Best Actress
The following is the average ranking of Best Actress Oscar nominees by the Twitter followers of And the Runner-Up Is.
Results are tallied using a positional voting system, where the nominees receive points based on their rank position on each submission and the nominee with the most points overall wins.
Bold = the actual Academy Award winner
1920s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1927–28 | 1. Janet Gaynor | 7th Heaven Street Angel Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
| 2. Gloria Swanson | Sadie Thompson | |
| 3. Louise Dresser | A Ship Comes In | |
| 1928–29 | 1. Jeanne Eagels | The Letter |
| 2. Bessie Love | The Broadway Melody | |
| 3. Ruth Chatterton | Madame X | |
| 4. Mary Pickford | Coquette | |
| 5. Corinne Griffith | The Divine Lady | |
| 6. Betty Compson | The Barker |
1930s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1929–30 | 1. Greta Garbo | Anna Christie |
| 2. Gloria Swanson | The Trespasser | |
| 3. Norma Shearer | The Divorcee | |
| 4. Nancy Carroll | The Devil's Holiday | |
| 5. Norma Shearer | Their Own Desire | |
| 6. Greta Garbo | Romance | |
| 7. Ruth Chatterton | Sarah and Son | |
| 1930–31 | 1. Marie Dressler | Min and Bill |
| 2. Marlene Dietrich | Morocco | |
| 3. Norma Shearer | A Free Soul | |
| 4. Ann Harding | Holiday | |
| 5. Irene Dunne | Cimarron | |
| 1931–32 | 1. Marie Dressler | Emma |
| 2. Helen Hayes | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | |
| 3. Lynn Fontanne | The Guardsman | |
| 1932–33 | 1. May Robson | Lady for a Day |
| 2. Katharine Hepburn | Morning Glory | |
| 3. Diana Wynyard | Cavalcade | |
| 1934 | 1. Claudette Colbert | It Happened One Night |
| 2. Bette Davis | Of Human Bondage | |
| 3. Norma Shearer | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | |
| 4. Grace Moore | One Night of Love | |
| 1935 | 1. Katharine Hepburn | Alice Adams |
| 2. Bette Davis | Dangerous | |
| 3. Miriam Hopkins | Becky Sharp | |
| 4. Elisabeth Bergner | Escape Me Never | |
| 5. Claudette Colbert | Private Worlds | |
| 6. Merle Oberon | The Dark Angel | |
| 1936 | 1. Carole Lombard | My Man Godfrey |
| 2. Irene Dunne | Theodora Goes Wild | |
| 3. Luise Rainer | The Great Ziegfeld | |
| 4. Norma Shearer | Romeo and Juliet | |
| 5. Gladys George | Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | |
| 1937 | 1. Barbara Stanwyck | Stella Dallas |
| 2. Irene Dunne | The Awful Truth | |
| 3. Greta Garbo | Camille | |
| 4. Janet Gaynor | A Star Is Born | |
| 5. Luise Rainer | The Good Earth | |
| 1938 | 1. Bette Davis | Jezebel |
| 2. Wendy Hiller | Pygmalion | |
| 3. Margaret Sullavan | Three Comrades | |
| 4. Norma Shearer | Marie Antoinette | |
| 5. Fay Bainter | White Banners | |
| 1939 | 1. Vivien Leigh | Gone with the Wind |
| 2. Greta Garbo | Ninotchka | |
| 3. Bette Davis | Dark Victory | |
| 4. Irene Dunne | Love Affair | |
| 5. Greer Garson | Goodbye, Mr Chips |
1940s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 1. Joan Fontaine | Rebecca |
| 2. Katharine Hepburn | The Philadelphia Story | |
| 3. Bette Davis | The Letter | |
| 4. Ginger Rogers | Kitty Foyle | |
| 5. Martha Scott | Our Town | |
| 1941 | 1. Barbara Stanwyck | Ball of Fire |
| 2. Bette Davis | The Little Foxes | |
| 3. Joan Fontaine | Suspicion | |
| 4. Olivia de Havilland | Hold Back the Dawn | |
