norma Rae	Sally Field	81%
2015	Room	Brie Larson	80%
1961	Summer and Smoke	Geraldine Page	80%
1985	A Trip to the Bountiful	Geraldine Page	80%
1978	Interiors	Geraldine Page	80%
1962	Sweet Bird of Youth	Geraldine Page	80%
2010	Blue Valentine	Michelle Williams	80%
2011	My Week with Marilyn	Michelle Williams	80%
2002	Frida	Salma Hayek	80%
2010	The Kids Are All Right	Annette Bening	79%
1999	American Beauty	Annette Bening	79%
2004	Being Julia	Annette Bening	79%
1989	Music Box	Jessica Lange	79%
1994	Blue Sky	Jessica Lange	79%
1984	Country	Jessica Lange	79%
1982	Frances	Jessica Lange	79%
1985	Sweet Dreams	Jessica Lange	79%
1969	The Sterile Cuckoo	Liza Minnelli	79%
1972	Cabaret	Liza Minnelli	79%
1954	The Country Girl	Grace Kelly	78%
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Jessica Tandy	78%
1964	Marriage Italian Style	Sophia Loren	77%
1961	Two Women	Sophia Loren	77%
1985	The Color Purple	Whoopi Goldberg	77%
1954	A Star Is Born	Judy Garland	76%
2000	Chocolat	Juliette Binoche	76%
1956	The Bad Seed	Nancy Kelly	76%
2011	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Rooney Mara	76%
1964	The Pumpkin Eater	Anne Bancroft	75%
1967	The Graduate	Anne Bancroft	75%
1962	The Miracle Worker	Anne Bancroft	75%
1985	Agnes of God	Anne Bancroft	75%
1977	The Turning Point	Anne Bancroft	75%
2008	Rachel Getting Married	Anne Hathaway	75%
1973	The Exorcist	Ellen Burstyn	75%
1978	Same Time, Next Year	Ellen Burstyn	75%
1980	Resurrection	Ellen Burstyn	75%
1974	Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore	Ellen Burstyn	75%
2000	Requiem for a Dream	Ellen Burstyn	75%
1970	Women in Love	Glenda Jackson	75%
1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Glenda Jackson	75%
1973	A Touch of Class	Glenda Jackson	75%
1975	Hedda	Glenda Jackson	75%
1945	Mildred Pierce	Joan Crawford	75%
1947	Possessed	Joan Crawford	75%
1952	Sudden Fear	Joan Crawford	75%
2012	The Impossible	Naomi Watts	75%
2003	21 Grams	Naomi Watts	75%
1963	Love with the Proper Stranger	Natalie Wood	74%
1961	Splendor in the Grass	Natalie Wood	74%
1946	To Each His Own	Olivia de Havilland	74%
1948	The Snake Pit	Olivia de Havilland	74%
1941	Hold Back the Dawn	Olivia de Havilland	74%
1949	The Heiress	Olivia de Havilland	74%
2014	Gone Girl	Rosamund Pike	72%
1992	Love Field	Michelle Pfeiffer	71%
1989	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Michelle Pfeiffer	71%
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Jessica Chastain	70%
1994	Little Women	Winona Ryder	70%
1980	Private Benjamin	Goldie Hawn	69%
1971	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Julie Christie	69%
1965	Darling	Julie Christie	69%
2007	Away from Her	Julie Christie	69%
1997	Afterglow	Julie Christie	69%
2015	Brooklyn	Saoirse Ronan	68%
1996	The English Patient	Kristin Scott Thomas	67%
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Louise Fletcher	67%
1988	Working Girl	Melanie Griffith	67%
1991	For the Boys	Bette Midler	66%
1979	The Rose	Bette Midler	66%
1944	Since You Went Away	Claudette Colbert	66%
1935	Private Worlds	Claudette Colbert	66%
1934	It Happened One Night	Claudette Colbert	66%
1939	Ninotchka	Greta Garbo	66%
1937	Camille	Greta Garbo	66%
1929–30	Anna Christie / Romance	Greta Garbo	66%
1928–29	The Divine Lady	Corinne Griffith	65%
1941	Suspicion	Joan Fontaine	65%
1940	Rebecca	Joan Fontaine	65%
1943	The Constant Nymph	Joan Fontaine	65%
1957	The Three Faces of Eve	Joanne Woodward	65%
1990	Mr. & Mrs Bridge	Joanne Woodward	65%
1973	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Joanne Woodward	65%
1968	Rachel, Rachel	Joanne Woodward	65%
1986	Peggy Sue Got Married	Kathleen Turner	64%
1957	Peyton Place	Lana Turner	64%
1966	Georgy Girl	Lynn Redgrave	64%
1986	Children of a Lesser God	Marlee Matlin	64%
1966	Morgan!	Vanessa Redgrave	64%
