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Originally, the trophy for this award was a plaque.

1930S

1936 Gale Sondergaard - '' Anthony Adverse ''

--- Beulah Bondi - '' The Gorgeous Hussy ''

--- Alice Brady - '' My Man Godfrey ''

--- Bonita Granville - '' These Three ''

--- Maria Ouspenskaya - '' Dodsworth ''

1937 Alice Brady - '' In Old Chicago ''

--- Andrea Leeds - '' Stage Door ''

--- Anne Shirley - '' Stella Dallas ''

--- Claire Trevor - '' Dead End ''

--- May Whitty - '' Night Must Fall ''

1938 Fay Bainter - '' Jezebel ''

--- Beulah Bondi - '' Of Human Hearts ''

--- Billie Burke - '' Merrily We Live ''

--- Spring Byington - '' You Can't Take It With You ''

--- Miliza Korjus - '' The Great Waltz ''

1939 Hattie McDaniel - '' Gone With The Wind ''

--- Olivia De Havilland - '' Gone With The Wind ''

--- Geraldine Fitzgerald - '' Wuthering Heights ''

--- Edna May Oliver - '' Drums Along The Mohawk ''

--- Maria Ouspenskaya - '' Love Affair ''

1940S

1940 Jane Darwell - '' The Grapes Of Wrath ''

--- Judith Anderson - '' Rebecca ''

--- Ruth Hussey - '' The Philadelphia Story ''

--- Barbara O'Neil - '' All This And Heaven Too ''

--- Marjorie Rambeau - '' Primrose Path ''

1941 Mary Astor - '' The Great Lie ''

--- Sara Allgood - '' How Green Was My Valley ''

--- Patricia Collinge - '' The Little Foxes ''

--- Teresa Wright - '' The Little Foxes ''

--- Margaret Wycherly - '' Sergeant York ''

1942 Teresa Wright - '' Mrs. Miniver ''

--- Gladys Cooper - '' Now, Voyager ''

--- Agnes Moorehead - '' The Magnificent Ambersons ''

--- Susan Peters - '' Random Harvest ''

--- May Whitty - '' Mrs. Miniver ''

From 1943 onward, winners received the familiar gold "Oscar" statuettes like everybody else.

1943 Katina Paxinou - '' For Whom The Bell Tolls ''

--- Gladys Cooper - '' The Song Of Bernadette ''

--- Paulette Goddard - '' So Proudly We Hail! ''

--- Anne Revere - '' The Song Of Bernadette ''

--- Lucile Watson - '' Watch On The Rhine ''

1944 Ethel Barrymore - '' None But The Lonely Heart ''

--- Jennifer Jones - '' Since You Went Away ''

--- Angela Lansbury - '' Gaslight ''

--- Aline MacMahon - '' Dragon Seed ''

--- Agnes Moorehead - '' Mrs. Parkington ''

1945 Anne Revere - '' National Velvet ''

--- Eve Arden - '' Mildred Pierce ''

--- Ann Blyth - '' Mildred Pierce ''

--- Angela Lansbury - '' The Picture Of Dorian Gray ''

--- Joan Lorring - '' The Corn Is Green ''

1946 Anne Baxter - '' The Razor's Edge ''

--- Ethel Barrymore - '' The Spiral Staircase ''

--- Lillian Gish - '' Duel In The Sun ''

--- Flora Robson - '' Saratoga Trunk ''

--- Gale Sondergaard - '' Anna And The King Of Siam ''

1947 Celeste Holm - '' Gentleman's Agreement ''

--- Ethel Barrymore - '' The Paradine Case ''

--- Gloria Grahame - '' Crossfire ''

--- Marjorie Main - '' The Egg And I ''

--- Anne Revere - '' Gentleman's Agreement ''

1948 Claire Trevor - '' Key Largo ''

--- Barbara Bel Geddes - '' I Remember Mama ''

--- Ellen Corby - '' I Remember Mama ''

--- Agnes Moorehead - '' Johnny Belinda ''

--- Jean Simmons - '' Hamlet ''