| 5. Greer Garson | Blossoms in the Dust | |
| 1942 | 1. Bette Davis | Now, Voyager |
| 2. Katharine Hepburn | Woman of the Year | |
| 3. Greer Garson | Mrs. Miniver | |
| 4. Rosalind Russell | My Sister Eileen | |
| 5. Teresa Wright | The Pride of the Yankees | |
| 1943 | 1. Jean Arthur | The More the Merrier |
| 2. Jennifer Jones | The Song of Bernadette | |
| 3. Greer Garson | Madame Curie | |
| 4. Joan Fontaine | The Constant Nymph | |
| 5. Ingrid Bergman | For Whom the Bell Tolls | |
| 1944 | 1. Ingrid Bergman | Gaslight |
| 2. Barbara Stanwyck | Double Indemnity | |
| 3. Claudette Colbert | Since You Went Away | |
| 4. Bette Davis | Mr. Skeffington | |
| 5. Greer Garson | Mrs. Parkington | |
| 1945 | 1. Joan Crawford | Mildred Pierce |
| 2. Gene Tierney | Leave Her to Heaven | |
| 3. Ingrid Bergman | The Bells of St. Mary's | |
| 4. Greer Garson | The Valley of Decision | |
| 5. Jennifer Jones | Love Letters | |
| 1946 | 1. Celia Johnson | Brief Encounter |
| 2. Olivia de Havilland | To Each His Own | |
| 3. Rosalind Russell | Sister Kenny | |
| 4. Jennifer Jones | Duel in the Sun | |
| 5. Jane Wyman | The Yearling | |
| 1947 | 1. Joan Crawford | Possessed |
| 2. Susan Hayward | Smash-Up, The Story of a Woman | |
| 3. Loretta Young | The Farmer's Daughter | |
| 4. Rosalind Russell | Mourning Becomes Electra | |
| 5. Dorothy McGuire | Gentleman's Agreement | |
| 1948 | 1. Olivia de Havilland | The Snake Pit |
| 2. Jane Wyman | Johnny Belinda | |
| 3. Barbara Stanwyck | Sorry, Wrong Number | |
| 4. Irene Dunne | I Remember Mama | |
| 5. Ingrid Bergman | Joan of Arc | |
| 1949 | 1. Olivia de Havilland | The Heiress |
| 2. Susan Hayward | My Foolish Heart | |
| 3. Deborah Kerr | Edward, My Son | |
| 4. Jeanne Crain | Pinky | |
| 5. Loretta Young | Come to the Stable |
1950s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1. Gloria Swanson | Sunset Boulevard |
| 2. Bette Davis | All About Eve | |
| 3. Judy Holliday | Born Yesterday | |
| 4. Anne Baxter | All About Eve | |
| 5. Eleanor Parker | Caged | |
| 1951 | 1. Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 2. Katharine Hepburn | The African Queen | |
| 3. Shelley Winters | A Place in the Sun | |
| 4. Eleanor Parker | Detective Story | |
| 5. Jane Wyman | The Blue Veil | |
| 1952 | 1. Shirley Booth | Come Back, Little Sheba |
| 2. Joan Crawford | Sudden Fear | |
| 3. Julie Harris | The Member of the Wedding | |
| 4. Susan Hayward | With a Song in My Heart | |
| 5. Bette Davis | The Star | |
| 1953 | 1. Audrey Hepburn | Roman Holiday |
| 2. Deborah Kerr | From Here to Eternity | |
| 3. Ava Gardner | Mogambo | |
| 4. Leslie Caron | Lili | |
| 5. Maggie McNamara | The Moon Is Blue | |
| 1954 | 1. Judy Garland | A Star Is Born |
| 2. Grace Kelly | The Country Girl | |
| 3. Dorothy Dandridge | Carmen Jones | |
| 4. Jane Wyman | Magnificent Obsession | |
| 5. Audrey Hepburn | Sabrina | |
| 1955 | 1. Anna Magnani | The Rose Tattoo |
| 2. Katharine Hepburn | Summertime | |
| 3. Susan Hayward | I'll Cry Tomorrow | |
| 4. Eleanor Parker | Interrupted Melody | |
| 5. Jennifer Jones | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | |
| 1956 | 1. Deborah Kerr | The King and I |
| 2. Carroll Baker | Baby Doll | |
| 3. Ingrid Bergman | Anastasia | |
| 4. Katharine Hepburn | The Rainmaker | |
