Academy Award Best Actress Flashcards
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1927/28?
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Janet Gaynor (playing Diane / Angela / The Wife - Indre in Seventh Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1928/29?
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Mary Pickford (playing Norma Besant in Coquette)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1929/30?
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Norma Shearer (playing Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1930/31?
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Marie Dressler (playing Min Divot in Min and Bill)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1931/32?
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Helen Hayes (playing Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1932/33?
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Katharine Hepburn (playing Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1934?
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Claudette Colbert (playing Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1935?
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Bette Davis (playing Joyce Heath in Dangerous)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1936?
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Luise Rainer (playing Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1937?
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Luise Rainer (playing O-Lan in The Good Earth)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1938?
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Bette Davis (playing Julie Marsden in Jezebel)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1939?
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Vivien Leigh (playing Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1940?
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Ginger Rogers (playing Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1941?
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Joan Fontaine (playing Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1942?
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Greer Garson (playing Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1943?
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Jennifer Jones (playing Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1944?
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Ingrid Bergman (playing Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1945?
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Joan Crawford (playing Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1946?
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Olivia de Havilland (playing Josephine ‘Jody’ Norris in To Each His Own)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1947?
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Loretta Young (playing Katie Holstrom in The Farmer’s Daughter)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1948?
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Jane Wyman (playing Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1949?
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Olivia de Havilland (playing Catherine Sloper in The Heiress)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1950?
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Judy Holliday (playing Emma ‘Billie’ Dawn in Born Yesterday)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1951?
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Vivien Leigh (playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1952?
Shirley Booth (playing Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1953?
Audrey Hepburn (playing Princess Ann in Roman Holiday)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1954?
Grace Kelly (playing Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1955?
Anna Magnani (playing Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1956?
Ingrid Bergman (playing Anna Koreff / Anastasia in Anastasia)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1957?
Joanne Woodward (playing Eve White / Eve Black / Jane in The Three Faces of Eve)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1958?
Susan Hayward (playing Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1959?
Simone Signoret (playing Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1960?
Elizabeth Taylor (playing Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1961?
Sophia Loren (playing Cesira in Two Women)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1962?
Anne Bancroft (playing Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1963?
Patricia Neal (playing Alma Brown in Hud)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1964?
Julie Andrews (playing Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1965?
Julie Christie (playing Diana Scott in Darling)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1966?
Elizabeth Taylor (playing Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1967?
Katharine Hepburn (playing Christina Drayton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1968?
It was a tie between Katharine Hepburn (playing Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter) and Barbra Streisand (playing Fanny Brice in Funny Girl)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1969?
Maggie Smith (playing Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1970?
Glenda Jackson (playing Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1971?
Jane Fonda (playing Bree Daniels in Klute)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1972?
Liza Minnelli (playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1973?
Glenda Jackson (playing Vicki Allessio in A Touch of Class)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1974?
Ellen Burstyn (playing Alice Hyatt in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1975?
Louise Fletcher (playing Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1976?
Faye Dunaway (playing Diana Christensen in Network)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1977?
Diane Keaton (playing Annie Hall in Annie Hall)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1978?
Jane Fonda (playing Sally Hyde in Coming Home)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1979?
Sally Field (playing Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1980?
Sissy Spacek (playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1981?
Katharine Hepburn (playing Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1982?
Meryl Streep (playing Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1983?
Shirley MacLaine (playing Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984?
Sally Field (playing Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1985?
Geraldine Page (playing Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1986?
Marlee Matlin (playing Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1987?
Cher (playing Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1988?
Jodie Foster (playing Sarah Tobias in The Accused)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1989?
Jessica Tandy (playing Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1990?
Kathy Bates (playing Annie Wilkes in Misery)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1991?
Jodie Foster (playing Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1992?
Emma Thompson (playing Margaret Schlegel in Howards End)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1993?
Holly Hunter (playing Ada McGrath in The Piano)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1994?
Jessica Lange (playing Carly Marshall in Blue Sky)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1995?
Susan Sarandon (playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1996?
Frances McDormand (playing Marge Gunderson in Fargo)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1997?
Helen Hunt (playing Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1998?
