1928 Janet Gaynor "Street angel"
1929 Mary Pickford "Coquette"
1930 Norma Shearer "The divorcee"
1931 Marie Dressler "Min and Bill"
1932 Helen Hayes "The sin of Madelon Claudet"
1933 Katharine Hepburn "Morning glory"
1934 Claudette Colbert "It happened one night"
1935 Bette Davis "Dangerous"
1936 Luise Rainer "The great Ziegfeld"
1937 Luise Rainer "The good earth"
1938 Bette Davis "Jezabel"
1939 Vivien Leigh "Gone with the wind"
1940 Ginger Rogers "Kitty Foyle"
1941 Joan Fontaine "Suspicion"
1942 Greer Garson "Mrs. Miniver"
1943 Jennifer Jones "The song of Bernadette"
1944 Ingrid Bergman "Gaslight"
1945 Joan Crawford "Mildred Pierce"
1946 Olivia de Havilland "To each his own"
1947 Loretta Young "The farmer's daughter"
1948 Jane Wyman "Johnny Belinda"
1949 Olivia de Havilland "The heiress"
1950 Judy Holliday "Born yesterday"
1951 Vivien Leigh "A streetcar named desire"
1952 Shirley Booth "Come back, little Sheba"
1953 Audrey Hepburn "Roman holiday"
1954 Grace Kelly "The country girl"
1955 Anna Magnani "The rose tattoo"
1956 Ingrid Bergman "Anastasia"
1957 Joanne Woodward "The three faces of Eve"
1958 Susan Hayward "I want to live!"
1959 Simone Signoret "Room at the top"
1960 Elizabeth Taylor "Butterfield 8"
1961 Sophia Loren "Two women"
1962 Anne Bancroft "The miracle worker"
1963 Patricia Neal "Hud"
1964 Julie Andrews "Mary Poppins"
1965 Julie Christie "Darling"
1966 Elizabeth Taylor "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1967 Katharine Hepburn "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
1968 Barbra Streisand "Funny Girl" / Katharine Hepburn "The lion in winter"
1969 Maggie Smith "The prime of miss Jean Brodie"
1970 Glenda Jackson "Women in love"
1971 Jane Fonda "Klute"
1972 Liza Minnelli "Cabaret"
1973 Glenda Jackson "A touch of class"
1974 Ellen Burstyn "Alice doesn't live here anymore"
1975 Louise Fletcher "One flew over the cuckoo's nest"
1976 Faye Dunaway "Network"
1977 Diane Keaton "Annie Hall"
1978 Jane Fonda "Coming home"
1979 Sally Field "Norma Rae"
1980 Sissy Spacek "Coal miner's daughter"
1981 Katharine Hepburn "On golden pond"
1982 Meryl Streep "Sophie's choice"
1983 Shirley MacLaine "Terms of endearment"
1984 Sally Field "Places in the heart"
1985 Geraldine Page "The trip to bountiful"
1986 Marlee Matlin "Children of a lesser God"
1987 Cher LaPierre "Moonstruck"
1988 Jodie Foster "The accused"
1989 Jessica Tandy "Driving miss Daisy"
1990 Kathy Bates "Misery"
1991 Jodie Foster "The silence of the lambs"
1992 Emma Thompson "Howards end"
1993 Holly Hunter "The piano"
1994 Jessica Lange "Blue sky"
1995 Susan Sarandon "Dead man walking"
1996 Frances McDormand "Fargo"
1997 Helen Hunt "As good as it gets"
1998 Gwyneth Paltrow "Shakespeare in love"
1999 Hilary Swank "Boys don't cry"
2000 Julia Roberts "Erin Brockovich"
2001 Halle Berry "Monster's ball"
2002 Nicole Kidman "The hours"
2003 Charlize Theron "Monster"
2004 Hilary Swank "Million dollar baby"
2005 Reese Witherspoon "Walk the line"
2006 Helen Mirren "The Queen"
2007 Marion Cotillard "La vie en rose"
2008 Kate Winslet "The reader"
2009 Sandra Bullock "Blind side"
2010 Natalie Portman "Black Swan"
2011 Mery Streep "The iron lady"
