HELEN HUNT: 1997, As Good As It Gets

FRANCIS MCDORMAND: 1996, Fargo

SUSAN SARANDON: 1995, Dead Man Walking

JESSICA LANGE: 1994, Blue Sky

HOLLY HUNTER: 1993, The Piano

EMMA THOMPSON: 1992, Howard's End

KATHY BATES: 1990, Misery

JESSICA TANDY: 1989, Driving Miss Daisy

JODIE FOSTER: 1991, The Silence of the Lambs, et al.

CHER: 1987, Moonstruck

MARLEE MATLIN: 1986, Children of a Lesser God

GERALDINE PAGE: 1985, The Trip to Bountiful

SHIRLEY MACLAINE: 1983, Terms of Endearment

MERYL STREEP: 1982, Sophie's Choice

SISSY SPACEK: 1980, Coal Miner's Daughter

SALLY FIELD: 1979, Norma Rae, et al.

DIANE KEATON: 1977, Annie Hall

FAYE DUNAWAY: 1976, Network

LOUISE FLETCHER: 1975, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

ELLEN BURSTYN: 1974, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

LIZA MINELLI: 1972, Cabaret

JANE FONDA: 1971, Klute, et al.

GLENDA JACKSON: 1973, A Touch of Class, et al.

MAGGIE SMITH: 1969, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

BARBRA STREISAND: 1968, Funny Girl

JULIE CHRISTIE: 1965, Darling

JULIE ANDREWS: 1964, Mary Poppins

PATRICIA NEAL: 1963, Hud

ANNE BANCROFT: 1962, The Miracle Worker

SOPHIA LOREN: 1961, Two Women

ELIZABETH TAYLOR: 1966, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, et al.

SIMONE SIGNORET: 1959, Room at the Top

SUSAN HAYWARD: 1958, I Want to Live

JOANNE WOODWARD: 1957, The Three Faces of Eve

ANNA MAGNANI: 1955, The Rose Tattoo

GRACE KELLY: 1954, The Country Girl

AUDREY HEPBURN: 1953, Roman Holiday

SHIRLEY BOOTH: 1952, Come Back, Little Sheba

JUDY HOLLIDAY: 1950, Born Yesterday

JANE WYMAN: 1948, Johnny Belinda

LORETTA YOUNG: 1947, The Farmer's Daughter

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND: 1946, To Each His Own

JOAN CRAWFORD: 1945, Mildred Pierce

INGRID BERGMAN: 1944, Gaslight, et al.

JENNIFER JONES: 1943, The Song of Bernadette

GREER GARSON: 1942, Mrs. Miniver

JOAN FONTAINE: 1941, Suspicion

GINGER ROGERS: 1940, Kitty Foyle

VIVIEN LEIGH: 1939, Gone With The Wind, et al.

LUISE RAINER: 1936, The Great Ziegfeld

BETTE DAVIS: 1938, Jezebel, et al.

CLAUDETTE COLBERT: 1934, It Happened One Night

KATHARINE HEPBURN: 1981, On Golden Pond, et al.

HELEN HAYES: 1931-1932, The Sin of Madelon Claudet

MARIE DRESSLER: 1930-1931, Min and Bill

NORMA SHEARER: 1929-1930, The Divorcee

MARY PICKFORD: 1928-1929, Coquette

JANET GAYNOR: 1927-1928, Seventh Heaven