Gwyneth Paltrow (playing Viola De Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1999?
Hilary Swank (playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2000?
Julia Roberts (playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2001?
Halle Berry (playing Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2002?
Nicole Kidman (playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2003?
Charlize Theron (playing Aileen Wuornos in Monster)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2004?
Hilary Swank (playing Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2005?
Reese Witherspoon (playing June Carter in Walk the Line)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2006?
Helen Mirren (playing Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in The Queen)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2007?
Marion Cotillard (playing Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2008?
Kate Winslet (playing Hanna Schmitz in The Reader)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2009?
Sandra Bullock (playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2010?
Natalie Portman (playing Nina Sayers in Black Swan)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2011?
Meryl Streep (playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2012?
Jennifer Lawrence (playing Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook)
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Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2013?
Cate Blanchette (playing Jeanette (Jasmine) Francis in Blue Jasmine)
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For what role did Janet Gaynor win Best Actress in 1927/28?
Diane / Angela / The Wife - Indre in Seventh Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise
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For what role did Mary Pickford win Best Actress in 1928/29?
Norma Besant in Coquette
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For what role did Norma Shearer win Best Actress in 1929/30?
Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee
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For what role did Marie Dressler win Best Actress in 1930/31?
Min Divot in Min and Bill
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For what role did Helen Hayes win Best Actress in 1931/32?
Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet
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For what role did Katharine Hepburn win Best Actress in 1932/33?
Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory
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For what role did Claudette Colbert win Best Actress in 1934?
Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night
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For what role did Bette Davis win Best Actress in 1935?
Joyce Heath in Dangerous
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For what role did Luise Rainer win Best Actress in 1936?
Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld
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For what role did Luise Rainer win Best Actress in 1937?
O-Lan in The Good Earth
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For what role did Bette Davis win Best Actress in 1938?
Julie Marsden in Jezebel
98
For what role did Vivien Leigh win Best Actress in 1939?
Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
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For what role did Ginger Rogers win Best Actress in 1940?
Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle
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For what role did Joan Fontaine win Best Actress in 1941?
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion
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For what role did Greer Garson win Best Actress in 1942?
Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver
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For what role did Jennifer Jones win Best Actress in 1943?
Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette
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For what role did Ingrid Bergman win Best Actress in 1944?
Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight
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For what role did Joan Crawford win Best Actress in 1945?
Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce
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For what role did Olivia de Havilland win Best Actress in 1946?
Josephine 'Jody' Norris in To Each His Own
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For what role did Loretta Young win Best Actress in 1947?
Katie Holstrom in The Farmer's Daughter
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For what role did Jane Wyman win Best Actress in 1948?
Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda
108
For what role did Olivia de Havilland win Best Actress in 1949?
Catherine Sloper in The Heiress
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For what role did Judy Holliday win Best Actress in 1950?
Emma 'Billie' Dawn in Born Yesterday
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For what role did Vivien Leigh win Best Actress in 1951?
Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire
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For what role did Shirley Booth win Best Actress in 1952?
Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba
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For what role did Audrey Hepburn win Best Actress in 1953?
Princess Ann in Roman Holiday
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For what role did Grace Kelly win Best Actress in 1954?
Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl
114
For what role did Anna Magnani win Best Actress in 1955?
Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo
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For what role did Ingrid Bergman win Best Actress in 1956?
Anna Koreff / Anastasia in Anastasia
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For what role did Joanne Woodward win Best Actress in 1957?
Eve White / Eve Black / Jane in The Three Faces of Eve
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For what role did Susan Hayward win Best Actress in 1958?
Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!
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For what role did Simone Signoret win Best Actress in 1959?
Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top
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For what role did Elizabeth Taylor win Best Actress in 1960?
Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8
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For what role did Sophia Loren win Best Actress in 1961?
Cesira in Two Women
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For what role did Anne Bancroft win Best Actress in 1962?
Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker
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For what role did Patricia Neal win Best Actress in 1963?
Alma Brown in Hud
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For what role did Julie Andrews win Best Actress in 1964?
Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins
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For what role did Julie Christie win Best Actress in 1965?