1971	Mary, Queen of Scots	Vanessa Redgrave	64%
1984	The Bostonians	Vanessa Redgrave	64%
1968	Isadora	Vanessa Redgrave	64%
1953	From Here to Eternity	Deborah Kerr	63%
1960	The Sundowners	Deborah Kerr	63%
1957	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	Deborah Kerr	63%
1949	Edward, My Son	Deborah Kerr	63%
1958	Separate Tables	Deborah Kerr	63%
1956	The King and I	Deborah Kerr	63%
1983	Terms of Endearment	Debra Winger	63%
1982	An Officer and a Gentleman	Debra Winger	63%
1993	Shadowlands	Debra Winger	63%
2005	Transamerica	Felicity Huffman	63%
1940	Kitty Foyle	Ginger Rogers	62%
1942	Mrs. Miniver	Greer Garson	62%
1941	Blossoms in the Dust	Greer Garson	62%
1939	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Greer Garson	62%
1943	Madame Curie	Greer Garson	62%
1944	Mrs. Parkington	Greer Garson	62%
1945	The Valley of Decision	Greer Garson	62%
1960	Sunrise at Campobello	Greer Garson	62%
1972	Lady Sings the Blues	Diana Ross	61%
2002	Unfaithful	Diane Lane	61%
1993	What’s Love Got to Do with It	Angela Bassett	60%
1990	The Grifters	Anjelica Huston	60%
2015	45 Years	Charlotte Rampling	60%
1959	Pillow Talk	Doris Day	60%
1963	Hud	Patricia Neal	60%
1968	The Subject Was Roses	Patricia Neal	60%
1953	Mogambo	Ava Gardner	59%
2009	Precious	Gabourey Sidibe	59%
1929–30	The Trespasser	Gloria Swanson	59%
1950	Sunset Bouelvard	Gloria Swanson	59%
1927–28	Sadie Thompson	Gloria Swanson	59%
1997	The Wings of the Dove	Helena Bonham Carter	59%
2004	Vera Drake	Imelda Staunton	59%
2000	You Can Count on Me	Laura Linney	59%
2007	The Savages	Laura Linney	59%
1928–29	Coquette	Mary Pickford	59%
2016	Loving	Ruth Negga	59%
1947	Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman	Susan Hayward	59%
1958	I Want to Live!	Susan Hayward	59%
1949	My Foolish Heart	Susan Hayward	59%
1955	I’ll Cry Tomorrow	Susan Hayward	59%
1952	With a Song in My Heart	Susan Hayward	59%
1998	Hilary and Jackie	Emily Watson	58%
1996	Breaking the Waves	Emily Watson	58%
2016	Elle	Isabelle Huppert	58%
1937	The Good Earth	Luise Rainer	58%
1936	The Great Ziegfeld	Luise Rainer	58%
1976	Rocky	Talia Shire	58%
1948	Sorry, Wrong Number	Barbara Stanwyck	57%
1937	Stella Dallas	Barbara Stanwyck	57%
1944	Double Indemnity	Barbara Stanwyck	57%
1941	Ball of Fire	Barbara Stanwyck	57%
2009	An Education	Carey Mulligan	56%
1991	Rambling Rose	Laura Dern	56%
2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Quvenzhané Wallis	56%
1965	Ship of Fools	Simone Signoret	56%
1959	Room at the Top	Simone Signoret	56%
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Elisabeth Shue	55%
1937	A Star Is Born	Janet Gaynor	55%
1927–28	7^th Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	Janet Gaynor	55%
1946	The Yearling	Jane Wyman	55%
1948	Johnny Belinda	Jane Wyman	55%
1951	The Blue Veil	Jane Wyman	55%
1954	Magnificent Obsession	Jane Wyman	55%
1970	Love Story	Ali MacGraw	54%
1992	Indochine	Catherine Deneuve	54%
1930–31	Morocco	Marlene Dietrich	54%
2008	Frozen River	Melissa Leo	54%
1957	Wild Is the Wind	Anna Magnani	53%
1955	The Rose Tattoo	Anna Magnani	53%
2012	Amour	Emmanuelle Riva	53%
1949	Come to the Stable	Loretta Young	53%
1947	The Farmer’s Daughter	Loretta Young	53%
1964	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Debbie Reynolds	52%
1929–30	Their Own Desire	Norma Shearer	52%
1934	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Norma Shearer	52%
1938	Marie Antoinette	Norma Shearer	52%
1930–31	A Free Soul	Norma Shearer	52%
1936	Romeo and Juliet	Norma Shearer	52%
1929–30	The Divorcee	Norma Shearer	52%
1983	Educating Rita	Julie Walters	51%
1996	Secrets & Lies	Brenda Blethyn	50%
1931–32	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Helen Hayes	50%
2004	Maria Full of Grace	Catalina Sandino Moreno	49%
1950	Born Yesterday	Judy Holliday	49%
