1936 Gale Sondergaard "Anthony Adverse"
1937 Alice Brady "In Old Chicago"
1938 Fay Bainter "Jezebel"
1939 Hattie McDaniel "Gone with the Wind"
1940 Jane Darwell "The Grapes of Wrath"
1941 Mary Astor "The Great Lie"
1942 Teresa Wright "Mrs. Miniver"
1943 Katina Paxinou "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
1944 Ethel Barrymore "None but the Lonely Heart"
1945 Anne Revere "National Velvet"
1946 Anne Baxter "The Razor's Edge"
1947 Celeste Holm "Gentleman's Agreement"
1948 Claire Trevor "Key Largo"
1949 Mercedes McCambridge "All the King's Men"
1950 Josephine Hull "Harvey"
1951 Kim Hunter "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1952 Gloria Grahame "The Bad and the Beautiful"
1953 Donna Reed "From Here to Eternity"
1954 Eva Marie Saint "On the Waterfront"
1955 Jo Van Fleet "East of Eden"
1956 Dorothy Malone "Written on the Wind"
1957 Miyoshi Umeki "Sayonara"
1958 Wendy Hiller "Separate Tables"
1959 Shelley Winters "The Diary of Anne Frank"
1960 Shirley Jones "Elmer Gantry"
1961 Rita Moreno "West Side Story"
1962 Patty Duke "The Miracle Worker"
1963 Margaret Rutherford "The V.I.P.s"
1964 Lila Kedrova "Zorba the Greek"
1965 Shelley Winters "A Patch of Blue"
1966 Sandy Dennis "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1967 Estelle Parsons "Bonnie and Clyde"
1968 Ruth Gordon "Rosemary's Baby"
1969 Goldie Hawn "Cactus Flower"
1970 Helen Hayes "Airport"
1971 Cloris Leachman "The Last Picture Show"
1972 Eileen Heckart "Butterflies Are Free"
1973 Tatum O'Neal "Paper Moon"
1974 Ingrid Bergman "Murder on the Orient Express"
1975 Lee Grant "Shampoo"
1976 Beatrice Straight "Network"
1977 Vanessa Redgrave "Julia"
1978 Maggie Smith "California Suite"
1979 Meryl Streep "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1980 Mary Steenburgen "Melvin and Howard"
1981 Maureen Stapleton "Reds"
1982 Jessica Lange "Tootsie"
1983 Linda Hunt "The Year of Living Dangerously"
1984 Peggy Ashcroft "A Passage to India"
1985 Anjelica Huston "Prizzi's Honor"
1986 Dianne Wiest "Hannah and Her Sisters"
1987 Olympia Dukakis "Moonstruck"
1988 Geena Davis "The Accidental Tourist"
1989 Brenda Fricker "My Left Foot"
1990 Whoopi Goldberg "Ghost"
1991 Mercedes Ruehl "The Fisher King"
1992 Marisa Tomei "My Cousin Vinny"
1993 Anna Paquin "The Piano"
1994 Dianne Wiest "Bullets over Broadway"
1995 Mira Sorvino "Mighty Aphrodite"
1996 Juliette Binoche "The English Patient"
1997 Kim Basinger "L.A. Confidential"
1998 Judi Dench "Shakespeare in Love"
1999 Angelina Jolie "Girl, Interrupted"
2000 Marcia Gay Harden "Pollock"
2001 Jennifer Connelly "A Beautiful Mind"
2002 Catherine Zeta Jones "Chicago"
2003 Renée Zellweger "Cold Mountain"
2004 Cate Blanchett "The Aviator"
2005 Rachel Weisz "The Constant Gardener"
2006 Jennifer Hudson "Dreamgirls"
2007 Tilda Swinton "Michael Clayton"
2008 Penélope Cruz "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
2009 Mo'nique "Precious"
2010 Melissa Leo "The Fighter"
2011 Octavia Spencer "The Help"