| 5. Nancy Kelly | The Bad Seed | |
| 1957 | 1. Joanne Woodward | The Three Faces of Eve |
| 2. Deborah Kerr | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | |
| 3. Lana Turner | Peyton Place | |
| 4. Anna Magnani | Wild Is the Wind | |
| 5. Elizabeth Taylor | Raintree County | |
| 1958 | 1. Elizabeth Taylor | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| 2. Susan Hayward | I Want to Live! | |
| 3. Rosalind Russell | Auntie Mame | |
| 4. Deborah Kerr | Separate Tables | |
| 5. Shirley MacLaine | Some Came Running | |
| 1959 | 1. Simone Signoret | Room at the Top |
| 2. Katharine Hepburn | Suddenly, Last Summer | |
| 3. Elizabeth Taylor | Suddenly, Last Summer | |
| 4. Audrey Hepburn | The Nun's Story | |
| 5. Doris Day | Pillow Talk |
1960s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 1. Shirley MacLaine | The Apartment |
| 2. Deborah Kerr | The Sundowners | |
| 3. Melina Mercouri | Never on Sunday | |
| 4. Elizabeth Taylor | Butterfield 8 | |
| 5. Greer Garson | Sunrise at Campobello | |
| 1961 | 1. Sophia Loren | Two Women |
| 2. Natalie Wood | Splendor in the Grass | |
| 3. Audrey Hepburn | Breakfast at Tiffany's | |
| 4. Geraldine Page | Summer and Smoke | |
| 5. Piper Laurie | The Hustler | |
| 1962 | 1. Anne Bancroft | The Miracle Worker |
| 2. Bette Davis | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | |
| 3. Katharine Hepburn | Long Day's Journey into Night | |
| 4. Geraldine Page | Sweet Bird of Youth | |
| 5. Lee Remick | Days of Wine and Roses | |
| 1963 | 1. Patricia Neal | Hud |
| 2. Leslie Caron | The L-Shaped Room | |
| 3. Natalie Wood | Love with the Proper Stranger | |
| 4. Rachel Roberts | This Sporting Life | |
| 5. Shirley MacLaine | Irma la Douce | |
| 1964 | 1. Julie Andrews | Mary Poppins |
| 2. Anne Bancroft | The Pumpkin Eater | |
| 3. Kim Stanley | Séance on a Wet Afternoon | |
| 4. Sophia Loren | Marriage Italian Style | |
| 5. Debbie Reynolds | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | |
| 1965 | 1. Julie Andrews | The Sound of Music |
| 2. Julie Christie | Darling | |
| 3. Elizabeth Hartman | A Patch of Blue | |
| 4. Samantha Eggar | The Collector | |
| 5. Simone Signoret | Ship of Fools | |
| 1966 | 1. Elizabeth Taylor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| 2. Lynn Redgrave | Georgy Girl | |
| 3. Ida Kaminska | The Shop on Main Street | |
| 4. Anouk Aimee | A Man and a Woman | |
| 5. Vanessa Redgrave | Morgan! | |
| 1967 | 1. Anne Bancroft | The Graduate |
| 2. Faye Dunaway | Bonnie and Clyde | |
| 3. Katharine Hepburn | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | |
| 4. Audrey Hepburn | Wait Until Dark | |
| 5. Edith Evans | The Whisperers | |
| 1968 | 1. Katharine Hepburn | The Lion in Winter |
| 2. Barbra Streisand | Funny Girl | |
| 3. Joanne Woodward | Rachel, Rachel | |
| 4. Vanessa Redgrave | Isadora | |
| 5. Patricia Neal | The Subject Was Roses | |
| 1969 | 1. Maggie Smith | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| 2. Jane Fonda | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | |
| 3. Liza Minnelli | The Sterile Cuckoo | |
| 4. Geneviève Bujold | Anne of the Thousand Days | |
| 5. Jean Simmons | The Happy Ending |
1970s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1. Glenda Jackson | Women in Love |