Diana Scott in Darling
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For what role did Elizabeth Taylor win Best Actress in 1966?
Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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For what role did Katharine Hepburn win Best Actress in 1967?
Christina Drayton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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For what role did Katharine Hepburn (tie) win Best Actress in 1968?
Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter
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For what role did Barbra Streisand (tie) win Best Actress in 1968?
Fanny Brice in Funny Girl
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For what role did Maggie Smith win Best Actress in 1969?
Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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For what role did Glenda Jackson win Best Actress in 1970?
Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love
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For what role did Jane Fonda win Best Actress in 1971?
Bree Daniels in Klute
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For what role did Liza Minnelli win Best Actress in 1972?
Sally Bowles in Cabaret
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For what role did Glenda Jackson win Best Actress in 1973?
Vicki Allessio in A Touch of Class
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For what role did Ellen Burstyn win Best Actress in 1974?
Alice Hyatt in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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For what role did Louise Fletcher win Best Actress in 1975?
Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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For what role did Faye Dunaway win Best Actress in 1976?
Diana Christensen in Network
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For what role did Diane Keaton win Best Actress in 1977?
Annie Hall in Annie Hall
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For what role did Jane Fonda win Best Actress in 1978?
Sally Hyde in Coming Home
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For what role did Sally Field win Best Actress in 1979?
Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae
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For what role did Sissy Spacek win Best Actress in 1980?
Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter
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For what role did Katharine Hepburn win Best Actress in 1981?
Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond
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For what role did Meryl Streep win Best Actress in 1982?
Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice
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For what role did Shirley MacLaine win Best Actress in 1983?
Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment
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For what role did Sally Field win Best Actress in 1984?
Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart
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For what role did Geraldine Page win Best Actress in 1985?
Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful
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For what role did Marlee Matlin win Best Actress in 1986?
Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God
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For what role did Cher win Best Actress in 1987?
Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck
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For what role did Jodie Foster win Best Actress in 1988?
Sarah Tobias in The Accused
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For what role did Jessica Tandy win Best Actress in 1989?
Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy
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For what role did Kathy Bates win Best Actress in 1990?
Annie Wilkes in Misery
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For what role did Jodie Foster win Best Actress in 1991?
Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs
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For what role did Emma Thompson win Best Actress in 1992?
Margaret Schlegel in Howards End
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For what role did Holly Hunter win Best Actress in 1993?
Ada McGrath in The Piano
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For what role did Jessica Lange win Best Actress in 1994?
Carly Marshall in Blue Sky
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For what role did Susan Sarandon win Best Actress in 1995?
Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking
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For what role did Frances McDormand win Best Actress in 1996?
Marge Gunderson in Fargo
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For what role did Helen Hunt win Best Actress in 1997?
Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets
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For what role did Gwyneth Paltrow win Best Actress in 1998?
Viola De Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love
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For what role did Hilary Swank win Best Actress in 1999?
Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry
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For what role did Julia Roberts win Best Actress in 2000?
Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich
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For what role did Halle Berry win Best Actress in 2001?
Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball
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For what role did Nicole Kidman win Best Actress in 2002?
Virginia Woolf in The Hours
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For what role did Charlize Theron win Best Actress in 2003?
Aileen Wuornos in Monster
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For what role did Hilary Swank win Best Actress in 2004?
Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby
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For what role did Reese Witherspoon win Best Actress in 2005?
June Carter in Walk the Line
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For what role did Helen Mirren win Best Actress in 2006?
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in The Queen
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For what role did Marion Cotillard win Best Actress in 2007?
Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose
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For what role did Kate Winslet win Best Actress in 2008?
Hanna Schmitz in The Reader
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For what role did Sandra Bullock win Best Actress in 2009?
Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side
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For what role did Natalie Portman win Best Actress in 2010?
Nina Sayers in Black Swan
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For what role did Meryl Streep win Best Actress in 2011?
Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
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For what role did Jennifer Lawrence win Best Actress in 2012?
Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook
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For what role did Cate Blanchette win Best Actress in 2013?
Jeanette (Jasmine) Francis in Blue Jasmine