2003	Whale Rider	Keisha Castle-Hughes	49%
1952	Come Back, Little Sheba	Shirley Booth	49%
1950	All About Eve	Anne Baxter	48%
1946	Brief Encounter	Celia Johnson	48%
1975	The Story of Adele H.	Isabelle Adjani	48%
1989	Camille Claudel	Isabelle Adjani	48%
1931–32	Emma	Marie Dressler	48%
1930–31	Min and Bill	Marie Dressler	48%
1951	A Place in the Sun	Shelley Winters	47%
2000	The Contender	Joan Allen	46%
1989	Shirley Valentine	Pauline Collins	46%
1973	Cinderella Liberty	Marsha Mason	45%
1981	Only When I Laugh	Marsha Mason	45%
1977	The Goodbye Girl	Marsha Mason	45%
1979	Chapter Two	Marsha Mason	45%
1994	Tom & Viv	Miranda Richardson	45%
2003	In America	Samantha Morton	45%
1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Stockard Channing	45%
1975	Tommy	Ann-Margret	44%
1999	Tumbleweeds	Janet McTeer	44%
1974	A Woman Under the Influence	Gena Rowlands	43%
1980	Gloria	Gena Rowlands	43%
1942	My Sister Eileen	Rosalind Russell	43%
1958	Auntie Mame	Rosalind Russell	43%
1946	Sister Kenny	Rosalind Russell	43%
1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Rosalind Russell	43%
1998	Central Station	Fernanda Montenegro	42%
1972	The Immigrants	Liv Ullmann	42%
1976	Face to Face	Liv Ullmann	42%
1940	Our Town	Martha Scott	42%
1936	My Man Godfrey	Carole Lombard	40%
1954	Carmen Jones	Dorothy Dandridge	40%
1953	Lili	Leslie Caron	39%
1963	The L-Shaped Room	Leslie Caron	39%
1948	I Remember Mama	Irene Dunne	38%
1939	Love Affair	Irene Dunne	38%
1936	Theodora Goes Wild	Irene Dunne	38%
1930–31	Cimarron	Irene Dunne	38%
1937	The Awful Truth	Irene Dunne	38%
1956	Baby Doll	Carroll Baker	37%
1972	Sounder	Cicely Tyson	37%
1955	Interrupted Melody	Eleanor Parker	37%
1951	Detective Story	Eleanor Parker	37%
1950	Caged	Eleanor Parker	37%
1970	Ryan’s Daughter	Sarah Miles	37%
1942	The Pride of the Yankees	Teresa Wright	36%
1966	A Man and a Woman	Anouk Aimée	35%
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Geneviève Bujold	35%
1983	Testament	Jane Alexander	35%
1970	The Great White Hope	Jane Alexander	35%
1952	The Member of the Wedding	Julie Harris	35%
1992	Passion Fish	Mary McDonnell	35%
1961	The Hustler	Piper Laurie	35%
1927–28	A Ship Comes In	Louise Dresser	34%
1938	Pygmalion	Wendy Hiller	34%
1974	Claudine	Diahann Carroll	33%
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Janet Suzman	33%
1979	Starting Over	Jill Clayburgh	33%
1978	An Unmarried Woman	Jill Clayburgh	33%
1929–30	The Devil’s Holiday	Nancy Carroll	33%
1962	Days of Wine and Roses	Lee Remick	32%
1987	Anna	Sally Kirkland	32%
1965	The Collector	Samantha Eggar	32%
1970	Diary of a Mad Housewife	Carrie Snodgress	31%
1947	Gentleman’s Agreement	Dorothy McGuire	31%
1967	The Whisperers	Edith Evans	31%
1969	The Happy Ending	Jean Simmons	31%
1960	Never on a Sunday	Melina Mercouri	31%
1975	Hester Street	Carol Kane	30%
1976	Cousin Cousine	Marie-Christine Barrault	30%
1928–29	The Broadway Melody	Bessie Love	29%
1966	The Shop on Main Street	Ida Kamińska	29%
1974	Lenny	Valerie Perrine	29%
1945	Leave Her to Heaven	Gene Tierney	28%
1943	The More the Merrier	Jean Arthur	28%
1935	The Dark Angel	Merle Oberon	28%
1929–30	Sarah and Son	Ruth Chatterton	28%
1928–29	Madame X	Ruth Chatterton	28%
1938	White Banners	Fay Bainter	27%
1931–32	The Guardsman	Lynn Fontanne	27%
1935	Becky Sharp	Miriam Hopkins	27%
1932–33	Cavalcade	Diana Wynyard	26%
1965	A Patch of Blue	Elizabeth Hartman	26%
1949	Pinky	Jeanne Crain	26%
1964	Séance on a Wet Afternoon	Kim Stanley	25%
1953	The Moon Is Blue	Maggie McNamara	25%
1936	Valiant Is the Word for Carrie	Gladys George	24%
1928–29	The Letter	Jeanne Eagels	24%
1938	Three Comrades	Margaret Sullavan	24%
1932–33	Lady for a Day	May Robson	24%
1928–29	The Barker	Betty Compson	22%
1930–31	Holiday	Ann Harding	21%
1935	Escape Me Never	Elisabeth Bergner	21%