| 2. Carrie Snodgress | Diary of a Mad Housewife | |
| 3. Jane Alexander | The Great White Hope | |
| 4. Ali MacGraw | Love Story | |
| 5. Sarah Miles | Ryan's Daughter | |
| 1971 | 1. Jane Fonda | Klute |
| 2. Glenda Jackson | Sunday Bloody Sunday | |
| 3. Julie Christie | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | |
| 4. Janet Suzman | Nicholas and Alexandra | |
| 5. Vanessa Redgrave | Mary, Queen of Scots | |
| 1972 | 1. Liza Minnelli | Cabaret |
| 2. Diana Ross | Lady Sings the Blues | |
| 3. Cicely Tyson | Sounder | |
| 4. Liv Ullmann | The Emigrants | |
| 5. Maggie Smith | Travels with My Aunt | |
| 1973 | 1. Ellen Burstyn | The Exorcist |
| 2. Barbra Streisand | The Way We Were | |
| 3. Glenda Jackson | A Touch of Class | |
| 4. Joanne Woodward | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | |
| 5. Marsha Mason | Cinderella Liberty | |
| 1974 | 1. Gena Rowlands | A Woman Under the Influence |
| 2. Ellen Burstyn | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | |
| 3. Faye Dunaway | Chinatown | |
| 4. Valerie Perrine | Lenny | |
| 5. Diahann Carroll | Claudine | |
| 1975 | 1. Louise Fletcher | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 2. Isabelle Adjani | The Story of Adele H. | |
| 3. Ann-Margret | Tommy | |
| 4. Carol Kane | Hester Street | |
| 5. Glenda Jackson | Hedda | |
| 1976 | 1. Faye Dunaway | Network |
| 2. Sissy Spacek | Carrie | |
| 3. Liv Ullmann | Face to Face | |
| 4. Talia Shire | Rocky | |
| 5. Marie-Christine Barrault | Cousin Cousine | |
| 1977 | 1. Diane Keaton | Annie Hall |
| 2. Jane Fonda | Julia | |
| 3. Marsha Mason | The Goodbye Girl | |
| 4. Anne Bancroft | The Turning Point | |
| 5. Shirley MacLaine | The Turning Point | |
| 1978 | 1. Jill Clayburgh | An Unmarried Woman |
| 2. Geraldine Page | Interiors | |
| 3. Ingrid Bergman | Autumn Sonata | |
| 4. Jane Fonda | Coming Home | |
| 5. Ellen Burstyn | Same Time, Next Year | |
| 1979 | 1. Sally Field | Norma Rae |
| 2. Bette Midler | The Rose | |
| 3. Jane Fonda | The China Syndrome | |
| 4. Jill Clayburgh | Starting Over | |
| 5. Marsha Mason | Chapter Two |
1980s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1. Sissy Spacek | Coal Miner's Daughter |
| 2. Mary Tyler Moore | Ordinary People | |
| 3. Goldie Hawn | Private Benjamin | |
| 4. Gena Rowlands | Gloria | |
| 5. Ellen Burstyn | Resurrection | |
| 1981 | 1. Diane Keaton | Reds |
| 2. Katharine Hepburn | On Golden Pond | |
| 3. Susan Sarandon | Atlantic City | |
| 4. Marsha Mason | Only When I Laugh | |
| 5. Meryl Streep | The French Lieutenant's Woman | |
| 1982 | 1. Meryl Streep | Sophie's Choice |
| 2. Jessica Lange | Frances | |
| 3. Julie Andrews | Victor/Victoria | |
| 4. Sissy Spacek | Missing | |
| 5. Debra Winger | An Officer and a Gentleman | |
| 1983 | 1. Shirley MacLaine | Terms of Endearment |
| 2. Debra Winger | Terms of Endearment | |
| 3. Meryl Streep | Silkwood | |
| 4. Julie Walters | Educating Rita | |
| 5. Jane Alexander | Testament | |
| 1984 | 1. Sally Field | Places in the Heart |
| 2. Judy Davis | A Passage to India | |
| 3. Jessica Lange | Country | |
| 4. Vanessa Redgrave | The Bostonians | |
| 5. Sissy Spacek | The River | |
| 1985 | 1. Whoopi Goldberg | The Color Purple |
| 2. Geraldine Page | The Trip to Bountiful | |
| 3. Meryl Streep | Out of Africa | |
| 4. Jessica Lange | Sweet Dreams | |
