Academy Award Best Actress Flashcards
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1927/28?
Janet Gaynor (playing Diane / Angela / The Wife - Indre in Seventh Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1928/29?
Mary Pickford (playing Norma Besant in Coquette)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1929/30?
Norma Shearer (playing Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1930/31?
Marie Dressler (playing Min Divot in Min and Bill)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1931/32?
Helen Hayes (playing Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1932/33?
Katharine Hepburn (playing Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1934?
Claudette Colbert (playing Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1935?
Bette Davis (playing Joyce Heath in Dangerous)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1936?
Luise Rainer (playing Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1937?
Luise Rainer (playing O-Lan in The Good Earth)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1938?
Bette Davis (playing Julie Marsden in Jezebel)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1939?
Vivien Leigh (playing Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1940?
Ginger Rogers (playing Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1941?
Joan Fontaine (playing Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1942?
Greer Garson (playing Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1943?
Jennifer Jones (playing Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1944?
Ingrid Bergman (playing Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1945?
Joan Crawford (playing Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1946?
Olivia de Havilland (playing Josephine ‘Jody’ Norris in To Each His Own)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1947?
Loretta Young (playing Katie Holstrom in The Farmer’s Daughter)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1948?
Jane Wyman (playing Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1949?
Olivia de Havilland (playing Catherine Sloper in The Heiress)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1950?
Judy Holliday (playing Emma ‘Billie’ Dawn in Born Yesterday)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1951?
Vivien Leigh (playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1952?
Shirley Booth (playing Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1953?
Audrey Hepburn (playing Princess Ann in Roman Holiday)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1954?
Grace Kelly (playing Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1955?
Anna Magnani (playing Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1956?
Ingrid Bergman (playing Anna Koreff / Anastasia in Anastasia)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1957?
Joanne Woodward (playing Eve White / Eve Black / Jane in The Three Faces of Eve)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1958?
Susan Hayward (playing Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1959?
Simone Signoret (playing Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1960?
Elizabeth Taylor (playing Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1961?
Sophia Loren (playing Cesira in Two Women)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1962?
Anne Bancroft (playing Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1963?
Patricia Neal (playing Alma Brown in Hud)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1964?
Julie Andrews (playing Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1965?
Julie Christie (playing Diana Scott in Darling)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1966?
Elizabeth Taylor (playing Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1967?
Katharine Hepburn (playing Christina Drayton in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner)
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)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1969?
Maggie Smith (playing Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1970?
Glenda Jackson (playing Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1971?
Jane Fonda (playing Bree Daniels in Klute)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1972?
Liza Minnelli (playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1973?
Glenda Jackson (playing Vicki Allessio in A Touch of Class)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1974?
Ellen Burstyn (playing Alice Hyatt in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1975?
Louise Fletcher (playing Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1976?
Faye Dunaway (playing Diana Christensen in Network)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1977?
Diane Keaton (playing Annie Hall in Annie Hall)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1978?
Jane Fonda (playing Sally Hyde in Coming Home)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1979?
Sally Field (playing Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1980?
Sissy Spacek (playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1981?
Katharine Hepburn (playing Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1982?
Meryl Streep (playing Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie’s Choice)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1983?
Shirley MacLaine (playing Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984?
Sally Field (playing Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1985?
Geraldine Page (playing Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1986?
Marlee Matlin (playing Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1987?
Cher (playing Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1988?
Jodie Foster (playing Sarah Tobias in The Accused)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1989?
Jessica Tandy (playing Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1990?
Kathy Bates (playing Annie Wilkes in Misery)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1991?
Jodie Foster (playing Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1992?
Emma Thompson (playing Margaret Schlegel in Howards End)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1993?
Holly Hunter (playing Ada McGrath in The Piano)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1994?
Jessica Lange (playing Carly Marshall in Blue Sky)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1995?
Susan Sarandon (playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking)
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1996?
Frances McDormand (playing Marge Gunderson in Fargo)