1949 Mercedes McCambridge - '' All The King's Men ''

--- Ethel Barrymore - '' Pinky ''

--- Celeste Holm - '' Come To The Stable ''

--- Elsa Lanchester - '' Come To The Stable ''

--- Ethel Waters - '' Pinky ''

1950S

1950 Josephine Hull - '' Harvey ''

--- Hope Emerson - '' Caged ''

--- Celeste Holm - '' All About Eve ''

--- Nancy Olson - '' Sunset Boulevard ''

--- Thelma Ritter - '' All About Eve ''

1951 Kim Hunter - '' A Streetcar Named Desire ''

--- Joan Blondell - '' The Blue Veil ''

--- Mildred Dunnock - '' Death Of A Salesman ''

--- Lee Grant - '' Detective Story ''

--- Thelma Ritter - '' The Mating Season ''

1952 Gloria Grahame - '' The Bad And The Beautiful ''

--- Jean Hagen - '' Singin' In The Rain ''

--- Colette Marchand - '' Moulin Rouge ''

--- Terry Moore - '' Come Back, Little Sheba ''

--- Thelma Ritter - '' With A Song In My Heart ''

1953 Donna Reed - '' From Here To Eternity ''

--- Grace Kelly - '' Mogambo ''

--- Geraldine Page - '' Hondo ''

--- Marjorie Rambeau - '' Torch Song ''

--- Thelma Ritter - '' Pickup On South Street ''

1954 Eva Marie Saint - '' On The Waterfront ''

--- Nina Foch - '' Executive Suite ''

--- Katy Jurado - '' Broken Lance ''

--- Jan Sterling - '' The High And The Mighty ''

--- Claire Trevor - '' The High And The Mighty ''

1955 Jo Van Fleet - '' East Of Eden ''

--- Betsy Blair - '' Marty ''

--- Peggy Lee - '' Pete Kelly's Blues ''

--- Marisa Pavan - '' The Rose Tattoo ''

--- Natalie Wood - '' Rebel Without A Cause ''

1956 Dorothy Malone - '' Written On The Wind ''

--- Mildred Dunnock - '' Baby Doll ''

--- Eileen Heckart - '' The Bad Seed ''

--- Mercedes McCambridge - '' Giant ''

--- Patty McCormack - '' The Bad Seed ''

1957 Miyoshi Umeki - '' Sayonara ''

--- Carolyn Jones - '' The Bachelor Party ''

--- Elsa Lanchester - '' Witness For The Prosecution ''

--- Hope Lange - '' Peyton Place ''

--- Diane Varsi - '' Peyton Place ''

1958 Wendy Hiller - '' Separate Tables ''

--- Peggy Cass - '' Auntie Mame ''

--- Martha Hyer - '' Some Came Running ''

--- Maureen Stapleton - '' Lonelyhearts ''

--- Cara Williams - '' The Defiant Ones ''

1959 Shelley Winters - '' The Diary Of Anne Frank ''

--- Hermione Baddeley - '' Room At The Top ''

--- Susan Kohner - '' Imitation Of Life ''

--- Juanita Moore - '' Imitation Of Life ''

--- Thelma Ritter - '' Pillow Talk ''

1960S

1960 Shirley Jones - '' Elmer Gantry ''

--- Glynis Johns - '' The Sundowners ''

--- Shirley Knight - '' Dark At The Top Of The Stairs ''

--- Janet Leigh - '' Psycho ''

--- Mary Ure - '' Sons And Lovers ''

1961 Rita Moreno - '' West Side Story ''

--- Fay Bainter - '' The Children's Hour ''

--- Judy Garland - '' Judgment At Nuremberg ''

--- Lotte Lenya - '' The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone ''

--- Una Merkel - '' Summer And Smoke ''

1962 Patty Duke - '' The Miracle Worker ''

--- Mary Badham - '' To Kill A Mockingbird ''

--- Shirley Knight - '' Sweet Bird Of Youth ''

--- Angela Lansbury - '' The Manchurian Candidate ''

--- Thelma Ritter - '' Birdman Of Alcatraz ''