| 5. Anne Bancroft | Agnes of God | |
| 1986 | 1. Sigourney Weaver | Aliens |
| 2. Kathleen Turner | Peggy Sue Got Married | |
| 3. Marlee Matlin | Children of a Lesser God | |
| 4. Sissy Spacek | Crimes of the Heart | |
| 5. Jane Fonda | The Morning After | |
| 1987 | 1. Glenn Close | Fatal Attraction |
| 2. Holly Hunter | Broadcast News | |
| 3. Cher | Moonstruck | |
| 4. Meryl Streep | Ironweed | |
| 5. Sally Kirkland | Anna | |
| 1988 | 1. Glenn Close | Dangerous Liaisons |
| 2. Sigourney Weaver | Gorillas in the Mist | |
| 3. Jodie Foster | The Accused | |
| 4. Meryl Streep | A Cry in the Dark | |
| 5. Melanie Griffith | Working Girl | |
| 1989 | 1. Michelle Pfeiffer | The Fabulous Baker Boys |
| 2. Jessica Tandy | Driving Miss Daisy | |
| 3. Isabelle Adjani | Camille Claudel | |
| 4. Jessica Lange | Music Box | |
| 5. Pauline Collins | Shirley Valentine |
1990s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1. Kathy Bates | Misery |
| 2. Anjelica Huston | The Grifters | |
| 3. Meryl Streep | Postcards from the Edge | |
| 4. Julia Roberts | Pretty Woman | |
| 5. Joanne Woodward | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | |
| 1991 | 1. Jodie Foster | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 2. Susan Sarandon | Thelma & Louise | |
| 3. Geena Davis | Thelma & Louise | |
| 4. Laura Dern | Rambling Rose | |
| 5. Bette Midler | For the Boys | |
| 1992 | 1. Emma Thompson | Howards End |
| 2. Mary McDonnell | Passion Fish | |
| 3. Susan Sarandon | Lorenzo's Oil | |
| 4. Michelle Pfeiffer | Love Field | |
| 5. Catherine Deneuve | Indochine | |
| 1993 | 1. Holly Hunter | The Piano |
| 2. Angela Bassett | What's Love Got to Do with It | |
| 3. Emma Thompson | The Remains of the Day | |
| 4. Stockard Channing | Six Degrees of Separation | |
| 5. Debra Winger | Shadowlands | |
| 1994 | 1. Winona Ryder | Little Women |
| 2. Jessica Lange | Blue Sky | |
| 3. Susan Sarandon | The Client | |
| 4. Miranda Richardson | Tom & Viv | |
| 5. Jodie Foster | Nell | |
| 1995 | 1. Susan Sarandon | Dead Man Walking |
| 2. Elisabeth Shue | Leaving Las Vegas | |
| 3. Meryl Streep | The Bridges of Madison County | |
| 4. Emma Thompson | Sense and Sensibility | |
| 5. Sharon Stone | Casino | |
| 1996 | 1. Frances McDormand | Fargo |
| 2. Brenda Blethyn | Secrets & Lies | |
| 3. Emily Watson | Breaking the Waves | |
| 4. Kristin Scott Thomas | The English Patient | |
| 5. Diane Keaton | Marvin's Room | |
| 1997 | 1. Helen Hunt | As Good as It Gets |
| 2. Helena Bonham Carter | The Wings of the Dove | |
| 3. Judi Dench | Mrs. Brown | |
| 4. Kate Winslet | Titanic | |
| 5. Julie Christie | Afterglow | |
| 1998 | 1. Cate Blanchett | Elizabeth |
| 2. Fernanda Montenegro | Central Station | |
| 3. Gwyneth Paltrow | Shakespeare in Love | |
| 4. Emily Watson | Hilary and Jackie | |
| 5. Meryl Streep | One True Thing | |
| 1999 | 1. Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry |
| 2. Annette Bening | American Beauty | |
| 3. Julianne Moore | The End of the Affair | |
| 4. Janet McTeer | Tumbleweeds | |
| 5. Meryl Streep | Music of the Heart |
2000s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1. Julia Roberts | Erin Brockovich |
| 2. Ellen Burstyn | Requiem for a Dream | |
| 3. Laura Linney | You Can Count on Me | |
| 4. Joan Allen | The Contender | |
