The Film-Lover's Check List: Academy Award Nominees

Best Actress Nominees

2023

Emma Stone, winner


	Poor Things (2023)
	Nyad (2023)
	Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
	Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
	Maestro (2023)

2022

Michelle Yeoh, winner


	Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
	Tar (2022)
	Blonde (2020)
	To Leslie (2022)
	The Fabelmans (2022)

2021

Jessica Chastain, winner


	The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
	The Lost Daughter (2021)
	Parallel Mothers (2021)
	Being the Ricardos (2021)
	Spencer (2021)

2020

Frances McDormand, winner


	Nomadland (2020)
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
	The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
	Pieces of a Woman (2020)
	Promising Young Woman (2020)

2019

Renee Zellweger, winner


	Judy (2019)
	Harriet (2019)
	Marriage Story (2019)
	Little Women (2019)
	Bombshell (2019)

2018

Olivia Colman, winner


	The Favourite (2018)
	Roma (2018)
	The Wife (2017)
	A Star Is Born (2018)
	Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

2017

Frances McDormand, winner


	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
	The Shape of Water (2017)
	I, Tonya (2017)
	Lady Bird (2017)
	The Post (2017)

2016

Emma Stone, winner


	La La Land (2016)
	Elle (2016)
	Loving (2016)
	Jackie (2016)
	Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

2015

Brie Larson, winner


	Room (2015)
	Carol (2015)
	Joy (2015)
	45 Years (2015)
	Brooklyn (2015)

2014

Julianne Moore, winner


	Still Alice (2014)
	Two Days, One Night (2014)
	The Theory of Everything (2014)
	Gone Girl (2014)
	A Walk In the Wilderness (2014)

2013

Cate Blanchett, winner


	Blue Jasmine (2013)
	American Hustle (2013)
	Gravity (2013)
	Philomena (2013)
	August: Osage County (2013)

2012

Jennifer Lawrence, winner


	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
	Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
	Amour (2012)
	Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
	The Impossible (2012)

2011

Meryl Streep, winner


	The Iron Lady (2011)
	Albert Nobbs (2011)
	The Help (2011)
	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
	My Week With Marilyn (2011)

2010

Natalie Portman, winner


	Black Swan (2010)
	The Kids Are All Right (2010)
	Rabbit Hole (2010)
	Winter's Bone (2010)
	Blue Valentine (2010)

2009

Sandra Bullock, winner


	The Blind Side (2009)
	The Last Station (2009)
	An Education (2009)
	Precious (2009)
	Julie & Julia (2009)

2008

Kate Winslet, winner


	The Reader (2008)
	Rachel Getting Married (2008)
	Changeling (2008)
	Frozen River (2008)
	Doubt (2008)

2007

Marion Cotillard, winner


	La Vie En Rose (2007)
	Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
	Away From Her (2007)
	The Savages (2007)
	Juno (2007)

2006

Helen Mirren, winner


	The Queen (2006)
	Volver (2006)
	Notes On a Scandal (2006)
	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
	Little Children (2006)

2005

Reese Witherspoon, winner


	Walk the Line (2005)
	Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
	Transamerica (2005)
	Pride & Prejudice (2005)
	North Country (2005)

2004

Hilary Swank, winner


	Million Dollar Baby (2004)
	The Aviator (2004)
	Finding Neverland (2004)
	Ray (2004)
	Sideways (2004)

2003

Charlize Theron, winner


	Monster (2003)
	Whale Rider (2002)
	Something's Gotta Give (2003)
	In America (2003)
	21 Grams (2003)

2002

Nicole Kidman, winner


	The Hours (2002)
	Frida (2002)
	Unfaithful (2002)
	Far From Heaven (2002)
	Chicago (2002)

2001

Halle Berry, winner


	Monster's Ball (2001)
	Iris (2001)
	Moulin Rouge! (2001)
	In the Bedroom (2001)
	Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

2000

Julia Roberts, winner


	Erin Brockovich (2000)
	The Contender (2000)
	Chocolat (2000)
	Requiem For a Dream (2000)
	You Can Count On Me (2000)