1963 Margaret Rutherford - '' The V.I.P.s ''

--- Diane Cilento - '' Tom Jones ''

--- Edith Evans - '' Tom Jones ''

--- Joyce Redman - '' Tom Jones ''

--- Lilia Skala - '' Lilies Of The Field ''

1964 Lila Kedrova - '' Zorba The Greek ''

--- Gladys Cooper - '' My Fair Lady ''

--- Dame Edith Evans - '' The Chalk Garden ''

--- Grayson Hall - '' The Night Of The Iguana ''

--- Agnes Moorehead - '' Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte ''

1965 Shelley Winters - '' A Patch Of Blue ''

--- Ruth Gordon - '' Inside Daisy Clover ''

--- Joyce Redman - '' Othello ''

--- Maggie Smith - '' Othello ''

--- Peggy Wood - '' The Sound Of Music ''

1966 Sandy Dennis - '' Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? ''

--- Wendy Hiller - '' A Man For All Seasons ''

--- Jocelyne LaGarde - '' Hawaii ''

--- Vivien Merchant - '' Alfie ''

--- Geraldine Page - '' You're A Big Boy Now ''

1967 Estelle Parsons - '' Bonnie And Clyde ''

--- Carol Channing - '' Thoroughly Modern Millie ''

--- Mildred Natwick - '' Barefoot In The Park ''

--- Beah Richards - '' Guess Who's Coming To Dinner ''

--- Katharine Ross - '' The Graduate ''

1968 Ruth Gordon - '' Rosemary's Baby ''

--- Lynn Carlin - '' Faces ''

--- Sondra Locke - '' The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter ''

--- Kay Medford - '' Funny Girl ''

--- Estelle Parsons - '' Rachel, Rachel ''

1969 Goldie Hawn - '' Cactus Flower ''

--- Catherine Burns - '' Last Summer ''

--- Dyan Cannon - '' Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ''

--- Sylvia Miles - '' Midnight Cowboy ''

--- Susannah York - '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They ''

1970S

1970 Helen Hayes - '' Airport ''

--- Karen Black - '' Five Easy Pieces ''

--- Lee Grant - '' The Landlord ''

--- Sally Kellerman - '' M---A---S---H ''

--- Maureen Stapleton - '' Airport ''

1971 Cloris Leachman - '' The Last Picture Show ''

--- Ellen Burstyn - '' The Last Picture Show ''

--- Barbara Harris - '' Who Is Harry Kellerman And Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? ''

--- Margaret Leighton - '' The Go-Between ''

--- Ann-Margret - '' Carnal Knowledge ''

1972 Eileen Heckart - '' Butterflies Are Free ''

--- Jeannie Berlin - '' The Heartbreak Kid ''

--- Geraldine Page - '' Pete 'N' Tillie ''

--- Susan Tyrrell - '' Fat City ''

--- Shelley Winters - '' The Poseidon Adventure ''

1973 Tatum O'Neal - '' Paper Moon ''

--- Linda Blair - '' The Exorcist ''

--- Candy Clark - '' American Graffiti ''

--- Madeline Kahn - '' Paper Moon ''

--- Sylvia Sidney - '' Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams ''

1974 Ingrid Bergman - '' Murder On The Orient Express ''

--- Valentina Cortese - '' La Nuit Américaine ''

--- Madeline Kahn - '' Blazing Saddles ''

--- Diane Ladd - '' Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ''

--- Talia Shire - '' The Godfather Part II ''

1975 Lee Grant - '' Shampoo ''

--- Ronee Blakley - '' Nashville ''

--- Sylvia Miles - '' Farewell, My Lovely ''

--- Lily Tomlin - '' Nashville ''

--- Brenda Vaccaro - '' Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough ''

1976 Beatrice Straight - '' Network ''

--- Jane Alexander - '' All The President's Men ''

--- Jodie Foster - '' Taxi Driver ''

--- Lee Grant - '' Voyage Of The Damned ''

--- Piper Laurie - '' Carrie ''

1977 Vanessa Redgrave - '' Julia '' (Also see her Controversial Acceptance Speech )

--- Leslie Browne - '' The Turning Point ''