| 5. Juliette Binoche | Chocolat | |
| 2001 | 1. Nicole Kidman | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2. Sissy Spacek | In the Bedroom | |
| 3. Halle Berry | Monster's Ball | |
| 4. Renée Zellweger | Bridget Jones's Diary | |
| 5. Judi Dench | Iris | |
| 2002 | 1. Julianne Moore | Far from Heaven |
| 2. Nicole Kidman | The Hours | |
| 3. Renée Zellweger | Chicago | |
| 4. Diane Lane | Unfaithful | |
| 5. Salma Hayek | Frida | |
| 2003 | 1. Charlize Theron | Monster |
| 2. Diane Keaton | Something's Gotta Give | |
| 3. Naomi Watts | 21 Grams | |
| 4. Samantha Morton | In America | |
| 5. Keisha Castle-Hughes | Whale Rider | |
| 2004 | 1. Kate Winslet | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 2. Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | |
| 3. Hilary Swank | Million Dollar Baby | |
| 4. Catalina Sandino Moreno | Maria Full of Grace | |
| 5. Annette Bening | Being Julia | |
| 2005 | 1. Reese Witherspoon | Walk the Line |
| 2. Felicity Huffman | Transamerica | |
| 3. Keira Knightley | Pride & Prejudice | |
| 4. Charlize Theron | North Country | |
| 5. Judi Dench | Mrs. Henderson Presents | |
| 2006 | 1. Helen Mirren | The Queen |
| 2. Penélope Cruz | Volver | |
| 3. Meryl Streep | The Devil Wears Prada | |
| 4. Judi Dench | Notes on a Scandal | |
| 5. Kate Winslet | Little Children | |
| 2007 | 1. Marion Cotillard | La Vie en Rose |
| 2. Julie Christie | Away from Her | |
| 3. Elliot Page | Juno | |
| 4. Laura Linney | The Savages | |
| 5. Cate Blanchett | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | |
| 2008 | 1. Anne Hathaway | Rachel Getting Married |
| 2. Meryl Streep | Doubt | |
| 3. Kate Winslet | The Reader | |
| 4. Melissa Leo | Frozen River | |
| 5. Angelina Jolie | Changeling | |
| 2009 | 1. Carey Mulligan | An Education |
| 2. Gabourey Sidibe | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | |
| 3. Meryl Streep | Julie & Julia | |
| 4. Sandra Bullock | The Blind Side | |
| 5. Helen Mirren | The Last Station |
2010s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1. Natalie Portman | Black Swan |
| 2. Michelle Williams | Blue Valentine | |
| 3. Annette Bening | The Kids Are All Right | |
| 4. Jennifer Lawrence | Winter's Bone | |
| 5. Nicole Kidman | Rabbit Hole | |
| 2011 | 1. Viola Davis | The Help |
| 2. Rooney Mara | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
| 3. Michelle Williams | My Week with Marilyn | |
| 4. Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady | |
| 5. Glenn Close | Albert Nobbs | |
| 2012 | 1. Emmanuelle Riva | Amour |
| 2. Jessica Chastain | Zero Dark Thirty | |
| 3. Jennifer Lawrence | Silver Linings Playbook | |
| 4. Quvenzhané Wallis | Beasts of the Southern Wild | |
| 5. Naomi Watts | The Impossible | |
| 2013 | 1. Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine |
| 2. Sandra Bullock | Gravity | |
| 3. Amy Adams | American Hustle | |
| 4. Judi Dench | Philomena | |
| 5. Meryl Streep | August: Osage County | |
| 2014 | 1. Rosamund Pike | Gone Girl |
| 2. Julianne Moore | Still Alice | |
| 3. Marion Cotillard | Two Days, One Night | |
| 4. Reese Witherspoon | Wild | |
| 5. Felicity Jones | The Theory of Everything | |
| 2015 | 1. Brie Larson | Room |
| 2. Cate Blanchett | Carol | |
| 3. Saoirse Ronan | Brooklyn | |
