1998 - Gwyneth Paltrow [1973-] - (Shakespeare in Love)
1997 - Helen Hunt [1963-] - (As Good As It Gets)
1996 - Frances McDormand [1957-] - (Fargo)
1995 - Susan Sarandon [1946-] - (Dead Man Walking)
1994 - Jessica Lange [1949-] - (Blue Sky)
1993 - Holly Hunter [1958-] - (The Piano)
1992 - Emma Thompson [1959-] - (Howards End)
1991 - Jodie Foster [1962-] - (The Silence of the Lambs)
1990 - Kathy Bates [1948-] - (Misery)
1989 - Jessica Tandy [1909-1994] - (Driving Miss Daisy)
1988 - Jodie Foster [1962-] - (The Accused)
1987 - Cher [1946-] - (Moonstruck)
1986 - Marlee Matlin [1965-] - (Children of a Lesser God)
1985 - Geraldine Page [1924-1987] - (The Trip to Bountiful)
1984 - Sally Field [1946-] - (Places in the Heart)
1983 - Shirley MacLaine [1934-] - (Terms of Endearment)
1982 - Meryl Streep [1949-] - (Sophie's Choice)
1981 - Katharine Hepburn [1907-] - (On Golden Pond)
1980 - Sissy Spacek [1949-] - (Coal Miner's Daughter)
1979 - Sally Field [1946-] - (Norma Rae)
1978 - Jane Fonda [1937-] - (Coming Home)
1977 - Diane Keaton [1946-] - (Annie Hall)
1976 - Faye Dunaway [1941-] - (Network)
1975 - Louise Fletcher [1934-] - (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1974 - Ellen Burstyn [1932-] - (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
1973 - Glenda Jackson [1936-] - (A Touch of Class)
1972 - Liza Minnelli [1946-] - (Cabaret)
1971 - Jane Fonda [1937-] - (Klute)
1970 - Glenda Jackson [1936-] - (Women in Love)
1969 - Maggie Smith [1934-] - (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1968 - Barbra Streisand [1942-] - (Funny Girl) & Katharine Hepburn [1907-] - (The Lion in Winter)
1967 - Katharine Hepburn [1907-] - (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?)
1966 - Elizabeth Taylor [1932-] - (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
1965 - Julie Christie [1941-] - (Darling)
1964 - Julie Andrews [1935-] - (Mary Poppins)
1963 - Patricia Neal [1926-] - (Hud)
1962 - Anne Bancroft [1931-] - (The Miracle Worker)
1961 - Sophia Loren [1934-] - (La Ciociara)
1960 - Elizabeth Taylor [1932-] - (BUtterfield 8)
1959 - Simone Signoret [1921-1985] - (Room At The Top)
1958 - Susan Hayward [1917-1975] - (I Want to Live!)
1957 - Joanne Woodward [1930-] - (The Three Faces of Eve)
1956 - Ingrid Bergman [1915-1982] - (Anastasia)
1955 - Anna Magnani [1908-1973] - (The Rose Tattoo)
1954 - Grace Kelly [1929-1982] - (The Country Girl)
1953 - Audrey Hepburn [1929-1993] - (Roman Holiday)
1952 - Shirley Booth [1898-1992] - (Come Back, Little Sheba)
1951 - Vivien Leigh [1913-1967] - (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1950 - Judy Holliday [1921-1965] - (Born Yesterday)
1949 - Olivia de Havilland [1916-] - (The Heiress)
1948 - Jane Wyman [1914-] - (Johnny Belinda)
1947 - Loretta Young [1913-] - (The Farmer's Daughter)
1946 - Olivia de Havilland [1916-] - (To Each His Own)
1945 - Joan Crawford [1904-1977] - (Mildred Pierce)
1944 - Ingrid Bergman [1915-1986] - (Gaslight)
1943 - Jennifer Jones [1919-] - (The Song of Bernadette)
1942 - Greer Garson [1904-1996] - (Mrs. Miniver)
1941 - Joan Fontaine [1917-] - (Suspicion)
1940 - Ginger Rogers [1911-1995] - (Kitty Foyle)
1939 - Vivien Leigh [1913-1967] - (Gone With the Wind)
1938 - Bette Davis [1908-1989] - (Jezebel)
1937 - Luise Rainer [1910-] - (The Good Earth)
1936 - Luise Rainer [1910-] - (The Great Ziegfeld)
1935 - Bette Davis [1908-1989] - (Dangerous)
1934 - Claudette Colbert [1903-1996] - (It Happened One Night)
1933 - Katharine Hepburn [1907-] - (Morning Glory)
1932 - Helen Hayes [1900-1996] - (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
1931 - Marie Dressler [1869-1934] - (Min and Bill)
1930 - Norma Shearer [1902-1983] - (The Divorcee)
1929 - Mary Pickford [1892-1979] - (Coquette)
1928 - Janet Gaynor [1906-1984] - (Seventh Heaven)