--- Quinn Cummings - '' The Goodbye Girl ''

--- Melinda Dillon - '' Close Encounters Of The Third Kind ''

--- Tuesday Weld - '' Looking For Mr. Goodbar ''

1978 Maggie Smith - '' California Suite ''

--- Dyan Cannon - '' Heaven Can Wait ''

--- Penelope Milford - '' Coming Home ''

--- Maureen Stapleton - '' Interiors ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' The Deer Hunter ''

1979 Meryl Streep - '' Kramer Vs. Kramer ''

--- Jane Alexander - '' Kramer Vs. Kramer ''

--- Barbara Barrie - '' Breaking Away ''

--- Candice Bergen - '' Starting Over ''

--- Mariel Hemingway - '' Manhattan ''

1980S

1980 Mary Steenburgen - '' Melvin And Howard ''

--- Eileen Brennan - '' Private Benjamin ''

--- Eva Le Gallienne - '' Resurrection ''

--- Cathy Moriarty - '' Raging Bull ''

--- Diana Scarwid - '' Inside Moves ''

1981 Maureen Stapleton - '' Reds ''

--- Melinda Dillon - '' Absence Of Malice ''

--- Jane Fonda - '' On Golden Pond ''

--- Joan Hackett - '' Only When I Laugh ''

--- Elizabeth McGovern - '' Ragtime ''

1982 Jessica Lange - '' Tootsie ''

--- Glenn Close - '' The World According To Garp ''

--- Teri Garr - '' Tootsie ''

--- Kim Stanley - '' Frances ''

--- Lesley Ann Warren - '' Victor/Victoria ''

1983 Linda Hunt - '' The Year Of Living Dangerously ''

--- Cher - '' Silkwood ''

--- Glenn Close - '' The Big Chill ''

--- Amy Irving - '' Yentl ''

--- Alfre Woodard - '' Cross Creek ''

1984 Peggy Ashcroft - '' A Passage To India ''

--- Glenn Close - '' The Natural ''

--- Lindsay Crouse - '' Places In The Heart ''

--- Christine Lahti - '' Swing Shift ''

--- Geraldine Page - '' The Pope Of Greenwich Village ''

1985 Anjelica Huston - '' Prizzi's Honor ''

--- Margaret Avery - '' The Color Purple ''

--- Amy Madigan - '' Twice In A Lifetime ''

--- Meg Tilly - '' Agnes Of God ''

--- Oprah Winfrey - '' The Color Purple ''

1986 Dianne Wiest - '' Hannah And Her Sisters ''

--- Tess Harper - '' Crimes Of The Heart ''

--- Piper Laurie - '' Children Of A Lesser God ''

--- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - '' The Color Of Money ''

--- Maggie Smith - '' A Room With A View ''

1987 Olympia Dukakis - '' Moonstruck ''

--- Norma Aleandro - '' Gaby-A True Story ''

--- Anne Archer - '' Fatal Attraction ''

--- Anne Ramsey - '' Throw Momma From The Train ''

--- Ann Sothern - '' The Whales Of August ''

1988 Geena Davis - '' The Accidental Tourist ''

--- Frances McDormand - '' Mississippi Burning ''

--- Michelle Pfeiffer - '' Dangerous Liaisons ''

--- Joan Cusack - '' Working Girl ''

--- Sigourney Weaver - '' Working Girl ''

1989 Brenda Fricker - '' My Left Foot ''

--- Anjelica Huston - '' Enemies, A Love Story ''

--- Lena Olin - '' Enemies, A Love Story ''

--- Dianne Wiest - '' Parenthood ''

--- Julia Roberts - '' Steel Magnolias ''

1990S

1990 Whoopi Goldberg - '' Ghost ''

--- Mary McDonnell - '' Dances With Wolves ''

--- Lorraine Bracco - '' Goodfellas ''

--- Annette Bening - '' Grifters ''

--- Diane Ladd - '' Wild At Heart ''

1991 Mercedes Ruehl - '' The Fisher King ''

--- Juliette Lewis - '' Cape Fear ''