1999

Hilary Swank, winner


	Boys Don't Cry (1999)
	American Beauty (1999)
	Tumbleweeds (1999)
	The End of the Affair (1999)
	Music of the Heart (1999)

1998

Gwyneth Paltrow, winner


	Shakespeare In Love (1998)
	Elizabeth (1998)
	Central Do Brasil (1998)
	One True Thing (1998)
	Hilary and Jackie (1998)

1997

Helen Hunt, winner


	As Good As It Gets (1997)
	The Wings of the Dove (1997)
	Afterglow (1997)
	Mrs. Brown (1997)
	Titanic (1997)

1996

Frances McDormand, winner


	Fargo (1996)
	Secrets & Lies (1996)
	Marvin's Room (1996)
	The English Patient (1996)
	Breaking the Waves (1996)

1995

Susan Sarandon, winner


	Dead Man Walking (1995)
	Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
	Casino (1995)
	The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
	Sense and Sensibility (1995)

1994

Jessica Lange, winner


	Blue Sky (1994)
	Nell (1994)
	Tom & Viv (1994)
	Little Women (1994)
	The Client (1994)

1993

Holly Hunter, winner


	The Piano (1993)
	What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
	Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
	The Remains of the Day (1993)
	Shadowlands (1993)

1992

Emma Thompson, winner


	Howards End (1992)
	Indochine (1992)
	Passion Fish (1992)
	Love Field (1992)
	Lorenzo's Oil (1992)

1991

Jodie Foster, winner


	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
	Thelma & Louise (1991)
	Rambling Rose (1991)
	For the Boys (1991)
	Thelma & Louise (1991)

1990

Kathy Bates, winner


	Misery (1990)
	The Grifters (1990)
	Pretty Woman (1990)
	Postcards From the Edge (1990)
	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

1989

Jessica Tandy, winner


	Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
	Camille Claudel (1988)
	Shirley Valentine (1989)
	Music Box (1989)
	The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

1988

Jodie Foster, winner


	The Accused (1988)
	Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
	Working Girl (1988)
	A Cry In the Dark (1988)
	Gorillas In the Mist (1988)

1987

Cher, winner


	Moonstruck (1987)
	Fatal Attraction (1987)
	Broadcast News (1987)
	Anna (1987)
	Ironweed (1987)

1986

Marlee Matlin, winner


	Children of a Lesser God (1986)
	The Morning After (1986)
	Crimes of the Heart (1986)
	Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
	Aliens (1986)

1985

Geraldine Page, winner


	The Trip To Bountiful (1985)
	Agnes of God (1985)
	The Color Purple (1985)
	Sweet Dreams (1985)
	Out of Africa (1985)

1984

Sally Field, winner


	Places In the Heart (1984)
	A Passage To India (1984)
	Country (1984)
	The Bostonians (1984)
	The River (1984)

1983

Shirley MacLaine, winner


	Terms of Endearment (1983)
	Testament (1983)
	Silkwood (1983)
	Educating Rita (1983)
	Terms of Endearment (1983)

1982

Meryl Streep, winner


	Sophie's Choice (1982)
	Victor/Victoria (1982)
	Frances (1982)
	Missing (1982)
	An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

1981

Katharine Hepburn, winner


	On Golden Pond (1981)
	Reds (1981)
	Only When I Laugh (1981)
	Atlantic City (1980)
	The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

1980

Sissy Spacek, winner


	Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
	Resurrection (1980)
	Private Benjamin (1980)
	Ordinary People (1980)
	Gloria (1980)

1979

Sally Field, winner


	Norma Rae (1979)
	Starting Over (1979)
	The China Syndrome (1979)
	Chapter Two (1979)
	The Rose (1979)

1978

Jane Fonda, winner


	Coming Home (1978)
	Autumn Sonata (1978)
	Same Time, Next Year (1978)
	An Unmarried Woman (1978)
	Interiors (1978)

1977

Diane Keaton, winner


	Annie Hall (1977)
	The Turning Point (1977)
	The Goodbye Girl (1977)
	The Turning Point (1977)
	Julia (1977)

