Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Prior to the 49th Academy Awards ceremony (1977), this award was simply known as the Academy Award of...

Also known as:

  • Oscar, Best Actress,
  • Performance by an actress in a leading role

Award category

Winners:

Year Award Winner (e.g. a person or organization) Winning work (e.g. a book or performance) Notes/Description
  • 2008
  • Role: Hanna Schmitz
  • 2007
  • Role: Edith Piaf
  • 2006
  • Role: The Queen
  • 2005
  • Role: June Carter
  • 2004
  • Role: Maggie Fitzgerald
  • 2003
  • Role: Aileen Wuornos
  • 2002
  • Role: Virginia Woolf
  • 2001
  • Role: Leticia Musgrove
  • 2000
  • Role: Erin Brockovich
  • 1999
  • Role: Brandon Teena/Teena Brandon
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