| 4. Charlotte Rampling | 45 Years | |
| 5. Jennifer Lawrence | Joy | |
| 2016 | 1. Natalie Portman | Jackie |
| 2. Isabelle Huppert | Elle | |
| 3. Emma Stone | La La Land | |
| 4. Ruth Negga | Loving | |
| 5. Meryl Streep | Florence Foster Jenkins | |
| 2017 | 1. Sally Hawkins | The Shape of Water |
| 2. Frances McDormand | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |
| 3. Saoirse Ronan | Lady Bird | |
| 4. Margot Robbie | I, Tonya | |
| 5. Meryl Streep | The Post | |
| 2018 | 1. Olivia Colman | The Favourite |
| 2. Melissa McCarthy | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | |
| 3. Glenn Close | The Wife | |
| 4. Yalitza Aparicio | Roma | |
| 5. Lady Gaga | A Star Is Born | |
| 2019 | 1. Saoirse Ronan | Little Women |
| 2. Scarlett Johansson | Marriage Story | |
| 3. Renée Zellweger | Judy | |
| 4. Charlize Theron | Bombshell | |
| 5. Cynthia Erivo | Harriet |
2020s
| Year | Nominee and rank | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1. Carey Mulligan | Promising Young Woman |
| 2. Frances McDormand | Nomadland | |
| 3. Vanessa Kirby | Pieces of a Woman | |
| 4. Viola Davis | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | |
| 5. Andra Day | The United States vs. Billie Holiday | |
| 2021 | 1. Kristen Stewart | Spencer |
| 2. Penélope Cruz | Parallel Mothers | |
| 3. Olivia Colman | The Lost Daughter | |
| 4. Jessica Chastain | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | |
| 5. Nicole Kidman | Being the Ricardos | |
| 2022 | 1. Cate Blanchett | TÁR |
| 2. Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All at Once | |
| 3. Andrea Riseborough | To Leslie | |
| 4. Michelle Williams | The Fabelmans | |
| 5. Ana de Armas | Blonde | |
| 2023 | 1. Sandra Hüller | Anatomy of a Fall |
| 2. Emma Stone | Poor Things | |
| 3. Lily Gladstone | Killers of the Flower Moon | |
| 4. Carey Mulligan | Maestro | |
| 5. Annette Bening | Nyad |
Multiple winners (Combined Lead and Supporting Actress)
* = Supporting win
- Cate Blanchett – 4 (Elizabeth; The Aviator*; Blue Jasmine; TÁR)
- Viola Davis – 3 (Doubt*; The Help; Fences*)
- Julie Andrews – 2 (Mary Poppins; The Sound of Music)
- Anne Bancroft – 2 (The Miracle Worker; The Graduate)
- Glenn Close – 2 (Fatal Attraction; Dangerous Liaisons)
- Joan Crawford – 2 (Mildred Pierce; Possessed)
- Bette Davis – 2 (Jezebel; Now, Voyager)
- Olivia de Havilland – 2 (The Snake Pit; The Heiress)
- Marie Dressler – 2 (Min and Bill; Emma)
- Sally Field – 2 (Norma Rae; Places in the Heart)
- Katharine Hepburn – 2 (Alice Adams; The Lion in Winter)
- Diane Keaton – 2 (Annie Hall; Reds)
- Vivien Leigh – 2 (Gone with the Wind; A Streetcar Named Desire)
- Shirley MacLaine – 2 (The Apartment; Terms of Endearment)
- Carey Mulligan – 2 (An Education; Promising Young Woman)
- Natalie Portman – 2 (Black Swan; Jackie)
- Barbara Stanwyck – 2 (Stella Dallas: Ball of Fire)
- Elizabeth Taylor – 2 (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
- Holly Hunter – 2 (The Piano; Thirteen*)
- Maggie Smith – 2 (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; California Suite*)
- Meryl Streep – 2 (Kramer vs. Kramer*; Sophie’s Choice)
- Amy Adams – 2 (Junebug*; The Fighter*)
- Celeste Holm – 2 (Gentleman’s Agreement*; All About Eve*)
- Agnes Moorehead – 2 (The Magnificent Ambersons*; Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte*)
