1998 - Judi Dench [1934-] - (Shakespeare in Love)
1997 - Kim Basinger [1953-] - (L.A. Confidential)
1996 - Juliette Binoche [1964-] - (The English Patient)
1995 - Mira Sorvino [1967-] - (Mighty Aphrodite)
1994 - Dianne Wiest [1948-] - (Bullets Over Broadway)
1993 - Anna Paquin [1982-] - (The Piano)
1992 - Marisa Tomei [1964-] - (My Cousin Vinny)
1991 - Mercedes Ruehl [1948-] - (The Fisher King)
1990 - Whoopi Goldberg [1955-] - (Ghost)
1989 - Brenda Fricker [1945-] - (My Left Foot)
1988 - Geena Davis [1957-] - (The Accidental Tourist)
1987 - Olympia Dukakis [1931-] - (Moonstruck)
1986 - Dianne Wiest [1948-] - (Hannah and Her Sisters)
1985 - Anjelica Huston [1951-] - (Prizzi's Honor)
1984 - Peggy Ashcroft [1907-1991] - (A Passage to India)
1983 - Linda Hunt [1945-] - (The Year of Living Dangerously)
1982 - Jessica Lange [1949-] - (Tootsie)
1981 - Maureen Stapleton [1925-] - (Reds)
1980 - Mary Steenburgen [1953-] - (Melvin and Howard)
1979 - Meryl Streep [1949-] - (Kramer vs. Kramer)
1978 - Maggie Smith [1934-] - (California Suite)
1977 - Vanessa Redgrave [1937-] - (Julia)
1976 - Beatrice Straight [1918-] - (Network)
1975 - Lee Grant [1927-] - (Shampoo)
1974 - Ingrid Bergman [1915-1982] - (Murder on the Orient Express)
1973 - Tatum O'Neal [1963-] - (Paper Moon)
1972 - Eileen Heckart [1919-] - (Butterflies Are Free)
1971 - Cloris Leachman [1926-] - (The Last Picture Show)
1970 - Helen Hayes [1900-1993] - (Airport)
1969 - Goldie Hawn [1945-] - (Cactus Flower)
1968 - Ruth Gordon [1896-1985] - (Rosemary's Baby)
1967 - Estelle Parsons [1927-] - (Bonnie and Clyde)
1966 - Sandy Dennis [1937-1992] - (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
1965 - Shelley Winters [1922-] - (A Patch of Blue)
1964 - Lila Kedrova [1918-] - (Alexis Zorbas)
1963 - Margaret Rutherford [1892-1972] - (The V.I.P.'s)
1962 - Patty Duke [1946-] - (The Miracle Worker)
1961 - Rita Moreno [1931-] - (West Side Story)
1960 - Shirley Jones [1934-] - (Elmer Gantry)
1959 - Shelley Winters [1922-] - (The Diary of Anne Frank)
1958 - Wendy Hiller [1912-] - (Separate Tables)
1957 - Miyoshi Umeki [1929-] - (Sayonara)
1956 - Dorothy Malone [1925-] - (Written on the Wind)
1955 - Jo Van Fleet [1914-1996] - (East of Eden)
1954 - Eva Marie Saint [1924-] - (On the Waterfront)
1953 - Donna Reed [1921-1986] - (From Here To Eternity)
1952 - Gloria Grahame [1925-1981] - (The Bad and the Beautiful)
1951 - Kim Hunter [1922-] - (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1950 - Josephine Hull [1886-1957] - (Harvey)
1949 - Mercedes McCambridge [1918-] - (All the King's Men)
1948 - Claire Trevor [1909-] - (Key Largo)
1947 - Celeste Holm [1919-] - (Gentlemen's Agreement)
1946 - Anne Baxter [1923-1985] - (The Razor's Edge)
1945 - Anne Revere [1903-1990] - (National Velvet)
1944 - Ethel Barrymore [1879-1959] - (None But the Lonely Heart)
1943 - Katina Paxinou [1900-1973] - (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1942 - Teresa Wright [1918-] - (Mrs. Miniver)
1941 - Mary Astor [1906-1987] - (The Great Lie)
1940 - Jane Darwell [1879-1967] - (The Grapes of Wrath)
1939 - Hattie McDaniel [1895-1952] - (Gone With the Wind)
1938 - Fay Bainter [1892-1968] - (Jezebel)
1937 - Alice Brady [1892-1939] - (In Old Chicago)
1936 - Gale Sondergaard [1899-1985] - (Anthony Adverse)