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2002 Halle Berry Monster's Ball
2001 Julia Roberts Erin Brockovich
2000 Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

1999 Gwyneth Paltrow Shakespeare in Love
1998 Helen Hunt As Good As It Gets
1997 Frances McDormand Fargo
1996 Susan Sarandon Dead Man Walking
1995 Jessica Lange Blue Sky
1994 Holly Hunter The Piano
1993 Emma Thompson Howard's End
1992 Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs
1991 Kathy Bates Misery
1990 Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy

1989 Jodie Foster The Accused
1988 Cher Moonstruck
1987 Marlee Matlin The Children of a Lesser God
1986 Geraldine Page The Trip to Bountiful
1985 Sally Field Places in the Heart
1984 Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment
1983 Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice
1982 Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond
1981 Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter
1980 Sally Field Norma Rae

1979 Jane Fonda Coming Home
1978 Diane Keaton Annie Hall
1977 Faye Dunaway Network
1976 Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 Glenda Jackson A Touch of Class
1973 Liza Minnelli Cabaret
1972 Jane Fonda Klute
1971 Glenda Jackson Women in Love
1970 Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1969 Katharine Hepburn, Barbra Streisand The Lion in Winter, Funny Girl
1968 Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
1967 Elizabeth Taylor Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 Julie Christie Darling
1965 Julie Andrews Mary Poppins
1964 Patricia Neal Hud
1963 Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker
1962 Sophia Loren Two Women
1961 Elizabeth Taylor Butterfield 8
1960 Simone Signoret Room at the Top

1959 Susan Hayward I Want to Live!
1958 Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve
1957 Ingrid Bergman Anastasia
1956 Anna Magnini The Rose Tattoo
1955 Grace Kelly The Country Girl
1954 Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday
1953 Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba
1952 Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 Judy Holliday Born Yesterday
1950 Olivia de Havilland The Heiress

1949 Jane Wyman Johnny Belinda
1948 Loretta Young The Farmer's Daughter
1947 Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own
1946 Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce
1945 Ingrid Bergman Gaslight
1944 Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette
1943 Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver
1942 Joan Fontaine Suspicion
1941 Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle
1940 Vivien Leigh Gone With the Wind

1939 Bette Davis Jezebel
1938 Luise Rainer The Good Earth
1937 Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld
1936 Bette Davis Dangerous
1935 Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night
1934 Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory
1932 Helen Hayes The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931 Marie Dresser Min and Bill
Nov. 1930 Norma Shearer The Divorcee
Apr. 1930 Mary Pickford The Broadway Melody
1929 Janet Gaynor Seventh Heaven; The Way of All Flesh


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