1976

Faye Dunaway, winner


	Network (1976)
	Cousin Cousine (1975)
	Rocky (1976)
	Carrie (1976)
	Face To Face (1976)

1975

Louise Fletcher, winner


	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
	The Story of Adele H. (1975)
	Tommy (1975)
	Hedda (1975)
	Hester Street (1975)

1974

Ellen Burstyn, winner


	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
	Claudine (1974)
	Chinatown (1974)
	Lenny (1974)
	A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

1973

Glenda Jackson, winner


	A Touch of Class (1973)
	The Exorcist (1973)
	Cinderella Liberty (1973)
	The Way We Were (1973)
	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)

1972

Liza Minnelli, winner


	Cabaret (1972)
	Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
	Travels With My Aunt (1972)
	Sounder (1972)
	The Emigrants (1971)

1971

Jane Fonda, winner


	Klute (1971)
	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
	Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
	Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
	Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

1970

Glenda Jackson, winner


	Women In Love (1969)
	The Great White Hope (1970)
	Love Story (1970)
	Ryan's Daughter (1970)
	Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)

1969

Maggie Smith, winner


	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
	Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
	The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
	The Happy Ending (1969)

1968

Katharine Hepburn & Barbra Streisand, winners


	The Lion In Winter (1968)
	Funny Girl (1968)
	The Subject Was Roses (1968)
	The Loves of Isadora (1968)
	Rachel, Rachel (1968)

1967

Katharine Hepburn, winner


	Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
	The Graduate (1967)
	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
	The Whisperers (1967)
	Wait Until Dark (1967)

1966

Elizabeth Taylor, winner


	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
	A Man and a Woman (1966)
	The Shop On Main Street (1965)
	Georgy Girl (1966)
	Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966)

1965

Julie Christie, winner


	Darling (1965)
	The Sound of Music (1965)
	The Collector (1965)
	A Patch of Blue (1965)
	Ship of Fools (1965)

1964

Julie Andrews, winner


	Mary Poppins (1964)
	The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
	Marriage, Italian Style (1964)
	The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
	Seance On a Wet Afternoon (1964)

1963

Patricia Neal, winner


	Hud (1963)
	The L-Shaped Room (1962)
	Irma La Douce (1963)
	This Sporting Life (1963)
	Love With the Proper Stranger (1963)

1962

Anne Bancroft, winner


	The Miracle Worker (1962)
	What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
	Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
	Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
	Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

1961

Sophia Loren, Winner


	Two Women (1960)
	Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
	The Hustler (1961)
	Summer and Smoke (1961)
	Splendor In the Grass (1961)

1960

Elizabeth Taylor, winner


	Butterfield 8 (1960)
	Sunrise At Campobello (1960)
	The Sundowners (1960)
	The Apartment (1960)
	Never On Sunday (1960)

1959

Simone Signoret, winner


	Room At the Top (1959)
	Pillow Talk (1959)
	The Nun's Story (1959)
	Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
	Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

1958

Susan Hayward, winner


	I Want To Live! (1958)
	Separate Tables (1958)
	Auntie Mame (1958)
	Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
	Some Came Running (1958)

1957

Joanne Woodward, winner


	The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
	Wild Is the Wind (1957)
	Raintree County (1957)
	Peyton Place (1957)

1956

Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia


	Anastasia (1956)
	Baby Doll (1956)
	The Rainmaker (1956)
	The Bad Seed (1956)
	The King and I (1956)

1955

Anna Magnani, winner


	The Rose Tattoo (1955)
	I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
	Summertime (1955)
	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
	Interrupted Melody (1955)

1954

Grace Kelly, winner


	The Country Girl (1954)
	Carmen Jones (1954)
	A Star Is Born (1954)
	Sabrina (1954)
	Magnificent Obsession (1954)

1953

Audrey Hepburn, winner


	Roman Holiday (1953)
	Lili (1953)
	Mogambo (1953)
	From Here To Eternity (1953)
	The Moon Is Blue (1953)

1952

Shirley Booth, winner


	Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
	Sudden Fear (1952)
	The Star (1952)
	The Member of the Wedding (1952)
	With a Song In My Heart (1952)