--- Jessica Tandy - '' Fried Green Tomatoes ''

--- Kate Nelligan - '' The Prince Of Tides ''

--- Diane Ladd - '' Rambling Rose ''

1992 Marisa Tomei - '' My Cousin Vinny ''

--- Joan Plowright - '' Enchanted April ''

--- Miranda Richardson - '' Damage ''

--- Vanessa Redgrave - '' Howards End ''

--- Judy Davis - '' Husbands And Wives ''

1993 Anna Paquin - '' The Piano ''

--- Winona Ryder - '' The Age Of Innocence ''

--- Rosie Perez - '' Fearless ''

--- Holly Hunter - '' The Firm ''

--- Emma Thompson - '' In The Name Of The Father ''

1994 Dianne Wiest - '' Bullets Over Broadway ''

--- Jennifer Tilly - '' Bullets Over Broadway ''

--- Helen Mirren - '' The Madness Of King George ''

--- Uma Thurman - '' Pulp Fiction ''

--- Rosemary Harris - '' Tom And Viv ''

1995 Mira Sorvino - '' Mighty Aphrodite ''

--- Kathleen Quinlan - '' Apollo 13 ''

--- Mare Winningham - '' Georgia ''

--- Joan Allen - '' Nixon ''

--- Kate Winslet - '' Sense And Sensibility ''

1996 Juliette Binoche - '' The English Patient ''

--- Joan Allen - '' The Crucible ''

--- Lauren Bacall - '' The Mirror Has Two Faces ''

--- Barbara Hershey - '' The Portrait Of A Lady ''

--- Marianne Jean-Baptiste - '' Secrets & Lies ''

1997 Kim Basinger - '' L.A. Confidential ''

--- Julianne Moore - '' Boogie Nights ''

--- Minnie Driver - '' Good Will Hunting ''

--- Joan Cusack - '' In And Out ''

--- Gloria Stuart - '' Titanic ''

1998 Judi Dench - '' Shakespeare In Love ''

--- Lynn Redgrave - '' Gods And Monsters ''

--- Rachel Griffiths - '' Hilary And Jackie ''

--- Brenda Blethyn - '' Little Voice ''

--- Kathy Bates - '' Primary Colors ''

1999 Angelina Jolie - '' Girl, Interrupted ''

--- Catherine Keener - '' Being John Malkovich ''

--- Chloë Sevigny - '' Boys Don't Cry ''

--- Toni Collette - '' The Sixth Sense ''

--- Samantha Morton - '' Sweet And Lowdown ''

2000S

2000 Marcia Gay Harden - '' Pollock ''

--- Kate Hudson - '' Almost Famous ''

--- Frances McDormand - '' Almost Famous ''

--- Julie Walters - '' Billy Elliot ''

--- Judi Dench - '' Chocolat ''

2001 Jennifer Connelly - '' A Beautiful Mind ''

--- Helen Mirren - '' Gosford Park ''

--- Maggie Smith - '' Gosford Park ''

--- Marisa Tomei - '' In The Bedroom ''

--- Kate Winslet - '' Iris ''

2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones - '' Chicago ''

--- Kathy Bates - '' About Schmidt ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' Adaptation. ''

--- Queen Latifah - '' Chicago ''

--- Julianne Moore - '' The Hours ''

2003 Renée Zellweger - '' Cold Mountain ''

--- Shohreh Aghdashloo - '' House Of Sand And Fog ''

--- Patricia Clarkson - '' Pieces Of April ''

--- Marcia Gay Harden - '' Mystic River ''

--- Holly Hunter - '' Thirteen ''

2004 Cate Blanchett - '' The Aviator ''

--- Laura Linney - '' Kinsey ''

--- Virginia Madsen - '' Sideways ''

--- Sophie Okonedo - '' Hotel Rwanda ''

--- Natalie Portman - '' Closer ''

2005 Rachel Weisz - '' The Constant Gardener ''

--- Amy Adams - '' Junebug ''

--- Catherine Keener - '' Capote ''

--- Frances McDormand - '' North Country ''

--- Michelle Williams - '' Brokeback Mountain ''

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