- Claire Trevor – 2 (Dead End*; Key Largo*)
- Dianne Wiest – 2 (Hannah and Her Sisters*; Bullets over Broadway*)
- Shelley Winters – 2 (A Patch of Blue*; The Poseidon Adventure*)
Most nominations without a win (Combined Lead and Supporting Actress)
* = Supporting nomination
- Geraldine Page – 8 (Hondo*; Summer and Smoke; Sweet Bird of Youth; You’re a Big Boy Now*; Pete ‘n’ Tillie*; Interiors; The Pope of Greenwich Village*; The Trip to Bountiful)
- Greer Garson – 7 (Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Blossoms in the Dust; Mrs. Miniver; Madame Curie; Mrs. Parkington; The Valley of Decision; Sunrise at Campobello)
- Jessica Lange – 6 (Frances; Tootsie*; Country; Sweet Dreams; Music Box; Blue Sky)
- Norma Shearer – 6 (The Divorcee; Their Own Desire; A Free Soul; The Barretts of Wimpole Street; Romeo and Juliet; Marie Antoinette)
- Irene Dunne – 5 (Cimarron; Theodora Goes Wild; The Awful Truth; Love Affair; I Remember Mama)
- Susan Hayward – 5 (Smash-Up, The Story of a Woman; My Foolish Heart; With a Song in My Heart; I’ll Cry Tomorrow; I Want to Live!)
- Annette Bening – 5 (The Grifters*; American Beauty; Being Julia; The Kids Are All Right; Nyad)
- Jennifer Jones – 5 (The Song of Bernadette; Since You Went Away*; Love Letters; Duel in the Sun; Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)
- Michelle Williams – 5 (Brokeback Mountain*; Blue Valentine; My Week with Marilyn; Manchester by the Sea*, The Fabelmans)
- Julie Christie – 4 (Darling; McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Afterglow; Away from Her)
- Marsha Mason – 4 (Cinderella Liberty; The Goodbye Girl; Chapter Two; Only When I Laugh)
- Rosalind Russell – 4 (My Sister Eileen; Sister Kenny; Mourning Becomes Electra; Auntie Mame)
- Jane Wyman – 4 (The Yearling; Johnny Belinda; The Blue Veil; Magnificent Obsession)
- Jennifer Lawrence – 4 (Winter’s Bone; Silver Linings Playbook; American Hustle*; Joy)
- Renée Zellweger – 4 (Bridget Jones’s Diary; Chicago; Cold Mountain*; Judy)
- Jane Alexander – 4 (The Great White Hope; All the President’s Men*; Kramer vs. Kramer*; Testament)
- Penélope Cruz – 4 (Volver; Vicky Cristina Barcelona*; Nine*; Parallel Mothers)
- Emma Stone – 4 (Birdman*; La La Land; The Favourite*; Poor Things)
- Lee Grant – 4 (Detective Story*; The Landlord*; Shampoo*; Voyage of the Damned*)
- Eleanor Parker – 3 (Caged; Detective Story; Interrupted Melody)
- Debra Winger – 3 (An Officer and a Gentleman; Terms of Endearment; Shadowlands)
- Jessica Chastain – 3 (The Help*; Zero Dark Thirty; The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
- Natalie Wood – 3 (Rebel Without a Cause*; Splendor in the Grass; Love with a Proper Stranger)
- Joan Allen – 3 (Nixon*; The Crucible*; The Contender)
- Laura Dern – 3 (Rambling Rose; Wild*; Marriage Story*)
- Edith Evans – 3 (Tom Jones*; The Chalk Garden*; The Whisperers)
- Anjelica Huston – 3 (Prizzi’s Honor*; Enemies, A Love Story*; The Grifters)
- Teresa Wright – 3 (The Little Foxes*; The Pride of the Yankees; Mrs. Miniver*)
- Diane Ladd – 3 (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore*; Wild at Heart*; Rambling Rose*)
- Anne Revere – 3 (The Song of Bernadette*; National Velvet*; Gentleman’s Agreement*)
- Marisa Tomei – 3 (My Cousin Vinny*; In the Bedroom*; The Wrestler*)