1951

Vivien Leigh, Winner


	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
	The African Queen (1951)
	Detective Story (1951)
	A Place In the Sun (1951)
	The Blue Veil (1951)

1950

Judy Holliday, winner


	Born Yesterday (1950)
	All About Eve (1950)
	All About Eve (1950)
	Caged (1950)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)

1949

Olivia de Havilland, winner


	The Heiress (1949)
	Pinky (1949)
	My Foolish Heart (1949)
	Edward, My Son (1949)
	Come To the Stable (1949)

1948

Jane Wyman, winner


	Johnny Belinda (1948)
	Joan of Arc (1948)
	The Snake Pit (1948)
	I Remember Mama (1948)
	Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

1947

Loretta Young, winner


	The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
	Possessed (1947)
	Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
	Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
	Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

1946

Olivia de Havilland, winner


	To Each His Own (1946)
	Brief Encounter (1945)
	Duel In the Sun (1946)
	Sister Kenny (1946)
	The Yearling (1946)

1945

Joan Crawford, winner


	Mildred Pierce (1945)
	The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
	The Valley of Decision (1945)
	Love Letters (1945)
	Leave Her To Heaven (1945)

1944

Ingrid Bergman, winner


	Gaslight (1944)
	Since You Went Away (1944)
	Mr. Skeffington (1944)
	Mrs. Parkington (1944)
	Double Indemnity (1944)

1943

Jennifer Jones, winner


	The Song of Bernadette (1943)
	The More the Merrier (1943)
	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
	The Constant Nymph (1943)
	Madame Curie (1943)

1942

Greer Garson, winner


	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
	Now, Voyager (1942)
	Woman of the Year (1942)
	My Sister Eileen (1942)
	The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

1941

Joan Fontaine, winner


	Suspicion (1941)
	The Little Foxes (1941)
	Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
	Blossoms In the Dust (1941)
	Ball of Fire (1941)

1940

Ginger Rogers, winner


	Kitty Foyle (1940)
	The Letter (1940)
	Rebecca (1940)
	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
	Our Town (1940)

1939

Vivien Leigh, winner


	Gone With the Wind (1939)
	Dark Victory (1939)
	Love Affair (1939)
	Ninotchka (1939)
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

1938

Bette Davis, winner


	Jezebel (1938)
	White Banners (1938)
	Pygmalion (1938)
	Marie Antoinette (1938)
	Three Comrades (1938)

1937

Luise Rainer, winner


	The Good Earth (1937)
	The Awful Truth (1937)
	Camille (1936)
	A Star Is Born (1937)
	Stella Dallas (1937)

1936

Luise Rainer, winner


	The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
	Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
	Valiant Is the Word For Carrie (1936)
	My Man Godfrey (1936)
	Romeo and Juliet (1936)

1935

Bette Davis, winner


	Dangerous (1935)
	Escape Me Never (1935)
	Private Worlds (1935)
	Alice Adams (1935)
	Lady of Fortune (1935)
	The Dark Angel (1935)

1934

Claudette Colbert, winner


	It Happened One Night (1934)
	One Night of Love (1934)
	The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
	Of Human Bondage (1934)

1932-33

Katharine Hepburn, winner


	Morning Glory (1933)
	Lady For a Day (1933)
	Cavalcade (1933)

1931-32

Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet


	The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
	Emma (1932)
	The Guardsman (1931)

1930-31

Marie Dressler, winner


	Min and Bill (1930)
	Morocco (1930)
	Cimarron (1931)
	Holiday (1930)
	A Free Soul (1931)

1929-30

Norma Shearer, winner


	The Divorcee (1930)
	The Devil's Holiday (1930)
	Sarah and Son (1930)
	Anna Christie (1930)
	Romance (1930)
	Their Own Desire (1929)
	The Trespasser (1929)

1928-29

Mary Pickford, winner


	Coquette (1929)
	Absinthe (1929)
	The Barker (1928)
	The Letter (1929)
	The Divine Lady (1929)
	The Broadway Melody (1929)

1927-28

Janet Gaynor, winner


	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
	7th Heaven (1927)
	Street Angel (1928)
	A Ship Comes In (1928)
	Sadie Thompson (1928)